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2026 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival preview
Creators of innovative short works live with the idea that they’ll exist only for this event.
The cast of Happy Birthday Mr. President Shila Sudbury For audiences, “fringe” theater festivals are a chance to experience a sampler platter of creative work of a kind that might be hard to find in any other place. For those who create those works, it’s a blank canvas with a built-in support structure.
And for many of those creators, it’s just fine if this venue is the only place where the work and an audience connect. Since 2015, Great Salt Lake Fringe has built on the model of festivals around the world—most specifically the Edinburgh Fringe Festival—of providing a venue for performing…
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