The Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival, nicknamed "IndyFringe," is a 10-day showcase of traditional and non-traditional theatre, dance, music, improvisation and a wide range of other performance and visual arts, performed and created by local, national and international artists.
Based on the Fringe Festival that began in Edinburgh, Scotland, when rogue theater groups set up on the edges of the Edinburgh International Festival in 1947,[1] IndyFringe's roots are found in Mayor Bart Peterson's Cultural Tourism Initiative in 2001.
Central Indiana Community foundation donated seed money and IndyFringe was born.
In 2006, a substantial increase in publicity and media coverage resulted in attendance doubling, with 9,677 patrons.
All are located in the Massachusetts Avenue Arts and Cultural District Archived 2020-11-14 at the Wayback Machine within easy walking distance of one another.