Z Fringe Festival

Art that pushes the envelope

April 04, 2025 to April 06, 2025

3 days of locally produced, performance-based works

Main Stage Theater, Studio Theater, The Outside Terrace

Art that pushes the envelope is taking over The Z this April. The Z Fringe Festival showcases unique creative works in a weekend of adventurous theater and performance art. Featuring exciting, self-produced works on two Z stages. #MeetMeAtTheZ to celebrate art that makes a statement! 

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The Z Fringe Festival, April 4-6, 2025 is 3 days of self-produced, performance-based works in the Main Stage and Studio with ticket proceeds for each show going back to the producing artist. Performance submissions are open to works of any genre (and across-genres… and totally beyond genre categorization…) that have a viewpoint, that tell a story, and/or showcases of short works with a connecting theme – including Works In Progress.  Visual Art submissions are open to works in any media, including craft vendors.

The Z Fringe 2025 producers: Terry Flint, Moriah Joy, Jason Kypros, and Akin Ritchie

As You Love It

A Curtain Up New Play

May 09, 2025 to May 24, 2025

7:30pm & 3pm Sat.

Main Stage Theater

By Adam Kraar

Directed by Maryanne Kiley

Transporting audiences to an alternate 20th-century New York, AS YOU LOVE IT follows a spirited young woman who concocts a daring scheme to impress her antiquarian father and the captivating actress who’s stolen her heart.

As Lydia pens a sequel to the beloved As You Like It, her “undiscovered Shakespeare play” takes on a life of its own. Her simple forgery captivates newspapers, scholars, and a Broadway producer, giving a new voice to what she loves most. This new comedy exploring the complexities of love and ambition was designated a Finalist by the American Shakespeare Center for its biennial competition for plays “in conversation with Shakespeare.”

May 24 at 3pm will be a captioned performance brought to you by Access VA.