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News Philly Fringe Fest Ends Sept. 15 Last chance to check out this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival, which kicked off Labor Day weekend. Featuring almost 200 theatre, dance, music and puppetry shows by an assembly of local, national and international artists, the festival began Aug. 31 and ends Sept. 15.

Last chance to check out this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival, which kicked off Labor Day weekend. Featuring almost 200 theatre, dance, music and puppetry shows by an assembly of local, national and international artists, the festival began Aug. 31 and ends Sept. 15.

According to a box office spokesperson, performances were cancelled and the Festival "shut down" Sept. 11, the day of terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC, but, apart from a handful of Wednesday cancellations, the Festival schedule reopened Sept. 12 and has been otherwise unaffected by the catastrophe.

More than 100 shows comprise the theatre lineup, which includes a Hungarian production of The Cherry Orchard and a play that ponders what Hugh Hefner's heaven would look like.

Highlights include:

* New York performance artist Sarah Jones' Surface Transit, her one woman, multi-character show about intolerance. * Pig Iron Theatre Company's Shut Eye, directed by Open Theatre founder Joseph Chaikin, which explores the mysterious state between sleeping and waking

* This Mansion Is a Hole: Hugh Hefner Throws a Party at the Center of the Universe, from New Paradise Laboratories, about what heaven would look if Hefner and his buddies designed it.

* The British comedy duo The Mighty Boosh, playing postal workers on a journey through the North Pole in Artic Boosh.

* The Cherry Orchard, presented by the members of Hungary's Moving House (Mozgo Haz) company in their native language

* Olivier Award-winning British performer Ken Campbell recounting tales of an often-overlooked art in the one-man show The History of Comedy Part I: Ventriloquism.

Tickets range from $10 to $18. For reservations and more information, call (215) 413-1318 or visit www.pafringe.org.

— By Diane Snyder

 
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