The Fringe Festival 2015

Because the Acts of Faith gets so many requests from faith communities, professional, and non-professional theatres each year to be a part of the festival, and because there are only three slots in the Associate Theatre category, we created the "Fringe" festival.  This way we can include as many shows and communities as wants to carry on the conversation of story and faith.  
March 19-April 11, 2015
Discussion:  TBD
804-346-8113 
www.5thwalltheatre.org
Venue:  TBD
Ticket Prices:  TBD
The Human Terrain
by Jennifer Blackmer
5th Wall Theatre
Mabry Hoffman, an anthropologist with the Human Terrain System, a real military initiative that embeds social scientists with combat units in Iraq and Afganistan, is caught in the middle of an ethical dilemma as she tries to help a new friend. 
March 20 – April 4, 2015
Discussions: TBD 
804-262-9760 
www.cattheatre.com
319 North Wilkinson Road, Richmond, VA 23227
Tickets:  $19 adult, $17 student, $13 RAPT, 
$12 - $16 group rates
Now then Again
by Penny Pennison
CAT Theatre
Now then Again is a romantic comedy with a brain-- a love story between two physicists. Set at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory, the script tells the story of Ginny and Henry, two scientists who find a future together despite her husband, his neuroses and their firm belief that there is no such thing as destiny. 
March 22, 2015
Discussions: Follows performance
804- 272-0017 
www.or-ami.com
9400 Huguenot Road, Richmond, VA 23235
Tickets:  $10
MLK:  His Love, His Life, His Legacy
by Valerie Davis

Congregation Or Ami
This show explores the relationship between Martin Luther King Jr and the Jewish Community during the Civil Rights movement, especially the famous March in Selma with Reverend Martin and Rabbi Heschel walking arm and arm.
March 13-14, 2015
Discussions follow each performance
804-741-5254  
www.thegaytonkirk.org or www.3pennyplays.org
The Gayton Kirk, 11421 Gayton Road, Henrico, VA, 23238
Tickets:  Pay What You Want ($1, $5, $10, or more -- You name your ticket price)
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
by Mark Atkinson and Ray Carver, based on the Novella by Mark Twain
Three-Penny Theatre at The Gayton Kirk
Everybody knows the story of the Good Samaritan, but did you ever catch yourself daydreaming in Sunday School and wondering if there ever was a Bad Samaritan?  Mark Twain must have when he wrote The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg; his story of a stranger, a bag of gold, and the most honest and upright town in the entire country. 
March 10, 2015
Discussions follow performance
Centenary United Methodist Church
411 East Grace Street, Richmond, 23216
804-340-0115 www.henleystreettheatre.org
Tickets $15
Songs from Bedlam 
by Doug Jones
Henley Street Theatre and Richmond Shakespeare 
This staged reading, Songs from Bedlam, takes its name from Bethlehem Hospital, which in 1547 became London’s main hospital for the mentally ill.  Like the exotic animals in the Tower of London, the mentally ill were on display. Songs from Bedlam uses this historical framework to explore characters who are, in one way or another, disadvantaged: homeless, schizophrenic, alcoholic, etc.  What they have in common is that they are looking for connection: with a person, a Higher Power, or some kind of salvation.

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February 13-22, 2015
Discussions: February 5 & 12
804-272-6820 www.huguenotcommunity
players.com
10661 Duryea Drive, Richmond
Tickets:  $12
Driving Miss Daisy
by Alfred Uhry
Huguenot Community Players
Driving Miss Daisy is about the relationship of an elderly white Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werhan, and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Colburn, from 1948 to 1973.  The play was the first in Uhry’s Atlanta Trilogy, which deals with white Jewish residents of that city in the early 20th Century.

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March 3-4, 2015
Discussions: TBD
804-261-2787 
www.otarp.com
Cultural Arts Center in Glen Allen, 2880 Mountain Rd, 
Glen Allen, VA 23060
Tickets:  Free and open to the public
Here Comes Mr. Jordon 
based on the screenplay by Sidney Buchanan and Seton I. Miller
On the Air Radio Players
A prematurely deceased boxer gets another chance at life thanks to two helpful angels. If you could do it all again, what would you change?



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January 23-24, 2015
Discussions follow performances
thursdaeniteplayers.org
1124 Westbriar Drive, Richmond, VA 23238
Tickets:  $5 at the door
Almost Maine
by John Cariani
Thursdaenite Players
Welcome to Almost, Maine, a town that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States—it’s almost in Canada. And it almost doesn't exist. Because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it’s just…Almost.
One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. Love is lost, found, and confounded. And life for the people of Almost, Maine will never be the same.
ALMOST, MAINE: It’s love. But not quite.
April 13-22, 2015
Discussions:  April 18 & 20
804-505-0558 www.theatrelabrva.org
Richmond Triangle Players
1300 Altamont Ave, Richmond
Tickets:  $15-25, Call Box Office for Acts of Faith discount
When Last We Flew 
by Harrison David Rivers
TheatreLAB in association with Richmond Triangle Players and running in repertory with their production of Angels in America
Love, family, and personal revelation are at the heart of Harrison David Rivers’ moving new coming-of-age play, when last we flew. After stealing his local library’s one and only (and completely unread) copy of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, misfit teenager Paul locks himself in his bathroom and begins reading the landmark play. He soon finds that his life and the lives of those around him in his small Kansas suburb are about to take flight, and over the course of a seemingly ordinary day, extraordinary things start to happen.

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