Pittsburgh
Fringe Festival
March 19th – 28th, 2026
Pittsburgh
Fringe Festival
March 19th – 28th, 2026
What is Fringe?
The Pittsburgh Fringe Festival is a celebration of live performance stitched from bold ideas, strange collisions, and creative risk.
Part theatre. Part experiment.
Part beautiful surprise.
As part of a global Fringe tradition, we bring artists and audiences together in a space where unexpected stories are glued side-by-side, layered, lit, and brought to life on stage.
This is where performance gets cut, pasted, pieced together — and transformed into something uniquely yours.
Want to Get Involved?
Not every masterpiece starts as a full production — sometimes it starts as a spark. Fringe is built from many hands, many voices, and many kinds of creative energy.
Want to try storytelling? Step into our StorySlam.
Got skits, circus, stand-up, or something wonderfully hard to categorize? Join the Yinzer Variety Show.
Do you make art? Exhibit as part of our group shows as a Visual Artist.
Whether it’s stitched, taped, rehearsed, improvised, or entirely new — there’s space for it here.
There’s something for you here. Let’s find it!
Theatre
Live Music
Dance
Magic
Puppets
Visual Art
Comedy
Storytelling
Circus
Interactive
Children’s Shows
Poetry
Join us for our 13th year!
March 19th – 28th, 2026
Thirteen years of bold performances.
Thirteen years of creative collisions.
Thirteen years of building something strange and spectacular — together.
Interested in past festivals?
Check out our Archives!
“Because attending the Fringe Festival is so much like unearthing buried treasure, it’s important to have a few shows in particular to orbit your Fringe experience around.”
Pittsburgh in the Round preview of the 2018 Pittsburgh Fringe
“Audience members who commit themselves to an entire day or weekend of theater binging should come prepared to feel, more or less, unprepared. Many of the shows are unknowable until experienced, and few adhere to tradition.”
