Hollywood Fringe Festival

The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual theater festival for independent artists, taking place every June in multiple venues in the Hollywood area, including a closing night awards ceremony. Though not specifically geared toward horror, fantasy, and science fiction, the fringe nature of the event offers wide latitude for these genres.


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Hollwood Fringe Review: The Visitor is a welcome guest for those who like their houses haunted

Top: What visitor lurks in the upstairs shadows of the fixer-upper being pitched to the audience by a desperate realtor?…

12 months ago

Hollwood Fringe Review: Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring, Extended Edition Part 3

Riley Smith's live rendition of the LOTR movie is bigger, better & funnier than before One would think that the…

12 months ago

Hollwood Fringe Review: Last Call’s Worlds Collide

Review Headline followed by introduction Billed as a "mash-up of settings, genres, and character-archetypes" from previous Last Call Theatre productions,…

12 months ago

Hollwood Fringe Review: A Haunting Revue

Above: Christopher Lee (Ari Litman-Weinberg) and Bela Lugosi (Morry Schorr) chat about playing the Count in "The Inheritance of Dracula"…

12 months ago

Hollwood Fringe Review: One Man Poe

Four Tales of Mystery and Imagination staged with grimly convincing dread What can we say about yet another one-man Poe…

12 months ago

Hollywood Fringe 2025 offers new theatre on the edge

This month, the 2025 edition of the annual Hollywood Fringe Festival offers another season of theatre on the edge. As…

1 year ago

In for a Penny expanded edition – one night only

Crystal Keith's time-travel thriller In for a Penny (which we reviewed during its run at this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival)…

2 years ago

Hollywood Fringe 2024: A Story as Old as Time

A Story as Old as Time aims to be a good, old-fashioned horror-comedy and largely succeeds. It's not quite Abbott…

2 years ago

Hollywood Fringe 2024: Blacks in Space – The Fantastic Voyage

A combination of science fiction adventure and domestic dramedy, Blacks in Space: The Fantastic Voyage is loaded with references to famous…

2 years ago

Hollywood Fringe 2024: Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs achieves the seemingly impossible feat of mining PTSD and sexual abuse for comedic purposes. It certainly helps that the…

2 years ago

Hollywood Fringe 2024: Did I Just Join a Cult?

Taking audiences on a harrowing journey through a dark realm of uncertainty and confusion, Did I Just Join a Cult?…

2 years ago

Hollywood Fringe 2024: Revenge of the Space Pandas

Some plays present obstacles so great that no production can overcome them, and in that category we would place Revenge…

2 years ago

Hollywood Fringe 2024: Bigfoot! The Musical

The title Bigfoot! The Musical sounds a little silly, like a campy spoof of cryptozoological horror movies. The truth is…

2 years ago

Hollywood Fringe 2024: The Transpiring

The Transpiring gets a fair amount of comic mileage out of a deliberately overbaked premise. Adoption counselor Vanessa (co-writer Veronica…

2 years ago

Hollywood Fringe 2024: We Lovers

One of the highlights of this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival, We Lovers makes something wonderful out of a setup that…

2 years ago