The New York International Fringe Festival, a 16-day event celebrating experimental dance, theater, poetry, puppetry, spoken word, and multimedia, opens Friday. It's so densely packed that audience members may pore over the program guide, head out to see a specific group, and end up bouncing from show to show; the intrepid could catch as many as eight a day. If they could keep up that pace for a couple of weeks, the $350 Lunatic Pass might come to... More >>>