the INTERNATIONAL FRINGE ENCORE PLAY SERIES

Join SoHo Playhouse and stars from global Fringe Festivals of the season for a roundup of the best Fringe plays this season has to offer!

Annually, The International Fringe Encore Series provides opportunities to emerging artists who show exceptional talent at each season’s Fringe Festivals both artistically and commercially. In recognition of their excellence, SoHo Playhouse offers these special shows an extended run Off–Broadway in New York City. This extended run gives these worthy shows a platform for future productions and success. Many of the previous productions featured in the series have gone on to extensive Off-Broadway runs and international success including Drama Desk Nominee Krapp 39 (FringeNYC 2008), Jamaica Farewell (FringeNYC 2009), Triassic Parq (FringeNYC 2012), We Live By The Sea (Edinburgh 2016) and Rap Guide To Religion (Edinburgh Fringe 2015).

  • Bacon

    Bacon is an unflinching and unexpectedly humorous look at masculinity, sexuality and power, through the dizzying lens of youth.

  • It's A Motherf**king Pleasure

    Usually disabled people just want to do the right thing. But what if they don’t? What if they were out to make as much money as possible from the guilt of non-disabled, anxious people (like you)?

  • Esther's Revenge

    Esther takes us on a journey through time into the events leading up to the death of Mark. The Jury is given the responsibility to vote in favour or against a stay of Execution.

  • Jekyll & Hyde

    Stevenson's classic science-horror is reborn, with award-winning performer Heather-Rose Andrews in the titular role. Class, terror, and hypocrisy in Victorian London, as the search for self collides with the lure of the sensuous, taking its toll on all around Jekyll & Hyde.

  • Uroboros/Akme

    Uroboros and Akmé are two contemporary dance creations. Uroboros empathetically brings to the stage moments of the cycle of life in which anyone can feel identified. Instead, Akmé exposes sensations close to the limit.

  • Wounded

    A repressed nobody who thinks of himself as somebody. An addict. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf played out between hummingbirds. And a pussy eating dog. This is Wounded.

  • Aberdeen

    Aberdeen is a part fantasy, part biography show, multi award-winning writer, comedian, musician and animator, Cassie Workman has an in-the-round conversation with the man himself.

  • Split Lip

    Written and Directed by Blake Anderson, Split Lip tells the story of Ginava; a patient diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Split Lip explores the experience of trauma and how it affects mental health through the medium of spoken word lip-syncing.

  • Brendan Hunt: THE MOVEMENT YOU NEED

    Brendan Hunt’s latest autobiographical solo show comically explores his relationship with his departed mother, a fraught kinship that had one area of life-long concord: the music of the Beatles.