FRIDGE Fest was born out of the Arctic Group’s mission to pick a snowflake our of an avalanche. With this in mind, TAG has curated a festival of unique, thought-provoking works by both establish and emerging artists. is a multidisciplinary theater festival featuring new works of all genres. All plays include (nay, feature) a fridge. No matter what night they attend, audiences will be captivated by three pieces, for the price of one. Come chill with us!

But wait, there’s more: half of all performances will be FILL OUR FRIDGE nights; in which tickets can be purchased with non-perishable goods instead of money. These donations will be delivered to food banks local to the theater. FILL OUR FRIDGE is our way to solidify our belief that The Arts play an essential role in the community.

PERFORMANCES: 8/31, 9/1, 9/2, 9/3 (dark on 9/4) 9/5, 9/6, 9/7, 9/8, 9/9, 9/10
TIME: 7pm and 9pm
LENGTH OF SHOW: 75 minutes
PRICE: $18.00
At IRT:154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor)

FESTIVAL PASS- CLICK HERE

Featured playwrights include: Daniel Talbott, Katie Cappiello, Matthew Minnicino, Jenny King, Korde Arrington Tuttle, Steve McMahon, MJ Halberstadt, Jordan G. Teicher, Glenn marla, and Suzanne Willett.

Show Block A (Thu 8/31 7pm, Sat 9/2 9pm, Wed 9/6 7pm, Fri 9/8 9pm)
Moving Day
By Jenny King & The Barrington Collective
Rock Paper Scissors
By Suzanne Willett

Show Block B (Thu 8/31 9pm, Sun 9/3 7pm, Wed 9/6 9pm, Sat 9/9 7pm)
Nick and Zoe
By Daniel Talbott, Directed by Shira-Lee Shalit
Sad Indie Love Song
By Steve McMahon, Directed by Benjamin Viertel; Produced by Lianne Kennedy

Show Block C (Fri 9/1 7pm, Sun 9/3 9pm, Thu 9/7 7pm, Sat 9/9 9pm)
Funny Voices (Or A Thing I Cannot Name)
By Matthew Minnicino, Directed by Aleesha Nash
Two Below Zero
By MJ Halberstadt

Show Block D (Fri 9/1 9pm, Tue 9/5 7pm, Thu 9/7 9pm, Sun 9/10 7pm)
Scarcity Freezer
By Glenn Marla, Directed By Kathe Mull
no seconds
By Korde Arrington Tuttle

Show Block E (Sat 9/2 7pm, Tue 9/5 9pm, Fri 9/8 7pm, Sun 9/10 9pm)
JOY
Written & Directed by Katie Cappiello
What’s In Your Fridge?
By Jordan G. Teicher

The Arctic Group is (mostly) theater collective with members hailing from five different continents.We create a space for the harmonious, explorative destruction.We resist comfort and convenience.Failure is our common language. Disclaimers are our enemy.With an appetite for the irregular and an itch for the bizarre, we collide, connect, collaborate, and create.Pick a snowflake out of an avalanche. Take the polar bear plunge.

Core founding members are: Charlotte Arnoux, Adrian Burke, Victoria Giambalvo, Florence LeBas and Ran Xia. Associate Artist: Jake Geary.

IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. Some of the artists we have supported include Young Jean Lee, Reggie Watts and Mike Daisey.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and The Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of ART-NY.

PLEASE NOTE: All sales final and there is no late seating at IRT Theater.
***IRT is a fully wheelchair-accessible facility.***

Missing the New York International Fringe Festival this year? Hungry for great off-off Broadway theatre? No worries, The Arctic Group at the IRT Theatre has plenty of food for thought at NY Fridge Fest, with ten playwrights, five different programs of play offerings and one onstage refrigerator in each play to tie the festival together with imaginative and compelling plays to satiate your appetite. Complex enough for you? Chris Jones, the chief theatre critic for the Chicago Tribune, lists “complexity” as one of his must haves for enjoying a night at the theatre. It’s a daring idea, to ask more of the theatre than we sometimes ask of our own lives. But Jones is on to something, I think. In Daniel Talbott’s play Nick and Zoe (the first offering of Show Block B at Fridge Fest) we experience the most divine complexity on earth, the complexity of love and truth. Or should I say, love versus truth? Talbott’s taut, sensual play has all the elements of a great tragedy: a hero (played with dangerously compelling emotional depth and physical prowess by Will Pullen) a femme fatale (deceptively coy, the stunning Erica Pappas breaks our hearts) and a villain (I won’t give this part away). Shir …Read more