Scranton’s Fringe Festival wraps up Saturday, Oct. 10, after 10 days of independent theater, comedy and other live acts staged around the city. This is the festival’s 12th edition. It features more than 40 performances spread over nearly 20 spaces, from conventional stages to galleries, cafés, museums and historic buildings.
The festival kicked off Oct. 1 and 2 with free evenings at the Scranton Iron Furnaces. Vendors set up there, and a 3D projection-mapping show was beamed onto the old structures. Associate producer Erin Kosisky described the festival as “built to inspire artists and delight curious audiences.”
Like the Edinburgh festival that inspired it, Fringe mixes theater, musicals, dance and puppetry. Some acts, including the true-crime comedy “CHUCK,” performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe shortly before coming to Scranton. Among the final-day shows is “Finding Matt Damon,” scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday at the Black Scranton Project Cultural Center, 1902 N. Main Ave. Tickets and the full schedule are at scrantonfringe.org.