2024 EDITION

FRINGE CATANIA OFF FESTIVAL

It's a celebration of theatre, performing arts, and contemporary art, spread across traditional and unconventional performance spaces, offering a cultural tourism map that connects the entire city.

It's a showcase for independent artists and theatre companies.
It's a moment of exchange and cross-pollination, breaking down boundaries.
It's a space for sharing, founded on social gathering and empathy, aiming to foster creativity and raise awareness among new audiences.
It's an event that goes beyond the stage, encompassing everything surrounding it, creating connections and synergies that are not only artistic.
It's a tool for territorial marketing.
It's a valuable instrument to address and reflect on social and current issues.

The idea to establish a fringe festival in Milan was born following an agreement made in 2015 with Greg Germain, then President of the “Le Off” Festival in Avignon, to create a twin festival in Milan based on the Avignon model, inclusive of all collateral events, such as thematic focuses and professional training courses for artists.
In 2016, the FRINGE MILANO OFF FESTIVAL was launched, followed in 2022 by the FRINGE CATANIA OFF FESTIVAL.

FRINGE CATANIA OFF 2025 is divided into:

Fringe Catania Off
Catania Free Fringe

FRINGE CATANIA OFF
October 16 > 26, 2025
1st week - October 16 > 19
2nd week - October 23 > 26
Professional companies from all over Italy and abroad, selected by a jury of experts, will fill the city with performances spanning various artistic genres and languages, rotating across the festival’s 14 venues.

FREE FRINGE
September 22 – October 26, 2025
This section comprises multiple parts and includes all free events offered to the city of Milan.

CATANIA IN
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 – Teatro AMBASCIATORI
An evening of presentation and opening of the Festival in a prestigious and iconic venue of Catania's cultural scene, attended by the Festival’s ambassadors, the theatre companies selected from around the world for the 2025 edition, and leading city and regional authorities.

VILLAGE OFF
October 15 > 26 - Centro Fieristico LE CIMINIERE
The heart and hub of the festival. A meeting place for theatre companies, industry professionals, and the public. A space for exhibitions, talks and panels, book presentations, an info point, box office, and much more,

CATANIA OFF DELL’OFF
September 22 > October 9
The suburbs and youth are at the core of the “OFF dell’OFF” section of the FREE FRINGE, a free-entry program created in collaboration with schools and local associations. Its goal is an original form of artistic and emotional “re-literacy” for the new generations.
Workshops, performances, talks, debates, and special projects will directly engage over 200 students in the Fringe’s activities.
Local Catania actors and performers take center stage in a diverse lineup spanning multiple performing arts disciplines: theatre monologues, clowning, circus acts, juggling, comedies, readings, dance and singing workshop-performances, and more.