The Second Annual Tulsa Fringe Festival will be held from July 23rd–26th, 2026!
Echo Theatre Company and Oklahomans for Equality hosted the first Tulsa Fringe Festival on September 19–20, 2025 at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center. The event featured simultaneous performances in multiple venues, including family shows, spoken word, music, cabaret, Shakespeare, a maker’s market, an AI and the Arts panel (hosted by CREATE Tulsa), and an artist resource fair.
This year's festival is expanded to 4 days starting Thursday, July 23 with "What a Mother-Tales from Route 66", a series of short plays presented by Blackjack Rewrite Company. Friday OKEQ hosts shows in the Lynn Riggs as well as a free stand-up extravaganza in the Allie Jensen Art Gallery. Saturday, July 25 will be a full day of performances in both the Lynn Riggs and Allie Jensen Gallery while a Makers' Market will be hosted in the Bruce Goff Event Center.
The event closes Sunday with additional ticketed performances in the Lynn Riggs followed by an after party and OKEQ's extremely popular monthly sing-a-long event, Broadway Clubhouse.
