sentences:  Minnesota Fringe is the largest nonjuried festival in the United States and the third-largest Fringe festival in North America.In 2013, Minnesota Fringe ran August 1–11 and featured 176 shows with a total of 895 performances in multiple venues around the city and distributed 50,007 tickets over the eleven-day event.In 2007, attendance and box office revenue were adversely affected by the collapse of the I-35W bridge the day before the festival opened.