What to expect at virtual Fringe

DJ Exclu starts by cranking up the best tunes for dancing at home.

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DJ Exclu’s set at Facebook.com/OrlandoFringe is part of “Fringe Today,” Orlando Fringe’s alternative to the annual festival in Loch Haven Park, canceled this year to observe coronavirus precautions. Through Memorial Day — just like the traditional festival — “Fringe Today” will offer a daily slate of online shows, interviews and other events to keep the artistic spirit alive.

Here’s a look at this weekend’s highlights.

Central Florida’s theatergoers are familiar with

which specializes in silly but heartfelt physical comedy that earns its laughs without using dialogue. For “Fringe Today,” the troupe will offer a look at “Creative Costuming” at 7 p.m. May 15.

Get ready to see your possessions in a new way: The show description asks “What items around the house would you be willing to sacrifice for art?”

“Sacrifice” just sounds so … final.

At 9 p.m. May 15, try a caper of a different kind with

Fringe vet DK Reinemer (“The DK Effect,” “Becoming Magic Mike”) will create a comic story based on viewer suggestions.

Adults can watch

at 11 p.m. May 15. Billed as “a late-night talk show about sex,” the program description states: “Think ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,’ but with one hot lesbian as The Roots, and two rad babes as Jimmy.”

That’s followed at midnight by another talk show,

The local comedian welcomes special guests in an online version of his popular Fringe Festival show.

Saturday, May 16, begins with the Visual Fringe and

COURTESY PHOTOS Clockwise from top: Tymisha Harris stars as Josephine Baker in “Josephine”; Ottawans Lauren Cauchy and Amanda Logan present a talk show about sex called “Lauren and Amanda Do It: Online”; DJ Exclu will help welcome the weekend for Orlando Fringe’s “Fringe Today.”