The New York International Fringe Festival will return on Oct. 1 after a one-year hiatus with a new structure and the New York debut of a play about James Franco that had faced a legal hurdle.

The festival’s 21st season will be split into two parts. One, FringeNYC will present over 80 staged productions in the West Village from Oct. 12-28, while FringeBYOV (bring your own venue) will involve venues in the boroughs outside Manhattan like the Irondale Center in Brooklyn and the Secret Theater in Queens selecting their own performers and shows (Oct. 1-31).

The Present Theater Company, the creators and producers of the New York Fringe Festival, took 2017 to redesign the festival and plan for the future with its Blank Canvas Project.

“What we came out with was this bifurcated festival with two approaches that suits a lot of different generations, we think,” Elena K. Holy, the company’s producing artistic director, said in an interview.