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Author: Julius Ferraro

Julius Ferraro is a journalist, playwright, performer, and project manager in Philadelphia. He is co-founder of Curate This and editor-in-chief of thINKingDANCE. His recent plays include Parrot Talk, Micromania, and The Death and Painful Dismemberment of Paul W. Auster.
Dance Reviews

I’D RATHER CHOKE THAN BE A QUITTER (Sam Tower + Ensemble): Grace versus crushing rage

Julius Ferraro March 6, 2016 No Comments

A multimedia collaboration helmed by choreographer Sam Tower, who created last year’s Fringe hit 901 Nowhere Street.

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Reviews Theater

LOCAL GIRLS (Azuka): High school rage

Julius Ferraro February 28, 2016 No Comments

In Azuka Theatre’s world premier production of Emma Goidel’s newest play, three young metalheads need to replace the “screamer” in their band before battle of the bands.

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Photo by Maria Baranova
Reviews Theater

EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR (Fringe): Preteens tell a story of universal significance

Julius Ferraro February 27, 2016 No Comments

“This is my house,” she says. She raises the other arm about 45 degrees. “This is that game with the sticks.” The arms stay in the air as she continues.

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Reviews Theater

V to X (GoKash Productions): Clear and present injustice

Julius Ferraro February 9, 2016 1 Comment

While most political theater in Philly is unfortunately limp, V TO X presents a clear and despicable injustice, and does so with real, emotionally complex characters

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Reviews Theater

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (IRC): Corruption!

Julius Ferraro February 8, 2016 No Comments

A production that forefronts Gogol’s surprising, desperate, hypnotizing dialogue. Illustration by Mike Jackson.

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Reviews Theater

#THEREVOLUTION (InterAct): The vapid rebellion

Julius Ferraro January 30, 2016 No Comments

What would happen if a bunch of early-20-something city-dwelling music-video-watching lower-middle-class variously privileged poorish Americans launched a violent revolution against the state?

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Reviews Theater

GENTLEMEN VOLUNTEERS (Pig Iron): Psychology, trickery, live foley, everything you want

Julius Ferraro December 15, 2015 No Comments

GENTLEMAN VOLUNTEERS displays charm, psychological interest, and fringe sentiment which planted the roots of Pig Iron’s experimentation.

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Reviews Theater

A PORCH AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Transmissions): Extremist religion and unrequited love

Julius Ferraro November 14, 2015 No Comments

In deep Siberia, Karp Lykov and his grown children encounter their first outsiders in fifty years.

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Reviews Theater

ANIMAL FARM (Luna): From pig to (wo)man, and from (wo)man to pig

Julius Ferraro October 21, 2015 No Comments

Impressive theatricality in an imperfect production of Orwell’s allegory of the Russian Revolution and Stalin’s real-life dystopia.

View More ANIMAL FARM (Luna): From pig to (wo)man, and from (wo)man to pig
Reviews Theater

Holden (George + Co.): Violence in the 21st

Julius Ferraro October 11, 2015 No Comments

In George + Co.’s HOLDEN, J. D. Salinger hasn’t published another book since two assassins blamed his The Catcher in the Rye for their own acts of violence.

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Features Theater

What Theater Can Do that TV Can’t

Julius Ferraro September 30, 2015 No Comments

The success of TV is based on its ability to entertain. Theater must be its own medium. It must say new things, create new forms, eschew entertainment in order to challenge, and let audiences turn on their minds.

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Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

A DOLL’S HOUSE (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 9.1

Julius Ferraro September 5, 2015 No Comments

This DOLL’s HOUSE is human and multifaceted, lighthearted and ironic, narrative with a dancer’s expression of character.

View More A DOLL’S HOUSE (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 9.1
Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

AFTER THE REHEARSAL / PERSONA (Toneelgroep Amsterdam): 2015 Fringe review 7.1

Julius Ferraro September 5, 2015 No Comments

Toneelgroep’s take on these classic screenplays retains all of the rawness of and cruelty of Bergman’s films.

View More AFTER THE REHEARSAL / PERSONA (Toneelgroep Amsterdam): 2015 Fringe review 7.1
Arts Features Theater

Shhhhh! C’mere. Have you heard about the Night Market?

Julius Ferraro July 29, 2015 No Comments

“There are so few secrets left in life, I wanted to make something where you can’t put it in a search bar and get it.”

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Reviews Theater

LULU’S GOLDEN SHOES (FLASHPOINT): A deft treatise on cruelty

Julius Ferraro July 20, 2015 No Comments

This is a play that is constantly surprising, entrancing, and always a step ahead of expectations.

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Features Film Fringe Festival Theater

The Art of the Steal: Director Ivo van Hove creates plays out of film scripts

Julius Ferraro July 13, 2015 No Comments

“In film,” pronounced Ivo van Hove, “the director is the god of his creation.”

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Reviews Theater

MOON MAN WALK (Orbiter 3): Interstellar overdrive

Julius Ferraro July 9, 2015 No Comments

James Ijames’s MOON MAN WALK, the first offering by new playwrights’ collective Orbiter 3 presents a fantasy world and a very real story. And a manic pixie girl.

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Reviews Theater

HELLO! SADNESS! (Kimmel): Just a glimpse of the divine

Julius Ferraro June 13, 2015 No Comments

All Mary Tuomanen wants to do is tell us a story about Jean Seberg, but things keep coming up.

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Reviews Theater

. . . BARRY SEAL (Thaddeus Phillips/FringeArts): Smile and a wink

Julius Ferraro May 19, 2015 No Comments

Thaddeus Phillips plays Barry Seal, a real-life, infamous drug smuggler-turned-DEA-informant who eventually gained the ire of both smugglers and government agents.

View More . . . BARRY SEAL (Thaddeus Phillips/FringeArts): Smile and a wink
Reviews Theater

THE GATHERING OF THE MOTHER MOTH PEOPLES (Olivia Jorgensen): Blessed, blessed Beltane

Julius Ferraro May 11, 2015 No Comments

The play, like its characters, exists in a dream-world

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