Ombelico Mask Ensemble delights with its updated bi-lingual version of Euripides’ Alcestis, performed outdoors in a rollicking Commedia dell’Arte style.
View More LIKE A BAT OUT OF HADES (Ombelico): 2015 Fringe Review 12Category: Reviews
THE MOST AWKWARD LOVE LIFE OF PEABODY MAGOO (Love Drunk Life): 2015 Fringe Review 11
This charming recollection of the funny, painful, and embarrassing moments in the romantic past of an adorable character is sure to steal your heart.
View More THE MOST AWKWARD LOVE LIFE OF PEABODY MAGOO (Love Drunk Life): 2015 Fringe Review 11Fringe in Sketch 2: GLASS MOVEMENT (Glass Routes)
As part of Phindie’s coverage of the 2015 Fringe Festival, Aaron Krolikowski is attending a series of shows and sketching what he sees.
View More Fringe in Sketch 2: GLASS MOVEMENT (Glass Routes)DISHWASHER (Brian Feldman): 2015 Fringe review 10
Brian Feldman cleans the dishes and reads a monologue of your choosing. This is existential theater at its finest.
View More DISHWASHER (Brian Feldman): 2015 Fringe review 10A DOLL’S HOUSE (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 9.1
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 9.1AFTER THE REHEARSAL / PESONA (Toneelgroep Amsterdam): 2015 Fringe review 7.2
Ivo van Hove’s reimagining of the Bergman classics is full of visual and interpretative ideas, but lacks overarching purpose.
View More AFTER THE REHEARSAL / PESONA (Toneelgroep Amsterdam): 2015 Fringe review 7.2Fringe in Sketch 1: BRIGHT INVENTION IN THE ART SERIES (White Pines)
As part of Phindie’s coverage of the 2015 Fringe Festival, Aaron Krolikowski is attending a series of shows and sketching what he sees. His first…
View More Fringe in Sketch 1: BRIGHT INVENTION IN THE ART SERIES (White Pines)THE LID (Pat Finnerty & BRAT): 2015 Fringe Review 8
BRAT brings a raw alternative true-fringe experience to this year’s festival with Pat Finnerty’s original work of rock-n-roll cabaret theater.
View More THE LID (Pat Finnerty & BRAT): 2015 Fringe Review 8AFTER THE REHEARSAL / PERSONA (Toneelgroep Amsterdam): 2015 Fringe review 7.1
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 7.1GROWING INTO MY BEARD (I’ve Seen The Future): 2015 Fringe review 6
Bay Bryan comes out in this heartfelt story of a queer boy learning what is means to be a man.
View More GROWING INTO MY BEARD (I’ve Seen The Future): 2015 Fringe review 6THE CAPTIVE (PAC): 2015 Fringe review 5
Although it has lost the shock value (lesbianism!) it had in the 1920s, it is easy to see why PAC were attracted to this forgotten play.
View More THE CAPTIVE (PAC): 2015 Fringe review 5FIFTY DAYS AT ILIAM (Hannah Van Sciver): 2015 Fringe review 4
This original ensemble-devised piece explores the inspiration and moods of expressionist painter Cy Twombly’s series of canvases on the theme of the Trojan War.
View More FIFTY DAYS AT ILIAM (Hannah Van Sciver): 2015 Fringe review 4TILL BIRNAM WOOD… (John Schultz): 2015 Fringe review 3
Shakespeare blindfolded: In the darkness, Shakespeare is illuminated.
View More TILL BIRNAM WOOD… (John Schultz): 2015 Fringe review 3THE SHOPLIFTERS (1812 Productions): 2015 Fringe review 2
An uproarious look into the reasons people steal, and why others chase them
View More THE SHOPLIFTERS (1812 Productions): 2015 Fringe review 2EXIT THE KING (IRC): 2015 Fringe Review 1
Ionesco’s absurdist tragicomedy on death and the human condition comes to life in Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s hilarious and affecting production.
View More EXIT THE KING (IRC): 2015 Fringe Review 1Fishtown Fringe Preview #3: A GREAT WAR (Iron Age Theatre)
The latest in a series of previews of shows in the Fishtown Fringe segment of the 2015 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
View More Fishtown Fringe Preview #3: A GREAT WAR (Iron Age Theatre)[NYC] MIDWAY AVENUE (Nichole Canuso Dance Company) & ATOMIC ORBITAL (Laura Peterson Choreography) at HERE
Choreographers Nichole Canuso and Laura Peterson debut their unique new works in a complementary joint program at SoHo’s HERE Arts Center.
View More [NYC] MIDWAY AVENUE (Nichole Canuso Dance Company) & ATOMIC ORBITAL (Laura Peterson Choreography) at HERE[NYC] HAMLET THE HIP-HOPERA (Feast Productions): FringeNYC review
This FringeNYC mash-up of Shakespeare and Eminem combines passages of The Bard’s verse and prose with current explications and amplifications set to an urban beat.
View More [NYC] HAMLET THE HIP-HOPERA (Feast Productions): FringeNYC review[NYC] TO DANCE – THE MUSICAL (Dancing in the Dark Productions): FringeNYC review
The life and struggles of Russian ballet dancer Valery Panov continues to inspire new generations.
View More [NYC] TO DANCE – THE MUSICAL (Dancing in the Dark Productions): FringeNYC reviewMUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Mechanical): A rapid-fire current view of Shakespeare’s “merry war”
Shakespeare’s popular romantic comedy is given a new look and a quick pace in Mechanical Theater’s delightful production, performed at Society Hill’s historic Powel House.
View More MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Mechanical): A rapid-fire current view of Shakespeare’s “merry war”