Driving to work one morning, I’d heard WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn mention she’d be hosting the performance of WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT. I experienced an immediate “I wonder what this disembodied voice will look like in real life” moment.
View More WHITE RABBIT, RED RABBIT (Nassim Soleimanpour, performed by Jennifer Lynn): Fringe Review 31.2Category: Reviews
PASSPORT (IshowNY Productions & Yajaira Paredes): Fringe Review 67
PASSPORT shows how not being understood can turn a person into a non-person, who can therefore be subjected to inhumane abuse.
View More PASSPORT (IshowNY Productions & Yajaira Paredes): Fringe Review 6714 SEQUENZAS (A Change of Harp and Bowerbird): Fringe Review 66
Each of the daring and demanding 14 SEQUENZAS features virtuoso musicians and masterful performances.
View More 14 SEQUENZAS (A Change of Harp and Bowerbird): Fringe Review 66PETER PAN IS DEAD (Brandon Monokian): Fringe Review 65
The enthusiasm of this production is infectious; Fringe exists for productions just like it.
View More PETER PAN IS DEAD (Brandon Monokian): Fringe Review 65NOT YOUR MOTHER’S MOTH (Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge): Fringe Review 64
Flynn and VanDenend Sorge captured the spirit of the Fringe season by experimenting within their art form as they intimately shared their pasts.
View More NOT YOUR MOTHER’S MOTH (Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge): Fringe Review 64BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO (Temple Theaters): Fringe Review 61.2
Throughout, the play is ridden with fearful moments, guilty consciences, and serious reflections of what life may be like for creatures being surrounded by uneasiness and pain.
View More BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO (Temple Theaters): Fringe Review 61.2THE BODY LAUTREC (Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen): Fringe Review 53.2
Aaron Cromie’s good-natured portrayal reflects the real Lautrec, who retained his artist’s eye and famed geniality even as he joined his friends in their sad retreat into alcoholism and the dementia of syphilis.
View More THE BODY LAUTREC (Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen): Fringe Review 53.2THE YELLOW WALLPAPER (Wild Plum Productions): Fringe Review 63
Wild Plum Productions’ abridged staging of THE YELLOW WALLPAPER succeeds in capturing the chills and insight of the original work.
View More THE YELLOW WALLPAPER (Wild Plum Productions): Fringe Review 63BY YOU THAT MADE ME, FRANKENSTEIN (Philadelphia Opera Collective): 2014 Fringe Review 51.2
This is an opera about monsters—the Frankenstein of the title, a monster we know well from films if not from literature, and the ways in which people become monsters.
View More BY YOU THAT MADE ME, FRANKENSTEIN (Philadelphia Opera Collective): 2014 Fringe Review 51.2PROJECT – THROUGH AN APERTURE (Exosphere): Fringe Review 62
This project consists of six short dance films—three by collaborators Ashley Searles and Wim Winklewagon, and three by Anne-Marie Mulgrew & Dancers Company with Carmella Vassor-Johnson.
View More PROJECT – THROUGH AN APERTURE (Exosphere): Fringe Review 62BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO (Temple Theaters): Fringe Review 61.1
Everything about BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO asserts the production as one of the best works in this year’s Fringe.
View More BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO (Temple Theaters): Fringe Review 61.1SISTERS OF ELLERY HOLLOW BY STEPHEN SPOTSWOOD (RHolt Productions): Fringe Review 60
The show, which is all about loss and violence in a dark corner of the world, is too bright – it has no real darkness to it at all
View More SISTERS OF ELLERY HOLLOW BY STEPHEN SPOTSWOOD (RHolt Productions): Fringe Review 60THE ORGASM CHRONICLES (OneTaste Philly): Fringe Review 59
Dramatic narrators voice acutely detailed stories of sexual exploits, dating disasters/successes, and intimate gatherings.
View More THE ORGASM CHRONICLES (OneTaste Philly): Fringe Review 59Fringe Bike Tour Was Awesome: Three shows, twelve bikes, dinner, and some rides
“Your little ducks,” Leah says, as we look over our shoulders at the line of weaving their way south on 21st, “they’re all in a row.”
View More Fringe Bike Tour Was Awesome: Three shows, twelve bikes, dinner, and some ridesBROKEN WING (Pantea Productions): Fringe Review 29.2
The timely BROKEN WING, offered to the FringeArts festival in an beautifully executed performance by Pantea Productions, tells the story of a brash American photographer (Bob Stineman) who, while traveling in Iran, sleeps with his host’s young wife Arezoo.
View More BROKEN WING (Pantea Productions): Fringe Review 29.2MIRRORING SKY — A Soundscape (InVersion Theatre): Fringe Review 58
Starting in bustling Rittenhouse Square, MIRRORING SKY guides participants along familiar city streets, ending at the Schuylkill River Park
View More MIRRORING SKY — A Soundscape (InVersion Theatre): Fringe Review 58ALTERNATIVE THEATRE FESTIVAL (iNtuitions Experimental Theatre): Fringe Review 57
Playwrights are do not come fully formed. Directors have to start somewhere. And the Philly Fringe Festival is traditionally a great place for artists to take their first artistic steps.
View More ALTERNATIVE THEATRE FESTIVAL (iNtuitions Experimental Theatre): Fringe Review 57FLIM FLAM PHANTOM SHAM (Ombelico Mask Ensemble): Fringe Review 56
Ombelico’s latest al fresco offering, FLIM FLAM PHANTOM SHAM, is a delightful synthesis of traditional Commedia dell’Arte with current Philadelphia references, delivered in Italian and English—or Philly’s local version thereof!—which kept me in stitches throughout the entire all-ages show.
View More FLIM FLAM PHANTOM SHAM (Ombelico Mask Ensemble): Fringe Review 56THE WAITSTAFF SH*TS THE BED (The Waitstaff): 2014 Fringe Review 55
After years of milking their hit show The Real Housewives of South Philly until it jumped the shark, The Waitstaff return to the Fringe with another set of funnybone-tickling sketch comedy
View More THE WAITSTAFF SH*TS THE BED (The Waitstaff): 2014 Fringe Review 55NECESSARY EFFORTS (The Naked Stark): Fringe Review 54
What is necessary? In NECESSARY EFFORTS, the mixed-bill production by The Naked Stark, the answer offered is the work of making.
View More NECESSARY EFFORTS (The Naked Stark): Fringe Review 54