Weekly World News is known for a lot of things, but heartfelt sentiment isn’t one of them. Surprising, then, that the tabloid birthed BAT BOY:…
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[76] BASTARD PIECE (No Face Performance Group): Fringe review
You are in a spacey kind of facility thing. It’s all white in there, with some technological lookin’ kinda lights. There are three doors; soon,…
View More [76] BASTARD PIECE (No Face Performance Group): Fringe review[75] REGGIE’S BRODIE: A VAUDEVILLE EXTRAVAGANZA (Cut House Productions): Fringe review
Is your only experience with burlesque the 2010 Christina Aguilera / Cher movie? Never fear: the good people of Cut House Productions are here to…
View More [75] REGGIE’S BRODIE: A VAUDEVILLE EXTRAVAGANZA (Cut House Productions): Fringe review[74] BEYOND THE LIGHT (Leila Ghaznavi and Pantea Productions): Fringe review
Beyond the Light is a devised puppetry/theater/music/acrobatics/dance exploring unrequited love through whimsical, nighttime wonderment. A blonde boy and a black-haired girl stand in separate shadows,…
View More [74] BEYOND THE LIGHT (Leila Ghaznavi and Pantea Productions): Fringe review[73] ROOTS (AKA performance): Fringe review
AKA performance is a new dance collective, formed by young choreographers Katrina Atkin, Ann-Marie Gover, and Alessandra Delle Grotti to showcase their individual approaches to…
View More [73] ROOTS (AKA performance): Fringe review[72] XY SCHEHERAZADE (Unstuck Theater): Fringe review
XY SCHEHERAZADE works very hard to conjure the moment when “a story that you’re telling a friend becomes, for a minute, a shared perspective.” But…
View More [72] XY SCHEHERAZADE (Unstuck Theater): Fringe review[71] STRIPPED OF COMMON SENSE (Joint Bender Productions): Fringe review
“Back to the grind. Literally.” So begins a shift for five young women, dancing for a living. Set in the dressing room of a strip…
View More [71] STRIPPED OF COMMON SENSE (Joint Bender Productions): Fringe review[70] ONE YEAR (MamaCITA Five): Fringe review
Anyone stumbling into ONE YEAR by accident, like I did, will realize immediately that they had broken in on something transcendent. In front of a backdrop…
View More [70] ONE YEAR (MamaCITA Five): Fringe review[69] BASEMENT (Gunnar Montana): 2013 Fringe Review
This is the only place where baby doll dismembering, Santa Claus chopping, guts wearing, head smashing, dub-step listening, and wrapping a woman in plastic are…
View More [69] BASEMENT (Gunnar Montana): 2013 Fringe Review[68] EMANCIPATION SWEET, A PLAY WITH MUSIC (Theatre for Transformation): Fringe review
Theatre for Transformation is a Lancaster-based company focused on performing African-American stories for diverse audiences. This active group has toured their original works to over…
View More [68] EMANCIPATION SWEET, A PLAY WITH MUSIC (Theatre for Transformation): Fringe review[67] LUCINDA’S BED (Brainspunk Theater): Fringe review
Mia McCullough’s LUCINDA’s BED has a great premise: a monster hiding under a young girl’s bed continues to haunt her into adulthood. The monster (Brendan…
View More [67] LUCINDA’S BED (Brainspunk Theater): Fringe review[56.2] THE TALKBACK (Berserker Residents): Fringe review
You know that scene at the end of The Matrix (spoiler alert) where Neo sees the green code and jumps into Agent Smith’s belly and makes him…
View More [56.2] THE TALKBACK (Berserker Residents): Fringe review[66] HATCH (Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre): Fringe review
An exciting new company with a promising future, Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre presents a mini-festival of six short world-premiere performances in HATCH. Led…
View More [66] HATCH (Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre): Fringe review[65] A MYSTERY? (Dragon’s Eye Theatre): Fringe review
Picture the scene: You are a child under ten years old; you meet three other children, each quite young, Brendan (Patrick Lamborn) is a mandolin prodigy…
View More [65] A MYSTERY? (Dragon’s Eye Theatre): Fringe review[64] MOSES(ES) (Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group): Fringe Review
They are some of the oldest and most widely known stories in the books. They are stories of migrations, grueling journeys, and burning destinies. They are about…
View More [64] MOSES(ES) (Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group): Fringe Review[63] GLOW (Kaleid Theatre): Fringe review
Though we’re all connected 24/7 via cell phones, Facebook, email, texting, and blogging, there is a human disconnect in our current state of existence, in…
View More [63] GLOW (Kaleid Theatre): Fringe review[62] GET REAL. COMEDY YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! (Visible Friends Network): Fringe review
Visible Friends Network was founded towards the end of 2012, around the time of the purported Mayan Apocalypse. Some people responded to the non-stop discussion…
View More [62] GET REAL. COMEDY YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! (Visible Friends Network): Fringe review[40.2] THE OBJECT LESSON (Geoff Sobelle): Fringe review
A bit disjointed, with long transitions, Geoff Sobelle’s contribution to this year’s Fringe Festival is best seen as a collection of short meditations on—or parodies of—clutter,…
View More [40.2] THE OBJECT LESSON (Geoff Sobelle): Fringe review[61] CAVIDAD (Enza DePalma): Fringe review :: Strangers in a Void
Excerpted from thINKingDANCE.net. There’s some strong male/female attraction buzzing through CAVIDAD, but it never loses its cool feel. The dancers come together in various combinations, relating,…
View More [61] CAVIDAD (Enza DePalma): Fringe review :: Strangers in a Void[60] CELEBRATING DANCE (Dancefusion & 360° Dance Company): Fringe review :: Then/Now
Excerpted from thINKingDANCE.net. I was riveted. Eve Gentry’s Tenant of the Street (1938) held me breathless as Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch, of 360° Dance Company, pushed her deeply curved body through…
View More [60] CELEBRATING DANCE (Dancefusion & 360° Dance Company): Fringe review :: Then/Now