Excerpted from thINKingDANCE.net. Swings, hoops and ropes hang expectantly in the rectangular cavern that is Philadelphia Soundstages, drawing my gaze up and seeming to wait for…
View More [59] BREAK/DRIFT/RESIST (Tangle Movement Arts): Fringe review :: Tonight I watch a mantis-limbed woman…
Dim lighting, old motion clips, tap shoes, broad sounds, and internationally acclaimed Colin Dunne in the flesh, calling Irish dance “exhibitionistic”: these elements and more…
View More [58] OUT OF TIME (Colin Dunne): Fringe review
Excerpted from thINKingDANCE.net. Brushing back hair. Stringed instruments. Momentous lifts. Placing and replacing of bodies. Instant transitions between sustained and staccato movement. These were shared elements…
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Every now and then we need to take a step back and look at the art of theater from a distance—through a microscope, in a…
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There is no more special honor than to be thrown a birthday party, after all one “can never stop someone’s birthday, even if you kill…
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Published by The Dance Journal. Republished with kind permission. Leah Stein‘s ADJACENT SPACES is an elegiac chamber dance that interacts with the incredible rooms at Shiloh Baptist Church…
View More [54] ADJACENT SPACES (Leah Stein Dance Company): Fringe review
More bromance than rom-com, with an outrageously funny and scathing commentary on the lingering immaturity and adolescent fixations of America’s Gen Y, Neil Haven’s THE…
View More [53] THE PLAYDATERS (Matchbox Theatre Project): Fringe review
Philly Improv Theater has a great concept on their hands with REASONABLE DOUBT. They start off with one suggestion from the audience. From there the…
View More [52] REASONABLE DOUBT (Philly Improv Theater): Fringe review
Grown-ups aren’t frightened by monsters under the bed. The real ones to worry about lay there right next to us, whispering away in the dark.…
View More [51] ASYLUM (Rainy Day Players): Fringe review
Devised and performed by Found Theater Company, and helmed by co-founder Sean Lally in an impressive directorial debut, THIS IS THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM takes a…
View More [5.2] THIS IS THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM (Found Theater Company): Fringe review
Keep an eye (and an ear) out for Shannon Agnew. Her new show, IF I WERE A DRAG QUEEN, I WOULD BE FAMOUS, is a…
View More [50] IF I WERE A DRAG QUEEN, I WOULD BE FAMOUS (Shannon Agnew): 2013 Fringe review
Published by The Dance Journal. Republished with kind permission. LIFE AND TIMES chronicles a life from childhood to adulthood, in painful, embarrassing, mind numbing detail. Episode two (of…
View More [49] LIFE AND TIMES: EPISODE 2 (Nature Theater of Oklahoma): Fringe review
When the members of the Panic Hour talk about 9/11, reptilians, and the Federal Reserve, I don’t think they’re kidding. Imagine if Ron Paul wrote…
View More [48] FEDERAL DETENTION: THE MUSICAL (The Panic Hour): Fringe review
It’s a shame theater and sports don’t intersect more often. The goings-on of the four major professional sports—especially in Philadelphia—never fail to provide fans with…
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A remount of Jess Conda’s gloriously glitzy glam-rock musical that enjoyed a smash-hit world premiere at the 2012 Fringe, Brat Productions’ ETERNAL GLAMNATION invaded this…
View More [46] ETERNAL GLAMNATION (Brat Productions): Fringe review
Life involves shit and gets messy. Life is anguish and suffering. Life is also care, love, frustration, solace, and release. Life is not easy for…
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1992. It’s sixteen years before Barack Obama is elected president, but New York City has its first (and still only) black mayor, David Dinkins, soon…
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Actor/comedian Jennifer Blaine was a feature of the Philly Fringe for its first decade. Returning for the first time since 2007, she brings back one…
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Montreal-based performer William Bonnet (formerly of 7 Fingers, who delighted in last year’s Philadelphia Live Arts with Sequence 8) executes a seamless blend of dance,…
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For the first few years of the Philly Fringe, it cost like five dollars to see a show. You could take a gamble on shows…
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