Like many people, I’m only now returning to in-person shows after 18 months finding other means of distraction. In a typical example, I went down…
View More BALDWIN AND BUCKLEY AT CAMBRIDGE (Elevator Repair Service): 2021 Fringe reviewCategory: Fringe reviews
Reviews of theater and performing arts events in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Phindie is providing more critical coverage of the festival than any other publication in Philadelphia.
Neal Zoren’s Shows to See in Philadelphia This November
Rundown of Philadelphia theater shows onstage this November
View More Neal Zoren’s Shows to See in Philadelphia This NovemberAUTOPIA (Hella Fresh): 2019 Fringe review
I’m reminded to look around and appreciate the magic of the theater.
View More AUTOPIA (Hella Fresh): 2019 Fringe reviewLet Me Die (Joseph Keckler): 2019 Fringe review
How many times can we witness a dramatic death on TV, in movies, or even opera?
View More Let Me Die (Joseph Keckler): 2019 Fringe reviewLET ME DIE (Joseph Keckler): 2019 Fringe review
Spoilers puts it mildly: She dies. He dies. They die.
View More LET ME DIE (Joseph Keckler): 2019 Fringe reviewA LITERAL DOLL HOUSE (Macho Goat): 2019 Fringe review
Is she playing with dolls or is she controlling her own narrative?
View More A LITERAL DOLL HOUSE (Macho Goat): 2019 Fringe reviewHABIT@ (Matter Movement Group): 2019 Fringe review
An otherworldly trip into primal vitality
View More HABIT@ (Matter Movement Group): 2019 Fringe reviewThere (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review
A cosmic trip that combined both poetry and performance
View More There (Wilma): 2019 Fringe reviewPUPPET-DELPHIA FRINGE SLAM (Pantea Productions): 2019 Fringe review
A far cry from Sesame Street and Lamb Chop
View More PUPPET-DELPHIA FRINGE SLAM (Pantea Productions): 2019 Fringe reviewTHE MURDER AND BOOZE CABARET (Love Drunk Life) 2019 Fringe review
Recreates the breezy cynicism of a 1920s speakeasy
View More THE MURDER AND BOOZE CABARET (Love Drunk Life) 2019 Fringe reviewTHERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe review
THERE is not a place on Earth’s map. It is not a poem recital, nor is it a play.
View More THERE (Wilma): 2019 Fringe reviewANOTHER AGATHA (Migration Theory): 2019 Fringe review
An enjoyably immersive experience unlike any other
View More ANOTHER AGATHA (Migration Theory): 2019 Fringe reviewCOME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (IRC): 2019 Fringe review
IRC widens the scope of what absurdism means in our absurd world
View More COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (IRC): 2019 Fringe reviewFringe in Sketch: LATE NIGHT SNACKS (Bearded Ladies)
Sketches of the late night cabaret
View More Fringe in Sketch: LATE NIGHT SNACKS (Bearded Ladies)RED LODGE, MONTANA (The Antidote): 2019 Fringe review
A bizarro fusion of indolence, violence, nudity, sex, and dance
View More RED LODGE, MONTANA (The Antidote): 2019 Fringe reviewTHE ROSE GARDEN (Emily Betts & Monti Cerabino): 2019 Fringe review
The Monti Cerabino and Emily Betts produce a damn clever piece of theater
View More THE ROSE GARDEN (Emily Betts & Monti Cerabino): 2019 Fringe reviewCartography (Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Myers): 2019 Fringe review
LATE NIGHT SNACKS: Stephanie Blythe (Bearded Ladies): 2019 Fringe review
Stephanie Blythe as Blythely Oratonio performing at LATE NIGHT SNACKS
View More LATE NIGHT SNACKS: Stephanie Blythe (Bearded Ladies): 2019 Fringe reviewIS THIS A ROOM (Tina Satter/Half Straddle): 2019 Fringe review
A brilliant production by Half Straddle based on an FBI transcription
View More IS THIS A ROOM (Tina Satter/Half Straddle): 2019 Fringe reviewA MANAYUNK MYSTERY TOUR (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2019 Fringe review
Shadowy figures lurk on the dark towpath under the Green Lane Bridge. That would be us.
View More A MANAYUNK MYSTERY TOUR (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2019 Fringe review