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 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.
[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[59] BREAK/DRIFT/RESIST (Tangle Movement Arts): Fringe review :: Tonight I watch a mantis-limbed woman…
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…[58] OUT OF TIME (Colin Dunne): Fringe review
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[57] The Iron Factory Presents (allendance and Tori Lawrence + Co.): 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…
View More [57] The Iron Factory Presents (allendance and Tori Lawrence + Co.): Fringe review ::[56.1] THE TALKBACK (Berserker Residents): Fringe review
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…
View More [56.1] THE TALKBACK (Berserker Residents): Fringe review[55] HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIM HUNTER (Zacherle): 2013 Fringe review
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…
View More [55] HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIM HUNTER (Zacherle): 2013 Fringe review[54] ADJACENT SPACES (Leah Stein Dance Company): Fringe review
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[53] THE PLAYDATERS (Matchbox Theatre Project): 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[52] REASONABLE DOUBT (Philly Improv Theater): 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[51] ASYLUM (Rainy Day Players): 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[5.2] THIS IS THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM (Found Theater Company): 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[50] IF I WERE A DRAG QUEEN, I WOULD BE FAMOUS (Shannon Agnew): 2013 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[49] LIFE AND TIMES: EPISODE 2 (Nature Theater of Oklahoma): 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