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Category: 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.

Brian Sanders' JUNK Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak Fringe review
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[25] HUSH NOW SWEET HIGH HEELS AND OAK (Brian Sanders’ JUNK): Fringe review

Debra Miller September 10, 2013 No Comments

Choreographer par excellence Brian Sanders creates a psycho-sexual dreamscape of children’s fairy tales and nursery rhymes morphing into adult erotic fantasies in HUSH NOW SWEET…

View More [25] HUSH NOW SWEET HIGH HEELS AND OAK (Brian Sanders’ JUNK): Fringe review
Enlightenment on E Floor North by Strange Attractor Theatre. Fringe Review
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[24.1] ENLIGHTENMENT ON E FLOOR NORTH (Strange Attractor Theatre Company): Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 10, 2013 3 Comments

“You’re not here.” “Yes I am.” “But you’re not supposed to be here.” —ENLIGHTENMENT ON E FLOOR NORTH Someone once said that war is months…

View More [24.1] ENLIGHTENMENT ON E FLOOR NORTH (Strange Attractor Theatre Company): Fringe review
Spoon River Anthology 2013 Philly Fringe review
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[23] SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY (Manayunk Roxborough Art Center): Fringe review

JB Farley September 10, 2013 No Comments

Almost one hundred years ago, Edgar Lee Masters began publishing poems from the point of view of the deceased residents of Spoon River, a lightly-fictionalized…

View More [23] SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY (Manayunk Roxborough Art Center): Fringe review
Gayze: A Real Life Webseries. Fringe review 2013
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[22] GAYZE: A REAL LIVE WEBSERIES (MJ/JT): Fringe review

JB Farley September 10, 2013 1 Comment

GAYZE: A REAL LIVE WEBSERIES is rough around the edges, without a doubt. The cast aims for the cartoonish a lot of the time, and…

View More [22] GAYZE: A REAL LIVE WEBSERIES (MJ/JT): Fringe review
Saint Joan, Betrayed, Mary Tuomanen, 2013 Philly Fringe review
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[21] SAINT JOAN, BETRAYED (Aaron Cromie & Mary Tuomanen): 2013 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 9, 2013 1 Comment

This town knows Aaron Cromie, polymath of the arts—puppeteer, performer, director, designer of puppets, sets, and props; choreographer, musician, teacher, and writer. What else? I…

View More [21] SAINT JOAN, BETRAYED (Aaron Cromie & Mary Tuomanen): 2013 Fringe review
The Society 2013 Philadelphia Fringe review
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[7.2] THE SOCIETY (Jo Strømgren Kompani): Fringe review

Michael Fisher September 9, 2013 2 Comments

Let’s be real: Most theater we see these days is at least a little bit pretentious. The very nature of theater is based in pretense.…

View More [7.2] THE SOCIETY (Jo Strømgren Kompani): Fringe review
Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel Fringe review. Photo by Kyle Cassidy
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TRAVELING LIGHT (Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress): 2013 Fringe review 13.2

Kathryn Osenlund September 9, 2013 1 Comment

This play travels anything but light, but for aficionados—as I am—of talented and doomed Joe Orton or for those fascinated by Brian Epstein (the man…

View More TRAVELING LIGHT (Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress): 2013 Fringe review 13.2
Pig Iron Pay Up 2013 Philadelphia Fringe review
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[20] PAY UP (Pig Iron Theatre Company with The University of the Arts): Fringe review

Jessica Foley September 9, 2013 2 Comments

This is not a play. Therefore this is not a review, but a warning. If you’re looking to sit in a darkened theater watching actors…

View More [20] PAY UP (Pig Iron Theatre Company with The University of the Arts): Fringe review
Holly's Dead Soldiers 2013 Fringe Festival
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[19] HOLLY’S DEAD SOLDIERS (Bruce Walsh, Douglas Williams, Chris Davis): 2013 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 9, 2013 2 Comments

The play transpires in and around Bruce Walsh’s living room. (September 14 performances will take place at the home of Doug Williams.) Three collaborating playwrights share…

View More [19] HOLLY’S DEAD SOLDIERS (Bruce Walsh, Douglas Williams, Chris Davis): 2013 Fringe review
Antihero. Tribe of Fools. 2013 Philly Fringe review
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[18] ANTIHERO (Tribe of Fools Theatre Company): Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 9, 2013 1 Comment

Although founded ten years ago, Tribe of Fools Theatre Company really burst onto the scene with its inimitable Fringe ‘11 offering, Heavy Metal Dance Fag.  Like that…

View More [18] ANTIHERO (Tribe of Fools Theatre Company): Fringe review
Tough Cookies Together We Act Fringe Review
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[17] TOUGH COOKIES (Together We Act): Fringe review

Michael Fisher September 8, 2013 2 Comments

First, the elephant in the room: Together We Act is a non-profit theater company for people who stutter. Now, it doesn’t take a cynical theater…

View More [17] TOUGH COOKIES (Together We Act): Fringe review
The Safe Word is Begonia Fringe review
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[16] THE SAFE WORD IS BEGONIA (B. Someday Productions): Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 8, 2013 No Comments

Walking Fish Theatre has won accolades (including a 2010 Barrymore) for its programs in education and children’s theater. But Ari Flamingo’s THE SAFE WORD IS…

View More [16] THE SAFE WORD IS BEGONIA (B. Someday Productions): Fringe review
Go Long Big Softie. Photo by Kate Raines. 2013 Philly Fringe Festival
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[15] GO LONG BIG SOFTIE (Groundswell Players): Fringe review

Michael Fisher September 8, 2013 2 Comments

As I watch TV and lament the opportunities missed by my fantasy football team (Why didn’t I start Jimmy Graham? I’m an idiot, that’s why.)…

View More [15] GO LONG BIG SOFTIE (Groundswell Players): Fringe review
David Stanger stars as K in the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s THE CASTLE (Photo credit: Johanna Austin, austinart.org) Fringe Review
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[14] THE CASTLE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): Fringe review

Debra Miller September 8, 2013 1 Comment

Though Franz Kafka’s work is not categorized as theater of the absurd per se, his writings have been cited as important predecessors of the genre.…

View More [14] THE CASTLE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): Fringe review
Traveling Light. Lindsay Harris Friel, Fringe Review. Kyle Cassidy
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TRAVELING LIGHT (Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress): 2013 Fringe review 13.1

Jessica Foley September 8, 2013 3 Comments

Entering the Adrienne’s Skybox into Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress Philadelphia premiere production of TRAVELING LIGHT, I was worried. I normally abhor plays hinged around real-life…

View More TRAVELING LIGHT (Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress): 2013 Fringe review 13.1
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[12] THIS IS NOT FOR YOU (elbow room performance): Fringe review

JB Farley September 8, 2013 1 Comment

Julie Beauvais is a director of operas. She lives in the mountains of Switzerland. Her partner on THIS IS NOT FOR YOU is Jon Foley Sherman,…

View More [12] THIS IS NOT FOR YOU (elbow room performance): Fringe review
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[11] THE MOMENTUM (Collaboration Town): Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 7, 2013 No Comments

“This morning I woke up in the spinning hole of momentum,” begins Geoffrey Decas O’Donnell as a self-help devotee in CTown’s THE MOMENTUM, “riding momentum……

View More [11] THE MOMENTUM (Collaboration Town): Fringe review
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[10] PARTS: A SPEED-THROUGH (Drexel Players): Fringe review

Michael Fisher September 7, 2013 1 Comment

PARTS: A SPEED-THROUGH is an ambitious, outside-the-box piece devised and performed by the Drexel Players. Anyone who has ever been involved in theater knows the…

View More [10] PARTS: A SPEED-THROUGH (Drexel Players): Fringe review
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[9] BYE BYE LIVER: THE PHILADELPHIA DRINKING PLAY (The Pub Theater Company 2013): Fringe review

JB Farley September 7, 2013 No Comments

Good drinking companions hard to come by? This September, there’re at least six of them hanging out in Fairmount. The ensemble cast of the Pub…

View More [9] BYE BYE LIVER: THE PHILADELPHIA DRINKING PLAY (The Pub Theater Company 2013): Fringe review
A Doll's House, EgoPo, Philadelphia Fringe review.
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[8] A DOLL’S HOUSE (EgoPo Classic Theatre): Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 7, 2013 1 Comment

A DOLL’S HOUSE, Henrik Ibsen’s classic tale of female confinement, is ripe for adaptation to the world of a teenage girl: the claustrophobia of a…

View More [8] A DOLL’S HOUSE (EgoPo Classic Theatre): Fringe review

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