Act II opens its new season with a bang with Bruce Graham’s ACCORDING TO GOLDMAN
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IT’S SO LEARNING (Berserker Residents): 2015 Fringe Review 51
Go back to school with The Berserker Residents in this highly interactive ensemble-devised piece, in which you are the student and your teachers are berserk!
View More IT’S SO LEARNING (Berserker Residents): 2015 Fringe Review 51ALIAS ELLIS MACKENZIE (Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental and CINEtica): 2015 Fringe review 50
Eleven skilled performers play crew or actors on the set of a Colombian TV show about 1980s American drug pilot and adventurer Barry Seal.
View More ALIAS ELLIS MACKENZIE (Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental and CINEtica): 2015 Fringe review 50TALE OF THE PHANTOM SHIP (Temple Theater’s Sidestage): 2015 Fringe review 47
A talented collective of students from Temple University present an original musical inspired by a maritime legend from historic Prince Edward Island.
View More TALE OF THE PHANTOM SHIP (Temple Theater’s Sidestage): 2015 Fringe review 47THE POP MUSICAL DIARY OF A GAY MAN (Christopher McGinnis): 2015 Fringe review 46
A fun coming-of-age musical using pop music of today and past decades, including Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston, Aerosmith, Rihanna, and more.
View More THE POP MUSICAL DIARY OF A GAY MAN (Christopher McGinnis): 2015 Fringe review 46Long Live Ionesco Actors: Behind the scenes with the cast of IRC’s EXIT THE KING
Philadelphia’s favorite absurdist theater troupe, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, is Fringing all Festival long with Eugene Ionesco’s EXIT THE KING. Henrik Eger talks to the six…
View More Long Live Ionesco Actors: Behind the scenes with the cast of IRC’s EXIT THE KINGFringe in Sketch 6: DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade)
As part of Phindie’s coverage of the 2015 Fringe Festival, Aaron Krolikowski is attending a series of shows and sketching what he sees.
View More Fringe in Sketch 6: DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade)THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Tony Lawton with Ugly Stepsister): 2015 Fringe review 43
This hilarious musical workshop reading of an adapted 19th-century fairytale is a treat for all ages!
View More THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Tony Lawton with Ugly Stepsister): 2015 Fringe review 43A GREAT WAR (Iron Age): 2015 Fringe review 40
This tense, evocative play explores the eternal verities of war, sacrifice, and deceit.
View More A GREAT WAR (Iron Age): 2015 Fringe review 40CUZZO (Aleksandra Berczynski, Roza Money and MB): 2015 Fringe review 39
With extremely short skirts, unabashed décolletage, and treacherously high heels, two women reminisce over shots at “the dirtiest of dirty dive bars”
View More CUZZO (Aleksandra Berczynski, Roza Money and MB): 2015 Fringe review 39BYE BYE LIVER: THE PHILADELPHIA DRINKING PLAY (Happy Hour Live): 2015 Fringe review 38
This funny and crude bar show blends sketch comedy with popular drinking games.
View More BYE BYE LIVER: THE PHILADELPHIA DRINKING PLAY (Happy Hour Live): 2015 Fringe review 38ANDY: A POPERA (Opera Philadelphia & The Bearded Ladies): 2015 Fringe Review 37
An exciting multi-media collaboration reflects the operatic life and times of Andy Warhol and the Pop Sixties.
View More ANDY: A POPERA (Opera Philadelphia & The Bearded Ladies): 2015 Fringe Review 37THE BORDER (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 32.2
THE BORDER delivers on all the essential aspects of Scandinavian life: there’s dry humor, a self-deprecating take on one’s life and, of course, melancholic dance music.
View More THE BORDER (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 32.2DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade): 2015 Fringe Review 36
Wear sturdy shoes for this wild mile-and-a-half theatrical expedition through FDR Park, where humans are pitted against apes and hilarity ensues!
View More DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade): 2015 Fringe Review 36THERE (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 35
You would be excused for not understanding exactly what is going on in THERE: the dialog is all in a Russianish nonsense language
View More THERE (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 35MUSICIAN, MODEL & MEDICAL EXPERIMENT (Anomie Fatale): 2015 Fringe review 33
Fatale recounts her tragedies, infusing humor through her narrative, music, and burlesque numbers.
View More MUSICIAN, MODEL & MEDICAL EXPERIMENT (Anomie Fatale): 2015 Fringe review 33DISHWASHER (Brian Feldman): 2015 Fringe review 10.2
DISHWASHER exposes a reality of life: Performing a monologue can be a service just like washing a dish
View More DISHWASHER (Brian Feldman): 2015 Fringe review 10.2THE BORDER (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 32.1
This scintillating exploration of the territorial tensions between a man and a woman takes us beyond the cubicle walls to the dynamic boundaries of human relations.
View More THE BORDER (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 32.1CITY OF WOES (Found): 2015 Fringe Review 29
A fluid stylistic synthesis of Dante’s Inferno with 1940s crime fiction, this ensemble-devised work is profound and affecting.
View More CITY OF WOES (Found): 2015 Fringe Review 29SOMETIMES CALLIE AND JONAS DIE (Poison Apple Initiative): 2015 Fringe review 28
This is hot, rough, and in-your-face low budget theater, and it’s matched by a raw and shit-kicking theater show.
View More SOMETIMES CALLIE AND JONAS DIE (Poison Apple Initiative): 2015 Fringe review 28