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VILLAIN (Jon & Marissa Edelman/PHIT): 2018 Fringe review A telling tale of what it means to be an immigrant in the U.S. today 
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THE PRESENTED (Chris Davis): 2018 Fringe review Chris Davis has come into his own as an exuberant and irresistible Rumpelstiltskin who spins his own life’s straw into gold. 
WOLFCRUSH: a queer werewolf play (On the Rocks): 2018 Fringe review WOLFCRUSH misses the no-holds-barred humor, shock value, and pop culture-infused insight into youth culture of playwright Haygen-Brice Walke... 
HAPGOOD (Lantern): Rising to the challenge of a gleefully complicated spy story Hapgood is not just a spy story, it’s also a physics story 
Renegade’s contemporary deconstruction of Herman Melville’s classic novel about one man’s vengeful obsession with an eponymous white whale features a tour-de-force solo performance by Ed Swidey and a penetrating script by Swidey and lead writer Michael Durkin, who conceived and directs the production. Durkin has seamlessly interwoven Melville’s story with that of Robert, a father who feels he has lost everything and, like the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, wants back what has been taken from him (for Ahab, his leg; for Robert, his son; for both, their former lives). Staged in a Philadelphia row house, the production makes full use of the ground floor doorways, kitchen, and living room (where the audience is seated and participates in the action), and the stairway up to the second floor’s titular bathtub, where Swidey’s performance continues, live-streamed to the viewers on a digital flat-screen TV in the room below. more…
