The Bald Soprano always wears her hair in the same style. And The Bald Soprano, written in 1950 by Eugene Ionesco as a “tragedy of language,” is probably the…
Tina Brock and company make Ionesco’s absurd SOPRANO sing.
What to see at the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Ionesco offers comically entertaining insight on the careless and constant cacophony that passes for communication but is just platitudinous twaddle.
THE GROOM’S A FAG; THE BRIDE’S A CUNT; THE BEST MAN’S A WHORE; AND THE MAIDEN OF HONOR (JUST) HUNG HERSELF IN THE CLOSET (On the Rocks): 2017 Fringe review On the Rocks proves you can dismantle the master’s house with his tools. 
TOWN (Jolie Darrow & Jack O’Keeffe/PHIT Comedy): 2017 Fringe review TOWN feels like a writer’s first draft. Ultimately, nothing seems to be at stake. 
SUICIDE STORIES (Elephant Room Productions): 2017 Fringe review A surprising reminder of how good it is just to be alive. 
SEVENTY IV SECONDS … TO JUDGMENT (GoKash OnStage): In judgment of our wrongs How could so many juries acquit so many killers of unarmed African Americans. 
We Are All Chelsea Manning: Inis Nua actors on what THE RADICALISATION OF BRADLEY MANNING means to them We asked the actors in this challenging production: Who is Bradley Manning to you? ![[78] STUDY HALL (Philly Improv Theater): Fringe review](http://i0.wp.com/phindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/phit-study-hall.jpg?fit=150%2C9999 "phit-study-hall")
The conceit of Philly Improv Theater’s STUDY HALL is that we the audience are a bunch of prep school students, awaiting a lecture in an auditorium. A few uniformed “classmates” sit on the stage, along with our lecturer, Dr. Michael Yudell (a Drexel professor with a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences).
