TV-famous fashion designer Autumn Kietponglert created a gorgeous mourning dress for an upcoming production of HEDDA GABLER.
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Author: Christopher Munden
Your faithful correspondent and publisher Christopher Munden has written and edited for many publications, websites, and cultural institutions. He was an editor/publisher of the Philly Fiction book series, collections of short stories written by local writers and set in Philadelphia. He's also a soccer coach, a pretty good skier, and an erstwhile songwriter.
Famous Philadelphians: Ed Bacon (1910–2005)
A renowned urban planners and a key figure in the revitalized shape of late 20th century
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Sowing a Parable for our Times: Octavia Butler’s PARABLE OF THE SOWER as a concert
Octavia Butler’s dystopian future seems especially relevant. Can we find respite in comradeship and song?
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Pope fever continues with ALTAR CALL
Random Acts of Theater and the Liberty Education Forum are riding the wave of Pope fever with the Philadelphia premiere of Melissa McBain’s ALTAR CALL,
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1.5 Million Men Missing: New play looks at “five to ten” and the devastation of the prison system
There are 1.5 million black men missing from American homes. V TO X examines who and where they are.
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SUITE N˚2 (Encyclopédie de la Parole / Joris Lacoste): 2015 Fringe review 55
Part chorale work, part theater, and part compelling curated art, this peculiarly affecting piece examines the diversity of contemporary communication.
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PUPPETDELPHIA FRINGE SLAM (Leila and Pantea Productions): 2015 Fringe review 42
Secret Life of Worms, America’s favorite sex ed teacher, singing sheep, foot-centric King of the Nerds fan fiction, and Jolly the Sperm Eating Horse.
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CUZZO (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”
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THERE (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
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SOMETIMES 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.
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THREE SISTERS AND A WOLF (Wee Keep Company): 2015 Fringe review 23
By exploring the way performances interact with the world in which they are made, THREE SISTERS AND A WOLF shows how Chekhov can thrive in the wilds of PA.
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SPOOKFISH (Haygen Brice Walker and Jessica Schwartz): 2015 Fringe review 17
The scary midnight show is something of a Fringe tradition. SPOOKFISH fits the bill this year.
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Queer Fringe Party! A celebration and peek at the LGBT offerings in this year’s festival
A celebration of Queer Fringe Monday night at 7pm at TABU Bar & Lounge, featuring innovative queer artists, drinks, karaoke, and a whole lot of friendly faces.
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DISHWASHER (Brian Feldman): 2015 Fringe review 10
Brian Feldman cleans the dishes and reads a monologue of your choosing. This is existential theater at its finest.
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THE CAPTIVE (PAC): 2015 Fringe review 5
Although it has lost the shock value (lesbianism!) it had in the 1920s, it is easy to see why PAC were attracted to this forgotten play.
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Take It to the Bank: Jack Tamburri on Fringe, non-profits, and theater
Ferdinand creator and producer talks about his Fringe show NOT FOR PROFIT and the art of creating art in the non-profit world.
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Dance Remains: Choreographer Olive Prince on her anticipated Fringe show OF OUR REMNANTS
Olive Princes OF OUR REMNANTS is one of the premiere dance pieces of this years Fringe. She talks to Phindie about the literary inspiration and collaboration behind it.
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Blast from the Past: Schedule for the very first Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Useful if you have a time machine. A full listing of events for the 1997 Fringe Festival.
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Fringe Wayback Machine: Brain Shapiro revisits online predictions from 1995 in A FEW THOUSAND UPGRADES LATER
What did the future of the internet look like in 1995? This Fringe show takes a look.
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My Fringe: Veteran Festival-goer Brett Mapp shares his day by day Fringe schedule
Brett Mapp is seeing 30 Fringe shows in 20 days. Here’s where you can find him this Fringe.
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