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Author: Julius Ferraro

Julius Ferraro is a journalist, playwright, performer, and project manager in Philadelphia. He is co-founder of Curate This and editor-in-chief of thINKingDANCE. His recent plays include Parrot Talk, Micromania, and The Death and Painful Dismemberment of Paul W. Auster.
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JULIUS CAESAR (Quintessence): Why must republics fall?

Julius Ferraro April 2, 2018 No Comments

Quintessence Theatre Group explores the Shakespearean death throes of the Roman Republic.

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TIME REMEMBERED (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): review
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TIME REMEMBERED (IRC): What is love and how do we kill it?

Julius Ferraro February 13, 2018 No Comments

The IRC prove once again that they are able to pluck strange fruits out of theatrical history and serve them up ably.

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LYDIE BREEZE PART ONE: COLD HARBOR (EgoPo): Ambitious, sprawling, but emotionally hollow

Julius Ferraro February 5, 2018 No Comments

COLD HARBOR is fast-paced and skillfully produced, with a large, stylistically diverse cast, but at its emotional core it is stiff and distant.

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ONION DANCES (Talia Mason): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 25, 2017 No Comments

Talia Mason’s DANCES is a one-woman dance / narrative piece about her Jewish heritage

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CLOSE MUSIC FOR BODIES (Michael Kiley): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 25, 2017 No Comments

CLOSE MUSIC FOR BODIES is sensual choral performance. Sixty-five of us follow the directions of the performers and position, and re-position, ourselves around the big, open…

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AMERICANA PSYCHOBABBLE (Alexandra Tatarsky): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 22, 2017 No Comments

Tatarsky’s daring, inventive, rapid-fire wordplay is unlike anything you’ll see on a Philly stage

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BAD ACTIVIST (Humble Mumbles): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 18, 2017 No Comments

The story of a third-wave feminist / lefty peace activist unable to resist her essentially Orientalist fantasies

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tilda swinton greenfield fringe
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TILDA SWINTON ADOPT ME PLEASE (The Greenfield Collective): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 14, 2017 No Comments

A mythical world of secret rituals: special handshakes, dream sharing, playacting the stories of their ancient namesakes

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I HAVE THIS MANY *** (Mariana Catalina // Andy Sowers): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 12, 2017 No Comments

A dramatization of the Freudian tripartite adapted to contemporary ideals, where a placid, self-realizing id advocates for complete acceptance of the self and indulgence in sexual urges

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HELLO BLACKOUT (New Paradise Labs): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 10, 2017 No Comments

More engrossing, more alienating, and more disciplined than its predecessor.

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nicole shante white, Calli Roche, Shreya Pokharel by Gaciru Matathia
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URGENT CARE: A Social Care Experience (The Colored Girls Museum): 2017 Fringe Review

Julius Ferraro September 10, 2017 No Comments

The unifying question for the museum: why would the “ordinary, extraordinary colored girl” care about this?

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EUGÈNE IONESCO’S THE BALD SOPRANO (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 9, 2017 No Comments

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…

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Arts Features Theater Visual Arts

The Art of a Show: Creating graphics for an independent theater production

Julius Ferraro March 29, 2017 No Comments

A play with gorgeous graphics for its marketing just looks like it has its shit together. How does that happen?

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Dance Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews

WITH FLINT AND STEEL (duende): 2016 Fringe review 85

Julius Ferraro September 23, 2016 No Comments

WITH FLINT AND STEEL, this year’s Fringe offering by experimental music and dance group duende, consists of seven separate pieces, each by a different choreographer.

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JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS (Romeo Castellucci / Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio): 2016 Fringe review 83

Julius Ferraro September 23, 2016 No Comments

We were fortunate. Apparently, the horse does not always shit, but in our case his entrance precipitated a great outpouring of feces.

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PANDÆMONIUM (Nichole Canuso Dance Company): 2016 Fringe review 42.2

Julius Ferraro September 17, 2016 No Comments

An exploration of divorce and disconnection in the California desert.

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I FUCKING DARE YOU (Berserker Residents): 2016 Fringe review 31

Julius Ferraro September 13, 2016 No Comments

The two pieces foment a rowdy audience that’s comfortable interacting and even going up on stage to help the chosen one achieve her mission

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THE SINCERITY PROJECT (Team Sunshine Performance Corporation): 2016 Fringe review 19.2

Julius Ferraro September 13, 2016 No Comments

THE SINCERITY PROJECT treats sincerity like a destination as intangible as a hyperobject is immeasurable—a destination to approach but never arrive at.

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TWO STORIES (Jillian Glace): 2016 Fringe review 23

Julius Ferraro September 12, 2016 No Comments

A fine Fringe premier for choreographer Jillian Glace and her performers.

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BEOWULF/GRENDEL (Renegade): The difficulty of the walking play

Julius Ferraro April 16, 2016 1 Comment

The Renegade Company’s BEOWULF/GRENDEL, directed by the multitalented Maura Krause, leads the audience through West Philly’s scenic Mount Moriah Cemetery.

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