Quintessence Theatre Group explores the Shakespearean death throes of the Roman Republic.
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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.
TIME REMEMBERED (IRC): What is love and how do we kill it?
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
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
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
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
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
The story of a third-wave feminist / lefty peace activist unable to resist her essentially Orientalist fantasies
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TILDA SWINTON ADOPT ME PLEASE (The Greenfield Collective): 2017 Fringe review
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
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
More engrossing, more alienating, and more disciplined than its predecessor.
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URGENT CARE: A Social Care Experience (The Colored Girls Museum): 2017 Fringe Review
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
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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The Art of a Show: Creating graphics for an independent theater production
A play with gorgeous graphics for its marketing just looks like it has its shit together. How does that happen?
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WITH FLINT AND STEEL (duende): 2016 Fringe review 85
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
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
An exploration of divorce and disconnection in the California desert.
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I FUCKING DARE YOU (Berserker Residents): 2016 Fringe review 31
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
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
A fine Fringe premier for choreographer Jillian Glace and her performers.
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BEOWULF/GRENDEL (Renegade): The difficulty of the walking play
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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