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Philadelphia’s favorite absurdist theater troupe, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, is Fringing all Festival long with Eugene Ionesco’s EXIT THE KING. Henrik Eger talks to the six…
View More Long Live Ionesco Actors: Behind the scenes with the cast of IRC’s EXIT THE KING
As part of Phindie’s coverage of the 2015 Fringe Festival, Aaron Krolikowski is attending a series of shows and sketching what he sees.
View More Fringe in Sketch 6: DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade)
This hilarious musical workshop reading of an adapted 19th-century fairytale is a treat for all ages!
View More THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Tony Lawton with Ugly Stepsister): 2015 Fringe review 43
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.
View More PUPPETDELPHIA FRINGE SLAM (Leila and Pantea Productions): 2015 Fringe review 42
This exploration of manhood shows how our cultural boundaries can restrict deep, meaningful connection.
View More STILL STANDING YOU (Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido / CAMPO): 2015 Fringe review 41
This tense, evocative play explores the eternal verities of war, sacrifice, and deceit.
View More A GREAT WAR (Iron Age): 2015 Fringe review 40
With extremely short skirts, unabashed décolletage, and treacherously high heels, two women reminisce over shots at “the dirtiest of dirty dive bars”
View More CUZZO (Aleksandra Berczynski, Roza Money and MB): 2015 Fringe review 39
This funny and crude bar show blends sketch comedy with popular drinking games.
View More BYE BYE LIVER: THE PHILADELPHIA DRINKING PLAY (Happy Hour Live): 2015 Fringe review 38
An exciting multi-media collaboration reflects the operatic life and times of Andy Warhol and the Pop Sixties.
View More ANDY: A POPERA (Opera Philadelphia & The Bearded Ladies): 2015 Fringe Review 37
THE BORDER delivers on all the essential aspects of Scandinavian life: there’s dry humor, a self-deprecating take on one’s life and, of course, melancholic dance music.
View More THE BORDER (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 32.2
Wear sturdy shoes for this wild mile-and-a-half theatrical expedition through FDR Park, where humans are pitted against apes and hilarity ensues!
View More DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade): 2015 Fringe Review 36
You would be excused for not understanding exactly what is going on in THERE: the dialog is all in a Russianish nonsense language
View More THERE (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 35
Highly trained and expressive performers introduce viewers to girls’ life, relationships and strength through their acrobatic and astonishing circus arts.
View More THE GIRL’S GUIDE TO NEIGHBORLY CONDUCT (Tangle Movement Arts): 2015 Fringe review 34
Fatale recounts her tragedies, infusing humor through her narrative, music, and burlesque numbers.
View More MUSICIAN, MODEL & MEDICAL EXPERIMENT (Anomie Fatale): 2015 Fringe review 33
DISHWASHER exposes a reality of life: Performing a monologue can be a service just like washing a dish
View More DISHWASHER (Brian Feldman): 2015 Fringe review 10.2
This scintillating exploration of the territorial tensions between a man and a woman takes us beyond the cubicle walls to the dynamic boundaries of human relations.
View More THE BORDER (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 32.1
Three progenitors of 20th-century Minimalism—Lucinda Childs, John Adams, and Frank Gehry–teamed up to create a stunning program of dance, sound, and space.
View More AVAILABLE LIGHT (Lucinda Childs Dance Company): 2015 Fringe Review 31
In OF OUR REMNANTS, the utilitarian object is one of comfort, and comfort is an act of avoidance.
View More OF OUR REMNANTS (Olive Prince Dance): 2015 Fringe review 30
A fluid stylistic synthesis of Dante’s Inferno with 1940s crime fiction, this ensemble-devised work is profound and affecting.
View More CITY OF WOES (Found): 2015 Fringe Review 29
This is hot, rough, and in-your-face low budget theater, and it’s matched by a raw and shit-kicking theater show.
View More SOMETIMES CALLIE AND JONAS DIE (Poison Apple Initiative): 2015 Fringe review 28