Director John Schultz talks about his immersive staging of Shakespeare’s Macbeth: to a blindfolded audience.
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Category: Fringe Festival
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Nowhere Woman: Femme fatale Emilie Krause on 901 NOWHERE STREET
Emilie Krause talks about her Fringe play, her work as an actor and devisor, and how she’s probably not a real-ife femme fatale.
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Fringe Late Night: FULL Schedule and Preview
For this year’s Fringe Festival, King Britt and Kate Watson-Wallace has put together a tasty schedule of Late Night offerings at the Fringe bar.
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PAC Presents THE CAPTIVE: FringeArts Interview with Dan Hodge
Philadelphia Artists Collective has produced some of the finest works of the last few Fringe Festivals. Director Dan Hodge tells us about this year’s offering.
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Fringe Preview: THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Tony Lawton with Ugly Stepsister)
The creators/performers of THE LIGHT PRINCESS discuss the development of their adaptation of the 19th-century Scottish fairytale before its workshop production in the Fringe.
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1 Actor, 1 Audience Member, 64 Shows, 10 Billion Possibilities: Sam Henderson’s 100 takes over the Fringe Festival
Sam Henderson is keeping the location and the subject of his Fringe show secret. In this interview, Phindie tries to squeeze out a little more information.
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#DigitalFringe: The Fringe Festival gets digital
The 2015 Fringe Festival introduces a new component, Digital Fringe, an online platform where artists working in digital media can share their work.
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Get your 2015 Fringe Guide at a Special Launch Party
Red 40 and DJ Jersey Dan give a taste of the Fringe Festival at the Guide Launch Party this First Friday.
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UNARMED: Realizing Race and Racism at Fringe Festival 2015
“Before we even get to move, the bodies just existing together in space is getting at American politics”
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Hot Spontaneous Performers: FringeArts Interview with David Zambrano on SOUL PROJECT
Republished by kind permission from the FringeArts blog. “Since the beginning of my career as a choreographer, I have always selected a group of international…
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Deb Miller’s 15 Top Picks for the 2015 Fringe Festival
Top Philly theater writer Deb Miller previews the best of the 2015 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
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Online, The Fringe Has Already Begun: An inside look at medical gender transition now live as part of 2015 Digital Fringe
A new Fringe component launches with a two-year, exhaustive archive of transgender performer Swift Shuker’s transition from a male body to an androgynous body.
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Jumping Out Of Airplanes: Trey Lyford on theater, life, and DOLL’S HOUSE at the 2015 Fringe Festival
This fall, Lyford takes a break from his typical role as a contemporary clown and returns to Fringe Festival in Jo Strømgren’s recreation of Henrik Ibsen’s famous play, A Doll’s House.
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The Art of the Steal: Director Ivo van Hove creates plays out of film scripts
“In film,” pronounced Ivo van Hove, “the director is the god of his creation.”
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The Fringe in nine and a half hours: the Phindie Fringe Bike Tour Diaries (part two)
Nine point five hours, five pieces of theater, ten bicyclists, and no great plan on how we’re gonna eat: that was the format for day two of PHINDIE’S OFFICIAL FRINGE BIKE TOUR.
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DOUBLE BATMAN (Frank Perri): 2014 Fringe Review 87
Frank Perri’s DOUBLE BATMAN is a powerful monologue of loss, withdrawal, and reemergence basically explaining why he is doing a powerful monologue of loss, withdrawal, and reemergence.
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LOVERTITS (Annie Wilson): 2014 Fringe review 86
The topic of Annie Wilson’s LOVERTITS is the female body. But the bodies are at turns irreverent, nonchalant, non-sexualized.
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POE-A-THON (Night Hawks): Fringe Review 85
“Hammy, I said—a bit of a ham.” that’s how a character in POE-A-THON describes Edgar Allan Poe, speaking volumes about the approach taken by Night Hawks.
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SPLICE (Leah Stein Dance Company): Fringe Review 84
In SPLICE, a single flat wave of board whoops its way through the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, which consists of about four rooms, vaguely defined by false walls.
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WOMEN UN PLUGGED (Dretwin Productions): 2014 Fringe Review 83
WOMEN UN PLUGGED is about women and what they say to each other when they think no one is looking.
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