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RIDICULOUS (Jennifer Blaine): 2018 Fringe review

Carolyn Wyman September 15, 2018 1 Comment

Ridiculous, Jennifer Blaine, L’Etage, Sorry, Safety By Numbers, Dirty Joke, Vicissitudes of Travel, Kate Gibson, Karen Getz, Lily Blaine, Paprika Plains

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KILL MOVE PARADISE (Wilma Theater): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 14, 2018 No Comments

There’s no fourth wall here: the audience is complicit in the consideration of POC men who lost their lives to judicial murder

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IRVING BERLIN’S HOLIDAY INN (Walnut Street Theatre): Longing for a time that never was

Naomi Orwin September 14, 2018 1 Comment

IRVING BERLIN’S HOLIDAY INN takes us back to a kinder, gentler time when people could burst into song for no reason whatsoever.

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WHITE FEMINIST (Lee Minora): 2018 Fringe review

Naomi Orwin September 14, 2018 No Comments

A no-holds-barred look at the ways in which white feminists, with the best of intentions, don’t always walk even their own talk.

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HAPGOOD (Lantern): Rising to the challenge of a gleefully complicated spy story

Toby Zinman September 14, 2018 No Comments

Hapgood is not just a spy story, it’s also a physics story

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WOLFCRUSH: a queer werewolf play (On the Rocks): 2018 Fringe review

Smalley Bogg September 14, 2018 No Comments

WOLFCRUSH misses the no-holds-barred humor, shock value, and pop culture-infused insight into youth culture of playwright Haygen-Brice Walker’s previous Fringe entries

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ONE MAN’S TRASH: A CABARET ABOUT TREASURE (Tiny Rocks): 2018 Fringe review

Carolyn Wyman September 14, 2018 No Comments

The show is basically a pirate-themed excuse for these two twee indie folkies to sing their songs of love and independence.

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AN UNOFFICIAL UNAUTHORIZED TOUR OF LOVE PARK (Rose Luardo/Kate Banford): 2018 Fringe review

Smalley Bogg September 14, 2018 No Comments

The piece gets its appeal from the increasingly outlandish characters and an inventive absurdity that devolves into a game of fetch and walking construction barrels.

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A VACATION (Poison Apple Initiative): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 11, 2018 1 Comment

Dante had Virgil; in the divine comedy of our times, we have a self-absorbed vlogger.

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NIGHTMARE FUEL (Sarah Knittel): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 10, 2018 No Comments

A punk-horror Fringe show which engages the audience and keeps the us engaged

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SONG OF MY SELF-CARE (Jimmy Grzelak/PHIT): 2018 Fringe review

Smalley Bogg September 10, 2018 No Comments

Gzelak finds the poetry and the absurd in the mundane.

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THE WILLIAM PENN STORY (Brotherly Love Theatre Company): 2018 Fringe review

Lisa Panzer September 10, 2018 No Comments

The show literally ROCKS!

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B. FRANKLIN: WORDS MATTER (Vagabond Productions): 2018 Fringe review

Lisa Panzer September 10, 2018 3 Comments

An extraordinarily splendid opportunity for an informative and fun visit with Benjamin Franklin

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BEHOLD HER (Half Key Theatre Company): 2018 Fringe review

Naomi Orwin September 10, 2018 1 Comment

Publicity for the show focuses on the question, “What is beauty?,” but the show itself goes much deeper.

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THE ACCOUNTANT (Trey Lyford): 2018 Fringe review

Toby Zinman September 10, 2018 1 Comment

Do the math. That’s what accountants do, right? The show is 75 minutes long. I looked at my watch about ten times, from which we…

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SONGS OF WARS I HAVE SEEN (Heiner Goebbels): 2018 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 10, 2018 No Comments

An imaginatively textured musical performance in which music, sounds, and speaking are of a piece

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CHAOS THEORY (Jessica Creane): 2018 Fringe review

Smalley Bogg September 10, 2018 No Comments

The reliance on audience volunteers yields some interesting moments, framed in a series of games, but too often Creane pushes moments past humor.

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CLOSE YOUR LEGS, HONEY — A NEW MUSICAL (PHIT/Hannah Parke & Shamus Hunter McCarty): 2018 Fringe review

Naomi Orwin September 7, 2018 2 Comments

CLOSE YOUR LEGS, HONEY is a cheery musical tackling the difficult subject of societal expectations for women and the shit women have to put up with.

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AIRPORT OPENED (Brian Shapiro): 2018 Fringe review

Lisa Panzer September 7, 2018 No Comments

AIRPORT OPENED takes you on an enjoyably elucidating human journey well worth experiencing!

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ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review

Toby Zinman September 7, 2018 No Comments

ECCENTRICITIES is lush, loquacious and very typical Tennessee Williams: lonely, sex-starved women, men struggling against overbearing mothers, desperation everywhere.

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