Uproariously funny, liberatingly bare-assed, and gut-wrenchingly real
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Category: Reviews
THEN ATHENA (Allentown Public Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 18
A devised piece that addresses the roles of women in combat with both earnestness and humor
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BEFORE I DIE (Tongue & Groove): 2016 Fringe review 17
The talented, quick-witted ensemble cast of comedians are accompanied by a live musician whose witty commentary drives plot forward.
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BEDLAM: SHAKESPEARE IN REHAB (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2016 Fringe review 16
Welcome to the Asylum! In Shakespeare’s day, thrill seekers had a choice between catching a show at the Globe and viewing the lunatics in Bedlam,…
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WHO WOULD BE KING (Liars and Believers): 2016 Fringe review 15
An ancient story with artful clowning and spacy synth score.
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FEED (Applied Mechanics): 2016 Fringe review 14
Narrative, fiction, performance, and reality collide through the breaking of bread.
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DROWNING OPHELIA (Ensemble Atria & EagerRisk Theater): 2016 Fringe review 13
Jane’s subconscious is in the bathtub, and her name is Ophelia
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A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP (The Colored Girls Museum): 2016 Fringe review 12
A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP is about the reclamation of the colored girl’s experience, finding the strength and beauty in it, acknowledging barriers to healing and developing tools for survival and liberation.
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THE SWORD OF THE UNICORN (New Works): 2016 Fringe review 11
A multi-colored, multi-realm reimagining of the hero’s journey as it relates to the never-ending quest of being true to oneself
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IN THE CLEARING (Birds on a Wire): 2016 Fringe review 10
An all girls dance group presents a mysterious dance performance.
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NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG (Stew and Heidi Rodewald): 2016 Fringe review 9
“Won’t you follow me down to Baldwin Country? This ain’t your mama’s Baldwin Country.” The show opens with offhand remarks by Stew, a large black…
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THE CHAIRS (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2016 Fringe review 8
IRC presents a must-see revival of Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 classic THE CHAIRS, a defining work of the theater of the absurd.
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LEVÉE DES CONFLITS (Boris Charmatz): 2016 Fringe review 7
Between chaos and synchronicity, individualism and collectiveness, exists the human search for life without conflict.
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ONE DAY OLD (Iraisa Ann Reilly): 2016 Fringe review 6
Drawing on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, the play reflects upon both a quintessentially American experience—immigration—and the universal experience of growing up.
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CELLOPHANE (jenny&john): 2016 Fringe review 5
We are brought face-to-face with the vast Digital Age to consider the implications it has on our cultural conversation—for better or worse.
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ALICE (Aleksandra Berczynski & MBgruparealizacji): 2016 Fringe review 4
Like sad lyrics to a happy beat. this 20-minute one-woman show takes an idiosyncratically personal look at human sadness in its many guises.
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ANIMAL FARM TO TABLE (Renegade Company): 2016 Fringe review 3
Class. Money. Power: The carrots start flying at the Urban Creators farm collective.
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SHADOW HOUSE (Brenna Geffers and Philadelphia Opera Collective): 2016 Fringe review 2
This site-specific installation unravels the layers of emotion and humanity that the historic Powel House contains
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CAT-A-STROPHE (Fail Better): 2016 Fringe review 1
Fallacies and facts concerning male-female relations are explored within a farcical framework.
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VITA ACTIVA: THE SPIRIT OF HANNAH ARENDT (dir. Ada Ushpiz): Movie review
For many Arendt is remembered by a single phrase — “the banality of evil”, a concept she coined in her controversial book from the 1960s Eichmann in Jerusalem.
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