The play transpires in and around Bruce Walsh’s living room. (September 14 performances will take place at the home of Doug Williams.) Three collaborating playwrights share…
View More [19] HOLLY’S DEAD SOLDIERS (Bruce Walsh, Douglas Williams, Chris Davis): 2013 Fringe review
Although founded ten years ago, Tribe of Fools Theatre Company really burst onto the scene with its inimitable Fringe ‘11 offering, Heavy Metal Dance Fag. Like that…
View More [18] ANTIHERO (Tribe of Fools Theatre Company): Fringe review
First, the elephant in the room: Together We Act is a non-profit theater company for people who stutter. Now, it doesn’t take a cynical theater…
View More [17] TOUGH COOKIES (Together We Act): Fringe review
Walking Fish Theatre has won accolades (including a 2010 Barrymore) for its programs in education and children’s theater. But Ari Flamingo’s THE SAFE WORD IS…
View More [16] THE SAFE WORD IS BEGONIA (B. Someday Productions): Fringe review
As I watch TV and lament the opportunities missed by my fantasy football team (Why didn’t I start Jimmy Graham? I’m an idiot, that’s why.)…
View More [15] GO LONG BIG SOFTIE (Groundswell Players): Fringe review
Though Franz Kafka’s work is not categorized as theater of the absurd per se, his writings have been cited as important predecessors of the genre.…
View More [14] THE CASTLE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): Fringe review
Entering the Adrienne’s Skybox into Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress Philadelphia premiere production of TRAVELING LIGHT, I was worried. I normally abhor plays hinged around real-life…
View More TRAVELING LIGHT (Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress): 2013 Fringe review 13.1
Julie Beauvais is a director of operas. She lives in the mountains of Switzerland. Her partner on THIS IS NOT FOR YOU is Jon Foley Sherman,…
View More [12] THIS IS NOT FOR YOU (elbow room performance): Fringe review
“This morning I woke up in the spinning hole of momentum,” begins Geoffrey Decas O’Donnell as a self-help devotee in CTown’s THE MOMENTUM, “riding momentum……
View More [11] THE MOMENTUM (Collaboration Town): Fringe review
PARTS: A SPEED-THROUGH is an ambitious, outside-the-box piece devised and performed by the Drexel Players. Anyone who has ever been involved in theater knows the…
View More [10] PARTS: A SPEED-THROUGH (Drexel Players): Fringe review
Good drinking companions hard to come by? This September, there’re at least six of them hanging out in Fairmount. The ensemble cast of the Pub…
View More [9] BYE BYE LIVER: THE PHILADELPHIA DRINKING PLAY (The Pub Theater Company 2013): Fringe review
A DOLL’S HOUSE, Henrik Ibsen’s classic tale of female confinement, is ripe for adaptation to the world of a teenage girl: the claustrophobia of a…
View More [8] A DOLL’S HOUSE (EgoPo Classic Theatre): Fringe review
This outrageous frolic with a ridiculous premise begins in the meeting room of a quiet, conservative French coffee society. Everything is ordered and in its…
View More [7.1] THE SOCIETY (Jo Strømgren Kompani): Fringe review
Renegade’s contemporary deconstruction of Herman Melville’s classic novel about one man’s vengeful obsession with an eponymous white whale features a tour-de-force solo performance by Ed…
View More [1.2] BATHTUB MOBY-DICK (The Renegade Company): 2013 Fringe review
The crumbling interior of Eastern State Penitentiary provides the perfect setting for Swim Pony’s sold-out remount of its 2006 Fringe hit THE BALLAD OF JOE…
View More [6] THE BALLAD OF JOE HILL (Swim Pony Performing Arts): Fringe review
“You can see–but you cannot change–the choices you have made.” That’s one character’s assessment of the afterworld in Found Theater Company’s THIS IS THE TWILIGHT…
View More [5.1] THIS IS THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM (Found Theater Company): Fringe review
To call this play My Big Fat Greek Endurance Test would be flippant, but it wouldn’t be far off the mark. Certainly AJAX, THE MADNESS…
View More [2.2] AJAX, THE MADNESS (Attis Theatre): Fringe review
Short plays by unknown playwrights, mixed performances by rarely seen actors, an upstart company that takes statement-making risks: this is what the Fringe is all…
View More [4] 4PLAY (Crack the Glass Theatre Company): Fringe review
“Noisy and full of crap.” That’s Molly (Clare Mahoney) describing the data one gets when trying to reduce messy living things down to mere data…
View More [3] COMPLETENESS (Round Table Theatre): Fringe review
Men are made into animals. Animals turn into men, and then are murdered. Bloody, bloody Ajax. His story settles in on you, in the way…
View More [2.1] AJAX, THE MADNESS (Attis Theatre): Fringe review