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Category: Fringe reviews

Reviews of theater and performing arts events in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Phindie is providing more critical coverage of the festival than any other publication in Philadelphia.

Dance Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews

TWO STORIES (Jillian Glace): 2016 Fringe review 23

Julius Ferraro September 12, 2016 No Comments

A fine Fringe premier for choreographer Jillian Glace and her performers.

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HER: THE FEMALE EXPERIENCE FROM BIRTH TO DEATH (Basement Poetry): 2016 Fringe review 22

Julia Taus September 12, 2016 1 Comment

An invitation to dwell inside the place that is unarguably woman, the womb

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ROOM 21 (Jace Clayton): 2016 Fringe review 21

Michael Kelly September 12, 2016 No Comments

We were lucky to have been in attendance for ROOM 21’s only performance—one as unique and undying in our minds as the Barnes itself.

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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Deep Blue Theatre Collective): 2016 Fringe review 20.1

Kathryn Osenlund September 12, 2016 No Comments

Deep Blue goes for the jugular with a serious staging of STREETCAR, Tennessee Williams’s beloved, hard, and overheated play

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THE SINCERITY PROJECT (Team Sunshine Performance Corporation): 2016 Fringe review 19.1

Lev Feigin September 12, 2016 1 Comment

Uproariously funny, liberatingly bare-assed, and gut-wrenchingly real

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THEN ATHENA (Allentown Public Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 18

Olivia Jia September 12, 2016 No Comments

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

Julia Taus September 12, 2016 1 Comment

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

Lauren Ristvet September 12, 2016 No Comments

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,…

View More BEDLAM: SHAKESPEARE IN REHAB (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2016 Fringe review 16
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WHO WOULD BE KING (Liars and Believers): 2016 Fringe review 15

Dorie Byrne September 11, 2016 No Comments

An ancient story with artful clowning and spacy synth score.

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FEED (Applied Mechanics): 2016 Fringe review 14

Olivia Jia September 11, 2016 No Comments

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

Dorie Byrne September 11, 2016 No Comments

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

Jessica Johnson September 11, 2016 No Comments

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

Nicole Forrester September 11, 2016 No Comments

A multi-colored, multi-realm reimagining of the hero’s journey as it relates to the never-ending quest of being true to oneself

View More THE SWORD OF THE UNICORN (New Works): 2016 Fringe review 11
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IN THE CLEARING (Birds on a Wire): 2016 Fringe review 10

Eri Yoneda September 11, 2016 No Comments

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

Kathryn Osenlund September 11, 2016 No Comments

“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…

View More NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG (Stew and Heidi Rodewald): 2016 Fringe review 9
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THE CHAIRS (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2016 Fringe review 8

Lev Feigin September 11, 2016 No Comments

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

Rachel Dukeman September 10, 2016 No Comments

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

Lauren Ristvet September 10, 2016 No Comments

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.

View More ONE DAY OLD (Iraisa Ann Reilly): 2016 Fringe review 6
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CELLOPHANE (jenny&john): 2016 Fringe review 5

Dante Robinson September 10, 2016 No Comments

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

Christopher Munden September 10, 2016 No Comments

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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