A fine Fringe premier for choreographer Jillian Glace and her performers.
View More TWO STORIES (Jillian Glace): 2016 Fringe review 23Category: Fringe reviews
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HER: THE FEMALE EXPERIENCE FROM BIRTH TO DEATH (Basement Poetry): 2016 Fringe review 22
An invitation to dwell inside the place that is unarguably woman, the womb
View More HER: THE FEMALE EXPERIENCE FROM BIRTH TO DEATH (Basement Poetry): 2016 Fringe review 22ROOM 21 (Jace Clayton): 2016 Fringe review 21
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.
View More ROOM 21 (Jace Clayton): 2016 Fringe review 21A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Deep Blue Theatre Collective): 2016 Fringe review 20.1
Deep Blue goes for the jugular with a serious staging of STREETCAR, Tennessee Williams’s beloved, hard, and overheated play
View More A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Deep Blue Theatre Collective): 2016 Fringe review 20.1THE SINCERITY PROJECT (Team Sunshine Performance Corporation): 2016 Fringe review 19.1
Uproariously funny, liberatingly bare-assed, and gut-wrenchingly real
View More THE SINCERITY PROJECT (Team Sunshine Performance Corporation): 2016 Fringe review 19.1THEN ATHENA (Allentown Public Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 18
A devised piece that addresses the roles of women in combat with both earnestness and humor
View More THEN ATHENA (Allentown Public Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 18BEFORE 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.
View More BEFORE I DIE (Tongue & Groove): 2016 Fringe review 17BEDLAM: 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,…
View More BEDLAM: SHAKESPEARE IN REHAB (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2016 Fringe review 16WHO WOULD BE KING (Liars and Believers): 2016 Fringe review 15
An ancient story with artful clowning and spacy synth score.
View More WHO WOULD BE KING (Liars and Believers): 2016 Fringe review 15FEED (Applied Mechanics): 2016 Fringe review 14
Narrative, fiction, performance, and reality collide through the breaking of bread.
View More FEED (Applied Mechanics): 2016 Fringe review 14DROWNING OPHELIA (Ensemble Atria & EagerRisk Theater): 2016 Fringe review 13
Jane’s subconscious is in the bathtub, and her name is Ophelia
View More DROWNING OPHELIA (Ensemble Atria & EagerRisk Theater): 2016 Fringe review 13A 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.
View More A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP (The Colored Girls Museum): 2016 Fringe review 12THE 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
View More THE SWORD OF THE UNICORN (New Works): 2016 Fringe review 11IN THE CLEARING (Birds on a Wire): 2016 Fringe review 10
An all girls dance group presents a mysterious dance performance.
View More IN THE CLEARING (Birds on a Wire): 2016 Fringe review 10NOTES 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…
View More NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG (Stew and Heidi Rodewald): 2016 Fringe review 9THE 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.
View More THE CHAIRS (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2016 Fringe review 8LEVÉE DES CONFLITS (Boris Charmatz): 2016 Fringe review 7
Between chaos and synchronicity, individualism and collectiveness, exists the human search for life without conflict.
View More LEVÉE DES CONFLITS (Boris Charmatz): 2016 Fringe review 7ONE 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.
View More ONE DAY OLD (Iraisa Ann Reilly): 2016 Fringe review 6CELLOPHANE (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.
View More CELLOPHANE (jenny&john): 2016 Fringe review 5ALICE (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.
View More ALICE (Aleksandra Berczynski & MBgruparealizacji): 2016 Fringe review 4