With extremely short skirts, unabashed décolletage, and treacherously high heels, two women reminisce over shots at “the dirtiest of dirty dive bars”
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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.
BYE BYE LIVER: THE PHILADELPHIA DRINKING PLAY (Happy Hour Live): 2015 Fringe review 38
This funny and crude bar show blends sketch comedy with popular drinking games.
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ANDY: A POPERA (Opera Philadelphia & The Bearded Ladies): 2015 Fringe Review 37
An exciting multi-media collaboration reflects the operatic life and times of Andy Warhol and the Pop Sixties.
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THE BORDER (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 32.2
THE BORDER delivers on all the essential aspects of Scandinavian life: there’s dry humor, a self-deprecating take on one’s life and, of course, melancholic dance music.
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DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade): 2015 Fringe Review 36
Wear sturdy shoes for this wild mile-and-a-half theatrical expedition through FDR Park, where humans are pitted against apes and hilarity ensues!
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THERE (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 35
You would be excused for not understanding exactly what is going on in THERE: the dialog is all in a Russianish nonsense language
View More THERE (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 35
THE GIRL’S GUIDE TO NEIGHBORLY CONDUCT (Tangle Movement Arts): 2015 Fringe review 34
Highly trained and expressive performers introduce viewers to girls’ life, relationships and strength through their acrobatic and astonishing circus arts.
View More THE GIRL’S GUIDE TO NEIGHBORLY CONDUCT (Tangle Movement Arts): 2015 Fringe review 34
MUSICIAN, MODEL & MEDICAL EXPERIMENT (Anomie Fatale): 2015 Fringe review 33
Fatale recounts her tragedies, infusing humor through her narrative, music, and burlesque numbers.
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DISHWASHER (Brian Feldman): 2015 Fringe review 10.2
DISHWASHER exposes a reality of life: Performing a monologue can be a service just like washing a dish
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THE BORDER (Jo Strømgren Kompani): 2015 Fringe review 32.1
This scintillating exploration of the territorial tensions between a man and a woman takes us beyond the cubicle walls to the dynamic boundaries of human relations.
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AVAILABLE LIGHT (Lucinda Childs Dance Company): 2015 Fringe Review 31
Three progenitors of 20th-century Minimalism—Lucinda Childs, John Adams, and Frank Gehry–teamed up to create a stunning program of dance, sound, and space.
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OF OUR REMNANTS (Olive Prince Dance): 2015 Fringe review 30
In OF OUR REMNANTS, the utilitarian object is one of comfort, and comfort is an act of avoidance.
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CITY OF WOES (Found): 2015 Fringe Review 29
A fluid stylistic synthesis of Dante’s Inferno with 1940s crime fiction, this ensemble-devised work is profound and affecting.
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SOMETIMES CALLIE AND JONAS DIE (Poison Apple Initiative): 2015 Fringe review 28
This is hot, rough, and in-your-face low budget theater, and it’s matched by a raw and shit-kicking theater show.
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FISH & BEAUREGARD (Viscosity Theatre): 2015 Fringe review 27
A shy boy, his pet fish, and an outgoing girl teach us that allowing ourselves to be vulnerable is important, no matter how old we are.
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Fringe in Sketch 5: DISHWASHER (Brian Feldman)
Sketch artist Aaron Krolikowski attended a performance of Brian Feldman’s DISHWASHER, sketchbook in hand.
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REIMAGINE YOUR REALITY (Frank Perri): 2015 Fringe review 26
Put aside any assumptions about hypnosis when you enter the stage area of REIMAGINE YOUR REALITY. And then your dignity.
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901 NOWHERE STREET (Sam Tower + Ensemble): 2015 Fringe Review 25
The mysterious world of film noir is given a new twist as an all-female cast reconfigures the traditionally male crime-detective genre.
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HERE AT HOME (Soledad Ensemble): 2015 Fringe review 24
Marisol Rosa-Shapiro’s hilarious solo performance explores play, imagination, and how we create safe, welcoming spaces.
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Fringe in Sketch 4: SLAUGHTER/ETTE (Butter & Serve)
As part of Phindie’s coverage of the 2015 Fringe Festival, we are having artists sketch what they see at select Fringe shows. Here’s what Chuck Schultz saw…
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