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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.

Traveling Light. Lindsay Harris Friel, Fringe Review. Kyle Cassidy
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TRAVELING LIGHT (Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress): 2013 Fringe review 13.1

Jessica Foley September 8, 2013 3 Comments

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…

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[12] THIS IS NOT FOR YOU (elbow room performance): Fringe review

JB Farley September 8, 2013 1 Comment

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
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[11] THE MOMENTUM (Collaboration Town): Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 7, 2013 No Comments

“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
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[10] PARTS: A SPEED-THROUGH (Drexel Players): Fringe review

Michael Fisher September 7, 2013 1 Comment

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
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[9] BYE BYE LIVER: THE PHILADELPHIA DRINKING PLAY (The Pub Theater Company 2013): Fringe review

JB Farley September 7, 2013 No Comments

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, EgoPo, Philadelphia Fringe review.
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[8] A DOLL’S HOUSE (EgoPo Classic Theatre): Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 7, 2013 1 Comment

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
The Society Jo Stromgren Kompani, Philly Fringe review
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[7.1] THE SOCIETY (Jo Strømgren Kompani): Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 7, 2013 1 Comment

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, BATHTUB MOBY DICK, Ed Swidey, photo Daniel Kontz. Fringe review
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[1.2] BATHTUB MOBY-DICK (The Renegade Company): 2013 Fringe review

Debra Miller September 7, 2013 3 Comments

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 Ballad of Joe Hill Swim Pony Performing Arts Fringe review
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[6] THE BALLAD OF JOE HILL (Swim Pony Performing Arts): Fringe review

Debra Miller September 6, 2013 1 Comment

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
This is the Twilight Kingdom Found Theatre Company Fringe review
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[5.1] THIS IS THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM (Found Theater Company): Fringe review

Michael Fisher September 6, 2013 1 Comment

“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
Ajax, the madness. Atis Theater. Philadelphia Fringe review.
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[2.2] AJAX, THE MADNESS (Attis Theatre): Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 6, 2013 1 Comment

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
4Play Crack the Glass Theatre Company 2013 Philadelphia Fringe review
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[4] 4PLAY (Crack the Glass Theatre Company): Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 6, 2013 No Comments

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
Completeness Philly Fringe review Round Table Theatre Company review
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[3] COMPLETENESS (Round Table Theatre): Fringe review

JB Farley September 6, 2013 No Comments

“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
Ajax, the madness. Atis Theater. Philadelphia Fringe review.
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[2.1] AJAX, THE MADNESS (Attis Theatre): Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 6, 2013 2 Comments

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
Bathtub Moby-Dick The Renegade Company Philly Fringe review
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[1.1] BATHTUB MOBY-DICK (The Renegade Company): 2013 Fringe review

Michael Fisher September 5, 2013 2 Comments

We are all searching for something in this life, and oftentimes it’s something that can’t be got. That’s Captain Ahab’s story, but it’s probably yours…

View More [1.1] BATHTUB MOBY-DICK (The Renegade Company): 2013 Fringe review

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