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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.

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PLUNGE (Brian Sanders JUNK): 2018 Fringe review

Yumna Tolaimate October 10, 2018 No Comments

PLUNGE is yet another fruit of Brian Sanders’ creative genius

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GARDENS SPEAK (Tania El Khoury): 2018 Fringe review

Yumna Tolaimate September 28, 2018 1 Comment

GARDENS SPEAK is a metaphysical experience of death and injustice… and a tangible experience of growth and self-expansion.

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PAPRIKA PLAINS (Natalie Fletcher / Jessica Noel): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 24, 2018 No Comments

Like a Joni Mitchell song, PAPRIKA PLAINS is intimate, artful, and affecting.

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DARLINGS: KILL US (Good Good Comedy): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 23, 2018 No Comments

In a word: Funny.

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LONG TROUBLE (Svaha Theatre Collective): 2018 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 21, 2018 No Comments

There’s a lovely simplicity in Elise D’Avella’s staging of the tragic story.

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PHAEDRA’S LOVE (Svaha Theatre Collective): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 21, 2018 No Comments

Two decades after her suicide, Kane remains one of the most truthful voices in theater. Svaha’s production captures her brilliance.

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ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review (2nd)

Margaret Darby September 21, 2018 No Comments

Another review of IRC’s 2018 Fringe piece.

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TRUE WEST (Subscension): 2018 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 20, 2018 No Comments

This little company has heft and promise. The Fringe has given them the opportunity to launch and they’ve certainly taken advantage of it.

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BON IVER FIGHTS A BEAR (mauraampersanddoug): 2018 Fringe review

Yumna Tolaimate September 20, 2018 No Comments

Justin is a heartbroken young musician who escapes to his father’s cabin in the middle of nowhere

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I <3 ADRIAEN (Gerhardus): 2018 Fringe review

Lisa Panzer September 20, 2018 No Comments

An artful blend of theater and history thrives among the tombstones at Old Swedes Church

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DAY OF ABSENCE (Flying Quilt/Iron Age): 2018 Fringe review

Smalley Bogg September 18, 2018 No Comments

It’s haunting how relevant—and funny—this somewhat dated piece remains

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COCKTAIL PLAYS (Juniper Productions): 2018 Fringe review

Christopher Munden September 18, 2018 1 Comment

Slightly buzzed from our gin-and-honey bees knees, we find the site-specific plays by a diverse group of local playwrights make for welcoming, accessible, easy-to-enjoy theater.

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(KENSINGTON) STREETPLAY (Renegade): 2018 Fringe review

Jessica Foley September 18, 2018 No Comments

I wish Renegade could conduct these walking performances all year round

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MOONWRITERS: Local Women Writers (Rhythm & Bones Literary Magazine): 2018 Fringe review

Lisa Panzer September 18, 2018 No Comments

Several local women writers perform their work in an illuminating, engagingly entertaining literary slam-dunk of an event

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THE PRESENTED (Chris Davis): 2018 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 17, 2018 No Comments

Chris Davis has come into his own as an exuberant and irresistible Rumpelstiltskin who spins his own life’s straw into gold.

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VILLAIN (Jon & Marissa Edelman/PHIT): 2018 Fringe review

Tina Gill September 17, 2018 2 Comments

A telling tale of what it means to be an immigrant in the U.S. today

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FIGMAGO (Meg Saligman Studio and Brian Sanders’ JUNK): 2018 Fringe review

Eri Yoneda September 17, 2018 No Comments

For those who ever stopped to look up the giant painting on the wall of one of the buildings in Philadelphia and wondered how such an awe-inspiring artwork was created

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FLY EAGLES FLY (Tribe of Fools): 2018 Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 15, 2018 No Comments

With life and football you have to push through it all to get to the joy.

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IN THE FOREST (Tangle Movement Arts): 2018 Fringe review

Eri Yoneda September 15, 2018 No Comments

Each viewer experiences this 360-degree show in his/her own way.

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RIDICULOUS (Jennifer Blaine): 2018 Fringe review

Carolyn Wyman September 15, 2018 1 Comment

Ridiculous, Jennifer Blaine, L’Etage, Sorry, Safety By Numbers, Dirty Joke, Vicissitudes of Travel, Kate Gibson, Karen Getz, Lily Blaine, Paprika Plains

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