A no-holds-barred look at the ways in which white feminists, with the best of intentions, don’t always walk even their own talk.
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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.
WOLFCRUSH: a queer werewolf play (On the Rocks): 2018 Fringe review
WOLFCRUSH misses the no-holds-barred humor, shock value, and pop culture-infused insight into youth culture of playwright Haygen-Brice Walker’s previous Fringe entries
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ONE MAN’S TRASH: A CABARET ABOUT TREASURE (Tiny Rocks): 2018 Fringe review
The show is basically a pirate-themed excuse for these two twee indie folkies to sing their songs of love and independence.
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AN UNOFFICIAL UNAUTHORIZED TOUR OF LOVE PARK (Rose Luardo/Kate Banford): 2018 Fringe review
The piece gets its appeal from the increasingly outlandish characters and an inventive absurdity that devolves into a game of fetch and walking construction barrels.
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A VACATION (Poison Apple Initiative): 2018 Fringe review
Dante had Virgil; in the divine comedy of our times, we have a self-absorbed vlogger.
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NIGHTMARE FUEL (Sarah Knittel): 2018 Fringe review
A punk-horror Fringe show which engages the audience and keeps the us engaged
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SONG OF MY SELF-CARE (Jimmy Grzelak/PHIT): 2018 Fringe review
Gzelak finds the poetry and the absurd in the mundane.
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THE WILLIAM PENN STORY (Brotherly Love Theatre Company): 2018 Fringe review
The show literally ROCKS!
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B. FRANKLIN: WORDS MATTER (Vagabond Productions): 2018 Fringe review
An extraordinarily splendid opportunity for an informative and fun visit with Benjamin Franklin
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BEHOLD HER (Half Key Theatre Company): 2018 Fringe review
Publicity for the show focuses on the question, “What is beauty?,” but the show itself goes much deeper.
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THE ACCOUNTANT (Trey Lyford): 2018 Fringe review
Do the math. That’s what accountants do, right? The show is 75 minutes long. I looked at my watch about ten times, from which we…
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SONGS OF WARS I HAVE SEEN (Heiner Goebbels): 2018 Fringe review
An imaginatively textured musical performance in which music, sounds, and speaking are of a piece
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CHAOS THEORY (Jessica Creane): 2018 Fringe review
The reliance on audience volunteers yields some interesting moments, framed in a series of games, but too often Creane pushes moments past humor.
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CLOSE YOUR LEGS, HONEY — A NEW MUSICAL (PHIT/Hannah Parke & Shamus Hunter McCarty): 2018 Fringe review
CLOSE YOUR LEGS, HONEY is a cheery musical tackling the difficult subject of societal expectations for women and the shit women have to put up with.
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AIRPORT OPENED (Brian Shapiro): 2018 Fringe review
AIRPORT OPENED takes you on an enjoyably elucidating human journey well worth experiencing!
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ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review
ECCENTRICITIES is lush, loquacious and very typical Tennessee Williams: lonely, sex-starved women, men struggling against overbearing mothers, desperation everywhere.
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DO YOU WANT A COOKIE? (Bearded Ladies Cabaret): 2018 Fringe review
“What is cabaret?”
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MARY ROSE (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective): 2018 Fringe review
However crammed your Fringe calendar may be, don’t miss this one.
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FIGMAGO (Meg Sagilman Studio): 2018 Fringe review
FIGMAGO is an escape off of the beaten path, an imaginative walking tour that begins to reveal unknown peculiarities about six muses that inspire muralist Meg…
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UNHINGED (Matter Movement Group): 2018 Fringe review
Gather yourself for an illuminating walk along a dim, roughly hewn path into untamed territory where sounds and other sensory elements gather in corners to…
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