Listening to solo performer Clayton Storyteller spin cleverly wrought yarns in his vivid verse is an engaging treat.
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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.
I’M OK, ARE YOU OK? (PHIT Comedy): 2017 Fringe review
For Molly Scullion, the only way out is through comedy.
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Eugene Ionesco’s THE BALD SOPRANO (IRC): 2017 Fringe Review
Tina Brock and company make Ionesco’s absurd SOPRANO sing.
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DEATH IS A CABARET OL’ CHUM: A GRAVEYARD CABARET (REV Theatre Company): 2016 Fringe review 94
REV Theatre Company let loose a quirky combo of fright-night-meets-kickline-cabaret for this year’s Fringe.
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MARTHA GRAHAM CRACKER CABARET (Martha Graham Cracker): 2016 Fringe review 93
Martha Graham Cracker brought the Fringe Festival to a close last Saturday with a marvelous set of compositions
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PHILADANCO IN CONCERT (Philadanco): 2016 Fringe review 92
This is a seasoned company that dances with maturity and intent.
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CONVERGENCE (DanceSpora): 2016 Fringe review 91
The Trenton-based dance company DanceSpora premiered two works at the Fringe Festival.
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PORTRAIT OF MYSELF AS MY FATHER (nora chipaumire): 2016 Fringe review 90
How do you become a man? A black man? A black African man?
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LE CARGO (Faustin Linyekula) 2016 Fringe review 89
“I am simply here to dance,” says Faustin Linyekula.
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Shakespeare Fringe Roundup: Misadventures among the classics
Toby Zinman gives bullet reviews of nine Shakespeare-ish shows in this year’s Fringe.
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KING JOHN (Revolution Shakespeare): 2016 Fringe review 88
You won’t get many opportunities to see KING JOHN; you’re unlikely to see one as well-rendered as Revolution Shakespeare’s.
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THE GAS HEART (Once More Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 87
Tristan Tzara called his play THE GAS HEART “the greatest three-act hoax of the century.”
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RHIZOMAS (Ryuzo Fukuhara): 2016 Fringe review 86
Improvisation is an enticing, yet dangerous, approach to performing.
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WITH FLINT AND STEEL (duende): 2016 Fringe review 85
WITH FLINT AND STEEL, this year’s Fringe offering by experimental music and dance group duende, consists of seven separate pieces, each by a different choreographer.
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FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT (Carbonell, Chisena, Gavino, McKenzie): 2016 Fringe review 84
Excerpted by kind permission from thINKingDANCE. In FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT, four choreographers explore states of liminality—of how to be between things. In Matriz, Evalina Carbonell uses a…
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JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS (Romeo Castellucci / Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio): 2016 Fringe review 83
We were fortunate. Apparently, the horse does not always shit, but in our case his entrance precipitated a great outpouring of feces.
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WALK TO TOPAZ (Brendon Tetsuo): 2016 Fringe review 82
An autobiographical solo dance work tracing how a family history in a Japanese Internment Camp has affected succeeding generations.
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SCARLETT LETTERS (Ross & Diggs): 2016 Fringe review 81
Playwright Patrick Ross, who gives us a history of sexism, quotes and references to literature and mythology, and plenty of Hawthorne in a smartly woven one-woman show
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THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY (The Naked Stark): 2016 Fringe review 80
THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY reflected an everlasting struggle, a universal dynamic to shift parochial perspectives through time and evolving relationships
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PORTAL (Leah Stein Dance Company): 2016 Fringe review 79
the rich layering of performance capacity matched the layers of movement space that Leah Stein’s PORTAL attended to
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