Colossal curtains beautifully billowing with the breeze, are hanging around, literally, throughout the vast Municipal Pier 9 facility
View More HABITUS (Ann Hamilton): 2016 Fringe review 78Category: 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.
OMELETTO (Ombelico Mask Ensemble): 2016 Fringe review 77
It’s “like Hamlet”, with all the key plot points, “only scrambled” in a light-hearted Commedia dell’arte of masks, jokes, music, and puppets.
View More OMELETTO (Ombelico Mask Ensemble): 2016 Fringe review 77BALANCE (JheeSha Productions): 2016 Fringe review 76
The Kathak performance weaved together photography and dance, narrative and abstraction, the traditional and the contemporary in an exploration of life’s many off-kilter moments.
View More BALANCE (JheeSha Productions): 2016 Fringe review 76THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW (César Alvarez): 2016 Fringe review 68.2
Wild, unabashed, meta upon meta, with a depth of emotional honesty that brings one dangerously close to heartbreak
View More THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW (César Alvarez): 2016 Fringe review 68.2FOUR MINUTE BOOTH (Gatto + Hirano): 2016 Fringe review 75
Four minutes of prolonged eye contact can incur a boost of oxytocin, a chemical that decreases stress and instills positive emotions.
View More FOUR MINUTE BOOTH (Gatto + Hirano): 2016 Fringe review 75KAPPAROT (Daughters of Disruption): 2016 Fringe review 74
In the Art Church, a house of a theater with carpeted stairs and a open room set with rows of chairs, performer collaborators Chana Rothman…
View More KAPPAROT (Daughters of Disruption): 2016 Fringe review 74EXPLICIT FEMALE (Here[begin] Dance): 2016 Fringe review 73
Zornitsa Stoyanova asks us to consider the female body as embodiment of generations of ancestral procreation, a host for the alien parasites of new generations, and—through a glass, darkly—as a sexual object.
View More EXPLICIT FEMALE (Here[begin] Dance): 2016 Fringe review 73GILBERT AND SULLIVAN’S SWITCHED! OR THE INSIDER AND THE OUTSIDER (Tavern Productions and PAFA Performs): 2016 Fringe review 72
“It’s this topsy-turvydom that people are drawn to,” lyricist Kevin Stackhouse said when we talked before the show. “People like to feel smart, and what…
View More GILBERT AND SULLIVAN’S SWITCHED! OR THE INSIDER AND THE OUTSIDER (Tavern Productions and PAFA Performs): 2016 Fringe review 72A RUNAWAY, A SOLDIER AND A SNOWBALL FIGHT (Iron Age Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 71
This fabulous Fringe piece plunges the audience into the dramatic action of the American Revolution.
View More A RUNAWAY, A SOLDIER AND A SNOWBALL FIGHT (Iron Age Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 71HAPPY YUMMY CHICKEN (Love Drunk Life): 2016 Fringe review 70
Sincere, amusing, and an absolute treat (and inside joke) for artmakers
View More HAPPY YUMMY CHICKEN (Love Drunk Life): 2016 Fringe review 70THE UNDERRATED ACT OF TALKING TO ONESELF (femme. collective): 2016 Fringe review 69
femme. collective has interwoven disparate acts to form a cohesive whole, a gorgeous string of solo, duet and group dances that tackle that, yes, underrated act of talking to oneself
View More THE UNDERRATED ACT OF TALKING TO ONESELF (femme. collective): 2016 Fringe review 69THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW (César Alvarez): 2016 Fringe review 68.1
César Alvarez’s unique collaboration with the University of the Arts boasts a youthful cast of energetic performers who create a probing spectacle through the guise…
View More THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW (César Alvarez): 2016 Fringe review 68.1BYE BYE LIVER (Happy Hour Live): 2016 Fringe review 67
Some jokes with your beer?
View More BYE BYE LIVER (Happy Hour Live): 2016 Fringe review 67SAY NO MORE (Wild Plum Productions): 2016 Fringe review 66
Wild Plum Production’s reimagining of Strindberg’s The Stronger. Review with sketches by Chuck Schultz.
View More SAY NO MORE (Wild Plum Productions): 2016 Fringe review 66BARRY: MAMALOSHEN IN DANCE (Asya Zlatina): 2016 Fringe review 65
Featuring young talents and Zlatina’s storytelling choreography, BARRY is a show with heart and love, quick on its feet.
View More BARRY: MAMALOSHEN IN DANCE (Asya Zlatina): 2016 Fringe review 65DOUBT, A PARABLE (Way Off Broad St. Theater Company): 2016 Fringe review 64
Way Off Broad St. Theater Company justify the festival inclusion of this modern classic with a site-specific setting in a chapel of the Arch Street United Methodist Church and a solid take on an excellent play.
View More DOUBT, A PARABLE (Way Off Broad St. Theater Company): 2016 Fringe review 64MILLENNIA (Brad Ogden): 2016 Fringe review 63
Millennia is funny, ambitious, and a little bit confused—just like millennials.
View More MILLENNIA (Brad Ogden): 2016 Fringe review 63THE LONG TIDES (Nicole Quenelle): 2016 Fringe review 62
The layering of story elements, occasional improv, and comedic repetition accompanied with robust sound design breathes life into each new scene
View More THE LONG TIDES (Nicole Quenelle): 2016 Fringe review 62BODAS DE SANGRE (The Duende Cycle): 2016 Fringe review 61
Three years before his assassination during the Spanish civil war, Federico Garcia Lorca elaborated his theory of duende at the Argentinian premier of BODAS DE…
View More BODAS DE SANGRE (The Duende Cycle): 2016 Fringe review 61DUTCH MASTERS (AMH Productions): 2016 Fringe review 60
AMH Productions finds the humor and poignancy in Keller’s quietly affecting consideration of race, class, and human connection
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