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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.
View More AN UNOFFICIAL UNAUTHORIZED TOUR OF LOVE PARK (Rose Luardo/Kate Banford): 2018 Fringe review
Tennessee Williams slept with my boyfriend’s father. I love saying that at a party.
View More ECCENTRICITIES and random notes on Tennessee Williams
Jacob Tischler returns to Philadelphia for the song and dance extravaganza, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn.
View More Jacob Tischler Stops In Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Chuck Schultz talks to Kathleen Murphy about her Fringe show.
View More Fringe in Sketch: P PAN AND BEYOND (Kathleen Murphy)
Dante had Virgil; in the divine comedy of our times, we have a self-absorbed vlogger.
View More A VACATION (Poison Apple Initiative): 2018 Fringe review
A punk-horror Fringe show which engages the audience and keeps the us engaged
View More NIGHTMARE FUEL (Sarah Knittel): 2018 Fringe review
Gzelak finds the poetry and the absurd in the mundane.
View More SONG OF MY SELF-CARE (Jimmy Grzelak/PHIT): 2018 Fringe review
This solo show exercised the best part of Davis’s character acting, Chris Davis as Chris Davis. Chris Davis takes us through the process of selling…
View More Fringe in Sketch: THE PRESENTED (Chris Davis)
The show literally ROCKS!
View More THE WILLIAM PENN STORY (Brotherly Love Theatre Company): 2018 Fringe review
An extraordinarily splendid opportunity for an informative and fun visit with Benjamin Franklin
View More B. FRANKLIN: WORDS MATTER (Vagabond Productions): 2018 Fringe review
Publicity for the show focuses on the question, “What is beauty?,” but the show itself goes much deeper.
View More BEHOLD HER (Half Key Theatre Company): 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…
View More THE ACCOUNTANT (Trey Lyford): 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.
View More CHAOS THEORY (Jessica Creane): 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.
View More CLOSE YOUR LEGS, HONEY — A NEW MUSICAL (PHIT/Hannah Parke & Shamus Hunter McCarty): 2018 Fringe review
AIRPORT OPENED takes you on an enjoyably elucidating human journey well worth experiencing!
View More AIRPORT OPENED (Brian Shapiro): 2018 Fringe review
ECCENTRICITIES is lush, loquacious and very typical Tennessee Williams: lonely, sex-starved women, men struggling against overbearing mothers, desperation everywhere.
View More ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review
“What is cabaret?”
View More DO YOU WANT A COOKIE? (Bearded Ladies Cabaret): 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…
View More FIGMAGO (Meg Sagilman Studio): 2018 Fringe review
Philadelphia theater company Tribe of Fools is also putting on the pads and dusting off their playbook preparing for their 2018 Fringe Festival offering
View More E-A-G-L-E-S: Tribe of Fools Offers a Philly Special This Fringe
Over 25 suggestions for 2018 Philly Fringe shows to help you plan your Festival experience.
View More Phindie’s Picks for the 2018 Fringe Festival in Philadelphia