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A dramatization of the Freudian tripartite adapted to contemporary ideals, where a placid, self-realizing id advocates for complete acceptance of the self and indulgence in sexual urges
View More I HAVE THIS MANY *** (Mariana Catalina // Andy Sowers): 2017 Fringe review
More engrossing, more alienating, and more disciplined than its predecessor.
View More HELLO BLACKOUT (New Paradise Labs): 2017 Fringe review
This Fringe bestows upon its subjects a thoroughly enjoyable hour becoming acquainted with Her Royal Majesty, regnant Queen Elizabeth I of England, and her cousin…
View More MONARCH (Christine Doidge): 2017 Fringe review
The unifying question for the museum: why would the “ordinary, extraordinary colored girl” care about this?
View More URGENT CARE: A Social Care Experience (The Colored Girls Museum): 2017 Fringe Review
Marx has returned from heaven to explain his now distorted ideas and ideals to a modern audience.
View More MARX IN SOHO (Iron Age Theatre): 2017 Fringe review
Duende presents a raw, intense, intellectual and intuitive dance and music performance that shakes up the senses of the viewers.
View More BREAKING MY ECHO (Duende): 2017 Fringe review
The Bald Soprano always wears her hair in the same style. And The Bald Soprano, written in 1950 by Eugene Ionesco as a “tragedy of…
View More EUGÈNE IONESCO’S THE BALD SOPRANO (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2017 Fringe review
How can a radically plotless work communicate a complex and controversial theory?
View More HELLO BLACKOUT! (New Paradise Laboratories): 2017 Fringe review
Jacobean literature and Shakespearean drama are at their best when they’re steeped in the depraved, vengeful affairs of nobility, and rooted in mythos. The complex,…
View More PERICLES (Die Cast): 2017 Fringe review
Bravo, Christine Rich, your grandfather Jimmy’s Irish eyes surely are smiling down on you.
View More HOPE STREET (Christine Rich): 2017 Fringe Review
Listening to solo performer Clayton Storyteller spin cleverly wrought yarns in his vivid verse is an engaging treat.
View More DON’T BE CRUEL TO YOUR PUPPY…LEMME GIVE YOU A TWISTED TALE (Clayton Storyteller): 2017 Fringe Review
For Molly Scullion, the only way out is through comedy.
View More I’M OK, ARE YOU OK? (PHIT Comedy): 2017 Fringe review
Tina Brock and company make Ionesco’s absurd SOPRANO sing.
View More Eugene Ionesco’s THE BALD SOPRANO (IRC): 2017 Fringe Review
Tony Braithwaite did it again with another original show
View More WHICH REMINDS ME (Act II): 60-second review
How would you feel if your entire life was summed up by a single number? A suicide statistic.
View More I Just Wanted To Be Happy: SUICIDE STORIES, a Fringe preview
Brett Mapp is seeing 35 Fringe shows in 20 days. His itinerary makes a good starting point for considering your own schedule.
View More What Is Hardcore Fringer Brett Mapp Seeing This Year
What’s onstage this month?
View More Philadelphia Theater Calendar September 2017
In 2016, Philly playwright Kash Goins took a look at the human costs of mass incarceration in his nuanced, intimate original drama V to X…
View More In Judgment of Wrongs: A biting premiere on American injustice launches Kash Goins’s residency at the Arden
The subject of suicide is so taboo that few playwrights tackle the topic, and even fewer theater companies present a whole evening of plays about suicide.
View More Even Talking about Suicide Is Difficult: Nine playwrights on collaborative playwriting with Elephant Room Productions
What Fringe Festival? The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
View More BLACKCATFISHMUSKETEER (Malaprop Theatre, Dublin): Edinburgh Fringe 2017