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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 64
Millennia is funny, ambitious, and a little bit confused—just like millennials.
View More MILLENNIA (Brad Ogden): 2016 Fringe review 63
SHADOW HOUSE was an impressive immersive piece
View More Fringe in Sketch: SHADOW HOUSE
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 62
While Nilo Cruz broaches some interesting subjects and often provides his characters with profound things to say, his world premiere play never takes off dramatically.
View More BATHING IN MOONLIGHT (McCarter): In the pale moonlight
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 61
The International Philly Fringe: A welcome to 28 countries
View More International Fringe 2016: A welcome to theater from around the world, including refugees
AMH Productions finds the humor and poignancy in Keller’s quietly affecting consideration of race, class, and human connection
View More DUTCH MASTERS (AMH Productions): 2016 Fringe review 60
Brooklyn’s CATCH is a showcase for experimental artists in all genres—The Ed Sullivan Show on acid.
View More CATCH TAKES BOK (Catch and Thirdbird): 2016 Fringe review 59
A one-hour existentialist monologue filled with expressive movement, colorful costumes, funny props, apropos music, and audience participation
View More BILLOSOPHY: LIFE, CIRCUS, DEATH (Bill Forchion): 2016 Fringe review 58
“God hates fags!”, “God hates you!”, “God hates porcupines!” It’s cathartic to hear the argument yelled back at the haters who so recently visited Philadelphia: “God is love!”
View More THE CHURCH BELLS ALL WERE BROKEN (Casabuena Cultural Productions): 2016 Fringe review 54
I was especially drawn to the costumes, the charming quality in the men from different time periods, and the seemingly girl into woman hood plot.
View More Fringe in Sketch: DROWNING OPHELIA
Haygen Brice Walker doesn’t aim for subtlety in the roasting humor of both Millennial political correctness and stereotypical southern backwardness, but he finds rich veins of comedy in his broad mine
View More BIRDIE’S PIT STOP (On the Rocks): 2016 Fringe review 53
They recite Rumi, the poet champion of romantic love, and remind Darya how beautiful and painful love can be.
View More SILKEN VEILS (Pantea Productions): 2016 Fringe review 52
Loveliness and tenderness that breaks through the surface coldness are the hallmarks of the Media’s production of this delicate but sweepingly romantic musical.
View More THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Media Theatre): Atmospherically moody production
Sometimes brutal, but always on point, AN OBVIOUSLY FOGGOT is the explosive, vibrant queer play we’ve been waiting for in this year’s festival.
View More AN OBVIOUSLY FOGGOT (Poison Apple Initiative): 2016 Fringe review 50
A place where acrobatics meets theater, the theater meets the circus, and circus meets blue grass
View More EXILE 2588 (Almanac Dance Circus Theater): 2016 Fringe review 49
Consider the speculum a tool for looking inward in more ways than one.
View More SPECULUM DIARIES (Irina Varina): 2016 Fringe review 48
Tangle Movement Arts is back again with a thrilling Fringe Festival performance.
View More SURFACE TENSION (Tangle Movement Arts): 2016 Fringe review 46
A tale of queer liberation in a predictably dystopian sci-fi world. Prepare for merciless repetition.
View More BIG CRUNCH (TOLVA/Sam Congdon): 2016 Fringe review 45