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The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium brings Eugene Ionesco’s hilarious, controversial, absurdist classic THE CHAIRS to the 2016 Fringe Festival. We talk to director Tina Brock about the show.
View More “Casting call” for the chairs in Ionesco’s THE CHAIRS: Interview with IRC artistic director Tina Brock
Drawing on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, the play reflects upon both a quintessentially American experience—immigration—and the universal experience of growing up.
View More ONE DAY OLD (Iraisa Ann Reilly): 2016 Fringe review 6
We are brought face-to-face with the vast Digital Age to consider the implications it has on our cultural conversation—for better or worse.
View More CELLOPHANE (jenny&john): 2016 Fringe review 5
Like sad lyrics to a happy beat. this 20-minute one-woman show takes an idiosyncratically personal look at human sadness in its many guises.
View More ALICE (Aleksandra Berczynski & MBgruparealizacji): 2016 Fringe review 4
Class. Money. Power: The carrots start flying at the Urban Creators farm collective.
View More ANIMAL FARM TO TABLE (Renegade Company): 2016 Fringe review 3
This site-specific installation unravels the layers of emotion and humanity that the historic Powel House contains
View More SHADOW HOUSE (Brenna Geffers and Philadelphia Opera Collective): 2016 Fringe review 2
Our nearest neighbor, the red planet has a strong gravitational hold over us earthlings. Dani Solomon tells us about her trip there this Fringe.
View More Life on Mars? Dani Solomon gets interplanetary in ONE WAY RED
If you dig imaginative and funny collaborative solo shows, Plays & Players theater is the place to go this Fringe Festival.
View More This Info Will Fucking Dare You: Mary McCool, Brad Wrenn, and Lee Minora bouffon it up at Plays & Players this Fringe
The best in Philadelphia and the world, 2015-2016.
View More Neal Zoren’s picks for the 2015/16 Helen and Morris World Theater Award
Is Lady Macbeth mad? Who has people figured out: Shakespeare or Freud? Answers from the folk behind BEDLAM: SHAKESPEARE IN REHAB
View More Bard in BEDLAM: Manayunk Theatre Company gets crazy with Shakespeare
THE LONG TIDES weaves clown, movement, audience participation and narrative in a poignant audit of how we spend our minutes.
View More The Long Tides of Time: Nicole Quenelle on her 2016 Fringe show
Brett Mapp knows his Fringe. His itinerary would be a good starting point for anyone considering what to see.
View More How to Win at Fringe: Seeing 35 shows with Brett Mapp
Some dudes explain why Shakespeare is totes hip with the ladies.
View More What If Shakespeare Isn’t Sexist? Talking TAMING OF THE SHREW at the Fringe
Clearly an expert on all things Fringe, the director of ANIMAL FARM TO TABLE shares his annual picks of shows flying under the radar or chosen based on their stellar guidebook art.
View More Mike Durkin’s Annual Fringetastic Fringe Picks for the Fringe!
Hhere at Phindie, we’ve been long-time fans of Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, Philadelphia’s trailblazing contemporary acrobatics company, and their work seems to keep getting bigger and…
View More Folk Artists in Space: Almanac’s Ben Grinberg on EXILE 2588
Industry insiders vote on their favorite shows and artists in their community from the preceding theater season. The resulting awards recognize the best that Philly stages have to offer, and also musicals.
View More Barrymore Awards Nominations
Irina Varina combines dances, theater, performance art, and compelling personal-fictitious narratives of womanhood, sexuality, and longing.
View More Womanhood, Sexuality, Longing: Irina Varina on her Fringe show SPECULUM DIARIES
Albert Camus once said, “Although the absurd teaches us nothing, it is an ultimate form of progress.”
View More CAT-A-STROPHE (Fail Better): Looking for a new carpet
Black theater speaks to the souls and cells of Black folk, and it is within this space that healing may occur.
View More Black Theater and How It Can Heal A Community: An historic town hall meeting in Philadelphia
Addressing the needs of the communities in West Philadelphia through self-esteem building experiences for youth in theater.
View More Young People Speaking Truth: A talk with Mantua Theater Project’s Nick Anselmo