100 is more than an elegantly written play told in random pieces—it’s an intense experience if you are open to it.
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Fringe in Sketch 9: SOLDIER BEAR (Leila and Pantea Productions)
As part of Phindie’s coverage of the 2015 Fringe Festival, Aaron Krolikowski is attending a series of shows and sketching what he sees.
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LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST (Revolution Shakespeare): 2015 Fringe review 61
A clever new take on Shakespeare’s early romantic comedy imparts the flavor of 1960’s-70s Americana with live country-rock music and a multi-talented cast of actors/singers/musicians.
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Fringe in Sketch 8: JUMP THE MOON (Philadelphia Opera Collective)
As part of Phindie’s coverage of the 2015 Fringe Festival, Aaron Krolikowski is attending a series of shows and sketching what he sees.
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THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT: A GRAVEYARD CABARET (REV Theatre): 2015 Fringe review 60
Charles Dickens comes undead at this haunting site-specific show.
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IN TRANSIT: DANCE|MUSIC|THEATER (FringeArts / PMA): 2015 Fringe review 58
Staged in the American Art Galleries in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this interactive pop-up work of art, gives a new insight into how to “experience” the…
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JUMP THE MOON (Philadelphia Opera Collective): 2015 Fringe review 57.2
o subtitles necessary to hear praises sung for women astronomers of the late 19th century.
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JUMP THE MOON (Philadelphia Opera Collective): 2015 Fringe review 57.1
An experimental world-premiere opera gives voice to the unsung women heroes of astrophysics at Harvard in the 1890s, with a cutting-edge score, non-linear libretto, and expressionist movement.
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CAREFUL INJURIES (Other Case Notes Ensemble): 2015 Fringe review 56
Composed as a series of vignettes, CAREFUL INJURIES “began as an examination of physical states and expressions of comfort, fear, and exhaustion.”
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SUITE N˚2 (Encyclopédie de la Parole / Joris Lacoste): 2015 Fringe review 55
Part chorale work, part theater, and part compelling curated art, this peculiarly affecting piece examines the diversity of contemporary communication.
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“Performing Ionesco is a sport”: Interview with EXIT THE KING director Tina Brock
Henrik Eger talks to director Tina Brock about this intriguing Fringe production.
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KILL WILL (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre): 2015 Fringe review 54
Seven actors explain, enact, and parody a series of Shakespeare’s “bloody bits” in this fast, furious, and funny mash-up of The Bard’s iconic death and battle scenes.
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ACCORDING TO GOLDMAN (Act II): How to write a script
Act II opens its new season with a bang with Bruce Graham’s ACCORDING TO GOLDMAN
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IT’S SO LEARNING (Berserker Residents): 2015 Fringe Review 51
Go back to school with The Berserker Residents in this highly interactive ensemble-devised piece, in which you are the student and your teachers are berserk!
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ALIAS ELLIS MACKENZIE (Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental and CINEtica): 2015 Fringe review 50
Eleven skilled performers play crew or actors on the set of a Colombian TV show about 1980s American drug pilot and adventurer Barry Seal.
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TALE OF THE PHANTOM SHIP (Temple Theater’s Sidestage): 2015 Fringe review 47
A talented collective of students from Temple University present an original musical inspired by a maritime legend from historic Prince Edward Island.
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THE POP MUSICAL DIARY OF A GAY MAN (Christopher McGinnis): 2015 Fringe review 46
A fun coming-of-age musical using pop music of today and past decades, including Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston, Aerosmith, Rihanna, and more.
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Long Live Ionesco Actors: Behind the scenes with the cast of IRC’s EXIT THE KING
Philadelphia’s favorite absurdist theater troupe, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, is Fringing all Festival long with Eugene Ionesco’s EXIT THE KING. Henrik Eger talks to the six…
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Fringe in Sketch 6: DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade)
As part of Phindie’s coverage of the 2015 Fringe Festival, Aaron Krolikowski is attending a series of shows and sketching what he sees.
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THE LIGHT PRINCESS (Tony Lawton with Ugly Stepsister): 2015 Fringe review 43
This hilarious musical workshop reading of an adapted 19th-century fairytale is a treat for all ages!
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