Frank Perri’s DOUBLE BATMAN is a powerful monologue of loss, withdrawal, and reemergence basically explaining why he is doing a powerful monologue of loss, withdrawal, and reemergence.
View More DOUBLE BATMAN (Frank Perri): 2014 Fringe Review 87
The topic of Annie Wilson’s LOVERTITS is the female body. But the bodies are at turns irreverent, nonchalant, non-sexualized.
View More LOVERTITS (Annie Wilson): 2014 Fringe review 86
“Hammy, I said—a bit of a ham.” that’s how a character in POE-A-THON describes Edgar Allan Poe, speaking volumes about the approach taken by Night Hawks.
View More POE-A-THON (Night Hawks): Fringe Review 85
In SPLICE, a single flat wave of board whoops its way through the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, which consists of about four rooms, vaguely defined by false walls.
View More SPLICE (Leah Stein Dance Company): Fringe Review 84
WOMEN UN PLUGGED is about women and what they say to each other when they think no one is looking.
View More WOMEN UN PLUGGED (Dretwin Productions): 2014 Fringe Review 83
There is quite a lot of yelling in BROKEN PEOPLE, the new show by local actor and playwright David DelBianco.
View More BROKEN PEOPLE (David DelBianco): Fringe Review 82
Fernando Arrabal’s FANDO Y LIS stands as an exemplar of mid-20th century modernism, alongside other practitioners of the Theater of the Absurd.
View More FANDO Y LIS (Emily Schuman): Fringe Review 81
With dialogue like “I thought this player was a golden unicorn in the last game” the presentation is recognizable, but slightly askew, and ten times more fun
View More IN THE PONY PALACE/ FOOTBALL (Half Saddle): Fringe Review 80
Statistics tell us about our city, but the story is fragmentary and incomplete. To fill out the picture, Rimini Protokoll recruited 105 real Philadelphians.
View More 100% PHILADELPHIA (Rimini Protokoll): Fringe Review 79
Since the WETLAND exhibit is a free ‘installation’ piece, we visited, filmed, spoke, and voila: a VIDEO blog.
View More WETLAND (Mary Mattingly): Fringe Review 78
Grace Mi-He Lee and Leslie Elkins set their work in Lee’s living room of her small home in South Philly in the on-and-off tradition of the Rowhouse Fringe.
View More WHAT NARWHALS TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT LOVE (Grace Mi-He Lee and Leslie Elkins): Fringe Review 77
Attempting to embrace “the space between…the familiar and unfamiliar” dancers run rampant through five “interfaces” of movement in #SHAMANICINTERFACES.
View More #SHAMANICINTERFACES (Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater): Fringe Review 76
At last year’s Fringe Fest, we entered a blood-splattered BASEMENT filled with all the torment of a broken heart. Gunnar Montana brings us into a shiny, neon-galactic RESURRECTION ROOM this year.
View More RESURRECTION ROOM (Gunnar Montana): Fringe Review 75
FROM OUR LIVING ROOM comprises five original pieces—four duets and one solo—choreographed and performed by the all-female members of the emerging company Birds on a Wire.
View More FROM OUR LIVING ROOM (Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre): Fringe Review 74
MOUNT AIRY HOME COMPANION borrows more than the title from its public radio namesake, capturing the lovingly corny spirit of Garrison Keillor and company.
View More MOUNT AIRY HOME COMPANION (Saint Mad): Fringe Review 73
Award-winning choreographer and artistic director Christopher Fleming has created a beautiful program of new works to open BalletFleming’s 2014-15 season.
View More AFTER THE SUMMER SUN (BalletFleming): Fringe Review 72
A thought-provoking performance, BROKEN ROAD explores the tension that tears apart families. Choreographer Joanna McBride uses ballet-inspired movement, drawing from her own experience to drive…
View More BROKEN ROAD (Joanna McBride): Fringe Review 71
Past mistakes haunt the promising futures of three underprivileged high school seniors when a strange benefactoroffers a full scholarship for the winner of a unspecified competition on a remote island.
View More SKIN IN THE GAME (Foreverlore): Fringe Review 70
As a culture, we are fascinated by celebrities’ elusive personal lives. Silver Stage Company’s BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK questions the responsibility we bestow…
View More BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK (Silver Stage Company): Fringe Review 69
LIVING IN EXILE presents a compelling reinterpretation of the Trojan War; playwright Jon Lipsky’s script draws directly upon the Homeric tradition of oral recitation.
View More LIVING IN EXILE: A RETELLING OF THE ILIAD (Philadelphia Experimental Theatre Ensemble): Fringe Review 68