Why Deaf Theater is a Form of Resistance
This film follows Daymond Sands, a Deaf theatre program director, preparing his first original showcase, highlighting the cast’s heartfelt effort to bring Deaf perspectives center stage
LA BÊTE (Arden Theatre Company): “Excellence Must Struggle to Survive!”
David Hirson’s riotous comedy in rhyming couplets evokes the farcical Baroque style of Molière while conveying a timeless message about high art versus low art.
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The Fringe in nine and a half hours: the Phindie Fringe Bike Tour Diaries (part two)
Nine point five hours, five pieces of theater, ten bicyclists, and no great plan on how we’re gonna eat: that was the format for day two of PHINDIE’S OFFICIAL FRINGE BIKE TOUR.
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DOUBLE BATMAN (Frank Perri): 2014 Fringe Review 87
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.
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LOVERTITS (Annie Wilson): 2014 Fringe review 86
The topic of Annie Wilson’s LOVERTITS is the female body. But the bodies are at turns irreverent, nonchalant, non-sexualized.
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POE-A-THON (Night Hawks): Fringe Review 85
“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.
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SPLICE (Leah Stein Dance Company): Fringe Review 84
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.
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WOMEN UN PLUGGED (Dretwin Productions): 2014 Fringe Review 83
WOMEN UN PLUGGED is about women and what they say to each other when they think no one is looking.
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BROKEN PEOPLE (David DelBianco): Fringe Review 82
There is quite a lot of yelling in BROKEN PEOPLE, the new show by local actor and playwright David DelBianco.
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FANDO Y LIS (Emily Schuman): Fringe Review 81
Fernando Arrabal’s FANDO Y LIS stands as an exemplar of mid-20th century modernism, alongside other practitioners of the Theater of the Absurd.
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IN THE PONY PALACE/ FOOTBALL (Half Saddle): Fringe Review 80
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
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100% PHILADELPHIA (Rimini Protokoll): Fringe Review 79
Statistics tell us about our city, but the story is fragmentary and incomplete. To fill out the picture, Rimini Protokoll recruited 105 real Philadelphians.
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WETLAND (Mary Mattingly): Fringe Review 78
Since the WETLAND exhibit is a free ‘installation’ piece, we visited, filmed, spoke, and voila: a VIDEO blog.
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WHAT NARWHALS TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT LOVE (Grace Mi-He Lee and Leslie Elkins): Fringe Review 77
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.
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#SHAMANICINTERFACES (Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater): Fringe Review 76
Attempting to embrace “the space between…the familiar and unfamiliar” dancers run rampant through five “interfaces” of movement in #SHAMANICINTERFACES.
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RESURRECTION ROOM (Gunnar Montana): Fringe Review 75
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.
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FROM OUR LIVING ROOM (Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre): Fringe Review 74
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.
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MOUNT AIRY HOME COMPANION (Saint Mad): Fringe Review 73
MOUNT AIRY HOME COMPANION borrows more than the title from its public radio namesake, capturing the lovingly corny spirit of Garrison Keillor and company.
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AFTER THE SUMMER SUN (BalletFleming): Fringe Review 72
Award-winning choreographer and artistic director Christopher Fleming has created a beautiful program of new works to open BalletFleming’s 2014-15 season.
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BROKEN ROAD (Joanna McBride): Fringe Review 71
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…
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SKIN IN THE GAME (Foreverlore): Fringe Review 70
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.
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