[1.2] BATHTUB MOBY-DICK (The Renegade Company): 2013 Fringe review
Renegade’s contemporary deconstruction of Herman Melville’s classic novel about one man’s vengeful obsession with an eponymous white whale features a tour-de-force solo performance by Ed…
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[6] THE BALLAD OF JOE HILL (Swim Pony Performing Arts): Fringe review
The crumbling interior of Eastern State Penitentiary provides the perfect setting for Swim Pony’s sold-out remount of its 2006 Fringe hit THE BALLAD OF JOE…
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[5.1] THIS IS THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM (Found Theater Company): Fringe review
“You can see–but you cannot change–the choices you have made.” That’s one character’s assessment of the afterworld in Found Theater Company’s THIS IS THE TWILIGHT…
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2013 Philly Fringe Festival :: the MOST coverage and Six Picks for the Festival
As its mission, Phindie provides independent coverage of Philadelphia theater and arts, with a focus on independent theater. So the Philly Fringe Festival* is a…
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[2.2] AJAX, THE MADNESS (Attis Theatre): Fringe review
To call this play My Big Fat Greek Endurance Test would be flippant, but it wouldn’t be far off the mark. Certainly AJAX, THE MADNESS…
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Fringe Preview :: Muse: The Body Overlooked and ThElastic Air Project
Published by The Dance Journal. Reprinted by kind permission. Site specific works are nothing new to Philadelphia but two performances in the 2013 Fringe Festival,…
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[4] 4PLAY (Crack the Glass Theatre Company): Fringe review
Short plays by unknown playwrights, mixed performances by rarely seen actors, an upstart company that takes statement-making risks: this is what the Fringe is all…
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[3] COMPLETENESS (Round Table Theatre): Fringe review
“Noisy and full of crap.” That’s Molly (Clare Mahoney) describing the data one gets when trying to reduce messy living things down to mere data…
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[2.1] AJAX, THE MADNESS (Attis Theatre): Fringe review
Men are made into animals. Animals turn into men, and then are murdered. Bloody, bloody Ajax. His story settles in on you, in the way…
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Fringe Preview 9: Center City Fringe
There’s still a cachet and a natural audience draw when a work is staged in the center of town, and that’s still where most of…
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Fringe Interview with New Street Dance Group presenting ChORDED Motion
Published by The Dance Journal. Reprinted with kind permission. New Street Dance Group, led by co-directors Krista Armbruster and Shannon Dooling will present ChORDED Motion on Saturday,…
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[1.1] BATHTUB MOBY-DICK (The Renegade Company): 2013 Fringe review
We are all searching for something in this life, and oftentimes it’s something that can’t be got. That’s Captain Ahab’s story, but it’s probably yours…
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Fringe Preview 8: Old City Fringe
Once upon a time the Old City Fringe was the Philly Fringe. Old City on the first Friday in September was the place to be,…
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SAINT JOAN, BETRAYED, a preview: Really cool masks and puppety things
Aaron Cromie, one half of a double-act with Mary Tuomanen, describes with relish the process of creating their latest Fringe piece, Saint Joan, Betrayed. For Saint…
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Fringe Preview 7: South Philly Fringe
It’s perhaps peculiar that there aren’t more established theater spaces in South Philadelphia (The Shubin and Theatre Exile’s new headquarters are lonely outposts). And in…
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Absolutely Fabulous Off-Broadway Rep: MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING and MY BIG GAY ITALIAN FUNERAL
There are few events in life as rife with the heightened emotions of love and loss as weddings and funerals. Add to them the unbridled…
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Fringe Preview: Recent Graduates Tackle the Fringe, Roots and Enormous PoCkEtZ
Published by The Dance Journal. Reprinted with kind permission. Between the paperwork, the deadlines and the fees, producing a show for the Fringe can intimidate…
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Fringe Interview: As Pretty Does by Keila Cordova Dances
Published by The Dance Journal. Reprinted by kind permission. On September 6 and 7, Keila Cordova Dances will present As Pretty Does at Temple’s Conwell Dance Theater, a…
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Fringe Preview 6: North Liberties Fringe
For a while, Northern Liberties replaced Old City as a hub of the Fringe, with the headquarters of the former Live Arts and Philly Fringe,…
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Clowning and the inner clown
“… like scary circus clowns?” That’s the first thing everyone asks me when I tell them that I do clown. And I can’t blame them. A…
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