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    FRANKLINLAND (Lantern): A visit with Philadelphia’s Founding Father

    The first thing to know about Lantern Theater Company’s Franklinland is that the direction is solid, the actors first-rate, and their back-and-forth conversations are punchy and funny.

    Kathryn Osenlund May 23, 2026 No Comments
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    CLASS C (Azuka): Dystopia close at hand

    Things are not yet as bad as the reality presented in the play. But it urges us to beware, to speak up for ourselves at the ballot box, and not allow the promise of 1776 to continue down the sad road to nightmare. 

    Kathryn Osenlund May 17, 2026 No Comments
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    THE HYPOCHONDRIAC (Quintessence): The silliest possible nonsense

    Outrageous and farcical, this play is not just over the top – it’s left the top so far behind that they’ve forgotten where it left it. The applause at the end was wild.

    Kathryn Osenlund April 30, 2026 No Comments
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    ROMEO AND JULIET (Arden): Bounty as boundless as the sea

    It’s quite likely that you’ll never see a finer performance of this Shakespearean warhorse.

    Kathryn Osenlund March 18, 2026 No Comments
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    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

    Smalley Bogg February 26, 2026 No Comments
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BREAKING MY ECHO (Duende): 2017 Fringe review

Eri Yoneda September 9, 2017 No Comments

Duende presents a raw, intense, intellectual and intuitive dance and music performance that shakes up the senses of the viewers.

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KINK HAÜS (Gunnar Montana): 2017 Fringe review

Lisa Panzer September 9, 2017 No Comments

Willkommen to Gunnar Montana’s fabulous nightclub show!

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EUGÈNE IONESCO’S THE BALD SOPRANO (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2017 Fringe review

Julius Ferraro September 9, 2017 No Comments

The Bald Soprano always wears her hair in the same style. And The Bald Soprano, written in 1950 by Eugene Ionesco as a “tragedy of…

View More EUGÈNE IONESCO’S THE BALD SOPRANO (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2017 Fringe review
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LIFE LINES (Tangle Movement Arts): 2017 Fringe review

Eri Yoneda September 8, 2017 No Comments

LIFE LINES reveals another color of Tangle Movement Arts: the darker and melancholy side of human-beings.

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HELLO BLACKOUT! (New Paradise Laboratories): 2017 Fringe review

Cameron Kelsall September 8, 2017 No Comments

How can a radically plotless work communicate a complex and controversial theory?

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Fringe in Sketch: LIFE LINES (Tangle Movement Arts)

Chuck Schultz September 8, 2017 1 Comment

The aerial performers in Tangle Movements Arts are moving in many different ways to push the envelope.

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PERICLES (Die Cast): 2017 Fringe review

Joshua Millhouse September 8, 2017 1 Comment

Jacobean literature and Shakespearean drama are at their best when they’re steeped in the depraved, vengeful affairs of nobility, and rooted in mythos. The complex,…

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HOPE STREET (Christine Rich): 2017 Fringe Review

Julia Taus September 7, 2017 No Comments

Bravo, Christine Rich, your grandfather Jimmy’s Irish eyes surely are smiling down on you.

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DON’T BE CRUEL TO YOUR PUPPY…LEMME GIVE YOU A TWISTED TALE (Clayton Storyteller): 2017 Fringe Review

Lisa Panzer September 7, 2017 No Comments

Listening to solo performer Clayton Storyteller spin cleverly wrought yarns in his vivid verse is an engaging treat.

View More DON’T BE CRUEL TO YOUR PUPPY…LEMME GIVE YOU A TWISTED TALE (Clayton Storyteller): 2017 Fringe Review
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I’M OK, ARE YOU OK? (PHIT Comedy): 2017 Fringe review

Cameron Kelsall September 7, 2017 No Comments

For Molly Scullion, the only way out is through comedy.

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Eugene Ionesco’s THE BALD SOPRANO (IRC): 2017 Fringe Review

Cameron Kelsall September 6, 2017 No Comments

Tina Brock and company make Ionesco’s absurd SOPRANO sing.

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Dance in Sketch: i.d. by Movemakers Philly

Chuck Schultz September 6, 2017 No Comments

I joined Vince Johnson’s House dance class last week at the recommendation of Lily Kind

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WHICH REMINDS ME (Act II): 60-second review

Lauren Hartranft September 6, 2017 No Comments

Tony Braithwaite did it again with another original show

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I Just Wanted To Be Happy: SUICIDE STORIES, a Fringe preview

Henrik Eger September 5, 2017 1 Comment

How would you feel if your entire life was summed up by a single number? A suicide statistic.

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What Is Hardcore Fringer Brett Mapp Seeing This Year

Christopher Munden September 4, 2017 No Comments

Brett Mapp is seeing 35 Fringe shows in 20 days. His itinerary makes a good starting point for considering your own schedule.

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Fringe in Sketch: Previewing MUJERES by Gavino + Carbonell

Chuck Schultz September 4, 2017 No Comments

On August 26, I attended the IN THE HOUSE Performance Art Party for 2017 Fringe show MUJERES.

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Philadelphia Theater Calendar September 2017

Calendar September 1, 2017 No Comments

What’s onstage this month?

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Fringe in Sketch: Previewing STORM by Asya Zlatina and Dancers

Chuck Schultz August 31, 2017 No Comments

Phindie can vouch for Asya Zlatina’s STORM because we were lucky enough to sit in on a rehearsal for the emotion-capturing piece.

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Kash Goins stars as Willy Loman in DEATH OF A SALESMAN. (Photo credit: Katie Balun)
Features Theater

In Judgment of Wrongs: A biting premiere on American injustice launches Kash Goins’s residency at the Arden

Christopher Munden August 30, 2017 2 Comments

In 2016, Philly playwright Kash Goins took a look at the human costs of mass incarceration in his nuanced, intimate original drama V to X…

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Even Talking about Suicide Is Difficult: Nine playwrights on collaborative playwriting with Elephant Room Productions

Henrik Eger August 29, 2017 1 Comment

The subject of suicide is so taboo that few playwrights tackle the topic, and even fewer theater companies present a whole evening of plays about suicide.

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