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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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  • Reviews Theater

    RARE ACCIDENTS: HENRY IV parts I and II abridged (Quintessence): A quick visit to Eastcheap

    We are treated to a rare spectacle in a show that would surely please Shakespeare.

    Kathryn Osenlund February 24, 2026 1 Comment
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  • Reviews Theater

    MACBETH (Lantern): Dancing, singing… and murder

    In opening scenes three Weird Sisters, witches, brew evil in a pot using scarce ingredients like eye of newt. They cherry pick the future for Macbeth with oracular accuracy, giving over the goods while leaving out important elements.

    Kathryn Osenlund November 11, 2025 1 Comment
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Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

THE GAS HEART (Once More Theatre): 2016 Fringe review 87

Joshua Millhouse September 25, 2016 No Comments

Tristan Tzara called his play THE GAS HEART “the greatest three-act hoax of the century.”

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Dance Fringe Festival

Fringe in Sketch: WROUGHTLAND

Aaron Krolikowski September 25, 2016 No Comments

A land where fairy tales take a wicked turn, and the innocent and optimistic stories of happily-ever-after wrought into the harsh realities of life.

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RHIZOMAS (Ryuzo Fukuhara): 2016 Fringe review 86

Gary L. Day September 25, 2016 No Comments

Improvisation is an enticing, yet dangerous, approach to performing.

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Fringe Festival Theater

Fringe in Sketch: JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS

Chuck Schultz September 25, 2016 1 Comment

Italian director Romeo Castellucci re-envisions his groundbreaking 1997 production Giulio Cesare as a series of “fragments” rearranged and positioned against each other

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Dance Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews

WITH FLINT AND STEEL (duende): 2016 Fringe review 85

Julius Ferraro September 23, 2016 No Comments

WITH FLINT AND STEEL, this year’s Fringe offering by experimental music and dance group duende, consists of seven separate pieces, each by a different choreographer.

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FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT (Carbonell, Chisena, Gavino, McKenzie): 2016 Fringe review 84

Kirsten Kaschock for thINKingDANCE September 23, 2016 No Comments

Excerpted by kind permission from thINKingDANCE. In FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT, four choreographers explore states of liminality—of how to be between things. In Matriz, Evalina Carbonell uses a…

View More FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT (Carbonell, Chisena, Gavino, McKenzie): 2016 Fringe review 84
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JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS (Romeo Castellucci / Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio): 2016 Fringe review 83

Julius Ferraro September 23, 2016 No Comments

We were fortunate. Apparently, the horse does not always shit, but in our case his entrance precipitated a great outpouring of feces.

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Fringe Festival Theater

Fringe in Sketch: THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW

Aaron Krolikowski September 23, 2016 No Comments

A young girl attempts suicide and wakes up trapped in a cosmic vaudevillian game show that she must win in order to enter the void of death.

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Reviews Theater

STUPID FUCKING BIRD (Arden): A sidesplitting and insightful reinvention of Chekhov

Debra Miller September 22, 2016 No Comments

Aaron Posner’s hilarious reinvention of The Seagull captures all of Chekhov’s laughable characters, absurdities of life, and self-references to the theater from a 21st-century perspective.

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Dance Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews

WALK TO TOPAZ (Brendon Tetsuo): 2016 Fringe review 82

Eri Yoneda September 22, 2016 No Comments

An autobiographical solo dance work tracing how a family history in a Japanese Internment Camp has affected succeeding generations.

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SCARLETT LETTERS (Ross & Diggs): 2016 Fringe review 81

Christopher Munden September 21, 2016 No Comments

Playwright Patrick Ross, who gives us a history of sexism, quotes and references to literature and mythology, and plenty of Hawthorne in a smartly woven one-woman show

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THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY (The Naked Stark): 2016 Fringe review 80

Whitney Weinstein for thINKingDANCE September 21, 2016 No Comments

THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY reflected an everlasting struggle, a universal dynamic to shift parochial perspectives through time and evolving relationships

View More THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY (The Naked Stark): 2016 Fringe review 80
Dance Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews

PORTAL (Leah Stein Dance Company): 2016 Fringe review 79

Lynn Matluck Brooks for thINKingDANCE September 21, 2016 No Comments

the rich layering of performance capacity matched the layers of movement space that Leah Stein’s PORTAL attended to

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Fringe Festival Museums Theater

Fringe in Sketch: THE EUMENIDES

Chuck Schultz September 21, 2016 No Comments

THE EUMENIDES was performed amid extraordinary ancient artifacts in the Penn Museum.

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HABITUS (Ann Hamilton): 2016 Fringe review 78

Lisa Panzer September 21, 2016 No Comments

Colossal curtains beautifully billowing with the breeze, are hanging around, literally, throughout the vast Municipal Pier 9 facility

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Features Fringe Festival Interviews Theater

The Bastard of KING JOHN: Carlo Campbell on Revolution Shakespeare Fringe offering

Christopher Munden September 21, 2016 1 Comment

Rev Shakes’ annual mainstage productions begin the final weekend of the Fringe and showcase a sensibility at home in the festival

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Fringe Festival Theater

Fringe in Sketch: SILKEN VEILS

Chuck Schultz September 21, 2016 No Comments

In the first drawing you see a little bit of projection worked into the background. The second is an example of the striking shadows that were used to capture the memory of her mother and father. And the third illustration is the emotion and love which flows from Rumi’s poetry.

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OMELETTO (Ombelico Mask Ensemble): 2016 Fringe review 77

Christopher Munden September 20, 2016 3 Comments

It’s “like Hamlet”, with all the key plot points, “only scrambled” in a light-hearted Commedia dell’arte of masks, jokes, music, and puppets.

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Dance Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews

BALANCE (JheeSha Productions): 2016 Fringe review 76

Natalie Gainer for The Dance Journal September 20, 2016 No Comments

The Kathak performance weaved together photography and dance, narrative and abstraction, the traditional and the contemporary in an exploration of life’s many off-kilter moments.

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THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW (César Alvarez): 2016 Fringe review 68.2

Ashna Ali September 20, 2016 1 Comment

Wild, unabashed, meta upon meta, with a depth of emotional honesty that brings one dangerously close to heartbreak

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