WITH FLINT AND STEEL (Duende): 2016 Fringe review 57
A highly experimental, improvisational, and fascinating Fringe performance
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WHEN SOUNDS COLLIDE (Fuse Vox): 2016 Fringe review 56
Music to rock, soul, jam out, or however you feel by.
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WROUGHTLAND (Gunnar Montana): 2016 Fringe review 55
Gunar Montana’s choreography is seriously energetic, more downright sexual than subtly sensual.
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PANDÆMONIUM (Nichole Canuso Dance Company): 2016 Fringe review 42.2
An exploration of divorce and disconnection in the California desert.
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THE CHURCH BELLS ALL WERE BROKEN (Casabuena Cultural Productions): 2016 Fringe review 54
“God hates fags!”, “God hates you!”, “God hates porcupines!” It’s cathartic to hear the argument yelled back at the haters who so recently visited Philadelphia: “God is love!”
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Fringe in Sketch: DROWNING OPHELIA
I was especially drawn to the costumes, the charming quality in the men from different time periods, and the seemingly girl into woman hood plot.
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BIRDIE’S PIT STOP (On the Rocks): 2016 Fringe review 53
Haygen Brice Walker doesn’t aim for subtlety in the roasting humor of both Millennial political correctness and stereotypical southern backwardness, but he finds rich veins of comedy in his broad mine
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SILKEN VEILS (Pantea Productions): 2016 Fringe review 52
They recite Rumi, the poet champion of romantic love, and remind Darya how beautiful and painful love can be.
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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Media Theatre): Atmospherically moody production
Loveliness and tenderness that breaks through the surface coldness are the hallmarks of the Media’s production of this delicate but sweepingly romantic musical.
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AN EVENING WITH MISTER JOHN (John Francisco/Mister John’s Music): 2016 Fringe review 51
BYOB elementary school music class: A PARTY WITH MISTER JOHN is the evening out you didn’t know you needed.
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AN OBVIOUSLY FOGGOT (Poison Apple Initiative): 2016 Fringe review 50
Sometimes brutal, but always on point, AN OBVIOUSLY FOGGOT is the explosive, vibrant queer play we’ve been waiting for in this year’s festival.
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EXILE 2588 (Almanac Dance Circus Theater): 2016 Fringe review 49
A place where acrobatics meets theater, the theater meets the circus, and circus meets blue grass
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SPECULUM DIARIES (Irina Varina): 2016 Fringe review 48
Consider the speculum a tool for looking inward in more ways than one.
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CARRIED AWAY (Brian Sanders’ JUNK): 2016 Fringe review 47
Bridging the gap between dance and physical theater, CARRIED AWAY delivers an exciting, heartfelt, and stimulating crowd-pleaser.
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SURFACE TENSION (Tangle Movement Arts): 2016 Fringe review 46
Tangle Movement Arts is back again with a thrilling Fringe Festival performance.
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BIG CRUNCH (TOLVA/Sam Congdon): 2016 Fringe review 45
A tale of queer liberation in a predictably dystopian sci-fi world. Prepare for merciless repetition.
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GALA (Jerome Bel): 2016 Fringe review 44
Jerome Bel challenges our ideas of what a performance can be.
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SHAKESPEARE @ THE BAR: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Margo Jones Syndicate): 2016 Fringe review 43
The Bard, no longer relegated to elite theatrical institutions, has found his way to a popular University City bar.
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PANDÆMONIUM (Nichole Canuso Dance Company / Early Morning Opera): 2016 Fringe review 42.1
A testament to what Fringe can do: defy genre, defy theme, defy medium, and somehow still manage to be cohesive and emotionally haunting
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ASHES OF A DEAD PHILOSOPHY (Forgotten Lore Theatre Company): 2016 Fringe review 41
Edgar Allen Poe’s macabre imagination manifests itself through Forgotten Lore Theatre Company’s ASHES OF A DEAD PHILOSOPHY. This promenade theatre installment occupies a room in…
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