BEDLAM: SHAKESPEARE IN REHAB (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2016 Fringe review 16
Welcome to the Asylum! In Shakespeare’s day, thrill seekers had a choice between catching a show at the Globe and viewing the lunatics in Bedlam,…
View More BEDLAM: SHAKESPEARE IN REHAB (Manayunk Theatre Company): 2016 Fringe review 16WHO WOULD BE KING (Liars and Believers): 2016 Fringe review 15
An ancient story with artful clowning and spacy synth score.
View More WHO WOULD BE KING (Liars and Believers): 2016 Fringe review 15FEED (Applied Mechanics): 2016 Fringe review 14
Narrative, fiction, performance, and reality collide through the breaking of bread.
View More FEED (Applied Mechanics): 2016 Fringe review 14DROWNING OPHELIA (Ensemble Atria & EagerRisk Theater): 2016 Fringe review 13
Jane’s subconscious is in the bathtub, and her name is Ophelia
View More DROWNING OPHELIA (Ensemble Atria & EagerRisk Theater): 2016 Fringe review 13A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP (The Colored Girls Museum): 2016 Fringe review 12
A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP is about the reclamation of the colored girl’s experience, finding the strength and beauty in it, acknowledging barriers to healing and developing tools for survival and liberation.
View More A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP (The Colored Girls Museum): 2016 Fringe review 12THE SWORD OF THE UNICORN (New Works): 2016 Fringe review 11
A multi-colored, multi-realm reimagining of the hero’s journey as it relates to the never-ending quest of being true to oneself
View More THE SWORD OF THE UNICORN (New Works): 2016 Fringe review 11IN THE CLEARING (Birds on a Wire): 2016 Fringe review 10
An all girls dance group presents a mysterious dance performance.
View More IN THE CLEARING (Birds on a Wire): 2016 Fringe review 10NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG (Stew and Heidi Rodewald): 2016 Fringe review 9
“Won’t you follow me down to Baldwin Country? This ain’t your mama’s Baldwin Country.” The show opens with offhand remarks by Stew, a large black…
View More NOTES OF A NATIVE SONG (Stew and Heidi Rodewald): 2016 Fringe review 9Fringe in Sketch: ANIMAL FARM TO TABLE
Sketch artist Chuck Shultz chowed down and recorded what he saw.
View More Fringe in Sketch: ANIMAL FARM TO TABLETHE CHAIRS (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2016 Fringe review 8
IRC presents a must-see revival of Eugene Ionesco’s 1952 classic THE CHAIRS, a defining work of the theater of the absurd.
View More THE CHAIRS (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2016 Fringe review 8“Casting call” for the chairs in Ionesco’s THE CHAIRS: Interview with IRC artistic director Tina Brock
The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium brings Eugene Ionesco’s hilarious, controversial, absurdist classic THE CHAIRS to the 2016 Fringe Festival. We talk to director Tina Brock about the show.
View More “Casting call” for the chairs in Ionesco’s THE CHAIRS: Interview with IRC artistic director Tina BrockLEVÉE DES CONFLITS (Boris Charmatz): 2016 Fringe review 7
Between chaos and synchronicity, individualism and collectiveness, exists the human search for life without conflict.
View More LEVÉE DES CONFLITS (Boris Charmatz): 2016 Fringe review 7ONE DAY OLD (Iraisa Ann Reilly): 2016 Fringe review 6
Drawing on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, the play reflects upon both a quintessentially American experience—immigration—and the universal experience of growing up.
View More ONE DAY OLD (Iraisa Ann Reilly): 2016 Fringe review 6CELLOPHANE (jenny&john): 2016 Fringe review 5
We are brought face-to-face with the vast Digital Age to consider the implications it has on our cultural conversation—for better or worse.
View More CELLOPHANE (jenny&john): 2016 Fringe review 5ALICE (Aleksandra Berczynski & MBgruparealizacji): 2016 Fringe review 4
Like sad lyrics to a happy beat. this 20-minute one-woman show takes an idiosyncratically personal look at human sadness in its many guises.
View More ALICE (Aleksandra Berczynski & MBgruparealizacji): 2016 Fringe review 4ANIMAL FARM TO TABLE (Renegade Company): 2016 Fringe review 3
Class. Money. Power: The carrots start flying at the Urban Creators farm collective.
View More ANIMAL FARM TO TABLE (Renegade Company): 2016 Fringe review 3SHADOW HOUSE (Brenna Geffers and Philadelphia Opera Collective): 2016 Fringe review 2
This site-specific installation unravels the layers of emotion and humanity that the historic Powel House contains
View More SHADOW HOUSE (Brenna Geffers and Philadelphia Opera Collective): 2016 Fringe review 2Life on Mars? Dani Solomon gets interplanetary in ONE WAY RED
Our nearest neighbor, the red planet has a strong gravitational hold over us earthlings. Dani Solomon tells us about her trip there this Fringe.
View More Life on Mars? Dani Solomon gets interplanetary in ONE WAY REDLate Night at the Fringe
After the party it’s the after party. All Festival long, things go late into the night at La Peg, the festival bar along Delaware Avenue.
View More Late Night at the FringeCAT-A-STROPHE (Fail Better): 2016 Fringe review 1
Fallacies and facts concerning male-female relations are explored within a farcical framework.
View More CAT-A-STROPHE (Fail Better): 2016 Fringe review 1