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
THE 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
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IN THE CLEARING (Birds on a Wire): 2016 Fringe review 10
An all girls dance group presents a mysterious dance performance.
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NOTES 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…
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Fringe in Sketch: ANIMAL FARM TO TABLE
Sketch artist Chuck Shultz chowed down and recorded what he saw.
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THE 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.
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“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.
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LEVÉE DES CONFLITS (Boris Charmatz): 2016 Fringe review 7
Between chaos and synchronicity, individualism and collectiveness, exists the human search for life without conflict.
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ONE 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.
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CELLOPHANE (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.
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ALICE (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.
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ANIMAL FARM TO TABLE (Renegade Company): 2016 Fringe review 3
Class. Money. Power: The carrots start flying at the Urban Creators farm collective.
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SHADOW 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
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Life 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.
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Late 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.
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CAT-A-STROPHE (Fail Better): 2016 Fringe review 1
Fallacies and facts concerning male-female relations are explored within a farcical framework.
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This Info Will Fucking Dare You: Mary McCool, Brad Wrenn, and Lee Minora bouffon it up at Plays & Players this Fringe
If you dig imaginative and funny collaborative solo shows, Plays & Players theater is the place to go this Fringe Festival.
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Neal Zoren’s picks for the 2015/16 Helen and Morris World Theater Award
The best in Philadelphia and the world, 2015-2016.
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Dance and the Internment Camp: Brendan Tetsuo on the long WALK TO TOPAZ this Fringe
During WWII Brendan Tetsuo’s grandparents were interned in a camp in Topaz, Utah, a family legacy which led him to create his Fringe show WALK TO TOPAZ,
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Hey Artists! You’re enough.
Sebastian Cummings is putting together a show in just two weeks. His reasons why should be a clarion call to all artists out there.
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Bard in BEDLAM: Manayunk Theatre Company gets crazy with Shakespeare
Is Lady Macbeth mad? Who has people figured out: Shakespeare or Freud? Answers from the folk behind BEDLAM: SHAKESPEARE IN REHAB
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