A world-premiere commission filled with humor and heart considers the history and progress of gay rights in Philadelphia through the lens of a local podcast and the discovery of a revealing artifact.
View More TIME IS ON OUR SIDE (Simpatico): Philadelphia’s living history of gay pride and social progress
A podcast DJ and his tireless producer on a mission to conquer the late-night dregs-of-society demographic.
View More SORRY, BROKEN PIANO (Art Church): Indie shock jock drama
If the ninth circle of hell decided to host a baby shower, it would resemble something like PINK PUNCH by Cara Blouin.
View More PINK PUNCH (Art Church): Rosemary’s baby shower—one hell of a weird ride
Here’s what Chuck Schultz saw at the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s production of ALL IN THE TIMING by David Ives.
View More Sketches of Ives: IRC’s ALL IN THE TIMING
A collection of six short one-act comedies address the existentialist dilemma and pose the ubiquitous question, “What if?”
View More ALL IN THE TIMING (IRC): Six fast and funny existentialist shorts
As part of Phindie’s coverage of the 2015 Fringe Festival, Aaron Krolikowski is attending a series of shows and sketching what he sees.
View More Fringe in Sketch 6: DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade)
Wear sturdy shoes for this wild mile-and-a-half theatrical expedition through FDR Park, where humans are pitted against apes and hilarity ensues!
View More DAMNED DIRTY APES! (Renegade): 2015 Fringe Review 36
Every actor has experienced theater critics who got things a little wrong. Here’s their chance to peel their own onion.
View More That’s Just Like Your Opinion, Man: RAW ONION REVIVAL (IRC) actors become their own critics
in a medium fraught with love stories Shaw gleefully throws dirt into our eyes and says: yours is a sick obsession.
View More MISALLIANCE (IRC): Swift, honed, talky
High-energy hilarity fills L’Étage as the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium remounts its 2008 Fringe hit, a trio of one-act parodies by Christopher Durang.
View More A STREETCAR NAMED DURANG (IRC): 60-second review
Featuring spoofs of American theater luminaries, IRC’s 2008 hit A STREETCAR NAMED DURANG returns this month for a brief seven-show run.
View More IRC’s presents some Durang classics
A collaboration between three inventive local playwrights, SAFE SPACE provides its audience a Fringe adventure: a choose your own adventure.
View More SAFE SPACE (Apocalypse Club): 2014 Fringe Review 39
The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium gives local audiences the chance to see Christopher Durang at his comic best in a series of seldom-performed shorts, THE DURANG SHABANG! in two performances (6pm and 8pm) at L’Etage Cabaret, on Sunday, May 18, 2014.
View More THE DURANG SHABANG! IRC stages night of seldom-seen Durang shorts
Ed Swidey’s mEEps return for a one-night only show at White Pines place in Elkins Park, May 9, 2014.
View More The Return of the mEEps (White Pines)