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Monday, September 26, 2016

FringeNYC Encore Series Review: ‘ChipandGus’ at SoHo Playhouse in NYC by Deb Miller

Winner of the 2016 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Ensemble, ChipandGus— written, directed, and performed by John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen, and produced by Fat Knigh…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:22PM
Saturday, September 24, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Imaginary Music’ by PhEAD at the Philadelphia Art Alliance by Deb Miller

A one-night-only multimedia concert that paired Minimalist music–a movement that originated in downtown New York in the 1960s–with visual imagery and current digital technology, …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:58AM
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Jungle’ at Bradley’s Bucks by Deb Miller

Man and beast struggle and evolve in the post-apocalyptic world of Jungle, the latest work and first Fringe offering of the all-male dance troupe Bradley’s Bucks. Created and directed by d…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PM
Sunday, September 18, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Happy Yummy Chicken’ at Love Drunk Life by Deb Miller

A self-referencing mockumentary on the process of putting together a show, Happy Yummy Chicken is the first full-length film by Love Drunk Life–a New Jersey-based multi-genre company t…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48PM
Saturday, September 17, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Pandæmonium’ at Nichole Canuso Dance Company and Early Morning Opera by Deb Miller

A featured work in this year’s Curated Fringe, Pandæmonium, by Nichole Canuso Dance Company and Early Morning Opera, is a conceptual reflection on relationships, separation, isolation, an…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:44PM

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Omeletto: Like Hamlet, Only Scrambled’ at Ombelico Mask Ensemble by Deb Miller

Commedia dell’arte meets Shakespeare in Ombelico Mask Ensemble’s original deconstruction of Hamlet. Omeletto: Like Hamlet, Only Scrambled synthesizes all of Shakespeare’s dramatic char…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04AM
Thursday, September 15, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘A Runaway, a Soldier and a Snowball Fight’ at Iron Age Theatre by Deb Miller

In her world-premiere historical fiction A Runaway, a Soldier and a Snowball Fight, presented at Fergie’s Pub by Iron Age Theatre, playwright-in-residence Leah Lawler re-envisions the mome…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:35PM

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Gilbert and Sullivan’s Switched! Or The Insider and the Outsider’ at Tavern Productions and PAFA Perf by Deb Miller

  Conceived by emerging playwright Kevin Stackhouse as “a parody mock opera,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s Switched! Or The Insider and the Outsider, presented by Tavern Productions and…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:22PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Interview: ‘Revisiting Current Remounts of Past Hits with Terry Brennan, Tina Brock, and Greg Kennedy’ by Deb Miller

Three annual Fringe favorites have chosen to remount a past hit for this year’s festival, giving audiences a chance to see the acclaimed works they missed, or to revisit the shows they lov…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:57PM
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Shadow House’ at Philadelphia Opera Collective and PhilaLandmarks by Deb Miller

“Are you in here?” “Is there anyone here?” “Who are you?” Where are you?” “You’re not supposed to be here.” Spirits of the people who inhabited the Powel House at differe…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:46PM
Monday, September 12, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Birdie’s Pit Stop (and the tribe of queers who fucked everything up)’ at On the Rocks by Deb Miller

Camp and kitsch reign supreme in On the Rocks’ Birdie’s Pit Stop (and the tribe of queers who fucked everything up), an outrageously funny world-premiere parody of the horror genre and t…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PM

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Making the Fringe Great Again!’ at WaitStaff Sketch Comedy by Deb Miller

If you’re a stickler for political correctness, lighten up, head over to L’Etage Cabaret, grab a drink, and laugh your *#@% off at all the irreverent humor in WaitStaff Sketch Comedy’s…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PM
Sunday, September 11, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Exile 2588’ at Almanac Dance Circus Theatre by Deb Miller

Inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Io, the principles of existential risk and human enhancement ethics considered by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrum, and the popular genre of science fic…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PM
Saturday, September 10, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘In the Clearing’ at Birds on a Wire by Deb Miller

Birds on a Wire takes Fringe-goers on an evocative journey into the woods in a short-run premiere of its newest modern dance piece In the Clearing. The full-length adventure, choreographed a…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:16PM

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Room 21’ by Jace Clayton at The Barnes Foundation by Deb Miller

The 2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival celebrated its official launch at the Barnes Foundation on Friday evening with an extraordinary one-night-only sold-out event in the Curated Fringe, as …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AM
Friday, September 9, 2016

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs’ at Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium by Deb Miller

Emptiness. Isolation. Boredom. Expectation. Emptiness. The Old Man and Old Woman over-react to the petty nuisance of mosquitoes flying around them, then yammer incessant inanities to fill up…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19AM
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Review: ‘EDWIN, The Story of Edwin Booth’ at The Theatre at St. Clement’s in NYC by Deb Miller

Renowned as the greatest American Shakespearean actor of his day, Edwin Booth (1833-93), the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s killer John Wilkes Booth, could have easily become the collateral …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05PM

2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Carried Away’ at Brian Sanders’ JUNK by Deb Miller

Boldly erotic, seductively exuberant, and profoundly intimate, Carried Away, this year’s world-premiere Fringe piece by Brian Sanders’ JUNK, brings all the physicality, psychology, and e…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:11AM
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

A Preview with the Cast and Team of ‘The Vanity’ at Theatre Row in NYC by Deb Miller

What do you get when you mix The Picture of Dorian Gray with Sunset Boulevard and Valley of the Dolls? A high-camp melodramatic parody on the consequences of aging in a profession where yout…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PM
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Here are the 2016 Barrymore Award Nominations-Purchase Tickets Here by Deb Miller

At a 10 AM press conference this morning, the nominations for the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre for the 2015-16 season were announced by Theatre Philadelphia. A total of 25 comp…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21AM
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

‘Take A Bow’ Part 3 in Philadelphia: Staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ Favorite Spring/Summer 2016 Performances by Deb Miller

Here is Part 3 of the Philadelphia staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ favorite performances in Spring and Summer of 2016. To all our honorees – TAKE A BOW! _____ Ensemble (Adrienne Hertler, Em…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15PM
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Announcing Circadium: A New Circus Arts School Comes to Philadelphia by Deb Miller

  At a press conference held on the eastern terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the members of the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts announced the foundation of its new professi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PM

‘Take A Bow’ Part 2 in Philadelphia: Staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ Favorite Spring/Summer 2016 Performances by Deb Miller

Here is Part 2 of the Philadelphia staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ favorite performances in Spring and Summer of 2016. To all our honorees – TAKE A BOW! _____  Amanda Schoonover as Dorine…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01AM
Monday, August 29, 2016

Here are the 2016 Barrymore Award Nominations by Deb Miller

Here are the 2016 Barrymore Award Nominations: Winners will be announced at the Merriam Theater on Monday, October 24th at 7 p.m. Congratulations to all the nominees! F. Otto Haas Award for …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24AM

‘Take A Bow’ Part 1 in Philadelphia: Staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ Favorite Spring/Summer 2016 Performances by Deb Miller

Here is Part 1 of the Philadelphia staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ favorite performances in Spring and Summer of 2016. To all our honorees – TAKE A BOW! _____ J Hernandez as Ricard…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Friday, August 26, 2016

2016 FringeNYC Review: ‘Cyrano: A Love Letter To A Friendship’ by Deb Miller

Edmond Rostand’s classic French novel of 1897, Cyrano de Bergerac, is re-envisioned through a post-modern gay lens in Grind Arts Company’s Cyrano: a love letter to a friendship. The tria…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20PM
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

2016 FringeNYC Review: “Steve Got Raped” by Deb Miller

Relationships are hard. And that goes double if you’re pushing 30, but still haven’t made the psychological and emotional transition from youth to adulthood. In The New Collective’s wo…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM
Monday, August 22, 2016

2016 FringeNYC Review: ‘Take One” by Deb Miller

Sometimes even the most inspired geniuses need to do some rethinking, reworking, and rewrites of their greatest creations to forge an unforgettable masterpiece. Such is the case with God, Mi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07PM

2016 FringeNYC Review: ‘Dementia Americana” by Deb Miller

On June 25, 1906, famed architect Stanford White, of the firm McKim, Mead & White (among whose most noted works is NYC’s Washington Square Arch), was shot and killed by crazed multi-mi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PM
Saturday, August 20, 2016

2016 FringeNYC Review: ‘Einstein!’ by Deb Miller

15,000 documents ÷ 3 years of intensive research + 1 actor x 9 characters = the formula for success with Einstein! Written and performed by Jack Fry, the one-man tour-de-force brings the ti…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:49PM
Friday, August 19, 2016

2016 FringeNYC Review: ‘This Gonna Be on the Test, Miss?’ by Deb Miller

From the time she was a kid, Ronna J Levy knew that she wanted to be an actress. How she ended up being a teacher is the theme of her original one-woman show of 2012, This Gonna Be on the Te…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PM

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