Tuesday, August 12, 2014
On August 19, FringeArts wants you to come talk about Italian theater director Romeo Castellucci. We presented his On the concept of the face, regarding the Son of God as the centerpiece of …
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 03:57PMFor the 2014 Presented Fringe, FringeArts is bringing the Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure to Old City for Experiment #39. In case you’re wondering, the experiment is kind of o…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 02:38PMMeet the Drexel Players, who decided for this year’s Neighborhood Fringe Festival show to tell an old tale with a mature and modern twist. It opens on September 5 and runs through Septembe…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 01:34PMMonday, August 11, 2014
Every Monday night in August, we’re offering free previews of the 2014 Fringe Festival–Neighborhood Fringe artists are serving up short excerpts of their work, and we’re serving up fre…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 12:02PMFriday, August 8, 2014
The WetLand project, a collaboration between FringeArts and the artist Mary Mattingly, is set to open on August 15th. In addition to providing a living space for Mattingly and a rotating cas…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 03:07PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
“The thing with Castellucci is that he doesn’t direct your responses as most plays do. He makes work without explanation, without irony and without apology, and there you are as an a…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 01:10PMFrom the Department of Things We Wish We Could’ve Done Last Weekend: join the 100-person army for this past weekend’s Henry IV from Shakespeare in Clark Park. It’s a “…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 10:01AMMonday, August 4, 2014
Every Monday night in August, we’re offering free previews of the 2014 Fringe Festival–Neighborhood Fringe artists are serving up short excerpts of their work, and we’re se…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 11:44AMThursday, July 31, 2014
Artist, curator, and professor Karla Stingerstein is taking her fascination with objects and collaborative creativity to WetLand, the floating barge…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 08:24PMIf you’ve ever wished you could live at the Fringe Festival, you should meet Mary Mattingly. The Presented Fringe artist will live on WetLand, a boat-based ecosystem moored on the Dela…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 04:07PMTuesday, July 29, 2014
“Puppetry allows me to socialize people—it seems to me that we are no longer able to touch, to talk, and to listen to each other.” Why do so many of us avert our eyes from people p…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 02:02PMMonday, July 28, 2014
“We are wired to seek solace and meaning even in the most absurd of worlds.” Fando y Lis, an absurdist play by Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal, is coming to this year’…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 11:52AMFriday, July 25, 2014
This summer, I’ve been the Festival Guide management intern here at FringeArts. Since the guide went to print last week (hooray, come to our party!), I’ve been editing interviews…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 04:49PMThursday, July 24, 2014
“It’s infuriating to realize the enormity of intimate partner violence, the prevalence it has in our society—I couldn’t not do something about that.” Stories of abuse and sexual vi…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 12:10PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
“It’s a slightly abstracted, theatricalized space, because it’s theater and I’m always interested in theater taking me beyond the edges of reality.” Coming to this yearR…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 05:24PMJuly 22, 2014, in the morning: The main structural component of WetLand by Mary Mattingly, a houseboat, turns towards its destination–the dock at the Independence Seaport MuseumR…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 11:45AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
“As painful as it sometimes is, I think waking up is the most beautiful part—those few moments where everything is a little unfamiliar.” Starting on August 15th, Mary Mattingly‘s…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 11:51AMMonday, July 14, 2014
“Moving to the United States changed everything.” Shaily Dadiala, artistic director of Usiloquy Dance Designs, has been dancing Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form, since childh…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 10:50AMWednesday, July 9, 2014
Invisible River, a 2.5-mile performance of dance, music, acrobats, sculpture installations, and boats, is coming to the Schuylkill River this weekend for the second year in a row. The show, …
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 11:46AMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Avignon, Brussels, Montreal, Edinburgh—imagine hopping from one city to another, sampling the largest performing arts festivals in each. For those of us confined to the United States, oppo…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 12:26PMMonday, June 23, 2014
FringeArts, June 20, 2014: The Beserker Residents rehearse The Talkback. (l to r) Bradley K. Wrenn, David Johnson, and Justin Jain. Photo: Said Johnson.
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 10:01AMFriday, June 20, 2014
“I wrote the book that I wanted to read. This is the book I wish someone had given me twenty years ago.” Are you an artist in Philadelphia, thinking, How the hell does this wo…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 10:29AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
“It’s really hard to do acting and make a living unless you’re really good—and a Caucasian man.” “Uh, are you okay? You look like you’re giving birth,” Asaki Kuruma’s roomm…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 04:51PMThursday, June 5, 2014
“We are satirizing everyone we’ve ever worked with and also our own lives as artists. No one is safe.” For the next three Sunday evenings, the Berserker Residents will present in-prog…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 01:37PMJune 2, 2014. The cast of Wild by the Groundswell Theatre Company during a pre-performance walk-though at FringeArts for an excerpted showing at Scratch Night. Photo: Said Johnson.
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 11:35AMThursday, May 29, 2014
It is time to start placing more value on the “art” part of performing arts. When it comes to dance and theater and all the multidisciplinary performance hybrids, the support for perform…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 08:41PMWednesday, May 28, 2014
A Conceit Give me your hand Make room for me to lead and follow you beyond this rage of poetry. Let others have the privacy of touching words and love of loss of love. For me Give me your ha…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 12:58PMTuesday, May 27, 2014
What’s come to our attention: Remember New Paradise Laboratories’ hit performance 27 in the 2012 Fringe Festival? Whether you missed it the first time or are eager for more, 27 returns T…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 03:30PMWednesday, May 21, 2014
Here’s the “offending” video that got its six dancing Iranian participants sent to jail in Iran; they were then made to repent on national TV. As the National Iranian A…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 12:37PMTuesday, May 20, 2014
“The most I’ve ever made in a year is $23,000, and that year was filled with 60-hour weeks of overlapping work, which I was thrilled to have.” Philadelphia’s theater scene is better …
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 04:41PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Communitas is a Latin noun that describes an unstructured society where humans are equal. It also has a sociological connotation of a society that is greater than the sum of its parts. For t…
SOURCE: blog.fringearts.com at 12:07PM 
