Meet Joey Novick, the Political Comedian. For this year's Neighborhood Fringe Festival show, Comedian Elected to Town Council in New Jersey, Joey has decided to tell stories of his twelve ye…
Greg Lindquist – artist, professor, and WetLand collaborator – is fashioning a harness out of rope. He secures himself in, ties the other end to a naked beam, and leans back, hel…
Meet 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 September …
Meet 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 September …
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…
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…
Artist, curator, and professor Karla Stingerstein is taking her fascination with objects and collaborative creativity to WetLand, the floating barge…
If 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…
“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 physi…
“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 year̵…
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…
"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 violence aga…
“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 year’s F…
"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 WetLa…
"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 childhood.…
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, …
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, opport…
"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 roommate asked while wa…
"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-progress…
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 Thurs…