Philly Fringe 2017: Blue Mercury presents Athol Fugard's 'Statements After an Arrest…'
A timely staging of Athol Fugard's drama about an illegal South African love affair makes itself at home in a Philadelphia library. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
A timely staging of Athol Fugard's drama about an illegal South African love affair makes itself at home in a Philadelphia library. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
Thaddeus Phillips returns to the Philly Fringe with another standout production, this time about the thrill of being a father. Toby Zinman reviews.
The stars align for twins Artemis and Apollo, who decide a movie star is their mother in the Greenfield Collective's 'Tilda Swinton Adopt Me Please.' Mark Cofta reviews.
Chris Davis and Mary Tuomanen dramatize their decades-long friendship in a spirited onstage memoir. Mark Cofta reviews.
Elephant Room's first production shares insights about suicide in nine short interdisciplinary works, gallery style. Mark Cofta reviews.
Sex, violence, rock, drugs, drinking, death, and teen angst: the completion of On the Rocks' Haygen-Brice Walker's Dead Teenager Trilogy makes an intoxicating cocktail. Mark Cofta reviews.
Five college women who think they have the answer to preventing rape explore ways to heal from trauma. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
GoKash OnSTAGE debuts at the Arden with a timely legal drama 'Seventy IV Seconds . . . to Judgement.' Mark Cofta reviews.
Tongue & Groove's newest format, 'Questions,' turns questions submitted by the audience into improvised scenes and monologues. Mark Cofta reviews.
Brian Sanders JUNK whisks audiences away in several choose-your-own-adventure immersive dance/theater tours. Alix Rosenfeld reviews.
In his "comedy hypnosis" show, Frank Perri proves his unsettling grasp on strangers' minds, but what if hypnosis is more common than we think? Alaina Mabaso reviews.
Philadelphia Artists Collective's adaptation of Euripides's 'Iphigenia at Aulis' finds itself adrift. Toby Zinman reviews.
When someone else's life depends on a second chance, 'Borderlands' asks what you sacrifice if you step up to help. Alaina Mabaso reviews.
Tribe of Fools' 'Fishtown: A Hipster Noir' offers much more than a noir homage. Mark Cofta reviews.
In a little house by a cornfield, four former high school friends come together to swap stories and sing songs. And then things get weird. Wendy Rosenfield reviews.
Die-Cast premieres with a low-tech, sensuous, seldom-seen Shakespeare, 'Pericles,' directed by Brenna Geffers. Mark Cofta reviews.
Big Dance Theater takes on 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys and contemporary parallels in the Philly Fringe's opening night production. Merilyn Jackson reviews.
In Carl(os) Roa's solo Fringe performance, Google Street View plays a starring role in the search for belonging. Wendy Rosenfield reviews.
In New Paradise Laboratories' Philly Fringe 2017 entry, the Kissimmee family goes into the void and comes out a little lost. Toby Zinman reviews.
Don't touch that dial " at least not until after Found Theater Company's dark spoof of television, 'Game Show Show.' Mark Cofta reviews.
In Iron Age Theatre's world premiere of Richard Bradford's new solo show, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton comes back to life after his murder at age 21. Wendy Rosenfield reviews.
While the Fringe dominates September, many area theaters offer intriguing musical alternatives.
At Act II Playhouse, Tony Braithwaite offers a sterile paean to life behind the curtain. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
From 'Iphigenia at Aulis' on a ship to Trump's echoes of Brecht, and improvised Tennessee Williams to doomsday 'Hamlet' and much more, classics-inspired Fringe shows are just as feisty a…
Just because someone got it into the catalog doesn't mean it's a good idea to go. Or is it?