238 stories from fringearts.com
"Before we even get to move, the bodies just existing together in space is getting at American politics." Bodies reflect history. They carry remnants of slavery, disintegrated yet still exis…
"It's almost like this isn't really a 'show,' more some kind of process. I was thinking of the experiences I've had coming into theater during rehearsals, sitting there watching people talki…
"The movement was precise and beautiful," Trey Lyford says as he recalls the first time he saw Jo Strømgren's choreography. Lyford is an actor based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the co-ar…
"In film," pronounced Ivo van Hove, director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the largest, and most culturally influential, theater in the Netherlands, "the director is the god of his creation." On…
Langston Darby is continuously working. "Double time. All the time," Darby comments as we recently talked on the phone one afternoon. Born in Laurel, Mississippi, Darby is an actor based in …
Supper, People on the Move reveals the traces of migration on the body. For the show, choreographer, Silvana Cardell and her dancers have been exploring the layered and physical …
“We want audiences to be engaged in every moment, but we also want them to feel like anything can happen at any moment.” What happens when we trust too much? Come see Leaps o…
“Changing motivations and goals quickly will be a big challenge for me in performing one section and then the next. I also think those shifts will be some of the most interesting parts…
Choreographer Katherine Stark  presents a work-in-progress showing of The One, The Other One, & The Many by her company The Naked Stark on June 3 at 6pm at Mascher Space Coopera…
Pig Iron Theatre Company's latest wild theatrical creation opens this week at FringeArts. I Promised Myself to Live Faster is an absurdist sci-fi epic and wild allegory about gayness in 2015…
Sebastian (aka Sebastian Cummings aka Sean Cummings) is debuting his new show Showbiz, May 21"23 at the Adobe Cafe (1919 East Passyunk Avenue), which he describes as "part theater, part conc…
"I was fascinated by the way TV is made: the way you shoot out of sequence and how it actually feels more fake, even with real planes, for example, than being on a theater set." The Incredib…
Olive Prince, leader of Olive Prince Dance, is showing an in-progess version of her new full length dance, Of our remnants, Thursday April 30"Saturday May 2 this weekend at the Iron Factory …
2015 Neighborhood Fringe Registration begins has begun at myphillyfringe.com! Yes, my friends, it is that time of year again, that time of year to starting gearing up to the 2015 Fringe F…
“Multiple climaxes, drifting off, getting exciting again, plateau-ing out, calming down, another climax, some snuggling.” In a performance she describes as a “burlesque-pos…
Kim Reid is an artist, professor, and curator at the Sweatshop Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska. From August 22 to September 6, she has been an artist-in-residence on WetLand, Mary Mattingly's flo…
On Fridays during the 2014 Fringe Festival, the WetLand barge will become home to more than just artists, gardens, and chickens. This eccentric menagerie has been joined by a rotating cast o…
Following two successful nights at Chris the Brit’s house, because obviously that’s where you kick off your Fringe Festival productions, Josh McIlvain, late of editing our Festiv…
Daniel Sack is an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts – Amherst, where his research focuses on experimental performance and live art in the 20th and 21st centuries. For …
The day that WetLand opened to the public (luckily, without a splash), Sweden-born artist Anna Ekros began her residency on the floating barge. Ekros’s handiwork is everywhere on WetLa…
The first performance of the 2014 Neighborhood Fringe show Underground Episodes is already sold out–we just caught up with Allen Clark, the executive producer of Run Boy Run Production…
For the 2014 Presented Fringe, FringeArts is offering the U.S. premiere of one of Romeo Castellucci’s major theater works, The Four Seasons Restaurant. Last fall, he spoke with Carlos …
It’s widely accepted that besides taking over your early evenings with performances, your late nights also belong to us. Have you seen our schedule? It’s all free, and it kicked …
You’ve probably gotten wind of how awesome our late night programming is, but in case you haven’t, check it out for yourself tonight at 9:00 pm. Cellist Maya Beiser covers iconic…
Alison Gillespie‘s passion for urban ecology is quite clear–her writing career focuses on how to marry nature and the city. For FringeArts, she’s stopping by WetLand today …
