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A message from editor Alaina Johns to this year’s Fringe artists, and anyone who values their work.
As we finalize the transition to our new associate editor in October, An Nichols steps up with a Weekly Roundup to get your October arts calendar started, featuring theater, music, and famou…
Philly’s October theater scene brings notable regional premieres including Bess Wohl’s Liberation and Jen Silverman’s Witch, and lots more, including a classic horror adaptation. Camer…
Playwright DJ Hills’s Horsegirl & Cowdaddy gets its world premiere at the Wilma, exploring the power of transformation and the possibilities of putting down roots at home. Gabrielle Ka…
Theatre Contra joins this year’s Fringe with an eight-person rendition of all five Twilight movies…performed in just one hour(ish). Adryan Corcione reviews.
How does it feel to look at nothing, a world premiere from Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon in this year’s curated Fringe, is not quite an opera as billed, but it’s an ambitious, imme…
Iron Age Theatre’s Radical Acts production branch brings Howard Zinn’s Marx in Soho to the closing weekend of the Philly Fringe, revealing the odd contradictions of Zinn’s script today…
Prolific Philly composer Andrea Clearfied has been hosting her own chamber-music salon (which became a “Zalon” on Zoom during the pandemic and is now a hybrid “SZalon”) for 40 years.…
Cannonball presents Suz Evans’s Ghost Fetus, a baffling abortion satire filled with empty provocations. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Casual Fifth, a Philly-based drum and dance dance ensemble, joined this year’s Fringe with a high-energy celebration of love. Everyone dressed as brides. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
In David Auburn’s Summer, 1976, two women’s reminiscences about the summer they met increasingly diverge. The play gets a believable Philly-premiere production at the Lantern. Walt Magui…
In this world premiere by Adrienne Dawes, now onstage in Trenton, former high-school frenemies and one-time lovers end up on vacation together, in a story balanced between comedy and serious…
Buzzy Belgian theater collective Ontroerend Goed’s Handle with Care comes to this year’s Fringe, turning the audience into the creators of their own experience. Anna Fiscarelli-Mintz rev…
A new Fringe show from collaborators Nick Gillette and Nick Jonczak imagines a man who has translated the Voynich manuscript, one of the greatest real-life mysteries of Medieval Europe. Walt…
Stephanie Scott’s new solo show in this year’s Fringe pays tribute to iconic singer Ella Fitzgerald, charting her life from humble beginnings to her rise to the top of the music industry…
Die-Cast deconstructs American mythmaking in Americana Cosplay, an immersive Fringe entry. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Two Cannonball Festival shows, Days of Awe and Baggage from BaghDAD, explore intriguing family histories rooted in different Jewish experiences. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
The Bearded Ladies Cabaret joins this year’s curated Fringe with a major new installation in Old City, Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle, at the Martha Graham Memorial Hairport. Evan Sch…
Chris Davis’s The 40-Year-Old Ballerino is both a love letter to ballet and an authentically funny account of the writer/performer’s midlife obsession with dance. Jill Ivey reviews.
A new interactive Fringe show from Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez imagines an amiable alien trying to save Earth after watching 600 episodes of Law & Order. Krista Mar reviews.
Noam Osband’s Wikipedilove is an original, participatory musical comedy on sex, love, and collective knowledge, based on everyone’s favorite online crowdsourced encyclopedia. Emily Esten…
1812 Productions creates an outlandish new work every night in This Should Never Be a Musical. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The Lemonade Stand hub of the Fringe presents Lindsey Walko’s Bog Man, an intriguing one-woman show that struggles to fully explore its concept. Kiran Pandey reviews.
The theater collective BETTY (MK Tuomanen, Shelby Richardson, and Paul Kruse) premieres Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, an ode to the human experience of infants, in this year’s Fringe. Josh H…
Imagine a jukebox musical where the jukebox plays audiobooks and there’s only one actor onstage, and you might get Jane Eyre Wasn’t a Whore, onstage in this year’s Fringe. Jill Ivey re…
