39 stories from blog.fringearts.com
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 …
For 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…
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 …
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 free beer…
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 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 aud…
From 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 “…
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…
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…
July 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 Muse…
"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…
FringeArts, June 20, 2014: The Beserker Residents rehearse The Talkback. (l to r) Bradley K. Wrenn, David Johnson, and  Justin Jain. Photo: Said Johnson.
“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 t…
"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…
June 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.
