Growing up as a hearing child of deaf parents, Gloria Rosen faced many challenges, both in interpreting for and communicating with her family, and then struggling to find her own voice in th…
Following the trajectory of his career from heavy-metal rocker to student, writer, and theater artist, Carlos Dengler not only recounts his own personal development, but considers it within …
The human condition can be challenging, whatever your age, gender, background, or experience. Inner Voices explores, with insight and humor, some of those debilitating personal difficulties,…
Though they never met or performed together, Édith Piaf (1915-63) and Jacques Brel (1929-78), nearly fifteen years apart in age, both became legends of the modern “chanson franç…
An engaging storyteller, a gifted soprano, and a natural with children, Melanie Gall brings her warmth, talent, and stage presence to the Fringe Encore Series in Opera Mouse, a delightful so…
An annual favorite at 1812 Productions is its irreverent take on the current news. This year's show, This Is The Week That Is: The Election Special, has hit the motherlode of material with t…
Guests arrived for the party in formal wear, as requested by the host. Inside the historic building, constructed in 1909, they donned masks in carnival colors and enjoyed hors d'oeuvres and …
Filled with poetic language, engaging characters, and penetrating insights into the human condition, Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney represents the tradition of Irish storytelling at its very be…
In his autobiographical one-man show Rent Control, which won the 2016 FringeNYC Award for Overall Excellence in Solo Performance, Evan Zes turns his comic eye and adult humor on two o…
Winner of the 2016 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Ensemble, ChipandGus— written, directed, and performed by John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen, and produced by Fat Knigh…
A one-night-only multimedia concert that paired Minimalist music–a movement that originated in downtown New York in the 1960s–with visual imagery and current digital technology, …
Man and beast struggle and evolve in the post-apocalyptic world of Jungle, the latest work and first Fringe offering of the all-male dance troupe Bradley's Bucks. Created and directed by dan…
A self-referencing mockumentary on the process of putting together a show, Happy Yummy Chicken is the first full-length film by Love Drunk Life–a New Jersey-based multi-genre company t…
A featured work in this year's Curated Fringe, Pandæmonium, by Nichole Canuso Dance Company and Early Morning Opera, is a conceptual reflection on relationships, separation, isolation, an…
Commedia dell'arte meets Shakespeare in Ombelico Mask Ensemble's original deconstruction of Hamlet. Omeletto: Like Hamlet, Only Scrambled synthesizes all of Shakespeare's dramatic characters…
In her world-premiere historical fiction A Runaway, a Soldier and a Snowball Fight, presented at Fergie's Pub by Iron Age Theatre, playwright-in-residence Leah Lawler re-envisions the moment…
Conceived by emerging playwright Kevin Stackhouse as "a parody mock opera," Gilbert and Sullivan's Switched! Or The Insider and the Outsider, presented by Tavern Productions and PAFA …
Three annual Fringe favorites have chosen to remount a past hit for this year's festival, giving audiences a chance to see the acclaimed works they missed, or to revisit the shows they loved…
"Are you in here?" "Is there anyone here?" "Who are you?" Where are you?" "You're not supposed to be here." Spirits of the people who inhabited the Powel House at different periods in its 25…
Camp and kitsch reign supreme in On the Rocks' Birdie's Pit Stop (and the tribe of queers who fucked everything up), an outrageously funny world-premiere parody of the horror genre and the s…
If you're a stickler for political correctness, lighten up, head over to L'Etage Cabaret, grab a drink, and laugh your *#@% off at all the irreverent humor in WaitStaff Sketch Comedy's hilar…
Inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Io, the principles of existential risk and human enhancement ethics considered by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrum, and the popular genre of science fic…
Birds on a Wire takes Fringe-goers on an evocative journey into the woods in a short-run premiere of its newest modern dance piece In the Clearing. The full-length adventure, choreographed a…
The 2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival celebrated its official launch at the Barnes Foundation on Friday evening with an extraordinary one-night-only sold-out event in the Curated Fringe, as …
Emptiness. Isolation. Boredom. Expectation. Emptiness. The Old Man and Old Woman over-react to the petty nuisance of mosquitoes flying around them, then yammer incessant inanities to fill up…