An inclusive dance installation presented in partnership with Temple's Institute on Disabilities offers interdisciplinary delights at Christ Church Neighborhood House in this year's Fringe. …
Through creative storytelling, contemporary dance, and clowning, Magic Trash Day tells the story of one kid's fantastical emotional journey down into the dumps. Helen Walsh reviews.
An arresting backstory grounds this able mix of contemporary dance, acrobatics, and theater from Ben Grinberg and Hazem Header in this year's Fringe. Eileen Fisher reviews.
James Haro joins this year's Cannonball Festival with Go Ahead, an interactive solo show incorporating poetry and live pop-punk on heartbreak, love, and belonging. Crystal Sparrow reviews.
Humble Materials takes on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic feminist short story with theater, dance, and impressive makeup in this year's Fringe. Jill Ivey reviews.
Solo performer Joseph Ahmed teams up with director Cat Ramirez for Half Magic, a Cannonball Festival show on grief and mixed-race identity through theater, circus, and storytelling. Krista M…
How would you like to spend the end of the world"or maybe just your own end? This immersive Fringe experience offers big questions with a warm cup of tea. Emily Esten reviews.
A 12-foot puppet takes to the parkway, Ugandan classical music comes to West Philly, and the Wildest Dreams open at Magic Gardens. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up the week.
Denise Stephenson invokes the specter of our former First Lady in Finding Melania, a one-woman show at the Philly Fringe that offers a surreal portrait of complicity and alienation. Kiran Pa…
The fruit juice flies in Citrus Andronicus, Philadelphia Artists' Collective's creative retelling of the Shakespearean revenge tragedy in this year's Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Gunnar Montana's immersive Black Wood is a dark and bloody exploration of women's power through sorcery and sexuality. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
Blending poetry and dance, Evalina Carbonell's Fringe show Fruit of Her Lips explored the feminine triune, bringing to life archetypes of womanhood. Zara Waters reviews.
Two Fringe Festival performances feature classical forms of dance while looking to the present and future: Aylin Bayaz and Raúl Mannola's Flamencodanza and KCBCxKCBC II's Summer Series. M…
All That Fall, a hilarious and unsettling jaunt to a train station in 1950s Ireland, is expertly staged by Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium in this year's Fringe, offering laughs right up…
Solo performer Hannah Parke's new piece on navigating a devastating epilepsy diagnosis is exactly the kind of work that makes the Fringe exciting. If only the venue was bearable. Alaina John…
This folk retelling of exile from the Garden of Eden unravels the Bible story and weaves a tale of affection, curiosity, transgression, and honesty between characters you thought you knew. H…
Bill George brings Odysseus to the Philly Fringe, a one-man retelling of The Odyssey that captivates in returning the poem to its rhetorical origins. Kiran Pandey reviews.
One woman's quest to score a ticket to her favorite band's farewell show takes on moving dimensions in They've All Gone And We'll Go Too in this year's Fringe. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
The Other Gardeners, a Fringe show from Very Good Dance Theatre, promises sobbing, laughing, remembering, visioning, dreaming, forgetting, and loving. It delivers a little bit of everything,…
A music festival takes over South Philly, a block party takes over Fishtown, and opera is abound around the city. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
Justin Jain puts his own spin on Anton Chekhov's The Dangers of Tobacco in this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Krista Mar reviews.
We begin our coverage of the 2023 Philadelphia Fringe Festival with TS Hawkins, Sabriaya Shipley, and Josh Hitchens in conversation with Darnelle Radford about In Their Silence, coming to Al…
inFLUX Theatre Collective's Philly Fringe show Bite the Dust focuses on the impermanence of life, and the permanence of art. Jill Ivey reviews.
A day at the museum, a new interdisciplinary arts exhibit, natural photography, and celebrating Brazilian independence this week in Philly. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.
Editor-in-chief Alaina Johns has her picks for this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival, including offerings from Cannonball, Free Fringe, and Digital Fringe.