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Four musicians play on the small chancel of a historic church, with a small stained glass window and lots of white molding

Philly Fringe 2024: The Publick Pleasure presents Stop the Bells Tolling

Exploring the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic through music

The Publick Pleasure, an early music group featuring top period instrument specialists, tackled a Fringe Festival program exploring our city’s cultural scene before, during, and after the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic. Gail Obenreder reviews.

Gail Obenreder

Sep 17, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

Three puppeteers in all blue on stage with Winnie, Eeyore, and Piglet puppets, full trash bags, balloons, outside in a park

Philly Fringe 2024: My Mother Once Read presents Hundred Acre Park

Honey Buns and woozles

Part of the Cannonball Kids series, a Winnie the Pooh production attempts to transcend the limits of a Philadelphia urban park. Helen Walsh reviews.

Helen Walsh

Sep 16, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Breen, a white woman with blond hair wearing a gold top, sits and speaks with her hands folded in her lap.

Philly Fringe 2024: Tennessee Playwrights Studio’s That Woman – The Monologue Show and Becky Bondurant’s Penis Envy

Politics, patriarchy, and women’s lives

A pair of timely monologue shows in this year’s Fringe, That Woman – The Monologue Show and Penis Envy both explored the high stakes for women’s autonomy in the modern political era. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

Sep 16, 2024 Reviews 4 minute read

In a wash of blue light, Feldman & Howard play a Hasidic couple looking at each with tired but tender expressions.

Lantern Theater Company presents Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers

Williamsburg, now and then

The Philly premiere of Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers at the Lantern is a compelling yet uneven exploration of marriage, identity, and religion featuring two Williamsburg couples decades apart. Josh Herren reviews.

Josh Herren

Sep 16, 2024 Reviews 2 minute read

Ali-Ahmad, a Lebanese American woman, sits on a box draped with a rug, holding a cane and wearing a keffiyeh.

Philly Fringe 2024: Myriam Ali-Ahmad presents Handala: A Celebration of Palestine

Sharing Palestinian stories in US theater festivals

LA-based Lebanese American actor, writer, and producer Myriam Ali-Ahmad brings her award-winning solo show, Handala: A Celebration of Palestine, to this year’s Philly Fringe. Krista Mar reviews.

Krista Mar

Sep 16, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

3 cast members, including Ross Beschler with his back to the camera, strike different poses on a bay shore at sunset.

Philly Fringe 2024: Die-Cast Ensemble presents Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer

Resurrecting Tennessee Williams

Die-Cast Ensemble creates a gripping, immersive production of Suddenly Last Summer, anchored by Ross Beschler’s thrilling performance as an authorial stand-in. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 15, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Johnson, in a dark jumpsuit, makes a grieving gesture while their image and their shadows project large behind them.

Philly Fringe 2024: Laurel Johnson presents Grief Astronomer

Holding space for dark matter

Laurel Johnson’s Grief Astronomer, part of the Cannonball Festival in the 2024 Philly Fringe, journeys through childhood trauma, disability, and the cosmos. Melissa Strong reviews.

Melissa Strong

Sep 14, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Scammell and Sheppard, in red athletic polos, embrace romantically while Minora looks on worriedly in the background.

Philly Fringe 2024: Lightning Rod Special presents Lee Minora and Scott R. Sheppard’s Nosejob

Off by a nose

Football, feminism, and facial mutilation collide in Nosejob, an ambitious but uneven exploration of sexual politics from Lightning Rod Special in this year's Curated Fringe. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 13, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Cousar, a Black man dressed in black, sits sternly in a red upholstered chair in front of an old, graffitied stone wall.

Philly Fringe 2024: New Paradise Laboratories presents Jeffrey Cousar’s An Avalanche of ‘No’

More memoir than Macbeth

Jeffrey Cousar’s An Avalanche of ‘No’ in the Cannonball hub of this year’s Fringe is a one-man riff on Macbeth that, despite its sincerity, fails to fully engage in the implications of its
conceit. Kiran Pandey reviews.

Kiran Pandey

Sep 12, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

A group of dancers hold up another dancer in a dim space with deep purple lighting

Philly Fringe 2024: Cannonball Festival presents Tyshaun & Shekinah’s Forbidden Fruit

Fruit growing on the vine

Tyshaun & Shekinah’s Forbidden Fruit, a circus-dance work about Black experiences, is part of Cannonball’s inaugural Black Circus Week. Melissa Strong reviews.