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A woman dancer in a green shirt and loose striped pants poses in the doorway of the meeting house, a brick wall behind her.

Philly Fringe 2024: Nichole Canuso Dance Company presents The Garden: River’s Edge

A much-needed moment of peace
Nichole Canuso Dance Company joins the 2024 Curated Philly Fringe with The Garden: River’s Edge, an immersive, interactive performance at the historic Arch Street Meeting House. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
Camille Bacon-Smith

Camille Bacon-Smith

Reviews 3 minute read
In a 17th-century graveyard, a Black woman with a blond buzz-cut caresses a younger Black woman sitting in a chair.

Philly Fringe 2024: Christ Church Preservation Trust presents On Buried Ground

Uncovering and imagining Philly’s Black colonial-era histories
A meditation on Black lives in colonial Philadelphia comes to life in a Fringe Festival event featuring archival research, site-specific dance, theater, visual art, and historic documents. Kimberly Haas reviews.

Kimberly Haas

Reviews 3 minute read
In a dramatic misty blue spotlight, a man rises animalistically, bent over with elbows angled up out of a well of viscous goo

Philly Fringe 2024: Gunnar Montana Productions presents BLACK WOOD: WINTERBORN

Gothic horror returns to the Latvian Society
Gunnar Montana returns for this year’s Fringe with a standalone sequel to last year’s BLACK WOOD. The bloody, sexy sorcery continues with WINTERBORN, running through Wednesday, October 30, at the Latvian Society. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
Camille Bacon-Smith

Camille Bacon-Smith

Reviews 3 minute read
In dramatic red light, Caporaso lurks behind a pillar with the 3 brides behind him. They all wear smudged black eye makeup.

Philly Fringe 2024: REV Theatre Company presents MY BIG FANG VAMPIRE WEDDING

Singing vampires don’t suck
For this year’s cabaret-style Fringe entry, REV Theatre Company takes over a basement nightclub with MY BIG FANG VAMPIRE WEDDING, boasting great music and committed performers. Melissa Strong reviews.
Melissa Strong

Melissa Strong

Reviews 3 minute read
The 3 actors, in black and purple tennis outfits, pose in a line, each making a different gesture with their arms.

Philly Fringe 2024: Hum’n’Bards presents The Boy Bands Have Won and Thomas Choinacky presents Forehand Down the Line

Labor on stage: two different visions of work
This year, two Philly Fringe shows offered two distinct explorations of performance art made in queer community: The Boy Bands Have Won from Hum’n’bards Theater Troupe and Thomas Choinacky’s Forehand Down the Line. Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 3 minute read
At a long table with text projected onto it, 7 actors of different ages, races, and genders sit in variously zany attitudes

Philly Fringe 2024: Elevator Repair Service presents James Joyce’s Ulysses

Making theatrical sense of Joyce
James Joyce's Ulysses is the novel that everyone (or English majors at least) has to read, but few finish. In this year's Fringe, Elevator Repair Service tackles the elusive text. An Nichols reviews.
An Nichols

An Nichols

Reviews 4 minute read

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Khateri sits in a chair and looks down as she plays a Persian Qeychack, a bowed lute with a short fretless neck

Philly Fringe 2024: Deniz Khateri presents A Bach’eh who wanted to become Bach

A mother’s musical journey
Deniz Khateri's Cannonball Festival entry is a one-woman show that explores identity, pregnancy, war, and immigration. Lowry Yankwich reviews.
Lowry Yankwich

Lowry Yankwich

Reviews 3 minute read
Falango, with short platinum blonde hair, wears a priest's black garb. Del Guzzo, next to him, wears a plaid button down.

Philly Fringe 2024: Must See Theatre Company presents davidbdale’s Dirty Priest

Irony and accountability
The world premiere of Dirty Priest, presented in a church as part of the Philly Fringe, reunites an allegedly abusive priest with a survivor who has grown up and returned to confront him. David Block reviews.
David Block

David Block

Reviews 2 minute read
6 actors with exuberant expressions sit behind a long table onstage while many pages swirl through the air above them.

Philly Fringe 2024: Elevator Repair Service presents James Joyce’s Ulysses

An abridged Ulysses covers all the bases
Elevator Repair Service’s Curated Fringe Festival staging of Ulysses is an exuberant romp through James Joyce’s iconic novel. Kimberly Haas reviews.

Kimberly Haas

Reviews 2 minute read
Galligan, seated with a microphone, wears white face paint and a fluffy cotton costume. A woman hands him more cotton.

Philly Fringe 2024: Michael Galligan presents Cloud Baby

An airy clown
Michael Galligan brings Cloud Baby to the Philly Fringe, an amusing one-man clown show that seems more a sketch than a finished piece. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Kiran Pandey

Kiran Pandey

Reviews 3 minute read