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Philly Fringe 2023: 100th Meridian presents They’ve All Gone and We’ll Go Too

Soundtrack of your life

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.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 07, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Calhoun & Lat, two nude people with light brown skin, pose gracefully with one draped on the other, looking directly at you

Philly Fringe 2023: Very Good Dance Theatre presents The Other Gardeners

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, and more. Zara Waters reviews.

Zara Waters

Sep 07, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Jain, a Filipino man, dressed in a blazer and gray beard and hair wig, hands out expressive in front of a podium

Philly Fringe 2023: Justin Jain presents The Dangers of Tobacco

A queer Filipino retelling of Chekhov’s one-act play

Justin Jain puts his own spin on Anton Chekhov’s The Dangers of Tobacco in this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Krista Mar reviews.

Krista Mar

Sep 06, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

The BSR Podcast, season 7, episode 10: Allens Lane Art Center presents In Their Silence

Sit down with 2023 Philly Fringe artists TS Hawkins, Sabriaya Shipley, and Josh Hitchens

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 Allens Lane Arts Center.

Darnelle Radford

Sep 05, 2023 Podcast 1 minute read

The show title above a performer dressed as a bald, graying man, looking bemused and holding a human skull.

Philly Fringe 2023: inFLUX Theatre Collective presents Bite the Dust

Ashes to ashes

inFLUX Theatre Collective’s Philly Fringe show Bite the Dust focuses on the impermanence of life, and the permanence of art. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Sep 05, 2023 Reviews 3 minute read

Parke in character, mouth open and tongue sticking out with a pill hanging at the tip, a blue curtain as a backdrop

Philly Fringe 2023: the BSR editor’s picks

Tips for this year’s fest (it’s a big one)

Editor-in-chief Alaina Johns has her picks for this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival, including offerings from Cannonball, Free Fringe, and Digital Fringe.

Alaina Johns

Aug 29, 2023 Previews 6 minute read

Knittel, wearing neon green zebra leggings, tussles with laughing audience members while falling on her back during a show.

Dive into the 2023 Philly Fringe Festival with avant-garde necromancer Sarah Knittel

Philly Fringe 2023: How did we get here?

Sarah Knittel—not a Fringe queen, but certainly a mage or wicked-cool duke—gets us ready for the 2023 fest by sharing her Fringe journey as a self-producing artist.

Sarah Knittel

Aug 24, 2023 Essays 8 minute read

Chang, an Asian woman in a short gray tunic, moves gracefully with ensemble members behind her, some dancing and some sitting

“A responsibility to open the door”: how do we embrace disability on an institutional level?

What else can theater be?

Last month, writer Wendy Univer explored a cutting-edge cadre of artists whose work centers on inclusion from the ground up. Now, she speaks with institutional leaders about integrating and prioritizing disability inclusion.

Wendy Univer

Aug 22, 2023 Features 8 minute read

Dlamini, in dramatic white red yellow & blue face paint & stylized baboon costume sings in front of a gazelle puppet ensemble

The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Schubert Organization present Disney’s The Lion King

The circle of life is going strong onstage

Disney’s first large-scale musical returns to Philadelphia with big puppets and bigger talents worthy of the spectacle. Jill Ivey reviews.