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Philly Fringe 2022: Brian Sanders’ JUNK presents Luster
Tragic, comic, and overexposed
Brian Sanders’ JUNK presents Luster, an immersive show exploring the lengths people go for fame and success. Melissa Strong reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: Temple Theaters presents Group Project
Time for the real test
A new original Fringe performance from Temple Theaters captures the frenzy of teenage anxiousness, rebellion, and hope in an uncertain world. Emily Esten reviews.
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Cannonball Festival 2022: Emily Mayer presents Bower Bird
Bower Bird is the word
Emily Mayer’s Bower Bird takes us on a delightful bird-clown romp exploring the courtship and physical presentation rituals we share across species. Emily Esten reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: IHT presents Dermot Bolger’s In High Germany and The Parting Glass
Ireland’s lost generation
With In High Germany and The Parting Glass, a pair of plays by Dermot Bolger, Irish Heritage Theatre explores Ireland’s lost generation and one man’s enduring fealty to soccer. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: Gunnar Montana Productions presents BATH HOUSE
The best kind of body worship
Gunnar Montana Productions presents BATH HOUSE, an immersive, sensory theatrical experience designed as a temple to the fluid nature of sexuality. Melissa Strong reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: TheatreXP presents Fresh Ink Shorts
A theatrical tasting menu
A wider range of voices would have benefited this production of new short plays, which marks the Philly debut of TheatreXP, a recent transplant from South Florida. Alaina Johns reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: Dancefusion and the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble present Envisions
The mothers of modernity
Among many dance offerings in this year’s Fringe, Dancefusion and Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble team up for an homage to Pauline Koner and Anna Sokolow. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: IRC presents Tennessee Williams’s The Two-Character Play
Sad sibling squabbles
Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium dives into the weird and wonderful world of Tennessee Williams’s The Two-Character Play as part of the Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Cannonball Festival 2022: Jim Julien presents The Squid and the Octopus
A show more interesting than calamari
Jim Julien’s wacky and well-executed story of cephalopod friends who find themselves in a Fishtown restaurant uses puppetry, lighting, and voice to great effect. Helen Walsh reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: Die-Cast presents Brenna Geffers’s Baal & Dix
Some degenerates walk into a bar
Die-Cast’s Baal & Dix is everything a Fringe show is supposed to be: immersive, imaginative, a little inscrutable … and short. Jill Ivey reviews.
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