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2 female dancers, in blue tops & satiny purple skirts, bend to the side. At right, a shirtless male dancer jumps straight up

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.
Camille Bacon-Smith

Camille Bacon-Smith

Reviews 3 minute read
Zak, with an impatient expression, holds a lit match while Brock, with short blond hair & tiara, reads from a piece of paper

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.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
A graceful, silhouetted shadow-puppet scene of a realistic squid and octopus in a sea of transparent fabric.

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.
Helen Walsh

Helen Walsh

Reviews 3 minute read
5 actors, 4 in red plaid shirts, stand around a grim war-scene engraving by Otto Dix, projected on the white wall of a bar

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.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 2 minute read
A collage featuring images of Prince, Star Trek, family photos, and buildings. Flowers populate the image

The BSR Weekly Arts and Cultural Roundup, September 7-13, 2022

Picks for this year's Fringe Festival

Kyle V. Hiller makes his picks for this year's Fringe Festival.
Kyle V. Hiller

Kyle V. Hiller

Previews 4 minute read
Two laptops in front of a black wall. Hanging screens read: "typing and talking. I am not a chatterbot."

Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series presents Annie Dorsen’s Algorithmic Theater

Artistic intelligence

What happens when the algorithm determines your theater experience? Dara McBride previews Annie Dorsen's retrospective as it comes to Philadelphia for the first time.

Dara McBride

Previews 2 minute read
the 3 actors in Regency costumes, a white woman, a white man, & a Black woman, sit in a row, with different expressions

The BSR Podcast: RestART with BSR, episode 6, Tiny Dynamite

The arts are back! Learn about the return with Tiny Dynamite

BSR is excited to team with the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance's RestART Initiative on this special podcast episode about Tiny Dynamite.
Darnelle Radford

Darnelle Radford

Podcast 1 minute read
Weinman, dressed as Child, holds a small dog in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, a person in a facemask behind her

Aurora Classical of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia presents “Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!)

From screen to stage to screen

Recording a Fringe performance means you can air it again in future festivals. But as “Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!) shows, that’s not always a good thing. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 3 minute read
Sobelle holds a wineglass, toasting. Spaghetti glops on his head, his mouth full of greens. Fruits arranged in the foreground

A gastronomic guide to the 2022 Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Nourishing art

Chances are if we missed being in the theater, we also missed meeting up for a bite. Many artists of this year’s Fringe are bringing us together over food. Alaina Johns rounds up.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Previews 4 minute read
View of about fifty people sitting in small rows around a campfire at night, lit by additional yellow string lights above.

Theatre with a View presents Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques’s The Grown-Ups

Back to summer camp

The Grown-Ups, a thrilling new play developed in a Brooklyn backyard during the pandemic, gets its Pennsylvania premiere at Pottstown’s Theatre with a View. Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 3 minute read