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A man in black trains a leaf blower on two actors dressed like cheerleaders. One holds her nose and one removes his panties.

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.
Melissa Strong

Melissa Strong

Reviews 3 minute read
5 students in classroom desks sit around a 6th, who holds a book and wears a fake mustache. There’s a large chalkboard behind

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.
Emily Esten

Emily Esten

Reviews 3 minute read
Mayer poses against a brick wall, one leg lifted, in blue peacock-inspired drag and thigh-high white stiletto boots.

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.
Emily Esten

Emily Esten

Reviews 2 minute read
Conallen, a white man wearing jeans and green soccer jersey, sits onstage on a bench, holding some paper & looking nonplussed

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.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
5 actors of different genders, wearing colorful lingerie & high-heel boots, pose sensually together in the corner of a sauna

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.
Melissa Strong

Melissa Strong

Reviews 3 minute read
Show logo. The title appears in tilting letters of different sizes, over interlocking green, red, blue, pink, & yellow blocks

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.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Reviews 3 minute read
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

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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