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Philly Fringe 2024: My Mother Once Read presents Hundred Acre Park
Honey Buns and woozles
Part of the Cannonball Kids series, a Winnie the Pooh production attempts to transcend the limits of a Philadelphia urban park. Helen Walsh reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2024: Tennessee Playwrights Studio’s That Woman – The Monologue Show and Becky Bondurant’s Penis Envy
Politics, patriarchy, and women’s lives
A pair of timely monologue shows in this year’s Fringe, That Woman – The Monologue Show and Penis Envy both explored the high stakes for women’s autonomy in the modern political era. Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer reviews.
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Lantern Theater Company presents Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers
Williamsburg, now and then
The Philly premiere of Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers at the Lantern is a compelling yet uneven exploration of marriage, identity, and religion featuring two Williamsburg couples decades apart. Josh Herren reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2024: Myriam Ali-Ahmad presents Handala: A Celebration of Palestine
Sharing Palestinian stories in US theater festivals
LA-based Lebanese American actor, writer, and producer Myriam Ali-Ahmad brings her award-winning solo show, Handala: A Celebration of Palestine, to this year’s Philly Fringe. Krista Mar reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2024: Die-Cast Ensemble presents Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer
Resurrecting Tennessee Williams
Die-Cast Ensemble creates a gripping, immersive production of Suddenly Last Summer, anchored by Ross Beschler’s thrilling performance as an authorial stand-in. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2024: Laurel Johnson presents Grief Astronomer
Holding space for dark matter
Laurel Johnson’s Grief Astronomer, part of the Cannonball Festival in the 2024 Philly Fringe, journeys through childhood trauma, disability, and the cosmos. Melissa Strong reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2024: Lightning Rod Special presents Lee Minora and Scott R. Sheppard’s Nosejob
Off by a nose
Football, feminism, and facial mutilation collide in Nosejob, an ambitious but uneven exploration of sexual politics from Lightning Rod Special in this year's Curated Fringe. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2024: New Paradise Laboratories presents Jeffrey Cousar’s An Avalanche of ‘No’
More memoir than Macbeth
Jeffrey Cousar’s An Avalanche of ‘No’ in the Cannonball hub of this year’s Fringe is a one-man riff on Macbeth that, despite its sincerity, fails to fully engage in the implications of its
conceit. Kiran Pandey reviews.
conceit. Kiran Pandey reviews.
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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.
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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.
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