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The 2024 Philly Fringe Festival editor’s picks
Plan your Philly Fringe calendar with help from BSR
The Fringe calendar is always a bit overwhelming: with hundreds of performances throughout the city, where should you begin? Alaina Johns helps out by sharing some of the shows that caught her eye this year.
Previews
5 minute read
The 2024 Philly Fringe is heading to South Philly
Find comedy, storytelling, theater, ballet, and music in South Philly this September
The Philadelphia Fringe Festival happens in venues throughout the city, and this year, more shows are popping up in South Philly than ever before. Alaina Johns rounds up the ones she’s hoping to see.
Previews
4 minute read
The Kimmel Cultural Campus and the Shubert Organization present Les Misérables
The people’s song meets theme-park barricades
Despite powerful singing, the national tour of Les Misérables more closely resembles a theme-park attraction than a work of theater. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
I loved Les Misérables as a teenager. Now it’s back in Philly, and I want to rediscover it.
Singing the desire for a better world
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer spent her teen years devoted to big books and theater. Seeing Les Misérables all by herself in Philly in 1988 was a formative experience. Now she’s going back to explore what it still means to her.
Essays
6 minute read
Theatre in the X presents Don Evans’s One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show
An excellent night in the park
Theatre in the X presents One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, by Philly-native playwright Don Evans, for its annual free production in West Philly’s Malcolm X Park. C.M. Crockford reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
The Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival presents Pancake Queen
Pouring over history
Theatre Exile and STARFIRE bring Brie Knight’s play to life at this year’s Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival. An Nichols previews.
Previews
2 minute read
New York Circus Project presents Hamlet at FringeArts
A high-flying Hamlet takes risks
New York Circus Project’s Hamlet put an inventive circus spin on Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy with performances at Philly’s FringeArts in late July. Melissa Strong reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
Shakespeare in Clark Park presents As You Like It
All the park’s a stage
Annual summer favorite Shakespeare in Clark Park brings the Forest of Arden to West Philly in an energetic new adaptation of As You Like It directed by Ontaria Kim Wilson, running through July 28. It’s free! C.M. Crockford reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
Shakespeare in Clark Park presents As You Like It
A little taste of dystopia
Shakespeare in Clark Park presents As You Like It with a modern twist, transposed to near-future Delaware to explore themes of exile, love, and community. Kiran Pandey previews.
Previews
2 minute read
The art of lighting design with Alyssandra Docherty
Lighting up the space
Freelancer Alyssandra Docherty talks about her work as a lighting designer, how the light bulb got turned on for her, and how she manages to keep learning and growing. Melissa Strong previews.
Profiles
4 minute read