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3 cast members, including Ross Beschler with his back to the camera, strike different poses on a bay shore at sunset.

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.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 15, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Johnson, in a dark jumpsuit, makes a grieving gesture while their image and their shadows project large behind them.

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.

Melissa Strong

Sep 14, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Scammell and Sheppard, in red athletic polos, embrace romantically while Minora looks on worriedly in the background.

Philly Fringe 2024: Lightning Rod Special presents Lee Minora and Scott R. Sheppard’s Nosejob

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.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 13, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

Cousar, a Black man dressed in black, sits sternly in a red upholstered chair in front of an old, graffitied stone wall.

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.

Kiran Pandey

Sep 12, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

In a 17th-century graveyard, a Black woman with a blond buzz-cut caresses a younger Black woman sitting in a chair.

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.

Kimberly Haas

Sep 10, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

In a dramatic misty blue spotlight, a man rises animalistically, bent over with elbows angled up out of a well of viscous goo

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.

Camille Bacon-Smith

Sep 10, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

In dramatic red light, Caporaso lurks behind a pillar with the 3 brides behind him. They all wear smudged black eye makeup.

Philly Fringe 2024: REV Theatre Company presents MY BIG FANG VAMPIRE WEDDING

Singing vampires don’t suck

For this year’s cabaret-style Fringe entry, REV Theatre Company takes over a basement nightclub with MY BIG FANG VAMPIRE WEDDING, boasting great music and committed performers. Melissa Strong reviews.

Melissa Strong

Sep 09, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

The 3 actors, in black and purple tennis outfits, pose in a line, each making a different gesture with their arms.

Philly Fringe 2024: Hum’n’Bards presents The Boy Bands Have Won and Thomas Choinacky presents Forehand Down the Line

Labor on stage: two different visions of work

This year, two Philly Fringe shows offered two distinct explorations of performance art made in queer community: The Boy Bands Have Won from Hum’n’bards Theater Troupe and Thomas Choinacky’s Forehand Down the Line. Josh Herren reviews.

Josh Herren

Sep 09, 2024 Reviews 3 minute read

At a long table with text projected onto it, 7 actors of different ages, races, and genders sit in variously zany attitudes

Philly Fringe 2024: Elevator Repair Service presents James Joyce’s Ulysses

Making theatrical sense of Joyce

James Joyce's Ulysses is the novel that everyone (or English majors at least) has to read, but few finish. In this year's Fringe, Elevator Repair Service tackles the elusive text. An Nichols reviews.