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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Philly Fringe 2024: Deniz Khateri presents A Bach’eh who wanted to become Bach
A mother’s musical journey
Deniz Khateri's Cannonball Festival entry is a one-woman show that explores identity, pregnancy, war, and immigration. Lowry Yankwich reviews.

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