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Four people in glam, appliqued, pink cap-sleeve flight attendant dresses, posing smiling together with one hand on hip.

Fringe 2026: FringeArts presents Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Check their baggage, and your own
The Bearded Ladies Cabaret joins this year’s curated Fringe with a major new installation in Old City, Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle, at the Martha Graham Memorial Hairport. Evan Schares reviews.
Evan Schares

Evan Schares

Reviews 3 minute read
Davis, shirtless, with nude suspenders & white tutu, stands with hands on hips, cigarette in his mouth.

Philly Fringe 2026: Chris Davis presents The 40-Year-Old Ballerino

An authentically funny love letter to ballet, and being human
Chris Davis’s The 40-Year-Old Ballerino is both a love letter to ballet and an authentically funny account of the writer/performer’s midlife obsession with dance. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 3 minute read
11 audience participants in casual clothes pretend to attack one on the ground at center, as Mender watches in horror

Philly Fringe 2026: Cannonball presents Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez’s The Untitled Court Show

Law & Order meets a (nice) alien invasion
A new interactive Fringe show from Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez imagines an amiable alien trying to save Earth after watching 600 episodes of Law & Order. Krista Mar reviews.
Krista Mar

Krista Mar

Reviews 2 minute read
Osband, a bearded white man with yellow glasses and a colorful shirt, strums a guitar and sings into a mic.

Philly Fringe 2026: Noam Osband presents Wikipedilove

Sex, love, and Wikipedia
Noam Osband’s Wikipedilove is an original, participatory musical comedy on sex, love, and collective knowledge, based on everyone’s favorite online crowdsourced encyclopedia. Emily Esten reviews.
Emily Esten

Emily Esten

Reviews 2 minute read
The cast of five poses singing onstage in a variety of outfits, Kristin Finger at center in a shiny multicolored suit

1812 Productions presents Jennifer Childs and Mary Carpenter’s This Should Never Be a Musical

The rest they make up
1812 Productions creates an outlandish new work every night in This Should Never Be a Musical. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read
Waterman, a white woman with glasses & brown hair, sits next to a creepy black puppet that looks like a tortured mummy

Philly Fringe 2026: The Lemonade Stand presents Lindsey Walko’s Bog Man

A haunted actor
The Lemonade Stand hub of the Fringe presents Lindsey Walko’s Bog Man, an intriguing one-woman show that struggles to fully explore its concept. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Kiran Pandey

Kiran Pandey

Reviews 3 minute read
Tuomanen, a white person, sits on the floor like a baby, wearing a white kerchief, bib, and diaper.

Philly Fringe 2026: BETTY presents Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie

The abject wonder of infancy
The theater collective BETTY (MK Tuomanen, Shelby Richardson, and Paul Kruse) premieres Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, an ode to the human experience of infants, in this year’s Fringe. Josh Herren reviews.
Josh Herren

Josh Herren

Reviews 2 minute read
Polistina, a young white woman with wavy red hair and 19th-century garb, smiles with her hands on her head.

Philly Fringe 2026: Lemonade Stand presents Carly Polistina’s Jane Eyre Wasn’t a Whore

Theater and literature nerds unite!
Imagine a jukebox musical where the jukebox plays audiobooks and there’s only one actor onstage, and you might get Jane Eyre Wasn’t a Whore, onstage in this year’s Fringe. Jill Ivey reviews.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Reviews 3 minute read
Gold, with long frizzy hair, glasses, and a black tee, gestures dramatically forward, with Braslavsky in the background

Philly Fringe 2026: Savannah Reich presents The Groundhog

Professors are people, too
Savannah Reich’s hilarious The Groundhog, imagining one professor’s career-ending class on the Harold Ramis film Groundhog Day, gets its world premiere in this year’s Fringe. Evan Schares reviews.
Evan Schares

Evan Schares

Reviews 3 minute read
The DuBois women, in colorful bronze & purple coifs, sit by the artwork with serious expressions, wearing loose blue dresses

Philly Fringe 2026: The Colored Girls Museums presents Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud

A cozy visual feast in a Germantown cultural oasis
The Colored Girls Museum, a real home in Germantown that also serves as a museum celebrating the Black community, joins this year’s Fringe with a special interactive tour. An Nichols reviews.
An Nichols

An Nichols

Reviews 3 minute read