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Philly Fringe 2025: Applied Mechanics presents Severin Blake’s Labyrinth of the Other
Who is the monster?
In this Fringe production from Applied Mechanics, Severin Blake explores a new take on the myth of the Minotaur, asking what we need to forget and remember to move past childhood trauma. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Rushmore Labs presents The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz
Honoring one of America’s leading queer artists
A new production collaborative brings queer icon David Wojnarowicz’s opus, The Waterfront Journals, to the stage in an original adaptation for the Fringe. Evan Mitchell Schares reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Jessica Fudim presents Venomous: a mythical dance for a modern world
“Why didn’t you help me?”
Solo dance theater artist Jessica Fudim’s Fringe entry offers a modern take on Medusa, challenging the tragedy and rewriting her script. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Dr. Karen Moore presents Kindled by Nina: A Four-Women Requiem Multimedia Invocation of Black Womanhood
A love letter to Black women
Kindled by Nina is a new interpretation of Nina Simone’s iconic song “Four Women,” using spoken word, projected film, and music to honor historic and contemporary Black womanhood. A. Lewis reviews.
Philly Fringe 2025: John Miller Giltner and Gene Farbe present Family Vacation
A sly anthropology of family ties
A new multimedia Fringe show by John Miller Giltner and Gene Farbe mixes slideshow, singalong, and earnest confessions to explore the messy tenderness of belonging to a family. Josh Herren reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: IRC presents Tina Howe’s Painting Churches
Absurdity is in the family
Reflecting on how to make absurd work in our absurd time, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium brings us home with its Philly Fringe entry, Tina Howe’s Painting Churches. Josh Herren reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Philly’s Medicare for All Movement presents Healthcare Is a Human Right!
Democracy demands universal healthcare
Artists from Philly’s Medicare for All Movement volunteer their time for a Fringe performance including video, puppetry, poetry, song, and audience participation to explore America’s healthcare crisis. SaraKay Smullens reviews.
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Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls, by Robert Edwards
The biggest Civil War heist that you've never heard of
In his new graphic novel, Robert Edwards reveals a Civil War hero largely forgotten today. Robert Smalls, an enslaved Black man, pulled off one of the war’s biggest heists, freeing his whole family in the process. Constance Garcia-Barrio reviews.
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Winterthur Museum presents Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery
A 19th-century activist’s vision becomes a reality today
In the 1850s, writer and activist William J. Wilson imagined a museum exhibition that honored Black history and culture. More than 150 years later, Winterthur makes his dream a reality. An Nichols reviews.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’s Moving Backwards
One step forward, two steps back?
The PMA has acquired an interdisciplinary installation by the Swiss/German creator duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. Moving Backwards was first commissioned in 2019 and feels even more relevant now, especially here. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.
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