Philly Fringe 2025: Publick Pleasure presents Sympathy Towards a Soldier

The Music and Death of Major John André

For Fringe, espionage and music in colonial Philadelphia. Gail Obenreder reviews Publick Pleasure’s Sympathy Towards a Soldier.

Gail Obenreder

Sep 22, 2025 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Philly Fringe 2025: Anna Snapp presents I Found That the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow

Healing through storytelling

After years of performing a solo show about her own medical and mental health struggles (for international Fringe audiences as well as doctors), Anna Snapp brings I Found That the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow to the Philly Fringe. A. Lewis reviews.

A. Lewis

Sep 22, 2025 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Philly Fringe 2025: Heather Dutton and Grace Yi-Li Tong present SHEBANG

A dance double bill tackles adolescence from queer and Asian perspectives

A double bill from a pair of Brooklyn-based choreographers explores adolescence through queer and Asian American lenses with You’re Actually the Last Person I Wanted to See Today and ZOO! Krista Mar reviews.

Krista Mar

Sep 22, 2025 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Philly Fringe 2025: 1812 Productions presents Tanaquil Márquez and Eliana Fabiyi’s La Otra

An ambitious bilingual world premiere

In a first for 1812 and an exciting move for the Curated Fringe, Tanaquil Márquez and Eliana Fabiyi’s ambitious, funny, and magical new play La Otra, a bilingual production, comes to the Arden’s Arcadia Stage. Anna Fiscarelli-Mintz reviews.

Anna Fiscarelli-Mintz

Sep 22, 2025 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Bristol Riverside Theatre presents Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Nodding to Chekhov in New Hope

An unhappy family with Chekhovian undertones takes center stage in Bristol Riverside Theatre’s handsome production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

Cameron Kelsall

Sep 21, 2025 · Reviews · 4 minute read

Philly Fringe 2025: Automatic Arts presents Josh McIlvain’s Slideshow

Rediscovering physical media through a found family

Josh McIlvain of Philly’s Automatic Arts is back in this year’s Fringe with his popular Slideshow, a performance built around a real-life carousel of a stranger’s vintage family photos. Walt Maguire reviews.

Walt Maguire

Sep 20, 2025 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Philly Fringe 2025: Lee Minora presents Baby Everything

Do you have everything?

Lee Minora’s new solo show, Baby Everything, takes aim at everyone melting down over the state of the world as seen through our screens. Alaina Johns reviews.

Alaina Johns

Sep 19, 2025 · Reviews · 4 minute read

Philly Fringe 2025: Humble Materials presents Jessica Noel’s CASS

A blessing and a curse

Humble Materials continues its annual string of feminist retellings of canonical works with CASS, loosely based on Cassandra’s story in Euripides’s The Trojan Women. Jill Ivey reviews.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Sep 19, 2025 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Philly Fringe 2025: Paper Doll Ensemble presents Pinky Promise

Perspectives on puberty

Take a trip back to summer 2005 in Paper Doll Ensemble’s world-premiere Fringe show, Pinky Promise, about a trio of tween girls learning how to take up space in the world. Emily Esten reviews.

Emily Esten

Sep 19, 2025 · Reviews · 3 minute read

Philly Fringe 2025: Cannonball presents a reading of AZ Espinoza’s Caribbean King

A “de-colonial, trans-gressive” new take on King Lear

Philly actor, director, and playwright AZ Espinoza’s lush and ambitious Caribbean King gets a pair of developmental readings as part of this year’s Fringe. Krista Mar reviews.

Krista Mar

Sep 16, 2025 · Reviews · 2 minute read