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Philly Fringe 2025: Greg Kennedy presents Architectonica
We are all jugglers
A new Fringe experience from juggler Greg Kennedy is more collaborative workshop than performance, mixing art with engineering to take the audience inside a craft that dates back to Leonardo da Vinci. Walt Maguire reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: August Hakvaag presents The Superconductor
Organizing the lab
Science and solidarity are at stake in a staged reading of August Hakvaag’s The Superconductor. Emily Esten reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Nick Gillette presents Pennsylvania Semiconscious Liberation Army
Are we as polarized as we think?
An immersive theater experience from veteran Philly performer Nick Gillette and a large ensemble asks the audience pressing ethical questions about our American moment. Alaina Johns reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Clayton Lee presents The Goldberg Variations
Bach meets the WWE in the spirit of the Fringe
Performance artist Clayton Lee defies “model minority” stereotypes with The Goldberg Variations, a funny, vulnerable, interdisciplinary original show that explores the greater meaning within his romantic exploits. Krista Mar reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Carne Viva Dance Theatre presents Dame La Receta
Different “American Dreams”
Philadelphia/Miami art collective Carne Viva Dance Theatre brings Dame La Receta to the Philly Fringe, an interdisciplinary performance exploring immigrants’ experience of the American Dream. An Nichols reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Without a Cue Productions presents And Then They Were Dead
Choose-your-own-murder
Without a Cue’s interactive And Then They Were Dead is more fun than it is good—which is, itself, a good thing. Jill Ivey reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Theatre by Development presents Daniel Burgess’s Urinal
Thrilling trials of adolescence
Theatre by Development, a new company founded by UArts grads, presents Urinal, a 2017 high-school period piece that thrills for its verisimilitude, even when it bites off more than it can chew. Kiran Pandey reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Taahira Teshi presents The Silent Struggle (There, I Said It)
One woman’s mental-health struggle tells an important story for everyone
A new Fringe show by interdisciplinary artist Taahira Teshi mixes monologues, sing-alongs, and bluesy ballads to explore one college student’s mental-health journey and racial inequities in care. A. Lewis reviews.
Philly Fringe 2025: Indecorous Theatre presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)(Revised)(Again)
An enjoyable escape, Ren Faire style
Indecorous Theatre brings a mostly successful production of the popular Complete Works to a beautiful historic space with its Fringe production in the backyard of the Elfreth’s Alley Museum. An Nichols reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Pier Players Theatre Company presents David Lee White’s Etiquette
The moment we all returned to the theater
With an incisive new satirical drama unfolding backstage at a nonprofit regional theater, Pier Players brings us back to the fall of 2021, when theaters were reopening in a whole new world. Stephen Silver reviews.
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