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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.
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.
Reviews
3 minute read
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.
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.
Reviews
2 minute read
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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.
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.
Reviews
3 minute read
The BSR Podcast kicks off Season 10 talking with Rayne and Chris Davis
Darnelle Radford takes you behind the scenes with two popular artists of the 2025 Philly Fringe.
Darnelle Radford sits down with Rayne (also known as Angela Bey) to talk about her new Afrocentric riff on Antony and Cleopatra, and Chris Davis pulls back the curtain on his updated solo show, The Presented.
Podcast
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Dungeon Master Sarah Knittel’s clown realm guide to the 2025 Philly Fringe
Here’s thy map to the fauna of the Fest
Sarah Knittel has been lurking in the darkest corners of the Philly Fringe for years, and she brings light to your quest for the freshest, weirdest, most dangerous, and hilarious solo artists of this year’s fest.
Essays
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The BSR editor’s picks for the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Need help navigating the fest? BSR is here!
If you want to get your butt to some art during this year’s Fringe but don’t know where to start, we’re here for you. Editor-in-chief Alaina Johns shares some of her top picks for 2025.
Editorials
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