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Cannonball Festival 2022: Emily Mayer presents Bower Bird
Bower Bird is the word
Emily Mayer’s Bower Bird takes us on a delightful bird-clown romp exploring the courtship and physical presentation rituals we share across species. Emily Esten reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: IHT presents Dermot Bolger’s In High Germany and The Parting Glass
Ireland’s lost generation
With In High Germany and The Parting Glass, a pair of plays by Dermot Bolger, Irish Heritage Theatre explores Ireland’s lost generation and one man’s enduring fealty to soccer. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: Gunnar Montana Productions presents BATH HOUSE
The best kind of body worship
Gunnar Montana Productions presents BATH HOUSE, an immersive, sensory theatrical experience designed as a temple to the fluid nature of sexuality. Melissa Strong reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: TheatreXP presents Fresh Ink Shorts
A theatrical tasting menu
A wider range of voices would have benefited this production of new short plays, which marks the Philly debut of TheatreXP, a recent transplant from South Florida. Alaina Johns reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: Dancefusion and the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble present Envisions
The mothers of modernity
Among many dance offerings in this year’s Fringe, Dancefusion and Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble team up for an homage to Pauline Koner and Anna Sokolow. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: IRC presents Tennessee Williams’s The Two-Character Play
Sad sibling squabbles
Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium dives into the weird and wonderful world of Tennessee Williams’s The Two-Character Play as part of the Fringe Festival. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Cannonball Festival 2022: Jim Julien presents The Squid and the Octopus
A show more interesting than calamari
Jim Julien’s wacky and well-executed story of cephalopod friends who find themselves in a Fishtown restaurant uses puppetry, lighting, and voice to great effect. Helen Walsh reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2022: Die-Cast presents Brenna Geffers’s Baal & Dix
Some degenerates walk into a bar
Die-Cast’s Baal & Dix is everything a Fringe show is supposed to be: immersive, imaginative, a little inscrutable … and short. Jill Ivey reviews.
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The BSR Weekly Arts and Cultural Roundup, September 7-13, 2022
Picks for this year's Fringe Festival
Kyle V. Hiller makes his picks for this year's Fringe Festival.
Previews
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Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series presents Annie Dorsen’s Algorithmic Theater
Artistic intelligence
What happens when the algorithm determines your theater experience? Dara McBride previews Annie Dorsen's retrospective as it comes to Philadelphia for the first time.
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