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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
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
2 minute read
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
2 minute read
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
5 minute read
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
7 minute read
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A radical act: 2025 Philly Fringe artists tackle illness and disability
Healthcare is a human right for artists, too
A worsened healthcare crisis is about to hit Philadelphia. Artists are disproportionately affected, and they’re speaking up on behalf of all of us in this year’s Fringe. Alaina Johns helps you find their shows.
Editorials
5 minute read
Philly theater artists launch the Jewish Theatrical Resource Guide
Offering free guidance worldwide for anyone producing Jewish theater
Three Philly arts leaders were on the team that developed a new resource guide for theaters tackling Jewish stories. They sit down with Jill Ivey to discuss how it all happened and what the guide offers theater-makers worldwide.
Features
6 minute read
A Germantown performing arts troupe says “Yes! And…” to kids’ creativity
Where the next generation takes the stage now
At Yes! And… Collaborative Arts, a Germantown-based performing arts group, staffers don’t
just talk about the next generation of art-makers. They invite kids’ creativity right now by mounting their all-original shows. Maggie Dougherty visits.
just talk about the next generation of art-makers. They invite kids’ creativity right now by mounting their all-original shows. Maggie Dougherty visits.
Features
4 minute read