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Slippery Trout Productions and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company present Dogberry and Verges Are Scared
Clowns in the spotlight
Part Shakespeare, part Stoppard, part Beckett, and part Dumb and Dumber, Philly Fringe offering Dogberry and Verges are Scared is one of the festival’s must-see shows. Jill Ivey reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Chris Davis presents The Presented
A calling, not a choice
Performer Chris Davis is back with an updated version of his engaging solo show, The Presented, which is not a Curated show in this year’s Philly Fringe. Alix Rosenfeld reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2025: ArtSake Theatre Company presents Malcolm MacKenzie’s Roadkill Bambi: A Vaporwave Play
In the headlights of the future
ArtSake, a new Philly theater company using the performing arts to inspire climate activism, presents Roadkill Bambi in this year’s Fringe. Emily Esten review.
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Philly Fringe 2025: Dan Kitrosser is KAREN TENDERNESS in QUEER WINDOW!
Queer cabaret meets a Hitchcock send-up
Dan Kitrosser’s QUEER WINDOW! welcomes Karen, a repressed suburban wife who discovers a window that reveals unexpected desires in this campy, tender, and funny Hitchcock-inspired cabaret. Josh Herren reviews.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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