Category Archives: On the Scene

Philadelphia Fringe: It’s a Party, It’s a Sporting Event, It’s a Moving Target

The annual festival takes over the ‘City of Neighborhoods’ with new work and new forms.

Straight realism, magic realism, even ‘sausage’ realism were on offer at the latest new-play event staged by the Latino/a Theatre Commons.

Over two weekends, writers at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival get two passes at their work, and their needs are as different as their plays.

Sisters are doing it for themselves in the city of brotherly love with a new women’s theatre festival.

The Contemporary American Theatre Festival brings political, edgy, evocative new work to loyal audiences in this idyllic West Virginia town.

New plays get a chance to stretch out in Philly’s “development heaven.”

Shakespeare’s themes of murder and mayhem resonate with prisoners, certainly, but so do his language, his humanity and his humor.

How does HFF, now in its sixth year, stack up to other fringe fests? Sources say: comparable to NYC, but no match for Perth.

Modeling itself after Edinburgh, the Hollywood Fringe Festival may be bigger than ever, but the shows are still small, scrappy and uncurated.

Plays in Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab go from seedling to sapling. The town’s new-play scene, and the appetite for it, is growing, too.