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Blogged Around Philly: Farewell Edition
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It's the most wonderful time of the year—and no matter what Burl Ives would tell you, we're not talking about Christmas.
No, what we're referring to is the first two weeks of September, annual occurrence of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, that magical fortnight of theatre, dance, performance and visual arts, concerts, and myridad other opportunities for the Philadelphia Culturati to get together and geek out.
As always, Phillyist will be all over the concurrent festivals, giving you quick reviews of the shows we're able to take in. After the jump, we'll give you a sampling of the shows at which you might be able to find a Phillyist staffer or two:
Live Arts
- Cankerblossom: With the exception of that unfortunate naked corpse-Shakespeare performance a few festivals back, the shows put on by Pig Iron and folks affiliated with it are typically amongst the Festival's most successful. We hope this year's contribution, a multimedia fairy tale, will be another mark in the "win" column.
- Romeo and Juliet: Remember how a few years ago, that everyone (including us) was sharing the video of Star Wars explained by someone who's never seen it? The version of Shakespeare's classic love story, by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, operates much on the same idea: ask people to tell the story of R+J and make art out of what happens.
- Sanctuary: Urban Scuba was by far one of the most visually interesting shows in last year's festival, so we look forward to seeing what Brian Sanders' JUNK has in store this year. The description in the Festival program has us thinking Robert Frost: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
- The Sun Also Rises: Several Phillyists reviewed Elevator Repair Service's last contribution to the Festival, Gatz, quite positively: little wonder that we're excited to see what happens when they turn their attentions from Fitzgerald to Hemingway.
Fringe:
- Hello from Children of Planet Earth: There's something incredibly appealing, and a little sexy, about two really smart NASA scientists falling in love. Who, us? Nerds?
- Between Trains: We've really grown to love Gas & Electric Arts, plus, this show apparently involves nudity. WIN.
- Jester's Dead: The first four words of this show's synopsis in the festival guide are "Top Gun and Shakespeare," so we're kind of already hooked.
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