Hollywood Fringe Festival

#HFF23 — THE LADY’S NOT FOR BURNING @ McCadden Theatre

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  Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The Lady’s Not For Burning reviewed by Rob Stevens – WorldStage Theatre & Co. is presenting a CliffsNotes version of the play at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. The nearly 90-minute version of the three-act verse play is said to be “reimagined for a post-Covid world” but that reimagining … Read more

QUEEN OF FISHTOWN at Namba Arts

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Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw “Few neighborhoods have changed as quickly and dynamically as Fishtown,” proclaims the website visitphilly.com, a promotional site for the City of Brotherly Love. The text goes on to explain how this once rundown working class neighborhood in the northeast part of the city is now home to a renaissance in culture, … Read more

NOT THAT ILLEGAL at the Broadwater – Hollywood Fringe Festival

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Yusuf Yildiz’s Not That Illegal started life as a 15-minute work at the 2019 Strawberry One-Act Festival in New York City where it received a Best Play nomination. Now he has expanded it to a 90-minute one-act at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. It’s about 60 minutes too long in its present … Read more

HOUSEWIFE ’52 at The Broadwater – Hollywood Fringe Festival

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Writer/director/choreographer/percussionist John Wuchte and had a big success at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival with Scarlett Fever, a physical movement piece that looked behind the scenes at the search for an actress to play Scarlett O’Hara in the classic film Gone With the Wind. They are back this year with a look at … Read more

THE LEGEND OF D.C. COLORADO at The Broadwater – Hollywood Fringe Festival

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way If you are seeing a new musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival that starts off with a character known as Cockman who wakes up the sleepy town every morning singing about choking his chicken, you would think you were in for a wild and fun time. Unfortunately, those first … Read more

4 SEASONS TOTAL SH!TSHOW at Asylum @ Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre – Hollywood Fringe Festival

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Steven Leigh Morris – Stage Raw The extent to which we’re governed by amoral/immoral power brokers is now evident in surveys by the Pew Research Center and the Partnership for Public Service that Americans’ confidence in government to address our problems has plunged over the past decade across party lines. Only one in 10 Americans … Read more

GRIEF: A ONE MAN SHITSHOW at The Broadwater – Hollywood Fringe Festival

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Steven Leigh Morris – Stage Raw “There are no words . . .” This phrase is among the platitudes that writer-performer Colin Campbell excoriates in his solo performance about people straining to offer comfort in the aftermath of his losing his two teenage children in a car crash, on the other end of a drunk … Read more

MR. CHONKERS at The Broadwater – Hollywood Fringe Festival

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Dana Martin – Stage Raw John Norris is a serious actor who doesn’t take anything too seriously and the outcome is very funny. Mr. Chonkers defies definition. It’s a late-night rendezvous with the absurd — a completely ridiculous and thoroughly enjoyable 50 minutes. The evening is full of good old-fashioned silliness. Mr. Chonkers emerges from … Read more

WASHINGTON SQUARE at Asylum @ Thymele Arts – Hollywood Fringe Festival

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Nineteen century American novelist Henry James did not think much of his novel, Washington Square, about a plain, naïve, sheltered heiress and the strikingly handsome young man who suddenly begins to court her. The work has had a life far beyond what James could ever have imagined. Read more… Now through June … Read more