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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Fosgate: Ferret Loan Officer’
‘The Merchant of Venice’ meets ‘The Muppet Show’
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘MallRatz Improv: Laughter on the Fringe’
Improv comedy always treads a fine line between delight and disaster.
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Last Bear’
Plea for a gay rights revolution packs real-world punch, despite the absurdist wrappings
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Beth and Josie Exposed (F*%K De$antis)’
Empathy-eliciting performers tell stories meant to inspire ‘anything other than apathy’
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Done to Death, by Jove!’
A half-improvised, two-man, original murder mystery
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen’
Distills more than a century of queer revolutions into a moving remembrance of an overlooked trailblazer
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Vexed and the Vigorous: Verona Shift’
Transplants Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ into the cinematic world of underground street racing
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Adventures in Baby-Hitting’
Macabre monologue about the travails of parenting identical twins with extreme special needs
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln’
Historical performer Tom Leahy performs a one-man evocation of the Great Emancipator
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Giselle’s Florence Foster Jenkins Schubertiade Review’
Giselle Bellas conjures the infamously off-key opera singer for a lesson in artistic empathy
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Cat Lim: An American Darling’
Lim’s comedic confessions cover topics almost anyone can identify with
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘1-Man No-Show’
Unapologetic anarchic absurdism that’s well worth showing up for
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Box [M]’
Integrates jaw-dropping gymnastics and interpretive dance with a genuinely emotional throughline
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘According to the Fox’
Sketch comedy with eerily similar circumstances to political situations today
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘EnMi’
It could easily rank among Fringe’s finest dance offerings ever
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘1 Small Lie: Martin Dockery’
A narrative journey that defies easy categorization in any genre
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Everfolk: A New Musical’
High-concept backstage musical from the award-winning team behind ‘The Spider Queen’
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘HOME[sic]’
Push’s talented trio haven’t lost their knack for skillful slapstick that sticks with you after the laughter ends
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: ‘Poems for God’
Anyone who insists feminism is humorless needs to attend this satirical skewering of sacred cows
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Orlando Fringe 2025 review: Breaking Bard: ‘An Improvised Shakespearean Tragedy’
Creative Canadian quintet weaves together an entirely improvised lost Shakespearean tragedy