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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘The Saints of West Orange County’
A powerful portrait of motherhood’s pains and pleasures.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘Cocaine Bear: The Opera’
The titular tanked-up ursine and his castmates serve up spectacular singing under fleet-footed direction.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘They/Who’
This affirming show should spark some hard conversations back home.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘Inner State Stories’
Errol McLendon’s travelogue digs into the power of memories and the pain of losing them.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘The Bottleneck Effect’
One stormy night, six strangers stagger into an Orlando dive bar in search of shelter …
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘1998: A Walking Disaster’
Mihai Tartara, a Romanian stand-up based in Berlin, is boosting the laugh quotient of Fringe’s Scarlet venue.
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Skateboarding tips, tricks, advice and encouragement from the Orlando underground
Summer Guide 2024: Possessed to skate
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Comedian Kathy Griffin returns to Orlando like a rising phoenix
Plaza Live gig on Friday is her first time back in seven years and she’s been … busy
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘Masquerade of the Red Death’
Hits the sweet spot between dark dance theater and sparkly striptease.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘Howdy, Stranger’
A cockeyed queer comedy lovingly cobbled together out of old cowboy clichés.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘How the Grinch Killed Christmas: A WHO-dunnit Parody’
In classic whodunit fashion, each character gets interrogated as to their motive and opportunity.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘Emilio’s a Million Chameleons’
Enough energy and charm to make it one of the best G-rated shows at this Festival.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘Journey From the Nile to the Tigris’
Should jolt open some Orlando eyes and minds in favor of this tantalizing ancient tradition.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘At the Table With Keith Brown’
Experience astonishing up-close illusions on larger-than life video.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘Death of a Dandelion’
Amid a festival filled with stories about toxic relations, it’s refreshing to see one about family ties that bind without burning.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘The Light Bringer’
Laila Lee vividly shares her life story, enlivening a Scheherazade-esque tale with expressive physical movement and evocative musical snippets.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘Danny FeedBack to the Future’
Not so much a musical as a rock concert with scatological skits between puerile parodies of vintage jukebox hits.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘The Estate Sale’
Estate sale organizer and comic Kelly Dee blends the buzz of a rummage sale with a bounty of big laughs.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘Nick & Elvis’s Love Story’
Elvis Presley’s alleged homosexual proclivities have been argued about for decades, but this bite-sized fantasia doesn’t add much to the debate.
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Orlando Fringe 2024 review: ‘The Process Is Ugly’
Danielle Rodd is a performer who makes you want to lean in and listen.