2009 Festival Publicity

The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe is all over the news! Here's a comprehensive list of reviews and other articles about this year's Festival shows, sorted by publication. To search for press on a specific show, visit that show's individual page - you'll find links to press, videos, and more in the left hand column.


6 ABC
6 ABC Loves the Arts, aired August 30, 2009, features on Welcome to Yuba City and Urban Scuba

Philadelphia City Paper
The Dénouement: What a long Fringe trip it's been by K. Ross Hoffman, September 30, 2009
REVIEWS, updated daily
Test of Time: Dean & Britta set music to Warhol's barely moving pictures, feature on 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests by A.D. Amorosi
Kaleidoscope: Fringe-o-Scope, reviews of Shakesploitation II: Iambic Boogaloo, Company, 7 (x1) Samurai and Who Will Carry the Word?
You Make Me Compete: The A.W.A.R.D. Show! challenges 12 Philly choreographers to outshine their colleagues by Lauren F. Friedman, September 10, 2009
Outback to the Future Australians turn to uber-contemporary art to define themselves by Holly Otterbein, September 10, 2009
COVER STORY, Thursday, September 3
One Less: Four choreographers imagine a world without [fill in the blank]. by Deni Kasrel, preview of TIDE, store, more., above under inbetween
Range Life: Pig Iron cowboys up in Yuba City by A.D. Amorosi
Charlotte's Web: Pig Iron's newest collaborator fits right in by A.D. Amorosi
Best of the Fest: Live Arts/Fringe picks from City Paper staff
All Atwitter: Artists set their sites on a virtual audience by Shaun Brady
Green Up Your Act: Fringe vet Thaddeus Phillips goes Off the Grid by K. Ross Hoffman

Philadephia Inquirer
REVIEWS, updated daily (scroll down for list of reviewed shows)
Fringe fantasy offers cuteness that's not for kids, Review of Armageddon at the Mushroom Village by Howard Shapiro, September 9, 2009
WEEKEND COVER STORY, Friday, September 4:
The festive Fringe: Two hundred shows will pop up all over town in the next 16 days by Natalie Pompilio
Fringe for the fledglings by Wendy Rosenfield
Dancers go off the deep end (figuratively) by Ellen Dunkel
Musical challenges reality by Howard Shapiro

Money moves the Fringe by Howard Shapiro, Sunday, August 30, 2009
Pig Iron, unalloyed by Wendy Rosenfield, Thursday, August 27, 2009, preview of Welcome to Yuba City
Stretching the musical with awful truths by David Patrick Stearns, Tuesday, September 1, 2009, preview of See What I Wanna See

Philadelphia Daily News
U.S. premiere ‘Operetta’ takes Pole position by Lauren F. Friedman, Thursday, August 27, 2009, preview of Operetta
Live arts/Fringe Fest benefits from city’s real estate slump by Lauren F. Friedman, Thursday, August 27, 2009
Live Arts/Fringe ground zero tells performers it's all 'yes' by Lauren F. Friedman, Friday, August 28, 2009

Philadelphia Weekly
Northern Hospitality, feature on EgoPo and Company by J. Cooper Robb
Pig Iron’s 'Yuba City' Rocks the Live Arts Festival by J. Cooper Robb, September 9, 2009
'Digital Effects' is Magical by J. Cooper Robb, September 9, 2009
Best of the Live Arts Fest by J. Cooper Robb, September 2, 2009
XX Marks the Spot: This year’s Philly Fringe embraces girl power by J. Cooper Robb, September 2, 2009
Arts and Culture Calendar by Erica Palan, September 2, 2009, feature on Festival Bar and other Fringe shows
Fatebook: A play that unfolds both on and offline by J. Cooper Robb, August 26, 2009, interview with FATEBOOK Director Whit MacLaughlin

Broad Street Review
Grasping at intimacy on a city street by Jonathan Stein, September 29, 2009
The future is very funny by Jonathan Stein, September 29, 2009
Solo acts: Micro to magic by Jonathan Stein
Way out West: A finely tuned ridiculousness, review of Welcome to Yuba City by Jonathan Stein
Actions and consequences in cyberspace, review of FATEBOOK by Jim Rutter
Satirist without a country, in search of an audience, review of Operetta by Merilyn Jackson

Philadelphia Metro
When theater stops being polite by Monica Weymouth, Thursday, September 3, preview of Kill Me Now and FATEBOOK

WXPN
Fall Arts Feature with Michaela Majoun: EgoPo's Company

MSNBC: The Rachel Maddow Show
Feature on The Gonzales Cantata

The Seattle Times
Daisey's new monologue goes to Bali Hai by Misha Berson, August 6, 2009, a preview of Mike Daisey's The Last Cargo Cult

Main Line Today
Greek Siren: Bala Cynwyd’s Lili Bita is a Philly Fringe institution—and so much more by J.F. Pirro, August 13, 2009, feature on Passion: An Evening with Lili Bita