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2025 Audience Reviews
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The following reviews were submitted by Fringe Member: Jared Kaufman
Company: TROMPE L'OEIL
Show: Tompkins Squares
Venue: Rarig Kilburn Theatre
Good acting but underwhelming script
This show is plagued by the same problems as last year's "Gasthaus," with cliche characters and exposition-stuffed writing that feels stiff and unnatural. We wish the play would've been able to live up to the high stakes the description promises! Read the full PiPress review: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/06/fringe-review-historical-drama-tompkins-squares-is-stiff-and-underwhelming/
Company: Ryan Klima
Show: Ping Prov
Venue: The Southern Theatre
Fun idea for a party, not an audience
The idea behind the game is a fun one, but onstage, there's a lot of yelling and cups crashing that's all more disruptive than funny. It seems like a fun challenge for the performers, though. Read the full PiPress review: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/02/fringe-review-fun-in-theory-ping-prov-is-imperfect-in-front-of-an-audience/
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Company: Ethan Nienaber/ GJ Media
Show: What We Wore
Venue: Open Eye Theatre
Emotional depth and feminist power
This show demonstrates the depth behind the TikToks! Gabi is captivating as she wraps intimate family anecdotes into a larger narrative about creativity and craft. This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/03/fringe-review-what-we-wore-explores-womens-stories-through-clothing/
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Company: Special When Lit
Show: Fangs and Bangs (and Sangs)
Venue: The Southern Theatre
Rollicking and delightfully earnest
If you were also cringeworthy and angsty and maybe a little horny on the early internet, you’ll love this. The cold-reads had us all in stitches — and Nissa's real-time reactions are a treat, too. Read the PiPress's full review: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/06/fringe-review-fangs-and-bangs-is-a-rollicking-delightfully-earnest-variety-show/
Company: Pat O'Brien
Show: Our Zombie Town
Venue: Mixed Blood
Fantastical, zany, witty, eerie
Flying limbs, Molotov cocktails, stellar acting — and turns a mirror to the state of society today and invites us to look inward. This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/02/fringe-review-our-zombie-town-is-a-witty-eerie-reflection-on-todays-world/
Company: Dogdog-Beardog
Show: Ranger Jim
Venue: Rarig Kilburn Theatre
Beautiful and harrowing and profound
Watching Ranger Jim feels like sitting at a family dinner, listening to your grandpa tell stories. Do they get a little topsy-turvy around the edges? Sure. Has he told them countless times before? Absolutely. But you can tell, from the glint in his eyes, that he knows they’re good ones. This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/02/fringe-review-storyteller-ranger-jim-finds-quiet-beauty-in-life-death-and-nature/
Company: Griffy LaPlante
Show: Salt
Venue: Barbara Barker Center for Dance
This is a play with a soul
Salt accomplishes something special in balancing a multilayered, character-driven drama with nuanced, moral/political arguments. And isn't this what theater is for, to tell stories that push us to reexamine our own worlds and worldviews? This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/05/fringe-review-impassioned-salt-balances-touching-drama-and-moral-questions/
Company: Comedy Suitcase
Show: The Gentlemen’s Pratfall Club
Venue: Theatre in the Round
No-holds-barred pratfalls, life-changing laughs
These two have developed a Fringe following, and it's well-deserved: Fans of the duo’s earlier work will not be disappointed by this smartly funny, multi-character farce. This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/07/31/fringe-review-smart-farcical-the-gentlemens-pratfall-club-brings-the-pain/
Company: Richie Whitehead
Show: The Wickie
Venue: Barbara Barker Center for Dance
Damn you, O'Shan!
Oh yeah, this is masterful stuff. From the first moment Richie clops his foot down onstage — and the second moment he does it, and the third — it’s clear we’re in for a treat. This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/05/fringe-review-the-wickie-is-physical-comedy-at-its-finest-from-a-master-clown/
Company: an alleged Theatre Company
Show: The Temporary Tattoo Trio
Venue: Rarig Kilburn Theatre
Get me to the Dells, stat!
A little “Always Sunny,” a little “Letterkenny,” this show is a firehose of jokes and every single one lands. The line-readings are stellar — if this were a sitcom, compilations of the quippy and quirky dialogue would go viral constantly. This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/02/fringe-review-quippy-and-quirky-temporary-tattoo-trio-is-a-killer-sitcom/
Company: Theatre on the Rocks
Show: A Good Cancer to Have
Venue: Mixed Blood
A witty, vulnerable, self-aware triumph
It's simultaneously spiritually revelatory and laugh-out-loud funny, from a talented performer with consistently spot-on comedic timing. This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/01/fringe-review-a-good-cancer-to-have-is-witty-self-aware-triumph/
Company: Jennifer Vosters
Show: Songs Without Words (or, The Mendelssohn Play)
Venue: Rarig Nolte Xperimental Theatre
An eloquent masterpiece of solo performance
Jennifer Vosters has composed a masterpiece with this deeply involving one-woman show about the profound bond between two extraordinarily gifted musicians. This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/01/fringe-review-songs-without-words-is-a-eloquent-masterpiece-of-solo-performance/
Company: Third Space Theater
Show: Breach
Venue: Theatre in the Round
A tightly woven story with fine-tuned emotionality
Every aspect of this high-stakes thriller is just stunning, from the cast’s opening eerie sea-shanty chants to the acting quality to the clever lighting and prop design. This is a Must-See show, according to PiPress critics: https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/06/fringe-review-breach-ferocious-thrilling-and-shrewd-is-simply-stunning-theater/