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City Life

Faces of the Fringe: Madi Distefano, the Clown

With the Philadelphia Fringe Festival now officially underway, we look at some of the people who make it what it is in our series “Faces […]

Joe Torsella
City Life

For Joe Torsella, the Play’s the Thing

The question is pretty obvious: How is it that Joe Torsella — founding CEO of the National Constitution Center, onetime representative to the U.N., former […]

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City Life

Q&A: The Creative CEO Behind This Year’s Massive Fringe Festival

     Listen to the interview edition here: Nearly two years into her job as CEO and director of FringeArts, the nonprofit organization behind Philadelphia’s […]

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Your Guide to the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival

September in Philadelphia, can only mean one thing. Well two things, if you count the return of the Eagles. Three, if we include the Phils’ […]