The Fringe is OPEN for business!!!

Opening weekend kicked off with hundreds of performances in every corner of the city, from deep south Philly to the Art Museum steps, from the Delaware Riverfront to University City. Relive some highlights with this photo diary of performances.

Anu Tali conducts Heiner Goebbels Songs of Wars I Have Seen at FringeArts. Photo by Joanna Austin, AustinArt.org.

Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s production of Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams, at Bethany Mission Gallery through September 23. Photo by Joanna Austin, AustinArt.org.

An audience member experiences Tania El Khoury’s Stories of Refuge, at Twelve Gates Gallery through September 28. Photo by Joanna Austin, AustinArt.org.

Entering the afterlife at Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames, at the Wilma Theater through September 23. Photo by Joanna Austin, AustinArt.org.

Heiner Goebbels’s performative installation Stifters Dinge at the Navy Yard. Photo by Joanna Austin, AustinArt.org.

Trey Lyford in The Accountant. Photo by Joanna Austin, AustinArt.org.

A daytime performance of Le Super Grand Continental by Sylvain Emard outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This and the features photo © Jacques-Jean Tiziou / jjtiziou.net.