The Kids Department
Family Programming
Sundays at 3pm

Join your favorite Bearded Ladies’ hosts on Sunday afternoons at the Kids Department: a performance series tailor-made for our youngest fans! Enjoy family-friendly live music, interactive performances, and endless opportunities for imagination and play. Plus, it’s the perfect time for grown-ups to take a well-earned Time Out. For kids & kids at heart!

Family Programming is PWYC for adults; Kids attend FREE.  

Hosts

Jess Conda

Eric Jaffe

Jarbeaux

Sam Rise

Presented in partnership with Opera Philadelphia’s “Pipe Up!” Series

Sunday Sept 14th at 3 PM: ABBAsolutely fABBAlous & Biddy Bee (Family Programming)
Hosted by Sam Rise

Sunday Sept 21st at 3 PM: Ants on a Log (Family Programming)
Hosted by Sam Rise

Sunday Sept 28th at 3 PM: Jarbeaux (Family Programming)

Hosted by Jarbeaux

THE WANAMAKER BUILDING

Audience Entrance
1301 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

TICKETS

Sunday 3pm Shows

Kids: Free
Adults GA: $10-$25 PWYC GA in advance
Adults GA $0-$25 PWYC GA at the door

Please be advised that General Admission tickets DO NOT GUARANTEE YOU A SEAT. There is some seating available in the space for General Admission ticket holders, but they are First Come, First Served. If you need a seat for accessibility or mobility reasons, or have other access questions, please reach out to patronservices@fringearts.com.

HEALTH + SAFETY

Masks are optional. Surgical masks will be available at Front of House for anyone who wishes to wear one. Audience members are encouraged to test beforehand. Please exercise good judgement and do not attend if you are feeling unwell or are symptomatic.

The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is a queer arts organization that sits on your lap and sings you a story. Whether it’s an opera, a home-made cabaret, a musical walking tour, or a show on a truck, we employ song, spectacle, storytelling, and heart to welcome audiences into moments of joy, healing, and subversion. Through sharing our original pieces and creating bespoke platforms for performance at home in Philadelphia, nationally, and abroad, we nurture artistic connection for a community of misfits, rabble-rousers, chanteuses and the people who love and need them. Their work has been seen all over Philadelphia including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Eastern State Penitentiary, Opera Philadelphia, the Wilma Theater, FringeArts, and the Delaware River Waterfront and they have brought their cabaret revolution to Miami, Seattle, Paris, Washington DC, New Zealand, Provincetown, Maryland and Delaware. In New York their work has been seen at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, La MaMa Etc, Works & Process at the Guggenheim and Lincoln Center. Their signature programs The Beardmobile and LATE NIGHT SNACKS together have provided a stage for over 500 queer and nightlife artists. Find the Beards at www.beardedladiescabaret.com or on Facebook/Instagram @beardedladiescabaret.

CAST/CREW

Director & Lead Curator: Sally Ollove
Design Dramaturg: Rebecca Kanach
Graphic Designer & Co-Curator: Jackie Soro
Producer: Carlos Diaz Stoop
Associate Producer: Wi-Moto Nyoka
Scenic/Space Designer: Doug Greene
Lighting Designer: Bless Rudisill
Sound Designer: Nat Merrill
Assistant Sound Designer: Taylor Jedlinski
Stage Manager: Lian Brody
Music Director & Musician (Keys): Heath Allen
Musician for Anthony Martinez-Briggs: Jordan McCree
Keys: Lili St. Queer

Presented by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret in partnership with FringeArts

Funding for the Bearded Ladies Cabaret is provided by The Mellon Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Knight Foundation, the Lida Foundation, the Philadelphia Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation and Barbara Teichert.

The Layaway is made possible by the generous support of Barbara Teichert and the Wyncote Foundation.

Icon Producer
The Honickman Family
Executive Producers
Arthur Kaplan + Duane Perry
Co-Producers
Marty Maynard
Rosanne Sarkissian

About Opera Philadelphia’s Pipe Up! Series:

Opera Philadelphia has partnered with TF Cornerstone (TFC), the developer that officially became the sole owner of the Wanamaker Building last month, to reactivate the space with Pipe Up!, a performance series that aims to bring together some of Philadelphia’s greatest cultural creators and organizations and provide programming that will fill the Wanamaker with life and beauty and welcome the public back into the space through the end of the year as TFC prepares for its transformation. The dynamic series of programming built around the preservation and reactivation of the historic Wanamaker Organ is supported by a $1 million grant from the Wyncote Foundation. Additional support is provided by TFC. Capacity building support for audience engagement and development has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Learn more.