Events
Creature: A Movement Meditation
The InternetA short dance film and an invitation to move: this creature draws you out, barefoot, into wet grass, squidgy mud, running water. Let your feet, then your body, respond to...
HOMO FEMINA
The InternetIn a reduced space depoliticized of all visibility and legislation: she, the Fémina, lies. Stripped of all rights to exert her nature, in pursuit of her survival. Not included by...
SELL ME: I Am from North Korea
The InternetSELL ME: I am from North Korea written & performed by Sora Baek Click here to watch a clip SELL ME: I Am From North Korea is inspired by the true stories...
Maybe Tomorrow
The InternetEarly one morning a few hours before Hurricane Hanna hits Corpus Christi, Texas. One still life with moving parts. One short story about three folks fishing at Bob Hall Pier...
creativeWorks
The InternetWe are foraging the cosmos for pretty things, relics of beauty, or just plain old byproducts of well-intentioned effort. Forget what your neighbor says, we live in an age of...
“Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!)
The InternetA comic culinary extravaganza that taps the wit and antics of one of America’s best-loved television personalities, Julia Child, the mother-of-all-foodies! Imagine what would happen if SHE had to do...
The Book of Snorin’ – Sleep Apnea the Musical
The InternetAfter a sold-out debut season at the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the world’s first comedy show about sleep apnea is here. This hilarious show follows Australian comedian Stew...
Medicine Meditation
The InternetMedicine Meditation: Water is part ritual, part visual/sound installation, and part workshop with touch points in science, spirituality, ancestry, and healing. Participants are given meditation prompts and invited to contribute...
Medicine Meditation
The InternetMedicine Meditation: Water is part ritual, part visual/sound installation, and part workshop with touch points in science, spirituality, ancestry, and healing. Participants are given meditation prompts and invited to contribute...
Rx and Chill
The InternetExperience a live installation where you receive, and prescribe, unorthodox therapy based on Abyss: The Greatest Proposal Ever -- a dramatic narrative short film about the wild adventures of an...
Tree Confessions
Harrowgate Park 3455 Kensington Ave, PhiladelphiaTrees talk! In a landmark study, a scientist learned everything about how trees communicate — or did she? One tree tells the story of what really happened. Presenting the world’s...
Tree Confessions
Harrowgate Park 3455 Kensington Ave, PhiladelphiaTrees talk! In a landmark study, a scientist learned everything about how trees communicate — or did she? One tree tells the story of what really happened. Presenting the world’s...
SILVER & BEBBIE
The MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St, PhiladelphiaSilver and Bebbie go together like rice and beans. Like rollerskating and lemonade. Like secret handshakes and made-up languages. Anything can happen when you have a friend you can make...
Myzrie House
The MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St, PhiladelphiaTwo people are thrust into a mysterious cell together for reasons unknown. Are they the last humans left on Earth? Can they escape? Are they meant to become friends, more...
Tree Confessions
Harrowgate Park 3455 Kensington Ave, PhiladelphiaTrees talk! In a landmark study, a scientist learned everything about how trees communicate — or did she? One tree tells the story of what really happened. Presenting the world’s...
Hello, How Are You?
Asian Arts Initiative, Black Box Theater 1219 Vine St, PhiladelphiaA friend of a friend once was said to have scrolled through their phone wondering if any of their exes were still in love with them but safely downloaded a...
and you will know it’s done when the oil stops bubbling
Kensington Corridor Trust Community Garden 3236 Kensington Ave, PhiladelphiaThe venue for the October 1 and 2 performances has been changed to Color Me Back Space at 3208 Kensington Ave. All of us together will create a recipe book....
The Path of Pins
or the Path of Needles
Rigby Mansion
523 Church Ln, Philadelphia
NOTE: the Sunday, Sep 25 performance has been canceled due to rain. Welcome, pregnant one, to our sunset reality. Here at the edge of day and night, awake and asleep,...
Social Media Circus
Circus Campus 6452 Greene St, PhiladelphiaIf you spend an hour or more scrolling on the For You Page before bed, this show is for you. If social media has reduced your attention span down to...
Vehement
Multiple LocationsVEHEMENT is an evocative dance show that is a love letter to all our former selves. A troupe of 6 dancers clad in stiletto heels will perform 12 new works...
Me and Jesus and Prince and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a One Bedroom apartment in the Bronx
The MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St, PhiladelphiaI grew up in a Black Sci-fi Christian home in the Bronx. My childhood was full of time travel, prayers, and the planet trying to recover from the apocalypse. There...
Jonathan Daylight Live!!! Motivational Speaker and Productivity Coach!!!
Multiple LocationsJonathan Daylight is, in his own mind, a skilled motivational speaker and productivity coach. In reality, he is a woefully untalented and unloved person trying to navigate a world that...
Corpus
Fidget Space 1714 N Mascher St, PhiladelphiaHow many bodies make a body of law? Corpus is a play at the intersection of legal interpretation and human experience, based on the writings of Robert Cover. For ages 18+ Content...
Wine in the Wilderness
Poth Brewery 3145 W Jefferson St, PhiladelphiaWine in the Wilderness examines race, gender, and class against the backdrop of the 1964 race riots in Harlem. The plot unfolds in the apartment of a painter creating a...
Romeo and Juliet
The Skinner Studio at Plays and Players 1714 Delancey Place, PhiladelphiaJoin us for the most famous love story ever told! This intimate production will reimagine Romeo and Juliet for the modern stage, questioning whether our fate is truly written in...
Effigy
Philly Improv Theater - Second Stage, upstairs 2030 Sansom Street, PhiladelphiaA forgotten Founding Father, a black Union soldier, and a modern-day campus trapped between precedent and progress. How does the telling of our history change it – or change us?...
Fair Trade
The MAAS Building Garden 1320 N 5th St, PhiladelphiaNOTE: the Sep 14 and September 25 at 6:00pm and 6:40pm performances of this show have been canceled. Is Trust given freely, or earned over time? Is Fairness judged on a...
Rising from a Thousand Thrones
106 W Ridley Ave, Ridley Park, PA 106 W Ridley Ave, Ridley ParkVictor Frankenstein created a monster. Mary Shelley composed a son. In 1816, the daemon of paper and ink became a child of flesh and blood, but now that child is...
An Untitled Love
Philadelphia Film Center 1412 Chestnut Street, PhiladelphiaYou know how when you’re out at a place with a jukebox, you can tell who’s picked what song by their reaction when the song comes on? “Anybody? Anybody? Is...
The Two-Character Play (Out Cry) by Tennessee Williams
The Bluver Theatre at The Drake 302 S Hicks St, PhiladelphiaFelice and Clare are a brother and sister performing act who arrive at a decrepit “state theater in a state of unknown” and find themselves deserted by their troupe. Faced...
Afternoon of an Alter
Headlong Dance Theater 1170 S Broad St, PhiladelphiaCome wrangle with reality at a Rodeo Biscuit Bar aboard a spaceship bound for LadyPrince Planet with your pilot, Ew, the dancer. Cowboy Waitress, Mad Donna, Yung&Bizzy, and others will...
Next Chapter
The InternetIn this one on one telephone performance, you'll meet the voice of someone who wants to tell you a story. A short story, by Oscar Wilde, set to the rhythm...
Tree Confessions
Harrowgate Park 3455 Kensington Ave, PhiladelphiaTrees talk! In a landmark study, a scientist learned everything about how trees communicate — or did she? One tree tells the story of what really happened. Presenting the world’s...
Hello, How Are You?
Asian Arts Initiative, Black Box Theater 1219 Vine St, PhiladelphiaA friend of a friend once was said to have scrolled through their phone wondering if any of their exes were still in love with them but safely downloaded a...
How to be an Ethical Slut
The Adrienne Theater Mainstage 2030 Sansom St, PhiladelphiaExperience the ride of your life as an unethical slut penetrates lies, STDs, triads, orgies, and love in her musical journey to becoming an Ethical Slut. Don't miss this original...
The Jester of All Maladies
PhilaMOCA 531 North 12th Street, PhiladelphiaTemple grad and fringe vet Kurt Fitzpatrick was diagnosed with cancer in December 2019. Boo! But he got through it with a bunch of chemo, stimulating immunotherapy, heaps of Facebook...
BATH HOUSE
The Latvian Society 531 N. 7th St, PhiladelphiaDesigned as a temple to the fluid nature of sexuality, BATH HOUSE is a deeply sensory immersive theatrical experience dripping with erotic energy from start to finish. BATH HOUSE fuses...
The Earth
Conwell Dance Theater 1801 North Broad Street, 5th Floor, PhiladelphiaLand World Soil Nature Birth Creature Nurture Nourishment The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth. - Marlee Martin Appropriate for all ages Health & Safety...
MOVEMENT/DEVELOPMENT
Equilibrium Dance Academy 1802 S Broad St, PhiladelphiaEquilibrium Dance Company presents MOVEMENT/DEVELOPMENT for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Enjoy a variety of dance works along with guest performances from Chutzpah Dance. Equilibrium Dance Company is a new professional...
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Allens Lane Art Center 601 W Allens Lane, PhiladelphiaSet in the isolated mountains of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland, Martin McDonagh’s award-winning play tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a lonely woman in her early forties,...
Late Night Snacks
The Switch 421 N 7th St, PhiladelphiaA mixed-plate performance that’s 50% cabaret destination, 50% neighborhood jawn, and 100% good to the last bite. The Bearded Ladies Cabaret shares a new selection of guilty pleasures, soul nourishment,...
Rising from a Thousand Thrones
106 W Ridley Ave, Ridley Park, PA 106 W Ridley Ave, Ridley ParkVictor Frankenstein created a monster. Mary Shelley composed a son. In 1816, the daemon of paper and ink became a child of flesh and blood, but now that child is...
Next Chapter
The InternetIn this one on one telephone performance, you'll meet the voice of someone who wants to tell you a story. A short story, by Oscar Wilde, set to the rhythm...
When All Else Fails: or, Why Not Choose Me?
The MAAS Building Cottage 1325 N. Randolph St., PhiladelphiaAshley W. is looking for the one and she's tired of settling - but you sure could! Taking cues from ABC's "The Bachelor" and other reality dating shows, When All...
Reception
The MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St, PhiladelphiaFrom the puckish mind of Nick Gillette, winner of the 2021 Philly Fringe Festival audience choice award for best comedy. RECEPTION is your chance to speak to and hear from...
Fair Trade
The MAAS Building Garden 1320 N 5th St, PhiladelphiaNOTE: the Sep 14 and September 25 at 6:00pm and 6:40pm performances of this show have been canceled. Is Trust given freely, or earned over time? Is Fairness judged on a...
Next Chapter
The InternetIn this one on one telephone performance, you'll meet the voice of someone who wants to tell you a story. A short story, by Oscar Wilde, set to the rhythm...
Social Media Circus
Circus Campus 6452 Greene St, PhiladelphiaIf you spend an hour or more scrolling on the For You Page before bed, this show is for you. If social media has reduced your attention span down to...
Rising from a Thousand Thrones
106 W Ridley Ave, Ridley Park, PA 106 W Ridley Ave, Ridley ParkVictor Frankenstein created a monster. Mary Shelley composed a son. In 1816, the daemon of paper and ink became a child of flesh and blood, but now that child is...
Next Chapter
The InternetIn this one on one telephone performance, you'll meet the voice of someone who wants to tell you a story. A short story, by Oscar Wilde, set to the rhythm...
Next Chapter
The InternetIn this one on one telephone performance, you'll meet the voice of someone who wants to tell you a story. A short story, by Oscar Wilde, set to the rhythm...
Man of La Manchin
The MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St, PhiladelphiaDemocratic Senator Joe Manchin III is eaten alive in this new comedic musical that's not at all based on Man of La Mancha. Absurd, grotesque, and for legal purposes, 100%...
Late Night Snacks
The Switch 421 N 7th St, PhiladelphiaA mixed-plate performance that’s 50% cabaret destination, 50% neighborhood jawn, and 100% good to the last bite. The Bearded Ladies Cabaret shares a new selection of guilty pleasures, soul nourishment,...