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FRINGEARTS CURATED 26 FringeArts Curated Venue Map 27 FringeArts Curated Schedule
46 Caen Amour Trajal Harrell
29 The Festival Bar
48 Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez
30 Stifters Dinge Heiner Goebbels
50 The undergird Meg Foley
32 The Accountant Trey Lyford
52 Of Arms and the Man The Crossing
34 Do You Want A Cookie? The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
54 manger Boris Charmatz
36 ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury Tania El Khoury
56 In Plain Air International Contemporary Ensemble
40 Le Super Grand Continental Sylvain Émard
58 Humans Circa
42 Songs of Wars I Have Seen Heiner Goebbels
107 The Poison Cookie Jar The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
28 The Fringe App
44 The Museum Workout Monica Bill Barnes & Company 2
67 Center City Fringe
FRINGE AROUND THE CITY
124 Thank You 129 Support
67 Center City Fringe 75 Kensington-Fishtown Fringe 81 North Philly Fringe Includes Art Museum Area + Fairmount 85 Northwest Philly Fringe Includes East Falls, Germantown, Manayunk + Mount Airy
Editors: Christopher Munden, Alyssa Kerper, Josh McIlvain + FringeArts Staff Design: Masters Group Design Maps: Osvaldo Moran Ads + Production: Raina Searles Proofreader: Gwen Burda
99 Suburban Fringe Includes Jenkintown, Media + Trenton
133 Index by Show 135 Index by Company 140 Coming Soon
101 West Philly Fringe Includes University City 105 Digital Fringe Shows on the World Wide Web
Cover photo: Tareke Ortiz of The Bearded Ladies Caberet’s Do You Want A Cookie? Photo by Plate 3 Photography
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89 Old City Fringe Includes citywide shows, Northern Liberties, Society Hill + other
93 South Philly Fringe Includes Bella Vista + Queen Village
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DAY DAY TUESDAY TUESDAY 9.4 9.4 6:30pm Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 7:30pm Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 8pm Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 9pm UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92 Midnight R&J, 240min, OC / p91
WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY 9.5 9.5 6pm Pareidolic Expanses, gallery hours, SP / p96 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96 7pm Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 Only In Your Dreams, 60min, CC / p73 7:30pm Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Lay Me Down Softly, 120min, CC / p72 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 8pm Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 8:30pm Close Your Legs, Honey - A New Musical, 75min, CC / p71 9pm Salamander, 100min, CC / p73
THURSDAY THURSDAY 9.6 9.6
2:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
Onwards & Upwards: The Italian American Dream, 60min, SP / p96
3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
7:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
4:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
8pm The Accountant, 75min, OC / p33 Chaos Theory, 75min, KF / p77 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 It Might Be About Babies, 50min, KF / p78 It’s Happening at Home, 60min, SP / p96 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 This is a Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas, 90min, CC / p74
4:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
8:30pm Close Your Legs, Honey - A New Musical, 75min, CC / p71
5pm Chichi Chip (an ode to the Gnarly), 40min, CC / p69 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Onwards & Upwards: The Italian American Dream, 60min, SP / p96
9pm One Man’s Trash: A Cabaret About Treasure, 65min, SP / p95 Salamander, 100min, CC / p73 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92
4:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
9:30pm Death By Chocolate, 30min, SP / p95
6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 (Kensington) Streetplay, 90min, KF / p77
10pm Song of My Self-Care, 60min, CC / p74
FRIDAY FRIDAY 9.7 9.7
6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
1pm Airport Opened, 50min, CC / p70 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
2pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
7:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
4pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36
1:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
7:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Lay Me Down Softly, 120min, CC / p72 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 Theorem, 60min, NWP / p87
11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 12:30pm Airport Opened, 50min, CC / p70 3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
7pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 God, Forgive These Bastards, 60min, KF / p78 Only In Your Dreams, 60min, CC / p73
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
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3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 4pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP 4:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 4:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 4:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 5pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Onwards & Upwards: The Italian American Dream, 60min, SP / p96 6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Drawn Out, 65min, CC / p71 (Kensington) Streetplay, 90min, KF / p77 6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 7pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60min, CC / p71 Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 No, We Won’t Shut Up!, 65min, Media / p100 Only In Your Dreams, 60min, CC / p73 Onwards & Upwards: The Italian American Dream, 60min, SP / p96 Planet B, 70min, CC / p69 7:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 7:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
Day by Day Neighborhood key:
CC: Center City OC: Old City
Carry Me, 50min, SP / p94 Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 Lay Me Down Softly, 120min, CC / p72 The Living Dragon, 150min, OC / p91 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 Theorem, 60min, NWP / p87 7:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 8pm The Accountant, 75min, OC / p33 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 This is a Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas, 90min, CC Chaos Theory, 75min, KF / p77 FEEL, 70min, CC / p72 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 It’s Happening at Home, 60min, SP / p96 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 KCBC X KCBCII, 60min, NP / p82 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Lockhardt, 60min, OC / p91 Proceed with Caution, 45min, KF / p77 Songs of Wars I Have Seen, 75min, OC / p43 Stifters Dinge, 70min, SP / p31 8:30pm Close Your Legs, Honey - A New Musical, 75min, CC / p71 9pm FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 More Than Tracy Turnblad, 80min, CC / p73 Salamander, 100min, CC / p73 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92 9:30pm Death By Chocolate, 30min, SP / p95 10pm Literary Creatures, 60min, WP / p102 Song of My Self-Care, 60min, CC / p74 10:30pm Plunge, 60min, NP / p83 Stifters Dinge, 70min, SP / p31
SATURDAY SATURDAY 9.8 9.8 11am FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36
KF: Kensington-Fishtown SP: South Philly
NP: North Philly WP: West Philly
Le Super Grand Continental, 30min, Art Museum / p41 NIGHTMARE FUEL, 55min, WP / p103
11:30am FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Noon FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
4:30pm Music from the 1970s on pointe, 75min, WP / p102
12:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
5pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 As You Like It, 120min, NP / p83 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60min, CC / p71 Close Your Legs, Honey - A New Musical, 75min, CC / p71 FEEL, 70min, CC / p72 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 Onwards & Upwards: The Italian American Dream, 60min, SP / p96 This is a Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas, 90min, CC / p74 Ugly Wedding Party, 60min, KF / p79
1pm The Accountant, 75min, OC / p33 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Pareidolic Expanses, gallery hours, SP / p96 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96 This is a Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas, 90min, CC / p74 2pm Alternative Theater Festival, 80min, WP / p103 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 Drawn Out, 65min, CC / p71 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 The Presented, 50min, WP / p104 Song of My Self-Care, 60min, CC / p74
5:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 5:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 5:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
2:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
6pm All 100 Fires, 70min, WP / p103 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 everybody’s happy on social media, 50min, CC / p72 God, Forgive These Bastards, 60min, KF / p78 KCBC X KCBCII, 60min, NP / p82 (Kensington) Streetplay, 90min, KF / p77 Pestilence: Wow!, 70min, WP / p104 Peterhoff’s YOUR UNCLE SAM, An American Vaudeville Celebration!, 60min, KF / p78
2:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 2:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Love Stories, 60min, Trenton / p100 Planet B, 70min, CC / p69 Salamander, 100min, CC / p73 Theorem, 60min, NWP / p87 Ugly Wedding Party, 60min, KF / p79
6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Only In Your Dreams, 60min, CC / p73
7pm Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96
3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
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NWP: Northwest Philly
Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 No, We Won’t Shut Up!, 65min, Media / p100 Only In Your Dreams, 60min, CC / p73 Onwards & Upwards: The Italian American Dream, 60min, SP / p96 Planet B, 70min, CC / p69 Ugly Wedding Party, 60min, KF / p79 Voided, 40min, CC / p74 7:30pm Carry Me, 50min, SP / p94 Dead Flowers Circus Sideshow, 90min, CC / p69 Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 Lay Me Down Softly, 120min, CC / p72 The Living Dragon, 150min, OC / p91 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 Theorem, 60min, NWP / p87 8pm The Accountant, 75min, OC / p33 Alternative Theater Festival, 80min, WP / p103 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 Chaos Theory, 75min, KF / p77 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 It’s Happening at Home, 60min, SP / p96 KCBC X KCBCII, 60min, NP / p82 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Le Super Grand Continental, 30min, Art Museum / p41 Lockhardt, 60min, OC / p91 Music from the 1970s on pointe, 75min, WP / p102 Proceed with Caution, 45min, KF / p77 Songs of Wars I Have Seen, 75min, OC / p43 Stifters Dinge, 70min, SP / p31 8:30pm Close Your Legs, Honey - A New Musical, 75min, CC / p71 This is a Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas, 90min, CC / p74 9pm Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 More Than Tracy Turnblad, 80min, CC / p73 Salamander, 100min, CC / p73 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92 9:30pm Dead Flowers Circus Sideshow, 90min, CC / p69
Day by Day 10pm The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Literary Creatures, 60min, WP / p102 Song of My Self-Care, 60min, CC / p74 10:30pm Do You Want A Cookie? Late Night Snacks: Mary Tuomanen + Bridge Markland, 60min, NP / p35 Plunge, 60min, NP / p83 Stifters Dinge, 70min, SP / p31 Midnight The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90
SUNDAY SUNDAY 9.9 9.9
FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Garden of Vessels, 120min, NP / p83 Ugly Wedding Party, 60min, KF / p79 Voided, 40min, CC / p74 William Penn Story, 60min, NP / p84
Life in Eight Parts, 60min, NP / p83 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 No, We Won’t Shut Up!, 65min, Media / p100 Sfânta, 65min, CC / p73 Ugly Wedding Party, 60min, KF / p79
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
7:30pm Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 Theorem, 60min, NWP / p87
3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
11am FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
4pm Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Le Super Grand Continental, 30min, Art Museum / p41
11:30am FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
4:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
Noon FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
5pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 As You Like It, 120min, NP / p83 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60min, CC / p71 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Salamander, 100min, CC / p73 This is a Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas, 90min, CC / p74 Ugly Wedding Party, 60min, KF / p79
1pm The Accountant, 75min, OC / p33 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Pareidolic Expanses, gallery hours, SP / p96 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96 This is a Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas, 90min, CC / p74 2pm All 100 Fires, 70min, WP / p103 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 It’s Happening at Home, 60min, SP / p96 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 KCBC X KCBCII, 60min, NP / p82 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 2:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 2:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Lay Me Down Softly, 120min, CC / p72 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 2:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95
8pm It Might Be About Babies, 50min, KF / p78 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 The Presented, 50min, WP / p104 Proceed with Caution, 45min, KF / p77 8:30pm Stifters Dinge, 70min, SP / p31 This is a Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas, 90min, CC / p74 9:30pm Death By Chocolate, 30min, SP / p95 10:30pm Do You Want A Cookie? Late Night Snacks: Adrienne Truscott + Cookie Diorio, 60min, NP / p35
MONDAY MONDAY 9.10 9.10 Noon Unofficial, Unauthorized Tour of Love Park, 45min, CC / p68
5:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
7pm Drawn Out, 65min, CC / p71 Propaganda Machine Show, 120min, KF / p78 Voided, 40min, CC / p74
5:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
8pm Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 A Vacation, 60min, CC / p70
5:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
9pm More Than Tracy Turnblad, 80min, CC / p73 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92
6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Carry Me, 50min, SP / p94 (Kensington) Streetplay, 90min, KF / p77 NIGHTMARE FUEL, 55min, WP / p103 Stifters Dinge, 70min, SP / p31 A Vacation, 60min, CC / p70
8pm Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 9pm Drawn Out, 65min, CC / p71 9:30pm Peg!, 75min, CC / p68
WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY 9.12 9.12 8am The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45 9am The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45 11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 Noon Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 1pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 1:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 2pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 2:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
TUESDAY TUESDAY 9.11 9.11
3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
1pm Same Picture Different Poses, 40min, CC / p69
3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
6:30pm Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72
6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
7pm Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 God, Forgive These Bastards, 60min, KF / p78 SPIES! A tech-immersive comedy, 120min, KF / p78
4pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Passport, 65min, CC / p73
6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 7pm Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 Drawn Out, 65min, CC / p71 God, Forgive These Bastards, 60min, KF
7:30pm Almost Pregnant, 90min, CC / p71 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84
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4:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 4:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
DAY DAY 4:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 5pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Drawn Out, 65min, CC / p71 Pareidolic Expanses, gallery hours, SP / p96 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96 Skills and Scars, 180min, KF / p78 6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96 6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 7pm Animation Nation, 75min, OC / p90 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 NIGHTMARE FUEL, 55min, WP / p103 Sfânta, 65min, CC / p73 Songs For Monsters, 90min, Northern Liberties / p92 Villain, 80min, CC / p74 7:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 7:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Lay Me Down Softly, 120min, CC / p72 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84
True West, 120min, KF / p79 A Vacation, 60min, CC / p70
4pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Passport, 65min, CC / p73
8:30pm Real America, 60min, CC / p68 9pm David’s Friend, 55min, CC / p71 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 Pestilence: Wow!, 70min, WP / p104 Skills and Scars, 180min, KF / p78 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92 White Feminist, 55min, CC / p74
4:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
7:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Lay Me Down Softly, 120min, CC / p72 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade, 150min, CC / p72 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 William Penn Story, 60min, NP / p84
4:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
7:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
5pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39
8pm Beirut, 75min, CC / p71 Do You See What I Hear?, 45min, CC / p70 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 In the Forest, 80min, WP / p102 Passport, 65min, CC / p73 Phaedra’s Love, 60min, KF / p78 Sage Wisdom, 60min, CC / p73 True West, 120min, KF / p79 The undergird, 75min, KS / p51
4:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
10:30pm Do You Want A Cookie? Late Night Snacks: Dito van Reigersberg + Machine Dazzle, 60min, NP / p35
THURSDAY THURSDAY 9.13 9.13 8am The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45
5:30pm The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45
9am The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45
6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Drawn Out, 65min, CC / p71 (Kensington) Streetplay, 90min, KF / p77 Skills and Scars, 180min, KF / p78
11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 Noon Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 Chichi Chip (an ode to the Gnarly), 40min, CC / p69 Passport, 65min, CC / p73
6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45 Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96 Unofficial, Unauthorized Tour of Love Park, 45min, CC / p68
1pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 1:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 2pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
2:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
7:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
8pm Almost Pregnant, 90min, CC / p71 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 In the Forest, 80min, WP / p102 Passport, 65min, CC / p73 Sage Wisdom, 60min, CC / p73
3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
7pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Caen Amour, 70min, OC / p47 Day of Absence, 60min, OC / p90 The Graveyard Slot, 60min, NWP / p86 Ground Works, 50min, NWP / p86 Long Trouble, 45min, KF / p78 Love Stories, 60min, OC / p92 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 Moonwriters, 90min, WP / p103 Pestilence: Wow!, 70min, WP / p104 ShakesBEER Roulette, 80min, NWP / p87 SPIES! A tech-immersive comedy, 120min, KF / p78 Starting Over, 75min, CC / p70 Villain, 80min, CC / p74
3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
7:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38
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8:30pm Real America, 60min, CC / p68 9pm Caen Amour, 70min, OC / p47 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 NIGHTMARE FUEL, 55min, WP / p103 One Man’s Trash: A Cabaret About Treasure, 65min, SP / p95 Skills and Scars, 180min, KF / p78 White Feminist, 55min, CC / p74 9:30pm The Arcane Mysteries of Vanderslice Manor, 70min, CC / p71 10pm WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play), 110min, CC / p74 10:30pm Do You Want A Cookie? Late Night Snacks: Malgorzata Kaspryzcka, Dieter Rita Scholl + John Jarboe, 60min, NP / p35
FRIDAY FRIDAY 9.14 9.14 8am The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45 9am The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45 10am Theater Artists Play, 180min, WP / p104
DAY DAY 11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 Noon Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 Passport, 65min, CC / p73 3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 4pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Passport, 65min, CC / p73 Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 4:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 4:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 4:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 5pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Drawn Out, 65min, CC / p71 (Kensington) Streetplay, 90min, KF / p77 The undergird, 75min, KS / p51 6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96 6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
7pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60min, CC / p71 The Backyard, 45min, KF / p76 Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 Caen Amour, 70min, OC / p47 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 The Graveyard Slot, 60min, NWP / p86 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 Life In Eight Parts, 60min, NP / p83 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 Moving, 75min, NP / p83 NIGHTMARE FUEL, 55min, WP / p103 No, We Won’t Shut Up!, 65min, Media / p100 Planet B, 70min, NWP / p87 ShakesBEER Roulette, 80min, NWP / p87 Songs For Monsters, 90min, Northern Liberties / p92 Villain, 80min, CC / p74
True West, 120min, KF / p79 Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd, 70min, OC / p49 8:30pm Real America, 60min, CC / p68 9pm The Backyard, 45min, KF / p76 Caen Amour, 70min, OC / p47 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 Long Trouble, 45min, KF / p78 One Man’s Trash: A Cabaret About Treasure, 65min, SP / p95 Pestilence: Wow!, 70min, WP / p104 Think Before You Speak, 45min, CC / p74 The undergird, 75min, KS / p51 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92 White Feminist, 55min, CC / p74 9:30pm The Arcane Mysteries of Vanderslice Manor, 70min, CC / p71
7:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
10pm Close Your Legs, Honey - A New Musical, 75min, CC / p71 Literary Creatures, 60min, WP / p102 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 Phaedra’s Love, 60min, KF / p78 / p78
7:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36 Death Is A Cabaret Ol’ Chum, 60min, NWP / p86 Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, 95min, NP / p83 Lay Me Down Softly, 120min, CC / p72 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade, 150min, CC / p72 Off The Curtain, 50min, OC / p91 Ridiculous, 75min, SP / p94 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84
10:30pm Almost Pregnant, 90min, CC / p71 Do You Want A Cookie? Late Night Snacks: Messapotamia LeFae, Jess Conda + Daniel Park, 60min, NP / p35 Plunge, 60min, NP / p83 11pm One Man’s Trash: A Cabaret About Treasure, 65min, SP / p95
7:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, OC / p36
11:59pm Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103
8pm Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 CRAVE, 65min, WP / p102 Day of Absence, 60min, OC / p90 Do You See What I Hear?, 45min, CC / p70 FEEL, 70min, CC / p72 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 In The Forest, 80min, WP / p102 Just Another Normal Conversation, 60min, CC / p72 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Lockhardt, 60min, OC / p91 Passport, 65min, CC / p73 Propaganda Machine Show, 120min, KF / p78
SATURDAY SATURDAY 9.15 9.15 6:42am In the Light, 180 or 786min, KF / p76 8am The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45 9am The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45 11am Almost Pregnant, 90min, CC / p71 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 In the Light, 180min, KF / p76 Music for Children and Other Curious People, 60min, WP / p103
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Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 11:30am FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Noon FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 12:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 1pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 P Pan and Beyondland, 90min, NP / p83 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96 Works on Paper, gallery hours, SP / p97 2pm The Arcane Mysteries of Vanderslice Manor, 70min, CC / p71 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 Beirut, 75min, CC / p71 Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 CRAVE, 65min, WP / p102 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, 95min, NP / p83 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 In the Light, 180min, KF / p76 Just Another Normal Conversation, 60min, CC / p72 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 The Magic of Storytelling with Tchin, 60min, KF / p77 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade, 150min, CC / p72 NIGHTMARE FUEL, 55min, WP / p103 Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 True West, 120min, KF / p79 Unofficial, Unauthorized Tour of Love Park, 45min, CC / p68 2:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 2:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 2:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 3pm AntiCone, 45min, KF / p77 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Day of Absence, 60min, OC / p90 The F Word, 105min, CC / p72
Day by Day FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak (Arabic), 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 In the Forest, 80min, WP / p102 Moving, 75min, NP / p83 Planet B, 70min, NWP / p87 3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 The undergird, 75min, KS / p51 Villain, 80min, CC / p74 3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 4pm The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak (Arabic), 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 P Pan and Beyondland, 90min, NP / p83 Passport, 65min, CC / p73 The Presented, 50min, WP / p104 5pm AntiCone, 45min, KF / p77 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 As You Like It, 120min, NP / p83 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60min, CC / p71 Caen Amour, 70min, OC / p47 FEEL, 70min, CC / p72 In the Light, 180min, KF / p76 Real America, 60min, CC / p68 5:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 5:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45 5:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 The Backyard, 45min, KF / p76 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 God, Forgive These Bastards, 60min, KF / p78 Ground Works, 50min, NWP / p86 (Kensington) Streetplay, 90min, KF / p77 Moving, 75min, NP / p83 Pestilence: Wow!, 70min, WP / p104 Peterhoff’s YOUR UNCLE SAM, An American Vaudeville Celebration!, 60min, KF / p78 Skills and Scars, 180min, KF / p78 The undergird, 75min, KS / p51 6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 The Museum Workout, 60min, Art Museum / p45
Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96
9pm Before/After, 60min, SP / p94 Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76 Phaedra’s Love, 60min, KF / p78 Skills and Scars, 180min, KF / p78 UNHINGED, 75min, OC White Feminist, 55min, CC / p74
6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 7pm Before/After, 60min, SP / p94 Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 Caen Amour, 70min, OC / p47 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 The Graveyard Slot, 60min, NWP / p86 Jordan Flaherty At Philly Fringe, 240min, NWP / p87 Life In Eight Parts, 60min, NP / p83 No, We Won’t Shut Up!, 65min, Media / p100 Planet B, 70min, NWP / p87 Sfânta, 65min, CC / p73 ShakesBEER Roulette, 80min, NWP / p87 Villain, 80min, CC / p74
9:30pm The Arcane Mysteries of Vanderslice Manor, 70min, CC / p71 10pm The Backyard, 45min, KF / p76 Close Your Legs, Honey - A New Musical, 75min, CC / p71 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Literary Creatures, 60min, WP / p102 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103
7:30pm Death Is A Cabaret Ol’ Chum, 60min, NWP / p86 Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, 95min, NP / p83 Lay Me Down Softly, 120min, CC / p72 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade, 150min, CC / p72 Off the Curtain, 50min, OC / p91 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 To Live By Each Other, 45min, SP / p95
2:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84
11:30pm WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play), 110min, CC / p74
2:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
11:59pm / Midnight The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103
3pm AntiCone, 45min, KF / p77 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 The Feminization of Madness, 30min, NP / p82 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, 95min, NP / p83 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 The Graveyard Slot, 60min, NWP / p86 Songs For Monsters, 90min, Northern Liberties / p92 The William Penn Story, 60min, NP / p84
11am Almost Pregnant, 90min, CC / p71 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 11:30am FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Noon FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 The Presented, 50min, WP / p104 1pm Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 Berlin to Broadway, 90min, SP / p95 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96 Theater Artists Play, 180min, WP / p104 Works on Paper, gallery hours, SP / p97 1:30pm To Live By Each Other, 45min, SP / p95 2pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Before/After, 60min, SP / p94 Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 CRAVE, 65min, WP / p102
8:30pm Real America, 60min, CC / p68
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2:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
10:30pm Do You Want A Cookie? Late Night Snacks: Tareke Ortiz + Cherdonna Shinatra, 60min, NP / p35 Plunge, 60min, NP / p83
SUNDAY SUNDAY 9.16 9.16
8pm All 100 Fires, 70min, WP / p103 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 CRAVE, 65min, WP / p102 Day of Absence, 60min, OC / p90 Do You See What I Hear?, 45min, CC / p70 The F Word, 105min, CC / p72 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 In the Forest, 80min, WP / p102 Just Another Normal Conversation, 60min, CC / p72 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Lockhardt, 60min, OC / p91 Long Trouble, 45min, KF / p78 Mother/Daughter, 60min, SP / p96 P Pan and Beyondland, 90min, NP / p83 Passport, 65min, CC / p73 Think Before You Speak, 45min, CC / p74 True West, 120min, KF / p79 A Vacation, 60min, CC / p70 Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd, 70min, OC / p49
FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 Just Another Normal Conversation, 60min, CC / p72 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade, 150min, CC / p72 Mother/Daughter, 60min, SP / p96 NIGHTMARE FUEL, 55min, WP / p103 P Pan and Beyondland, 90min, NP / p83 Sfânta, 65min, CC / p73 Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 Think Before You Speak, 45min, CC / p74 True West, 120min, KF / p79 Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd, 70min, OC / p49
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 The undergird, 75min, KS / p51 3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 4pm All 100 Fires, 70min, WP / p103 The Backyard, 45min, KF / p76 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 Church & State, 70min, NP / p82 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Passport, 65min, CC / p73 4:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
Day by Day 5pm AntiCone, 45min, KF / p77 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 As You Like It, 120min, NP / p83 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60min, CC / p71 Beirut, 75min, CC / p71 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 5:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 5:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 To Live By Each Other, 45min, SP / p95 5:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Ground Works, 50min, NWP / p86 (Kensington) Streetplay, 90min, KF / p77 P Pan and Beyondland, 90min, NP / p83 Pestilence: Wow!, 70min, WP / p104 Skills and Scars, 180min, KF / p78 6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96 6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 7pm The Backyard, 45min, KF / p76 Before/After, 60min, SP / p94 Berlin to Broadway, 90min, SP / p95 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 God, Forgive These Bastards, 60min, KF / p78 The Graveyard Slot, 60min, NWP / p86 Life In Eight Parts, 60min, NP / p83 Moonwriters, 90min, WP / p103 No, We Won’t Shut Up!, 65min, Media / p100 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 Sage Wisdom, 60min, CC / p73 Songs For Monsters, 90min, Northern Liberties / p92 White Feminist, 55min, CC / p74 7:30pm Do You Want A Cookie?, 120min, NP / p35 Off the Curtain, 50min, OC / p91 8pm Almost Pregnant, 90min, CC / p71 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 It Might Be About Babies, 50min, KF / p78 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn, 70min, KF / p76
Of Arms and the Man, 90min, OC / p53 Passport, 65min, CC / p73 WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play), 110min, CC / p74
8pm I <3 AvdD, 80min, SP / p95
9pm Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 Skills and Scars, 180min, KF / p78
9:30pm Peg!, 75min, CC / p68
8:30pm Cocktail Plays, 60min, KF / p77
11pm The Buried Life, 75min, CC / p71
MONDAY MONDAY 9.17 9.17
WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY 9.19 9.19
6pm Till We Have Faces, 120min, CC / p74 Victoria, 90min, SP / p96
11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36
7pm Bon Iver Fights A Bear, 60min, WP / p103 The F Word, 105min, CC / p72 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 Propaganda Machine Show, 120min, KF / p78
Noon Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 1pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
7:30pm The Heartbreak of a Serial Monogamist, 60min, SP / p95 Off the Curtain, 50min, OC / p91
1:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
8pm Cocktail Plays, 60min, KF / p77 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play), 110min, CC / p74
2pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90
9pm Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92
2:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
9:30pm Peg!, 75min, CC / p68
3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38
TUESDAY TUESDAY 9.18 9.18 Noon Same Picture Different Poses, 40min, CC / p69
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
4pm A New Kind of Whole, 80min, OC / p91
3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
6pm Cocktail Plays, 60min, KF / p77 Victoria, 90min, SP / p96
3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
6:30pm Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Unofficial, Unauthorized Tour of Love Park - RAIN DATE, 45min, CC / p68
4pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39
7pm Errant Limbs, 60min, KF / p76 The F Word, 105min, CC / p72 God, Forgive These Bastards, 60min, KF / p78 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 Songs For Monsters, 90min, Northern Liberties / p92 SPIES! A tech-immersive comedy, 120min, KF / p78
4:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 4:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
7:30pm The Heartbreak of a Serial Monogamist, 60min, SP / p95 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84
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4:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 5pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 6pm All 100 Fires, 70min, WP / p103 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Cocktail Plays, 60min, KF / p77 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96 Works on Paper, gallery hours, SP / p97 6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96 6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 7pm A New Kind of Whole, 80min, OC / p91 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Errant Limbs, 60min, KF / p76 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 a PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION, 50min, CC / p70 7:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 7:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 The Heartbreak of a Serial Monogamist, 60min, SP / p95 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 天问TIAN WEN: Heavenly Questions for Modern Times, 60min, CC / p70 The William Penn Story, 60min, NP / p84 7:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 8pm The Buried Life, 75min, CC / p71 Darlings: Kill Us Please, 75min, CC / p68 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 I <3 AvdD, 80min, SP / p95 The Presented, 50min, WP / p104 Shelter, 90min, CC / p73 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 True West, 120min, KF / p79
DAY DAY 8:30pm Cocktail Plays, 60min, KF / p77
Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39
9pm Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92
4:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
9:30pm Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 10pm The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 10:30pm WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play), 110min, CC / p74
THURSDAY THURSDAY 9.20 9.20 11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 Noon Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 1pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Same Picture Different Poses, 40min, CC / p69 1:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 2pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 2:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 4pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
4:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
天问TIAN WEN: Heavenly Questions for Modern Times, 60min, CC / p70
3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, / p36
7:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
4pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38
8pm All 100 Fires, 70min, WP / p103 Baby’s First Time to Philly, 60min, NP / p82 Beirut, 75min, CC / p71 The Buried Life, 75min, CC / p71 Darlings: Kill Us Please, 75min, CC / p68 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Phaedra’s Love, 60min, KF / p78 Pillow Talk, 60min, CC / p68 Shelter, 90min, CC / p73 True West, 120min, KF / p79
4:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 5pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Baby’s First Time to Philly, 60min, NP / p82 The Presented, 50min, WP / p104 Victoria, 90min, SP / p96
8:30pm home ~ re-vised, re-purposed, and re-edited for 2018, 30min, Jenkintown / p100 9pm Company, 60min, NP / p83 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 One Man’s Trash: A Cabaret About Treasure, 65min, SP / p95 powerpoints for my friends, 60min, CC / p69 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73
6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96
10:30pm WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play), 110min, CC / p74
6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
FRIDAY FRIDAY 9.21 9.21
7pm A New Kind of Whole, 80min, OC / p91 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Company, 60min, NP / p83 Day of Absence, 60min, OC / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Long Trouble, 45min, KF / p78 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 a PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION, 50min, CC / p70 Sfânta, 65min, CC / p73 ShakesBEER Roulette, 80min, NWP / p87 SPIES! A tech-immersive comedy, 120min, KF / p78
10am Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96 11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 Noon Airport Opened, 50min, CC / p70 Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 2pm Chichi Chip (an ode to the Gnarly), 40min, CC / p69
7:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Till We Have Faces, 120min, CC / p74
7:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade, 150min, CC / p72 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
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4:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 4:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 4:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 5pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC 6pm All 100 Fires, 70min, WP / p103 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Victoria, 90min, SP / p96 6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96 6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 7pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Company, 60min, NP / p83 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 a PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION, 50min, CC / p70 ShakesBEER Roulette, 80min, NWP / p87 Starting Over, 75min, NP / p70 7:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 7:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Beirut, 75min, CC / p71 Death Is A Cabaret Ol’ Chum, 60min, NWP / p86
DAY DAY For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, 95min, NP / p83 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade, 150min, CC / p72 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 7:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 8pm A New Kind of Whole, 80min, OC / p91 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 The Buried Life, 75min, CC / p71 Circadium Presents: Autopilot / Galactic Garden Party, 90min, NWP / p86 Darlings: Kill Us Please, 75min, CC / p68 Day of Absence, 60min, OC / p90 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 I <3 AvdD, 80min, SP / p95 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Lurid Circumstance of the Flesh, 60min, KF / p77 Paprika Plains, 40min, SP / p95 Pillow Talk, 60min, CC / p68 The Presented, 50min, WP / p104 Propaganda Machine Show, 120min, KF / p78 Shelter, 90min, CC / p73 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 True West, 120min, KF / p79 8:30pm home ~ re-vised, re-purposed, and re-edited for 2018, 30min, Jenkintown / p100 9pm Company, 60min, NP / p83 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Long Trouble, 45min, KF / p78 powerpoints for my friends, 60min, CC / p69 ShakesBEER Roulette, 80min, NWP / p87 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92 9:30pm Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 10pm Darlings: Kill Us Please, 75min, CC / p68 FEEL, 70min, CC / p72 Literary Creatures, 60min, WP / p102 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 Phaedra’s Love, 60min, KF / p78 10:30pm Plunge, 60min, NP / p83 WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play), 110min, CC / p74
11pm Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73
Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 True West, 120min, KF / p79
11:59pm / Midnight Darlings: Kill Us Please, 75min, CC Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103
2:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 2:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
SATURDAY SATURDAY 9.22 9.22
2:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
11am FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Music for Children and Other Curious People, 60min, KF / p77 Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36
3pm A New Kind of Whole, 80min, OC / p91 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Company, 60min, NP / p83 Day of Absence, 60min, OC / p90 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39
11:30am FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Noon FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
12:30pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96
3:30pm a PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION, 50min, CC / p70 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 In Plain Air, 60min, OC / p57
1pm FIGMAGO (installation), 60min, SP / p96 In Plain Air, 60min, OC / p57 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96 Works on Paper, gallery hours, SP / p97
3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 4pm Chichi Chip (an ode to the Gnarly) - RAIN DATE, 40min, CC / p69 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Heightened Sight, 90min, CC / p69 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73
1:30pm Tango, Tarantella and Tutus, 50min, SP / p94 2pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 Beirut, 75min, CC / p71 Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 Close Your Legs, Honey - A New Musical, 75min, CC / p71 Darlings: Kill Us Please, 75min, CC / p68 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, 95min, NP / p83 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 It Might Be About Babies, 50min, KF / p78 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade, 150min, CC / p72 powerpoints for my friends, 60min, CC / p69 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73
5pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 As You Like It, 120min, NP / p83 Company, 60min, NP / p83 FEEL, 70min, CC / p72 It Might Be About Babies, 50min, KF / p78 5:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 5:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 5:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90
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Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 God, Forgive These Bastards, 60min, KF / p78 In Plain Air, 60min, OC / p57 Peterhoff’s YOUR UNCLE SAM, An American Vaudeville Celebration!, 60min, KF / p78 The Presented, 50min, WP / p104 6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Troilus and Cressida, 105min, SP / p96 6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 7pm FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Heightened Sight, 90min, CC / p69 Life In Eight Parts, 60min, NP / p83 Mary Rose, 120min, WP / p103 Metal & Kind’s Indestructible Flowers, 60min, CC / p69 a PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION, 50min, CC / p70 Sfânta, 65min, CC / p73 ShakesBEER Roulette, 80min, NWP / p87 7:30pm Death Is A Cabaret Ol’ Chum, 60min, NWP / p86 For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, 95min, NP / p83 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade, 150min, CC / p72 Ridiculous, 75min, SP / p94 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 8pm All 100 Fires, 70min, WP / p103 Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 Circadium Presents: Autopilot / Galactic Garden Party, 90min, NWP / p86 Company, 60min, NP / p83 Darlings: Kill Us Please, 75min, CC / p68 Day of Absence, 60min, OC / p90 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Fly Eagles Fly, 80min, CC / p72 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Long Trouble, 45min, KF / p78 manger, 60min, OC / p55 Paprika Plains, 40min, SP / p95
Day by Day Shelter, 90min, CC / p73 True West, 120min, KF / p79
Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39
8:30pm home ~ re-vised, re-purposed, and re-edited for 2018, 30min, Jenkintown / p100
3:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
9pm FIGMAGO (performance), 60min, SP / p96 Phaedra’s Love, 60min, KF / p78 powerpoints for my friends, 60min, CC / p69 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92 10pm Darlings: Kill Us Please, 75min, CC / p68 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Literary Creatures, 60min, WP / p102 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 10:30pm Plunge, 60min, NP / p83 WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play), 110min, CC / p74 11:59pm / Midnight The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103
SUNDAY SUNDAY 9.23 9.23 1pm Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96 Works on Paper, gallery hours, SP / p97 2pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Camp Pause, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 Kill Move Paradise, 80min, CC / p72 Tell Me What I Can Do, gallery hours, Bryn Mawr / p38 2:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 2:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 home ~ re-vised, re-purposed, and re-edited for 2018, 30min, Jenkintown / p100 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale, 80min, NP / p84 2:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 3pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 Company, 60min, NP / p83 feral wild girl child, 90min, SP / p95 For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, 95min, NP / p83
9pm Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73 10pm The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90
3:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 In Plain Air, 60min, OC / p57
MONDAY MONDAY 9.24 9.24
3:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
Noon The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90
4pm Behold Her, 60min, OC / p91 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Ridiculous, 75min, SP / p94 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73
2pm The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 4pm The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 The Presented, 50min, WP / p104
5pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 As You Like It, 120min, NP / p83 Company, 60min, NP / p83
5pm Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73
5:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
6pm All 100 Fires, 70min, WP / p103 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90
5:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
7pm Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73
5:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
8pm The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 NIGHTMARE FUEL, 55min, WP / p103
6pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 In Plain Air, 60min, OC / p57
9pm Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103 UNHINGED, 75min, OC / p92 10pm The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90
6:15pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
TUESDAY TUESDAY 9.25 9.25
6:30pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
7pm Quidity: Migration Patterns of Imaginary Things, CC / p70
6:45pm As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, 12min, Bryn Mawr / p36
WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY 9.26 9.26
7pm Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 Metal & Kind’s Indestructible Flowers, 60min, CC / p69 Now More Than Ever, 70min, WP / p103
11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 6pm Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition, gallery hours, SP / p96
7:30pm Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo, 65min, CC / p73
THURSDAY THURSDAY 9.27 9.27
8pm Circadium Presents: Autopilot / Galactic Garden Party, 90min, NWP / p86 The FREN BANKLIN Experience, 30min, your home / p90 Gardens Speak, 45min, Bryn Mawr / p39 manger, 60min, OC / p55
11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 1pm Same Picture Different Poses RAIN DATE, 40min, CC / p69
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FRIDAY FRIDAY 9.28 9.28 11am Stories of Refuge, gallery hours, OC / p36 8pm Humans, 70min, WP / p59
SATURDAY SATURDAY 9.29 9.29 2pm Humans, 70min, WP / p59
FESTIVAL O18 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 – 3 0 , 2 018
“ O N E O F T H E M O S T E N J OYA B L E A D D I T I O N S TO T H E FA L L C A L E N DA R I N Y E A R S .” — T H E WA S H I N G T O N P O S T
Featured artists include… Stephanie Blythe Queens of the Night
Ant hony Rot h Costanzo Glass Handel
Patr icia Racette Ne Quitt ez Pas (La voix humaine)
Dito van Reigersberg Queens of the Night
Marietta Simpson Sky on Swings
Frederica von Stade Sky on Swings
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Yael Bartana
And Europe Will Be Stunned Sept 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jan 1 Join us for the public performance Bury Our Weapons, Not Our Bodies! September 22 at 2 p.m. For details visit philamuseum.org. Major support for the exhibition Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned and the site-specific performance Bury Our Weapons, Not Our Bodies! was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional generous contributions from the Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation, Lyn M. Ross, and The Arlin and Neysa Adams Endowment Fund. Credits as of May 24, 2018
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Of Arms and the Man • p52 8pm
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Stifters Dinge (“Stifter’s things”) is a play with no actors, a composition for five pianos with no pianists, a performance without performers — a no-man show. Light, pictures, murmurs, sounds, voices, wind and mist, water and ice — these devices usually act as mere props or set pieces, but in Stifters Dinge they become protagonists.
“What if actors stood aside and let props steal the show?” The Guardian “The audience is at the center of this piece — they make sense of what they see and what they hear, in a liberated and individualized way.” Heiner Goebbels
PERFORMATIVE INSTALLATION Sept 7 + 8 at 8pm + 10:30pm Sept 9 at 6pm + 8:30pm The Navy Yard, Building 611 1120 Flagship Drive Wheelchair accessible 70 minutes $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8001 Photos: Ewa Herzog
Stifters Dinge has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Produced by Théâtre de Vidy. Coproduced by spielzeit’europa, Berliner Festspiele, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, schauspielfrankfurt, T&M-Théâtre de Gennevilliers/CDN, Pour-cent culturel Migros, and Teatro Stabile di Torino. Corealised by Artangel London. With the support of Pro Helvetia - Fondation suisse pour la culture. Festival Co-Producers Lynne & Bertram Strieb
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Heiner Goebbels
Writing in early 19th-century Bohemia, Adalbert Stifter focused his attention on non-human forces, natural phenomena and “things” we don’t really know how to name and explain. In a large-scale performative installation, world-renowned composer Heiner Goebbels decelerates our sense of time to bring “Stifter’s things” to the forefront of our awareness. Evocative recordings of William S. Burroughs, Malcolm X, and Claude Lévi-Strauss whisper throughout Goebbels’s soundscape, emphasizing the political implications of this newfound meditative space.
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In the forgotten office of an aging clerk, the tedium of everyday life transforms into a comical and haunting world of futility, remembrance, and regret. The Accountant is a visual theater piece inspired by the disorientation that death can bring into our lives and Samuel Beckett’s rumination on impermanence, Krapp’s Last Tape.
“Trey Lyford has a masterful sense of staging.” Philadelphia Magazine
Cocreator of Festival favorites all wear bowlers (2005), Amnesia Curiosa (2006), and Elephant Room (2011), Trey Lyford characteristically blends physical theater, vaudeville routines, illusion, and slapstick to celebrate the beauty fluttering in the details of everyday life and the poetic humor embedded at the epicenter of loss. When you account for the moments that make up who you are, does it all add up? Created in collaboration with performers Ben Bass and Coralie Holum Lyford, composer Cole Kamen-Green, and designers Eric Novak, Tara Webb, and Robin Stamey.
THEATER WORLD PREMIERE! Sept 6 + 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 1pm + 8pm Sept 9 at 1pm Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street Wheelchair accessible 75 minutes $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8011
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Major support for The Accountant has been provided to Trey Lyford by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Festival Producers Edward & Anne Wagner Festival Co-Producers Shelley Green & Michael Golden Photo: Jenna Spitz
Trey Lyford
“I was delivering mail at a temp job and came across this dimly lit office with a small lamp softly illuminating an old clerk. He was surrounded by papers stacked floor to ceiling. It felt like he was some kind of gatekeeper to a world that time forgot. I’ve never been able to shake that image.” Trey Lyford
DO YOU WANT DO YOU WANT A COOKIE?
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Late Night Snacks: Artist Lineup FringeArts.com/8022 Sept 8: Mary Tuomanen + Bridge Markland Sept 9: Adrienne Truscott + Cookie Diorio Sept 12: Dito van Reigersberg + Machine Dazzle Sept 13: Malgorzata Kaspryzcka, Dieter Rita Scholl + John Jarboe Sept 14: Messapotamia LeFae, Jess Conda + Daniel Park Sept 15: Tareke Ortiz + Cherdonna Shinatra
Philadelphia’s Bearded Ladies Cabaret has some treats for you. Do You Want A Cookie? transforms an old factory to concoct the perfect cabaret confections to satisfy your cravings. Part Great Cabaret Bake-Off, part irreverent romp through cabaret history, the show is at once subversive, joyous, provocative, and communal.
“This is going to be some radical shit.” John Jarboe
A large international cast of cabaret artists perform across two levels of a cavernous space refitted as a seductive nightclub, presenting a live history of cabaret from Le Chat Noir to Weimar nightlife to 21stcentury drag. Do You Want A Cookie? sees the live culmination of a multiyear study into the history and evolution of cabaret — research you can see in the Bearded Ladies’ Digital Fringe offering, The Poison Cookie Jar (see page 107). After select performances of Do You Want A Cookie? individual artists present extended cabaret acts as Late Night Snacks.
CABARET WORLD PREMIERE! Sept 4*, 6–9 + 12–16 at 7:30pm *Preview Late Night Snacks performances Sept 8, 9 + 12–15 at 10:30pm 448 North 10th Street 120 minutes Late Night Snacks: 60 minutes $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets with Late Night Snacks performances included: $35 (general) $24.50 (member) $20 (student + 25-and-under) Late Night Snacks individual tickets: $10–$15 (general, member + student) FringeArts.com/8021
Do You Want A Cookie? has been made possible in part by support from The William Penn Foundation. Major support for The Poison Cookie Jar has been provided to John Jarboe by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Supported in part by a Bly Creative Capacity Grant from Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). Festival Star Producers David & Linda Glickstein Festival Star Producers Mark & Tobey Dichter Festival Executive Producers Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Festival Producers Lawrence Spitz & Carol Klein Festival Co-Producers Cat, Annie & Steven Bohnenberger Photo: Plate 3 Photography
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The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
“An always daringly incendiary brand of queer cabaret.” Philadelphia Weekly
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EAR-WHISPERED: WORKS BY TANIA EL KHOURY
As Far As My Fingertips Take Me A one-on-one encounter through a gallery wall between an audience member and a refugee. Musician and street artist Basel Zaraa marks the audience member with the story of his family’s journey from Syria to Sweden as the audience member listens on headphones to his music and story. This intimate encounter asks whether we need to literally “feel” a refugee in order to understand the effect of border discrimination. $15 / 12 minutes Pii Gallery 242 Race Street Sept 6 + 7 at 3pm–5pm + 6pm–8pm Sept 8 + 9 at 2pm–4pm + 5pm–7pm Sept 12–14 at 3pm–5pm + 6pm–8pm Performances begin every 15 minutes for an audience of one. FringeArts.com/8032
Stories of Refuge
Free / 12 minutes Taft Garden at Bryn Mawr College Between Goodhart Hall and Canaday Library Sept 15 + 16 at 2pm–4pm + 5pm–7pm Sept 19-21 at 3pm–5pm + 6pm–8pm Sept 22 + 23 at 2pm–4pm + 5pm–7pm
Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising in 2011, refugees have been fleeing the brutality of the Assad regime and searching for new destinations. This immersive video installation invites audiences to lay down on metal bunk beds and watch videos shot by Syrian asylum seekers in Munich, Germany. Free / Gallery hours Twelve Gates Arts 102 North Second Street Sept 6–8, 12–15, 19–22 + 26–28 at 11am–5pm FringeArts.com/8033
At Bryn Mawr College, tickets will not be reserved in advance. Sign up in person on a first-come, first-served basis. Commissioned by “On the Move” LIFT 2016 in partnership with Royal Court Theatre, London. Festival Co-Producers Lynne & Bertram Strieb
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Festival Star Producers Martha Carey & Mark Tomlinson Commissioned by Spielart Festival, Munich.
FringeArts Curated Working between Lebanon and the United Kingdom, Tania El Khoury meticulously crafts innovative performances and installations that engage the audience in multisensory interaction.
“I was reminded how much power there can be when one human voice, unstilled, speaks the truth to one listener.” Boston Globe “Using the audience as collaborators rebalances the power dynamics around us. In such a medium both the artist and audience reveal their politics. You are invited to take a stand, make a decision, react, relate, play, give an opinion, disagree.” Tania El Khoury
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION FringeArts.com/8031
Presented in partnership with Bryn Mawr College, taniaelkhoury.brynmawr.edu Major support for ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury has been provided to Bryn Mawr College by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support is provided by Bryn Mawr College’s Middle Eastern Studies Program.
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Tania El Khoury
An extensive survey of El Khoury’s art, ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury presents five pieces at locations in Old City and at Bryn Mawr College.
Presented in partnership with Bryn Mawr College
No one shouts at you during these interactive experiences, no soundbites oversimplify the complexity of your direct encounter with unfamiliar realities of living under oppression, or in the midst of political upheaval, or on the margins. Unlike more conventional theater and performance, El Khoury’s live art work comes alive through the audience’s interaction with it.
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Tell Me What I Can Do World Premiere! Twenty-eight showings of Gardens Speak across five continents produced a large number of audience letters written in response to the piece. As the pile of letters kept growing, Tania El Khoury realized that the contents of letters were overwhelmingly complex, messy, and intimate. They could not be reduced to a simple message of solidarity, but many included the sentence “Tell me what I can do.” In this newly commissioned work, the artist asks the audience for guidance on what to do with accumulated material that we regard as evidence of our encounter and our shared responsibility. Free / Gallery hours Goodhart Hall Common Room, Bryn Mawr College 150 North Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr Sept 12 + 13 at 3pm–10pm Sept 14 at 4pm–10pm Sept 15 + 16 at 2pm–10pm Sept 19 + 20 at 3pm–10pm Sept 21 at 4pm–10pm Sept 22 + 23 at 2pm–10pm FringeArts.com/8036
Camp Pause Tania El Khoury and Abir Saksouk from Beirut-based Dictaphone Group worked with four residents of the Rashidieh Refugee Camp on the coast of Lebanon — a camp for Palestinian refugees that has existed for generations. This video installation following four residents from their homes to the sea, weaving narratives about the history of the land, their arrival, the struggle to build, and life in a camp. The four videos play simultaneously on the walls of a square gallery space, each video and its accompanying audio following one story. Free / Gallery hours Canaday Library Rare Book Room, Bryn Mawr College Sept 12–14 at noon–10pm Sept 15 + 16 at 2pm–10pm Sept 19–21 at noon–10pm Sept 22 + 23 at 2pm–10pm On display through December 14 Post-Festival hours: Mon–Fri noon–4:30pm FringeArts.com/8035 Commissioned by Dar el-Nimr, Beirut. Additional support for Camp Pause has been provided by Bryn Mawr College’s Special Collections and Friends of the Library.
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Gardens Speak Across Syria, many gardens conceal the dead bodies of activists and protesters who took to the streets during the early periods of the ongoing uprising against the regime of Bashar Hafez al-Assad. An immersive sound installation for 10 viewers at a time, Gardens Speak relates the oral histories of 10 ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves may have recounted them. $20 / 45 minutes Hepburn Teaching Theater in Goodhart Hall Bryn Mawr College 150 North Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr Sept 12–16 + 19–23 Select time slots between 2pm and 9pm. See website for available showings. Performances on September 15 at 3pm and 4pm will be in Arabic. FringeArts.com/8034 Photo: Jesse Hunniford Co-commissioned by Fierce Festival (UK) and Next Wave Festival (Australia). Developed through the Artsadmin Artists’ Bursary Scheme. Supported by Arts Council of England.
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The world’s most infectious performance event returns to the famous steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for an even larger spectacle of dance.
“The roar from hundreds of spectators went from loud to deafening as the choreographed dance began to take energetic life … It left the audience cheering for more.” The Philadelphia Inquirer “In every city the reaction is the same. The participants and the audience experience the same excitement and emotions … People somehow reconnect with the city they live in.” Sylvian Émard A joyously big line dance by Montreal-based choreographer Sylvain Émard, Le Grand Continental® wowed audiences during its run at the 2012 Fringe Festival and has garnered enthusiastic response across the world — from New York to Mexico City to Wellington, New Zealand. Fully realizing a blissful marriage between the pure delight of line dancing and the fluidity and expressiveness of contemporary dance, the celebratory event enlists hundreds of local people to perform its synchronized choreography in largescale public performances. Featuring a diverse cast of 200 Philadelphians from all ages and dance backgrounds, the expanded Le Super Grand Continental brings whole new choreography to a festive — and FREE — dance extravaganza at one of the city’s most iconic locations. After each performance, the crowd is invited to join the dancers as the Art Museum steps become a huge open-air dance floor.
DANCE Sept 8 at 4pm + 8pm Sept 9 at 4pm Philadelphia Museum of Art Steps 26th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway Wheelchair accessible 30 minutes
Le Super Grand Continental has been made possible in part by support from The William Penn Foundation. Le Super Grand Continental is a Sylvain Émard Danse and Festival TransAmériques coproduction.
FREE FringeArts.com/8041 Photos: Robert Etcheverry + Robert Torres
Le Super Grand Continental is part of the SPARK: Fringe For Young Audiences series of family-friendly programming. The SPARK Series is made possible by a leadership gift from the Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund.
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A work of theater as much as one of music, Songs of Wars I Have Seen juxtaposes modern and period instruments, electronic atmospherics, baroque compositions, modernist harmonies, and the haunting text of Gertrude Stein’s World War II memoir to create a bittersweet lament on war’s insidious effects.
“The piece is uncannily moving, its emotional reach unexpectedly deep.” The Sunday Times (UK)
Conducted by Estonian maestro Anu Tali, the staged concert sees performers from Philadelphia’s leading classical music groups — Philadelphia Orchestra and baroque ensemble Tempesta di Mare — speak Stein’s words and play Goebbels’s compositions. Bridging centuries of music, the melodies range from jazzy bursts to plaintive moans, incorporating melancholic and violent segments by the 17th-century English composer Matthew Locke. Musical styles may change, war remains.
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MUSIC THEATER Sept 7 + 8 at 8pm FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard Wheelchair accessible 75 minutes $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8002
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Songs of Wars I Have Seen has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Festival Co-Producer Lee Vandevelde
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An American Jew living in the Nazi puppet state of Vichy France, Stein detailed everyday life in a neutral, descriptive style, pausing as much on the food she ate as the atrocities engulfing Europe. Her Wars I Have Seen tells us what is happening, without telling us how to feel about it. In Songs of Wars I Have Seen, iconoclastic German composer Heiner Goebbels emphasizes this meditative neutrality and focuses on the often-overlooked female experience of war.
Performed by members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Tempesta di Mare
“When a tree is already being mentioned, you don’t also have to show it.” Heiner Goebbels
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A contemporary American dance company that brings dance where it does not belong, Monica Bill Barnes & Company has created an irreverent and devotional love letter to museums.
“Tackles serious questions about the relationship between artists and audiences and about what constitutes dance … with physical wit.” The New Yorker
Deep knee bends in front of Renaissance armor? Jumping jacks with Picasso? Put your sneakers on and jog along with Monica Bill Barnes and her longtime dancing partner Anna Bass as they travel through the Philadelphia Museum of Art, performing choreographed exercises in the galleries. Creative producing director Robert Saenz de Viteri interviewed and edited commentary by author/visual artist Maira Kalman (who selected the art along the tour). He mixes her contemplative narration live during the show with high-energy songs ranging from disco to Motown, providing an infectious soundtrack to participatory performances that transform the museum tour and create a new relationship with the galleries and art. NOTE: Not for the faint of heart. Participants will engage in a brisk, 45-minute workout. Exercise attire required.
DANCE Sept 12 at 8am + 9am Sept 13 at 8am, 9am, 5:30pm + 6:30pm Sept 14 at 8am + 9am Sept 15 + 16 at 8am, 9am, 5:30pm + 6:30pm Philadelphia Museum of Art 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway 60 minutes $35 (general) $24 (members) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8046 Photo: The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Museum Workout is presented in partnership with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with support for this production from the Museum’s endowment, through The Daniel W. Dietrich II Fund for Contemporary Art. The Museum Workout is made possible with support from Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and Jody and John Arnhold. Festival Co-Producers Bill & Joyce Kunkle
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“The experience of being physical while looking at the artwork and listening to disco will change the way the audience feels about being in a museum.” Monica Bill Barnes
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CAEN AMOUR CAEN AMOUR
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Choreographer Trajal Harrell, creator of the series Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (2014 Fringe Festival), uses the origins of modern dance to create an entirely new performance piece, one that invites the viewer to step into an unexplored historical imagination.
“Funny, affecting and ironic in tone, and visually like no other choreography you’ve seen.” The Guardian “I see a direct line between hoochie-coochie and early modern dance.” Trajal Harrell
Led by a cast of (mostly) male dancers performing as women, Caen Amour asks questions like: How is a “woman” performed? What role did hoochie-coochie performers have in establishing dance as an art form? Part cheesy peep show, part historical reenactment, Caen Amour is a wholly innovative dance experience.
DANCE THEATER Sept 13 + 14 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 15 at 5pm + 7pm FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard Wheelchair accessible 70 minutes $35 (general) $24.50 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8051
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Coproduction support: Barbican Centre (London), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Festival Avignon, Theater Freiburg, Arsenic (Lausanne), Gessnerallee (Zurich), ICA Boston, Kaaitheater (Brussels), Productiehuis Rotterdam. Also supported by TANZFONDS ERBEGerman Federal Cultural Foundation Initiative. Festival Co-Producers Larry & Ann Rosen Spector Festival Co-Producer Jane G. Pepper
Photo: Orpheas Emirzas
Trajal Harrell
Arising from performances at the World’s Fairs of 19th-century Europe and America, hoochie-coochie presented bastardized, titillating versions of Middle Eastern dance. Informed by the ritualized moves of dance-floor voguing and the Japanese dance-theater tradition of butoh, Caen Amour explores the line between artistic and erotic dance of the past, and imagines how erotic dancing of previous eras would look today, exoticism and spectacle remaining intact.
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VARIATIONS ON THEMES VARIATIONS ON THEMES LOST AND FOU SCENES FROM A LIFE FROM
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“[The collaborators] have woven material from seven of Mr. Bernd’s pieces into a fresh, funny and profoundly poignant new work.” The New York Times “The thrust of the piece is not about John’s illness, but about his work, and what his work and the work of many from his generation could have become.” Ishmael Houston-Jones Houston-Jones and Gutierrez reconfigure excerpts of pieces from the last seven years of Bernd’s life to create a new vision of his work that captures the vitality of his vision, demonstrates how his influence lives in modernday dance, and serves as a blueprint for what his work might have become. As an artist and musician as well as a choreographer, Bernd pioneered interdisciplinary dance performance. This work incorporates his signature artworks and original music compositions, reimagined and enhanced by composer Nick Hallett.
DANCE Sept 14 + 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 2pm Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street Wheelchair accessible 70 minutes $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8056 Photos: Ian Douglas
Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Originally made possible with support from a commission from Danspace Project, as well as support from Mert Gilmore Foundation, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, James E. Robison Foundation, Lambent Foundation, and an Emergency Grant from Foundation for Contemporary Art. Festival Co-Producers Sissie & Herb Lipton Festival Co-Producer Christie Hartwell Festival Co-Producer Judith Tannenbaum Festival Co-Producers Tony Forte & Ryan Hummel Festival Producer Bob Dever
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Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez
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Until his death from AIDS in 1988, multidisciplinary choreographer John Bernd stood at the forefront of New York’s experimental dance scene. Discovering a piece of paraphernalia from that time, Bernd’s onetime friend and collaborator Ishmael Houston-Jones asked: What would contemporary dance be like if the gay/ dance communities hadn’t lost a whole generation of creators to the epidemic? Together with choreographer Miguel Gutierrez, Houston-Jones mashed up Bernd’s work into a wholly new piece which proposes enticing answers to this question.
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THE UNDERGIRD THE UNDERGIRD
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Where does one body end and another begin? Can my words, my insistence, let you feel the inside of my elbow? If you can feel it and I can feel you, does that make us more real?
“Dance both generous and private. It is literary, rational, literal.” thINKingDANCE “It’s like the floorboards lift up and the space becomes so full with drummed up emotion and sensation and image that we touch each other without touching.” Meg Foley
Through dance, sculpture, and text, Foley and her collaborators — performers Drew Kaiser, Jungeun Kim, and Annie Wilson, designer Natalie Robin — radicalize the eulogy and use memory as felt material and forgetting as a gateway to be closer to one another. The performance builds an intimate, highly physical space that undoes our understanding of time and loss and proposes that together we can bear almost anything. Presented in partnership with Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts.
DANCE WORLD PREMIERE! Sept 13 at 8pm Sept 14 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 15 at 3:30pm + 6pm Sept 16 at 3:30pm Icebox Project Space 1400 North American Street 75 minutes $29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8061
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Developed with financial support provided by The University of the Arts. Residency support provided by Icebox Project Space, Dancemakers Centre for Creation, and The Kate Escape.
Meg Foley
Choreographer Meg Foley’s seven-year development of improvisational performance practice culminates in a viscerally affecting four-person work about death and grief as bodily experiences. The undergird is a rhythmic and persistent celebration of where memory and imagination live inside the body and how they are remade through moving ritual.
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A quote from Virgil’s Aeneid serves as an apt title for an epic aural voyage that explores the timeless themes of nationalism and war and navigates personal stories of joy and despair. Grammy-winning choir The Crossing brings to life music by twelve contemporary composers whose work examines victory and loss across national and personal borders.
“I wanted to ask questions for which there are no easy answers. Maybe no answers at all.” Donald Nally “Audiences float out of [Nally’s] concerts on a choral cloud.” The Philadelphia Inquirer
Other highlights include a rare live performance of David Lang’s “depart” and pieces by Louis Andriessen, Benjamin CS Boyle, Sebastian Currier, Suzanne Giraud, Gabriel Jackson, David Shapiro, Kile Smith, and Toivo Tulev. With cellists Thomas Mesa, Arlen Hlusko, and Sujin Lee. Festival Co-Producers Linda & Tom McCarthy
MUSIC Sept 16 at 8pm FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard Wheelchair accessible 90 minutes $39 (general) $27.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8071
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The Crossing
Of Arms and the Man presents an enticing program of choral pieces performed by the 24-voice ensemble under the direction of conductor Donald Nally. In keeping with The Crossing’s mission of presenting new works for choir, the program features a world premiere from 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist Ted Hearne, the nation’s preeminent composer of works of social advocacy.
Featuring a world premiere by Ted Hearne!
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Whet your appetite with manger, a delectable work by French choreographer Boris Charmatz (Levée des conflits, 2016 Fringe Festival) that implores audiences to examine the nature of eating, of digesting information, of consuming.
Charmatz subjects dance to formal constraints which redefine its possibilities. In manger (French for “to eat”), he sets bodies in motion not with the eyes, or with the limbs, but with the mouth: dancers chew through reams of paper, taste, swallow, sing, eat. The mouth is a crossroads where food, voices, breath, words, and saliva intermix: it is a locus where the inside and the outside, the self and the other meet, taste each other, engage each other, interchange and ingest each other. manger is a swallowed reality, a slow digestion of the world.
DANCE Sept 22 + 23 at 8pm FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard Wheelchair accessible 60 minutes $35 (general) $24 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8081 Created at the Ruhrtriennale — International Festival of the Arts 2014
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manger is part of Philadelphia Museum of Dance. Support for Philadelphia Museum of Dance has been provided to Westphal College of Media Arts & Design by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Produced by Musée de la danse / Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne—Directed by Boris Charmatz. The association receives grants from the Ministry of Culture and Communication (Regional Direction of Cultural Affairs / Brittany), the City of Rennes, the Regional Council of Brittany and Ille-et-Vilaine General Council. The Institut français regularly supports the international touring of Musée de la danse. Philadelphia Museum of Dance explores the tension between public and private experience and seeks to offer alternate possibilities for exhibiting dance performance. The project culminates in a one-day free exhibit of live dance at the Barnes Foundation on Saturday, October 6, 3pm-9pm. Visit drexel.edu/phlpmd to plan your day.
Boris Charmatz
“We launch movement with our mouths ... Dance is in the stomach. Dance is in the palate. Dance is in the teeth ... We envision a sort of meal in motion, we eat everything, we eat anything, all the time. We are an orchestra in motion, selffueled ... The essence is jammed down the throat. You don’t want to die stuffed. You swallow the message without having read it. You swallow reality. You digest conflicts.” Boris Charmatz
Presented in partnership with Westphal College of Media Arts & Design as part of Philadelphia Museum of Dance.
“Boris Charmatz plants humanity in its base instincts.” Télérama (France)
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“[International Contemporary Ensemble is] the nation’s preeminent new-music group.” The New York Times The resulting multi-movement program unites the historic bell tolls of “The Nation’s Church,” the majesty of the intricately constructed organ, and the Ensemble’s characteristic focus on place and community into a one-of-a-kind sonic experience — a worthy welcome to an instrument that will continue to ring in the ears of visitors for the next 300 years. Composed by Phyllis Chen and Nathan Davis and performed by members of International Contemporary Ensemble.
MUSIC WORLD PREMIERE! Sept 22 at 1pm, 3:30pm + 6pm Sept 23 at 3:30pm + 6pm Christ Church Sanctuary and Campus 20 North American Street Wheelchair accessible from Second Street. 75 minutes Free (at the door) $2 (online reservation) FringeArts.com/8091
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Major support for In Plain Air has been provided to Christ Church Preservation Trust by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from DolfingerMcMahon Foundation and Arthur Judson Foundation.
Photo: Plate 3 Photography
Presented in partnership with Christ Church Preservation Trust
“The organ is an ensemble with one master: a massive contraption tamed by the great skill of its organist, its builder, and its tuners.” Nathan Davis
International Contemporary Ensemble
As Christ Church installed its C.B. Fisk pipe organ — the latest in a 300-year history of grand church organs within the space — it invited members of acclaimed artist collective International Contemporary Ensemble to inaugurate the new instrument with a program of original compositions. Composers Phyllis Chen (known for her work with hand-wound music boxes and toy pianos) and Nathan Davis (a percussionist fascinated by the mechanics of instruments) immersed themselves in the sound-making possibilities of the church’s organ, bells, and open spaces, as well as the history and public role of the venerable institution.
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HUMANS HUMANS
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Ten highly skilled acrobats, a bare stage, and a stirring journey of what it means to be human. Straddling the borders between circus arts, theater, and contemporary dance, Australia’s bold contemporary circus troupe Circa explores the expressive possibilities of the human body at its extremes.
“A clear demonstration of the artistry of circus and its potential to draw together multiple theatrical forms.” The Guardian “It is precisely because we are human that our physical achievements acquire dignity, meaning, and poetry … In our limitations are our possibilities.” Yaron Lifschitz
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E X T E N D E D F E S T I VA L Sept 28 at 8pm Sept 29 at 2pm Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible 70 minutes $29–$49 (general) $21.75–$36.75 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) FringeArts.com/8099
Humans is copresented with Annenberg Center Live. The Annenberg Center’s 18/19 dance series is presented by Annenberg Center Live and NextMove Dance. Commissioned by MA scene nationale—Pays de Montbeliard. Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland government through Arts Queensland. Festival Executive Producers Carol & Tom Beam Festival Executive Producers Arthur Kaplan & Duane Perry Festival Producers Andrew & Bryna Scott
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Circa
How much we can take as humans? Where are our limits? How much weight can we carry? Who can we trust to support our load? Created by visionary director Yaron Lifschitz with the Circa ensemble, this heart-stopping performance leads us to reflect on the physical and emotional strength it takes to overcome the burdens we carry.
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@ ANNENBERG CENTER LIVE CIRCA Humans SEP 28-29 A stirring exploration of what it means to be human
MAX RICHTER
American Contemporary Music Ensemble OCT 7
Co-presented with FringeArts and NextMove Dance
First U.S. tour by electro-acoustic composer heard across TV and film
PRIVATE PEACEFUL
SPECTRUM DANCE THEATER
OCT 11-13 Experience a young, WWI soldier’s last night alive in this Philly premiere
A Rap on Race OCT 12-13
New dance-theatre work exploring how we talk about race Co-presented with NextMove Dance
BÉLA FLECK, ZAKIR HUSSAIN & EDGAR MEYER
CALEB TEICHER & COMPANY
NOV 11
Radiant tap, jazz and swing troupe making its Philly debut
World music fusion by three powerhouse musicians
DEC 14-15
Co-presented with NextMove Dance
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Hua Hua Zhang’s Visual Expressions www.visualexpressions.org
TIAN WEN:
Inspired by a classic Chinese poem, TIAN WEN is an experimental theatrical puppet art performance using live cello and electronic sounds, sculpture, and movement to explore difficult questions that we face in modern times. La MaMa - Ellen Stewart Theatre November 3 - 5, 2018 66 East 4th Street, New York NY 10003
Saturday at 8:30pm Sunday at 3pm Monday at 7pm Box Office: 212 352 3101
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Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames directed by Blanka Zizka
9.4.18 -9.23.18 “an expressionistic buzzsaw through the contemporary myth that ‘all lives matter’” -James Ijames, playwright
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5 An Unofficial, Unauthorized Tour of LOVE Park Rose Luardo / Kate Banford FringeArts.com/8111 An interactive, questionsencouraged tour of LOVE Park with a completely legitimate, highly respected, and 100% real tour company. At each stop on this mind-bending guided walk through the park, facts will be manipulated and reality will melt. Maybe a bush will talk to you? And maybe that bush invented love. Free / 45 minutes LOVE Park 16th Street and JFK Boulevard Wheelchair accessible Sept 10 at noon Sept 13 at 6:30pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 18 at 6:30pm (rain date) A Festival performance in LOVE Park.
CENTER CITY COMEDY + IMPROV
4 Darlings: Kill Us Please Good Good Comedy Theatre FringeArts.com/8112 Darlings: Kill Us Please is the debut Fringe show from Darlings, a collective of Philadelphia’s most celebrated comedic heartthrobs. We’ve gutted the innards of a full year’s worth of shows at Good Good Comedy Theatre and only left in the juiciest bits and chunks. $12 / 75 minutes Good Good Comedy Theatre 215 North 11th Street Sept 19 + 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 8pm, 10pm + midnight Sept 22 at 2pm, 8pm + 10pm
9 Peg! Kylie Westerbeck FringeArts.com/8113 Meet Peg … the ultimate lover of glitter, dogs, Costco, and 80s dance music. Join her in fulfilling her lifelong dream of creating her self-titled talk show, Peg! This improvisational structured show talks about life through the lens of a midwestern gal who’s “having the time of her life.” $10 / 75 minutes Philly Improv Theater Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11, 17 + 18 at 9:30pm
9 Pillow Talk Cambridge Footlights / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/8114 Expect free-flowing hilarity from the Cambridge Footlights, “the most renowned sketch troupe of them all” (Independent), as they embark on their 2018 world tour, performing to over 20,000 people across two continents. $20 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 20 + 21 at 8pm
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9 Real America American Express Comedy / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/8115 American Express Comedy (AmEx) explores the bizarre nature of the nation’s current state through a collection of absurd comedy sketches that deal with “real” issues. Take a glimpse at some social and historical themes of our great nation through a colored lens as this show redefines what it means to be a “Real American.” $15 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12–14 at 8:30pm Sept 15 at 5pm + 8:30pm
Center City Fringe DANCE
5 Chichi Chip (an ode to the Gnarly) Philly Kerplop FringeArts.com/8121 An interactive performance featuring hip-hop dance and a live marching band, taking place in Philly’s iconic LOVE Park. Philly Kerplop’s display of humor and daring physical dexterity will activate the park spaces in ways that feel both familiar and aweinspiring. Free / 40 minutes LOVE Park 16th Street and JFK Boulevard Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 5pm Sept 13 at noon Sept 21 at 2pm Sept 22 at 4pm (rain date) A Festival performance in LOVE Park.
INTERDISCIPLINARY
15 Heightened Sight Leslie Elkins & Tap Team Two and Company FringeArts.com/8122 Heighten your senses with Leslie Elkins@foursome performance and Tap Team Two. Leslie Elkins@ foursome performance will accentuate transitional spaces in Embracing the Liminal. Tap Team Two will showcase vibrant sounds in Cadence of Color. Get ready to feel provocative images, see in-between states, and hear color spectra. $25 / 90 minutes Caplan Recital Hall at The University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street, 17th floor Sept 22 at 4pm + 7pm
8 Metal & Kind’s Indestructible Flowers Lily Kind and Mark “Metal” Wong FringeArts.com/8123 Metal is unexpectedly soft. Kind is unabashedly sharp. Together, they present a collage of new solo work designed for folks secretly underwhelmed by new solo work. Metal and Kind are multidisciplinary powerhouses working in and around social and folk dance, devised dance theater, and experimental storytelling. $15 / 60 minutes Urban Movement Arts 2100 Chestnut Street, second floor Sept 22, 23, 29 + 30 at 7pm
2 Dead Flowers Circus Sideshow Dead Flowers Circus Sideshow FringeArts.com/8141 Avant-garde performance ensemble Dead Flowers Circus Sideshow presents a veritable filth olympics. Mind- and genderbending spectacle. Entertainment guaranteed. $7 / 90 minutes Vox Populi 319 North 11th Street Sept 8 at 7:30pm + 9:30pm
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6 Planet B Yes! And...Collaborative Arts FringeArts.com/8143 The teen division of Yes! And... Collaborative Arts, Shadow Company, is back with an epic tale. With time running out on Earth, a group of heroes have been sent to Planet B to prepare for our future. A fresh start. A chance to ensure our next home is perfect. But maybe perfect isn’t everything we thought it would be. $10 / 70 minutes Arch Street United Methodist Church 55 North Broad Street Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 3pm + 7pm
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9 powerpoints for my friends Megan Chialastri / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/8142 Friendship is weird and hard to define. A line exists that separates friends from acquaintances, from family, from significant others. The weight we put on friendships seems less than that which we put on other relationships in our lives. That concept is challenged in this one-person show exploring anxiety and loss, using the tools of business. $12 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater Second Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 20 + 21 at 9pm Sept 22 at 2pm + 9pm
5 Same Picture Different Poses 3AM Theater FringeArts.com/8144 Same Picture Different Poses touches on love stories, past and present. Internationally acclaimed artists Kyle Driggs and Andrea Murillo bring together a unique fusion of circus, dance, and theater for a site-specific work at LOVE Park. The performance delves into diverse relationships and the interwoven web of love. Free / 40 minutes LOVE Park 16th Street and JFK Boulevard Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 1pm Sept 18 at noon Sept 20 at 1pm Sept 27 at 1pm (rain date) A Festival performance in LOVE Park.
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Festival performances in LOVE Park are presented by Fairmount Park Conservancy and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation with support from ArtPlace America.
Center City Fringe INTERDISCIPLINARY
9 Quidity: Migration Patterns of Imaginary Things J.Wolfgang Fry FringeArts.com/8147 Ideas form and dissipate. People move and imaginary things travel. Ideas, memes, concepts, and theories all move and grow, some grow old and obsolete, some grow strong and vibrant. Do ideas and concepts have a sense of self? What are the migration patterns of imaginary things? What is their essence? Philly Improv Theater Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 25 at 7pm See website for additional information.
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3 天问 TIAN WEN: Heavenly Questions for Modern Times Hua Hua Zhang / Visual Expressions FringeArts.com/8146 Inspired by a classic Chinese poem, TIAN WEN is an experimental performance using puppetry, sculpture, movement, and live music to explore difficult questions we face in modern times. The show will be featured in the international puppet art festival at La MaMa theater in New York in November 2018. $15 / 60 minutes Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine Street Sept 19 + 20 at 7:30pm
10 Starting Over Kayleigh Taylor FringeArts.com/8145 Kay is a survivor of depression, addiction, and setbacks. Using words and song she’ll take you on a roller-coaster ride of horrific to wonderful experiences. Kay learned to accept herself, to love others, and that what matters most happens within us, not to us. Be inspired to see this in yourself too. Ticket cost includes dinner. $25 / 75 minutes Pure Fare 119 South 21st Street Sept 13 + 21 at 7pm
3 Do You See What I Hear? Strange Fangs Song Factory FringeArts.com/8151 Haunting, beautiful piano and electric cello by James Glasgow (composer for Secondhand Dance Company, Edinburgh Fringe Critic’s Choice). Immersive poetry by Mario Moroni (winner of the Lorenzo Montano Prize for poetry). A dramatic conversation between music and spoken word, on tour with runs in Rome, Edinburgh, New York City, and Chicago. $5 / 45 minutes Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine Street Sept 13–15 at 8pm
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9 a PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION (of the EFFECTS of KINESTHETIC OCULAR NEURO-PSYCHOLOGY and its POTENTIAL as an AID in the DISCOVERY of SELF) Fred Brown / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/8163 Your eyes are your window to the world. They are also the world’s window to you. Enter a world of seeing your own mind as Dr. Rhampon Stietger—using music to keep time—introduces kinesthetic neuropsychology as a tool to unlock deeply imprinted images, feelings, associations, and fantasies. $15 / 50 minutes Philly Improv Theater Second Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 19–21 at 7pm Sept 22 at 3:30pm + 7pm
17 A Vacation Poison Apple Initiative FringeArts.com/8164 Colton loves life and makes the most of it. He’s travelled all over the world, appreciating culture and fostering connections with people. He’s explored North Korea, Crimea, and Afghanistan, and—now that the borders are open—he’s going to Purgatory. A dark comedy about manifesting and destiny. $15 / 60 minutes Franky Bradley’s 1320 Chancellor Street Sept 9 at 6pm Sept 10, 12 + 15 at 8pm
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14 Airport Opened Brian Shapiro Presents FringeArts.com/8165 Airports are endlessly fascinating places—intersections of almost every imaginable personality with logistical challenges galore. Based upon interviews conducted with airport personnel globally, Airport Opened offers an opportunity to bear witness to an airport’s human side through the perspectives of people who actually work there. Free / 50 minutes Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia 200 South Broad Street, Suite 700 Sept 6 at 1pm Sept 7 at 12:30pm Sept 21 at noon
Center City Fringe THEATER
9 Almost Pregnant Lisa Grunberger FringeArts.com/8166 Becca is infertile and desperately wants to be a mom. Estrogen and Lucky, two live puppets, serve as the chorus, wise fools, and comic relief. This tragic-comic play about motherhood, fate, and God gives an insider’s view of the art and science of sex without reproduction and reproduction without sex. Written by Lisa Grunberger; directed by Hamutal Posklinsky. $20 / 90 minutes PlayGround at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 7:30pm Sept 12 at 8pm Sept 14 at 10:30pm Sept 15 at 11am Sept 16 at 11am + 8pm
9 The Arcane Mysteries of Vanderslice Manor Noah Levine / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/8167 First, detective Basil Shakingstoke must put his personal life aside to solve a locked-room murder. Then, Thomas Vanderslice puts everything on the line to speak with his father from beyond the grave. Set in Arthur Conan Doyle’s London, this curious double feature finds the unexpected in two familiar stories. $12 / 70 minutes Philly Improv Theater Second Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 + 14 at 9:30pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 9:30pm
7 B. Franklin: Words Matter Vagabond Productions FringeArts.com/8168 Ben’s agile mind, presented as theater. Sharp in wit, frail in body, Philly’s favorite Founding Father eloquently holds court on life, liberty, and love. Family, royalty, lady friends, and surprise visitors join in. His words inform the legend. Truth? Exaggeration? Vanity? You decide the matter. $10 / 60 minutes Joseph Priestley Chapel First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 8 + 9 at 5pm Sept 14 at 7pm Sept 15 + 16 at 5pm
9 Beirut Casabuena Cultural Productions FringeArts.com/8169 A love story set in a dystopian future fueled by fear of a deadly disease. Torch passes the time alone, cut off from the outside world. His girlfriend, Blue, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to convince him that living inside “Beirut” together is better than life on the outside apart. $15 / 75 minutes PlayGround at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 16 at 5pm Sept 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 7:30pm Sept 22 at 2pm
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2 The Buried Life Apartment 20 FringeArts.com/8170 a cabaret//a gathering//a soiree. Arrangements by Damien Figueras; text and stories by Matthew Arnold and the Ensemble; direction by Randi Alexis Hickey. “But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, / But often, in the din of strife, / There rises an unspeakable desire / After the knowledge of our buried life.” $15 / 75 minutes Vox Populi 319 North 11th Street Sept 18 at 11pm Sept 19–21 at 8pm
9 Close Your Legs, Honey: A New Musical Hannah Parke & Shamus Hunter McCarty / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/8171 She’s plucked, sucked, and tucked—beauty has met its match! Join Honey and her foulmouthed mama on a darkly comedic, high-glitz musical misadventure taking on an army of pint-sized glamazons for Grand Supreme glory! Will she win? Mama say a prayer! An ugly story in a beautiful world. About kids, for adults. $15 / 75 minutes Philly Improv Theater Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5–7 at 8:30pm Sept 8 at 5pm + 8:30pm Sept 14 + 15 at 10pm Sept 22 at 2pm
19 David’s Friend Nora Burns FringeArts.com/8172 “A feisty and funny one-woman show” (New York Times), David’s Friend is the story of a crazy friendship in 1980s New York City. It’s a comic odyssey about cruising, disco, drag queens, strippers, sex, love, loss, and AIDS, told with videos, costumes, characters, and music that moves your feet to a disco beat. $15 / 55 minutes Tabu 200 South 12th Street Sept 12 at 9pm
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9 Drawn Out The Back Pack FringeArts.com/8196 A fast-paced movementbased comedy extravaganza creatively combining nonspoken performance, music, dance, and media. The Back Pack’s imaginative style has been described as a live-action cartoon, unmatched in its cleverness and pure entertainment that will leave you with a smile on your face and a glow in your heart. $15 / 65 minutes Philly Improv Theater Mainstage & Second Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 7 at 6pm (Main) Sept 8 at 2pm (Main) Sept 9 + 10 at 7pm (Second) Sept 11 at 9pm (Second) Sept 12–14 at 6pm (Main)
Center City Fringe THEATER
1 everybody’s happy on social media Blue Flamingo Theater FringeArts.com/8173 Part blissful workout class, part late-night whiskey guzzle, everybody’s happy on social media probes our collective capacity for jealousy, selfloathing, and desire, while celebrating all the ways we combat these tendencies. The dog days are over if you want them to be ... right? Come find out! $15 / 50 minutes The Trestle Inn 339 North 11th Street Sept 8 at 6pm
3 The F Word Radiant Bloom Productions FringeArts.com/8174 What does feminism mean now? Five women from different backgrounds use music to experience the conviction of the movement for women’s rights. Hear the stories of women who fought for equality, join in the songs they sang. Immerse yourself in the ongoing discussions about who gets a place in this movement. $20 / 105 minutes Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine Street Sept 15 at 3pm + 8pm Sept 17 + 18 at 7pm
9 FEEL Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater FringeArts.com/8175 “How are you feeling?” “Fine.” No, really—T&G wants to know! Anonymously submit your true emotional state: joyful, hurt, worthy, itchy, ashamed, frisky…? Then watch T&G improvise a show inspired by the feelings that connect us all. “Hilarious & fearless” (Philadelphia Weekly), “soul-baring sincerity, intelligence and humor” (City Paper). tongue-groove.com $18 / 70 minutes PlayGround at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 5pm Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 5pm Sept 21 at 10pm Sept 22 at 5pm
13 Fly Eagles Fly Tribe of Fools FringeArts.com/8176 Gwen is a brand new Eagles fan and her office is full of opinions. Copy Mike is a lifelong fan, The Duke calls everyone out as NotRealFans™, and Lara is aghast at Gwen for liking such a #notfeminist thing. Fly Eagles Fly asks: what is fandom, what is community, and how do we reconcile the darker parts of things we love? $15–$25 / 80 minutes Louis Bluver Theatre at the Drake 302 South Hicks Street Sept 6 + 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 9 at 2pm Sept 10, 13 + 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 16 at 2pm Sept 17 + 20–22 at 8pm
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21 Just Another Normal Conversation Kimberly Redman & Brittney Anderson FringeArts.com/8177 A highly intellectual debate about very important matters such as the essence of humanity, interpersonal connections, world wars, twins eating twins in the womb, and the overall fate of the human race, had between people who are probably entirely unqualified to be discussing any of this in the first place. $10 / 60 minutes The University of the Arts Gershman Hall Black Box 401 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 16 at 2pm
16 Kill Move Paradise The Wilma Theater FringeArts.com/8178 Isa, Daz, Grif, and Tiny find themselves in an afterlife; together they confront the police brutality and violent power structures that have placed them there. $33–$48 / 80 minutes The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street Sept 4 at 6:30pm Sept 5 + 6 at 7:30pm Sept 7 + 8 at 8pm Sept 9 at 2pm Sept 11 at 6:30pm Sept 12 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 13 at 7:30pm Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 16 at 2pm Sept 18 at 6:30pm Sept 19 + 20 at 7:30pm Sept 21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 23 at 2pm
12 Lay Me Down Softly Irish Heritage Theatre FringeArts.com/8179 In this corner ... all fighters are welcome in the boxing ring that is the main attraction of Delaney’s Traveling Roadshow, touring rural Ireland in 1962. In this bittersweet play the characters spar and jab, seeking purpose and meaning in a dangerous world. Performances begin August 30. irishheritagetheatre.org $25 / 120 minutes Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 5–8 at 7:30pm Sept 9 at 2:30pm Sept 12–15 at 7:30pm See irishheritagetheatre.org for earlier dates/times.
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15 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade UArts Ira Brind School of Theater Arts FringeArts.com/8180 Mind Your Own: enter the mind of Drew, a woman trying to escape her mundane life. Can she succeed when her mind won’t let her find peace? / Speedline Serenade: An Evening with Dino Petaccio: join Dino for a night of music and storytelling in which he will reflect on his roots, relationships, work, and self. $15 / 150 minutes Caplan Studio Theater at The University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street, 16th floor Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 + 14 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 16 at 2pm Sept 20 + 21 at 7:30pm Sept 22 at 2pm + 7:30pm
Center City Fringe THEATER
22 More Than Tracy Turnblad Abby Morris / Coffee Cup Cabaret at the University of the Arts FringeArts.com/8181 Abby Morris details her experiences as a plus-size performer while dissecting cultural stereotypes about fat people. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll go on angry feminist tirades! This piece explores an issue of representation that often goes unspoken, but is deeply felt by those who (literally) don’t fit the ideal. $15 / 80 minutes Laurie Beechman Cabaret Theater at the Arts Bank 601 South Broad Street Sept 7, 8 + 10 at 9pm
9 Only In Your Dreams Sarah Clemency / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/8182 Dom, seeking change in her humdrum of a life, finds herself in a fantastical dreamland that quickly becomes a nightmare. Will she be able to escape her own mind? This magical horror comedy musical is packed with songs that will have you laughing out of fear. $15 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater Second Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5–7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 3:30pm + 7pm
13 Passport La Fábrica FringeArts.com/8183 Lost in a foreign country, Eugenia is detained and thrown into a vicious maelstrom of miscommunication. This Kafkaesque thriller delves into the question of immigration, exposing the mechanics of language and power. Poetic and immersive, Passport is performed iin Spanish (S) or English (E); for some performances a coin toss (CT) determines the language. $10–$20 / 65 minutes Proscenium Theatre at the Drake 302 South Hicks Street Sept 12 at 4pm (S) + 8pm (E) Sept 13 at noon (CT), 4pm (E) + 8pm (S) Sept 14 at noon (S), 4pm (E) + 8pm (CT) Sept 15 at 4pm (E) + 8pm (CT) Sept 16 at 4pm (S) + 8pm (CT)
11 Sage Wisdom Tribe 12 Performing Arts FringeArts.com/8184 A town full of fools stands on the brink of collapse! With the economy in peril and crime on the rise, the townspeople of Chelm, Poland, look to the Wise Sages for help. Watch as the Chelmites trip over their own feet trying to make their town good enough to get love and respect. $15 / 60 minutes Philadelphia Ethical Society 1906 South Rittenhouse Square Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 + 13 at 8pm Sept 16 at 7pm
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12 Salamander Elephant Room Productions FringeArts.com/8185 Nothing goes as planned—and Girl gets attacked, and Lady falls apart, and Woman loses her mind. And then they all go blank. A scripted drama, Salamander follows the surreal fall and rise of women in modern America, as they lose their sexual identity in exchange for something ... other. Trigger warning: sexual violence. $20 / 100 minutes Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 5–7 at 9pm Sept 8 at 3pm + 9pm Sept 9 at 5pm
3 Sfânta Diana Lobontiu FringeArts.com/8186 This absurdist solo show follows Teodora, a young novitiate in a 17th-century Moldovan convent who wants to become a saint for the fame and glamor of it. Teodora’s path is blocked by Gheorghe, her bro-y betrothed, a romance with shepherdess Iosefina, and an impending Ottoman invasion. More at dianalobontiu.com. $11 / 65 minutes Philadelphia Young Playwrights Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine Street Sept 9, 12 + 15 at 7pm Sept 16 at 2pm Sept 20 + 22 at 7pm
12 Shelter Drip Symphony FringeArts.com/8187 Five artists take shelter in an abandoned theater. Bound by cutthroat artistic integrity, their dreams and delusions flourish. But there are cracks in the foundation and blood on the canvas—the outside world is seeping in. Drip Symphony and Plays & Players present an original play, Shelter. $20 / 90 minutes Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 19–22 at 8pm
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13 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo Simpatico Theatre FringeArts.com/8188 Four solo artists contemplate masculinity in America. Together, these pieces—Idaho Shuffle (I), Thomas is Titanic (T), The Best of Me (B), LUVR (L)—explore the repercussions and revelations of our hyper-gendered society through true stories of tap dancing, the Titanic, Bjork, and broken hearts. Runs thru Sept 30. Free / 65 minutes Proscenium Theatre at the Drake 302 South Hicks Street Sept 19 at 6:30pm (I), 8pm (T) + 9:30pm (B) Sept 20 at 7:30pm (B) + 9pm (T) Sept 21 at 5pm (L), 6:30pm (I), 8pm (B), 9:30pm (T) + 11pm (L) Sept 22 at noon (T), 2pm (L), 4pm (I), 7:30 (B), 9pm (L) + 11pm (I) Sept 23 at 4pm (I), 7:30pm (B) + 9pm (I) See website for additional dates.
Neighborhood Center City Fringe Fringe THEATER
9 Song of My Self-Care Jimmy Grzelak / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/8189 Be Hot Now. A workout for your abs and existential dread. Based on a long-lost self-help health-and-beauty book by Walt Whitman. Featuring theology, poetry, and original electro-pop music. Led by Jimmy Grzelak, veteran artist of U.S. and Canadian fringe festivals and “winningly offbeat imagination” (Washington Post). $15 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater Second Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 + 7 at 10pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 10 pm
18 Think Before You Speak AIM Academy Drama FringeArts.com/8190 Think before you speak. Sounds simple, yet we are often unaware of the impact our words have on others. Young performers talk about subjects such as sexual abuse, privilege, and the constant and rising presence of school shootings in their daily lives. Free / 45 minutes Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street Sept 14 at 9pm Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 2pm
21 This Is A Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas Emily Wanamaker / Michael Kasper / Devon Moreno FringeArts.com/8162 Georgie presses buttons because buttons are happiness. Two Dakotas journey across America and are confronted by the universe. Existential dread makes everything absurd. $10 / 90 minutes The Gershman Y 401 South Broad Street Sept 6 at 8pm (B) Sept 7 at 8pm (D) Sept 8 at 1pm (D), 5pm (B) + 8:30pm (B) Sept 9 at 1pm (B), 5pm (D) + 8:30pm (D) B=This Is A Play About Buttons D=What Happened Between the Dakotas
20 Till We Have Faces Alex Bechtel & Tony Lawton FringeArts.com/8191 Alex Bechtel and Tony Lawton, winners of the 2017 Barrymore Award for Original Music, present an ambitious work-in-progress. C.S. Lewis’s epic retelling of the Cupid/Psyche myth tells the story of Orual, who dares to indict the gods for sadism and fraud. This staged reading will present excerpts from the new script and score. $10 / 120 minutes Lantern Theater Lab Space 923 Ludlow Street Sept 17 at 6pm Sept 21 at 3pm
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9 Villain Jon & Marissa Edelman / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/8192 In Clear Springs, the mayor’s daughter is found dead, hit by a train. The local police accuse Ivo Talaka, a recent immigrant from Villainia, of her murder. During Ivo’s explosive trial, the prosecution and defense debate ideas of law, order, justice, and what it means to be a true American. $15 / 80 minutes Philly Improv Theater Second Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12–14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 3:30pm + 7pm
3 Voided Pratima Agrawal FringeArts.com/8193 What is it to be an unconventional Indian woman trying to exist in a marginalizing world? Voided is a solo performance inspired by Pratima’s own experiences and the true story of Kalpana Chawla (the first Indian female astronaut in space and one of the crew members who died in the 2003 Columbia accident). It’s an exploration of culture, status quo, and representation that dares to color outside the lines. $10 / 40 minutes Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine Street Sept 8 at 7pm Sept 9 at 3pm Sept 10 at 7pm
12 White Feminist Lee Minora FringeArts.com/8194 Are you one of the good ones? Did you go to a Women’s March? Have you called your senator? Would you boycott Becky? Someone’s gonna. Becky’s filming this episode live and you’re so #blessed to be in her studio audience. Or are you? Gender and privilege collide in this scathing comedy that’ll grab you by the pussy hat. $15 / 55 minutes Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 12–15 at 9pm Sept 16 at 7pm
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2 WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play) ON THE ROCKS Elaina DiMonaco & Haygen-Brice Walker FringeArts.com/8195 small town | missing boy | slaughtered livestock | teenagers | cannibalism | Mariska Hargitay | bondage | leather | sex | werewolf sex | gay werewolf sex | so much sex | BYOB | late-night | gotta sign a waiver. $20 / 110 minutes Vox Populi 319 North 11th Street Sept 13 at 10pm Sept 15 at 11:30pm Sept 16 + 17 at 8pm Sept 19–22 at 10:30pm
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11 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn Almanac Dance Circus Theatre FringeArts.com/8301 Acrobatics, live music, botany, and cheesesteaks. The company behind Fringe hits Exile 2588 and Leaps of Faith and Other Mistakes returns to its roots in this indooroutdoor extravaganza of jawdropping circus feats, courage, camouflage, and contradictions. $25 / 70 minutes The Garden at The Maas Building 1325 North Randolph Street Sept 4–7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 5pm Sept 9 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 11 at 8pm Sept 12 + 13 at 9pm Sept 14 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 15 at 9pm Sept 16 at 8pm
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8 The Backyard <fidget> FringeArts.com/8321 Developed in a residency with Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson at Mad Brook Farm in summer 2017 and performed by Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock, this improvised dance proposes a hyperconscious inhabiting of time, space, and relationship—a radical invitation for intimacy and embodiment. With music by Robert Ashley. $15 / 45 minutes thefidget space 1714 North Mascher Street Sept 14 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 15 at 6pm + 10pm Sept 16 at 4pm + 7pm
9 Errant Limbs Ruba / Bush Dance FringeArts.com/8322 Two artists from different ends of the world come together at a point where embodiment and identity meet surrealism. The three pieces that make up Errant Limbs explore the midden in search of new ways of being in the body and in the world. This will be the artists’ first performance as Ruba / Bush Dance. $15 / 60 minutes Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Sept 18 + 19 at 7pm
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3 In the Light Vervet Dance / Loren Groenendaal FringeArts.com/8323 Powered by humans and sun, the music is acoustic, the dancing is live, and the lighting “design” is by the sky. This semi-composed improvisation from sunrise to sunset is directed by Loren Groenendaal. The large ensemble explores natural rhythms while expanding our senses of art, time, and humanity. $50 / 786 minutes (full day) $15 / 180 minutes (partial day) The Iron Factory 118 Fontain Street Sept 15 at 6:42am (full day) Sept 15 at 6:42am, 11am, 2pm + 5pm (partial day) Note: Run time is 13 hours and 6 minutes (sunrise to sunset). Audience is free to come and go with full-day tickets or to buy partial-day tickets for time slots beginning at 6:42am, 11am, 2pm + 5pm. Show concludes at 7:48pm.
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3 Lurid Circumstance of the Flesh MG Dance FringeArts.com/8324 Lurid Circumstance of the Flesh features two works. The first, The House; the hole (Quinlan), is a movement exploration on imprisonment and isolation and the subsequent descent into psychosis. Forelsket (Hurtado) touches on the experiences, euphoria, affliction, and psychopathy induced by addiction. $10 / 60 minutes The Iron Factory 118 Fontain Street Sept 21 at 8pm
3 Proceed with Caution Lyons and Tigers FringeArts.com/8325 Proceed with Caution grapples with personal, social, and global security and trust in the present day. Five performers explore their relationships to themselves and to the world in a time of global violence, the Trump presidency, police brutality, the rise of mass shootings, and the #MeToo movement. $15 / 45 minutes The Iron Factory 118 Fontain Street Sept 7–9 at 8pm
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2 (Kensington) Streetplay The Renegade Company FringeArts.com/8342 Renegade invites audience members to Kensington to explore the past, present, and future of the neighborhood steeped in a prewritten narrative. Streetplay was written and is performed by residents to share their perspectives and create prompts/ activities that foster engagement, challenge philosophies, and dissolve boundaries. Designed as a walking experience. Free / 90 minutes Starts at Allegheny El Stop 3200 Kensington Avenue Sept 6–9 + 13–16 at 6pm
6 The Magic of Storytelling with Tchin We Are the Seeds of CultureTrust FringeArts.com/8341 Tchin is a nationally known artist and educator of indigenous arts and culture. Tchin brings ancestral stories alive with Native American music and colorful magic. In his energizing presentation, Tchin addresses important topics including cultural diversity, music appreciation, and environmental stewardship. $15 / 60 minutes The Art Dept 1638 East Berks Street Sept 15 at 2pm
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7 Music for Children and Other Curious People Ants on a Log FringeArts.com/8351 **MUSIC FOR KIDS!** Fun for all ages, clever lyrics, and sing-along harmonies—It’s like They Might Be Giants and the Indigo Girls teamed up to sing a Tom Lehrer song! With rabble-rousing music for children and other curious people, Ants on a Log songfully advocates for positivity, social justice, and silliness. $5–$10 / 60 minutes Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement 1542 East Montgomery Avenue Sept 22 at 11am
9 AntiCone Happy Theater and sorrows&songs FringeArts.com/8361 Two performers walk the tightrope between comedy and pathos in this contemporary take on the Antigone story. Told through physical theater, dance, clowning, audience interaction, and … orange traffic cones. An “exquisitely executed” experience. $16 / 45 minutes Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Sept 15 + 16 at 3pm + 5pm
10 Chaos Theory Jessica Creane FringeArts.com/8362 What exactly is chaos and why do we fear it? 666 days after the 2016 election, it’s about time to find out. Through game-theater, clown, and immersive arts, Chaos Theory is the amoral, self-serving, NSFW pandemonium your inner chaos agent has been lying in wait for all these bleak and batsh*t crazy months. $15 / 75 minutes New Liberty Distillery 1431 North Cadwallader Street Sept 6–8 at 8pm
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14 Cocktail Plays Juniper Productions FringeArts.com/8363 BE SHAKEN AND STIRRED! “A fun night out” (Phindie). The 2017 Fringe Festival hit returns with a fresh set of plays and cast. Enjoy four short plays created by Philadelphia playwrights for an ensemble of three local actors. Plays paired with specially crafted cocktails at the gorgeous Philadelphia Distilling. $22 / 60 minutes Philadelphia Distilling 25 East Allen Street Sept 17 at 8pm Sept 18 + 19 at 6pm + 8:30pm
Kensington-Fishtown Neighborhood Fringe Fringe THEATER
12 God, Forgive These Bastards The Hum’n’bards FringeArts.com/8364 God, Forgive These Bastards is a staged adaptation of The Taxpayers’ eponymous 2012 album. In the wake of his death, those who knew him remember the life of a man who was an addict, an abuser, and a master storyteller all in one. Come remember (and drink to) Henry Turner. Pay what you want / 60 minutes The Fire 412 West Girard Avenue Sept 6 at 7pm Sept 8 at 6pm Sept 9 + 11 at 7pm Sept 15 at 6pm Sept 16 + 18 at 7pm Sept 22 at 6pm
9 It Might Be About Babies Evans, Lyons, Posner, & Sazak FringeArts.com/8365 It’s hard to feel like a good person. Let these people help you. They’re completely normal, and just like you! They’re going to go on a journey for you, and take care of all those nagging doubts that plague you daily: “AM I worth it? DO I deserve happiness?” Of course you do. You’re a good person. $20 / 50 minutes Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Sept 6, 9 + 16 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm + 5pm
9 Long Trouble Svaha Theatre Collective FringeArts.com/8366 “All the expected good we’re like to hear for this play at this time, is only in the merciful construction of good women.” Adapted from William Shakespeare and John Fletcher’s Henry VIII, this new work calls attention to the trials and tribulations of Queen Catherine, her daughter Mary, and her ladyin-waiting Anne Boleyn. $10 / 45 minutes Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 9pm Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 9pm Sept 22 at 8pm
4 Peterhoff’s YOUR UNCLE SAM, An American Vaudeville Celebration! Ezekial Peterhoff FringeArts.com/8367 Our mythical patriarch presents a tribute to our nation’s history, strengths, and values featuring circus, magic, and live music. $20 / 60 minutes St Michael’s Lutheran Church Hall 2141 East Cumberland Street Sept 8 at 6pm Sept 15 + 22 at 6pm
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9 Phaedra’s Love Svaha Theatre Collective FringeArts.com/8368 Phaedra is sexually obsessed with Hippolytus, her son. Hippolytus hates everyone and everything. The crown is burning and everybody is waiting for any excuse to rip the royal family to shreds. Literally. A riot erupts in gruesome hilarity because that’s just human nature, am I right? Svaha returns with Sarah Kane. $10 / 60 minutes Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Sept 13 at 8pm Sept 14 at 10pm Sept 15 at 9pm Sept 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 10pm Sept 22 at 9pm
1 The Propaganda Machine Show Evan Kassof / Anaïs NaharroMurphy / Nicole Renna FringeArts.com/8369 The U.S. premiere of the opera Greenland by Evan Kassof, the rarely seen 1939 Dreyfus film Refuge with live score by Joshua Hartman, and a contemporary cabaret each focus on the meaning and making of propaganda over the last century. Presented in artistic collaboration with 1fiftyOne gallery. Come experience the Propaganda Machine. $20 / 120 minutes 1fiftyOne gallery + art space 3312 Kensington Avenue Sept 10 at 7pm Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 17 at 7pm Sept 21 at 8pm
5 Skills and Scars Jeffrey Evans, Nick Jonczak, Devin Preston FringeArts.com/8370 Hey, I tried your work phone but I guess you left already. Some of us are getting together to play this game, thought you could join if you’re free. You don’t need anything, just bring like, um … just like, any deep childhood trauma you have, or that fanfiction you’ve been working on. See you there! $20 / 180 minutes Nick’s House Memphis and East Sergeant Streets Private residence, address provided at ticket purchase Sept 12, 13, 15 + 16 at 6pm + 9pm
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13 SPIES! a tech-immersive comedy Happy Hour Live FringeArts.com/8371 Agent, your goal is to eliminate the threat and save your country. Choose-your-own-adventure using our app while you weave your way through drinks, clues, and dad jokes. Stir up war—or a cocktail. Whatever strikes your fancy. $15–$40 / 120 minutes Liaison Room at Front Street Cafe 1256 North Front Street, second floor Sept 11, 13, 18 + 20 at 7pm
Kensington-Fishtown Center City Fringe Fringe THEATER
11 True West Subscension Theatre FringeArts.com/8372 Written by Sam Shepard, True West is a character study that examines the relationship between Austin (a screenwriter) and his older brother Lee. Set in the kitchen of their mother’s home 40 miles east of Los Angeles, the play finds Austin and Lee forced to cooperate in the creation of a story that will make or break both of their lives. $20 / 120 minutes The Maas Building 1325 North Randolph Street Sept 12–14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 16 at 2pm Sept 19–21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm + 8pm
11 Ugly Wedding Party Lone Brick Theatre Company FringeArts.com/8373 This immersive farce invites audiences to the madcap hour before the ceremony. To get the perfect wedding photos, the happy couple rushes to replace their ugly wedding party, colluding with vendors, audience, and the endangered bridal party. Bride’s side? Groom’s side? Where will you stand when the rice is thrown? $10 / 60 minutes The Maas Building 1325 North Randolph Street Sept 8 + 9 at 3pm, 5pm + 7pm
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True West By Sam Shepherd Directed by: John Mullany & Heather Lucas The Maas Building 1325 N. Randolph St. # 3 Philadelphia, PA 19122
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6 Baby’s First Time to Philly Ruckus Dance FringeArts.com/8221 Baby’s First Time to Philly is a performance from the Bostonbased group Ruckus Dance. In addition to some short but sweet new works, they perform Knockout, the edgy, fun, contemporary dance that first elevated choreographer Michael Figueroa to the top of the Boston dance community. $20 / 60 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 20 at 6pm + 8pm
6 Church & State The AJ Harper Dance Project and a. dance theatre FringeArts.com/8222 Two companies are bringing church and state together for one show, creating innovative, thought-provoking works that touch on the sacred and political dynamic in today’s society. Come experience the one night when church and state finally come together. $30 / 70 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 16 at 4pm
5 The Feminization of Madness Alana Melene Dance FringeArts.com/8223 The Feminization of Madness confronts the male gaze, female objectification, and the pressures society puts on women in all areas of life. The work is centralized around freeing the female body, both literally and figuratively, while dissecting the inner workings of the female psyche from a multi-angled approach. $10 / 30 minutes Bethany Mission Gallery 1527 Brandywine Street Sept 16 at 3pm
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6 KCBC X KCBCII Kimberly D. Landle FringeArts.com/8224 The Klassic Contemporary Ballet Company and KCBCII perform in their second annual Fringe Festival performance. Under the direction of Kimberly D. Landle, KCBC and KCBCII premiere three new pieces, all dedicated to the ideas of closure and constant change. $20 / 60 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 9 at 2pm
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6 Moving Dancefusion & Sokolow Ensemble FringeArts.com/8225 Dancefusion & Sokolow Theatre/ Dance Ensemble come together to present three works by legendary choreographer Anna Sokolow: As I Remember (1930–40s), Moods (1975), and The Unanswered Question (1971). The program will also feature three new works by Dancefusion’s Jennifer Yackel, Camille Gamble, and OmarFrederick Pratt. $25 / 75 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 3pm + 6pm
9 Plunge Brian Sanders’ JUNK FringeArts.com/8226 Get your lounge gear out and prep for 1960s Palm Springs … by way of 10th and Hamilton, that is. Join JUNK on The Patio at Spring Arts in a plunge of the senses. Savor the sleekness of jet-black oiled skin against the bright white of patent leather. Let your eyes sip on the rich silk of milk splashing from above. Light dances on a cloud of misted water as the heat of the night drizzles down the fine hairs of your back. Plunge. $35 / 60 minutes The Patio at Spring Arts North 10th and Hamilton streets September 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 + 22 at 10:30pm
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1 Garden of Vessels Sina Marie (I Am a Vessel Youth Initiative) FringeArts.com/8242 Welcome to the future of the pop-up garden phenomenon. Imagine a garden where imagination and technology fall in love, cultivating the minds and innate abilities of the youth to a full bloom. Visionary Sina Marie creates an interactive experience. A diaspora from the underground up! We welcome you to … the Garden of Vessels. $20 / 120 minutes Life Do Grow Farm 2315 North 11th Street Sept 9 at 3pm
3 As You Like It Indecorous Theatre Productions FringeArts.com/8261 Do you like the woods? Do you like crossdressing lesbian princesses? Do you like people who are incapable of expressing their deepest emotions? Then pack a picnic and join us for this unconventional production of Shakespeare’s greatest romantic comedy in the gorgeous Spring Gardens Community Garden. $15 / 120 minutes The Spring Gardens Community Garden North 18th and Wallace streets Sept 8*, 9*, 15, 16, 22 + 23 at 5pm *free / pay what you want
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7 Company EgoPo Classic Theater FringeArts.com/8262 Bring your blanket and pillow for a Beckett slumber party. EgoPo remounts their 2009 Fringe hit, which sold out in five cities. An immersive sensory experience, you are blindfolded on your back in the dark, the haunting text whispered in your ear. Free cookies and milk. “A resoundingly brilliant experience” (Backstage). $20–$25 / 60 minutes The Latvian Society Theater 531 North Seventh Street Sept 20 + 21 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 22 at 3pm, 5pm + 8pm Sept 23 at 3pm + 5pm
2 For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Collective FringeArts.com/8263 For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, Ntozake Shange’s first work, tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society. The choreopoem is an innovative combination of poetry, drama, music, and dance. $25 / 95 minutes Klein Theatre at the Church of the Advocate 2121 North Gratz Street Sept 14 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 16 at 3pm Sept 21 at 7:30pm Sept 22 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 23 at 3pm
4 Life In Eight Parts Sewer Rats Productions FringeArts.com/8264 Life in Eight Parts is a semiimprovisational, semi-sketch, two-man show that attempts to shed light on life’s most important issues. Given their “many” years of life experience, Nolan and Spencer explore the many facets of life’s unending issues while unraveling the inner workings of their own personal relationship. Visit sewerrats.com for more info. $10 / 60 minutes CEG Performing Arts Academy 684 North Broad Street, second floor Sept 9, 14, 15, 16 + 22 at 7pm
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8 P Pan and Beyondland Kathleen Murphey FringeArts.com/8265 P Pan and Beyondland is a worldpremiere retelling of the Peter Pan story where Krystal, Kyle, and Jamie realize that their society won’t allow them to express the gender identities that seem truest to their core selves. P Pan offers them sanctuary in Beyondland, and they go to find new lives of acceptance and support. $15 / 90 minutes German Society of Pennsylvania 611 Spring Garden Street Sept 15 at 1pm, 4pm + 8pm Sept 16 at 2pm + 6pm
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Tennessee Williams: Eccentricities of a Nightingale The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium FringeArts.com/8266 Tennessee Williams at his shining, gentle best, interpreted by the IRC! Bethany Mission Gallery transforms into Glorious Hill, Mississippi, for this rarely performed, preferred revision of Williams’s Summer and Smoke. The gallery’s unique collection of outsider art frames an unusual, poetic blending of two art forms. $15–$25 / 80 minutes Bethany Mission Gallery 1527 Brandywine Street Sept 4–8 at 7:30pm Sept 9 at 2:30pm Sept 11–15 at 7:30pm Sept 16 at 2:30pm Sept 18–22 at 7:30pm Sept 23 at 2:30pm
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The William Penn Story Brotherly Love Theatre Company FringeArts.com/8267 Join us for an intimate musical experience as we explore the life and legacy of the Founding Fathers’ founding father, William Penn. Hip-hop meets alt-rock meets jazz-funk meets 18thcentury Quaker ideology. $20 / 60 minutes Lemon Hill Mansion 1 Lemon Hill Drive Sept 9 at 3pm Sept 13 at 7:30pm Sept 16 at 3pm Sept 19 at 7:30pm
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1 Ground Works Leah Stein Dance Company FringeArts.com/8421 Ground Works is a site-specific performance inspired by and incorporating the large outdoor sculptures of Harry Bertoia and Dina Wind in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum. The audience is invited to move through the museum grounds with the performers. Ground Works is designed to enliven a sense of place, memory, and the present moment through sound, movement, and touch. $20 / 50 minutes Woodmere Art Museum 9201 Germantown Avenue Sept 13 + 15 at 6pm Sept 16 at 5pm
6 Death Is a Cabaret Ol’ Chum REV Theatre Company FringeArts.com/8441 “A consistent favorite and top ticket-seller, REV rises for another year of graveyard frivolity. Head to the cemetery for free cocktails and cabaret that spooks and stirs the soul” (Philly Voice). “Performers with killer pipes … spine-tingling … dead-on sexy” (Phindie). “A show filled with nothing but highlights. GO!” (DC Metro Theater Arts). $30 / 60 minutes Laurel Hill Cemetery 3822 Ridge Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 14, 15, 21 + 22 at 7:30pm
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3 Circadium Presents: Autopilot / Galactic Garden Party Circadium FringeArts.com/8442 Double bill: Autopilot is a circusbased examination of how life’s instructions are given, taught, or learned, and how we navigate life with and without those instructions. Galactic Garden Party utilizes juggling, dance, scientific lectures, and theater to show the wonders of Earth, and what lies beyond the atmosphere in the cosmos. $20 / 90 minutes Circadium: School of Contemporary Circus 6452 Greene Street Sept 21–23 at 8pm
3 The Graveyard Slot 3AM Theater FringeArts.com/8444 The Graveyard Slot concentrates on a couple’s journey over the late-night hours through a series of magical vignettes. In the company’s Philadelphia premiere, internationally acclaimed artists Kyle Driggs and Andrea Murillo create a visually powerful evening with a unique fusion of circus, dance, and theater. $20 / 60 minutes Circadium: School of Contemporary Circus 6452 Greene Street Sept 13 + 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 3pm + 7pm Sept 16 at 7pm
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2 Planet B Yes! And... Collaborative Arts FringeArts.com/8443 The teen division of Yes! And... Collaborative Arts, Shadow Company, is back with an epic tale. With time running out on Earth, a group of heroes have been sent to Planet B to prepare for our future. A fresh start. A chance to ensure our next home is perfect. But maybe perfect isn’t everything we thought it would be. $10 / 70 minutes Yes! And... Collaborative Arts 21 West Washington Lane Sept 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 3pm + 7pm
4 Jordan Flaherty At Philly Fringe Festival Jordan Flaherty FringeArts.com/8451 Jordan Flaherty brings a pianodriven alternative sound that is both rock and R&B, decorated with crooning, guitar solos, and hard-rolling drums. For one special night, he will perform songs from his debut album, We Go Places, with a full band. Opening the show will be Monte, Danny Varughese, and Jkannon. $8 / 240 minutes The Grape Room 105 Grape Street Sept 15 at 7pm
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5 ShakesBEER Roulette Manayunk Theatre Company FringeArts.com/8461 Hamlet! Macbeth! Romeo and Juliet! Much Ado About Nothing! A new “spin” on Shakespeare. Spin our roulette wheel of scenes to see what we do! A new show every night and it’s the audience that makes it happen! Drinking is strongly encouraged as you help us make history, or break history, at ShakesBEER Roulette! $10 / 80 minutes Bourbon Blue 2 Rector Street Sept 13–15 + 20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 22 at 7pm
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3 Theorem Greg Kennedy – Innovative Juggler FringeArts.com/8462 Theorem is a playful look at the process of invention, a tactile experience of natural materials: wood, steel, glass, and cloth. Exploring the plastic vs. organic world through the eyes of six personalities, the show features larger-than-life kinetic sculptures, death-defying choreography, and live music. Come invent with us! $20 / 60 minutes Circadium: School of Contemporary Circus 6452 Greene Street Sept 6 + 7 at 7:30pm Sept 8 at 3pm + 7:30pm Sept 9 at 7:30pm
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2 Day of Absence Flying Quilt Productions in association with Iron Age Theatre FringeArts.com/8511 ALL-STAR CAST. A rousing, thoughtful comedy, Day of Absence explores the dilemma of an unnamed Southern town awakening to find all black folk… gone! Who will tend the children? Who will do the menial work? Who really wears the mask? As relevant today as it was when it was written in 1965. Maybe even more so… $25 / 60 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 + 15 at 8pm Sept 20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 3pm + 8pm
*The FREN BANKLIN Experience* J. O’Neill FringeArts.com/8512 Have you ever wondered about the REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY of your Philadelphia home? Allow Fren Banklin, the NOTORIOUSLY UNRELIABLE cousin of Ben Franklin, to regale you with the fascinating stories buried beneath your floorboards. One ticket covers as many guests as you can fit within your personal dwelling place! $19–$23 / 30 minutes In the luxury of your own home! Sept 8 at 8pm, 10pm + midnight Sept 15 at 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm, 10pm + midnight Sept 19 at noon, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm + 10pm Sept 22 at 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm, 10pm + midnight Sept 23 at 4pm, 6pm, 8pm + 10pm Sept 24 at noon, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm + 10pm
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5 Animation Nation The Women’s Film Festival FringeArts.com/8541 The Women’s Film Festival presents an amazing collection of animated films by, for, or about women. Come get a taste of award-winning short films from local and international artists along with a preview of our nineday festival in March! Bring an open mind with a dusting of imagination! $8 / 75 minutes HOT•BED Gallery 723 Chestnut Street Sept 12 at 7pm
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Digital Art Showcase Philly Game Mechanics FringeArts.com/8542 Come see work from this year’s Digital Fringe Festival. This event showcases a variety of pieces from multiple Philly artists. In addition, Philly Game Mechanics, a local community of game developers, has some gamerelated surprises. Free / 120 minutes See website for additional information.
Old City Fringe INTERDISCIPLINARY
4 The Living Dragon Love Drunk Life FringeArts.com/8543 Join us for a staged reading of the new play written by Brandon Monokian and Kirsten Sughrue. New Jersey folklore meets film noir in this quirky satire following the misadventures of two bumbling detectives and everyone’s favorite South Jersey legend: the Jersey Devil! $15 / 150 minutes Arden Theatre Independence Foundation Studio 40 North Second Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 + 8 at 7:30pm
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4 Off the Curtain Sara Mashayekh FringeArts.com/8544 East meets West in a one-woman show that brings ancient stories to modern audiences. The drama and tragedy of an ancient tale will engage your feelings and the innovative style of storytelling will keep your fancy and emotions at high alert! $7 / 50 minutes Arden Theatre Independence Foundation Studio 40 North Second Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 14–17 at 7:30pm
R&J Jessica Creane FringeArts.com/8546 A two-player, multiday game based on the unmitigated emo clusterf*ck that is Romeo and Juliet. Played via text message, each day of the game corresponds to one of the five stupidest days in literature, during which players (spoiler alert) party crash, elope, swallow poison, kill their lover’s cousin, and stab themselves. $10 / 240 minutes The Digital Abyss Sept 4 at midnight Online and ongoing throughout the Festival, takes five days to play via text message
Divina Regina Gibson FringeArts.com/8551 With “O Mio Babbino Caro,” “Habanera,” and other selections from Maria Callas’s famous repertoire, this modern-day cabaret shows how the resilient soprano from New York became world-famous as La Divina, and how one woman escapes today’s dating texts and tinder by slipping into her world. 50 minutes See website for additional information.
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7 A New Kind of Whole Paige Zubel & Eleanor Safer FringeArts.com/8561 A New Kind of Whole, written by Paige Zubel and directed by Claris Park, is a surrealistic exploration of identity through sexuality and the relationship between the mind and the body. As Lea navigates the line between what is real and what is a projection of her deteriorating mental health, reality distorts and blurs. $10–$15 / 80 minutes 230 Pine Street, apartment 2R Sept 18 at 4pm Sept 19 + 20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 3pm
BASIC WITCHES Robi Hager & John Treacy Egan FringeArts.com/8562 Four famous witches compete to be crowned Supreme Witch of Halloween Hills, but a new form of witch threatens traditions and jeopardizes the competition. Played by drag queens and queer artists, BASIC WITCHES is a musical for anyone who feels a little basic and a little witchy. More about this developmental workshop at basicwitchesmusical.com. 90 minutes See website for additional information.
6 Behold Her Half Key Theatre Company FringeArts.com/8563 What is a “Jewish beauty”? Is it a specific form or feature? Or something else? A performance with live music reflects on conflicting images and changing expectations about Jewish women and beauty that started with Eve and persist today. $15 / 60 minutes Dell Theater at the National Museum of American Jewish History 101 South Independence Mall East Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 9 at 1pm + 4pm Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 16 at 1pm + 4pm Sept 21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 23 at 1pm + 4pm
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4 Lockhardt HSC Productions FringeArts.com/8564 What keeps people safe: rules or instinct? Lockhardt follows Ms. Hendricks’s AP English class as a school shooting begins. Ms. Hendricks must decide if the protocols she is instructed to follow will keep her and her class safe. With each passing minute every decision made by her and the students affects their survival. $20 / 60 minutes Arden Theatre Arcadia Stage 20 North Second Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7, 8, 14 + 15 at 8pm
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3 Love Stories Denise McCormack FringeArts.com/8565 Master storyteller Denise McCormack brings to life literary and traditional tales to capture the essence of women’s issues and issues of the heart. This onewoman stand-up sparks a flood of emotions and memories, as it revisits secret and soulful nuances of motherhood, childhood, family, and life—the dynamics of love. Intended for adults. Pay what you wish / 60 minutes Center for Art in Wood 141 North Third Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 7pm
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1 Songs For Monsters Paul Harlan FringeArts.com/8566 Two people find themselves alone in a room—a brown girl and a white man. Through villainous characters and eerie songs they discover who they are and why they’re there. And, maybe, if they get to leave. A play about violence, identity, mental health, and blame that unravels in a narrative of original songs by Paul Harlan. Alongside brilliant actor/ musician Jessy Gruver, Harlan explores loud, barraging, modern political conversations in a soft, strange musical darkness. $15 / 90 minutes Ruba Club 416 Green Street Sept 12 + 14 at 7pm Sept 16 at 3pm + 7pm Sept 18 at 7pm
This is Our Youth Anais Theatre Company FringeArts.com/8567 Set in the Reagan 80s, three disaffected teenagers of the Upper West Side of Manhattan hook up, screw up, buy, sell, steal, scheme, and struggle their way towards some semblance of maturity. 120 minutes See website for additional information.
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One Hundred Abstracts Katharine Goodall FringeArts.com/8591 This is an exhibition of paintings displayed in various locations throughout the city. Free / Ongoing Sept 6–23 See website for additional information.
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“UNHINGED” MATTER MOVEMENT GROUP FringeArts.com/8568 unhinged (adj.): mentally unbalanced; deranged. Enjoy a cocktail at the bar but know the door you choose next will determine your outcome. Rooms with creatures and stories of past, present, and future inhabit the mystery beyond the light. The same cannot be seen by all and all cannot be seen the same. It’s a game. $30 / 75 minutes Sept 4, 6–8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22 + 24 at 9pm See website for venue.
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2 Ridiculous Jennifer Blaine FringeArts.com/8611 Escape into the absurd humor of Jennifer Blaine as she wrestles the ridiculous—from motherhood to the patriarchy to bestiality. Blaine, “whose comic genius is like Lily Tomlin and Tracey Ullman” (Philadelphia Daily News), invites us to honor ourselves despite a world of interruption and disruption. We can start somewhere, begin to protest, but remember to celebrate. $20 / 75 minutes L’Etage 624 South Sixth Street Sept 14 + 22 at 7:30pm Sept 23 at 4pm
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10 Before/After WeftWorks FringeArts.com/8621 How does our hyperconnected, on-demand culture impact our relation to self, others, and nature? Before asks why, when anything can be acquired with a click, we still feel empty. After imagines a lush world where humans have melded with nature—or have gone extinct. Features dance, masks, puppetry, and original music. $18 / 60 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South Ninth Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 15 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 16 at 2pm + 7pm
10 Carry Me Evalina “Wally” Carbonell FringeArts.com/8622 An original dance work conceived and created by Philly-based artist Evalina “Wally” Carbonell, Carry Me is for those who carry us, those we carry, and all that we carry inside. Five women imprint themselves onto the space with softness and force, leading us down pathways that reveal the dance within. $20 / 50 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South Ninth Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 + 8 at 7:30pm Sept 9 at 6pm
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7 Tango, Tarantella and Tutus The Rock School for Dance Education FringeArts.com/8623 Tangos, tarantellas, and tutus— with love. Celebrate our city that is synonymous with love with a delightful afternoon of romance and exuberance told through the dynamic beauty and joy of dance, performed by the international talent from the Rock School for Dance Education. Postshow discussion with a Q&A with the directors. $10 / 50 minutes The Rock School for Dance Education 1101 South Broad Street Sept 22 at 1:30pm
South Philly Fringe DANCE
11 To Live By Each Other Maura Bailey / Shelby Tucker FringeArts.com/8624 A chance dance. Macy’s department store. Mom cried outside. Screaming “DECAPITATION.” Radical and precious bodies. Attempting to be nonperformative, remaining informational. Explosive and dramatic, quiet and dedicated. Play the game of telephone. Memorable intimacies, or lack of. Equal playing ground. $10 / 45 minutes The Whole Shebang 1813 South 11th Street (entrance in rear) Sept 15 at 7:30pm Sept 16 at 1:30pm + 5:30pm
INTERDISCIPLINARY
13 feral wild girl child Magda FringeArts.com/8641 Before I die, I want to be this wild. A child is hospitalized for three months and allowed to paint on the walls. A room is devoured by paint and glitter, by dance, karaoke, and other ill-advised performance moments, all with the goal of abandon and mortal arrival. Come doctors. Come nurses. Come mothers and doulas. $15 / 90 minutes BOK 1901 South Ninth Street Sept 7 + 8 at 8pm Sept 9 at 3pm Sept 12, 14 + 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 3pm Sept 19, 21 + 22 at 8pm Sept 23 at 3pm
9 Paprika Plains Natalie Fletcher / Jessica Noel FringeArts.com/8642 Sisters Natalie Fletcher and Jessica Noel will take you back in time to tell a story of love, loss, and bargaining with the universe inspired by Joni Mitchell’s 1977 album Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter. Told through live body painting and dance-theater, with lighting design by John Noel and music by Joni Mitchell. $20 / 40 minutes Philly PACK 233 Federal Street Sept 21 + 22 at 8pm
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1 One Man’s Trash: A Cabaret About Treasure Tiny Rocks FringeArts.com/8651 The world is full of garbage. That statement is true, but quirky musical duo Tiny Rocks looks at it with a sense of humor. Wailing on atypical instruments, these female firecrackers turn their own garbage experiences into a cheeky, raw, and raunchy cabaret that ignites each of us to dig down deep and find the gems. $10 / 65 minutes The TUSK (above Woolly Mammoth) 430 South Street Sept 6 + 13 at 9pm Sept 14 at 9pm + 11pm Sept 20 at 9pm
11 The Heartbreak of a Serial Monogamist PINK HAIR AFFAIR FringeArts.com/8643 Experience a personal and vulnerable dance / visual art exhibition that shines light on anguish we all endure at the end of a relationship, after a death, or during a life change. View relatable pain and reconnect with the middle stages of grief through the eyes of a serial monogamist. Let go and leave with a fresh sense of optimism toward life and love. $20 / 60 minutes The Whole Shebang 1813 South 11th Street (entrance in rear) Sept 17–19 at 7:30pm
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2 Berlin to Broadway West Chester University FringeArts.com/8661 Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, a Musical Voyage explores the musical catalog of the Tony Award–winning composer. Weill’s German work challenged government corruption and corporate greed while his American work addressed issues of racism and warfare. Presented by West Chester University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. $15 / 90 minutes L’Etage 624 South Sixth Street Sept 16 at 1pm + 7pm
11 Death By Chocolate Ultra V Theatre Company FringeArts.com/8662 Death by Chocolate is a live music video featuring music by Sia. The story is told through dance and live music. Come binge eat with us, wear your comfiest clothes and experience the music in person. There will be chocolate. $10 / 30 minutes The Whole Shebang 1813 South 11th Street (entrance in rear) Sept 6, 7 + 9 at 9:30pm
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8 I <3 AvdD Gerhardus FringeArts.com/8663 An oral slide show in which a scholar, shamed on social media, defends her academic integrity. Her crime: expressing affection for a man, born 400 years ago, whose intellect and inquiring mind led to a publication pleading for independence for the people of a continent up for grabs by the rest of the world. $15 / 80 minutes Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Church 916 South Swanson Street Sept 18, 19 + 21 at 8pm
South Philly Fringe THEATER
9 It’s Happening at Home Ultra V Theatre Company FringeArts.com/8664 It’s Happening at Home was made to challenge American audiences to accept the role they have in the violence in our society, and in that acceptance provoke change. Join us to find out what the daily violence children are exposed to can tell us about who they are and who they can become. $10 / 60 minutes Philly PACK 233 Federal Street Sept 6–8 at 8pm Sept 9 at 2pm
9 Mother/Daughter Earlie Bird Productions FringeArts.com/8665 I am my mother’s daughter. Am I? Steeped in history and mystery, Mother/Daughter is an exploration of the dynamic relationships between mothers and daughters as told by mothers and daughters. $15 / 60 minutes Philly PACK 233 Federal Street Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 2pm
12 Onwards & Upwards: The Italian American Dream Filitalia International & Company Aiello FringeArts.com/8667 This show is performed in Italian and English, and deals with past Italian immigration and recent immigration worldwide, the values that immigrants bring along, and their lifelong difficulties and upsets. Written by Angelo Aiello (storyteller, actor, puppeteer), with music by Antonello Di Matteo (accordion, Italian bagpipe, flutes, and clarinet). $29 / 60 minutes History of Italian Immigration Museum 1834 East Passyunk Avenue Sept 6–8 at 5pm + 7pm
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6 Victoria MyVision Theater Ensemble FringeArts.com/8669 An adventure. A student-run theater company. Mystery ensues. Victoria? $16 / 90 minutes The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts 901 South Broad Street Sept 17, 18, 20 + 21 at 6pm
5 Troilus and Cressida Revolution Shakespeare FringeArts.com/8668 For its fifth anniversary, Revolution Shakespeare presents Troilus and Cressida free to the public in Hawthorne Park. T&C explores Shakespeare’s lesser-known star-crossed lovers during the Trojan War. Acclaimed director Brenna Geffers brings her trademark style to a production with live music, food, and much more. Free / 105 minutes Hawthorne Park 1200 Catharine Street Sept 12*, 13*, 14–16, 19, 20 at 6:30pm Sept 21 at 10am + 6:30pm Sept 22 at 6:30pm *Previews
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3 FIGMAGO Meg Saligman Studio FringeArts.com/8691 FIGMAGO is part art installation, part room escape, and all parts wonderfully immersive. Enter the mind of a muralist as you explore secret passages and mesmerizing art to discover a mysterious mural that comes to life. YOU become the artist as the story unfolds. Handson and phone-free fun for all ages! $16–$24 / 60 minutes (art installation only) $38 / 60 minutes (live performance featuring Brian Sanders’ JUNK throughout) Meg Saligman Studio 825 Bainbridge Street Live Performances: Sept 7–9, 14–16, 21 + 22, see website for times. Art Installation: Sept 6–9, 12–16 + 19–22, see website for times.
4 Pareidolic Expanses Orlando Saverino-Loeb FringeArts.com/8692 Solo exhibition by Orlando Saverino-Loeb with paintings that stem from an exploration of visual primary sources. “How can I make a painting that eliminates what I want to force on the viewer? I want to give more power to the viewer, because I’ve always thought that the viewer is more important than the painter.” Free / Gallery hours Da Vinci Art Alliance 704 Catharine Street Sept 5 at 6pm–8pm Sept 8 + 9 at 1pm–5pm Sept 12 at 6pm–8pm
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4 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition Da Vinci Art Alliance / Philadelphia Sculptors FringeArts.com/8693 Juried by Elaine Crivelli, this group exhibition features thoughtful and original three-dimensional artworks exploring the idea of shelter. Free / Gallery hours Da Vinci Art Alliance 704 Catharine Street Sept 5 at 6pm–8pm Sept 8 + 9 at 1pm–5pm Sept 12 at 6pm–8pm Sept 15 + 16 at 1pm–5pm Sept 19 at 6pm–8pm Sept 22 + 23 at 1pm–5pm Sept 26 at 6pm–8pm ‘
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4 Works on Paper Da Vinci Art Alliance FringeArts.com/8694 A group exhibition, juried by Moe Brooker. While thematically open, this exhibition features the diverse and tactile nature of work with and on paper including drawing or painting on paper; hand-pulled, photographic, or digital prints; collage; and paper constructions. Image: Moe Brooker, Future Memories, mixed media. Free / Gallery hours Da Vinci Art Alliance 704 Catharine Street Sept 15 + 16 at 1pm–5pm Sept 19 at 6pm–8pm Sept 22 + 23 at 1pm–5pm
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1 No, We Won’t Shut Up! Bady Works FringeArts.com/8751 There’s a lot wrong in our world today and these women have something to say. Don’t try to stop them, because their time is NOW! Considering issues ranging from white privilege to wage theft to racism to gentrification to sexual harassment to police violence, they tell their personal and ultimately inspiring stories. $15 / 65 minutes Rose Valley Storytelling House Concerts 3 Rose Valley Road, Media, PA Sept 7–9 + 14–16 at 7pm
2 home ~ re-vised, re-purposed, and re-edited for 2018 Jenkintown Dance Company FringeArts.com/8521 This work was born in the ashes of a devastating fire that destroyed my house and forced me and my three daughters to relocate for a year. During this exile, I noticed that the walls around me were like a framework for new creations. The work that emerged explored movement through the nooks and crannies of this temporary home. Jenkintown Dance Company is repurposing the original material and relocating it to the Fringe Festival. $15 / 30 minutes York Studios 459 Old York Road, Jenkintown, PA Sept 20–22 at 8:30pm Sept 23 at 2:30pm
3 Love Stories Denise McCormack FringeArts.com/8761 Master storyteller Denise McCormack brings to life literary and traditional tales to capture the essence of women’s issues and issues of the heart. This onewoman stand-up sparks a flood of emotions and memories, as it revisits secret and soulful nuances of motherhood, childhood, family, and life—the dynamics of love. Intended for adults. Pay what you wish / 60 minutes Artworks Trenton 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 at 3pm
3 Artworks Trenton & Common Threads Gallery Presents… Common Threads Gallery / Artworks Trenton FringeArts.com/8791 Exhibitions and programs taking place at Artworks Trenton include two exhibitions, Art of the Counterculture (TPRFM) and Pride and Prejudice (André Terrel Jackson); song craft by Danielia Cotton; and a featured performance by master storyteller Denise McCormack (see listing on this page). See website for a breakdown of events. Free / Gallery hours Artworks Trenton 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ Sept 6–23, see website for gallery hours Sept 8 at 3pm, Love Stories performance (see listing on this page)
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2 CRAVE CAUTION Theatre Co. FringeArts.com/8821 In trying to escape the skeletons in his closet, John comes face-toface with his guiltiest pleasures, forcing him to reflect on his darkest flaws and vices. As he tries to save himself on his journey to personal holiness, how is he to escape the insanity of an eternal torment of the things he once CRAVED? $10 / 65 minutes URBN Center Black Box Theater 3401 Filbert Street Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 16 at 2pm
3 Music from the 1970s on pointe Rock on Pointe Dance Company FringeArts.com/8822 Rock on Pointe puts the music from the 1970s on pointe (as in ballet shoes)! This year’s shows will consist of songs from Peter Frampton, Fleetwood Mac, Ambrosia, and others. The dancers will display their talent to “rock on pointe” to choreography of ballet and a touch of jazz. A family show that is fun for all! $22 / 75 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 at 4:30pm + 8pm
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9 Literary Creatures Billimarie Lubiano Robinson FringeArts.com/8841 LONG LIVE THE MULTIRADICALS! For the uninitiated: Literary Creatures are ethereal beings from the deep center of Earth. Their mission? To cultivate spontaneous bursts of sound, poetry, and movement, encouraging the audience to explore playfulness as vulnerability. Every Friday and Saturday night. Come dance. $15 / 60 minutes Panorama Philly 5213 Grays Avenue Sept 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 + 22 at 10pm
3 In the Forest Tangle Movement Arts FringeArts.com/8842 Every path tells a story. Tangle’s acrobats and 360-degree sculptural set surround you in an immersive circus-theater show where threads guide travelers into new worlds. Choose your view and explore a landscape of light and shade, trapeze and aerial silks, and twisting tales for an experience that changes at each turn. $14–$20 / 80 minutes The Sanctuary at the Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12* at 8pm Sept 13 + 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 3pm + 8pm *Preview
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7 Music for Children and Other Curious People Ants on a Log FringeArts.com/8851 **MUSIC FOR KIDS!** Fun for all ages, clever lyrics, and sing-along harmonies—it’s like They Might Be Giants and the Indigo Girls teamed up to sing a Tom Lehrer song! With rabble-rousing music for children and other curious people, Ants on a Log songfully advocates for positivity, social justice, and silliness. $10 / 60 minutes Children’s Community School 1212 South 47th Street Sept 15 at 11am
6 Moonwriters People in your neighborhood FringeArts.com/8852 Clickety tappity clackety tap. 3am. It’s been all night. You thought your neighbor was addicted to Facebook. Surprise! They’re writing! Celebrate and get to know local writers via two live readings in West Philly: Thursday Sept 13 is sci-fi / horror themed, and Sunday Sept 16 focuses on local women writers. $7 / 90 minutes Art Church of West Philadelphia 5219 Webster Street Sept 13 + 16 at 7pm
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9 All 100 Fires Donna Oblongata FringeArts.com/8861 At a guerrilla base camp, a retired clockmaker weighs who needs to be purged from the ranks. Meanwhile, the turkey trapped in Audubon’s Birds of America takes flight to escape the page. Eventually, it all burns to the ground. “A visionary with a knack for creating experiences that transcend the norm” (Geekadelphia). $15 / 70 minutes Panorama Philly 5213 Grays Avenue Sept 8 at 6pm Sept 9 at 2pm Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 4pm Sept 19 at 6pm Sept 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 6pm Sept 22 at 8pm Sept 24 at 6pm
5 Alternative Theater Festival 2018 iNtuitons Experimental Theatre FringeArts.com/8862 The Alternative Theater Festival is an annual festival celebrating weird, unconventional plays, all written, directed, and produced by students. This year, we bring you experiments in subjects ranging from breadsticks to bathrooms. iNtuitons is the University of Pennsylvania’s one and only experimental theater group. $5 / 80 minutes Platt Student Performing Arts House 160 Stouffer Commons 3702 Spruce Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 at 2pm + 8pm
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6 Bon Iver Fights A Bear maura ampersand doug FringeArts.com/8863 A fantasia based on Bon Iver writing his seminal debut album in a secluded cabin in the winter woods, told through the eyes of a crazy fucking grizzly bear who thinks his music sucks. Starring singer-songwriter Emily Schuman in a dirty hipster beard. $15 / 60 minutes Art Church of West Philadelphia 5219 Webster Street Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 9, 11, 12 + 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 17 at 7pm
8 Mary Rose The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective FringeArts.com/8864 J.M. Barrie’s reckoning with loss, love, and immortality explored in and around the haunting Woodlands. A generation lost after World War I, remembered by their loved ones as the young men and women they were. What might it be like if one of these lost children returned? From the PAC (Iphigenia at Aulis, Sea Plays, Creditors). $25 / 120 minutes The Woodlands Mansion and Cemetery 4000 Woodland Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 5, 7–9, 12–14, 17, 18 + 20–22 at 7pm
9 NIGHTMARE FUEL Sarah Knittel FringeArts.com/8865 A brutal clown show that asks the tough questions like “Where were you last night?” and “How come you’re being such a cunt?” NIGHTMARE FUEL will slide into your DMs and leave you quivering and anxious. NIGHTMARE FUEL will look right into your eyes and tell you you’re fucking crazy! $15 / 55 minutes Panorama Philly 5213 Grays Avenue Sept 8 at 4pm Sept 9 at 6pm Sept 12 at 7pm Sept 13 at 9pm Sept 14 at 7pm Sept 15 + 16 at 2pm Sept 24 at 8pm
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4 Now More Than Ever Val Dunn FringeArts.com/8866 Cast empathy aside and indulge in your wildest political fantasies. We’ve kidnapped the vice president and everything is magically fixed! Now more than ever, our country needs a BYOB ritual to hex the GOP in a secret West Philly hideout. Come fight the powers that be by sitting on your butt doing nothing for an hour! $13 / 70 minutes 45th and Spruce streets Exact location provided upon purchase Sept 14 + 15 at 10pm + 11:59pm Sept 16 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 17 at 9pm Sept 19 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 20 at 9pm Sept 21 + 22 at 10pm + 11:59pm Sept 23 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 24 at 9pm
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9 Pestilence: Wow! Savannah Reich FringeArts.com/8867 1348, Avignon, France: a third of the population has been wiped out by the bubonic plague. The other two thirds is extremely freaked out. Part reality television, part psychedelic fever dream, this is a play about humans and the way we deal with real, actual tragedy: totally inadequately, and like assholes. $15 / 70 minutes Panorama Philly 5213 Grays Avenue Sept 8 at 6pm Sept 12 at 9pm Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 9pm Sept 15 + 16 at 6pm
9 The Presented Chris Davis FringeArts.com/8868 The Presented explores what it means to be a chosen artist in the world today. Chris Davis is an internationally acclaimed solo performer who has produced work throughout the United States and Europe. This is his latest and newest solo show. “A strikingly original writer and performer” (The Scotsman). $20 / 50 minutes Panorama Philly 5213 Grays Avenue Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 9 at 8pm Sept 15 at 4pm Sept 16 at noon Sept 19 at 8pm Sept 20 at 6pm Sept 21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 6pm Sept 24 at 4pm
1 Theater Artists Play Barbara L. Gregson FringeArts.com/8869 Don’t wait to be discovered! Discover yourself in the Theater Artists Play Workshop, directed by author and theater artist Barbara Gregson. In this threehour interactive workshop you will learn how to bring your ideas and creativity to the stage, using masks, mime, voice improvs, and more. All genres of artists welcome! $25 / 180 minutes Gwendolyn Bye Dance Center 3611 Lancaster Avenue Sept 14 at 10am Sept 16 at 1pm
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A Stroke of Luck Tom Luther FringeArts.com/8901 A Stroke of Luck is an audiovisual reflection on my experience of having a stroke, and the subsequent recovery process. It combines video, still photography, and audio using generative methods and fixed forms.
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The Artificial Dreamers Jake O’Brien FringeArts.com/8902 Neural networks enable computers to learn in a humanlike way. How much can we teach them? Can we teach them to express themselves? Can we teach them to dream?
August in the City Patrice K. Armstead and Richard Bradford FringeArts.com/8903 Iron Age Theatre and August Wilson Consortium present August in the City. Black actors perform monologues from August Wilson’s Century Cycle in different sections of Philadelphia, spreading Wilson’s voice and ideas throughout the city, giving the audience a peek into one of America’s most influential and seminal artists, and showing how Wilson’s powerful words resonate within various environments.
Broken Bread (2018) Woody Fentress and Daniel Ostrov FringeArts.com/8904 An unreleased short film about two characters who are linked by something indescribable and strange. When one finds a mysterious object in the home it triggers a series of events as the other must rush to stop them. Will they make it in time and what will happen if they don’t? Features a powerhouse performance by comedian and renowned visual artist Daniel Ostrov as both of the main characters.
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Chez Vous Chef Daagh FringeArts.com/8905 Still searching for that once-in-alifetime culinary experience? Feel a need to reconnect to your roots and root vegetables? Request your free (!) home dinner party before this once-in-a-DigitalFringe experience is going once, going twice, gone as chicken soup with rice. In return for your hospitality, Chez Vous brings a modest production crew into your kitchen to cook up a storm, regale you with some home-brewed theater, and livestream the entire proceeding. RSVP now.
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THE POISON THE POISON COOKIE JAR
Choices Podcast Shawn Pierre FringeArts.com/8906 An interactive podcast where listeners can determine the course of an investigation.
Color Ellen Duong FringeArts.com/8907 An interactive watercolor effect, non-photorealistic renderer that displays a 3D scene as if it were a watercolor painting with interactive artistic UI tools. This project was originally developed as part of the 2018 Interactive Mechanics Fellowship Program and has been extended.
Cycles William Stallwood FringeArts.com/8908 An exploration of visual design through emergent systems.
Follow your Body Mark Black FringeArts.com/8909 A 2D puzzle game in which players must use their ghostly powers to navigate their undead bodies through the zombie apocalypse.
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What if you could combine your favorite drag cabaret with a DIY YouTube cooking show? A multiyear study of the history of cabaret culminates with The Poison Cookie Jar, a lighthearted web project that serves as the perfect companion piece to the Bearded Ladies Cabaretâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s live Festival show, Do You Want A Cookie? (see page 34). Join host John Jarboe as he goes in search of the best cabaret recipes throughout history and around the world. Part Julia Child, part Lost in Space, The Poison Cookie Jar illuminates what cabaret is and what it does to you. Come for the cat puns and cookie metaphors. Stay for earnest questions about the role of art in society. Free Online by Sept 6 FringeArts.com/8023 PoisonCookieJar.com
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Here to Fringespire You Art Isn’t Easy FringeArts.com/8910 Since its inception, this revolutionary two-person company has broken ground and stretched boundaries in every genre and form. From visceral devised pieces to courageous reimaginings of classic musicals, Art Isn’t Easy’s work challenges, educates, confuses, and (occasionally) appalls its audiences. This tour de force Digital Fringe piece showcases the company’s masterful work and offers unparalleled commentary on the Fringe Festival and the most pressing artistic questions of our time.
@hereafter Jake O’Brien FringeArts.com/8911 An escape-the-room game set in a chat room. Join other digital souls seeking to discover secrets and find their way to a higher #channel. Send spectral signals to others struggling to ascend. See you on the other side.
How To Dance Sean Thomas Boyt FringeArts.com/8912 An online library of new, unseen, and unperformed moves to read, make, and execute. This collection of convenient dances can be used as a teaching tool, performance generator, fitness regimen, or creative outlet. Learn to physicalize movement through literacy by studying this original archive.
ithink Harrison Stengle FringeArts.com/8913 ithink dare5 you to 1ook inside y0urse1f allowin9 you to ques2ion what it me4ns to be hum4n. If we cre8te our own exi5tenc6 then is th3re a God? What d0es it mean to be ali7e? Where is the bou2dary of hum6n consciousne5s? We are legion for we are many.
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Knowledge Lost Difference Engine FringeArts.com/8914 Hundreds of bits and pieces of information are deleted from Wikipedia every minute; thoughts, ideas, and arguments are erased from our collective consciousness, never to be seen again. Catch a glimpse of them before they go… Knowledge Lost is an audiovisual live performance based on these deletions. In real time the artists gather all the text that is currently being deleted from Wikipedia and use it to create interactive audio and visuals.
Learning the Controls Rachel Sima FringeArts.com/8915 A podcast that asks, “What can we learn from our favorite video games?” Learning the Controls looks at video games from an analytical point of view and relates the themes and lessons that can be taken from games to our own lives.
Miscellaneous Space Odyssey Jenny Kessler FringeArts.com/8916 There’s nothing worse than being a time traveler who loses the ability to time travel. Join our confused heroes as they try to find the bug in their temporal travel machine. This is the first iteration of a digital, interactive comic book about time travel, memory, and unforgettable bakeries.
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My Friend, Anthony Dolores Miller FringeArts.com/8917 When I think of our special friendship—three friends growing up in East Falls in the 1950s—it fills my heart with joy. We didn’t know it, but that starlight time helped us to see the beauty of life, and use those years as beautiful stepping stones. Our sixty-year journey explores the possibilities for hope and a brighter future.
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My Year Without A Man Katherine Nigh aka Titsy Rose FringeArts.com/8918 My Year Without A Man is a podcast of interviews with womxn in theater and performance about what it is like to be a womxn (anyone who self-identifies as such) in those fields. It also shares the experiences of watching plays exclusively written by womxn for one year. Interviewees cover all areas of performance-making!
Noiseless Space B.-Hannibal FringeArts.com/8919 Be quiet, play music, have fun, and see what comes up. A use of the sounds around us to explore a space far away.
Non Science Fiction Double Non Feature Love Drunk Life FringeArts.com/8920 Love Drunk Life presents two short films: Self Tape, a short pseudo-sequel to the musical theater mockumentary Happy Yummy Chicken; and Tree Time, an animated short about one of the ways we connect in 2018.
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Reset Hard Daniel Shumway FringeArts.com/8922 A time-traveling puzzle game featuring single player, co-op, and competitive multiplayer. Manipulate the timeline to solve complicated puzzles, lay deadly traps, and do seemingly impossible things.
Satori Hue Protocol Corey Arnold, Spencer Edgers, and Jason Corbett FringeArts.com/8923 The Satori Hue Protocol is a short, synesthetic experience that uses sound, color, and language to encourage communication between your imagination and memory.
Visualizationist Michael Stauffer FringeArts.com/8924 Michael Stauffer is a software developer working on the visualization of data and music. Combining lifelong interests in music, science, and the creative process, he presents an innovative VR experience where users create dynamic music sculptures as they dance to their favorite music. Sculptor features a “Catch It” gameplay mode, in which players follow and “catch” sculptures previously created by themselves or other players.
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Random Access Memories Benjamin Andrew FringeArts.com/8921 An old stack of computer punch cards leads to an investigation into the past and future of technology in this multimedia mystery about technology, obsession, and the gaps between digital copies and lived experience.
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We’ve Traveled So Far William Stallwood FringeArts.com/8925 An interactive exploration of light and movement, We’ve Traveled So Far showcases the lightbending mechanics of Cipher Prime’s debut game Auditorium, reenvisioned with vibrant colors, rich graphic design, and lush orchestration.
Ree Morton, The Plant That Heals May Also Poison, 1974, enamel and glitter on wood and celastic, five light bulbs. FWA — Lieve Van Gorp Foundation for Women Artists. © Estate of Ree Morton
REE MORTON: THE PLANT THAT HEALS MAY ALSO POISON September 14–December 23, 2018
CAULEEN SMITH: GIVE IT OR LEAVE IT September 14–December 23, 2018
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BOTTOM IMAGE: Cauleen Smith, Pilgrim, film still, 2017, digital video, 7:41 minutes. Courtesy of the artist, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, and Kate Werble Gallery, New York.
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Jonah Bokaer Saturday, September 8 | 8 pm A masterful performance which melds the worlds of dance, sculpture, and visual art and creates intriguing visual illusions. 2301 Kentmere Parkway | Wilmington, DE 19806 302.571.9590 | delart.org The Disappearance Portraits, 2016. Jonah Bokaer. Choreography and performance by Jonah Bokaer. Courtesy of the Jonah Bokaer Estate. Photograph by Kerry Sharkey-Miller.
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October 6, 2018 / 7:30 p.m.
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THE NATURE OF FORGETTING, Theatre Re of London October 19, 2018 / 7:30 p.m.
Making its national debut at the Miller Center, Theatre Re ‘s The Nature of Forgetting is a life-affirming journey into a weakened mind, where broken does not have to mean defeated. A journey of shining humanity and a celebration of life.
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February 2, 2019 / 7:30 p.m.
A look inside what seems to be an ordinary box truck reveals a charming microworld – such is the enigmatic wizardry of Bridgman|Packer Dance. A company that masterfully creates cinematic magic in real-time for both the proscenium stage and in their site. Transform a simple duet to a kaleidoscopic wonder – all in one breathtaking evening of dance.
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INDEX SHOW INDEX SHOW A New Kind of Whole / p91 a PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION / p70 A Stroke of Luck / p106 A Vacation / p70 The Accountant / p33 Airport Opened / p70 All 100 Fires / p103 Almost Pregnant / p71 Alternative Theater Festival 2018 / p103 An Unofficial, Unauthorized Tour of LOVE Park / p68 Animation Nation / p90 AntiCone / p77 The Arcane Mysteries of Vanderslice Manor / p71 The Artificial Dreamers / p106 Artworks Trenton & Common Threads Gallery Presents... / p100 As Far As My Fingertips Take Me / p36 As You Like It / p83 August in the City / p106 B. Franklin: Words Matter / p71 Baby’s First Time to Philly / p82 The Backyard / p76 BASIC WITCHES / p91 Before/After / p94 Behold Her / p91 Beirut / p71 Berlin to Broadway / p95 Bon Iver Fights A Bear / p103 Broken Bread / p106 The Buried Life / p71 Caen Amour / p47 Camp Pause / p38 Carry Me / p94 Chaos Theory / p77 Chez Vous / p106 Chichi Chip (an ode to the Gnarly) / p69 Choices Podcast / p107 Church & State / p82 Circadium Presents: Autopilot / Galactic Garden Party / p86 Close Your Legs, Honey - A New Musical / p71 Cocktail Plays / p77 Color / p107 Company / p83 CRAVE / p102 Cycles / p107 Darlings: Kill Us Please / p68 David’s Friend / p71 Day of Absence / p90 Dead Flowers Circus Sideshow / p69 Death By Chocolate / p95 Death Is A Cabaret Ol’ Chum / p86 Digital Art Showcase / p90 Divina / p91 Do You See What I Hear? / p70 Do You Want A Cookie? / p35 Drawn Out / p71 ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury / p37 + p39 Errant Limbs / p76 everybody’s happy on social media / p72 The F Word / p72 FEEL / p72 The Feminization of Madness / p82 feral wild girl child / p95 FIGMAGO / p96 Fly Eagles Fly / p72 Follow Your Body / p107
For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf / p83 The FREN BANKLIN Experience / p90 Garden of Vessels / p83 Gardens Speak / p39 God, Forgive These Bastards / p78 The Graveyard Slot / p86 Ground Works / p86 The Heartbreak of a Serial Monogamist / p95 Heightened Sight / p69 Here to Fringespire You / p108 @hereafter / p108 home ~ re-vised, re-purposed, and re-edited for 2018 / p100 How To Dance / p108 Humans / p59 I <3 AvdD / p95 In Plain Air / p57 In the Forest / p102 In the Light / p76 It Might Be About Babies / p78 ithink / p108 It’s Happening at Home / p96 Jeanne/Jean/John/Jawn / p76 Jordan Flaherty At Philly Fringe Festival / p87 Just Another Normal Conversation / p72 KCBC X KCBCII / p82 (Kensington) Streetplay / p77 Kill Move Paradise / p72 Knowledge Lost / p108 Lay Me Down Softly / p72 Le Super Grand Continental / p41 Learning the Controls / p108 Life In Eight Parts / p83 Literary Creatures / p102 The Living Dragon / p91 Lockhardt / p91 Long Trouble / p78 Love Stories / p92 + p100 Lurid Circumstance of the Flesh / p77 The Magic of Storytelling with Tchin / p77 manger / p55 Mary Rose / p103 Metal & Kind’s Indestructible Flowers / p69 Mind Your Own & Speedline Serenade / p72 Miscellaneous Space Odyssey / p108 Moonwriters / p103 More Than Tracy Turnblad / p73 Mother/Daughter / p96 Moving / p83 The Museum Workout / p45 Music for Children and Other Curious People / p77 + p103 Music from the 1970s on pointe / p102 My Friend, Anthony / p108 My Year Without A Man / p109 NIGHTMARE FUEL / p103 No, We Won’t Shut Up! / p100 Noiseless Space / p109 Non Science Fiction Double Non Feature / p109 Now More Than Ever / p103 Of Arms and the Man / p53 Off the Curtain / p91 One Hundred Abstracts / p92 One Man’s Trash: A Cabaret About Treasure / p95 Only In Your Dreams / p73 Onwards & Upwards: The Italian American Dream / p96 P Pan and Beyondland / p83 Paprika Plains / p95 Pareidolic Expanses / p96
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Passport / p73 Peg! / p68 Pestilence: Wow! / p104 Peterhoff’s YOUR UNCLE SAM, An American Vaudeville Celebration! / p78 Phaedra’s Love / p78 Pillow Talk / p68 Planet B / p69 + p87 Plunge / p83 The Poison Cookie Jar / p107 powerpoints for my friends / p69 The Presented / p104 Proceed With Caution / p77 The Propaganda Machine Show / p78 Quidity: Migration Patterns of Imaginary Things / p70 R&J / p91 Random Access Memories / p109 Real America / p68 Reset Hard / p109 Ridiculous / p94 Sage Wisdom / p73 Salamander / p73 Same Picture Different Poses / p69 Satori Hue Protocol / p109 Sfânta / p73 ShakesBEER Roulette / p87 Shelter / p73 Shelter: A Sculpture Exhibition / p96 Simpatico Theatre Projectx: 4Solo / p73 Skills and Scars / p78 Song of My Self-Care / p74 Songs For Monsters / p92 Songs of Wars I Have Seen / p43 SPIES! A tech-immersive comedy / p78 Starting Over / p70 Stifters Dinge / p31 Stories of Refuge / p36 Tango, Tarantella and Tutus / p94 Tell Me What I Can Do / p38 Tennessee Williams: Eccentricites of a Nightingale / p84 Theater Artists Play / p104 Theorem / p87 Think Before You Speak / p74 This Is A Play About Buttons / What Happened Between the Dakotas / p74 This Is Our Youth / p92 天问TIAN WEN: Heavenly Questions for Modern Times / p70 Till We Have Faces / p74 To Live By Each Other / p95 Troilus and Cressida / p96 True West / p79 Ugly Wedding Party / p79 The undergird / p51 “UNHINGED” / p92 Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd / p49 Victoria / p96 Villain / p74 Visualizationist / p109 Voided / p74 We’ve Traveled So Far / p109 White Feminist / p74 The William Penn Story / p84 WOLFCRUSH (a queer werewolf play) / p74 Works on Paper / p97
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INDEX COMPANY INDEX COMPANY 3AM Theater / p69 + p86 Abby Morris / Coffee Cup Cabaret at the University of the Arts / p73 AIM Academy Drama / p74 The AJ Harper Dance Project and a. dance theatre / p82 Alana Melene Dance / p82 Alex Bechtel & Tony Lawton / p74 Almanac Dance Circus Theatre / p76 American Express Comedy / p68 Anais Theatre Company / p92 Ants on a Log / p77 + p103 Apartment 20 / p71 Art Isn’t Easy / p108 B.-Hannibal / p109 The Back Pack / p71 Bady Works / p100 Barbara L. Gregson / p104 The Bearded Ladies Cabaret / p35 + p107 Benjamin Andrew / p109 Billimarie Lubiano Robinson / p102 Blue Flamingo Theater / p72 Boris Charmatz / p55 Brian Sanders’ JUNK / p83 Brian Shapiro Presents / p70 Brotherly Love Theatre Company / p84 Cambridge Footlights / p68 Casabuena Cultural Productions / p71 CAUTION Theatre Co. / p102 Chef Daagh / p106 Chris Davis / p104 Circa / p59 Circadium / p86 Common Threads Gallery / Artworks Trenton / p100 Corey Arnold, Spencer Edgers, and Jason Corbett / p109 The Crossing / p53 Da Vinci Art Alliance / p96 + p97 Dancefusion & Sokolow Ensemble / p83 Daniel Shumway / p109 Dead Flowers Circus Sideshow / p69 Denise McCormack / p92 + p100 Diana Lobontiu / p73 Difference Engine / p108 Dolores Miller / p108 Donna Oblongata / p103 Drip Symphony / p73 Earlie Bird Productions / p96 EgoPo Classic Theater / p83 Elephant Room Productions / p73 Ellen Duong / p107 Emily Wanamaker / Michael Kasper / Devon Moreno / p74 Evalina “Wally” Carbonell / p94 Evan Kassof / Anaïs Naharro-Murphy / Nicole Renna / p78 Evans, Lyons, Posner, & Sazak / p78 Ezekial Peterhoff / p78 <fidget> / p76 Filitalia International & Company Aiello / p96 Flying Quilt Productions in association with Iron Age Theatre / p90 Fred Brown / p70 Gerhardus / p95 Good Good Comedy Theatre / p68 Greg Kennedy – Innovative Juggler / p87 Half Key Theatre Company / p91 Hannah Parke & Shamus Hunter McCarty / p71
Happy Hour Live / p78 Happy Theater and sorrows&songs / p77 Harrison Stengle / p108 Heiner Goebbels / p31 + p43 HSC Productions / p91 Hua Hua Zhang / Visual Expressions / p70 The Hum’n’bards / p78 The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium / p84 Indecorous Theatre Productions / p83 International Contemporary Ensemble / p57 iNtuitons Experimental Theatre / p103 Irish Heritage Theatre / p72 Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez / p49 J. O’Neill / p90 J.Wolfgang Fry / p70 Jake O’Brien / p106 + p108 Jeffrey Evans, Nick Jonczak, Devin Preston / p78 Jenkintown Dance Company / p100 Jennifer Blaine / p94 Jenny Kessler / p108 Jessica Creane / p77 + p91 Jimmy Grzelak / p74 Jon & Marissa Edelman / p74 Jordan Flaherty / p87 Juniper Productions / p77 Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Collective / p83 Katharine Goodall / p92 Katherine Nigh aka Titsy Rose / p109 Kathleen Murphey / p83 Kayleigh Taylor / p70 Kimberly D. Landle / p82 Kimberly Redman & Brittney Anderson / p72 Kylie Westerbeck / p68 La Fábrica / p73 Leah Stein Dance Company / p86 Lee Minora / p74 Leslie Elkins & Tap Team Two and Company / p69 Lily Kind and Mark “Metal” Wong / p69 Lisa Grunberger / p71 Lone Brick Theatre Company / p79 Love Drunk Life / p91 + p109 Lyons and Tigers / p77 Magda / p95 Manayunk Theatre Company / p87 MATTER MOVEMENT GROUP / p92 Mark Black / p107 maura ampersand doug / p103 Maura Bailey / Shelby Tucker / p95 Meg Foley / p51 Meg Saligman Studio / p96 Megan Chialastri / p69 MG Dance / p77 Michael Stauffer / p109 Monica Bill Barnes & Company / p45 MyVision Theater Ensemble / p96 Natalie Fletcher / Jessica Noel / p95 Noah Levine / p71 Nora Burns / p71 ON THE ROCKS Elaina DiMonaco & HaygenBrice Walker / p74 Orlando Saverino-Loeb / p96 Paige Zubel & Eleanor Safer / p91 Patrice K. Armstead / Richard Bradford / p106 Paul Harlan / p92 People in your neighborhood / p103
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The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective / p103 Philadelphia Sculptors / p96 Philly Game Mechanics / p90 Philly Improv Theater / p68, p69, p70, p71, p73 + p74 Philly Kerplop / p69 PINK HAIR AFFAIR / p95 Poison Apple Initiative / p70 Pratima Agrawal / p74 Rachel Sima / p108 Radiant Bloom Productions / p72 Regina Gibson / p91 The Renegade Company / p77 REV Theatre Company / p86 Revolution Shakespeare / p96 Robi Hager & John Treacy Egan / p91 Rock on Pointe Dance Company / p102 The Rock School for Dance Education / p94 Rose Luardo / Kate Banford / p68 Ruba / Bush Dance / p76 Ruckus Dance / p82 Sara Mashayekh / p91 Sarah Clemency / p73 Sarah Knittel / p103 Savannah Reich / p104 Sean Thomas Boyt / p108 Sewer Rats Productions / p83 Shawn Pierre / p107 Simpatico Theatre / p73 Sina Marie / p83 Strange Fangs Song Factory / p70 Subscension Theatre / p79 Svaha Theatre Collective / p78 Sylvain Émard / p41 Tangle Movement Arts / p102 Tania El Koury / p36–p39 Tiny Rocks / p95 Tom Luther / p106 Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater / p72 Trajal Harrell / p47 Trey Lyford / p33 Tribe 12 Performing Arts / p73 Tribe of Fools / 72 UArts Ira Brind School of Theater Arts / 72 Ultra V Theatre Company / p95 + p96 Vagabond Productions / p71 Val Dunn / 103 Vervet Dance / Loren Groenendaal / p76 We Are the Seeds of CultureTrust / p77 WeftWorks / p94 West Chester University / p95 The Wilma Theater / p72 William Stallwood / p107 + p109 The Women’s Film Festival / p90 Woody Fentress / Daniel Ostrov / p106 Yes! And...Collaborative Arts / p87 / FringeArts Curated shows are bolded.
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