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ADAM&EVE
Mad Paradox
The naked truth is exposed in this boldly intimate and intense retelling of Genesis where Adam and Eve are plunged into an existential crisis after a feeding frenzy for knowledge using karaoke-style pop music, wild projections and loads of live appleeating.
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 21 at 7pm Sep 22 at 10pm Sep 25 at 4pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/45139
Alternative Theatre Festival 2022
iNtuitons Experimental Theatre
Alternative Theatre Festival is a collection of short, experimental pieces written and directed by students at the University of Pennsylvania.
Platt Student Performing Arts House 3702 Spruce St West Philly Sep 17 at 2pm + 8pm $5 / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67198
Awoke: The Musical
Run Boy Run Productions of Culture Works of Greater Philadelphia
This Justice System is insensitive...it is care-less and biased! Courtrooms are overcrowded with stories of mis-represented and misunderstood cases. It's one big circus the way this administration juggles the lives of the poor and underserved. Awoke the Musical brings attention to how mass incarceration has become a business and the pipeline from public schools to prisons.
The Icebox Project Space 1400 N American St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 8 at 6pm Sep 9 at 6:30pm Sep 10 at 8pm Sep 11 at 2pm $20 / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67110
Baring More than My Soul
Tommy D Naked Man
A naked poetry reading of original poetry with clothing optional for audience members. Reception following performances.
Theater Exile 1340 S 13th St South Philly Sep 8 + 11 at 8pm $15 / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66911
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Allens Lane Art Center Theater
Martin McDonagh's award-winning play tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative mother. When Mag interferes in Maureen's fi nal chance of a romantic relationship, the war between mother and daughter escalates.
Allens Lane Art Center Theater 601 W Allens Ln Northwest Philly Sep 16 + 17 at 8pm Sep 18 at 2pm Sep 23 + 24 at 8pm Sep 25 at 2pm Sep 30 + Oct 1 at 8pm Oct 2 at 2pm $20 / 120 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67237
Bird in the Window
Sewer Rats Productions
When life takes a dark turn and you just want to hide, you need bright colorful friends to pull you through. Local playwright Shelli Pentimall Bookler shows us just how to do it in this very real, relevant and rewarding story of being raised up on the wings of others.
St. Mary's, Hamilton Village 3916 Locust Walk West Philly Sep 16 at 3pm Sep 17 at 7am Sep 18 at 3pm Sep 23 at 7am Sep 24 at 7am Sep 25 at 3pm $20 / 120 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67173
Constellations by Nick Payne
Id Circo Theatre Group
One relationship, every universe. Marianne and Roland meet, date, and break up - at least in one timeline. This smart and stellar two-hander explores life's infi nite unique outcomes, as illness, infi delity, and identity crises thread themselves in and out of their multi-universal love story.
Philly Improv Theater 2030 Sansom St Center City Sep 16 + 17 at 7pm PWYC / 75 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67291
Corpus
The Kammerspiel
Based on the writings of Robert Cover, Corpus scrutinizes the nexus of legal interpretation and human experience. How many bodies make a body of law?
Fidget Space 1714 N Mascher St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 22 + 23 at 7pm Sep 24 at 8pm Sep 29 + 30 at 7pm Oct 1 at 8pm $25 / 85 minutes
►FringeArts.com/55183
Dirt Trip
Alex tatarsky
"A hilarious, fi nely tuned absurdist" (TheaterJones) and "one of the most exciting and hilarious performance artists around" (ArtSpace), Alex Tatarsky examines the links between clowns and compost. Contents include: the ballad of an unemployed court jester, a lecture that decays into a heap of dirt.
The Icebox Project Space 1400 N American St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 3 at 8:30pm Sep 4 at 7pm Sep 10 at 10pm Sep 11 at 8:30pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67204
Eat Me Baladi
Mette Loulou von Kohl & Leila Delicious
An evening of two artistic explorations that investigate the intersections between sexuality, sensuality, and Palestinian identity through the body, movement/ dance and food. Leila Delicious (Aya Razzaz) & Mette Loulou von Kohl will share their works in conversation to probe the spaces of dissonance and familiarity between their individual experiences in relating to their bodies as Palestinians.
The Icebox Project Space 1400 N American St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 12 + 13 at 7:30pm Sep 14 at 5:30pm Sep 18 at 4pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67180
E gy
Wolfsmouth Players Company
A forgotten Founding Father, a Black Union soldier, and a modern-day campus trapped between precedent and progress. How does the telling of our history change it - or change us? A triptych set in the crucible of the American South, E gy explores our fractured legacy of riot, race, and revolution.
Second Stage at The Adrienne Theatre 2030 Sansom St Center City Sep 15–17 at 7pm Sep 18 at 2pm Sep 22 + 23 at 7pm Sep 24 at 2pm $25 / 150 minutes
►FringeArts.com/59670
Facepaint
Eat Purple Theater Co.
A clown with a dark secret, a confused priest, and a woman who is very bad at her job walk into a farcical dark comedy. Fueled by grief and fear of divine punishment, Harold tries all the wrong things to solve a potentially supernatural problem.
Theatre Horizon 401 DeKalb St Outside Philly Sep 30 at 7pm Oct 1 at 2pm + 7pm Oct 2 at 2pm $25 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67262
Fresh Ink Shorts
TheatreXP
An intriguing, fast-paced evening of brand new original short plays so fresh the ink isn't dry yet. Ten shorts performed by an ensemble of seasoned actors, written by awardwinning playwrights. The play menu ranges from one-minute amusebouches to more elaborate courses of the comic, the poignant, and the wondrous strange.
Skinner Studio at Plays and Players 1714 Delancey Pl Center City Sep 8–11 at 8pm Sep 13–18 at 8pm PWYC / 70 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66315
GROUP PROJECT
Temple Theaters
On the day of the big test, a high school classroom spirals into chaos. Teachers are missing and none of the questions make sense. Will the students play along? Or is it time to take what they've learned and build a new world?
Randall Theater at Temple University 2020 N 13th St North Philly Sep 8 + 9 at 7:30pm Sep 10 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sep 11 at 2pm Sep 15 + 16 at 7:30pm Sep 17 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sep 18 at 2pm $25 / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67207
Heart Ripped Out Twice and So Can You!
Linnea Bond
Ever recover from open chest surgery and multiple hospitalizations only to get hit with a devastating breakup? From the writer of 2021's soldout New World Rising! comes this drunken love letter to being alive. Spalding Gray meets Tina Fey, but millennial. And horny. A (mostly) comedy about pain.
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 7 at 7pm Sep 8 at 5:30pm Sep 9 at 7pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67027
Hello, How Are You?
Jana L. Henry
A friend of a friend once was said to have scrolled through their phone wondering if any of their exes were still in love with them but safely downloaded a dating app instead. So now, how does one safely make it past the hellos...
Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St Callowhill-Poplar Sep 23 at 6pm + 8pm Sep 24 at 4pm + 6pm $15 / 55 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67116
high noon
Ninth Planet
you swallow the cowboy. yonder demands. in this speculative work of dance-theatre, a group of interdisciplinary Black queer and trans* artists take on america's poisonous lust for the lone ranger. using live electronic and folk music, archival video, dance and poetry, high noon casts a long shadow on the cowboy under the heat of an unrelenting sun.
The Icebox Project Space 1400 N American St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 5 + 6 at 9:15 Sep 10 at 12pm Sep 13 at 9:15pm Sep 14 at 10pm Sep 16 7:15pm Sep 18 at 12:30pm $20 / 75 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67084
How to be an Ethical Slut
Brooke McCarthy
Experience the ride of your life as an unethical slut penetrates lies, STDs, triads, orgies, and love in her musical journey to becoming an Ethical Slut. Don't miss this original one-woman cabaret-comedy show by and starring Brooke McCarthy.
Main Stage at The Adrienne Theatre 2030 Sansom St Center City Sep 10 at 8pm Sep 13 + 21 at 7pm Sep 23 at 8pm Sep 25 at 3pm Sep 29 at 8pm $25 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/65483
In High Germany and The Parting Glass
Irish Heritage Theatre
The Irish Heritage Theatre presents Keith Conallen in two one-person shows-- In High Germany and The Parting Glass by Dermot Bolger. The plays will be performed on alternating nights
Fergie`s Pub 1214 Sansom St Center City Dates TBD $25 / 50 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66914
The Jester of All Maladies
Kurt Fitzpatrick
Temple grad and Fringe vet, Kurt Fitzpatrick, was diagnosed with cancer in December 2019. Boo! But he got through it with a bunch of chemo, stimulating immunotherapy, heaps of Facebook love, and a generous supply of Fig Newtons. Join Kurt as he shares his comedically inspirational tale and sobering adventures of getting through... the C-word.
PhilaMOCA 531 N 12th St Callowhill-Poplar Sep 16 + 23 at 8pm $15 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67339
Cam Silva
Jonathan Daylight is, in his own mind, a skilled motivational speaker and productivity coach. In reality, he is a woefully untalented and unloved person trying to navigate a world that values highly skilled people doing constant, endless work.
MAAS Cottage 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 21 at 9pm Sep 22 + 23 at 7pm MAAS Building Garden 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 25 at 4pm Sep 28 + 30 at 5:30pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67295
juice
Mackenzie Raine Kirkman
Blue and Green are trapped in an inescapable room with no memory of how they got there. As they su er at the hands of a mysterious fi gure, they begin to investigate what made them human and what price they're willing to pay for the chance to feel that way again.
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 18 at 8pm Sep 19 at 9pm Sep 20 at 5:30pm $20 / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67301
Ladies at a Gay Girls' Bar, 1938-1969
Maggie Cee
20th-century fem(me)/butch lesbian bars come to life. Maggie Cee explores her years as a teenage gay rights activist, her own identity, and fem history - illuminating the feminine women whose stories are too often forgotten, but whose strength and determination paved the way for LGBTQIA+ rights.
Tattooed Mom 530 South St South Philly Sep 18 at 3pm + 6pm $0 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66235
Larry's Late Show
Chelsea Cylinder & Julianne Kastner
Larry's Late Show is a murder mystery comedy fi lled with audience participation, hilarious hijinks, conniving characters, and loads of fun. No two shows will be the same, and the audience will play a key role in solving the mystery. Open to all ages. Festive beverages will be served for anyone 21+.
Main Stage at The Adrienne Theatre 2030 Sansom St Center City Sep 16 + 17 at 8pm Sep 18 at 2pm $10 / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67312
Lewis Luvz Clark
Rebecca Posner
A solo performance piece by a horny, attention-starved, (relatively) new mom about the probable-possiblemaybe-made-up-but-probably-not love a air between Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 7 at 5:30pm Sep 11 at 4pm Sep 12 at 7:30pm $20 / 45 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67363
LGBTQuiet
Shadow Company
It's 8 am on a Monday morning. Mr. Reich, the only openly queer teacher, is not in the building. As rumors fl y and students begin to question each other and the adults around them, the school is thrown into turmoil.
Venice Island Performing Arts & Recreation Center 7 Lock St Northwest Philly Sep 9 at 7pm Sep 10 at 3pm + 7pm Sep 11 at 3pm $10 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67323
Mafi a Anonymous; The Women Speak.
PINA
Nella is the leader of a Women's Mafi a Anonymous group. It is rumored that Nella's dad did business with the Mafi a. Each woman at the meeting is connected to somebody in the Mob.
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 18 at 4pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/65806
Man of La Manchin
Nick Jonczak
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III (fuck that guy) is eaten alive by a mysterious woman in this new satirical musical that's not at all based on Man of La Mancha .
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 21 + 22 at 8:30pm Sep 23 at 10pm Sep 28 + 29 at 8:30pm Sep 30 at 10pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67349
The Most Important Place In The World!
Naked Empire Bou on Company
Two fabulous tricksters celebrate USA's love a air with Puerto Rico. With in-your-face physical comedy, lip sync, puppetry, outrageous costumes, and an anything-goes relationship with the audience they invite you into a joyous and disturbing whirlwind of biting anti-colonial satire.
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 25 + 29 at 10pm Sep 30 at 5:30pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67046
MURDER MESIBA 2.0
Tribe 12
Inspired by the classic board game and fi lm, Clue, Murder Mesiba is a murder mystery with a Jewish twist. Come see if Ariana Gadol, JewishAmerican-Amateur-Reporter (JAAR) has what it takes to fi nd out WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT?
The Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Sq Center City Sep 10 + 17 at 8pm $12 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67003
Natural Walking Disasters
Lillian Ransijn/Human Resources
An elegiac clown look at the human condition. The premise of this piece is that our lives are lived through loss-- memories are created as each moment passes, as relationships come and go, as our bodies erode, as we take in each breath....we are walking towards disaster...and this is funny. A second thruline is how the erotic and the intimate are antidotes death. Come laugh-cry or anything in between.
The Icebox Project Space 1400 N American St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 3 at 7pm Sep 4 at 10pm Sep 5 at 6pm Sep 6 at 7:30pm Sep 7 at 10pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67298
NOT RIGHT NOW
James Christy
Join playwright James Christy Jr. on his journey towards greater self-awareness through mindfulness meditation. Spoiler alert: he will fail. If you've ever tried to meditate and found your mind wandering, you'll feel seen. It might not be pretty, but it will be funny. www.notrightnowshow.com
Pig Iron 1417 N 2nd St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 2 + 3 at 7pm Sep 8 at 7pm Sep 18 at 2pm Sep 22 at 7pm Sep 25 at 2pm Sep 29 at 7pm $12 / 70 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67205
Oedipus in Seattle
skullsdotcom
An auto-theater mash-up of everyone's two favorite romantic comedies, Sleepless in Seattle and Oedipus Rex . Two actors who have never rehearsed or seen the script will experience the show for the fi rst time while performing it. Recieving directions through headphones, the actors will be cast at random as Oedipus, Jocasta, Tom Hanks, and Meg Ryan.
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 8 at 7pm Sep 11 + 14 at 8:30pm Sep 16 at 7pm Sep 18 at 6:30pm Sep 19 at 6pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67331
Pocketbook Diaries
Magic Fingaz Productions
A series of zany skits on women/ gender fl uid and their love for their handbag/pocketbooks. (Double Feature with Pink Lemonade!)
Circus Campus 6452 Greene St Northwest Philly Sep 16 at 6pm + 8pm $20 / 70 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67129
Neighborhood House Play Festival
Christ Church Neighborhood House
Since the time of the American Revolution, the Christ Church campus has been a catalyst for social change. We asked playwrights to submit works that loosely (or not so loosely) revolved around the spirit of revolution. In these bitesized performances, Christ Church Neighborhood House presents a series of short plays exploring personal and political revolution.
Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 N American St Old City Sep 10 at 8pm PWYC / 120 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66908
Real PlaNet Life
Applied Mechanics
Real PlaNet Life is a reality TV show made by and for aliens. It's Real Housewives meets E.T. meets the Muppets. Following a screening of one of the show's most famous episodes, the stars gather to greet their fans, make confessions, and Get Real. Old feuds resurface, grievances are aired, and unexpected alien truths come out.
Vox Populi 319 N 11th St #3 Callowhill-Poplar Sep 17 + 18 at 9pm Sep 19 + 20 at 7pm $15 / 75 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67024
Recollection
CAUTION Theatre Company
Recollection is an interactive, dancetheatre piece that contemplates how life experience and the passage of time can simultaneously shape us and break us down. Incorporating the fi ve senses, contact improvisation, olives, original music, and suitcases, a group of wanderers reinvent Sunfl ower Philly and take you on a journey of forgotten memories.
Sunfl ower Philly 1725 N 5th St North Philly Sep 11 at 3pm + 7:30pm Sep 12 at 6pm + 8pm $10 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67307
Romeo and Juliet
OJ Productions
Join us for the most famous love story ever told! This intimate production will reimagine Romeo and Juliet for the modern stage, questioning whether our fate is truly written in the stars or held in the hands of our environment, experiences and choices.
Skinner Studio at Plays and Players 1714 Delancey Pl Center City Sep 23 at 7pm Sep 24 at 1pm + 7pm Sep 25 at 1pm + 6pm $15 / 120 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66283
Ronnie, The Musical
10th Floor Productions
Ronnie is a snail. He lives in a shower drain, and one day, he climbs out into the bathtub. In this new world, he discovers a life full of light, soap, cucumbers, and water falling from the sky. And you're in luck, because he's taking you along. Come see the life of a snail inside a bathtub.
Swarthmore United Methodist Church 129 Park Ave Outside Philly Sep 8 + 9 at 7pm Sep 10 at 1pm + 7pm PWYC / 55 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67172
Scarlet Letter
Humble Materials
A dance-theatre, time-traveling Adventure set in several American eras with one thing in common: the letter A. Written by Jessica Noel, Codirected by Monica Flory and Jessica Noel, Production Design by Kat Caro, Choreography by Carolyn Breyer, Amy Henderson, Jessica Noel and Chachi Perez. Featuring the Humble Materials ensemble. PhillyPACK.org/ Humblematerials
Philly PACK 233 Federal St South Philly Sep 29-Oct 1 at 8pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66991
Song Bridge
Matthew Armstead
You get to forgive yourself. Matthew uses poetry, movement, and song to embody a chorus of voices within themself. With Blackness, queerness, and mental health, Song Bridge is a compassionate journey about learning to sing again. Travel across time together toward collective healing and liberation.
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 11 at 5:30pm Sep 18 + 25 at 2:30pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67169
SpArc Service's Fringe Festival
SpArc Services Cultural Arts Center
SpArc Service's Cultural Art Center presents Fantastic Avengers- The Musical ! This live adaptation of a fi lm created by the participants of Sparc Service's day program will feature action, adventure, songs and dances as your favorite superheros work together to make di cult decisions to save the heart and mind of an evil villain attempting to destroy the world.
Cherry Street Pier 121 N Columbus Blvd Old City Sep 29 at 6pm $10 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/65359
SPEECH
Lightning Rod Special
A satirical scrutiny of the free speech debate and the rapidly shifting terrain of civil discourse within our hypervisible social-media-centered world. Characters careen through di erent microcosms of American culture in a searing look at how trepidation and performativity infect all aspects of our lives.
Proscenium Theatre at The Drake 302 S Hicks St Center City Sep 28–30 at 7:30pm Oct 1 at 2pm + 7:30pm $29 / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67338
Spruce Street
Allison Kelly
Alice receives a cryptic collect call from her dead brother. Determined to reach him, she embarks on a metaphysical journey through airwaves, VHS tapes, and dreams. Spruce Street, an exploration of grief, nostalgia, death, and consequently, love, is also a warning- that being human comes with spiritual and emotional costs.
The Icebox Project Space 1400 N American St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 4 at 8:30pm Sep 8 at 5pm Sep 9 at 10pm $20 / 45 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67267
The Squid and The Octopus
Jim Julien
The Squid and The Octopus , created and performed by Jim Julien, is a very intimate cephalopod adventure, a shadow puppet show (with knives!)
MAAS Cottage 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 8 at 6pm + 8pm Sep 9 at 6:30pm + 8:30pm Sep 11 at 4pm + 7pm Sep 12 + 13 at 8pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66876
The Tower
The Hum'n'Bards
The Tower is an immersive musical experience that explores and celebrates our universe from an emotional, spiritual, and scientifi c perspective, and seeks intimacy with whatever forces came together to create it. This show premiered digitally during the 2022 Philly Theatre Week, and will be presented as a live show for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
The Painted Mug Cafe 1527 Jackson St South Philly Sep 13 + 15 at 7pm Sep 16 + 17 at 7:30pm Sep 18 at 7pm PWYC / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67122
Threnody
Threnody Collective
Threnody is an original theatrical performance that hopes to understand, dissect and undercut our society's relationship to individual grief, collective grief, and the ways in which we can inspire and support one another through hard times. Threnody was created with support from The University of the Arts/Pig Iron School and was fi rst shared publicly at the Philadelphia Arts Bank in December 2021.
Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 N American St Old City Sep 8 + 9 at 5pm + 8pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/65760
Time as a Symptom
The Bean-Jam Project
Interacting on the subway can be... challenging. Luckily on The Below, you have infi nite (and infi nitesimal) time to make a connection. Time as a Symptom is a short play about what it means to be humans in a liminal space where nothing is real and the train may never come.
Philly Improv Theater 2030 Sansom St Center City Sep 8 + 9 at 8pm Sep 10 at 3pm + 8pm $20 / 30 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67193
Topside
Theater in Quarantine
Theater in Quarantine comes to Cannonball with a special, in-person run of Scott R. Sheppard's Topside . Performed 5x a night by Drama League Award-winner Joshua William Gelb in a durational feat of digital loop capture, Topside unearths two men stationed in a military-grade bunker, uncertain of their mission, uncertain how to survive each other's company.
MAAS Cottage 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 25 at 5:25pm + 6pm + 6:35 + 7:10pm + 7:45pm Sep 26 + 27 at 5 :55pm + 6:30pm + 7:05pm + 7:40pm + 8:15pm Sep 28–30 at 6:55pm + 7:30pm + 8:05pm + 8:40pm + 9:15pm $20 / 30 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67188
The Two-Character Play (Out Cry) by Tennessee Williams
The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
"I wrote it when I was approaching a mental breakdown and rewrote it after my alleged recovery... it is my most beautiful play since Streetcar, and I've never stopped working on it... it is a cri de coeur, but then all creative work, all life, in a sense is a cri de coeur."--Tennessee Williams
The Bluver Theatre at The Drake 302 S Hicks St Center City Sep 7–10 at 7:30pm Sep 11 at 2:30pm Sep 14–17 at 7:30pm Sep 18 at 2:30pm Sep 21–24 at 7:30pm Sep 25 at 2:30pm $25 / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66534
Unorthodox Methods of Cosmic Flight
Anastassia Vertjanova and Annemarie Branco
How to build a slingshot big enough to shoot yourself into the cosmos: A comical journey of begrudging allies, a few Big Questions, and no helpful answers. Theatre and Installation Art combine into a show for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and felt the incomprehensible need to go. Part of the Launch Point Gallery.
Launch Point 1025 Hamilton Rd Callowhill-Poplar Sep 22–24 at 6:30pm Sep 25 at 4pm Sep 26–30 at 6:30pm Oct 1 at 4pm PWYC / 45 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67154
When All Else Fails: or, Why Not Choose Me?
Madeline Shuron
Ashley W. is looking for the one and she's tired of settling - but you sure could! Taking cues from ABC's "The Bachelor" and other reality dating shows, When All Else Fails is a clownish exploration on love and our human tendency to overromanticize it.
MAAS Cottage 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 21 at 7:30pm Sep 22 + 23 at 8:30pm $20 / 55 minutes
►FringeArts.com/66937
"The Wind Awakens" by Arthur Robinson: A Staged-Reading
Upstream Performance Collaborative X Cannonball
Two Gods bring two mortals to their home to have dinner and share stories - their evening is thrown violently o -course by their cousin and his forest dwelling cultists in this myth about what separates a human and a deity. Join us for a stagedreading of this new play by Arthur Robinson.
MAAS Building Studio 1320 N 5th St Kensington-Fishtown Sep 27 at 7:30pm $20 / 60 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67325
Wine in the Wilderness
Philadelphia Artists Collective / TheBlackBestFriend
1960s Harlem, Bill paints towards Black Pride; Tommy's living it. Alice Childress invites the Black community into an uncompromising conversation about what it means to love ourselves, and what we are willing to give up to truly love each other. The PAC collaborates with TheBlackBestFriend for its 11th Fringe.
Poth Brewery 3145 W Je erson St North Philly West Sep 22-24 at 7pm Sep 25 at 3pm Sep 29 + 30 at 7pm Oct 1 at 7pm Oct 2 at 3pm $30 / 90 minutes
►FringeArts.com/67026
