Winter 2017
FringeArts Home of convention-smashing contemporary performing arts.
”Along with producing notorious and radical work, FringeArts is creating demand, giving Philadelphia nearly exclusive access to artists seen rarely in America.” A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia Weekly
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9 | 7pm Scratch Night Works-in-progress by area artists (Free)
6 | 7pm Scratch Night Works-in-progress by area artists (Free)
2 | 7pm Special Event Ignite Philly
11 | 8pm Feast & Film Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
9 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Sans Everything by Lightning Rod Special + Strange Attractor
6 | 7pm Scratch Night Works-in-progress by area artists (Free)
19 | 7pm Get Pegged Cabaret Special Cabaret with John Jarboe and La Peg dinner 22 | 7pm Special Event The Rocky Awards, Philadelphia dance awards show (Free) 26 | 7pm FringeArts Presents Hello! Sadness! by Mary Tuomanen 27 | 7pm FringeArts Presents Hello! Sadness! by Mary Tuomanen 28 | 7pm FringeArts Presents Hello! Sadness! by Mary Tuomanen
FringeArts thanks PNC Arts Alive as the Presenting Sponsor of year-round programming. We also thank William Penn Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, Independence Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Duke Charitable Foundation, Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation, MKM Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and Comcast NBC10 Telemundo62 Comcast Spectacor for their support.
10 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Sans Everything by Lightning Rod Special + Strange Attractor 10 | 10:30pm FringeArts Presents Sans Everything by Lightning Rod Special + Strange Attractor 11 | 2pm FringeArts Presents Sans Everything by Lightning Rod Special + Strange Attractor 11 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Sans Everything by Lightning Rod Special + Strange Attractor 16 | 8pm FringeArts Presents A Ride on the Irish Cream by Erin Markey With post show talkback.
10 | 8pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents 11 | 2pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents 11 | 8pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents
Purchase tickets at FringeArts.com or call 215.413.1318.
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Tickets available at the door one hour before show time.
Members save 30% on tickets prices plus receive priority access to tickets and seats, and enjoy VIP treatment at all events.
Location + Parking
La Peg
FringeArts + La Peg 140 North Columbus Boulevard (at Race Street) Philadelphia, PA 19106
The restaurant and bar at FringeArts.
12 | 8pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents
15 | 8pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents
Brunch 11am–2pm Sunday
16 | 8pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents 17 | 7pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents
18 | 8pm FringeArts Presents A Ride on the Irish Cream by Erin Markey
17 | 10pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents
22 | 7pm Feast & Film Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
18 | 8pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents
24 | 8pm Music Series Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
31 | 8pm Food & Film Better Off Dead (Savage Steve Holland, 1985)
Philadelphia Magazine’s Best American Restaurant 2016
Dinner 5pm–10:30pm Monday–Thursday 5pm–11:30pm Friday and Saturday 5pm–10pm Sunday
13 | 8pm FringeArts Presents It’s So Learning by The Berserker Residents
17 | 8pm FringeArts Presents A Ride on the Irish Cream by Erin Markey
27 | 8pm Music Series Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret
Membership
Chef Peter Woolsey’s contemporary brasserie features American comfort food and regional cuisine, a heralded wine and beer list, and fringetastic cocktails.
Winter 2017 Cover photo: Ilan Bachrach
17 | 8pm Special Event First Person Arts StorySlam: Caught!
Tickets
No onsite parking. Nearby parking lots are shown on map. Street parking is metered in Old City and on Columbus Boulevard. Subway: Market Frankford Line 2nd St. Station at 2nd and Market Streets.
Happy Hour Monday–Friday, 5pm–7pm: $3 drafts + house wine, $5 specialty cocktails Bar open late every night. Late night menus available during late night performances until 11:30am; bar menu available between brunch and dinner on Sundays.
Buses: 5, 17, 25, 21, 33, 42, 48, 57 Above numbered buses stop within close walking distance of FringeArts. 1
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Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins Will the young and determined FBI trainee get the genius convicted cannibal to help her case, or will he eat her? Bon appétit.
215.375.7744 www.lapegbrasserie.com
Nicholas Bazik
140 N Columbus Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19106
Michael Slavin
house mesclun salad
salad lyonnaise frisee, poached egg, bacon, potatoes, mustard vinaigrette
trio of vegetables beets with orange vinaigrette and yogurt, lentils with vegetable macedoine and mustard vinaigrette, haricots vets with toasted almonds and mustard vinaigrette
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Dinner
salmon
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beef tartare
lentils, seasonal vegetables, horseradish cream mustard vinaigrette, scallion, cornichons, Sunday–Thursday lemon, chorizo, egg yolk, grilled bread 5pm–10pm pan roasted striped bass 26 9 tuna tartare Best warm autumnal salad, chicken jusPhiladelphia magazine’s sustainable ahi tuna, soy, walnut oil, pickled Friday and Saturday of Philly 2016: Best American ginger, yellow pepper, japanese cucumber, 19 idaho trout red miso 5pm–11:30pm Restaurant. green beans, lemon brown butter emulsion
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(Martin Scorsese, 1990)
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mussels mariniere
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blue bay mussels, cream leek cloud, baguette
seared scallops
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braised endive, orange fumé
snails 6 burgundy snails, garlic herb butter
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MEAT roasted 1/2 chicken
fringe burger 22
lancaster raised, brined, spinach, brown butter mashed potatoes, jus
brioche bun, bacon and caramelized onion marmalade, red wine reduction, pickles, smear of delice de bourgogne, corn shoots …. or your way
the parisian pork cheek carbonade beer-braised, onions, spice bread croutons
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baguette, french ham, butter, cornichons
Photos: Peggy Baud-Woosley
Photo: Johanna Austin
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Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
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oyster trio
Sunday Brunch 11am–2pm Sunday
esplette candied pecans, seared mushrooms
GoodFellas
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smoked cream and salmon roe, lemon Inside the FringeArts building, herb purée, chili oil and lime discover Chef Peter Woolsey’s by the piece:featuring contemporary brasserie seasonal vegetables 8 $30 MENU Happy Hour selection cider-braised butternut squash, black oysters American comfort fooddaily and Monday–Friday trumpet puree, cranberry chutney, herb butternut squashregional soup shrimp puree, wild mushrooms cuisine. Enjoy inspired 5pm–7pm or (served with mignonette, cocktail sauce and lemon) trio of salads plates with the highest quality $3 drafts + house wine, (choose three from the salad menu) 7 potato rosti $5 specialty cocktails sourced vegetables and meats, a crab salad potato cake with shallot, fresh tomato — sauce, parmesan 1.5 oz. beer crab meat, avocado, roasted half chickenheralded and fries wine and list, andmango, cayenne, tarragon mayonaise or Bar open late every night. Late andfringetastic salmon with lentils horseradish cocktails. Peruse the — lobster salad menu at: lapegbrasserie.com. APPETIZERSnight menu is available during chocolate cake 1.5 oz. lobster meat, chive, lemon, mayonaise late night performances or la pegis sundae until 11:30pm. A bar menu 10 pho consommé reinterpreted steak and vietnamese available between brunch and noodle soup, oxtail ravioli, traditional garnish dinner on Sunday. SANDWICHES
butternut squash soup
$20/includes film and light meal
Chef de Cuisine
VEGETABLES soft and bitter lettuces, tahini, lemon vinaigrette
"It has been a good long while since I have felt the presence of Evil so manifestly demonstrated." Roger Ebert
Peter Woolsey
Executive Chef / Proprietor
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Enjoy your favorite films on the big screen in the FringeArts Theater, paired with an expertly tailored meal from the kitchen of La Peg, designed specifically for each film by executive chef Peter Woolsey.
Good Eats and Good Films
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” So begins one of the all time great mobster movies with one of the all time great casts. Three decades of life of the mafia, Scorsese-style. "An American crime classic." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone $85/includes film and Italian-American feast!
Better off Dead (Savage Steve Holland, 1985) John Cusack and a bunch of actors you'd be hardpressed to name They say that breaking up is hard to do. This thoroughly hilarious 1980s cult classic is a wildly imaginative romcom full of failed suicide attempts and food that seems to have a life of its own. "A wonderfully off-kilter iteration of the typical comingof-age-and-getting-the-girl movie." Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly $20/includes film and light meal
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Special Event Tuesday January 17 | 8pm Doors open at 7pm $10 general / $7 member (including First Person Arts members) FringeArts.com/slam FringeArts Theater
First Person Arts StorySlam: Caught! Scratch Night
Free / rsvp suggested FringeArts Theater
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Artists perform new material in this fastpaced sampling of contemporary theater, dance, performance art, and everything in between. A fun opportunity to see who is experimenting with what in Philadelphia performing arts, Scratch Nights feature short works by up to six artists/companies.
Photo: Jen Cleary
Monday January 9 | 7pm Monday February 6 | 7pm Monday March 6 | 7pm
Photo: Hallie Martenson
Art in the making.
Red-handed. Off guard. Stuck. We want to hear your stories on the theme Caught! A StorySlam is more than a storytelling competition. It’s an invitation to share five minutes of your life and connect with a room full of people who appreciate a well-told tale. Gutsy audience members sign up at the door to tell a true story on the theme of the night: Caught! Of those who sign up, ten storytellers are randomly selected to take to the stage with their most outrageous, heartfelt, and hilarious tales. Judges, also selected from the audience, determine the StorySlam winner, who is awarded a $100 prize, and a chance to compete in the season finale Grand Slam. Got five minutes? Come and lend an ear, or share an experience!
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Get Pegged Cabaret
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Special Event
Thursday January 19 | 7pm $75 Includes show and multi-course dinner FringeArts.com/jarboe La Peg Stage
The Rocky Awards
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Free / rsvp suggested FringeArts.com/awards FringeArts Theater
Philly’s favorite hometown awards show turns 15! Join us for a celebration of all that happened in Philly dance in 2016—plus a look back and a look forward as we honor the people who make dance happen on and off the stage.
Journey around the culinary world of that history with a multi-course dinner from La Peg executive chef Peter Woolsey.
The Rocky Awards highlights Philly’s rich dance community with performances and speeches: it’s where local legends and newcomers come together and where movements—of all kinds—brew.
Photo: Gabrielle Revlock
Journey through the history of cabaret—from Paris to Berlin and beyond—through song and story courtesy John Jarboe, artistic director the Bearded Ladies Cabaret.
Photo: Kate Raines
John Jarboe’s History of Cabaret Spectacular
Sunday January 22 | 7pm
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FringeArts Presents Thursday January 26 | 7pm* Friday January 27 | 7pm Saturday January 28 | 7pm
A thief is on the loose, and he wants to see if you can take a joke. Hello! Sadness! is a dark comedy that weaves a story from Joan of Arc to the Black Panther Party to misogynist stand-up to awkward French New Wave dancing. With imagination, visual projections, and a perfectly interspersed sound design, audiences move about from the here and now to 1960s Chicago, an intoxicating poppy field, fifteenth century France, a street run by prostitutes, a museum, a trial, a speeding car, a secret place of joy and rage.
Hello! Sadness! Mary Tuomanen
*Post-show conversation with the artists.
Mary Tuomanen proposes humor as a weapon for social activism—to laugh at the oppressor in all of us, then punch him in the face.
“It’s exactly by confronting our limitations that we become powerful. By dreaming the impossible, we become sane.” Mary Tuomanen
Written and Performed by Mary Tuomanen Projections Maria Shaplin Sound by Adriano Shaplin Lights Andrew Thompson Direction by Annie Wilson
Photos: Daryl Peveto
“Tuomanen is able to find the silly and the crushing in every moment.” -Julius Ferraro, Phindie
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$20 general / $14 member $15 student and 25-and-under FringeArts.com/hello FringeArts Theater 75 minutes
This work was developed in part during a residency in the SEI Innovation Studio at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in 2013. It was commissioned by and had its World Premiere at the Kimmel Center in 2015.
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FringeArts Presents Thursday February 9 | 8pm Friday February 10 | 8pm + 10:30pm Saturday February 11 | 2pm + 8pm $20 general / $14 member $15 student and 25-and-under FringeArts.com/sans FringeArts Theater 80 minutes Explore a time so far in the future that humans have been replaced by disembodied intelligence, when the experience of having a body and floating through the human life cycle is sold as a vacation package on cruise ships traveling though outer space. Aboard one such ship, an embodied A.I. find themselves stuck on Shakespeare’s As You Like It, resulting in Elizabethan-style chaos and a total collapse of the world order. “As the characters learn about becoming human, some of them observe a ubiquitous, timehonored tradition: they fall in love with Shakespeare. Others follow a different popular tradition: they hate Shakespeare.” Scott Sheppard of Lightning Rod Special
Lightning Rod Special + Strange Attractor
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“Bold and brilliant.” HowlRound Photos: Johanna Austin
Sans Everything
How is humanity best expressed: by what we can do or by who we are? Love, gender, the cycle of life— Sans Everything impels audiences to question where humanity is going and what will happen when it gets there. Original Concept/Consultant Aram Aghazarian Outside Eye/Creator Rebecca Noon Performers/Creators Roblin Gray Davis, Jed HancockBrainerd, Katie Gould, Jennifer Kidwell, Mason Rosenthal, Scott Sheppard, Clara Weishahn, Alice Yorke
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FringeArts Presents Thursday February 16 | 8pm* Friday February 17 | 8pm Saturday February 18 | 8pm
A Ride on the Irish Cream
$20 general / $14 member $15 student and 25-and-under FringeArts.com/irish FringeArts Theater 90 minutes
From inside the memory of a Michigan backyard on the bank of the Kawkawlin River comes a fresh and surprising new musical.
Erin Markey
“A lot of the lyrics are inspired by the things in my backyard: Queen Anne’s Lace, pussy willows, willow trees, bird bath, pine needles, a weird man-made waterfall, a path leading to the dock where the Irish Cream was tied, some woods where we found mirror shards and thought they were diamonds.” Erin Markey
Written and Created by Erin Markey Music Erin Markey, Emily Bate and Kenny Mellman Lyrics Erin Markey Director Jordan Fein Performers Becca Blackwell, Erin Markey, Ian Axness, Chenda Cope, Mike Marcinowski, Emily Bate
Photo: Ian Douglas
“What drives the piece is Markey’s intimate dream logic and her tender, weird chemistry with Blackwell—existing in the nebulous space between juvenile play and sexual awakening.” The New Yorker
A live band and swath of carpet serve as the space for the thrills and terrors of a relationship between Reagan (Markey), a vainglorious selfmade girl, and Irish Cream (Becca Blackwell), her family’s pontoon boat/horse. They are in love, but when their relationship is tested by dust ruffles, sex for money, severe T-storms, and a secret cellar, the only way to stay together is to remember all the parts of themselves their bodies tried to forget.
Photo: Allison Michael Orenstein
Photo: Maria Barinova
*Post-show conversation with Erin Markey.
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Friday February 24 | 8pm $18 general / $12.60 member $15 student and 25-and-under FringeArts.com/ethnic FringeArts Theater
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble A co-presentation with Ars Nova Workshop
“All the facility in the world with nothing that comes from the heart doesn’t make good music. The basis of the strength of any artistic evolution has come from ethnicity.” Kahil El’Zabar “Harmonically provocative and rhythmically seductive.” Chicago Tribune
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Music Series Monday February 27 | 8pm $29 general / $20.30 member $15 student and 25-and-under FringeArts.com/martha FringeArts Theater 90 minutes
After 40 years, this legendary band led by Kahil El’Zabar is still serving up their special brand of 21st century griot music, built upon concepts of African American music-making and the earlier roots of traditional African music in order to produce something new.
Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret
The trio’s latest incarnation features trumpeter Corey Wilkes, a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and who has also worked with Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, and Kurt Elling; and saxophonist Teodross Avery, who has performed with everyone from Roy Ayers to Betty Carter to Mos Def, written music for Amy Winehouse and toured with Matchbox Twenty. El’Zabar is one of Chicago’s jazz treasures: a member of the AACM, he also played with the bands of Stevie Wonder, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, and Nina Simone.
Be prepared. Be very prepared.
Together, the trio’s performances impart an ancestral wisdom that conjures an energy rarely encountered in contemporary music. Corey Wilkes, trumpet Teodross Avery, tenor saxophone Kahil El’Zabar, percussion
Photo: Kevin Monko
Music Series
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Special Event Thursday March 2 | 7pm Doors open at 6pm
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Ignite Philly
Twelve-month membership includes exclusive benefits all year-round at FringeArts and at the annual Fringe Festival in September. $65 MEMBERSHIP one 30%-off ticket per show
Welcome to a night exploding with ideas. A night to share amazing stories happening around Philadelphia.
$100 MEMBERSHIP two 30%-off tickets per show DO MORE, SPEND LESS • 30% off all shows • Up to 50% off select performances
Rapid five-minute presentations, accompanied by twenty slides ticking down at fifteen-second intervals, inspire the crowd with ingenuity, humor, and imagination—ideas that are a call to action, that turn the past upside down, that point the way by which you help make a better future. At Ignite Philly, people don’t just gather with beers to talk about nothing, they gather with beers to be inspired to change the world!
BE A VIP • Ticket exchanges • Member ID card • Invitations to artist receptions and other events • Additional exclusive opportunities • Swag
Gala by Jeroôme Bel, Fringe Festival 2016. Photo: Johanna Austin
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Pay What You Can FringeArts.com/ignite FringeArts Theater
“The fundamental takeaway from Ignite Philly is that the ability to change the world is more real than ever.” Brian James Kirk of Technically Media
Ignite Philly is part of a worldwide network that entertains and educates people in five-minute bursts. Ignite Philly is the local group, which highlights great ideas coming to life in Philadelphia.
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FringeArts Presents Friday March 10 | 8pm Saturday March 11 | 2pm + 8pm Sunday March 12 | 8pm Monday March 13 | 8pm Wednesday March 15 | 8pm Thursday March 16 | 8pm Friday March 17 | 7pm + 10pm Saturday March 18 | 8pm
“We ping both the absurdity of the American school system as well as the audience’s own memories of being students. When you open up that can of worms, the material to pull from and play with is boundless.” Justin Jain of The Berserker Residents “Delightfully goofy.” The New York Times
Have you blocked out your middle school of anxiety, dread, terror?
It’s So Learning
$20 general / $14 member $15 student and 25-and-under FringeArts.com/learning FringeArts Theater 75 minutes
Expect no pity here! Heads down, we’re taking attendance!
The Berserker Residents
Creators–Performers Dawn Falato, Justin Jain, David Johnson, Lee Minora, Bradley K. Wrenn Outsideeye Direction Adrienne Mackey Note: Audiences are moved about and asked to speak throughout the show. Please wear comfortable shoes. Prepare to leave bags (including purses) at the free baggage check. The show will accommodate any physical restrictions, please call FringeArts at 215.413.1318 to let us know your needs so the show can ensure you get the full classroom nightmare experience.
Photos: Plate3 Photography
Welcome to The SimEdu Center, where you, the audience, will be tested, screened, and hung out to dry in preparation for your upcoming K–12 education. With the audience sitting in fifty child-sized classroom chairs and surrounded by black boards, It’s So Learning is a highly interactive and wild, comedic ride that guides you through the idiosyncratic absurdities of the nation’s school system. Pencils down, idiots!
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Save the Date
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Saturday May 20 | Noon to Midnight Blue Cross RiverRink, Penn’s Landing 101 South Christopher Columbus Boulevard
12 hours 1000 dancers
out. ” t r a “ your Dance
The FringeA-Thon is an epic dance party and inaugural dance-a-thon fundraiser for FringeArts. Calling all novice, avid, and professional dancers and fitness enthusiasts: you are invited to become the show and DANCE YOUR ART OUT for a day, while also raising money for FringeArts. Also featuring musical performances and great Philly food and drink, FringeA-Thon is a daylong bonanza of artistic expression, team building, fitness, dance education, and the total party experience—all to champion FringeArts, as we continue to bring and foster the art you love.
Support the arts and culture of Philadelphia. For more information on how to participate, please contact Development@FringeArts.com
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Photo (c) Jacques-Jean Tiziou
FringeArts provides the party. Dancers provide the energy. You provide the moves.
140 N Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106 FringeArts.com
“FringeArts has curated a lineup of programming that you won’t be able to catch anywhere else.” Allie Volpe, Philly.com Photo: Erin Markey in A Ride on the Irish Cream, photo by Maria Barinova.