2013 Fringe Festival Guide by FringeArts

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7 Tickets

Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak

8 Day by Day

Brian Sanders’ JUNK

18 Presented FRINGE 20 Presented Fringe Venue Map 21 Presented Fringe Schedule

Pay Up Pig Iron Theatre Company with The University of the Arts

The Quiet Volume Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells

Life and Times: Episodes 1–5

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This is Not a Theater

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The Society

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The Ballad of Joe Hill

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Where (we) Live

The Living Newspaper: On Location

AJAX, the madness

Andy Phillipson

Geoff Sobelle

All the Sex I’ve Ever Had Mammalian Driving Reflex

On the Concept of the Face Regarding the Son of God Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio

Out of Time Colin Dunne

Moses(es) Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group 56 Festival Bar 57 Rockys

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66 NEIGHBORHOOD FRINGE Each neighborhood section includes a map and a breakdown of shows by discipline.

Center City Fringe 82

Fairmount Fringe includes Art Museum Area, East Fairmount Park + North Philly

Fishtown-Kensington Fringe includes Tacony + Northeast Philly

Northern Liberties Fringe includes Loft District

Northwest Philly Fringe includes Germantown, Chestnut Hill + Manayunk

Old City Fringe includes Society Hill

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South Philly Fringe includes Queen Village + Bella Vista

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West Philly Fringe includes University City + Powelton Village

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Suburban Fringe includes Allentown, Blue Bell, Wallingford + Wayne 113 INDEX by show 115 INDEX by artist 116 Thank You FringeArts.com/Blog features interviews, in-depth articles, photos, video, and more about Fringe Festival artists.

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Seating Policy Seating for all shows is on a firstcome, first-served basis. Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the house manager. Some shows do not allow late seating, so arrive early! FringeArts does not offer refunds on ticket purchases. Exchanges are only offered to 2013–2014 Members and Producers’ Circle members. TicketLeap is the official ticketing provider of the 2013 Fringe Festival presented by FringeArts.

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Sunday, Sept 1

10:30pm

Cart Before the Horse, 60min, CC / p71

9:00pm

Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 Tuesday, Sept 3 7:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73

Friday, Sept 6 5:30pm

NLArts Campers Present, 60min, NL / p89

9:00pm

As Pretty Does, 60min, North Philly / p82 Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Celebrating Dance, 65min, UC / p106 Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 The Party, 60min, CC / p71 The Safe Word is Begonia/He Deserves It, 85min, FSH / p86

6:00pm

Wednesday, Sept 4 6:00pm

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 Celebrating Dance, 65min, UC / p106 This Is Not For You, 55min, NL / p87

10:00pm

Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26

7:00pm 7:00pm

Surrender, 45min, CC / p76 7:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 8:00pm

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 8:30pm

Antihero, 80min, QV / p101 Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Gayze: A Real Live Webseries, 50min, CC / p73 MinorityLand, 100min, KNS / p86 Page One, 60min, CC / p71 Surrender, 45min, CC / p76 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 Trials of Paradox, 90min, CC / p77

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24

10:30pm

Cart Before the Horse, 60min, CC / p71 Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102 Midnight

Movie Scrapple, 90min, CC / p70 Saturday, Sept 7 10:00am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83

7:30pm

Thursday, Sept 5 6:00pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100 8:00pm

AJAX, the madness, 60min, CC / p28 Page One, 60min, CC / p71 Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102 The Momentum, 60min, CC / p77 7:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 8:00pm

4PLAY, 70min, OC / p94 A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 Break/Drift/Resist, 90min, FSH / p86 By The Slice, 75min, QV / p102 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 The Night of the Big Wind & Shift(h)er, 70min, KNS / p85 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96 8:30pm

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 9:00pm

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Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 Paperback Dreadful, 60min, OC / p95 The Party, 60min, CC / p71

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32 11:00am

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 7:00pm

10:30am

4PLAY, 70min, OC / p94 A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 AJAX, the madness, 60min, CC / p28 Break/Drift/Resist, 90min, FSH / p86 By The Slice, 75min, QV / p102 Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82 Circus Legacy, 55min, Germantown / p92 Get Out of the Kitchen, 55min, CC / p76 Go Long Big Softie, 75min, QV / p102 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 Parts: A Speed-Through, 65min, UC / p107 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, QV / p100 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 The Foundling Wheel, 60min, SP / p102 The Night of the Big Wind & Shift(h)er, 70min, KNS / p85 The Society, 60min, CC / p30 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96 8:30pm

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24

Holly’s Dead Soldiers (A Breakfast Play), 60min, NL / p89 11:30am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 1:00pm

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 Get Out of the Kitchen, 55min, CC / p76 2:00pm

As Pretty Does, 60min, North Philly / p82 Holly’s Dead Soldiers (A Breakfast Play), 60min, NL / p89 Love. . . And A Little Torture, 120min, NL / p88 MinorityLand, 100min, KNS / p86 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 The Society, 60min, CC / p30 3:00pm

Break/Drift/Resist, 90min, FSH / p86 Celebrating Dance, 65min, UC / p106 The Night of the Big Wind & Shift(h)er, 70min, KNS / p85 3:30pm

enormous PoCkEtZ, 60min, FMT / p83 4:00pm

The Momentum, 60min, CC / p77 Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown KNS = Kensington NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 6:00pm

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 Celebrating Dance, 65min, UC / p106 One Year, 120min, UC / p108 Parts: A Speed-Through, 65min, UC / p107 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 Spoon River Anthology at Laurel Hill Cemetery, 90min, FMT / p84 Surrender, 45min, CC / p76 This Is Not For You, 55min, NL / p87 6:30pm

Cinderella: A Fairy Tale Opera, 65min, Germantown / p92

The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 The Foundling Wheel, 60min, SP / p102 The Society, 60min, CC / p30 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96 9:00pm

Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 Paperback Dreadful, 60min, OC / p95 The Party, 60min, CC / p71 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 The Safe Word is Begonia/He Deserves It, 85min, FSH / p86 9:30pm

Antihero, 80min, QV / p101

Spoon River Anthology at Laurel Hill Cemetery, 90min, FMT / p84 The Elastic Air Project, 45min, CC / p72 The Society, 60min, CC / p30 THREE, 70min, SP / p101 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 2:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 3:00pm

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5:00pm

Cinderella: A Fairy Tale Opera, 65min, Germantown / p92 Cultivate, 60min, Germantown / p92 My Body/My Story, 120min, OC / p96 The Iron Factory Presents, 60min, KNS / p85 The Party, 60min, CC / p71

10:00pm

How To Make Potato Salad, 20min, OC / p95 Alternative Theater Festival, 90min, UC / p107 Antihero, 80min, QV / p101 Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Gayze: A Real Live Webseries, 50min, CC / p73 MinorityLand, 100min, KNS / p86 Page One, 60min, CC / p71 Sephro: Back to Earth, 60min, UC / p107 The Iron Factory Presents, 60min, KNS / p85 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 Trials of Paradox, 90min, CC / p77 7:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 Heart of the Revolution, 120min, CC / p73 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100

Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 10:30pm

Cart Before the Horse, 60min, CC / p71 Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102

POOR POE, 70min, UC / p108 4:00pm

Gayze: A Real Live Webseries, 50min, CC / p73 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 The Elastic Air Project, 45min, CC / p72 5:00pm

11:00pm

Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22 Love. . . And A Little Torture, 120min, NL / p88

Cart Before the Horse, 60min, CC / p71 Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102 6:00pm

Sunday, Sept 8 10:00am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 11:00am

Holly’s Dead Soldiers (A Breakfast Play), 60min, NL / p89

8:00pm

4PLAY, 70min, OC / p94 AJAX, the madness, 60min, CC / p28 A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 As Pretty Does, 60min, North Philly / p82 Break/Drift/Resist, 90min, FSH / p86 Bricolage, 75min, UC / p106 By The Slice, 75min, QV / p102 Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82 Circus Legacy, 55min, Germantown / p92 Comedian Elected to Town Council in New Jersey, 75min, Northeast Philly / p86 Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 Go Long Big Softie, 75min, QV / p102 Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 Love. . . And A Little Torture, 120min, NL / p88 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, QV / p100

3:30pm

And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens by Tennessee WIlliams, 60min, FMT / p84 Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 One Year, 120min, UC / p108 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100 7:00pm

11:30am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 Noon

Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102 The Elastic Air Project, 45min, CC / p72 1:00pm

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 1:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32 2:00pm

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 BONEYARDS, 75min, SP / p101 Go Long Big Softie, 75min, QV / p102 Heart of the Revolution, 120min, CC / p73 Holly’s Dead Soldiers (A Breakfast Play), 60min, NL / p89 Love. . . And A Little Torture, 120min, NL / p88 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 Parts: A Speed-Through, 65min, UC / p107

Antihero, 80min, QV / p101 Beyond the Light, 60min, FMT / p84 Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Cultivate, 60min, Germantown / p92 Gayze: A Real Live Webseries, 50min, CC / p73 Looking for Uranus: Starzina StarfishBrowne’s Comeback Tour, 60min, CC / p95 Page One, 60min, CC / p71 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, WP / p106 The Iron Factory Presents, 60min, KNS / p85 Tough Cookies, 120min, CC / p77 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 7:30pm

4PLAY, 70min, OC / p94 Go Long Big Softie, 75min, QV / p102 Heart of the Revolution, 120min, CC / p73 POOR POE, 70min, UC / p108

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown KNS = Kensington NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

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SUNDay, Sept 8 (continued) 8:00pm

Ballroom Dancing Ain’t For Lovers, 65min, OC / p94 By The Slice, 75min, QV / p102 Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 Love. . . And A Little Torture, 120min, NL / p88 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 The Foundling Wheel, 60min, SP / p102 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96

8:00pm

BONEYARDS, 75min, SP / p101 Chlamydia dell’Arte: MORE Sex-Ed Burlesque, 60min, SP / p102

Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 10:00pm

Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 Monday, Sept 9 5:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32 6:00pm

And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens by Tennessee WIlliams, 60min, FMT / p84

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24

Antihero, 80min, QV / p101 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71 Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102 Tough Cookies, 120min, CC / p77 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 7:30pm

Heart of the Revolution, 120min, CC / p73 8:00pm

Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22 9:00pm

Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 Tuesday, Sept 10 5:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32 7:00pm

Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71 Life and Times: Episode 1, 210min, CC / p34

Day by Day

7:30pm

Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, QV / p100 Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 POOR POE, 70min, UC / p108

Thursday, Sept 12

Canada, 60min, CC / p70 9:30pm

POOR POE, 70min, UC / p108 Wednesday, Sept 11 5:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32 Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 7:00pm

Antihero, 80min, QV / p101 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71 Life and Times: Episode 2, 120min, CC / p34 How To Make Potato Salad, 20min, OC / p95 If I Were A Drag Queen, I Would Be Famous, 70min, CC / p95 The Living Newspaper, 90min, CC / p46 This is Not a Theater, 90min, CC / p44 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 Heart of the Revolution, 120min, CC / p73 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 8:00pm

BONEYARDS, 75min, SP / p101 Chlamydia dell’Arte: MORE Sex-Ed Burlesque, 60min, SP / p102 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71 Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22 Looking for Uranus: Starzina StarfishBrowne’s Comeback Tour, 60min, CC / p95 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 POOR POE, 70min, WP / p108 Sephro: Back to Earth, 60min, UC / p107 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 WXPN presents My Mother Has Four Noses, a new musical written and performed by Jonatha Brooke, 90min, UC / p108 9:00pm

Canada, 60min / p70 Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 Federal Detention: The Musical, 90min, CC / p88 10:00pm

5:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32

9:00pm

7:30pm 7:00pm

Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22

8:30pm

6:00pm

9:00pm

11:00pm

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24

6:00pm

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 One Year, 120min, UC / p108 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 6:30pm

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Laurel?, 30min, FSH / p85 7:00pm

Antihero, 80min, QV / p101 Asylum, 110min, CC / p72 How To Make Potato Salad, 20min, OC / p95 If I Were A Drag Queen, I Would Be Famous, 70min, CC / p95 Life and Times: Episodes 3&4, 150min, CC / p34 Matt&, 60min, CC / p70 On the Concept of the Face Regarding the Son of God, 60min, CC / p50 Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102 Surrender, 45min, CC / p76 The Momentum, 60min, CC / p77 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Living Newspaper, 90min, CC / p46 This is Not a Theater, 90min, CC / p44 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 7:30pm

Beyond the Light, 60min, FMT / p84 Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 How Do You Solve A Problem Like Laurel?, 30min, FSH / p85 XFS Philly Song Shuffle, 200min, UC / p107 8:00pm

A Change of Harp: New Generation, New Music, 75min, KNS / p86 Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, CC / p73 BONEYARDS, 75min, SP / p101 By The Slice, 75min, QV / p102 Chlamydia dell’Arte: MORE Sex-Ed Burlesque, 60min, SP / p102 Dutch Masters, 90min, CC / p73 Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 Looking for Uranus: Starzina StarfishBrowne’s Comeback Tour, 60min, CC / p95 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, QV / p100 POOR POE, 70min, WP / p108 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 The Bigot and How to Kill Yourself, 50min, CC / p72

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown KNS = Kensington NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 9:00pm

1 Hit Wonder, 115min, FMT / p82 Canada, 60min, CC / p70 Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 Paperback Dreadful, 60min, OC / p95 Where (we) Live, 60min, OC / p.42 10:00pm

Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 10:30pm

Reasonable Doubt, 55min, CC / p71 Friday, Sept 13 6:00pm

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 One Year, 120min, UC / p108

8:30

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 9:00pm

7:00pm

All The Sex I’ve Ever Had, 90min, CC / p48 Antihero, 80min, QV / p101 Asylum, 110min, CC / p72 BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Collapse/Intersect, 60min, SP / p82 If I Were A Drag Queen, I Would Be Famous, 70min, CC / p95 Jennifer the Unspecial, 90min, UC / p107 Life and Times: Episode 4.5&5, 100min, CC / p34 Matt&, 60min, CC / p70 MinorityLand, 100min, KNS / p86 On the Concept of the Face Regarding the Son of God, 60min, CC / p50 Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102 Surrender, 45min, CC / p76 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Sea Monster, 60min, KNS / p87 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 This is Not a Theater, 90min, CC / p44 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 Trials of Paradox, 90min, Wayne / p109 7:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 Six Feet (Above And) Under: A Graveyard Cabaret, 60min, FMT / p83 The Soapranos, 75min, CC / p72 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96

Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 Paperback Dreadful, 60min, OC / p95 The Party, 60min, CC / p71 The Safe Word is Begonia/He Deserves It, 85min, FSH / p86 Where (we) Live, 60min, OC / p42

Holly’s Dead Soldiers (A Breakfast Play), 60min, Manayunk / p92 11:30am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 Noon

Collapse/Intersect, 60min, SP / p82 Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 12:30pm

DREADFULLY WHITE, 45min, CC / p73 1:00pm

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 1:30pm

Life and Times: Episodes 1–5 Marathon, 12hrs, CC / p34 2:00pm

Adjacent Spaces, 50min, SP / p100 Holly’s Dead Soldiers (A Breakfast Play), 60min, Manayunk / p92 If I Were A Drag Queen, I Would Be Famous, 70min, CC / p95 Jennifer the Unspecial, 90min, UC / p107 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Sea Monster, 60min, KNS / p87 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 3:00pm

ChORDED Motion, 75min, CC / p71 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86

9:30pm

Antihero, 80min, QV / p101 Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95

4:00pm

Adjacent Spaces, 50min, SP / p100 Dirty Joke, 90min, CC / p73 Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102 4:20pm

10:00pm

BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 10:30pm

Reasonable Doubt, 55min, CC / p71

Federal Detention: The Musical, 90min, CC / p88 5:00pm

Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 Rally for the Rail Park, ongoing, NL / p89 The Momentum, 60min, CC / p77 6:00pm

DREADFULLY WHITE, 45min, CC / p73 Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22 The Momentum, 60min, CC / p77

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 One Year, 120min, UC / p108 Parts: A Speed-Through, 65min, UC / p107 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24

Midnight

6:30pm

11:00pm

Movie Scrapple, 90min, CC / p70 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96 Saturday, Sept 14

8:00pm

A Change of Harp: New Generation, New Music, 75min, KNS / p86 Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, CC / p73 By The Slice, 75min, QV / p102

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8:30pm

Circus Legacy, 55min, Germantown / p92 Dutch Masters, 90min, CC / p73 Get Out of the Kitchen, 55min, CC / p76 Go Long Big Softie, 75min, QV / p102 Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 One More Song, 90min, Wallingford / p109 Opera Macabre: Edgar Allan Poe, 105min, CC / p76 Parts: A Speed-Through, 65min, UC / p107 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, QV / p100 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 The Foundling Wheel, 60min, SP / p102 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 The Storm Rider: A Woman’s Journey, 75min, WP / p107

10:00am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 10:30am

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32

Shringara Rasa, The Emotion of Love, 120min, OC / p94 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 7:00pm

All The Sex I’ve Ever Had, 90min, CC / p48 Antihero, 80min, QV / p101 Asylum, 110min, CC / p72 BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Dutch Masters, 90min, CC / p73

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown KNS = Kensington NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

Day by Day

The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95

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Saturday, Sept 14 (continued) If I Were A Drag Queen, I Would Be Famous, 70min, CC / p95 Jennifer the Unspecial, 90min, UC / p107 Matt&, 60min, CC / p70 On the Concept of the Face Regarding the Son of God, 60min, CC / p50 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Sea Monster, 60min, KNS / p87 This is Not a Theater, 90min, CC / p44 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel, 100min, CC / p77 Trials of Paradox, 90min, Wayne / p109

9:30pm

The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 10:00pm

BASEMENT, 60min, OC / p71 Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95

4:00pm

Adjacent Spaces, 50min, SP / p100 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 4:20pm

Federal Detention: The Musical, 90min, CC / p88 5:00pm

Dirty Joke, 90min, CC / p73 If I Were A Drag Queen, I Would Be Famous, 70min, CC / p95 Reasonable Doubt, 55min, CC / p71

10:30pm 7:30pm

dialkinesis, 40min, FMT / p83 Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 Heart of the Revolution, 120min, CC / p73 Muse: The Body Overlooked, 20min, CC / p72 Six Feet (Above And) Under: A Graveyard Cabaret, 60min, FMT / p83 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96

Reasonable Doubt, 55min, CC / p71 Saint Joan, Betrayed, 45min, SP / p102 11:00pm

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22

Day by Day

9:00pm

Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Completeness, 120min, CC / p73 Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 Paperback Dreadful, 60min, OC / p95 The Party, 60min, CC / p71 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 The Safe Word is Begonia/He Deserves It, 85min, FSH / p86 Where (we) Live, 60min, OC / p42

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 One Year, 120min, UC / p108 Surrender, 45min, CC / p76 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100 6:30pm

Sunday, Sept 15 10:00am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 Roux., 60min, Blue Bell / p109

8:00pm

A Change of Harp: New Generation, New Music, 75min, KNS / p86 Ballroom Dancing Ain’t For Lovers, 65min, OC / p94 Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, CC / p73 Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82 Circus Legacy, 55min, Germantown / p92 Go Long Big Softie, 75min, QV / p102 Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition, 75min, NL / p89 MinorityLand, 100min, KNS / p86 Modern Playground, 80min, CC / p76 One More Song, 90min, Wallingford / p109 Opera Macabre: Edgar Allan Poe, 105min, CC / p76 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, QV / p100 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 The Foundling Wheel, 60min, SP / p102 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 The Storm Rider: A Woman’s Journey, 75min, WP / p107 The Tools of Ignorance Present: High Cheese, 60min, SP / p100

6:00pm

11:30am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 Noon

Beyond the Light, 60min, Fairmount Park / p84 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 1:00pm

A Mystery?, 50min, FMT / p83 Asylum, 110min, CC / p72 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 1:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32 2:00pm

Adjacent Spaces, 50min, SP / p100 BONEYARDS, 75min, SP / p101 Go Long Big Softie, 75min, QV / p102 Heart of the Revolution, 120min, CC / p73 Muse: The Body Overlooked, 20min, CC / p72 Pride and Prejudice: The Jazz Age, 110min, OC / p95 Shringara Rasa, The Emotion of Love, 120min, OC / p94 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Sea Monster, 60min, KNS / p87 2:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73

The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 7:00pm

BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 Cavidad, 60min, QV / p101 Dutch Masters, 90min, CC / p73 Looking for Uranus: Starzina StarfishBrowne’s Comeback Tour, 60min, CC / p95 Matt&, 60min, CC / p70 7:30pm

Go Long Big Softie, 75min, QV / p102 Heart of the Revolution, 120min, CC / p73 The Soapranos, 75min, CC / p72 8:00pm

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 Ballroom Dancing Ain’t For Lovers, 65min, OC / p94 Get Out of the Kitchen, 55min, CC / p76 Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak, 45min, CC / p22 One More Song, 90min, Wallingford / p109 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 Stars and Garters: A Doctor Who Burlesque Show, 180min, NL / p88 The Ballad of Joe Hill, 90min, FMT / p26 The Foundling Wheel, 60min, SP / p102 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 The Storm Rider: A Woman’s Journey, 75min, WP / p107 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96

3:00pm

Collapse/Intersect, 60min, SP / p82 My Body/My Story, 120min, OC / p96 Opera Macabre: Edgar Allan Poe, 105min, CC / p76 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 The Party, 60min, CC / p71 Roux., 60min, Blue Bell / p109 Trials of Paradox, 90min, Wayne / p109

9:00pm

Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 9:30pm

The Garden, 75min, Chinatown / p94 10:00pm

BASEMENT, 60min, OC / p71

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown KNS = Kensington NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

10:00pm

Introducing Madhouse, 60min, CC / p76

5:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32

Wednesday, Sept 18 5:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32

6:30pm

DREADFULLY WHITE, 45min, CC / p73 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 7:00pm

DOOM PLAY, 30min, OC / p95 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71 Introducing Madhouse, 60min, CC / p76

6:00pm

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 6:30pm

BONEYARDS, 75min, Laurel Hill Cemetary / p83

7:00pm

BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 Moses(es), 75min, CC / p54 Out of Time, 60min, OC / p52 Pride and Prejudice: The Jazz Age, 110min, OC / p95 Study Hall, 60min, CC / p71 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 The Women in Me, 50min, OC / p96 7:30pm

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Monday, Sept 16

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 If the Slipper Fits, 140min, Chestnut Hill / p92 8:00pm

Stars and Garters: A Doctor Who Burlesque Show, 180min, NL / p88 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 9:00pm

Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71 9:30pm

The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 Tuesday, Sept 17 5:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32 6:00pm

LEO, 65min, CC / p38 7:00pm

Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71 7:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, WP / p106 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100

7:00pm

Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71 Shringara Rasa, The Emotion of Love, 120min, UC / p106 7:30pm

diakinesis, 40min, CC / p83 Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100 8:00pm

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 Bat Boy: The Musical, 120min, CC / p73 Chlamydia dell’Arte: MORE Sex-Ed Burlesque, 60min, SP/ p102 Dutch Masters, 90min, CC / p73 Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 Looking for Uranus: Starzina StarfishBrowne’s Comeback Tour, 60min, CC / p95 Love, Rose: An Original Chamber Musical, 90min, UC / p107 Lucinda’s Bed, 90min, CC / p76 Not All Gods Go to Heaven, 45min, NL / p89 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 The Talkback, 60min, CC / p77

8:00pm

Bat Boy: The Musical, 120min, CC / p73 BONEYARDS, 75min, SP / p101 Chlamydia dell’Arte: MORE Sex-Ed Burlesque, 60min, SP / p102 Dirty Joke, 90min, CC / p73 DREADFULLY WHITE, 45min, CC / p73 Love, Rose: An Original Chamber Musical, 90min, UC / p107 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 Stars and Garters: A Doctor Who Burlesque Show, 180min, NL / p88 The Playdaters, 60min, CC / p77 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95

9:00pm

8:30pm

5:30pm

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32

9:00pm

6:00pm

Enlightenment on E Floor North, 70min, FSH / p86 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71

Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p71 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Safe Word is Begonia/He Deserves It, 85min, FSH / p86

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 Bat Boy: The Musical, 120min, CC / p73 Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, Allentown / p109 Chlamydia dell’Arte: MORE Sex-Ed Burlesque, 60min, SP / p102 Dutch Masters, 90min, CC / p73 GET REAL. Comedy You Can Believe In!, 90min, NL / p88 Looking for Uranus: Starzina StarfishBrowne’s Comeback Tour, 60min, CC / p95 Love, Rose: An Original Chamber Musical, 90min, UC / p107 Lucinda’s Bed, 90min, CC / p76 One More Song, 90min, Wallingford / p109 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, QV / p100 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 The Talkback, 60min, CC / p77 XY Scheherazade, 90min, CC / p77 8:30pm

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 9:00pm

Reggie’s Brodie: A Vaudeville Extravaganza, 110min, NL / p89 Roots, 90min, FMT / p83 The Party, 60min, CC / p71 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Safe Word is Begonia/He Deserves It, 85min, FSH / p86 9:30pm

9:30pm

Happy Birthday Kim Hunter, 50min, SP / p102 11:00pm

The Playdaters, 60min, CC / p77

Happy Birthday Kim Hunter, 50min, SP / p102 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 10:00pm

Thursday, Sept 19

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 Gender Reel Film & Performance Art Festival, 240min, UC / p108 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 One Year, 120min, UC / p108

BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 10:30pm

Alley of Nightmares, 60min, CC / p70 11:00pm

The Playdaters, 60min, CC / p77 Midnight

Opera Macabre: Edgar Allan Poe, 105min, CC / p76

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown KNS = Kensington NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

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Friday, Sept 20

This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96

Noon

The Safe Word is Begonia/He Deserves It, 85min, FSH / p86

8:30pm

5:00pm

9:00pm

Stripped of Common Sense, 75min, Tacony / p86 5:30pm

Dream Date, 90min, CC / p89 6:00pm

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 Gender Reel Film & Performance Art Festival, 240min, UC / p108 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 One Year, 120min, UC / p108 6:30pm

Beautiful Extremities, 70min, KNS / p85

Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 Reggie’s Brodie: A Vaudeville Extravaganza, 110min, NL / p89 Roots, 90min, FMT / p83 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Party, 60min, CC / p71

7:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 If the Slipper Fits, 140min, Chestnut Hill / p92 Six Feet (Above And) Under: A Graveyard Cabaret, 60min, FMT / p83 The Soapranos, 75min, CC / p72 The Waitstaff Happy Hour, 60min, QV / p100

Day by Day

8:00pm

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 Bat Boy: The Musical, 120min, CC / p73 Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, Allentown / p109 Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82 Circus Legacy, 55min, Germantown / p92 Dutch Masters, 90min, CC / p73 Glow, 65min, CC / p76 Go Long Big Softie, 75min, QV / p102 Love, Rose: An Original Chamber Musical, 90min, UC / p107 Lucinda’s Bed, 90min, CC / p76 Moses(es), 75min, CC / p54 One More Song, 90min, Wallingford / p109 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, QV / p100 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 The Talkback, 60min, CC / p77 The Tools of Ignorance Present: High Cheese, 60min, SP / p100

Happy Birthday Kim Hunter, 50min, SP / p102 3:00pm

Bat Boy: The Musical, 120min, CC / p73 Roots, 90min, FMT / p83 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 4:00pm

Adjacent Spaces, 50min, SP / p100 Pride and Prejudice: The Jazz Age, 110min, OC / p95 The Women in Me, 50min, OC / p96 5:00pm

9:30pm

Dream Date, 90min, CC / p89 Happy Birthday Kim Hunter, 50min, SP / p102 HATCH, 85min, FMT / p83 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95

7:00pm

BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 HATCH, 85min, FMT / p83 Out of Time, 60min, OC / p52 Pride and Prejudice: The Jazz Age, 110min, OC / p95 Study Hall, 60min, CC / p71 The Sea Monster, 60min, KNS / p87 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 The Women in Me, 50min, OC / p96 Trials of Paradox, 90min, CC / p77 XY Scheherazade, 90min, CC / p77

2:30pm

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 Emancipation Sweet, a Play with Music, 70min, OC / p95 Stripped of Common Sense, 75min, Tacony / p86 The Pink Museum, 45min, UC / p107 5:30pm

Dream Date, 90min, CC / p89

10:00pm

BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 XY Scheherazade, 90min, CC / p77 10:30pm

Alley of Nightmares, 60min, CC / p70 11:00pm

The Playdaters, 60min, CC / p77 Midnight

Movie Scrapple, 90min, CC / p70 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96 Saturday, Sept 21 10:00am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 10:30am

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32 11:30am

6:00pm

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 Gender Reel Film & Performance Art Festival, 240min, UC / p108 One Year, 120min, UC / p108 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 6:30pm

Beautiful Extremities, 70min, KNS / p85 Shringara Rasa, The Emotion of Love, 120min, OC / p94 7:00pm

BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 HATCH, 85min, FMT / p83 Out of Time, 60min, OC / p52 Study Hall, 60min, CC / p71 The Sea Monster, 60min, KNS / p87 The Women in Me, 50min, OC / p96 TRAPPED, 45min, SP / p101 XY Scheherazade, 90min, CC / p77 Yo! TeenPhilly, 120min, CC / p72

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 7:30pm Noon

Glow, 65min, CC / p76 The Pink Museum, 45min, UC / p107 1:00pm

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 1:30pm

Home/Away from Home, ongoing, North Philly / p83 2:00pm

Adjacent Spaces, 50min, SP / p100 LEO, 65min, CC / p38 Lucinda’s Bed, 90min, CC / p76 The Rock School for Dance Education, 45min, SP / p101 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Sea Monster, 60min, KNS / p87 XY Scheherazade, 90min, CC / p77

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown KNS = Kensington NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

2:00pm

A Doll’s House, 75min, CC / p72 Dutch Masters, 90min, CC / p73 Lucinda’s Bed, 90min, CC / p76 Shringara Rasa, The Emotion of Love, 120min, OC / p94 XY Scheherazade, 90min, CC / p77 2:30pm

Franz Kafka’s The Castle, 80min, CC / p73 Happy Birthday Kim Hunter, 50min, SP / p102

9:30pm

Dream Date, 90min, CC / p89 Happy Birthday Kim Hunter, 50min, SP / p102 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 10:00pm

BASEMENT, 60min, Chinatown / p71 Beyond the Light, 60min, FMT / p84 Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 XY Scheherazade, 90min, CC / p77 10:30pm

Alley of Nightmares, 60min, CC / p70 11:00pm

THRUSday, Sept 26 8:00pm

Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, CC / p73 Unsongs: New Tales of Philly’s Unsung Heroes, 70min, SP/ p101

Friday, Sept 27

Bat Boy: The Musical, 120min, CC / p73 The Party, 60min, CC / p71

5:00pm

Stripped of Common Sense, 75min, Tacony / p86

4:00pm

LEO, 65min, CC / p38 Love, Rose: An Original Chamber Musical, 90min, UC / p107 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24

8:00pm

Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, CC / p73 Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82

5:00pm

Alley of Nightmares, 60min, CC / p70 Stripped of Common Sense, 75min, Tacony / p86

9:00pm

Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 Saturday, Sept 28

6:00pm

Bathtub Moby-Dick, 60min, SP / p101 Conscious Thoughts In Action, 60min, CC / p71

5:00pm

7:00pm

8:00pm

Looking for Uranus: Starzina StarfishBrowne’s Comeback Tour, 60min, CC / p95 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, WP / p106 Study Hall, 60min, CC / p71 XY Scheherazade, 90min, CC / p77

Stripped of Common Sense, 75min, Tacony / p86 Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, CC / p73 Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82 Telling Stories, 180min, CC / p72 9:00pm

Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77

8:00pm

Ballroom Dancing Ain’t For Lovers, 65min, OC / p94 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96

The Playdaters, 60min, CC / p77 9:00pm

SUNDAY, SEPT 22

Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, CC / p73

3:00pm

9:00pm

Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77 Pride and Prejudice: The Jazz Age, 110min, OC / p95 Reggie’s Brodie: A Vaudeville Extravaganza, 110min, NL / p89 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24 The Object Lesson, 90min, OC / p40 The Party, 60min, CC / p71 The Pink Museum, 45min, UC / p107 The Safe Word is Begonia/He Deserves It, 85min, FSH / p86 TRAPPED, 45min, SP / p101

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Love, Rose: An Original Chamber Musical, 90min, UC / p107 Lucinda’s Bed, 90min, CC / p76 Moses(es), 75min, CC / p54 One More Song, 90min, Wallingford / p109 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe!, 90min, QV / p100 spaceplay, 80min, KNS / p86 The Garden, 75min, OC / p94 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 The Talkback, 60min, CC / p77 This Is The Twilight Kingdom, 90min, OC / p96

Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77

10:00am

Monday, Sept 23

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83

10:00pm

Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play, 90min, FMT / p82 Sunday, Sept 29 2:00pm

Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, CC / p73 9:00pm

Get Your Heart-On, 15min, CC / p77

7:00pm 11:30am

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83

Unsongs: New Tales of Philly’s Unsung Heroes, 70min, SP /p101

Noon

8:00pm

LEO, 65min, CC / p38 1:00pm

A Mystery?, 50min, Fairmount Park / p83 Pay Up, 65min, Chinatown / p24

The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone), 60min, OC / p95 Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty, 120min, CC / p73 Unsongs: New Tales of Philly’s Unsung Heroes, 70min, SP /p101

1:30pm

The Quiet Volume, ongoing, CC / p32

Wednesday, Sept 25 Unsongs: New Tales of Philly’s Unsung Heroes, 70min, SP/ p101

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown KNS = Kensington NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

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2013 Fringe Festival

Presented Fringe

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“This festival is Philadelphia’s opportunity to see a cross section of the world’s great experimenters in one time and place. Art making that breaks the mold gives birth to ideas, passionate discussion, and conceptual thinking that helps move our culture forward. Above all, the Festival is a wild ride through the crazy variety of work that leading artists—international and Phillybased—are doing today.” Nick Stuccio, president and producing director, FringeArts

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Presented Fringe Map

19th St 18th St

Logan Circle

Rittenhouse Square

19th St 18th St

17th St

17th St 16th St

16th St

15th St 2

Broad St 1

City Hall

15th St

13th St

Broad St 13th St

12th St

11th St

10th St

9th St

8th St

8th St 7th St

7th St

6th St

Washington Square

6th St

5th St 4th St

5th St

S Independence National Hist Park

4th St

3rd St 2nd St

3rd St

2nd St

Front St

Vine St

Delaware Ave

Broad Street Line Market-Frankford Line SEPTA Stations

5 1 8 11 6 7

23rd Street Armory, 22 S 23rd St Arts Bank at The University of the Arts, 601 S Broad St Asian Arts Initiative,1219 Vine St Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N American St Eastern State Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Ave Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine St

676

10 4 2 3

Benjamin Franklin Bridge

F ringe Festival Bar at Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine Street Plays & Players, 1714 Delancey Pl Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S Broad St The Wilma Theater, 265 S Broad St

All venues are wheelchair accessible except Eastern State Penitentiary and Plays & Players.

W Berks St

W Norris St

20th St

Cecil B Moore Ave

21st St

W Montgomery Ave

Oxford St

21st St

Master St

Girard Ave

22nd St

Thompson St

Poplar St

22nd St

Parrish St

Brown St

Fairmount Ave

Green St

Brandywine St

676

Spring Garden St

Callowhill St

Race St

Vine St Expy

Arch St

Cherry St

JFK Blvd

Market St

Sansom St

Chestnut St

Locust St

Walnut St

Pine St

Delancy Pl

Spruce St

South St

Lombard St

Fitzwater St

23rd St

Bainbridge St

Christian St

Catharine St

Carpenter St

Federal St

Ellsworth St

Washington Ave

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Presented Fringe Schedule

September

3 3

P48 4

P22 5

P38 1

P34 4

P50 2

P52 10

P24 8

P54 2

P26 6

P46 4

P40 11

P32 7

P30 10

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On the Concept of the Face Regarding the Son of God Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio Out of Time Colin Dunne

Pay Up Pig Iron Theatre Company with the University of the Arts

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This is Not a Theater Navin Rawanchaikul

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Where (we) Live Sō Percussion

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A dead oak tree and a mass of white sand and

giant high heels made of steel nursery rhymes

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black portal of memory with the audience sitting on the edge of the action.

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Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak

WORLD Premiere

Brian Sanders’ Junk 23rd Street Armory 22 South 23rd Street (at Ranstead) Sept 7 at 8pm + 11pm Sept 8* + 9 at 8pm Sept 11 at 8pm + 11pm Sept 13 + 14 at 8pm + 11pm Sept 15 at 8pm $35 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 *Post-show discussion moderated by Dito van Reigersberg, co-artistic director, Pig Iron Theatre Company.

45 minutes Past Festival shows include: The Gate Reopened (2012), Sanctuary (2010), Urban Scuba (2009). Festival Executive Producers David and Linda Glickstein Festival Producers Holly and David Stichka Festival Co-Producers Arthur M. Kaplan and R. Duane Perry

“It really came from glimpses of the past, memories of a time before I was aware of myself.” Brian Sanders, choreographer-director of Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak “A glorious artistry that captivates your senses.” Deni Kasrel, Philadelphia City Paper

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Pay Up Pig Iron Theatre Company with The University of the Arts Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor 1219 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 5 at 8:30pm (previews) Sept 6 at 8:30pm (opening) Sept 7 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 8 at 1pm + 4pm Sept 10 at 8:30pm Sept 11 at 7:30pm + 10pm Sept 12* + 13 at 8:30pm Sept 14 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 15 at 1pm + 4pm Sept 17 at 8:30pm Sept 18 at 7:30pm Sept 19 + 20 at 8:30pm Sept 21 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 22 at 1pm + 4pm *Post-show discussion. $25 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $25 65 minutes Past Festival shows include: Zero Cost House (2012), Twelfth Night, or What You Will (2011), Cankerblossom (2010).

Pay Up has been funded in part by The University of the Arts and by the Strike While the Iron’s Hot Initiative, a matching gifts campaign made possible by the Wyncote Foundation and dedicated to bringing more of Pig Iron’s work to Philadelphia audiences in 2013–2015.

Director Dan Rothenberg Text and Original Sound Design Robert Quillen Camp Creative Producer/Associate Director Alex Torra Set Anna Kiraly Original Lighting Design Brian Lilienthal Lighting Matthew F. Lewandowski II Sound James Sugg Audio/Systems Design Mark Valenzuela Performers Anthony Adair, Caitlin Antram, Emma Arrick, Nia-Samara Benjamin, Rebecca Buckley, Corinna Burns, Benjamin Camp, Nathan Clemenson, Jess Conda, Dakota Demato, Emily Fernandez, Cody Freeman, Nick Gillette, Ben Grinberg, Veronica Hall, Lauren Harries, Dan Higbee, Makoto Hirano, Richard Mitchell, Tara Norman, Arielle Pina, Shannon Renninger, Amanda Schoonover, Nick Schwasman, Martha Stuckey, Alex Torra, Dito van Reigersberg, DeVante Wells, Shari Williams, John Yazzo, Alice Yorke Festival Producers Tobey and Mark Dichter Carol Klein and Lawrence Spitz Lisa Roberts and David Seltzer Festival Co-Producer Marty Tuzman/Jenkintown Building Services

“In Pay Up, you are buying, you are choosing, you are getting cheated, you are winning the game. These kinds of emotions turn out to be much more potent than any fiction I can concoct.” Dan Rothenberg, director of Pay Up “Pay Up is about the sociology of money: the stuff it buys, the ethics it bends, the power it creates. And it’s very funny.” Tobey Zinman, Variety

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WITNESS! A railcar ride, a drugstore killing, a sensationalistic murder trial, and a mystery woman whose

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The Ballad of Joe Hill Swim Pony Performing Arts Eastern State Penitentiary 2027 Fairmount Avenue

Past Festival shows: Lady M (2011), Recitatif (2007).

Sept 5 at 8pm Sept 6 + 7 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 8 at 8pm* Sept 12–14 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 15 at 8pm

Director Adrienne Mackey Lead Artists Adrienne Mackey and Bradley Wrenn Lyrics Joe Hill Additional Text Tim Martin Lighting Maria Shaplin Costumes Rebecca Kanach Performers-Creators Michael Baker, Ross Beschler, Robert DaPonte, Dawn Falato, Justin Jain, Ed Miller, David Sweeny, Bradley Wrenn

*Post-show discussion moderated by Joseph M. Schwartz, professor of political science, Temple University. $29 / Members save 30% Students + 25-and-under tickets $20

Festival Executive Producers Carol and Tom Beam Festival Producers Edward and Anne Wagner

“The fact that Joe Hill doesn’t fit our usual picture of a hero is intriguing and complex and makes me want to know him more.” Adrienne Mackey, director of The Ballad of Joe Hill “Affecting and thought provoking.” J. Cooper Robb, Philadelphia Weekly

90 minutes This presentation of The Ballad of Joe Hill is supported in part by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund , The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Wyncote Foundation , The Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Project Stream , The Charlotte Cushman Foundation, and the Samuel S. Fels Fund.

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AJAX, the madness

U.S. Premiere

Attis Theatre (Greece) A co-presentation with The Wilma Theater The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street (at Spruce) Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 at 7pm Sept 6* + 7 at 8pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Blanka Zizka, artistic director, The Wilma Theater.

$35 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 60 minutes Direction Theodoros Terzopoulos Based upon Ajax by Sophocles Translation I. Gryparis Performers Tasos Dimas, Savvas Stroumpos, Meletios Ilias Festival Producer Robert M. Dever Festival Co-Producers Sissie and Herb Lipton

“Attis Theatre and I are personally interested in working deeply in the core of each tragedy.” Theodoros Terzopoulos, director of AJAX, the madness ”My belief that experiment can be combined with perfectly calibrated art was confirmed by an amazing Greek director, Theodoros Terzopoulos.” Michael Billington, The Guardian (UK)

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Madness has gotten its own production. Three performers, trained in the immersive style of Weber

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Attis Theatre, embody

electrifies the darkest,

visceral immediacy that most murderous recesses of the human soul.

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The Society Jo Strømgren Kompani (Norway) Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible

65 minutes

Sept 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 2pm* + 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm

Direction, Script, Choreography, Set Jo Strømgren Sound Lars Årdal Lighting Stephen Rolfe Performers John Fjelnseth Brungot, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Bartek Kaminski

*Post-show discussion moderated by Nick Stuccio, president and producing director, FringeArts.

Past Festival shows: The European Lesson (2008), The Convent (2006).

$37 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20

Festival Star Producers Nancy and Al Hirsig

“Instead of starting with politics itself, I start with a teabag.” Jo Strømgren, director of The Society “The Society expertly straddles the fragile line between humor and horror . . . comedic touches worthy of Peter Sellers; and a witty stream of nonsensical language.” Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

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Imagine the discovery of a used teabag. In a society dedicated exclusively to drinking coffee. There is a traitor in their midst.

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He must be found out, at all costs.

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Enter the strange magic at the heart of the reading experience.

During regular library hours, you and a friend sit side-by-side with headphones on. Words whispered—and written—guide you down an unlikely path through a pile of books. You delve into a deeply internal world, transporting from one

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reader’s sphere into another’s.

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The Quiet Volume Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells (England) Free Library of Philadelphia Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Sept 7 ongoing 10:30am–4:15pm Sept 8 ongoing 1:30pm–4:15pm Sept 9–12 ongoing 5:30pm–8:15pm Sept 14 ongoing 10:30am–4:15pm Sept 15 ongoing 1:30pm–4:15pm Sept 16–19 ongoing 5:30pm–8:15pm Sept 21 ongoing 10:30am–4:15pm Sept 22 ongoing 1:30pm–4:15pm There are four performance spaces within the Free Library. A new show begins every 15 minutes. Two audience members per show. Please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled show time. $15 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $15

60 minutes Created by Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells Artistic Production Katja Timmerberg Binaural Recordings Tito Toblerone Voices Ant Hampton, Seth Etchells, Jenny Naden Past Festival show: Etiquette (2008). Festival Producer Elizabeth H. Gemmill Commissioned and produced by Ciudades Paralelas, a festival of portable theater curated by Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias, production management by Katja Timmerberg, developed in co-production between HAU Berlin and Schauspielhaus Zürich, in collaboration with Goethe-Institute Warschau, Teatr Nowy and the foundation of Teatr Nowy, commissioned by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the Swiss Cultural foundation Pro Helvetia and Goethe Institute Buenos Aires.

“I knew the piece would be an attempt to listen to what’s going on in our heads when we read— what exactly is happening during silent reading.” Ant Hampton, co-creator of The Quiet Volume “A drama of turning pages, pointing fingers, and eerily drifting thoughts.” Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times

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Life and Times: Episodes 1–5 Nature Theater of Oklahoma The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street (at Spruce) Wheelchair accessible Sept 10 at 7pm, Episode 1 210 minutes Sept 11 at 7pm, Episode 2 120 minutes Sept 12 at 7pm, Episodes 3&4 150 minutes Sept 13 at 7pm, Episodes 4.5&5 100 minutes Sept 14 at 1:30pm, Episodes 1–5 Marathon, 12 hours or so Includes barbecue! $35 for individual shows $65 for Episodes 1–5 Marathon Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 for individual shows, $40 for the marathon

Past Festival shows: Romeo and Juliet (2010), No Dice (2007). Festival Co-Producers Lynne and Bert Strieb Conceived and Directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper From a Telephone Conversation with Kristin Worrall Original Music by Robert M. Johanson (Episode 1); Robert M. Johanson and Julie Lamendola (Episode 2); Robert M. Johanson and Daniel Gower (Episodes 3&4 and Episode 4.5); Daniel Gower (Episode 5) Performers Ilan Bachrach, Asli Bulbul, Elisabeth Conner, Gabel Eiben, Daniel Gower, Anne Gridley, Robert M. Johanson, Matthew Korahais, Julie Lamendola, Kristin Worrall

“Kristin is a person, who, much like anyone else, had a fairly typical childhood in which nothing very dramatic happened. Yet, in the end, she had told her own story for over sixteen hours.” Kelly Copper, co-director of Life and Times “One of the most unforgettable adventures of my theatergoing experience.” Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

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Can you tell me your life story? From that question, posed to one person, comes an epic musical extravaganza of one woman’s unexceptional life, presented in episodes, using 16 hours of the verbatim recorded-audio transcript as libretto.

Life and Times: Episode 1

This presentation of Life and Times Episode 2 is funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Episodes 1–5 are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 are a production of Nature Theater of Oklahoma and Burgtheater Wien. Episode 1 was created in co-production with Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg, Kaaitheater Brussel, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Internationale Keuze Festival Rotterdamse Schouwburg, and the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. Episode 2 was created in co-production with Kampnagel Hamburg, le Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Kaaitheater Brussel, and Rosas. Episodes 3&4 were created in co-production with Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg, Kaaitheater Brussel, Internationale Keuze Festival Rotterdamse Schouwburg, and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main GmbH. Funding support for Episode 1 provided by the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Funding support for Episode 2 provided by and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Pilot, with lead funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Episodes 4.5&5 are a production of Nature Theater of Oklahoma in co-production with Berliner Festspiele/Foreign Affairs, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and Norfolk & Norwich Festival and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) as part of Crossing the Line Festival 2013.

Covers: Birth to age eight. Style: Communist musical meets rhythmic gymnastic spectacle. Includes: The toy you couldn’t live without, the nextdoor neighbor who had a better house, a father who was mysteriously quiet, the sister who never wore shoes. Sept 10 at 7pm 210 minutes Sept 14 at 1:30pm, Episodes 1–5 Marathon 12 hours or so (includes barbecue!)

Life and Times: Episode 2 Covers: Age eight to fourteen. Style: Chorus line and tracksuits. Includes: The adolescent years—both fitting in and sticking out of the social group. Dance numbers, also in tracksuits. Sept 11 at 7pm 120 minutes Sept 14 at 1:30pm, Episodes 1–5 Marathon 12 hours or so (includes barbecue!)

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Life and Times: Episodes 3&4 Covers: The high school years (ages fourteen to eighteen). Style: Period-piece, locked-in mystery play. Includes: The desire for freedom from the seeming prison of family life. Experimentation, rebellion, and drug use collide with religion and metaphysics—first love and first cigarettes. Sept 12 at 7pm 150 minutes Sept 14 at 1:30pm, Episodes 1–5 Marathon 12 hours or so (includes barbecue!)

Life and Times: Episodes 4.5&5 Covers: End of high school. Style: Animated film and a 140-page hand-drawn illuminated manuscript, accompanied by a live concert. Includes: The older boys in science class, the comfort of the family cat, first sexual experience. Warning: Graphic sexual content and strobe lights. Sept 13 at 7pm 100 minutes Sept 14 at 1:30pm, Episodes 1–5 Marathon 12 hours or so (includes barbecue!)

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LEO Produced by Y2D Productions in association with Chamäleon Productions Winner of the Best of Edinburgh Award

Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 6pm Sept 13 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 14 at 2pm Sept 15 at noon + 4pm Sept 17–19 at 6pm Sept 20 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 21 at 2pm Sept 22 at noon + 4pm $29 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 65 minutes

Performed by William Bonnet Direction Daniel Brière Creative Producer Greg Parks Original Idea by Tobias Wegner Choreography Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola Animation Ingo Panke Video Design Heiko Kalmbach Set and Lighting Flavia Hevia Festival Producers The Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation Anonymous Festival Co-Producers Cat, Annie, and Steven Bohnenberger

“Since my early days, when watching Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling in The Royal Wedding, I was fascinated by gravity-defying optical trickeries.” Tobias Wegner, co-creator of LEO “An eye-teasing, grin-inducing, deeply impressive work of sustained absurdist magic.” Time Out New York

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A gravity-defying performance of acrobatic wonder and optical illusion. Watch as reality becomes delightfully skewed in this

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gleeful combo of circus, animation, and theater arts. Limitless adventures spring out of confined spaces as an ordinary manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world becomes a fantastical one. For all ages.

In large storage room sits a mountain of boxes. A man enters and pulls out the everyday artifacts of a lifetime. He recreates settings, scenes, memoriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all pieced together by the

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Physical theater artist Geoff Sobelle buries himself in an absurdist mystery about the search for meaning in a massive collection of stuff.

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The Object Lesson

World Premiere

Geoff Sobelle Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street (by 2nd + Market Streets) Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 + 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 15 at 2pm* Sept 18–20 at 9pm Sept 21 at 2pm + 9pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Nick Stuccio, president and producing director, FringeArts. $25 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 90 minutes

Past Festival shows: Elephant Room (2011), Amnesia Curiosa (2006), all wear bowlers (2005). Created and Performed by Geoff Sobelle Direction David Neumann Scenic Design Steven Dufala Festival Honorary Producer David Lipson The development of The Object Lesson was supported by the Independence Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage; residencies at FringeArts Lab, The Orchard Project, The Yard, and SPACE on Ryder Farm; and a commission from Lincoln Center 3.

“What happened here? Where do these objects lead? He is a detective, an archivist, an archaeologist, wading through flotsam and jetsam and junk.” Geoff Sobelle, creator of The Object Lesson

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Dance, theater, video artists,

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join the boundary-breaking percussion group. Together, they create layers of sound, movement, words, and visuals. A concert stage transforms into a home with its own rhythm, intimacies, and music.

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Where (we) Live Sō Percussion Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12, 13* + 14 at 9pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Dr. Douglas Ovens, professor of music, Muhlenberg College. $29 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 60 minutes Past Festival shows: Bang on a Can Marathon (2011). Sō Percussion Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting

Guest Artists and Collaborators Ain Gordon (dramaturg and director); Grey Mcmurray (musician); Martin Schmidt (visual artist); Emily Johnson (choreographer); Mike Purcell (violinmaker); Jason Roberts (metalworker); Jonathon Zilber (brewmaster) Festival Producers Joe and Jane Goldblum Festival Co-Producers Hank, Calder, and Cole McNeil This presentation of Where (we) Live has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Where (we) Live is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project cocommissioned by The Myrna Loy Center for the Performing and Media Arts in partnership with Vermont Performance Lab, Walker Arts Center and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.

“When we leave [our] homes, our four members unite to create another artistic home, with its own unspoken rules and expectations.” Jason Treuting of Sō Percussion “The range of colors and voices that Sō Percussion coaxes from its menagerie is astonishing and entrancing.” Billboard Magazine

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This is Not a Theater World Premiere Navin Rawanchaikul (Navin Production) (Thailand) Presented in association with Plays & Players Plays & Players 1714 Delancey Place Sept 11 + 12 at 7pm Presented with Liz Magic Laser’s The Living Newspaper: On Location, p46 120 minutes Sept 13 + 14 at 7pm Presented with Mammalian Diving Reflex’s All The Sex I’ve Ever Had, p48 135 minutes Two shows for the price of one! $29 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20

“Plays and Players is made up of a lively, active community with many personal stories. My work is a celebration of communities and their relationships created by a team of artists.” Navin Rawanchaikul, creator of This is Not a Theater “By involving the participation of real or imagined communities, Rawanchaikul’s practice transcends site-specificity to negotiate between local communities and globalization” Guggenheim Museum

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Artist Navin Rawanchaikul entered Plays and Players and met with actors, directors, stagehands, and others who have worked there over the past forty years.

They told him about their memories, their lives, and the lives they portrayed in that building. Thier stories are reproduced on a gigantic illustrative painting and a comic bookâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with musical accompaniment and a performance.

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Revel in the political melodrama.

Television interviews! Polls! Debates! In a television news studio, audiences and actors recreate front-page news, restage newspaper headlines, and report from the field.

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The Living Newspaper: On Location Liz Magic Laser Plays & Players 1714 Delancey Place Sept 11 + 12 at 7pm Presented with Navin Rawanchaikul’s This is Not a Theater, p44 120 minutes $29 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 Conceived and Directed by Liz Magic Laser Assistant Director Sofia Pontén Audiovisual Manager Irwin Seow Costumes Slow and Steady Wins the Race Collaborators and Performers Audrey Crabtree, Annie Fox, Michael Wiener

“By studying how the rehearsed behavior of politicians and newscasters creates heightened emotion to win trust among viewers, my performances question the strategies used to sway public opinion.” Liz Magic Laser, creator of The Living Newspaper: On Location “Framed by these historical and political referents, [The Living Newspaper] proposes a discussion around how public empathy is cultivated in the oversaturated program of contemporary news media.” Magenta Magazine

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All The Sex I’ve Ever Had Mammalian Diving Reflex (Canada) Plays & Players 1714 Delancey Place Sept 13 + 14 at 7pm Presented with Navin Rawanchaikul’s This is Not a Theater, p44 135 minutes $29 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 Director Darren O’Donnell Co-Director Konstantin Bock Production Eva Verity and Jenna Winter All the Sex I’ve Ever Had has been developed in collaboration with Oldenburg State Theatre and Pazz Festival. This presentation of All the Sex I’ve Ever Had has been made possible in part by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts Theatre International Program and the Ontario Art Council’s National and International Touring program.

“At first, it was interesting to talk about sex, but after spending time with a bunch of seniors in Toronto, I realized the thing that’s really exciting is their ontological state of mind, the way they are in the world, their openness and generosity.” Darren O’Donnell, artistic director of Mammalian Diving Reflex “A portrait . . . that is both heart rendering and joyously life-affirming.” The Straits Times

Senior citizens from Philadelphia are going to talk about sex, all about it. First crushes, lost virginity, turbulent affairs, relationships that crossed class and racial boundaries, deaths of loved ones, and current proclivities.

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On the Concept of the Face Regarding the Son of God Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Italy) Presented in association with Broad Street Ministry Suzanne Roberts Theatre 480 South Broad Street (at Lombard) Wheelchair accessible

$39 / Special Members discount of 50% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20

Sept 12*, 13† + 14‡ at 7pm

60 minutes

*Post-show discussion moderated by Rev. Bill Golderer, convening minister, Broad Street Ministry.

Concept and Direction Romeo Castellucci Original Music Scott Gibbons Performed by Gianni Plazzi and Sergio Scarlatella, with Dario Baldrini, Vito Matera, and Silvano Voltolina.

†Post-show discussion moderated by Daniel Sack, assistant  professor of theater studies, Florida State University. ‡ 5:30pm pre-show discussion with director Romeo Castellucci and Nicholas Ridout, reader in theater and performance studies, Queen Mary University of London. Broad Street Ministry, 315 South Broad Street. Also post-show discussion moderated by Nicholas Ridout.

“It was really he who was looking at me and laying me bare. I immediately thought of reproducing this portrait on cloth, and on an enormous scale.” Romeo Castellucci, director of On the Concept of the Face Regarding the Son of God

Festival Producer Tom Lussenhop This presentation of On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

“A must-see for anybody interested in boundarypushing theater.” Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post

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The father who shits himself. The son who cleans up. The kids who throw grenades. The face of Jesus.

From one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foremost contemporary artists, a visually transfixing, emotionally harrowing, and deeply felt work that has stunned audiences worldwide.

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Out of Time Colin Dunne (Ireland) Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 19, 20* + 21 at 7pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Miriam Giguere, PhD, associate professor and dance program director, Drexel University $35 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 60 minutes

Out of Time was originally commissioned by glór, Irish Music Centre, Ennis County Clare with the support of the Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon and GREEN HIPPO. International touring is supported by CULTURE IRELAND.

Created and Performed by Colin Dunne Director Sineád Rushe Sound Fionán De Barra Film Design Sean Westgate Lighting Colin Grenfell Music Ian Mcdonnell, Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill Costumes Joan O’Clery Producer Maura O’keeffe Festival Executive Producer Patricia D. Wellenbach

“The show was eighteen months in development, working with director Sinead Rushe— examining my own history and relationship to dance, and trying to coerce all these elements into something meaningful.” Colin Dunne, creator of Out of Time “An intimate, sincere, and funny artistic calling card which tells us why he is who he is, and how he is where he is.” Michael Seaver, Irish Times

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From child dance prodigy to Riverdance success to a man in search of his art. With irreverent abandon, a leading figure of traditional Irish step dance chronicles his artistic journey with storytelling, film, sonic manipulations, and

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virtuosic dancing.

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Moses(es) World Premiere Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group Suzanne Roberts Theatre 480 South Broad Street (at Lombard) Sept 19 at 7pm* Sept 20 + 21 at 8pm Wheelchair accessible *Post-show discussion moderated by Susan Manning, professor, Northwestern University, and dramaturg of Moses(es). $29 / Members save 30% Student + 25-and-under tickets $20 75 minutes

Choreographer Reggie Wilson Lighting Jonathan Belcher Costumes Naoko Nagata Dramaturg Susan Manning Performers Rhetta Aleong, Dwayne Brown, Yeman Brown, Paul Hamilton, Lawrence Harding, Raja Feather Kelly, Clement Mensah, Anna Schon, Reggie Wilson Festival Co-Producers Andrew and Bryna Scott Nancy Lanham The presentation of Moses(es) was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

“How do we lead and why we follow? To this day, these questions are the binding forces in the creation of this work.” Reggie Wilson, choreographer of Moses(es) “Startling, starkly beautiful and enigmatically deep.” Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune

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Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses Man of the Mountain and by the migration of African people, this incessantly inventive,  stunning physical creation drives nine virtuosic dancers to their edges  of control and movement.

There is not one Moses. There are many Moseses—religious, mythical— with infinite  variations.

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Presented by FringeArts + Dance/UP September 9 at 7pm Free / 75 minutes / 21+ Fringe Festival Bar at Underground Arts 1200 Callowhill Street The Rocky Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in the Greater Philadelphia dance community. Hosted by Annie Wilson and Christina Gesualdi Presenters Stephanie Demby, Elba Hevia y Vaca, Gregory Holt, Katherine Kiefer Stark, Megan Mazarick, Alie Vidich. Dance/UP is a dance service organization providing advocacy, resources, and collaborative opportunities to the greater Philadelphia professional dance community. Dance/UP is a branch office of Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance.

Get yer floaties on! For many, Fringe marks the end of summer—longer nights and cooler days. But bask in the summer’s splendidness for one more day. Screw the poolside bar, the 2013 Rocky Awards are more like that bar that exists right in the water; you swim up and they make you a nice cocktail you don’t know the name of and they put it in a plastic cup and you drink it as you float about the pool! Join your hosts for a raucous evening celebrating this year’s award winners. It’s your chance to raise a glass and party with the city’s dance community.

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COMEDY + IMPROV

Canada Cambridge Footlights/Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) 2

Alley of Nightmares Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Center City Fringe

A sketch comedy show based on classic horror anthologies (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Tales From The Crypt, etc.). Join your ghastly host, The Gatekeeper, as he presents an hour of terrifying comedy written and performed by some of the city’s top comedians. $12–$15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 19–21 at 10:30pm Sept 22 at 5pm

The internationally-famous Cambridge Footlights bring their Edinburgh Fringe show across the pond! The Footlights’s new show, Canada, is their sharpest and most ambitious yet. Surely a must-have ticket, don’t miss your chance to see the “most renowned sketch troupe of them all.” (The Independent.) $15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 10–12 at 9pm

2 Matt& Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

An improv comedy show starring Matt Holmes and a random stranger plucked from the audience. It’s all made up as you’re watching it, and anything can happen. “Must-see,” Philadelphia Weekly; “Playful and winning,” TimeOut Chicago; “The audience left laughing,” Philadelphia City Paper. $12–$15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12–15 at 7pm

2 Movie Scrapple Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Ever watched a movie so bad you just had to say something? Your favorite Philly comedians endured hours of the worst films ever made, then created the commentary track you wish came with the DVD: one filled with humor. Hollywood released the bombs; Movie Scrapple fires back with jokes. $10 / 90 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6, 13 + 20 at midnight

2 Cart Before The Horse Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Returning after their huge success last year, Philly’s top sketch comedy talent and a cast of the city’s best comedians bring you their signature darkly comic—yet strangely sweet—take on everything from the obvious targets to the bizarre tangents of everyday life. $12–$15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5–7 at 10:30pm Sept 8 at 5pm

2 Reasonable Doubt Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Crime is afoot! Watch as our cast plans, perpetrates, and prosecutes a felony chosen by the audience. The performers will be judges, attorneys, defendants, and more as

2 Fresh Laughs Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Featuring new teams Big Baby, Dr. Sleepover, and The Future, PHIT’s Improv House Teams mix amazing storytelling, quick wits, hilarious chaos, and a dash of audience participation to create shows that have never been seen before and will never be seen again at every performance. Truth! Comedy! Laughs! $12 / 60 minutes The Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 9-11 at 7pm Sept 16-18 at 7pm + 9pm

2 The Party Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

You are invited to The Party. Take a peek at the inner workings of a fully improvised celebration, as some of Philly’s most skilled comedians explore awkward social situations inspired by the audience’s suggestion with hilarious results. $15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5–7 at 9pm Sept 8 at 3pm Sept 13 + 14 at 9pm Sept 15 at 3pm Sept 19–21 at 9pm Sept 22 at 3pm

3 ChORDED Motion New Street Dance Group

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A unique collaboration between Philly’s most talented improvisers and local playwrights, each performance begins with the opening pages of a different script, which is then completed by the cast of Mayor Karen (a PHIT House Team), creating mostlyunscripted original one-act plays in the moment. $12–$15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5–8 at 7pm

ChORDED Motion, a concert of dance and music strung together by choreographers Krista Armbruster and Shannon Dooling, explores ties that bind, tangles that entrap, and the intersection of literal and figurative cords, chords, and corresponding motion. Featuring a string quartet led by Jonathan Cain. $15 / 75 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Sept 14 at 3pm

DANCE

Conscious Thoughts In Action Introspective Movement Project

Study Hall Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) 2

Spontaneous comedy from brutally honest science. Drexel professor Michael Yudell will exploit every ounce of his tenure to share subjects from impregnation to parasitic strategy, and senior PHIT comedy team Asteroid! will use their every impulse to warp each lecture into ribald sketches. $12–$15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 19–22 at 7pm

9 BASEMENT Gunnar Montana

Welcome to the darkest corner of this year’s Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Immerse yourself in a beautifully twisted, violently artistic, and utterly macabre love story. BASEMENT explores everything from what goes “bump in the night” to the nooks and crannies of creative movement. $20 / 60 minutes Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13–15 + 19–21 at 7pm + 10pm

Introspective Movement Project defies limitations and restrictions placed on movement, while inspiring soul inspired self-exploration. Introspective Movement Project’s Conscious Thoughts In Action will hit the stage for a second run, hoping to again evoke deep emotion through pieces that fuse movement with limitless boundaries and technical prowess. $15 / 80 minutes Refer to FringeArts.com for venue + address Sept 22 at 6pm

Center City Fringe

2 Page One Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

they improvise a trial while simultaneously exploring the scene of the crime. Will justice be served or will the guilty walk free? $12–$15 / 55 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12–14 at 10:30pm Sept 15 at 5pm

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INTERDISCIPLINARY

3 Yo! Teen Philly! That’s So Philly & Philadelphia Stories Jr.

7 Telling Stories Spiral Nexus

The Elastic Air Project SomaticMovers 13

Blending modern choreography and improvisation, The Elastic Air Project is an open-ended dance exploring space: the highs, lows, ins, outs, and everything in between. Bring your curiosity and join the SomaticMovers on their outdoor hunt for new possibilities and interactions. Free / 45 minutes Kahn Park 1100 Pine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 at noon, 2pm + 4pm

Step into a world of stories in this exhibit of visual and interactive art themed around storytelling. Free / 180 minutes La Colombe Torrefaction 1414 South Penn Square Wheelchair accessible Sept 28 at 8pm

MUSIC

Yo! Teen Philly! presents Philly’s fabulous teen talent in one bring-down-the-house showcase of music and spoken word that will entertain, inspire, and set your mind on fire. Brought to you by Philadelphia Stories Jr. and That’s So Philly. Free / 120 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadlephia 2125 Chestnut Street Sept 21 at 7pm

SPOKEN WORD

2 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen EgoPo Classic Theater

One actress armed with only a doll’s house and a collection of peculiar toys, smashes Ibsen’s masterpiece and reassembles it into a vibrant, new, theatrical event. Fringe favorite EgoPo, known for bold reinventions of classic plays, does it once again. Nora like you’ve never seen her before. Directed by Brenna Geffers.  $20–$25 / 75 minutes The PlayGround at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4–6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 5pm + 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 14 at 11pm Sept 15 + 18–20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 5pm + 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm

1 The Soapranos Poor Richard’s Opera

4 Muse: The Body Overlooked Katie Horton, Katherine Moore, Anna Fedak

Center City Fringe

Dancing in the shadow of the Greek river gods, we will explore the many different interpretations of the words muse, body, and overlooked. Dancers as muses, the body as an object, being overlooked by sculptures, and as people. Many different inspirations will come together for a cohesive flow. Free / 20 minutes Logan Circle Wheelchair accessible Sept 14 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at 2pm

Soap opera meets live opera in two comical one-acts, Holst’s The Wandering Scholar and Moore’s Gallantry. A desperate housewife seduces a lonely priest, and a handsome doctor preys on a cute nurse. Sung in English with a few commercial breaks, singers bring to life the guilty pleasures of daytime TV. $20 / 75 minutes Trinity Center for Urban Life 2212 Spruce Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13, 15, 20 + 21 at 7:30pm

6 The Bigot and How to Kill Yourself Chin Woon Ping with Hailey Brown and Desmond Fambrini

Two performance pieces combines spoken word and hip-hop dance on the themes of bigotry and suicide. Presented with support from Drexel University Office of International Programs and Big Peace Institute for Poetics and Performance. $18 / 50 minutes Martin Luther King Room at the Friends Center 1501 Cherry Street Sept 12 at 8pm

10 Asylum Rainy Day Players

Gary has an unusual addiction— lucid dreaming. In his dreams he can control almost everything, whether this means living out erotic fantasies or talking with God and Satan. But some unexpected guests insist on crashing this alternate reality, and Gary’s waking and dreaming world intertwine. $10 / 110 minutes Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5 825 Walnut Street, 5fth Floor Wheelchair accessible Sept 12–14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 1pm

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2 DREADFULLY WHITE Susan Pope

Completeness Round Table Theatre Company 12

Based on a story in The Weekly World News, this musical comedy/horror show is about a half boy/half bat who’s discovered in a cave. He’s eventually accepted and taught to act like a “normal” boy. Bat Boy finds love and happiness, but this is tragically shattered when a scandalous secret is revealed! $20 / 120 minutes SkyBox at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street, 3rd Floor Wheelchair accessible Sept 18–20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 3pm + 8pm Sept 22 at 3pm

Elliot creates a computer algorithm to help Molly with her molecular biology research, and the variables in their evolving relationship shift as rapidly as the terms of their experiment. Don’t miss the Philadelphia premiere of this incredibly seductive and ridiculously smart new comedy by Itamar Moses! $15 / 120 minutes Caplan Studio Theater at The University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 + 6 at 9pm Sept 7 at 5pm + 9pm Sept 8, 9, 12 + 13 at 9pm Sept 14 at 5pm + 9pm

2 14 Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty Antrobus

Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty co-written by Peter Schmidt and legendary NYC actor-playwright Jeff Weiss, fuses a local high school music theater competition and an international conspiracy. If you hate, or love, musicals, this is the show for you. Artist website: www.antrobusarts.com. $20 / 135 minutes Laurie Beechman Cabaret Theatre at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street Sept 12–14 at 8pm Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 25–28 at 8pm Sept 29 at 2pm See p109, Suburban Philly Fringe, for additional venue and show times

2 Franz Kafka’s The Castle The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium

Hilarious and treacherous: a dark comedy invoking the absurdity of Monty Python, the intrigue of The Maltese Falcon, and the search for identity à la Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Ridiculopathy that brought you Gombrowicz’s Ivona and toilet paper roll hair at the 2012 Fringe. $15–$25 / 80 minutes 2nd Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street, 2nd Floor Sept 3–7 at 7:30pm Sept 8 at 2:30pm Sept 10–14 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at 2:30pm Sept 17–21 at 7:30pm Sept 22 at 2:30pm

5 Dutch Masters Azuka Theatre

Dirty Joke Jennifer Blaine / 5,000 Women 5

Comedienne Jennifer Blaine plays eight real-life superwomen—including Madeline Albright, Arianna Huffington, and Cindy Sheehan—along with her beloved character Ruth, an elderly woman with a penchant for dirty jokes. Together they conspire to save the world. “Blaine’s comic genius is like Lily Tomlin and Tracey Ullman.” Philadelphia Daily News. $20–$25 / 90 minutes The Off Broad Street Theater 1636 Sansom Street Sept 14 at 4pm Sept 15 at 5pm Sept 17 at 8pm

A young white man and a young black man meet on a D train to the Bronx and strike up a conversation. It’s 1992. Los Angeles is still smoldering and the Crown Heights riots are a recent memory. This insightful comedy-drama takes a frank and deeply human look at the problem of race in America. $20–$25 / 90 minutes The Off Broad Street Theater 1636 Sansom Street Sept 12 + 13 at 8pm Sept 14 + 15 at 7pm Sept 18–21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm

11 Gayze: A Real Live Webseries MJ/JT

What happens when boys become bois and girls become grrls? What happens when hipsters become lizards? What happens when real queerz show up in a straight-laced gay webseries? Fast-forward, re-wind, or skip to the next episode, Gayze is a REAL LIVE WEBSERIES that happens LIVE IN FRONT OF YOU. $12 / 50 minutes Tabu Lounge & Sports Bar 200 South 12th Street Sept 6 + 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 4pm + 7pm

Center City Fringe

2 Bat Boy: The Musical Life Theatre Company

Parents teach a delusional family system to a child who will one day become their caregiver. A zany look at a serious subject. “I laughed out loud while being chilled to the bone,” wrote Theatre Louisville. 1 actor. 10 characters. 5½ Styrofoam heads. Post-show discussion follows each performance. $12 / 45 minutes The PlayGround at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 11pm Sept 14 at 12:30pm Sept 16 at 6:30pm Sept 17 at 8pm

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3 Get Out of the Kitchen Salamé Studios

11 Lucinda’s Bed BrainSpunk Theater

Tensions rise in this spicy dramedy when lovelorn Char butts heads with Elaine, the girlfriend of her old high school flame, Samson. Add a spoonful of secrets, coarse-ground language, a heaping helping of hilarity, and cook under heavy pressure. $9–$10 / 55 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, Griffin Hall 2125 Chestnut Street Sept 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 1pm Sept 13 + 15 at 8pm

Lucinda wants to be good. But when the Monster under her bed introduces himself one night, Lucinda finds out that staying good will be harder than she thinks. Even when she’s grown and married, the Monster turns up. Will there always be something sinister lurking just beneath the covers? $25 / 90 minutes Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5 825 Walnut Street, 5th Floor Wheelchair accessible Sept 18–20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm

Heart of the Revolution Sonya Aronowitz 15

London 1850. Karl Marx writes about the life and death of capitalism. Jenny Marx dreams of owning a full set of china. Their maid Lenchen yearns to have a child of her own. So begins a battle between duty and desire that even Marx cannot control. $20–$25 / 120 minutes Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Street, 3rd Floor Sept 7 at 7:30pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 9, 11 + 14 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 7:30pm

3 Glow Kaleid Theatre

Center City Fringe

We desperately check for text messages, emails, and Facebook updates, but what are we longing for? When we reach for our devices, we hope to find something beyond ourselves. How do we write ourselves onto the world? How does the world write itself back onto us? $15 / 65 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Sept 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at noon + 8pm

5 Introducing Madhouse Madhouse Theater Company

From the folks that brought you Happy Hour and Playing Leni, Madhouse Theater is back with a comic vengeance. MTC presents Introducing Madhouse—hilarious sketches and a sneak peak at its next full length, original play, Artsyfartsy. $12 / 60 minutes The Off Broad Street Theater 1636 Sansom Street Sept 16 at 7pm Sept 17 at 10pm

2 Opera Macabre: Edgar Allan Poe Philadelphia Opera Collective

Enter the world of the original master of suspense, Edgar Allan Poe. Opera Macabre brings Poe’s classics to life with chilling suspense and lurid language. Philadelphia Opera Collective takes on another American storyteller with their signature approach to opera that is both accessible and visceral. $20 / 105 minutes The PlayGround at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 13 + 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 3pm Sept 19 at midnight

14 Modern Playground Students from the University of the Arts

Travel back to 1999 to a place where rumors of Y2K loom in the atmosphere of a playground. This unsuspecting love story will leave audiences with a desire to follow their dreams. By creating a vibrant, larger than life environment we hope to transport the audience back to their childhood. $15 / 80 minutes Arts Bank 601 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 + 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 11–13 at 8pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 8pm

2 Surrender Rachel Holt

Nicole fell in love at fourteen, an affair that would last for more than fourteen years. Her parents tried to stop her, keep her safe. But Nicole was addicted from that first sweet kiss. How could she ever break up with heroin? A one-woman show written and performed by Rachel Holt. Based on a true story. $18 / 45 minutes The Swing at MacGuffin The Adrienne, 2nd Floor 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 6 at 7pm Sept 7 at 6pm Sept 12 + 13 at 7pm Sept 15 at 6pm

3 The Momentum CollaborationTown

CTown is going to change your life when we fulfill our vibrational destinies together with The Momentum, a self-helpsploitation that asks: Unhappy? Listless? Broke? Alone? Depressed? Shoeless? Let its Laws of Attraction massage your vibrations and pull you into the Gaping Hole of Momentum. $15 / 60 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Sept 5 at 7pm Sept 7 at 4pm Sept 12 at 7pm Sept 13 at 11pm Sept 14 at 5pm

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15 The Talkback The Berserker Residents

Three master thespians have gifted you the show of your life. Rejoice! They’ve agreed to do a talkback. The creators of The Giant Squid and The Annihilation Point conduct an experiment that lampoons the art form they claim to have conquered. Go for the talkback, stay for the show. $15 / 60 minutes Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancy Street, 3rd Floor Sept 18–21 at 8pm

15 XY Scheherazade Unstuck Theater

Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel Liam’s Sofa Cushion Fortress 2

1967 London: the “Summer of Love.” Playwright Joe Orton confronts Beatles manager Brian Epstein late at night in a Jewish cemetery. They spar over big ideas and big secrets. When the police arrive, it could mean big trouble! A Philadelphia premiere directed by Liam Castellan. $10–$20 / 100 minutes SkyBox at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street, 3rd Floor Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 + 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 9 + 11–13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 7pm

A white transwoman in a crumbling, burning America and a woman in medieval Persia are telling frantic stories to delay their impending deaths. Somewhere between The Arabian Nights and The Road, this is a fantasy of armageddon, transgender identity, and storytelling as a survival technique. $15 / 90 minutes Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 19 at 8pm Sept 20 at 7pm + 10pm Sept 21 at 2pm, 7pm + 10pm Sept 22 at 2pm + 7pm

VISUAL ART

2 Tough Cookies Together We Act

First dates are stressful, especially when you keep score. Roommates Spencer and Erwin exploit a dating website to play a game of pranks on unsuspecting women. As the rules of the game break down, so do the rules of a conventional rom-com. This show features adult content and juvenile shenanigans. $15 / 60 minutes Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place, 3rd Floor Sept 17 at 8pm Sept 18–21 at 11pm

Get Your Heart-On Didier García

8 Trials of Paradox Yes! And...’s SHADOW Company

Come to our one-of-a-kind cabaret! Join the teens of Yes! And...’s SHADOW Company in discovering some stories that history has forgotten or has chosen to forget. Let the music guide you through this journey as you discover what it means to be truly human. $7 / 90 minutes Arch Street United Methodist Church 55 North Broad Street Sept 6, 7 + 20 at 7pm See p109, Suburban Fringe, for additional venue and show times

Heart-On is a mobile, graphic art light installation. Its simple, yet novel approach is intended to create awareness and communication: “What does love mean to you? What about sex? And intimacy?” Follow the exhibit on www.heart-on.us! Are you ready to get your Heart-On? Free / 15 minutes Various locations Sept 1, 6–8 + 13 at 9pm Sept 14 at noon Sept 15, 20–22 + 27–29 at 9pm Refer to FringeArts.com for venues

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Together We Act is a nonprofit theater company for people who stutter. In this play you will experience the courage of three women who stutter, taking on the daunting presence of the stage as they act in a performance of Tough Cookies. Tough Cookies is a one-act comedy by Edward Crosby Wells. $20 / 120 minutes The PlayGround at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 8 + 9 at 7pm

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C onwell Dance Theater at Temple University, 5th Floor, 1801 N Broad St* L aurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Ave* L ondon Grill and Paris Wine Bar, 2301 Fairmount Ave M ount Vernon Dance Space, 1720 Mount Vernon St N orth Philly Unity Garden, Old York Road + W Venango St P erformance Garage, 1515 Brandywine St* S mith Memorial Playground and Playhouse, 3500 Reservoir Dr, East Fairmount Park U rban Saloon, 2120 Fairmount Ave*

*Wheelchair accessible

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Fairmount Fringe

includes Art Museum Area, East Fairmount Park + North Philly

COMEDY + IMPROV

1 Hit Wonder Hevanti Productions 4

Fairmount Fringe

Do you love pop music? Do you hate pop music? Do you love to hate pop music? Come in, sit down, and help make the next 1 Hit Wonder; an interactive sketch comedy show that satires the music industry’s process of getting to the top. 1 Hit Wonder is the next wave of pop music. Be a part of the sensation. $15 / 115 minutes Urban Saloon 2120 Fairmount Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 9pm

includes Art Museum Area, East Fairmount Park, and North Philly

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4 Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play The Pub Theater Company

Bye Bye Liver is a fast-paced comedic romp that explores the pratfalls and pitfalls of Philadelphia’s favorite pastime: Drinking! 2 Parts Sketch Comedy, 1 Part Drinking Games. Mixed and Served. It’s the show that truly knows the heart of Philly. Facebook.com/ ByeByeLiverPhilly + @ByeByeLiverPhil. $15 / 90 minutes Urban Saloon 2120 Fairmount Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 8pm Sept 7 + 14 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 27 at 8pm Sept 28 at 8pm + 10pm

7 As Pretty Does keila cordova dances

Inspired by lost histories so true they seem fictional, As Pretty Does asks, What is it to be human? Taking a journey of provoking movement and humor, Keila Cordova brings us an experimental collision: micro-storytelling meets pure dance. “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” (Shakespeare.) $20 / 60 minutes Conwell Dance Theater at Temple University 1801 North Broad Street, 5th Floor Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 9pm Sept 7 at 2pm + 8pm

6 Collapse/Intersect Throughline Collective

Colleen Hooper, Julie B. Johnson, The Naked Stark, and Barbara Tait present dance and multimedia explorations of relationships and communities that collapse and intersect. Performances include awkward greetings, women occupying space, video by children and families, and long-distance choreography. Children 4 and under are free. $10–$15 / 60 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at noon Sept 15 at 3pm

SPOKEN WORD

6 HATCH Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre

Diakinesis: a substage of meiosis where chromosomes start to separate; a transitioning phase. Witness the evolution of pillardance from the traditional dance setting into a more surreal reality, and glimpse the natural progression of a dance company’s maturation process. “We’re all mad here.” $12 / 40 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 14 + 18 at 7:30pm

Six Feet (Above And) Under: A Graveyard Cabaret REV Theatre Company 1

“Pretty damn ideal . . . a total blast!” Philadelphia City Paper. Back (from the dead) by popular demand after last year’s soldout performances! Sip a free cocktail as darkness falls and lost (singing) souls appear through the mists of Laurel Hill Cemetery for a toe-tapping, spine-tingling evening. $20 / 60 minutes Laurel Hill Cemetery 3822 Ridge Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 13, 14, 20 + 21 at 7:30pm Refer to FringeArts.com for rain dates

enormous PoCkEtZ Gracie Coscia, Sarena Kabakoff, Alison Liney, Kiara López, Emma MacDonald, Julee Mahon, Dominique Vasquez An evening of short works by recent Temple BFA graduates. We are reaching out to the community as emerging choreographers, performers, and artists. Together we’ll look for answers without questions. Please join us for a show full of fun, thought-provoking work and a fresh look. $10 / 60 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 3:30pm

We are three young dance artists exploring themes of perception, gender, and time. In Roots, each of us has taken on a different topic to explore and approach in our own specific way. We are coming together, as three individual human beings, to present ourselves to the city of Philadelphia. $10 / 90 minutes Mount Vernon Dance Space 1720 Mount Vernon Street Sept 19 + 20 at 9pm Sept 21 at 3pm

The hilarious, eloquent, and haunting follow-up to Stanley’s 2011 hit Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead, this true to life romp resurrects the cadaverous—from Philly’s Laurel Hill Cemetery to a British colonial graveyard in India to ancient Greek tomb worshippers. Paranormal activity guaranteed. Presented by Shiva3. $10 / 75 minutes Laurel Hill Cemetery 3822 Ridge Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 at 6:30pm Rain date: Sept 19 at 6:30pm See p101, South Philly Fringe, for additional venue and show times

THEATER

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1 Boneyards Jeffrey Stanley

8 Home/Away from Home   COSACOSA art at large, Inc.

Part interactive story maze, part treasure hunt, part community field day, COSACOSA’s Home/ Away from Home event offers an opportunity for the whole family to become part of the performance! Please join in celebrating the opening of our new North Philly Unity Garden— and get creative with us!     Free / Ongoing North Philly Unity Garden   Old York Road + West Venango Street   Sept 21 from 1:30pm–4:30pm

2 A Mystery? Dragon’s Eye Theatre

When a group of friends discovers something unusual, they need your help to crack the case! The creators of the 2012 Philly Fringe hit Seek and Hide bring you a new interactive adventure through Smith Playhouse that invites audiences to use their imaginations alongside the actors. For kids ages 4 to 104. $10 / 50 minutes Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse 3500 Reservoir Drive East Fairmount Park Sept 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 + 22 at 10am, 11:30am + 1pm

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Birds on a Wire brings you HATCH, a mini festival-in-afestival of new works by six young female choreographers. Each piece brings with it all the fear and bravado, gravitas and levity characteristic of today’s Millennials—in a half-dozen bite-size packages. $17 / 85 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 20 at 7pm + 9:30pm Sept 21 at 7pm

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1 Spoon River Anthology at Laurel Hill Cemetery Manayunk Roxborough Art Center

And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens by Tennessee WIlliams Director: John-Thomas Appling, Blue Suede Productions

Fairmount Fringe

Tennessee Williams began writing Queens in 1957 and worked on it until 1970. It tells the story of Candy Delaney, a transvestite living in a luxurious flat in 1950s New Orleans. Desperately heartbroken, she meets Karl at a bar and lures him home, where she will do anything for his true companionship. $5 / 60 minutes London Grill and Paris Wine Bar 2301 Fairmount Avenue Sept 8 + 9 at 6pm

6 Beyond the Light Leila Ghaznavi and Pantea Productions

Beyond the Light is a sensual dynamic creation story of love. One soul split into two struggles to reunite. This all ages story combines puppetry, dance, aerial acrobatics, and stunning visual effects. Beyond the Light is sure to captivate the senses. “Stunning!” claimed Jane Henson of the Jim Henson Foundation. $10–$12 / 60 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 at 7pm Sept 12 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at noon Sept 21 at 10pm

This is your chance to be a fly on the wall of the hereafter. Audiences will be privy to tales told from beyond the grave. Settle in amidst the good company of Laurel Hill Cemetery’s permanent residents for these original performances of Spoon River, directed by the Manayunk Roxborough Art Center. $15–$20 / 90 minutes Laurel Hill Cemetery 3822 Ridge Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 6pm Sept 8 at 2pm

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C omedy Cabaret at the Ramada Northeast, 11580 Roosevelt Blvd D ayDreams, 5200 Unruh Ave* M aas Building, 1325 N Randolph St P hiladelphia Soundstages, 1600 N 5th St* P ig Iron School Studio One + Two, Crane Old School, 1417 N 2nd St T aller Puertorriqueño, 2557 N 5th St* T he Iron Factory, 118 Fontain St, 3rd Floor T he White Space at Crane Old School, 1417 N 2nd St W alking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Ave*

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5 The Iron Factory Presents allendance and Tori Lawrence + Co.

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Laurel? Laurel Juliet Ross 6

This off-beat one-woman show and memoir, inspired by the belief that your first memory shapes the rest of your life, portrays the uncanny humor and pain of searching for “Sound of Music” perfection juxtaposed with a Catholic school upbringing, fear of God, and the self-imposed rules of “beauty.” $5 / 30 minutes Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 6:30pm + 7:30pm

Beautiful Extremities is a debut performance produced by a vibrant bunch of Temple University students: Kailey McCrudden, Paige Gilson, Kristin Gdovin, and Nicole Gauthier. Considered a mashup of modern dance styles, this concert contains a range of dances that blend beautifully through every extreme. $15 / 70 minutes Pig Iron School Studio One at Crane Old School 1417 North 2nd Street Sept 20 + 21 at 6:30pm

Two up-and-coming modern dance companies, a sevenpiece band from Brooklyn, a critically-acclaimed violinist, and an outmoded 1900s factory. Come spend 60 minutes with award-winning musicians, dancers, and choreographers as they unveil Philly’s newest cutting-edge performance venue The Iron Factory. $15 / 60 minutes The Iron Factory 118 Fontain Street, 3rd Floor Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 3pm + 7pm

5 The Night of the Big Wind and Shift(h)er Ailish Claffey & Alicia Christofi-Walshe

This Irish-based duo’s diverse backgrounds encapsulate a unique aesthetic drawing from Irish set dancing, choreological studies, and theater directing with a repertoire of visually stunning and emotionally engaging work. With a keen interest in storytelling, they have weaved together a provocative and edgy contemporary dance double-bill. $18 / 70 minutes The Iron Factory 118 Fontain Street, 3rd Floor Sept 5 + 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 3pm

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4 MinorityLand Power Street Theater Company 7 Comedian Elected to Town Council in New Jersey Joey Novick

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Sometimes, opening a window for yourself slams a door on someone else. In this dynamic circus-theater show, nine women explore how groups adapt, transform, and absorb shock. Tangle’s aerial acrobats ricochet from floor to ceiling, build connections, spark chain reactions, catch, collide, and clash. $20 / 90 minutes Philadelphia Soundstages 1600 North 5th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 + 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 3pm + 8pm

Stand-up comedian/improviser gets elected to the Borough Council in Flemington, New Jersey. In a twelve-year journey in New Jersey politics, he moves from being a cynical ex-New Yorker to passionate about public service. He applied the rules of improv to the world of politics. Result: New Jersey = Politics Unusual. $15 / 75 minutes Comedy Cabaret at the Ramada Northeast 11580 Roosevelt Boulevard (far Northeast) Sept 7 at 8pm

In our first production, MinorityLand, Power Street ensemble tackles what it means to be a minority and what it means to be a community. When the local university begins buying up houses in an integrated black and Latino community, residents are pushed out and the fabric of the community is ripped. $10 / 100 minutes Taller Puertorriqueño 2557 North 5th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 7pm Sept 7 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 8pm

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From the women who made fringe famous! Ever wonder what goes on in the back room of a strip club? Based on true stories, get an insiders peek. $15 / 75 minutes DayDreams 5200 Unruh Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 20–22, 27 + 28 at 5pm

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1 A Change of Harp: New Generation, New Music Elizabeth Morgan-Ellis

Defying the “sit down, shut up, watch me” format of the concert hall, harpist Elizabeth Morgan-Ellis has reinvented the audience experience. Her program of new music by living Philadelphian composers is accompanied by an immersive mixed-media show not to be missed. Video, dance, art; it has it all. $20 / 75 minutes Maas Building 1325 North Randolph Street Sept 12–14 at 8pm

Fresh off a Southeast Alaska tour, tri-coastal ensemble Strange Attractor examines the museum security guard, shedding light on the invisible American worker by playfully questioning the endless cycle of mindless work and revealing what actually happens when people pass the time while on the clock. $15 / 70 minutes The White Space at Crane Old School 1417 North 2nd Street Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 5pm Sept 9 + 11 at 9pm Sept 12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 9:30pm Sept 14, 16 + 17 at 9pm Sept 18 at 8pm

A measured and meditative sci-fi saga, spaceplay follows the crewmembers of a drifting ship on an uncharted course. Obstinate in their own understanding of a bygone matriarch’s mission objectives, the travelers must endure one another’s company as the ship lurches on. $15 / 80 minutes Pig Iron School Studio Two at Crane Old School 1417 North 2nd Street Sept 11 at 8pm Sept 12 at 6pm Sept 13 at 8pm Sept 14 + 15 at 3pm + 8pm Sept 17 at 8pm Sept 18 at 6pm Sept 19 + 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 3pm + 8pm

6 The Safe Word is Begonia/ He Deserves It BSomeday Productions/ A. Flamingo

Dolly finds an Eric Stanton comic in her fiancee Howard’s valise. Confused and curious about his preferences she visits the library to find out what the pictures represent. Patsy the librarian has an interest in the topic and takes Dolly on a surprising expedition into the murky world of 1950s S&M. $15 / 85 minutes Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 6, 7, 13, 14, 18 + 19 at 9pm Sept 20 at noon Sept 21 at 9pm

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2 This Is Not For You Elbow Room Performance

I want to be alone. I can’t be alone. I’m afraid of being alone. Leave me alone. In a Platonic dialogue interrupted by movement, music, and memory, award-winning Swiss opera director Julie Beauvais and American director/performer Jon Foley Sherman explore the limits and possibilities of solitude. $10 / 55 minutes Pig Iron School Studio One at Crane Old School 1417 North 2nd Street Sept 6 + 7 at 6pm

Fishtown & Kensington Fringe

Our hero, the roving pirate, reunites with a mermaid who stole his heart and saved his life. But she is in the clutches of a wicked enchantress threatening to transform herself into a sea monster and destroy a seaside village. Join us for this interactive adventure on land and sea! www.oddact.com. $8–$10 / 60 minutes Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 2pm + 7pm

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Northern Liberties Fringe

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7 Federal Detention: The Musical The Panic Hour

FD:TM tells the true story of the imprisonment of marijuana activists N.A. Poe and Adam Kokesh, targeted by Park Police at a protest on 5/18/2013. The pair spent six days in federal detention. Now their struggle is told hilariously through song! 90 minutes includes a brief intermission. $15 / 90 minutes Underground Arts 1200 Callowhill Street Sept 11 at 9:11pm Sept 14 + 15 at 4:20pm

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5 Love. . . And A Little Torture Yes Brain Dance Theater

An evocative blending of improvisational dance and traditional theater that explores the space between love and hate, or push and pull. Inspired by Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, this spontaneous and honest exploration takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride to an unforgettable climax. $15 / 120 minutes Vox Populi 319 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor Sept 7 at 2pm + 8pm + 11pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 8pm

7 GET REAL. Comedy You Can Believe In! Visible Friends Network

A showcase of Philly’s stand-up comedy talent, scientifically formulated to cause laughter while simultaneously stimulating your cerebral cortex. Featuring Doogie Horner, Dave Terruso, Mary Radzinski, James Hesky, Alex Grubard, Darryl Charles, Carolyn Busa, Alex Pearlman, Mika Romantic, music, and more. $10 / 90 minutes Underground Arts 1200 Callowhill Street Sept 19 at 8pm

6 Stars and Garters: A Doctor Who Burlesque Show Busts & Trunks Burlesque

A Doctor Who burlesque experience: Stars and Garters is designed to be both new-to-Who and hardcore-Whovian friendly. So burlesque enthusiasts, geeks, Time Lords and aspiring companions are all welcome. Spoiler Alert! Stars and Garters will include plot points up to and including BBC Season 6. $12 / 180 minutes The Trestle Inn 339 North 11th Street Sept 15–17 at 8pm

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Block(buster)Party FUNdraiser for Phase I of The Reading Viaduct Rail Park. Food and drink by Pasquarello’s Thirteenth Street Kitchens, yards, and local food trucks. Dance and theater performances, video projections, DJs and dancing after dark. One-stop shopping for your Fringe experience. Proceeds benefit The Reading Viaduct Rail Park!  $30 / Ongoing 1200 Noble Street, adjacent to the Viaduct Sept 14 from 5pm–11pm

Not All Gods Go To Heaven is a marriage between music production and videography. It fuses film, live instrumentation, and dance to stimulate all of your senses. From depicting urban culture to exploring what’s taboo, this performance colors outside the lines of your average Fringe show. $12 / 45 minutes Underground Arts 1200 Callowhill Street Sept 18 at 8pm

1 NLArts Campers Present NLArts Community Arts Program

Dancer-choreographer Christina Gesualdi and musician Brendan Mulvihill will create a site-specific work during NLArts Summer Camp to be performed at the Liberty Lands Park stage. The multidisciplinary work, performed by the Campers, is free and open to the public. Bring picnic blankets and chairs. Free / 60 minutes Liberty Lands Park 929 North 3rd Street Sept 6 at 5:30pm

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Last year, I invited Fringe audiences into my home for Chomsky vs. Buckley, 1969. This year I am challenging two of my favorite playwrights to cook you eggs and flapjacks! And additionally, to adapt Breakfast at Tiffany’s to our own homes and voices: three writers, two living rooms, Capote, beer, and breakfast. $17 / 60 minutes Bruce’s house Sept 7 + 8 at 11am + 2pm Venue address provided after ticket purchase See p92, Northwest Philly Fringe, for additional venue and show times

THEATER 3 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition Campus Players

Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition invites audience participation in a live dance competition game show modeled after such popular TV reality series as So You Think You Can Dance. What begins as an extreme dance competition morphs into an examination of the competitors’ lust for fame and will to live. $15 / 75 minutes The Latvian Society 531 North 7th Street Sept 6–8 + 12–14 at 8pm + 10pm

4 Reggie’s Brodie: A Vaudeville Extravaganza Cut House Productions 5 Dream Date Forever Dog Productions

One thousand years after the collapse of the American empire, an evil wizard named Todd lords over a remote isle in the Gulf of Mexico, sadistically orchestrating the lives of his wife and son, until the arrival of a band of freethinking pirates on Thanksgiving Day threatens to undermine his power. $5 / 90 minutes Vox Populi 319 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor Sept 20 + 21 at 5:30pm + 9:30pm

Prepare yourself for a true vaudevillian experience, a night of variety and theatrics! Travel back in time before the revival and see how it was done. VIP seating is table, not row, seating and includes a special treat! Come dressed to impress at this private nightclub. $15–$20 / 110 minutes Ruba Club Studios 416 Green Street Sept 19–21 at 9pm

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1 If the Slipper Fits Philadelphia Performance Project

World premiere musical comedy with sexy new characters, the mob, and a hot-blooded heist set in the classic fairy tale. Picture Cinderella in a dangerous love triangle, risking her life for a greater destiny. She attends the ball but not for the reasons you think. Singing-dancingwhimsy-magic! $20 / 140 minutes St Paul’s Episcopal Church Hall 22 East Chestnut Hill Avenue Sept 19–21 at 7:30pm

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2 Cinderella: A Fairy Tale Opera Children’s Opera Box

When the classic fairy tale falls into the Opera Box, a very confused storyteller must find a happy ending for Cinderella without the help of a Fairy Godmother and with no glass slippers in sight. Children’s Opera Box presents Rossini’s beloved opera performed in English for children of all ages. $15 / 65 minutes Cunningham Piano Company 5427 Germanton Avenue 2nd Floor Sept 7 at 6:30pm Sept 8 at 3pm

3 Circus Legacy David Darwin

No children under 16 please. May contain strong language or long monologues, and either way your kids don’t need to hear it. May contain sword swallowing, fire eating, partial nudity, or hedonistic acts of masturbatory self indulgence (long monologues). Probably a bit of both actually. $18 / 55 minutes The Funicular Railway Station 416 West Street Coulter Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 + 21 at 8pm

This production, directed by Elena Day formerly of Cirque Du Soleil, tells the story of a small circus that has been given permission to explore the abstract. Upbeat and touching, this tale is a treat for people of all ages. Baltimorebased CCMA was founded by Erica Saben of the Give and Take Jugglers. $15 / 60 minutes The Funicular Railway Station 416 West Coulter Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 at 3pm + 7pm

Last year, I invited Fringe audiences into my home for Chomsky vs. Buckley, 1969. This year I am challenging two of my favorite playwrights to cook you eggs and flapjacks! And additionally, to adapt Breakfast at Tiffany’s to our own homes and voices: three writers, two living rooms, Capote, beer, and breakfast. $17 / 60 minutes Doug’s House Sept 14 at 11am + 2pm Venue address provided after ticket purchase See p89, Northern Liberties Fringe, for additional venue and show times

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Arden Theatre 40 N 2nd St* Café Nola, 414 S 2nd St G rasso’s Magic Theatre, 103 Callowhill St P ainted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St* P hiladelphia International Institute Gallery, 242 Race St S ociety Hill Dance Academy, 409 S 2nd St S ociety Hill Playhouse, 507 S 8th St T all Ship Gazela, Penn’s Landing, Columbus Blvd at Market St T he Basement at the Power Plant, 230 N 2nd St The Book Trader, 7 N 2nd St* T welve Gates Arts, 51 N 2nd St* V ivant Art Collection, 60 N 2nd St*

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Old City Fringe

includes Society Hill includes Art Museum Area, East Fairmount Park, and North Philly

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Shringara Rasa, The Emotion of Love Naatya Seva

Old City Fringe

The universal language, love; along with the range of emotions that flood our senses: euphoria, betrayal, sensuality, lust, anger, and jealousy. Take the journey through the highs and lows of everlasting love by experiencing Bharathanaatyam, a South Indian classical dance form, known for its grace and purity. $10 / 120 minutes Twelve Gates Arts 51 North 2nd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 14 at 6:30pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 21 at 6:30pm Sept 22 at 2pm See p106, West Philly Fringe, for additional venue and show times

10 The Garden Nichole Canuso Dance Company

We are all travelers. The Garden invites you to reimagine the shifting terrain of your body. You travel alone, guided by an individualized sound score of provocation, instruction, and original music by Michael Kiley and James Sugg. $20 / 75 minutes The Basement at the Power Plant Productions 230 North 2nd Street Sept 13 at 8pm Sept 14–16 at 6:30pm, 8pm + 9:30pm Sept 19–21 at 8pm + 9:30pm

Beer and theater: what could be better?! See four world premiere and East Coast premiere plays by some talented female playwrights from across the United States! Dating, bribing, death, and everything in between, 4PLAY promises a fun evening that will not disappoint! $15 / 70 minutes Grasso’s Magic Theatre 103 Callowhill Street Sept 5–7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 7:30pm

3 Ballroom Dancing Ain’t For Lovers Kate and Don Productions

Irene and Greg discover each other at a weekly ballroom dance party. It’s love at first sight. Irene tells him that she could never marry a man who couldn’t dance. Greg makes it clear he could never be friends with a Republican. Greg can’t dance. And it looks like Irene is a Republican. $15 / 65 minutes Society Hill Dance Academy 409 South 2nd Street Sept 8, 14, 15 + 22 at 8pm

11 DOOM PLAY Shaky Shaky Players of PDDC’s Cultural Arts Center

9 How To Make Potato Salad Aleksandra Berczynski & MB Grupa Realizacji

Beautiful Aleksandra uses food to convey culture and to communicate. Throughout this unique, minimalist one-women show, Berczynski’s Potato Salad, the process of food preparation and eating is very emotional, but at the end it comforts and connects physically and symbolically. $10 / 20 minutes Philadelphia International Institute Gallery 242 Race Street Sept 7, 11 + 12 at 7pm

1 Emancipation Sweet, a Play with Music Theatre for Transformation

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with this funny, musical journey of 13-year-old Emancipation Sweet who gets pulled back in time by a bitter old man. It’s a history lesson like no other, featuring African drumming, jazz, ragtime, spirituals, rap, and Bach’s Chaconne. $20 / 70 minutes Society Hill Playhouse 507 South 8th Street Sept 21 at 5pm* + 8pm *Pay-what-you-can performance

2 Looking for Uranus: Starzina Starfish-Browne’s Comeback Tour SSB Unlimited

Ass(tromalogical) Ho(roscopulist) extraordinaire and star of the Time of the Month Horoscope video series shares intimate details of her decades in show business. How can you “come back” when you’ve never really gone away? Written and performed by Eric Singel of The WaitStaff, and 2011’s The Wedding Consultant. $20 / 60 minutes Café Nola 414 South 2nd Street Sept 8 at 7pm Sept 11 + 12 at 8pm Sept 15 at 7pm Sept 18 + 19 at 8pm Sept 22 at 7pm

4 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone) Philadelphia Artists’ Collective

1 If I Were A Drag Queen, I Would Be Famous Shannon Agnew

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Divas come out to play with claws bared! Shannon Agnew delivers hilarious parody, sharp satire, and Broadway hits performing as legends Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Julie Andrews, Patti LuPone, and more. Agnew’s enthralling vocals, rollicking, irreverent humor, and uncanny impersonations are spot on! $25 / 70 minutes Society Hill Playhouse 507 South 8th Street Sept 11–13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 15 at 5pm

Join us as we infuse this wellknown story with a bit of the Roaring 20s. Re-imagined by our very own teens, this story promises to ramp up Austen’s classic tale in a new and exciting way. As a kick-off to our second year, the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Teen Council would love to have you there. $5 / 110 minutes Arden Theatre, Arcadia Stage 40 North 2nd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 19 + 20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 4pm + 9pm

Inspired by R.L. Stein’s epic Goosebumps series, Shannon House has created a new work with lo-fi scares and hi-fi nostalgia. This haunting and hilarious horror parody will stir your mad scientist laugh, tingle your vampire spine, and break your werewolf heart. $10 / 60 minutes Arden Theatre, Main Lobby 40 North 2nd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5, 7 + 12–14 at 9pm

Experience Eugene O’Neill’s rarest and earliest plays of loneliness and regret, performed aboard Philly’s tall ship Gazela at Penn’s Landing. Join the crew of the S.S. Glencairn as tensions erupt and every move betrays a thirst for survival. Presented by the PAC of 2012’s Fringe hit, Creditors. $15–$20 / 60 minutes Tall Ship Gazela Columbus Boulevard at Market Street, north end of Penn’s Landing Sept 11 + 12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 7pm + 9:30pm Sept 14 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 15, 17 + 18 at 8pm Sept 19 + 20 at 7pm + 9:30pm Sept 21 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 22 + 23 at 8pm

Old City Fringe

One part doom, three parts adventure! A chicken jambalaya jamboree in the cosmos. A pie in the sky tornado of thrills. A renaissance of blob men and a Dreamweaver. From the performance group that brought you Shaky Shaky Planet comes a new exploration of space travel, modern medicine, and pieeating. $12 / 30 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 16 at 7pm

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The Women in Me Charly Evon Simpson

Old City Fringe

A little poetry. Some Nina Simone and bell hooks. A whole lot of performance. The Woman in Me is a onewoman show that explores and interrogates the stories and histories, the people and pain, the hauntings and ghosts that reside in the body and the words of one black woman. $10 / 50 minutes Vivant Art Collection 60 North 2nd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 19 + 20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 4pm + 7pm

11 This Is The Twilight Kingdom Found Theater Company

This year, we ask: Why are we so drawn to outer space? What happens to us when we reflect on the big cosmological questions? With our hearts to the stars, with music, bodies, and science, we offer a piece of quantum theater that lies somewhere between waking and dreaming. $15 / 90 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 + 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 9pm Sept 8 at 8pm Sept 13 at 7:30pm + midnight Sept 14 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 20 at 8pm + midnight Sept 21 + 22 at 8pm

5 My Body/ My Story Linda Dubin Garfield / Susan DiPronio

Create a mixed media portrait of a body part that tells a story about you in an ongoing workshop setting. Keep it for yourself or share it with others in a memoir installation that includes textual, mixed media and photographic art which benefits Breastcancer.org. Come join us for fun and creativity! Free / 120 minutes The Book Trader 7 North 2nd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 +15 at 3pm

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Polygon Comedy is celebrating Fringe the best way we know how - with great local independent comedy from around the area! Join us at O’Neal’s Irish Pub, L’Etage, or Studio 34 for standup, sketch comedy, improv, storytelling, and everything in between! Polygon, bringing local comedy together! Artist website: www.polygoncomedy.com. $12 / 90 minutes O’Neals Pub, 611 South 3rd Street Sept 6 + 7, 12–14 + 19–21 at 8pm L’Etage 625 Bainbridge Street Sept 10 at 7:30pm See p106, West Philly Fringe, for additional venue and show times

3 The Waitstaff Happy Hour The Waitstaff

From the group that brought you the Fringe hit, The Real Housewives of South Philly, comes a brand new sketch comedy show. “Given the Waitstaff’s impressive track record . . . Philadelphia’s most daring sketch comedy troupe,” (Philly Weekly) expect The Waitstaff’s Happy Hour to deliver top-shelf entertainment. $15 / 60 minutes L’Etage 625 Bainbridge Street Sept 6 + 7 at 7:30pm Sept 8 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 13 + 14 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 17, 18, 20 + 21 at 7:30pm

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13 The Tools of Ignorance Present: High Cheese Tools of Ignorance

In 1983, Johnny Goodtimes played on the worst Little League baseball team ever assembled. Ever. Anywhere. From that story was born a full show of sports futility, starring Goodtimes, Chip Chantry, and Carl Boccuti. There are also rumors of a cameo from former Chicago Cubs pitcher Bob Gutierrez! $10 / 60 minutes The Adobe Café 1919 East Passyunk Avenue Sept 14 + 20 at 8pm

9 Adjacent Spaces Leah Stein Dance Company

Shiloh Baptist Church offers the setting for LSDC’s newest site work. The architectural elements of this historical building resonate and inspire an intimate and expansive exploration of physicality and metaphor. Photo by Joseph E.B. Elliott, courtesy of Hidden City Philadelphia. $20 / 50 minutes Shiloh Baptist Church 2040 Christian Street September 14, 15 + 21 at 2pm + 4pm

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THREE MM2 Modern Dance Company

7 Antihero Tribe of Fools

Come into a world that’s been here long before you. Overexposed and unemotional, Cavidad unravels the complexities of love, fear, and attraction. Lose yourself in the movement with fluorescent light sculptures in a cold environment that reflects the people in it. A dance experience unlike any other. $20 / 60 minutes Fleisher Art Memorial 719 Catherine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 + 7 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 8 at 7pm Sept 13 + 14 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 15 at 7pm

First premiered in Florence, Italy, THREE is a collection of short stories, if you will, with dances that are no more than three minutes in length. THREE poses the challenge of fulfilling a concise vision by creating a carefully orchestrated piece in a brief and fixed amount of time. $20 / 70 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 at 2pm

15 Unsongs: New Tales of Philly’s Unsung Heroes APIARY Magazine & JUMP Magazine

JUMP Magazine and APIARY Magazine are pairing 10 Philly writers and 10 Philly bands (including rappers, DJs, rockers, folkies, and a gospel choir) to write 10 brand-new songs. The theme? Unsung heroes of Philadelphia. Join us as worlds collide and new heroes enter the pantheon of Brotherly Love. $13 / 70 minutes Studio A Philly 1418 South Darien Street Sept 25 at 7pm Sept 26 at 8pm

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Exciting, energetic young talent from around the world perform classical and contemporary dances that will keep you on the edge of your seat! See the stars of tomorrow, today! Photo by Tiffany Yoon, courtesy of The Rock School for Dance Education. $5 / 45 minutes The Rock School for Dance Education 1101 South Broad Street Broad (at Washington) Wheelchair accessible Sept 21 at 2pm

Do you hate the Parking Authority? Antihero is one man’s quest to topple this corrupt institution . . . with his fists. Filled with fighting, parkour, and acrobatics, Antihero is a satire about our cultural obsession with vigilantes, violence, and heroes who do the wrong things for the “right” reasons. $20 / 80 minutes The Church of the Crucifixion 620 South 8th Street Sept 6 at 7pm Sept 7 at 7pm + 9:30pm Sept 8, 9, 11 + 12 at 7pm Sept 13 at 7pm + 9:30pm Sept 14 at 7pm

Back for one night only, Project Moshen’s first independent show, TRAPPED, comes to CHI MAC. Come see Kelli Moshen’s athletic, edgy, power-punching movement in a story about an inmate trapped in a military prison. Get lost in a world of angst and survival. $20 / 45 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 21 at 7pm + 9pm

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The hilarious, eloquent, and haunting follow-up to Stanley’s 2011 hit Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead, this true to life romp resurrects the cadaverous—from Philly’s Laurel Hill Cemetery to a British colonial graveyard in India to ancient Greek tomb worshippers. Paranormal activity guaranteed. Presented by Shiva3. $10 / 75 minutes Wheelchair accessible Shivtei Yeshuron-Ezras Israel 2015 South 4th Street Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 10-12 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 17 at 8pm See p83, Fairmount Fringe, for additional venue and show times

Overwhelmed by his troubles, a man reads Melville’s novel and begins a journey towards madness in his bathtub. With every page he turns, he begins to believe he is aboard the Pequod and seeks revenge against the Whale. Set in an apartment, Renegade creates an immersive audience experience. $15 / 60 minutes Wharton Heights 18th + Wharton Streets Sept 4–8, 11–15 + 18–22 at 6pm Venue address provided after ticket purchase

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Serving up a slice of life from the local pizza joint. In a world where everybody is a foodie, sometimes you just need a greasy slice of pie served on a paper plate. Written by Todd Cardin. Directed by Emily Cardin. The Shubin Theatre 407 Bainbridge Street $15 / 75 minutes Sept 5-8, 12 + 13 at 8pm

12 Saint Joan, Betrayed Aaron Cromie & Mary Tuomanen

What happens to a symbol when it outlives its usefulness? Performer Mary Tuomanen and director Aaron Cromie explore the betrayal of Joan of Arc by her own army at Compiègne. A virtuosic solo show with masks, puppets, and movement from the team that brought you the 2011 Fringe hit, A Paper Garden. $15 / 45 minutes Theatre Exile 1340 South 13th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 at 7pm Sept 6 + 7 at 10:30pm Sept 8 at noon + 5pm Sept 9, 12 + 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 4pm + 10:30pm

7 Happy Birthday Kim Hunter Zacherle

Happy Birthday, Kim Hunter. It’s that special day each year when Zacherle and his darling daughter, Lilith, come together to remember an actress and her greatest role. It’s a private ceremony. Please don’t tell anyone, my dear. They just wouldn’t understand. $15 / 60 minutes Church of the Crucifixion’s The Parish House, 2nd Floor 620 South 8th Street Sept 18-20 at 9:30pm Sept 21 at 2:30pm + 9:30pm Sept 22 at 2:30pm

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On average professional boxers hug 53 times each bout. They kiss one time for every 213 matches. Following the 2012 Fringe hit Hackles, this avant garde bromance by FringeArts Lab fellow Mason Rosenthal and Pig Iron School graduate Scott Sheppard asks the hard and soft questions about contemporary masculinity. $15 / 75 minutes Torrent Collective 938 South 8th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 + 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 13 + 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 20 + 21 at 8pm

8 The Foundling Wheel A Whole New Missoula

Liberal angst causes a displaced hipster to steal a baby from a tea party rally. A conservative in crisis floats down a river to be reborn. Charon, the ferryman of the Ohio River, rages against government regulation. Playwright-Actor Davey Strattan White performs this odd series of monologues. $10 / 60 minutes Hodge Podge Arts 1212 South Street Sept 6–8 + 13–15 at 8pm

Gigi and Meg are back with an all-new sex-ed burlesque! More dancing! More singing! More Cooking with Wine! More Gertrude and Mrs. Dugan! More fan dancing and striptease! More hilarious burlesque about all things sex! Come for the titillation, stay for the education. $15 / 60 minutes The Dive 947 East Passyunk Avenue Sept 10–12 + 17–19 at 8pm

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11 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe! Polygon Comedy

Polygon Comedy is celebrating Fringe the best way we know how - with great local independent comedy from around the area! Join us at O’Neal’s Irish Pub, L’Etage, or Studio 34 for standup, sketch comedy, improv, storytelling, and everything in between! Polygon, bringing local comedy together! Artist website: www.polygoncomedy.com. $12 / 90 minutes Studio 34 4522 Baltimore Avenue Sept 8 + 22 at 7pm See p100, South Philly Fringe, for additional venues and show times

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Dancefusion, celebrating 25 years, and 360 Dance Company from New York City will copresent two dynamic programs combining historic modern dances with new contemporary work. Choreographers include Pauline Koner, Eve Gentry, Jane Dudley, Ricardo Flores, Martin Lofsnes, and Anna Hillengas Troester. $20 / 65 minutes Mandell Theater at Drexel University 33rd + Chestnut Streets Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 7 at 3pm + 6pm

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Two New York-based dance companies, Catie Cuan Dance and Megan Lynn/Asterial Dance, present Bricolage, an evening of four original Philadelphia premieres. This dynamic movement event has many inspirations, from Yeats’s Byzantium and lamp lighting to consciousness and the human experience. $22 / 75 minutes Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue Sept 7 at 8pm

7 Shringara Rasa, The Emotion of Love Anita Ranjani

The universal language, love, along with the range of emotions that flood our senses: euphoria, betrayal, sensuality, lust, anger, and jealousy. Take the journey through the highs and lows of everlasting love by experiencing Bharathanaatyam, a South Indian classical dance form, known for its grace and purity. $10 / 120 minutes International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 at 7pm See p94, Old City Fringe, for additional venue, performer, and show times

XFS Philly Song Shuffle Xtreme Folk Scene 1

Two-hundred-plus minutes of fast, dirty fun involving 4-minute sets, 4-second set changes, 55 artists on one stage, and a Philly-sized dose of complete mahem. City Paper described its 2003 debut as “an excellent idea that should become a regular event.” The first and only live song shuffle anywhere! $25 / 200 minutes World Cafe Live 3025 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 7:30pm

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The Alternative Theatre Festival is a collection of five short plays written and directed by students at the University of Pennsylvania. The shows feature themes such as the pervasiveness of headline news, unrequited love, mental illness, loneliness, infertility, and finding oneself. Come see it! $10 / 90 minutes Platt Student Performing Arts House 3702 Spruce Street Sept 7 at 7pm

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8 Love, Rose: An Original Chamber Musical By Jeremy Lloyd, Directed by Matthew Decker

A refreshing, intimate staged reading of a new musical about a lonely man who falls madly in love with a mystical woman he believes is speaking to him in the letters he collects. His sister challenges his delusion and their conflict calls into question their relationship and the nature of reality. $15 / 90 minutes Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral 3723 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 17–21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 4pm

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Kate Quinn’s opera saga Sephro continues with Sephro: Back to Earth. Cryss is consumed with guilt for having wronged Craela. While Craela is searching for him in the Astral World, she is abducted and imprisoned on Earth as an alien. Cryss and the Sephrons travel back to Earth to save her. $10 / 60 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 11 at 8pm

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4 The Pink Museum  Mick Queer

The Pink Museum is a guided tour of one man’s gay history. Philadelphia installation artist Mick Queer creates his interior world in a gallery setting, painting with ex-boyfriends, sexual artifacts, and cultural touchstones. The Pink Museum lets you inside the mind of an outsider.     Free / 45 minutes    Meetinghouse Theater at the Community Education Center  3500 Lancaster Avenue  Sept 21 at noon, 5pm + 9pm

Jennifer the Unspecial is an award-winning musical about four eighth-graders who go on a fantastic timetraveling adventure and a shy, awkward eighth-grade girl who eventually discovers she doesn’t need anyone else’s approval to be absolutely amazing and special. Philadelphia premiere. $15 / 90 minutes University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Egypt Gallery 3260 South Street Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 7pm

3 Parts: A Speed-Through Drexel Players

It’s Hell Week. You suffer rivals, make friends, and make believe. It happens, it ends, and you leave. The Drexel Players (MONUMENT) invite you to belong, just for a moment, and experience an interactive orignal work about the parts we play, the parts we hide, and the parts we can never forget. $7 / 65 minutes URBN Center Annex 3401 Filbert Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 6pm Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 13 at 8pm Sept 14 at 6pm

The Theater Cooperative presents The Storm Rider, the gripping story of Lili Bita’s own journey through tragedy, triumph, and loss as she raises an abused child to manhood and confronts her inner demons. Join Lili for this most personal and inspiring of her epic Fringe performances. Directed by Ruchama Bilenky. $15 / 75 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13–15 at 8pm

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POOR POE William Burrison/NIGHTHAWKS

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Can E.A. Poe survive a brush with madness (or two hit-men), off a train, in Philadelphia? Written by three-time PA Arts Council recipient William Burrison and based on a true account. With live music by Ross Lipton, and a preliminary short play, The Ship That Stops, by Colin Wolfe. $12–$15 / 70 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 at 3:30pm + 7:30pm Sept 10 at 7:30pm + 9:30pm Christ Memorial Church Christ the King Prayer Chapel 4233 Chestnut Street Sept 11 + 12 at 8pm

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Critically acclaimed singersongwriter Jonatha Brooke brings her poignant and humorous one-woman musical play to the 2013 Fringe Festival. Jonatha was deeply connected to her mother and cared for her through her final years battling Alzheimer’s. My Mother has Four Noses is a love story for everyone. $23 / 90 minutes World Cafe Live 3025 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 8pm

Gender Reel Film & Performance Art Festival Gender Reel 9

Gender Reel is the nation’s one and only coast to coast film and performance art festival dedicated to enhancing the visibility of gender nonconforming and transgender people, images, and experiences. $10 / 240 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 19–21 at 6pm

9 One Year MamaCITA Five

In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures, one for each murder, confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope. Free / Ongoing The Sanctuary at The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7*, 8, 12–15 + 19–21*, from 6pm–8pm *25-minute performance at 6:30pm

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Come to our one-of-a-kind cabaret! Join the teens of Yes! And...’s SHADOW Company in discovering some stories that history has forgotten or has chosen to forget. Let the music guide you through this journey as you discover what it means to be truly human. $10 / 90 minutes Eastern University 1300 Eagle Road, Wayne Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 + 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 3pm See p77, Center City Fringe, for additional venues and show times

Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty Antrobus 4

Better Than Broadway: a semi musical travesty mixes a local high school music theater competition and an international conspiracy. If you hate, or love, musicals, this is the show for you. Artist website: www.antrobusarts.com. $20 / 135 minutes Rehearsal House Muhlenberg College 2400 Chew Street, Allentown Sept 19–21 at 8pm See p72, Center City Fringe, for addition venues and show times

1 One More Song Call Me Crazy Dancers

It may be hard to see the sun. We walk when we used to run. I could give you a hundred reasons to cry, but to hope I need just one. One more song. One last chance. I won’t pretend I’m strong, but give me this dance. $20 / 90 minutes Stage One at The Performing Arts Complex 101 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford Wheelchair accessible Sept 13–15 + 19–21 at 8pm

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Trials of Paradox Yes! And...’s SHADOW Company 2

A newly constructed professional contemporary/ jazz company orchestrated by life-long friends active in the dance world. Roux Dance Company is based out of Conshohocken. It began as a children’s competition team and has recently grown into a company. Artist website: www.lerouxarts.com. $20 / 60 minutes Montgomery County Community College Blue Bell Campus 340 Dekalb Pike, Blue Bell Sept 15th at 10am + 3pm

INDEX by Show Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak / p22 If I Were A Drag Queen, I Would Be Famous / p95 If the Slipper Fits / p92 Introducing Madhouse / p76 Jennifer the Unspecial / p107 Kill Me Now: Rowan Edition / p89 LEO / p38 Life and Times: Episodes 1–5 / p34 Looking for Uranus: Starzina Starfish-Browne’s Comeback Tour / p95 Love, Rose: An Original Chamber Musical / p107 Love . . . And A Little Torture / p88 Lucinda’s Bed / p76 Matt& / p70 MinorityLand / p86 Modern Playground / p76 Moses(es) / p54 Movie Scrapple / p70 Muse: The Body Overlooked / p72 My Body/My Story / p96 NLArts Campers Present / p89 Not All Gods Go to Heaven / p89 On the Concept of the Face Regarding the Son of God / p50 One Hit Wonder / p82 One More Song / p109 One Year / p108 Opera Macabre: Edgar Allan Poe / p76 Out of Time / p52 Page One / p71 Paperback Dreadful / p95 Parts: A Speed-Through / p107 Pay Up / p24 PHIT Sketch Team / p71 Polygon Comedy Presents: The Fringe! / p100, p106 POOR POE / p108 Pride and Prejudice: The Jazz Age / p95 Rally for the Reading Viaduct Rail Park / p89 Reggie’s Brodie: A Vaudeville Extravaganza / p89 Reasonable Doubt / p71 Roots / p83 Saint Joan, Betrayed / p102 Sephro: Back to Earth / p107 Shringara Rasa, The Emotion of Love / p94, p106 Six Feet (Above And) Under: A Graveyard Cabaret / p83 spaceplay / p86 Spoon River Anthology at Laurel Hill Cemetery / p84 Stars and Garters: A Doctor Who Burlesque Show / p88 Stripped of Common Sense / p86 Study Hall / p71 Surrender / p76 Telling Stories / p72 The Ballad of Joe Hill / p26 The Bigot and How to Kill Yourself / p77 The Elastic Air Project / p71 The Foundling Wheel / p102 The Garden / p94 The Iron Factory Presents / p85 The Living Newspaper: On Location / p46 The Momentum / p76 The Night of the Big Wind and Shift(h)er / p85 The Object Lesson / p40 The Party / p71 The Pink Museum / p107 The Playdaters / p77 The Quiet Volume / p32

The Rock School for Dance Education / p101 The Safe Word is Begonia/He Deserves It / p86 The Sea Monster / p87 The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone) / p95 The Soapranos / p72 The Society / p30 The Storm Rider: A Woman’s Journey / p107 The Talkback / p77 The Tools of Ignorance Present: High Cheese / p100 The Waitstaff Happy Hour / p100 The Women in Me / p96 This Is Not For You / p87 This is Not a Theater / p44 This Is The Twilight Kingdom / p96 THREE / p101 Tough Cookies / p77 TRAPPED / p101 Traveling Light by Lindsay Harris Friel / p77 Trials of Paradox / p77, p109 Unsongs: New Tales of Philly’s Unsung Heroes / p101 Where (we) Live / p42 WXPN presents My Mother Has Four Noses, a new musical written and performed by Jonatha Brooke / p108 XFS Philly Song Shuffle / p107 XY Scheherazade / p77 Yo! TeenPhilly / p72

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Foundation + Government Supporters Anonymous ArtPlace America, a collaboration of leading national and regional foundations, banks and federal agencies accelerating creative placemaking across the US. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program Dolfinger McMahon Foundation Engaging Dance Audiences, administered by Dance/USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Independence Foundation John S. and James L. Knight Foundation National Endowment for the Arts New England Foundation for the Arts Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency PNC Bank Foundation through PNC Arts Alive The Barra Foundation The Charlotte Cushman Foundation The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage The Philadelphia Cultural Fund William Penn Foundation

PRODUCERS CIRCLE Producers Circle Festival Benefactors Wyncote Foundation Richard Vague Audrey Claire Taichman Star Producers The CHG Charitable Trust, as recommended by Carole Haas Gravagno Al and Nancy Hirsig Suzanne F. Roberts Cultural Development Fund Honorary Producer David Lipson Executive Producers Anonymous Carol and Tom Beam David and Linda Glickstein The Rotunda Patricia D. Wellenbach University of Pennsylvania Virginia Brown Martin Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation Producers David Adelman Barbara B. and Theodore R. Aronson Robert M. Dever Tobey and Mark Dichter Elizabeth H. Gemmill Jane and Joe Goldblum The Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation Josephine Klein Tom Lussenhop Lisa Roberts and David Seltzer Carol Klein and Lawrence Spitz Holly and David Stichka Marty Tuzman/Jenkintown Building Services Anne and Ed Wagner

Co-Producers Michele and Gary Block Cat, Annie, and Steven Bohnenberger Flying Bulldog Productions Gateway Properties / The Enclave Matthew Gillin David Grasso Christie Hartwell Arthur M. Kaplan and R. Duane Perry Nancy Lanham Sissie and Herb Lipton Hank, Calder and Cole McNeil Matthew Neenan and Fernando van Reigersberg Elizabeth Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell Andrew and Bryna Scott Lynne and Bert Strieb Associate Producers Gene Bishop and Andrew Stone Ira Brind and Stacey Spector Stephen and Gretchen Burke Barbara and Steve Gold Gail Harrity Liza Herzog and Paul Curci Lis Kalogris Michael C. Lillys Hal Real and Anne Sheppard Franklyn and Cintra Rodgers Lee van de Velde Assistant Producers Sandra Chaff Carol and Ray Cook Mary L. Goldman Allen James Kuharski Lou Seitchik and Kanani Titchen Ali and Jean-Pierre Valin Dr. R.J. Wallner Production Managers Joe Bonus Stephen Goodman William Hooper John Okolowicz Aaron Posner and Erin Weaver

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Gelmarc Distributors KassCon Building Services Krista Grasso Cathy Weiss & Edward Solomon Host Committee Denise Di Simone, Co-Chair Tony Forte, Co-Chair Jesse & Beka Rendell, Co-Chair Barry M. Abelson Lisa & Mike Brairton Jean Canfield Rob Capone Tom Corcoran Michael A. Donato Michael Forman Bill Harvey Jeff Harrow Christina Kerrigan David Lipson Sharon McCullough Ralph Muller Carrie Nork Minelli Corie Moskow Bill Proud Suzanne L. Quigley Eric B. Rymshaw RA Susan Sherman Nicole Stephenson Scott Tarte Richard Vague Steve Wildemann Lisa Young Special Thanks Kiong Banh Jessica Beavin Jeff Benjamin Conrad Bender Pierre Calmels Gabe Canuso Rob Capone Joe Carvalho Jon Cichon Marian Conicella Lily Cope Doug Crysler Danielle DelRe Allan Domb Nick Elmi Jill Encarnacion Ryan Fonash Michelle Flisek

Barry Gold Bridget Gray Patrick Haas Joanna Hamrick Heather Harad Michael Haschak Amy Henderson Greg Hill Helen Karol Jeremy Kucholtz Michele Lamm Rich Lee David Lipson Steven Maisel Joanne Marder Sharon McCullough Jeff Michaud Corie Moskow Resa Mueller Yoni Nimrod Josh Parker Jessica Peake Mitch Prensky Edward G. Rendell Jennifer Reynolds Ed Seiders Fred A. Shabel Randi Sirkin Mitch Skwer Michael Solomonov Davin Stamp Stephen Starr Dan Stern Nick Stuccio David Suro Audrey Claire Taichman Liz Trasmundi Christina Valucci Ilana Waber Peggy Baud Woolsey Peter Woolsey John Zenkowich AND The Entire FringeArts Staff

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Thank You SPECIAL THANKS Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia, Technological Connections Elizabeth Aulepp Johanna Austin Amber Backes Jackie Baik Kiong Banh Dana Bank Jan Bass Jessica Beavin Edward Behm, Esq. Conrad Bender Bill Bissell Danielle Birch Melissa Bizzak Jackie Blumenfeld Jennifer Bohnenberger Lou Boquilla Borislow, Factor and Kaufmann, LLC Sean Buffington, President, The University of the Arts Duane Bumb, City of Philadelphia Commerce Department Nancy Burd Gabe Canuso

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Gillian Frisch Kristy Jo Gilboy Barry Gold Bill Golderer, Broad Street Ministry Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Clifford Greer Heather Harad Hillary Harvey Marjorie Hassen, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Liza Herzog Greg Hill Bill Horton Divya Janardhan Helen Karol, CRW Graphics Kim Killeri Jeremy Klotz, EventsFilter.com Laura Krebs Stephanie Krzywanski Besty Lau Steven Maisel Brett Mapp, Old City Business District Reenie McDonnell Sara Merriman, City of Philadelphia Commerce

Department Christine Miller Kevin Monko Jason Norton Mayor Michael Nutter Senator Michael O’Brien Suzanne O’Brien David O’Connor Tara Ostroski Anthony Perrella Craig Peterson Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation Mark and Carol Peterson Bruno Pouget Michelle Ranieri Dan Reisman, Esq. Governor Edward G. Rendell Gina Renzi, University of Pennsylvania Ed Rosenthal Gary Reuben, Mike Cristaldi and Underground Arts Tracy Sandberg Daniel Student and Rachel Dukeman, Play & Players Jennifer Rice Britt Riley

Emily Scully Fred A. Shabel Jennifer Shockley Mitchell Skwer Randi Sirkin Doug Smullens Martha McGeary Snider Kirstin Snow Harry Spivack Councilman Mark Squilla Gary Steuer and Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy Holly Stichka Audrey Claire Taichman Rich Thom Nina Tinari Jacques-Jean Tiziou Richard Vague Angela Val Lisa Weinberger, Masters Group Design Roy Wilbur Adam Woods Paul Wright Richard Wright, Data Time Consulting Ellen Yin, Fork Restaurant

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Richard Vague, President Jennifer Bohnenberger, Vice President Lisa P. Young, Treasurer Conrad Bender, Secretary Mark Dichter Denise DiSimone Anthony P. Forte David Grasso Leonard C. Haas

Gail M. Harrity Liza Herzog, J.D., Ph.D. David Hoffman Kevin Kleinschmidt Tom Lussenhop Bernadine J. Munley, Esquire Maria Papadakis Ajay Raju Hal Real

Peter C. Rothberg Maria Quinones–Sanchez Stephen Starr Holly Stichka Nick Stuccio Audrey Claire Taichman Marty Tuzman Patricia D. Wellenbach Paul Wright

OUR STAFF Andrew Adams, Audio Coordinator Renee Archawksi, Development Director Brett Axler, Assistant Production Manager Conrad Bender, Executive Technical Director Melissa E. Bridge, Finance and Administration Manager Dan Comly, Marketing Director Robert Davis, Office and Venue Maintenance Tara Demmy, Programming Manager Lee Ann Etzold, Office Manager Greg Frantz, Marketing Coordinator Derek Hachkowski, Operations + Production Manager David Harrison, Vice President Josh McIlvain, Guide Editor + Information Manager Theresa Rose, Visual Arts Program Director Carolyn Schlecker, Managing Director Nick Stuccio, President and Producing Director Nato Thompson, Curator, Visual Arts Program

David Todaro, Lighting Coordinator Michael Troncone, Technical Director Sandy Upton, Institutional Giving Manager Davis Vague, Production Assistant Canary Promotion, canarypromo.com, Media Relations Masters Group Design, Guide design and layout TicketLeap, Official Ticketing Provider

Interns Maria Archer Maya Beale Zach Blackwood Isabel Cook Katlyn Chitwood Megan Falasco Kendl Hommel

Shazia Hashmi Patrick Hyland Jordan Layman Caitlin Nordin Veronica Perez Monica Rocha

Coming to the 2014 Fringe Festival

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The Four Seasons Restaurant SocĂetas Raffaello Sanzio Directed by Romeo Castellucci

Available Light Choreography by Lucinda Childs Music by John Adams Set by Frank Gehry

These presentations of Available Light and The Four Seasons Restaurant have been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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Fall Programming

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OCTOBER ANIMINA, A Race Street Sound Walk by The Mural and The Mint A portable music experienceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sounds change based on your location. Elephant Room by Louie Magic, Dennis Diamond, and Daryl Hannah The return of Phillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite illusionists-idiots.

NOVEMBER 17 Border Crossing by Thaddeus Phillips A visual and aural dialogue that reveals and considers the true adventures in crossing international borders. Svadba Wedding composed by Ana Sokolovic Eat, drink, and be married. A raucous a cappella tour-de-force followed by a Balkan wedding party with the West Philadelphia Orchestra. A co-presentation with Opera Philadelphia. DECEMBER Twelfth Night, or What You Will by Pig Iron Theatre Company Shakespeare, unleashed!

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