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Presented by Dance/UP
The Rocky Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in Greater Philadelphia's dance community. Presented by the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe with support from Dance/USA Philadelphia (Dance/UP).
Cie. Willi Dorner
All performances of blank are CANCELED. Due to unforeseen health issues, choreographer Willi Dorner has had to postpone his creation of the show blank. We are sending our best wishes to Willi as he recuperates, and look forward to presenting his work at a future Festival.
John Jasperse
From groundbreaking New York choreographer John Jasperse comes a collaborative new work that captures the wonder of the ineffable. Six dancers, including Jasperse, play with engineered disorientation, sensory overload, spaciousness, fractured connectivity, and rapture.
Part of the Festival Spotlight Series At Home, Elsewhere, a series exploring cross-cultural identity in the 21st century. At this symposium, leading artists from Africa, Europe, North America, and South Asia discuss their current projects, which raise questions about identity, culture, and our notions of borders.
Starring Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic, and Daryl Hannah
You are cordially invited to a clandestine place. Your hosts are three world-class semi-pro conjurors. Dennis Diamond, Daryl Hannah, and Louie Magic take you on a journey behind the smoke and mirrors to a secret society, the Elephant Room. Welcome to an experience you weren't even aware existed.
New Paradise Laboratories
Fess and Beatrix meet online, where nothing is quite as it seems. In the real world, Fess is a mother and a school teacher. Beatrix is a cool hunter, a performance artist, a mysterious entrepreneur.
A danced lecture performed by Susan Foster
A danced lecture that explores how and what people feel while they are watching dance. Susan Foster performs her lectures. She hurls herself around the auditorium, climbing over seats, attacking the podium.
Swim Pony Performing Arts
Lady M highlights its demented anti-heroine, played by Barrymore Award winning Catharine Slusar, by heightening the text of Macbeth with voice and movement that is equally extreme. An all-female chorus of ten witches, like a hive of bees, alternately serve and overtake their queen.
Directed by Alain Platel
Part of the Festival Spotlight Series At Home, Elsewhere, a series exploring cross-cultural identity in the 21st century. Alain Platel directed this documentary about members of his highly acclaimed Belgian company Les Ballets C de la B. Who are the dancers of Les Ballets C de la B?
Rude Mechs
This theatrical exploration about the ecstasy and excesses of performing is based on the methods of Stella Burden, the 60s and 70s actor-training guru who disappeared in 1972 under mysterious circumstances. Burden created what became known as the most dangerous acting technique in the world, The Approach.
Xavier Le Roy
Experience a hidden world outside of sound, but within music. More Mouvements für Lachenmann is French choreographer Xavier Le Roy's poetic and fascinating version of a contemporary music concert from the point of view of someone obsessed with movement.
Jayachandran Palazhy
Part of the Festival Spotlight Series At Home, Elsewhere, a series exploring cross-cultural identity in the 21st century. This film and discussion focuses on Kalarippayattu, one of the oldest known martial arts forms, and its various body concepts and movement principles.
Shantala Shivalingappa
From the classical Indian dance form Kuchipudi to contemporary movement, Namasya is a virtuosic and very personal dance work from a dancer at the top of her form. The evening is made up of four solos choreographed by Ushio Amagatsu, Pina Bausch, Shivalingappa, and Savitry Nair (Shivalingappa’s mother).
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa
Welcome to a place for experiments between performers with seemingly opposing styles: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the western contemporary dancer whose movements ride a wave of chaos, and the Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa, whose control of movement comes from her mastery of the classical Indian form Kuchipudi.
Kyle Abraham / Abraham.In.Motion
The Radio Show is a high energy dance performance about the effects of the disappearance of a black radio on a community and the effects of Alzheimer’s on a family. The cast of seven includes Abraham, one of the most captivating movers dancing today, and a musical score mixes classic soul, hip-hop, and classical compositions.
Headlong Dance Theater and Chris Doyle
Join Headlong and visual artist Chris Doyle on a trip to the red planet. Two robotic explorers. One lonely landscape. Combining dance theater, art installation, silent films, vintage Donkey Kong, and Mars, Red Rovers is a show about scientific searching, comical mishaps, and the impossibility of connection across vast distances.
Improbable
Journey into the dark world of Punch and Judy shows to the iconic Punch’s manipulators, the puppeteers themselves and the shenanigans of Hovey and Hovey, the stage producers whose dwindling careers have bottomed out to producing puppet shows. This magical world features actors, musicians, and wooden and papier-mâché players.
7 Fingers
Traces is high-energy urban acrobatics—poetic and explosive, humorous and thoughtful—from 7 Fingers, a Montreal-based circus arts company founded with the goal of presenting circus on a human scale. Traditional circus feats combine with skateboarding and parkour, and mix with theater and contemporary dance.
Pig Iron Theatre Company
It’s one of Shakespeare’s most wicked comedies, Pig Iron style. Welcome to an uproarious world of drunkards and wine-drenched parties, depressive noblemen and dueling musicians, idiots and veteran jesters, religious zealots and erotic misunderstandings, all set to a live gypsy-rock score.
Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental
From the mind of Thaddeus Phillips comes an equally inventive and mysterious theatrical epic that connects worldwide telecommunications systems, humpback whale songs, Carl Sagan, and dinner at Applebee's. Performed by and made in collaboration with Brian Osborne, Makoto Hirano, Lee Ann Etzold, James Ijames, and Emily Letts.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Gilles Delmas
Opposite the Race Street Pier, inside a former pumping station, is a house of screens some 20 feet high and wide, which you walk around looking at films of dancers performing in their homes—in bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, under and above their furniture, by their windows, playing with notions of what home life means to them.
Baroke Productions
“Don’t Blow It” is an animation/live action film that explores the meaning of ritual to the individual. The film illustrates a dreamlike image of birthday as a symbol of . . .
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
PHIT House Team King Friday (Chicago Improv Festival, Del Close Marathon in New York City) delivers back-to-back-to-back improv sets that blend to create a single . . .
Aaron Cromie, Mary Tuomanen, and Genevieve Perrier
At the turn of the 19th century, an exotic plant sprouts from an unusual box sent across the Atlantic Ocean by famous world explorer, raconteur, and botanist André Michaux.
Linda Dubin Garfield and Susan DiPronio
Dive into piles of art supplies while meeting interesting people on the same mission as you: to create a portrait of what you think of as home—a gift to yourself or have it . . .
Nimrods Theatre
Two brand-new friends meet at a diner after work to continue an ongoing conversation. One is a tremendously successful and wealthy hedge fund manager. The other is a day laborer.
AGGROCRAG
NYC-based AGGROCRAG (creators of the 2010 Philly Fringe hit Hello from the Children of Planet Earth) returns to Philadelphia with a poignant adventure of life, death, the human brain, .... and lasers ....
Green Chair Dance, Gabrielle Revlock, and devynn emory
mostly practical
people spark and tumble. . .
people spark and tumble. . .
The Brothers Cromie
The Brothers Cromie bring their hit Philly Fringe treasure hunt AFOOT! to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. With only a map and your wits, you and your team of 4-6 people must . . .
ZIYA
Delicious melody lines, captivating poetry, contagious rhythms. These words describe ZIYA's music.
Keila Cordova Dances
Keila Cordova creates a coming-of-age fable inspired by Manifest Destiny, comfortable furniture, and the migration of birds.
Bright Light Theatre Company
Philly's pavement provides the setting for live music, dance, and projections as BLTC brings to life the work of Mohsin Mohi-Uh-Din's Lollipops Crown Youth Arts Initiative.
iNtuitons Experimental Theatre Company
In this fourth annual one-night mini-festival, the iNtuitons Experimental Theatre Company presents four original pieces in four different locations.
A:B
For fifteen years, Amédée and Madeleine Buccinioni have shared their Paris apartment with a growing corpse, hiding from the outside world.
Tangle
Trapeze, tree branches, aerial silks, a jar of fireflies, a basket of laundry. In a circus-theater style, Tangle explores the extraordinary meaning of ordinary objects. Come travel the heights and depths of an urban dreamscape in this journey through acrobatic dance, music, spoken word, and aerial spectacle!
Poor Richard's Opera
Get your daily dose of opera! 7 operas in 7 days . . .
Angry People Building Things
The Angry People find out what makes you angry and channel your rage, and theirs, into hilarious improv. They attack the stage with a ferocious energy unmatched in the entire . . .
MCCC Drama Club
Adventurers! Warrior sisters! Brother heroes! The usurper, Pelias, refuses to restore me to my rightful throne. A challenge has been laid.
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
The eclectic, nerdy-sexy cast of Philly’s best-dressed improv group will do more than impress you with their sartorial choices. Each Asteroid! performance promises . . .
Lawrence-Herchenroether Dance Company
There is often more beauty in the corroded than the complete. This evening-length site-specific dance installation explores the beauty, decay, and permanence of the forgotten and antiquated architectural forms that once existed.
RileSmith Arts
Neil LaBute’s BASH is a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays. Two young actors take the audience on a trip through this trio of personal accounts
Jeffrey Stanley
An autobiographical, one-man black comedy about family secrets, séances, dream interpretation, Nietzsche, and death by acute alcoholism: all the things that make life great.
Missing Bolts Productions
A one-woman show with a rock band, Big Star California, follows a young woman, Ryan, on a road trip from Los Angeles to Seattle.
Stone Depot Dance Lab & Melissa Diane
Bodies of Text is rooted in the idea of Art à la Rue, bringing art to the street in West Philadelphia.
Hyphen-Nation Arts
Wanted: dedicated, thick-skinned, cutthroat individuals capable of excelling in a rigorous, redefining work environment. Unwavering allegiance and willingness to . . .
BodyFields Performance Collective
We brew. We blend. We create. We erase. BodyFields continues their collaborative work with music holding the hand of dance while remaining fused with visual arts. BodyFields displays a distillation of their shared experiences to create a bliss that giggles and grins with exploration. Brewed beverages on hand.
Admission to this show is by donation. We will be accepting donations at the door of each performance. Your support is greatly appreciated!
Admission to this show is by donation. We will be accepting donations at the door of each performance. Your support is greatly appreciated!
Bump in the Road Theatre
A memoir with flourishes. Religious and scholarly perspectives, along with home movies and possibly a gorilla, combine to present a multimedia montage about the nature of forgiveness.
Public Eye: Artists for Animals
Get vegucated at Carnivores Anonymous with celebrities sharing their vegan evolution. Imagine a talk show with famous vegans performing their talents and fielding . . .
REV Theatre Company
An outdoor, site-specific production in a Philadelphia cemetery, Carthaginians is set in a Derry, North Ireland, graveyard where seven survivors of the 1972 Bloody Sunday Massacre . . .
Mark Kennedy
How do you speak to your true love when you’ve never spoken? Especially when she’s dead? Checkers has no idea, but the words are coming out. Witness a . . .
Act Normal Theatre Company
Tom—grocery store cashier by day, struggling stand-up comedian by night—tries to win the affection of Claire, his toughest audience yet. He navigates financial trouble, fake illness . . .
Iron Age Theatre
An evening of murder, necrophilia, blow up dolls, and interrogation in Howard Brenton’s controversial play Christie in Love. Iron Age Theatre takes the police procedural genre . . .
Rookie Card
Rookie Card shrugs off conventional improv with their irreverent variety show. Join high society as the group takes to the art galleries of Philadelphia, or experience a secret house . . .
Confluence of the Two Indian Classical Music Styles: Master of the Sarod, Hindustani Instrumental Concert
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Philly Fringe
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and his sons Amaan and Ayaan
Expand your musical repertoire and experience a rather undiscovered corner of Philadelphia culture.
Confluence of the Two Indian Classical Music Styles: Carnatic and Hindustani Vocal Duo
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Philly Fringe
Malladi Brothers and Gundelcha Brothers
Expand your musical repertoire and experience a rather undiscovered corner of Philadelphia culture.
Shakespeare is unhinged in this new adaptation of his little-performed tragedy, as the audience is immersed in the action and stage walls are battered down for an intimate look into . . .
Dancefusion
Featuring the reconstruction of Mary Anthony’s 1956 masterpiece, Threnody.
Brian Sanders' JUNK
Dancing Dead is the latest dance-theater work from Festival-blockbuster Brian Sanders’ JUNK.
Dangerous Fools
“Better than any improv group I've seen.” (City Paper) A fool from L.A. . . . A fool from Philadelphia. . . . No script. With nothing but a blank stage, a single suggestion . . .
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Chicago’s famous improv format, “The Bat,” makes for a show unlike any that Philly Fringe audiences have witnessed before: a spontaneously created comedy performed . . .
Call Me Crazy Dancers
The Call Me Crazy Dancers combine ballet, jazz, modern, and tap to take you on a dancing journey through time . . .
Brooklyn Contemporary Theatre
All performances of Dead Dogs have been cancelled.
eXposed Theatre Company
Follow Debbie Benton and her cheerleader gal-pals as they eXpose it all and do anything it takes (while remaining “good girls” of course) to help Debbie pay her way to Dallas in . . .
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All performances of Deep Trance Inside and Dancing Planetarium have been cancelled.
DEER HEAD: yet another—though equally hilarious, and perhaps even more so, as the first two—evening of outrageous short comedies by Josh McIlvain
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SmokeyScout Productions
From the creators of Boat Hole (named one of 2010’s “10 Essentials at the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe” by Philly Weekly) come 15 more outlandish short plays . . .
A. Sigley, J. Warchal-King, and M. T. Roberts
Rules. Rules? Rules! Join Angela R. Sigley, Jessica C. Warchal-King, and Michael T. Roberts as they bend them, break them, and make some of their own . . .
Pasion y Arte Flamenco Co.
Witness Pasion y Arte’s raw and informal performance of its first commissioned work by the innovative, world-renowned Flamenco artist, Rosario Toledo.
Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble
Join Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble as we preview our sixth season, eMerge.
Tactus Theatre Project
How do we absorb and understand the information that surrounds us? Through dance, music, and sounds, Eurydice explores the story of her love, life, and death.
Found Theater Company
Mayhem! Destruction! Calamity! Collapse! This Philly Fringe, Found Theater will take on asteroids, terrorists, global warming, poison gas, 2012, artificial intelligence, atomic bombs . . .
Barrow, Daniel
A garbage man/failed artist creates a phone book chronicling the lives of everyone in his city as a deranged killer murders each citizen he catalogues, rendering his efforts obsolete.
Project Moshen
Project Moshen makes their debut in the Philly Fringe with EXPOSED. Two nights of original, high energy, captivating dances . . .
New Paradise Laboratories
A performance adventure in three acts. Fess and Beatrix meet online. Beatrix sweeps Fess off her feet into a surreal game of escalating public dares.
New Paradise Laboratories
Fess is enthralled with Beatrix, a mysterious personality she meets online. Swept up in Bea’s force, Fess begins to question . . .
BalletFleming
BalletFleming returns to the Painted Bride after its sold-out premiere, Tapas, in February.
Cathy Quigley
Over 176,000,000 women suffer physical and psychological pain from endometriosis. Ever heard of it? Ignorance prevents progress. Through theater and dance . . .
Beacon Theatre Productions
1911: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. 1914: The Christmas Eve Truce. Two landmark events marred by man’s inhumanity, yet highlighted by the triumph of . . .
Five Minute Follies
The golden age of variety is back. Five Minute Follies is a fast-paced variety extravaganza in the Ed Sullivan tradition, featuring dancers, singers, comics, magicians, and more.
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Fletcher features the freshest and most talented improvisers to hit Philadelphia since Rare Bird Show. Last year's Philly Fringe performances were described . . .
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
PHIT’s House Teams are the cornerstone of Philly's improv scene. Mixing amazing storytelling, quick wits, hilarious chaos, and a dash of audience participation, the two . . .
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Alcatraz, the most desirable cat in the world, is putting on a night of comedy with his felt-faced puppet friends—and you’re invited! Featuring innovative staging that lets . . .
Gender Reel Festival
Gender Reel, the East Coast’s first and only multi-media festival, is dedicated to enhancing the visibility of gender non-conforming, gender variant, and . . .
ETC Theater
1979. I just graduated High School. No Job. No Future. No Girl. Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Gasoline shot up to 86 cents a gallon and Disco Sucked. It seemed hopeless . . .
REP THEATRE
REP THEATRE presents Girl on Gurl, a night of 10-minute plays pairing female playwrights with female directors in an estrogen-induced salute to GURL POWER . . .
McBain, Melissa
When girls were only three things—virgins, wives, or whores—a grieving daughter discovers a mother she never knew: child star and bold lover. Through Depression-Era letters and . . .
Allen Goudie-Averill Gesualdi Konyk Hoch-Stall Wilson
Lora Allen, Ellie Goudie-Averill, Christina Guesaldi, David Konyk, Gina Hoch-Stall, and Annie Wilson dive into thefidget space for four nights of honest miscellanea.
SamiyMotif
This documentary stems from the children’s book I wrote called Grandma’s House. You will hear from three “Grandmas” who have been asked to tell their stories . . .
Yes! And...'s SHADOW Company
A show about what connects us, what makes community, and how to claim humanity from the rubble of our differences. From Yes! And . . . ’s SHADOW Company . . .
pillardance company
pillardance’s love letter to all fans of epic music: five face-melting, ear-ringing tracks that kick ass in their purest forms, from the psychedelic rock of Pink Floyd to the arena rock of Queen. Prefer your dancers in leather jackets instead of tutus? This is the show for you.
Plays and Players
Hear Again is here again! We look to the past to explore the future! Vintage old time radio goodness: two classic radio programs for the whole family, featuring live music . . .
Tribe of Fools
Timmy Bagley is a tough, blue collar, South Philly dockworker with a secret passion for tap-dancing . . . to 1980s hair metal. Heavy Metal Dance Fag is an outrageous comedy . . .
1828.1 Production Co.
James Baldwin was one of the most sought after speakers of his time. His books and countless articles won him critical acclaim. He’s been away for a while, but now he’s back . . .
Luna Theater Company
What makes you who you are? A name? A random collection of experiences and memories? You are who you can prove you are. You are what people think. And that’s . . .
Red Square Theatre
1920s NYC. Seedy hotel lobby. Drunken gambler. Distracted night clerk. RST (Clover ‘09, Lunch Lady Tarot ‘10) gets classical with the only surviving . . .
COME UNITY
Incredibly talented regional artists paint, photograph, and sketch their illustrations on ten truths that COME UNITY seeks to change.
KAOS Dance Company
A series of effervescent movement exploring the human frustration and joy of waiting, practicing, waiting, participating, routine, waiting, failing, waiting, achieving, waiting . . .
Ira Brind School of Theater Arts, University of the Art
In this modern-day riff on The Scarlet Letter, Hester, a homeless mother of five, fights to survive illiteracy, prostitution, corruption, and degrading social conditions.
Infatuation Dance Company
Emanating from our obsessions that torment—but get us through our day—Inescapable Foreboding creates images through highly stylized choreography and vibrant athleticism.
Leah Stein Dance Company
Leah Stein Dance Company takes you on a dance journey through the 17th century Shofuso Japanese House and Garden in Fairmount Park.
Hella Fresh Theatre
All Performances of Jericho Road have been cancelled.
Smile/Frown Theatre Guild
All Performances of Judith: the Other Shakespeare have been cancelled.
Rabbi Rayzel Raphael
Enter the world of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. Explore the legends of Shechinah and the Feminine Divine of the Kabbalistic system through interactive story, song, and meditation.
Deaton, K.J.
Too weak to carry the baggage from her past, Christina Leeds decides to take her life. As she shares the life experiences that have encouraged her suicide attempt, Christina must . . .
Wilson, Rocky
One of the many places Laura took her free-form dance was to a rest stop along the Atlantic City Expressway. Using poetry, sign language, music, and movement, Wilson weaves his own spiritual journey . . .
DysFUNctional Theater
Cold fingers reach beyond the grave. Woman and a ghostly double battle for the love of the same man. Based on Georges Rodenbach's stage adaptation of his 1892 novella . . .
The Miss Rockaway Armada
In collaboration with Spiral Q Puppet Theater, the nationally recognized artist collective The Miss Rockaway Armada will parade from Broad and Pine Streets to Clark Park . . .
Secret Room Theatre
The clock is ticking with this lightning-fast collection of plays under 5 minutes.
You may be sitting in the theater, but your brain will be running to a new location . . .
Philapolis Theatre Company
Trapped in an apartment in the biggest city in the world, lifelong friends David and Keith are forced to question their identities as the world is willingly taken over by a pleasantly . . .
The Songlines
Maybe a play or a puzzle, maybe a sonnet or a limerick, maybe a song or two. At every event, different favorite artists take a look at our most bittersweet preoccupation. P.S. . . .
Penn Theatre Ensemble
Wii players fall in love with their avatars, a sculptor falls in love with his statue, and a puppeteer’s marionettes come to life in tales adapted from Ovid, Grimm, Anderson, and . . .
Curio Theatre Company
When their plane crashes on a deserted island, a group of schoolboys learn where evil truly lives. Curio Theatre Company presents this unique outdoor experience of William Golding’s . . .
The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
INCENDIARY HILARITY ALERT! A Greek chorus of Keystone Kops guides us through Frisch’s 1958 absurdist classic . . .
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
PHIT House Team Mayor Karen (Official Selection: Chicago Improv Festival) bring their unique mix of serious acting and comedic improvising experience to the stage . . .
Reel 9 Productions
Meet the “Meat Man,” a simple vendor of carnivorous delights, and the small American town of meat eaters whose lives are rocked by the unexpected influx of vegetarian neighbors.
Candelabra Theater Company
A disturbing exploration of women, power, and bargaining, Mediate Me uses phones, avatars, and live polling technology to turn spectators into actors, literally playing with the female reality that speaking one’s truth means losing one’s audience.
Jay Nachman
Approximately 219,000 people each year in the United States will be diagnosed with lung cancer. Even if one of them is your dad, it can be funnier than you think.
Cymande Lewis
My Name is Sam Johnson is a one-woman show. Sam, a single mother of two, finds herself awake in the middle of the night questioning her adequacies as a mother . . .
Devennie
Descend into the mouth of madness, courtesy of the mind of the master of the macabre himself, Edgar Allan Poe.
Pink Hair Affair
Disco, funk, psychedelic rock . . . can you dig it? Hustle on down to the pink side of the moon for peace, love, and soul flashback.
Live Your Peace and Central Free Library
Use your videophone/flipcam to participate in a daily movie project with award winning artists, poets, authors, teachers, musicians, entrepreneurs . . .
Ramirez/Kim, Stark, Tornow
Join us for an evening of thoughtful, expressive, and bold dance by these four emerging artists. One Space, Three Dances will immerse you into distinct choreographic worlds . . .
MM2 Modern Dance Company
Eight dancers, eight choreographers, ONE WORD. Within our own thoughts, spoken or written, words have the power to transform the world we live in.
Applied Mechanics
From the folks who brought you Portmanteau, comes a dangerous new tale of power, persuasion, and perpendicularity.
Yael Rasooly
From Israel comes an award-winning solo performance. A lonely secretary escapes into a world of daydreams where she is a glamorous 1940s movie star.
Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .
Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . . MORE INFO Philly Fringe
Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . . MORE INFO Philly Fringe
White Box Theatre/Sebastienne Mundheim
Dance puppetry, music, storytelling. . . . Glimpse Paris through the eyes of Henri Rousseau. The Ready-Maids parade the Champs Elysees.
Vada Dance Collective
Experience modern dance, live music and art in an intimate setting with Vada Dance’s Pattern Recognition.
RenZoku Danceworks
Join Guy and his friends as he fights to save the world and defeat the darkness in his heart. Set as a tribute to the popular video game series Final Fantasy . . .
Fresh Blood InMovement Jennifer Morley
Plentiful is a family-fun feast of dance, music, treats, and revelry by choreographers Sara Trindade, Jennifer Morley, Jennifer Schmermund, and KC Chun-Manning.
Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, Olive Prince Dance, Rit M
Wildly interpretive dance (Olive Prince Dance) and experimental musical compositions (Rit Mo Collective) inspired by surrealist writings and dada artworks . . .
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
A sport-stravagant celebration of the larger-than-life spectacle that is professional wrestling (with only some of the wrestling). Philly’s top comedic performers pay homage to . . .
Spiral Q Puppet Theater
All Performances of Qarnival of The People have been cancelled.
Venus Dance Company
Re/live/fe, a new work by Carrie Brzezinski Walsh, MFA, is a comprehensive representation of the human life cycle, physiologically and socially.
Colleen Hooper and Frances Gremillion
Beginning in South Philadelphia’s Bardascino Park, Revolving Spaces uses dance and music to reflect the neighborhood bocce ball court and park’s role in the community.
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
RISK! is an audio podcast and live stage show where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to tell in public! RISK! features some of the brightest actors, writers, and comedians around . . .
Burning Sphere
Have you ever wanted to participate in Philly Fringe? Now is your chance! Burning Sphere is organizing a Dance Flash Mob Performance in Rittenhouse Square and is looking . . .
OMBELICO Mask Ensemble
It’s a commedia show—which means daring feats of comedy in fantastical masks at breakneck speed—set to stompin’ live music in three languages, and all for your enjoyment.
One Percent Productions
The Bible is the greatest book ever written, the source material for two of the world’s largest religions. It is also one of the raunchiest books ever created!
New City Stage Company
Sam Shepard’s companion pieces unfurl in this physical theatrical experience.
The Shaky Shaky Players
1950s sci-fi meets telenovela meets seafood restaurant! The Shaky Shaky Players of PDDC's Cultural Arts Center in collaboration with Emily Schumacher . . .
Amber Womack
In her one-woman show Should I Be Sweet?, which recently had its NYC debut, Amber draws on all of her musical roots and tells the tale of her life's journey to the Big Apple . . .
Center City Opera Theater
CCOT presents a music-workshop of a new opera Slaying the Dragon. Music by Michael Ching; libretto by Ellen Frankel. Based on Not By the Sword by Kathryn Watterson.
Shufra
One of Tel Aviv’s longest running fringe shows. Set in a New Age empowerment workshop, Smiley is a series of sexually-charged monologues that also . . .
Magic Circle Theater Company
Two classics of Gothic horror are brought to the stage in a pair of chilling one-man adaptations by Chris Morse and Josh Hitchens. Lovecraft’s The Statement of Randolph Carter and . . .
Monica Day/The Sensual Life
Deemed a “whore risk” by her father from birth, performance artist Monica Day takes a journey from convents to hotel rooms to find the true essence of the whore she feared.
Glory of the Human Voice
The World’s Worst Opera Singer, Florence Foster Jenkins “screeched to new highs” during her 1944 sold-out Carnegie Hall concert. Although audiences laughed at her . . .
M. Craig Getting & Jillian Taylor
A lone man toils in his room. He needs to build something—a shelter, a tower, a monument—but they all threaten to fall. Exploring the fragile relationship between . . .
Overlap Live
A “New Renissance” is upon us. And it’s misspelled. If only Leonardo had painted the Sistine ceiling pink, he would’ve “brought the bitches.” Who will lead this revolution?
Plays and Players
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superheroes Who Are Super! returning once again with word-for-word staged readings of classic comics featuring the best in low-budget superhero costumes . . .
The Philadelphia Opera Collective
When an innocent girl is seen bathing by local church elders, she becomes the target of traveling, revivalist preacher Olin Blitch.
Diversion Productions
TASK is a hypersexualized Lord of the Flies meets Peanuts. Brutal, honest, and funny, it takes on everything from sex and drugs to coming out, race, teen pregnancy . . .
Tall Grass Productions
A teenage crush explores how digital media fractures the way we communicate, allowing different personas to emerge within relationships. Multitaskers take note!
Mizanty, Weber, Steinberg, Greene, Smith
Choreographers Danielle Greene, Megan Mizanty, Rori Smith, Meredith Steinberg and Becca Weber present a collection of diverse original dance works . . .
Theatre Exile
Two ex-band members introduce a lonely teenager into their world of alienation and rebellion. A night of music, Bukowski, and shrooms.
ETC Theater
It’s Take Your Daughter to Work Day in a very peculiar office: one where Damien and Gabe are working side-by-side to claim the soul of Greg Brady . . .
HomeSkooled Gallery
HomeSkooled encourages you to break some rules and even some art. As a nomadic art space, HomeSkooled rejects the idea that galleries should be boring, judgmental, and hands-off.
Heather Shayne Blakeslee & Sweetbriar Rose
Be read to. Be amused. Be aroused. Beware. Be beguiled as a young woman considers becoming a book, an aviary considers a coup, and the sky considers the difficulty of raining on a dog.
The Theater Cooperative
Unspeakable acts . . . impossible crimes . . . unbearable pleasures. When the gods descend, all bets are off.
The Wooden Spoon Theatre Company
Sonny is in trouble. Sonny thinks a helicopter will be his escape. Sonny is wrong.
Green Light Arts
The Dressing Room is where we reveal ourselves, where we put on the new us and reinvent ourselves.
inVersion Theater
The Obie-award winning show highlights the race issues of the 1960s through a brutal interaction between a black man and a white woman on a New York City subway.
COLO Creations
In The Eros Trilogy, Nicky Silver creates an emotionally electrifying piece that delves into the human experience of sexual awakenings with three short pieces, connecting four characters. Each stands on the precipice of decision between emotional intimacy and pure carnal pleasure as sanctuary from the outside world.
COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Part real estate office, part urban history museum, part covert agency for community change, The Estate of Real reveals "ins" and "outs" of city neighborhoods.
Ocelot on a Leash Theater Company
You are entering a world in which the defining line between black and white fades and you are left to navigate The Gray Area.
Iris Theatre Company
Told through the stories of four ancient Greek myths, The Greek Theatre Project fuses original music, choreography, Motown and soul, original and classic texts, visual art, and live performance . . .
Philadelphia School of Circus Arts
Look up! Philadelphia School of Circus Arts presents a dazzling flight back to 1900s Paris with The Green Fairy Cabaret.
The N Crowd
The N Crowd is a short form improv comedy troupe that has performed weekly in Philadelphia since 2005. Each hilarious scene starts with a suggestion from the audience.
The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective
Director Brenna Geffers tackles history’s first great trilogy—the epic story of a royal family’s downfall.
Group Motion Dance Company
Group Motion presents The Parts and the Whole featuring guest artists Laina Fischbeck , Aura Fischbeck, and Group Motion Company’s new work Whole.
The WaitStaff
The WaitStaff, "Philadelphia's hottest sketch comedy troupe" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), plunges into the Philly Fringe once again! Domenick Scudera directs this . . .
Penn Dixie Alive
Trip into a dark heaven of hysterical and surreal tragedy, inspired by the life of Arthur Rimbaud—rock-poet, gay guru, and gun-smuggler.
G.J. Ruggiero Productions
G.J. Ruggiero Productions presents Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, a comic masterpiece of Commedia dell’Arte theater . . .
The Groundswell Players
Four intergalactic assassins zoom through the void. The target? Just a name. The threat? Unfathomable.
Zacherle
In the wake of last year's experiment in gothic horror, Zacherle rises again to stitch together an exquisite corpse of drama, music, and more . . .
Eric Singel
One wedding is just like another, until The Wedding Consultant from hell takes over, determined to make your wedding unique, just like everybody else’s.
Dark Star Theatre
Black light theatre: a popular, innovative Czech style rarely performed in the States. Dark Star Theatre premieres with a wondrous show to draw Philadelphia into a magical realm . . .
Taylor, Shara
The Wonders of the Galápagos Islands Interactive Reading Program is a reading activity for children to learn about the Galápagos Islands.
S. Ann Johnson
Our genetic structure is 99.9% identical. The rest is just flavor—Chocolate (Black), Vanilla (White), Lemon (Asian), Cinnamon (Indigenous), White Chocolate (Mixed), and Caramel (Latina).
Room6Theatre
Sex, dominance, and race. The Philadelphia premiere of Neil Labute’s provocative comedy/drama grabs you right from the start and stays with you long after you have left the theatre.
Franqui, Leah
Love and loss, time and memory—the fragile beauty of human existence are seen through the eyes of the ghost of a suicide bomber, a grieving couple, a woman at gunpoint, and a department store clerk.
coEXISTdance
How can we measure the value of a view, a moment, or a thought? How can movement portray the depth of human relationships and the mass of life events?
Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater
This ensemble spontaneously performs scenes and monologues inspired by six-word autobiographies anonymously written by the audience.
The Lady Hoofer's Society
It’s ladies night! Tap is back and better than ever when some of Philly’s finest female tap dancers hit the floor. Join us for an evening of live jazz and fierce footwork.
Donna Faye Burchfield
topos topio brings together over a dozen distinctive women artists for four days of live performance curated by Donna Faye Burchfield.
Crack the Glass Theatre Company
It’s everyone’s worst nightmare: high school reunions. In the past ten years, you haven’t had that great job, husband, or kid, and it’s way too late to change that . . . or is it?
Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Each completely improvised performance of twenty-four unfolds in real time, a twenty-four minute window on the realistic relationship dynamics of six individuals.
GDP Productions
Warped, strange, and ruthless in a way conceivable only by the most twisted of prepubescent French minds . . .
Xhale Dance Company
Michael Susten’s Xhale Dance Company is back for its fourth Philly Fringe. His latest work Underneath the Surface shows the different paths one may choose . . .
City Wide Composers Collective
Kanye West claims to be the “Voice of this Generation.” We beg to differ.
Polygon Improv Comedy
Polygon's performances surprise everyone—even the players. Each show grows organically, instantly from a quick, innocent audience interview. Characters climb out of . . .
vonPaco Productions
Surrounded by the embrace of the bar at Bridgid’s (in Fairmount), the blogger Marcus von Brockman wields his influence. The talented actors manage to focus on—everything.
Underground Shakespeare Company
You never knew Shakespeare was all about the hootenanny. This raucous original new musical presents the Bard’s classic tale of a prince’s coming-of-age as it was intended . . .
PuppeTyranny
Is it possible for life to exist in the vacuum of space? Join a team of scientists, puppets, musicians, and dry aquatic invertebrates as they search for the answer.
Salena Braun, Claire Lutz and Katherine Paulson
Water inspires this evening of dance. Three choreographers examine water’s physical and intuitive qualities in works that integrate movement with text, music, and visual media.
IdRatherBeHere
Come watch us turn lemonade into lemons in this annual deconstructive comedy whose subjects include baseball fans, college kids, new parents, the Apple store, lame bachelor parties . . .
Lacy James/Mereminne Dancers
Traveling through Washington Square Park where hundreds of Revolutionary War soldiers rest, our dance reflects on political polarization and the struggle for democratic ideals.
Out On A Limb Movement Collective
Within each blink of time, one lies idle while another lies in despair. Yet our heartbreaking human experiences collide in the blaring silence of movement.
The Maeko Film Project
Seventeen interviews, two elephants, some dancers, and some whiskey. Combining film and movement, The Maeko Film Project presents a surreal journey . . .
Joseph Thomas
From the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) emerges a rare expression of the "dance of darkness."
Secret Room Theatre
From our cell phones to double red-eye shots of espresso to ticking time bombs, the writers and producers behind past Philly Fringe hits 4Play and Dirty Laundry get “wired.”
Homunculus Inc.
What happens when the children of our war-ravaged future force the outcast amidst their ranks to act as Woyzeck, an abused soldier suffering from apocalyptic visions, in their imagination games?
The Porch Room
One woman. One man. So many possibilities. Join award winning theatre company The Porch Room for an evening of three short plays . . .
Xtreme Folk Scene
Three plus hours of fast, dirty fun involving four minute sets, four second set changes, fifty five artists on one stage, and a Philly-sized dose of complete mayhem.
Rose Ping Productions
Namaste. Welcome to a theatre in the round production of six humorous and heart-opening yoga stories . . .
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1412 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19110
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