An Artist Conversation
With a new album on the horizon, the Brian Shapiro Band showcases not just their musicianship, but their journey as artists. This universal messaging about what it is to be an artist will be front and center in this docu-story, An Artist Conversation. A performing artist since 1995, band founder Brian Shapiro shares his peripatetic artistic journey. Focusing on the trails, tribulations, roadblocks, and successes of making art, this deeply…
Alternative Theatre Festival
Alternative Theatre Festival Shows 2021: Once Upon A – Ever feel fixated on figuring out the meaning of a honeybun? Me neither. I would call this world a dystopia, but that assumes there is a system of meaningful suffering, but this play resides in themeaningless. No choices. Just words. Fun words. However, when the inhabitants bear witness to the story of Adam and Eve, they embark on a journey to…
Alexithymia
We follow the journey of Friend, a lost being who cannot understand their emotions, which has to their confusion caused their body to fragment. They need help in finding their way back to themselves. In order to learn the ways in which “we” feel, they will go on a sensorial exploration via the interaction of some new folks they meet along the way, in order to explore how our minds,…
Artifacts of No Consequence
Every act of remembering changes the memory. How do we see ourselves, when the most often-remembered stories become the most changed?Artifacts of No Consequence is an interactive exploration and solo show. It takes place in the Cottage at the Maas building, placed in a real, live bedroom, with a bed and everything. You’ll have to walk behind the kitchen to get to it. In this show, the audience is invited…
Adjust The Procedure
It’s early Fall 2020 and the pandemic consumes a Manhattan university. In addition to tracking rising cases of COVID on campus, the school’s administrators face immigration problems, suicide threats, and professors losing their minds. But in the midst of all the madness, it’s the internal bureaucratic battles that threaten the school’s preservation. Over the course of two conflict-ridden Zoom meetings, ADJUST THE PROCEDURE gives audiences a rare peek into the…
Alcina REVAMPED
Alter Ego Chamber Opera (AECO) is an emerging, Philadelphia-based chamber opera company which performs new and reimagined operatic works, endeavoring to serve as a catalyst for change, bringing intimate, experimental opera theatre to the region, and challenging the boundaries of the operatic artform. Alcina REVAMPED brings Handel’s original baroque opera to life with a brand new English adaptation by Alize Francheska Rozsnyai, embracing themes of LGBTQ+ identity and love, magic,…
A Patchwork of Stories for GrownUps
Patchwork: A Storytelling Guild presents A Patchwork of Stories for Grown Ups, featuring an eclectic mix of tales and tellers for story-lovers everywhere on Saturday, September 25 @ 7 PM EST. According to Denise McCormack, president of Patchwork, “Storytellers traditionally tell to live and intimate audiences, but we’re delighted to be able to bring our stories, with all of their integrity and charm, right into people’s homes. It’s thrilling to see that…
#txtshow (on the internet)
Nearing the end of a 12-country, 35-city, 175-show virtual world tour (during a global pandemic), performance artist Brian Feldman (Dishwasher, VFF, Wawa® Shabbawa) brings his critically acclaimed, award-winning project back to the Philadephia Fringe Festival for “An experience unlike anything in live theater.” – DC Metro Theater Arts This crowdsourced, immersive, multiscreen performance features a mysterious character named txt (pronounced “text”) who recites a script written anonymously in real-time by YOU! It’s…
11 Years at the Fringe
Take a trip down memory lane and see the mixed media works on paper made by Linda Dubin Garfield from the 11 years she did Fringe Shows and also see the wonderful works created by participants at the workshops at The Book Trader over the years. Some of the topics where of particular importance to women but many appealed to all. Join us on Thursday, September 9, 6-9 PM for…
10 Recalling-20
Come watch, 10 Recalling-20, a choreographic duet inspired by stories collected from individuals’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 virus has caused a worldwide pause, forcing people to sit with the unknown. During this reflection period, the idea arose to create a dance work about how other individuals’ lives have been affected by this virus. Although COVID-19 is the overarching theme, it’s the stories from the individuals that are…
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