Upline: It’s Not a Show, It’s an Opportunity
Welcome to the party, future Boss Babes! Come travel the glamorous world of Varmon – the multi-level marketing beauty empire that has the best skincare products around and is also an irresistible business opportunity. Varmon is your ticket to Eternal Youth and Financial Freedom!* Upline is the recent winner of both the Audience Pick and Critics’ Choice awards in the Atlanta Fringe, as well as the Artist Pick for Encore…
Walk Around Philadelphia 2023 Exhibit Closing Festivities
September 23rd is the last chance to catch the Walk Around Philadelphia 2023 exhibit upstairs at Cherry Street Pier! This exhibit features images from the city’s edge created by artists who’ve set out to explore the city’s border on foot alongside other work inspired by walking and additional documentation of the project. Join us 5-7 for a happy hour closing event Stop by anytime 11am-11pm to catch the show before…
Whore’s Eye View by Kaytlin Bailey
Whore’s Eye View is a 75-minute mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex worker’s perspective. Equal parts history lecture, stand up comedy, and personal storytelling, Kaytlin Bailey masterfully unpacks the age-old stigma surrounding the oldest profession. Her eye-opening performance weaves together compelling facts from history and hard won wisdom from lived experience, with comedic flair.
Good Person
Are you a good little boy? A sweet baby girl? Patricia! Is rich, she’s white, and shes a Good Person. In the world of social justice, social media, callout culture and snowflakes, everyones looking and everyones good. But who is really good and who gets to decide? In this sharp and biting satire, Patricia! Will hold your nose, open your throat and give you the dose of goodness you deserve.
Good Bones
“Any decent realtor… goes on about ‘good bones’… You could make this place beautiful.” How do you refurbish the “good bones” of your life? A 74-year-old gay artist, four decades sober, looks back on his journey. With humor and confessional honesty, he connects the life events — first love to the AIDs epidemic to a bout with clinical depression to caring for his father — that finally bring him home,…
GO AHEAD
Have you ever pondered whether live-band karaoke and screaming songs about heartbreak can really change your life? GO AHEAD is a homily soaked in tequila and Modelos that playfully explores catharsis, identity, and claiming your voice through autobiographical story-telling and live music. GO AHEAD premiered at the 2022 Philadelphia Fringe Festival at Christ Church Neighborhood House. The experience simulates a live pub event by incorporating an actual *open-mic where artists can…
Girl Pain
Join Olivia Backal-Balik and their friends as they preview Olivia’s unreleased first album Girl Pain through two intimate performances, featuring Sasha Avanov on guitar and drums, Clara Babbott-Ward on bassoon, guitar and vocals, Olivia Backal-Balik on keys and vocals, Lainey Bein on bass and vocals, Rodrick Boyd Edwards on vocals, Aathira Chennat on vocals, Hongdou Ge on keys, Gabe Miller on violin and vocals, Alice Hospitel on visuals, Zach Tridico…
CANCELED: Gaslighting: The Musical!
This show has been canceled. Step right up to the Narcis-Circus! Behold the Ringmaster as she blends cabaret, stand-up, storytelling, & circus all while unraveling an unforgettable tale of gaslighting. Created by Brooke McCarthy, the award-winning writer of How to be an Ethical Slut, this enlightening one-woman musical comedy exposes the darker side of relationships. Inspired by Brooke’s own journey from darkness to light, she fearlessly delves into the realms…
CANCELED: Garbage Jam
This show has been canceled. Garbage Jam is a neurotic clown-fantasia about mental health. In this Beckettian devised junkyard – Joseph, a bruised ego, struggles to leave their invisible kitchen, an AI assistant dreams of being a singer and a garbage gremlin drums on buckets and licks trash. Despite their seemingly alien differences, the three find their realities metaphysically-linked through relics of Joseph’s past. Garbage Jam welcomes audiences to view…
Funkokomo
Do you like funky? Hot tubbin’ with your hot cuzzin’ vibes. Jucuzzin’ with your favorite ‘coozins. Featuring bikini line bumps, bumpin’ lines off bikini bums, and the dangers of shaving. We all die together. We all resurrect together. Welcome to Door City. Dorsel Fin City. Infinitely. A new work that illuminates the absurdity of cruise ships, orange traffic cones, the falsities that we believe, and the false prophets we follow….
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