Alternative Theatre Festival 2023
Alternative Theatre Festival is a collection of short, experimental pieces written and directed by students at the University of Pennsylvania.
All My Little Words
Are you an artist? Or a person who’s made things? Or a human who has failed at something? Have you ever thought “I’m afraid of being an artist who doesn’t make art”? ALL MY LITTLE WORDS looks at what it means to fail at art. Or what it’s like to be afraid of failing at art. Which is to say, what it means to be an artist – though that…
Alas, Confederates
Greytown, Nicaragua. 1899. An old Rebel general pens his Civil War memoirs. Using a local girl as his stenographer, the recollections come easily, until the writing session when he tries to remember the third day at Gettysburg. This is the final play from the Trilogy of the Confederacy, written by Virginia playwright James F. Bruns. First came, Confederates (2016) reviewed by DC METRO ARTS writing, “If you are a Civil War…
Add To Cart
Add To Cart is a 45 minute duo circus show, exploring themes of overconsumption, capitalism, minimalism, and the choices we make, both knowingly and unknowingly, in the human pursuit of happiness. The show features ground skills such as: partner acrobatics, dance, and balance work, centered around two shopping carts used as innovative ground apparatuses. With bright colors, a lot of costume changes, and some deep inner work to unlearn our…
Bowie in Berlin: Sound and Vision
The next generation of rock stars are joined on stage by cabaret legends Red 40, Johnny Showcase, Jess Conda, and Lex Thammavong to pay homage to David Bowie, sharing the sound and vision of his famed Berlin Trilogy. This special event will feature 28 songs from all three of Bowie’s Berlin Albums — Low (1977), “Heroes” (1977) and Lodger (1979) — performed by Philly’s cabaret icons alongside students aged 10-18 from the Paul Green Rock Academy. From a…
xxJAMxx
xxJAMxx is a performance score in four parts. The score is the collaborative dreaming of angel, jonathan, and marguerite written in 2021. xxJAMxx was/is meant to antagonize, sift, distribute, make something else of our personal practices and values… all the while colliding into one another, improvisationally. xxJAMxx finds ways of moving, sounding, being, that attends to the preposterous task of performing and being Black. angel, jonathan, and marguerite move through…
Why Can’t We Be Fringe?: Comedy Show
Tata Sherise (The Drew Barrymore Show, Gotham Comedy Club), Marcus Lavar (Kevin Hart’s L.O.L Network, Helium Philadelphia Comedy Club), and Mel Harris (Atlantic City Comedy Club, Punchline Philly) are three rising stars in the world of comedy. These talented Philly comics are coming together to deliver laughs as they tackle topics ranging from relationships, politics and everything in between.
You Me Future Now
Los Angeles native Brian Shapiro is a musician, performer, and educator. Shapiro’s work is about transformation and the will to create a more grounded and meaningful life. Through multiple genres, he explores the struggle to hold on to one’s convictions in the face of growing up in a world filled with smoke and no mirrors. Shapiro dismantles anger and disappointment piece by piece, rearranging it into something far more constructive….
Wig Wag
Welcome to Wig Wag: an assemblage of humans, a community choir gone off the rails, a creature with many smaller creatures inside. You are invited to soften the sharp borders around your separate self. Or not! Emily Bate — composer, community songleader and choral conductor — blends deeply accessible, participatory music for the audience, with stunning vocal acrobatics performed by a 4 person cast. Take a singing tour through the thick…
Adam Sandler Jury Duty
Do you love Adam Sandler? Do you hate Adam Sandler? Do you know who Adam Sandler is? If you answered yes, this is the show for you. You and 11 other “recently deceased” audience members arrive at the agnostically ambiguous afterlife, only to be immediately slapped with a jury summons. Yuck! Who’s on the stand? Actor and comedian Adam Sandler, of course. Over the course of the trial, lawyers both…
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