Perimeter Printmaking w/ Walk Around Philadelphia
Kick off the fall Walk Around Philadelphia season with a hands-on printmaking experience at Cherry Street Pier! Join us on First Friday, September 5th from 4–9pm to create your own hand-printed map of the Delaware River watershed and Philadelphia’s city border. Drop in anytime during the evening to pull a one-of-a-kind print to take home. It’s FREE & only takes a few minutes! This family-friendly participatory art event is part…
Pennsylvania Semiconscious Liberation Army
Pennsylvania Semiconscious Liberation Army is an immersive civics experiment in our public square, dancing on the edge of sedition. The audience will be presented with a sequence of ethical dilemmas, and ‘vote with their feet’ by physically moving towards or away from increasingly polemic positions. This will reveal an emergent choreography of tolerance and resistance, like iron filings along the magnetic field of our invisible national mores. Part leftist struggle…
Penis Envy
Monologist, English teacher, and writer Becky Bondurant sets out to excavate her internalized misogyny. Threading her personal coming-of-age narrative through a Freudian needle, Bondurant weaves from eating disorders and female orgasms to circumcision and breastfeeding against a backdrop of American political crisis. The Broad Street Review’s Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer called Penis Envy “the best kind of monologue show: finely crafted and intimately inhabited,” when it ran as part of the 2024…
Painting Churches by Tina Howe
Described as “… beautifully written… a theatrical family portrait that has the shimmer and depth of Renoir portraits… ” by The New York Times, Tina Howe’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play is a provocative exploration of the parent-child relationship, art and aging. The IRC production features Kirsten Quinn as Mags Church, the successful artist and daughter of Fanny and Gardner Church, who returns home with a life-changing announcement to the chaos…
Owen Corey and James Ofalt Punch Each Other in the Dick Until One Submits, Again, Again
Philadelphia actors Owen Corey and James Ofalt will punch each other in the dick until one submits.
OverWorld!
PlayCharacter wakes up in an unknown flat world lush with green and natural resources as far as the eye can see. They don’t know who they are, but they have one instinct: to build. And mine. And maybe even craft. Follow PlayCharacter through OverWorld! as they let their heart guide them on a zany adventure through a world, not so different from a popular block based mining videogame, as we…
CANCELED: Once! An Improvised Tale
This show has been canceled. Once! An Improvised Tale is an imaginative and highly interactive theatrical experience designed especially for children and families. At its heart, this unique show is a co-creation between performers and the audience. Guided by the spontaneous ideas, suggestions, and wild imaginations of young audience members, a troupe of talented improvisers crafts an entirely original fairy tale—live, and unscripted. Unlike traditional theatre where the script is…
Nothing But Roaring
Nothing but Roaring is an improvised Shakespeare comedy! The troupe spontaneously creates a complete narrative, with a hero, villain and comic subplot that ends in a climactic final scene. Taking inspiration from long-form improv and commedia dell’arte, the show mashes up the best of the Bard!
CANCELED: Not Without Right
This show has been canceled. Shakespeare sits in his script-, costume- and prop-strewn attic amending his Will, when his Muse magically materialises. ‘Why are you here?’ She points to the audience. ‘I’ve come to prove to them you wrote the plays.’ ‘How?’ ‘By getting you to reveal where you “signed them”.’ ‘Screw you.’ What follows is a heart-warming, at times tragic, often heated debate between them – the Muse hurling…
Not Only Blue
Come join us at the altar where. joy and grief meet. “Not Only Blue” invites audience members to collectively hold the question of how to exist in a world that feels impossible. This is a ritual meets perfomance meets clowning meets magic-making. There will be opportunities for audience members to speak, but it is not requirement to do anything but witness.
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