“#Me, Too . . . You”
Eleven years ago, the members Exclamation Theater, Inc. began discussing the theater potential of the courtroom saga and individual narratives that might come out of a consideration of the campus rape of an unconscious person on the West Coast. After myriad drafts and table-readings, we have jointly finalized our creative interpretation, “#At Me, Too . . . You,” to be presented at Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave., Philadelphia on…
The Gay Divorce
Get in, loser, we’re getting divorced! From the twisted mind of sad award-winning clown Cecilia Corrigan comes a nightmare romcom set in a haunted house of gay wedding planning, bitcrunched horror tropes, and Barbie-doll playhouse rituals. Do you crave safety while everything collapses? You want to kill the pain but keep it cute? You wanna fEeL sAFe & SUcCessFuL and validaTED? You want to watch the patriarchy haunt girl-on-girl action…
Crush
Part love letter, part absurdist caper, and part cultural satire, CRUSH is a solo dance-comedy show for anyone who’s ever had a crush. Come relive the most agonizingly-heartbreakingly-ecstatically-disorienting moments of your life!
Free Fringe Pop-Ups at Studio 34
Studio 34, West Philly’s Fringe Hub, presents a panoply of free performances popping up throughout the Festival. Nighttime musical acts lead into a variety of pay-what-you-can shows featured in this year’s Philly Fringe, and a daytime dance series with Jungwoong Kim will be followed by tea and conversation in Studio 34’s Lounge. See below for dates and descriptions, and check this page weekly for more pop-ups! Pictured: Hudson River at…
Philly Fringe Busking
Catch Philly Fringe artists performing at iconic Philly destinations Reading Terminal Market and Cherry Street Pier. These short, informal presentations are a great way to get to know some of this year’s Fringe artists. View the lineup below, or just stop by for fun artistic pop-ups and festival surprises.
CANCELED: BalletX Pop-Up
This show has been canceled. Stay tuned for future BalletX Pop-Ups @ Fringe! BalletX celebrates the start of its 20th Anniversary at the venue that started it all! BalletX performed its first-ever show with the Fringe Festival in 2006. The company returns for a free community Pop-Up on the FringeArts patio, featuring a vibrant mix of repertory including excerpts from Gregory Dawson’s Sojourner (2025), Noelle Kayser’s Scales on the Wings…
Cannonball 2025 Extension Programming
Workshops! Panels ! Discussions ! Secret pop up performances! Cabaret Nights! Curious? Come see what’s blooming just outside the spotlight. Check our website https://www.cannonballfestival.org/extension-programming for full info on all events. PROGRAM: September 17th a sad lil song, a gay lil dance – 7:00pm / Icebox September 19th Jeu Gymnasium- 3:00pm / AAI Black Box Theater On Deck! Preview Cabaret Nights by Cannonball!!- 9:30pm AAI Storefront September 20th Lola’s Insta Live…
THEATRICAL CREATION {ALL YOU WILL EVER NEED TO KNOW} IN 1 HOUR MASTERCLASS
Dive into the devised process that Phillip’s employs to create original theater based on Lawrence and Anna Halprin’s R.S.V.P. cycles. This process and technique can be used to turn any resource into a spring board for theatrical creation in which the set can be the script, the script a prop, the lights & music the actors and actors the set. Included will be a run down in ‘Action Scene Design’…
Radical Friends: Fostering Cooperative Play and The Gameful Revolution
Radical Friends: Fostering Cooperative Play and The Gameful Revolution, a workshop with Patrick Blenkarn! Join Patrick Blenkarn, one of the core artists behind the video game for the stage, asses.masses, for a masterclass on critical games and interdisciplinary performance creation. How might interactive technologies, experience design, and radical hospitality be the key to shaping the future of storytelling and the crucial role(s) that stories will play in shaping contemporary life?…
Listen to Me: The Women of the Bible Speak Out
Cordelia Frances Biddle’s Listen to Me: The Women of the Bible Speak Out – a workshop production of a play with music – explores well-known and lesser-known ancient scripture stories through a contemporary, feminist lens. Irreverent, often scathing, and full of crackling wit, the play offers a new, unapologetic vision of an old story. Monologues by a radicalized, time-travelling Eve, a nonbinary and initially defensive God, a pragmatic Ruth and…
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