If Blood Is Thicker Than Water Swim In It
In the wake of their father’s death, siblings Warren and Rochelle find themselves back in their childhood home with a box of ashes. In the foreground sits the question of what to do with their father’s remains. But in the background, decades of unspoken truths, grief, and healing lie in slumber as everyone and everything inches ever so slowly towards a reckoning generations in the making. There is a special…
I Killed Andy Breitbart
I Killed Andy Breitbart is an absurdly funny solo-show that tells the true story of how the far right tried to use a small Chicago theater company to torpedo the re-election of President Barack Obama. The play shines a light on how easy it is for an ordinary person to become the temporary focus of social media’s spin and misperceptions. This play is a reminder that we have a voice, both individually and collectively, and that…
I Found That the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow
Anna Snapp boldly shares the deeply personal, painful, and earth-shattering details of her long-term battle with chronic disease, mental illness, and sexual trauma in “one of the bravest performances [I] have seen in a long time.” (“I Found That the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow is a Brave Emotional Rollercoaster” – All About Solo). Snapp takes the audience through her atypical and agonizing coming-of-age story through the lens of being a…
i don’t have the right words for it yet
An investigation into artistic “hustle culture,” self worth, and the potentiality of lifecycles, i don’t have the right words for it yet examines the nature of performance through the world’s greatest shapeshifter: the frog. Through puppetry, movement, storytelling, and song, Shuron weaves a deft web, asking the audience and artist to question their role in performance. Madeline Shuron is a participant in Philly Fringe Postcards, peer-to-peer review experiment created for…
I Am Going To Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes)
I’m Going to Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes) is a highly improvisational original work by Lochlan MacLean and February Schneck. The show asks its audience to assist The Figure in uncovering exactly who they are and what their life was all about. Together, they unpack the many mysteries and traumas of life, identity, and what it means to die, all while enjoying the subpar delights of some…
How I Learned (Not) To Drive
“(How I Learned (NOT) To Drive)…a fabulous piece of live theater. Jesse’s expressions and delivery are outstanding, bringing vulnerability, humor, and energy to the story. It is an immensely relatable story of trauma, loneliness, love, and overcoming fear, and his performance makes it impossible to not become completely invested in the story.” – Broadway World How I Learned (NOT) To Drive, directed by Indie Theatre Hall of Fame director Padraic…
CANCELED: Hourglass
This show has been canceled. Hourglass is a meditation on the perception of time – an existential and performative tool kit for a softer relationship to the ticking clock. Performed and created by Luther Bangert, Hourglass is a one hour solo contemporary juggling show centered around a suspended, swinging hourglass – open, trailing curtains of sand across the stage. Throughout the show the passage of time and our ways of…
hog ranch, hogwash, or putting lipstick on a pig
hog ranch, hogwash, or putting lipstick on a pig is a genre-bending performance that blends dance, theater, and puppetry to unravel the American frontier myth—its grit, glamour, contradictions, and ghosts. Inspired by the lives and legends of cowgirls and showgirls, it invites audiences into a dusty dreamscape where history blurs with fantasy and truth smells faintly of gunpowder and greasepaint. Set somewhere between a saloon, a sideshow, and a shadowy…
CANCELED: Henry Box Brown history tour
This show has been canceled. In 1849 Henry Brown mailed himself in a box to Philadelphia and successfully escaped slavery. Go on a history tour in Germantown and learn the story! Passmore Williamson will lead you on a walk through abolitionist history, where you will get to see the box and the man who mailed himself to freedom! Tour will not happen in the rain. You can bring your ticket…
Helpful Hints for Strength and Health for Busy People
“We are living in times that demand more and more of our nerves and physical energy, of our brains and muscles. Only those that are strong, and know how to keep so, can stand the wear and tear.” Rhonda is 69 year old Black woman. Ben is a 35 year old queer Jewish man. How can they even the score? As Ben teaches Rhonda acrobatics, and Rhonda teaches Ben how…
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