Healthcare is A Human Right!
“There is nothing more wildly expensive and wasteful than our current for-profit healthcare system. Private health insurers price gouge, defraud taxpayers, and deprive patients of care at every level. We deserve #MedicareforAll.” —Ady Barkan, attorney, healthcare activist and co-founder of the Be a Hero PAC (Died November 1, 2023 due to complications of ALS) If you find yourself wanting to talk, rant, cry, and scream about all the things wrong…
Haute Glue
Haute Glue, a razzle-dazzle exhibition by Rose Luardo, is creaming and bulging with new sculptural works, performance art, video installations, and a revolving door of live performances by her chosen family (Andrew Jeffrey Wright, The Incredible Shrinking Matt and Jacquie, McDazzler, and other siccc floozies around town). Throughout September, The Fairmount House will be transformed into a space that is part clubhouse, part stage, and part hot, wet, American, fever…
Happy To Be Here!
Compulsive vaudevillian and international romantic Hans Lieberdich wants to bring curiosity and spontaneity back to the circus, and his own life. Pushing the limits of acrobatics, manipulation, and teutonic comedy, Hans digs deep while balancing atop precarious objects and extended metaphors. Hans had to travel from his native Germany to a new continent, to a land that shared his absurd, possibly fatal, level of optimism to create a new variety arts….
Happy Hour on the City’s Edge
Raise a glass with the Walk Around Philadelphia community – we’ll be 3/4 of the way through our fall perimeter-walk cycle! For veteran walkers, it’s a well-earned opportunity to swap border tales, reconnect with fellow walkers, and reflect on what you discovered through your explorations of the city’s edge. For curious newcomers, it’s the perfect low-key gateway into the project: meet people who’ve set out to explore the city border, browse route maps and photos,…
Growing Pains
Growing Pains as an ode to all of the people we become in the many lives we live. Join 7 black bodied artists as they focus on where they’re going and remember where they’ve been. Relatable? Maybe, but as humans we can all relate to feelings of joy, pain, curiosity, restlessness and pride.
Grape Culture
Internet Sensation and comedian Toni Nagy and performance artist Seraphina Supernova, are bringing you their show, “Grape Culture,” – a tragic-comedy stripping back the cultural bondage of domination without consent. “Grape Culture,” which received rave reviews at both the Hollywood and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, embodies the thrusting energy of comedy while also being penetrated by dance, film, storytelling, clowning, stand up, and skits. Toni and Seraphina will pervert the pretty…
Grant
Discover, as he does, what it means to be a clown. Several acts, ranging from professionally toured to barely conceived, flow from one to the other. There is a missing show cat, the world’s greatest tumbler, a less-than-refreshing drink, and a fatal drawing so far. Does a theme emerge? Come and see! He is a clown for a sophisticated and loyal public of traditional theater enthusiasts by a dreaming writer-creator…
Gilgamesh
Gilgameshadapted by Charlie Bethelperformed by John Heimbuchdirected by Amy Rummenie Charlie Bethel’s one person version of Gilgamesh brings forth the friendship, adventure, and thoughtfulness of this ancient Sumerian epic, through his friendship with a hairy wildman, the battle with the Bull of Heaven, the Tale of the Great Flood, and the quest for immortality! From the artist behind last year’s solo version of Beowulf. 55 minutes, no intermission. Warning: Gilgamesh contains…
Get It Together
Get It Together follows Mary Hewitt, an aspiring poet from Conshohocken on the cusp of her life, as she falls for and rages against Harold Kruger, her Main Line paramour she just can’t figure out. Set across two nights two years apart, the romantic comedy follows the pair through heartbreak and anxious desire as they question: What the hell is wrong with my family? Do cheaters ever quit? And who will…
Genetics
Genetics is a dance presentation that unveils the genetic blueprint of my existence. Through storytelling , I trace the lineage of my ancestors and elders, revealing how their choices, spirits, and experiences shaped the essence of who I am today. This journey begins three generations back, decoding the DNA that lives within me—uncovering inherited traits, ancestral wisdom, and the silent imprints through navigating the generational curses, blessings and lessons of…
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