Irina learns guitar and songwriting
Proceed at your own risk. The performer has like 4.5 months of experience and originally set up this public showing as an accountability thing. Also she’d really like to sit outside by the fire with you and yak about inconvenient dreams, pleasure, public failure, and the unknown. Will it be a disaster? Maybe! An audience of only 8 people per show will have a chance to find out.
Ghost Town: The Musical – A Concept Album
Olive lives in Mars, Nebraska, mourning the death of her mother. She and her girlfriend plan to move halfway across the country – until Olive encounters her town’s ghosts, preserved only by the slivers of memory others possess of them. Olive finds herself stuck between uncovering the past and moving forward in life, wondering – Is honoring the memory truly enough if you’re not still there to relive it? …
Extree! Extree! Comedy Inspired By the News
Extree! Extree! Read all about it! Comedy show discusses the news of the week and improvises hilarious scenes inspired by it! News articles and videos are presented to the cast who will be seeing them for the first time. Get caught up on the latest goings on of this big blue marble and have a laugh with some of Philly’s best improvisers! Features a core of regular performers and guests…
Home in the Dark
Light falls on sparkling entrails. Insides exposed. We were here before, no? Maybe it is the feeling of home, love, and ecstasy seeping through porous walls. The memory of touch, of holding and pushing floods over us. Our sweat merges at the same rate that the past yields to the present. How did we sustain ourselves? Shannon Murphy and collaborators share a rich 4-year history of practice. Using a biomimetic…
Incredible Dreamz Presents: Friendship Movie Club II
Incredible Dreamz Presents: Friendship Movie Club 6 is a site-specific performance piece that revives the intimacy of the VHS movie experience. The cast will share their rented movies (written, directed, and starring the cast of Incredible Dreamz) with new friends in the comfort of their homes. This show is the second iteration of Friendship Movie Club and the cast will be showing a series of films they created throughout the…
Happy Hour
Come as you are. Drink it in. Dance. Happy Hour is an improvised, immersive performance piece from Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. Sensing, feeling, listening, queering, climbing, balancing, and weaving, an ensemble of acrobats, dancers, and fools combine childlike curiosity, playfulness and wonder to challenge an adult world too full of unspoken rules and stubborn habits. This is our hour to be happy — whatever that means. Or at least try. Can…
Healing+
Think about them. “Proving himself to be a comedian of significant talent.” – Theatre Is Easy. Two local comedians will open each show. Tickets are $15 plus a one drink minimum.
How Many Times
As a result of this pandemic, each of us have had our structures dismantled to wildly different degrees; while some have adjusted by staying the same, others have completely reinvented the structure of their day-to-day. We are presenting a digital experience that considers the cycle of breaking and re-adapting, thinking about what it looks and feels like to move towards new or revert to old structures and forms within ourselves.
Honky Tonkin’ – A Country Music Show
Yeehaw!!! Pounds of sequins, yards of fringe and really big hair! This lil’ ol’ shindig puts the hoot in hootenanny and the jam in jamboree with classic retro hits from Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Hank Williams and many more! And – Dang it! – the critics sure do love REV as much as a cowboy loves his horse- “Superb!” Philadelphia Inquirer “Exhilarating and imaginative… ” Philadelphia Weekly “The…
How Gilbert and Sullivan got us through lockdown!
“How Gilbert and Sullivan got us through lockdown!” Is a humorous look at a difficult time, sung by seasoned G&S performers who can tell you how the wit, humor and sheer beauty of Gilbert and Sullivan’s music is just what the doctor called for!
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