Carnival of Feelings
Come play at the Carnival of Feelings! Our simple games encourage you to explore your big feelings about love, grief and change. It’s a semi-private performance guided by our Carnival Barkers (definitely not real therapists). It’s like an old-timey carnival, but each game booth invites you to explore your emotions. It will be silly. It might be healing. You will both win and lose. And you will get a reward….
Caribbean King
Caribbean King is a de-colonial, trans-gressive, adaptive confrontation with Shakespeare’s King Lear in which Cord(elia) fights to survive against a catastrophic hurricane barreling towards his family’s resort, and his hotelier father’s unshakeable belief that he is a daughter, not a son. A love letter to found family and queer community building, the play features a chorus of drag performers who play the role of the hurricane, and has Black, Queer,…
Can You Feel It? The Performative Dance Show
Can You Feel It? The Performative Dance Show reveals the human connection between music and dance. Movement is essential for living, and rhythm has been grounding us since hearing our mother’s heartbeat to the steps we take each day. In the midst of my research and training in hip hop culture and street dance styles, I noticed the disconnection music and dance have in the commercial/popular dance space. Though, in…
Bye Buddy: The Game Show Where Friendships Fail for Good!
Bye, Buddy A dark comedy game show about the messiest breakups of all: friendships. Bye, Buddy is an interactive performance that dives into the often-ignored emotional terrain of ending friendships. Inspired by the high-energy format of The Price is Right, the show turns the painful and awkward experience of platonic breakups into a series of chaotic, hilarious, and sometimes devastating games. Guided by two dynamic hosts, audience members are brought…
Border Impressions: printmaking w/ Walk Around Philadelphia @ S34
Explore the city’s edge — and the art of printmaking — in one creative session hosted by Walk Around Philadelphia. We’ll use letterpress prinmaking to overlay Philadelphia’s border over top of the land and water of the Delaware Watershed, revealing how our human-defined boundaries interact with the landscapes beneath them. This quick and easy family-friendly activity is a great way to learn about Walk Around Philadelphia‘s explorations of the city’s edge and our…
Body By September: alongside the dog and other important things
Body By September: alongside the dog and other important things is an intimate solo dance work stitched from silly songs, knit goods, private rituals, and low-stakes spectacle. Set in a domestic dreamscape, it plays with softness as a survival spell—part self-soothing, part storytelling. A layered collage of memory, sensation, and absurd detail, the piece offers a gentle refusal of urgency, usefulness and perfection. It’s a kind of rebellion: tender, strange,…
Bodies of Water
Meet The Naked Stark at Fairmount Water Works! Our 10th annual community gathering offers a glimpse into our process and sneak peek into our 2026 production. Dive into an exploration of water, time and space celebrating the site’s architecture, and the mosaic of memories in the former Kelly Pool. Bodies of Water co-creators, Amalia Colón-Nava, Chloe Marie, Harlee Trautman, Katherine Kiefer Stark, Marcie Mamura, and Meredith Stapleton, navigate the interplay…
BIPOC Improv House Team
Sawubona Creativity Project first Improv House Team is making their official debut — and they’re coming in hot. This all-BIPOC squad is serving up hilarious, off-the-cuff improv comedy, with electric energy, razor-sharp timing, and undeniable chemistry, these performers deliver bold stories, big laughs, and unapologetic joy every time they step on stage. Born out of Sawubona Creativity Project — a theatre rooted in storytelling, social-emotional learning, and community — this…
Bicycle Shorts Film Festival
BSFF 2025 is bigger than ever, with 3 blocks of bike-themed films from across the globe. Highlights include a Spanish documentary about a paralympic cyclist, a stop-motion romance between bikes, and a gritty drama set in Philly’s BMX wheelie culture. For a full schedule visit yellowbicycle.com/bsff.
Best Cult Ever
Lifelong Mormon housewife turned standup comedian, Leah Renee gets so many questions about her former faith so she made this show for anyone who loved Book of Mormon musical and is ready for a second helping of silly songs, raucous music and deep cut Mormon trivia traditionally only found in the darkest corners of the ex-Mo subreddit. Put on your magic underwear and come for the silliest hour about Mormonism…
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