About Ready
Ready About! Prepare to Tack! Batten down the hatches, hearties works-in-progress are About Ready. Hey, it’s been a year, or two — and some ideas found the time and space to make it to full-length fruition, while others… aren’t quite there yet. Why shouldn’t they be in the fringe? Featuring short works, excerpts of new performances and ideas that don’t fit anywhere else, About Ready is the place to go to…
Animation Nation III
The Women’s Film Festival (September 16-26th), is excited to present our 3rd Fringe Festival program “Animation Nation III”. A compilation of animated films featuring a range of styles and topics. From the colorful & heartwarming “Luz” to the dark, harrowing world of “Incidents” we give you a taste of our best in animation.
Alice
Alice: not your child’s WonderlandAdapted by Dane Eissler & Jenna KuerziDirected by Dane Eissler You are invited to the party of a lifetime at a lavish estate along the Delaware River. As festivities devolve into debaucherous bacchanalia, Alice and her older sister hide from the adults, comforted by a familiar bedtime story. The two worlds clash and fuse into a topsy-turvy Wonderland as they seek out safety in a world…
10 x 10 – Walk Around Philadelphia
Where can you find a superfund toxic waste site next to a graveyard? Or a meat processing plant alongside an abandoned graffiti-covered pier? Pipelines, prisons, parks and… cows? On the perimeter of Philadelphia, of course. Walk Around Philadelphia invites you to discover the city by walking its edges. You can join a scheduled group, organize your own, or participate in the October 3rd virtual reportback.. For the 8th perimeter pilgrimage…
Bind
In 1993, Corinna Burns dropped out of college and moved into the city of Philadelphia. Then she went a little wild and took an unusual job. Bind is an exploration of how and why we sometimes choose to put ourselves at risk, physically and emotionally. This show contains explicit material. Ages 18 and up.
Borrowed Time featuring Jake Mattera, Hoffman, and NYTEshift
Borrowed Time is a comedy showcase featuring a mix of improv and stand-up. Each show features a different acts not produced by Crossroads, so it’s a chance to see some stuff you might not otherwise get to see. Tonight features improv teams Hoffman and NYTEShift and Stand-up from Jake Mattera!
Art Room Outdoors: REAP What You Show
For the Fringe 2021 performance season the Leah Stein Dance Company invites audiences to an interactive, outdoor event that will run for 4 hours in the parking lot of the Art Room Studio in South Philly. This event will provide space for guests to mingle after months of separation, witness live works from local artists, including former REAP artists, Ama Gora and L. Graciella Maiolatesi, and participate in guided improvisational…
As You Like It
You’re probably used to thinking of Shakespeare as a boring, old, dead guy who wrote boring, old, dead plays. But Shakespeare’s theatre was a f*cking madhouse: the audience was an unruly bunch who came for the bear-baiting and stayed to check out the tragedy. They got drunk, bought snacks, and yelled back at the actors all the way to the bloody end. Actors rehearsed only the fights and dances. They…
“Bon Appétit!” By Julia Child and Lee Hoiby (During a Pandemic!)
Media Contact Susan Weinman susanweinman@auroraclassical.org phone # 215 317 9858 Web: www.auroraclassical.org For Immediate Release 8/21/20 Aurora Classical of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia performs with the 2020 Virtual Fringe Festival with “Bon Appetit!” By Lee Hoiby and Julia Child “Bon Appétit!” is a comic culinary extravaganza that taps the wit and antics of one of America’s best-loved television personalities! Written by Lee Hoiby and performed by Susan Weinman and pianist Pen…
Wishling
Step into the enchanting world of “Wishling” at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival! Join us at the Dina Wind Art Foundation on September 21, 22, and 23 for a captivating staged reading. Immerse yourself in the heartfelt story of Wish, a young autistic woman navigating her place in the world through her mother’s belief that she’s a fae changeling. Featuring a folky, acoustic score with powerful harmonies, “Wishling” will transport you…
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