Preview Nights
Unsure of what to see during the Festival? Want to get a tiny sample of the nearly 300 Fringe Festival shows? Join us for free Festival Preview Nights, taking place Mondays Aug 21 and 28 at 7pm at FringeArts! Dance, Theater, Improv, Comedy! It’s like a Fringe Festival sample platter! Each night, a new group of performances will be highlighted on the FringeArts stage. Come meet the performers, preview their…
West Coast Black Circus
We journey into a world of Black futurism. Where love, vengeance, justice, and compassion collide to reveal a life in which technology becomes our sacred adornment. In which we reclaim our freedoms as the people of the Free Universe. Drawing from ancestor wisdom, movement ceremony and the power of names . We use these tools, these inanimate objects to animate. To forge a new consciousness. One in which we are…
Sex Files StorySlam
First Person Arts3rd Annual Sex FilesSeptember 12thUnderground Arts1200 Callowhill St, Philadelphia, PA 191078 pm (Doors 7:30)Host Jamie J. Tickets $25 First Person Arts Sex Files turns 3!Celebrate the joy of sex with First Person Arts when Sex Files returns to Underground Arts with our popular StorySlam format.The sometimes sex-less but always sexy Jamie J will curate 4 storytellers who will titillate, entertain, and even educate you with their Sex Files…
Deep Dives at Cannonball
Go deeper with Cannonball artists and dive into our interactive offerings including panels, parties, and more. More Deep Dives will be added throughout the month of August — check back here for visit www.cannonballfestival.org/deepdives for more information! Before purchasing tickets, please be sure to view the complete lineup of Deep Dives here or on the Cannonball Website. Each offering is different, so be sure to select the performance day and time that corresponds with…
Late Night Snacks: Family Snacks
Kids of all ages are invited to join us for special programming made for our youngest fans. Join our hosts and a rotating roster of special guests on Sunday afternoons for Family Snacks: Late Night Snacks appropriate for the mid-afternoon. Expect glitter, colorful costumes, live music, and lots of interactivity. Open to all ages. Family Snacks are PWYC for adults; kids attend free.
Pop-Up Surprise
New Lightning Rod Special show. Phase one. In-your-face. Past your bedtime.
Kushilob at Fringe
I have a man’s body. I accept this body. I offer it to everyone. I have a woman’s body. I accept this body. I offer it to everyone. I have a man’s body. I reject this body. I desire no one. I have a woman’s body. I reject this body. I desire no one. I have a man’s body. It should be a woman’s. I desire men. I have a…
HOMOS! A Solo Disaster Musical, Bitch.
Local Queer Dan Kitrosser wrote a queer post-apocalyptic musical but has always hated scheduling actors. So now, just like the chronic masturbator, he’s going to do it himself! Playing all the roles, singing songs about the end of times, some of them are existential, all of them have innuendo.. But as Dan pieces his ‘end of day’s show together, song by song, reconstructing a deconstruction of disaster stories in this…
Finding Melania
Finding Melania is a solo show merging dark clowning, surreal metaphors and utter silliness in an exploration of authoritarian and populist regimes and our complicite in enabling them to exist and continue. Melania, still lurking around in the bowels of the White House, invites us into her lonely world, where she takes us through the pains and gains of what it really means to “stand by your man”. Created and…
Zip Zap Love!
Zip Zap Love is an improv comedy show based on the classic dating show “The Dating Game”. A lucky group of enormous personalities compete for the opportunity to go on a date with a single bachelor/bachelorette. The bachelor/bachelorette will eliminate contestants based on their responses to questions they are asked until only one contestant remains. Be prepared to laugh as the only thing larger than the contestants thirst for a…
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