CANCELED: Shroman Shmoliday
This show has been canceled. Shroman Shmoliday, written and performed by Willie Filkowski, is a new solo performance composed of autobiographical storytelling, poetry, dance/movement, pop music, heavy-handed fictionalization, and low-budget spectacle. Shroman Shmoliday excavates Filkowski’s personal affinity for Robert Rauschenberg as a fellow artist, queer person, and Southwest Floridian, while also offering a queer fever dream that attempts to correct the record. Shroman Shmoliday offers a poetic and fictionalized rom-com…
Side C Presents “Led Zeppelin IV”
Step into Side C, where an iconic album is played start to finish without stopping, accompanied by mesmerizing performances of circus and variety artists. This evening, Side C presents “Led Zeppelin IV” which includes hits like “Stairway to Heaven” and “When the Levee Breaks.” Side C is a spectacular show, as well as a fun opportunity for the artists. The show follows an open mic format, giving amateurs their moment…
She Who Must Not Be Named
A ritual summoning by the Bouffon of the world’s most beloved auth-, I mean the most powerful dark wiz-, I mean queen of the TERFs-, I mean the de facto leader of the “Gender Critical” Movement. Truly the Chosen One. Her powers have faded, but are quickly growing, and she needs your support before it’s too late. You may know her as J.K. Rowling. Or maybe Robert Galbraith. But we…
She Was A Conquistawhore
A woman and her vagina, a cowboy named Pete, find themselves brawling over control of their shared body. They try to reconcile their differences while sharing stories with the audience. Their trials and tribulations weave together a legend. A story of manifest destiny. A divine calling to take the land back, one cis-white man at a time. But they discover it’s hard to move forward when you’re stuck in the…
Rose: You Are Who You Eat
Produced by The Bearded Ladies Cabaret with Emily Schreiner Rolling World Premiere with Woolly Mammoth, CulturalDC, & La MaMa ETC From a commission by Works & Process at the Guggenheim A true story of gender cannibalism set to music. Once upon a vine, John Jarboe’s aunt revealed that John not only had a twin sister in the womb, but that John consumed her: “You ate her. That’s why you are…
Sailing out of Liverpool Reading
A theatrical reading of short, character based poems with some reference to the Beatles based on Burrison’s travel, experience, and imagination.
Salt of the Earth
Inspired by mandate protests in Canada, a small group of U.S. truckers set off on a cross-country journey that gains steam as it nears Washington. Along the way, they share their stories, their hopes and fears, their reasons for risking everything. An inside look at the nationwide awakening that the mainstream media refused to cover.
Sex Werque: Notes from the Field
Sex Werque:Notes from the Field is an auto-biographical solo show about working as a stripper in Pittsburgh. Ella-Gabriel Mason explores how we perform eroticism and consume intimacy, both in the club and at home. Through theater, dance, and filmed interviews with other sex workers, they unpack the world of sex work: the emotional and economic forces, the movement vocabulary, the masks, and the moments of authentic connection.
Roots Ignite
Roots Ignite is a choreographed dance piece that reflects the choreographer’s and dancers personal connections to dance, family, and love. This piece is made up three years worth of research, done through improvisations, zoom meetings, and music editing. The research surrounds ways people build relationships or connect with one another. The piece represents the choreographers own stories, as well as the stories of the cast and dancers. These stories represent events that…
ROLLER CIRCUS… The Greatest Show on Wheels
Roller Circus: The Greatest Show on Wheels! Step right up and prepare to be amazed by Roller Circus: The Greatest Show on Wheels! The first circus cabaret of its kind, Roller Circus combines aerials, juggling, drag, clowning, fire, and sideshow performance with the art of roller skating in a way you have not seen before! Featuring an incredible cast of talented performers from the Philadelphia area, Roller Circus is a…
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