Sad People
Get ready for a hilarious and heartwarming evening of improv comedy with real-life married couple Frank and Courtney Farrell, as they bring their marital ups and downs to the stage! Having been married for many years, Frank and Courtney know a thing or two about married life and they’re not afraid to share it all. Sad People is a unique and relatable show that gives its’ audience an unfiltered look at what…
Rubrduki Dance Party
A Rubrduki Dance Party is not just a place to let loose and forget about the mud in your bathtub. It’s a place to interact, play connect and find a new part of yourself. An inner Rubber Ducky lies within each of us, and by realizing it you unveil a vast universe of play and liberation. It just might be the most important technology you didn’t know you needed. Bring…
RUB MY KITTEN
RUB MY KITTEN investigates the widened edges of indulgence as a radical act of self-care and as an invitation toward collective liberation. Each show will be unique to the day as the audience is invited to witness an occasion of live self-making taken on by a dance, and live sound scores and suspended ego trip. Here, we welcome the absurd.
Roominate
Sometimes questions keep us up at night. Sometimes those same questions make us stay in bed. All Day. This fun physical theatre piece asks the question: why does it matter if I get out of bed in the morning? Through a semi absurdist lens, Roominate invites the audience to entertain a world that lives a couple inches above reality. A world in which you can have it out with your…
Rogues’ Gallery
The adage “Don’t judge a book by its cover” applies here. Starting with old mugshots of Gilded Age criminals, Cronin and Ayres pull these thieves, forgers, pickpockets, swindlers, pennyweights, sneaks, and confidence men out of history and deposit them into alternate contexts. Dressed in petticoats, velvet collars, wool overcoats, bowler hats and vests, these figures of the underworld are almost indistinguishable to the modern eye from the bourgeoise of their…
Rhymes With Orange
Rhymes With Orange is a multidisciplinary arts collective specializing in interactive improvisation, character exploration, and long-form audiovisual experiences. Our goals are to entertain, to connect people, and to spread an experience of playful joy.
Reverie/Revelry
An immersive occasion in which sensuous DJed and live music, scents, and colorful flags shape a sensorial experience in which guests can interact, dance, and simply co-exist with the woods and creek. The environment heightens sensory perception and in turn responds to the energy of the guests. The piece offers a re-weaving of community, as part of a search for new ways of being with each other and the natural…
re:claim
re:claim returns to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival for a second year with a site-specific spoken word and musical performance on September 8 at 5 pm (rain date September 22 at 5 pm). This year, violinist Melinda Rice and poet Heather Bowlan will present a piece performed at and inspired by Hansberry Garden, a community garden in southwest Germantown. Combining poetry and violin with looped effects pedals, improvisation and interaction, this…
POWER
Award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson offers up a whirling, rhythmic, exalted expression of Black Shaker worship through music and movement. Did you know there was a Shaker community led by a free Black woman in Philadelphia in 1859? Folding his research of Shakers into this history, Wilson gives his perspective on what the community of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson may have looked like. Throughout his career, Wilson has sought out the…
Poor Judge
Presented in association with The Wilma Theater & WXPN. An original work of dance-theater cabaret is born from the discography of alt-rock iconoclast Aimee Mann. Dreamed up by Philadelphia’s beloved Dito van Reigersberg, this live music mixtape is part Hollywood audition, part woeful tale of lost loves, and part spy story—all performed by a local supergroup of actor-musicians. Through vignette and song, Poor Judge offers glimpses of an inviting, seductive…
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