MADCAP & BUSTY
A variety show featuring acts & arias from some of Philly’s stupidest & silliest! These wack-tastic songs, skits and socially-unacceptable sock puppets pair nicely with a drink in the hand and a laugh in the heart. Enjoy a libation with a “scientist” with nothing to prove, get serenaded by a washed-out actress from Hollywood’s Golden Age, behold a charismatic UHaul box’s search for familial connection – all these encounters and…
LoveBot: A Musical
LoveBot is a dystopian sci-fi musical comedy about the power of love, sex, and artificial intelligence. In the distant future, in a totalitarian state known only as The Society, citizens’ lives are tightly controlled, most significantly through the suppression of all knowledge about love and sex, the least governable of human impulses. When a listless teen discovers and reactivates a decommissioned AI sexbot, hijinks ensue as they embark on an inadvertent…
Love you Love you Love you
Love you Love you Love you uncorks a heady brew of mothering, dementia, and legacy. Creator-performer Sarah Sanford conjures real memories and mythic demonesses to witness a beloved mothers passage into uncharted cognitive territory. Sanford slips between characters and consciousnesses, willing an altered neurological state to take center stage. Part clown show, part tragedy, Love you Love you Love you exposes the stigma surrounding persons living with dementia, and the…
Love Lab
An immersive, interactive dating social experiment for the sake of the future’s futur!e(“loop(swipe right))”FIND[libido]69(((“til death d7({heavy pett//big natu(“select)){love/”))COMEDY[[laugh,laugh]] ERROR 404: Love Not Found “debugInfo”: { “traceId”: “0xBEDROOM1234LAUGH”, “stack”: [ “at /src/love.js:69:15”, “at /src/helpers/date.js:96:22”, “at /src/services/comedy.js:101:13”
Locker Room Pep Talk
Do you need a pep talk? Of course you do! How could you not? Come to the Old Pine Community Center Locker Room where the game is not over yet, and we may be losing, but that does not mean we’re losers. We might be losers for other reasons, but not because of that. Coach has been working hard on his pep talk to whip you into the winners that…
Live Theatre LIVE!
From the people who brought you Personality Hires (and retirement party for Kevin in Legal) and Last Night at Camp Green Lake (an end-of-summer-revue by your counselors!) comes a theater experience for theater skeptics and lovers alike! Each night, disgraced director and BFA Acting Teacher (former), Leslie Von Kamper, directs an entire production to completion, with the help from a guest assistant director. Despite the fact that ONLY the assistant director…
Line///////Movements
Line///////Movements is a showcase of six original works that emphasize storytelling through a combination of movement and text. These pieces are the result of collaborations between Philadelphia writers, dancers and choreographers, often incorporating music, projection and other multimedia elements. Together, they form a tapestry of the possibilities inherent in combining words and wordlessness. See the love story of the moon and a river told through poetry and duet, a contemporary…
Life With Oscar
WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR AN OSCAR?Actor/Filmmaker Nick Cohen relives his desperate Hollywood years – a tragicomic true-life ‘Sunset Boulevard.’ Nick flees South London, England and his dysfunctional family to live as a permanent guest on Sunset with a double Oscar-winner; a man who worked regularly with Orson Welles, promising to get Nick’s film nominated if he follows Exact Instructions. Life with Oscar upends La La Land in a confessional…
Liberty City Arts Presents – Winterreise by Franz Schubert
Winterreise Fusing performance art with a classical recital, this exciting new take on Schubert’s classic song cycle Winterreise (Winter’s Journey) explores the infinite interpretations of the protagonist’s struggle with loss, self-discovery, and liberation. Through an intersectional analysis of visual art, created both by humans and artificial intelligence, the audience is faced with the question: “What does it mean to understand and express the human experience?”. In using the emotionally charged…
Liberty City Arts Presents – Erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg
This rarely staged one-act monodrama for soprano follows The Woman, agitated and disoriented, searching for her lover in an eerily dense wood. Schoenberg’s chilling psychological drama aims “to represent in slow motion everything that occurs during a single second of maximum spiritual excitement.” Erwartung is a pinnacle of modernism and an early example of Schoenberg’s use of expressionism in music. Like many of his own expressionist paintings, he layers notes…
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