What Does Lemon Sound Like?
A multi-sensory music-making workshop for kids. Participants will make connections between sound and other senses, learn about graphic music scores, and work together to create a 3D music score using everyday objects to perform for their families. Sep. 23 is for ages 4-7, Sep. 24 for ages 7 & up. What is a graphic music score? Music scores aren’t always notes on five-line staves. They can consist of pictures (graphic score), words…
Waiting for Ganol
A South Philly backyard. A gender reveal. A giant cannoli. What could go wrong? The Cosentinos are nearly ready to cut open a giant cannoli and reveal their new baby’s sex to the world. You’re invited into their backyard for WAITING FOR GANOL, a uniquely Philly, uniquely funny new play. In a site-specific staging at a backyard garden, audiences will become a part of this South Philly family’s dramatic gender…
VOLCANO
What happens when a comedian walks into a volcano? In 2023, Ben Miller was the artist in residence at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, the first ever stand-up comedian ever selected. This was probably a terrible idea on their part. Come watch this work in progress show where scientist turned stand-up comedian Ben Miller explores volcanology, entomology, Hawaiian history, cats, cookies, and more.
CANCELED: When Birds with Broken Wings Fly
This show has been canceled. Developed as part of The Kennedy Center’s Local Theatre Residency program at the Reach in the division of Social Impact, When Birds with Broken Wings Fly is a solo performance piece that explores the spiritual, mental and physical journey of black women when the world negates and exploits their “Black Girl Magic.”Inspired by the working documentary, “The Myth of the Black Superwoman” and the book,…
Vile
Francesca Montanile Lyons brings you a kaleidoscopic solo performance that rides the line between pleasure and disgust, where clown and buffon hold a funhouse mirror to the artist’s self. Here, the laughter is tinged with nausea, and the nausea is tinged with relief. If you’ve ever hated yourself and/or everyone in the world, welcome. Vile is composed of highly physical performance states that are deeply pleasurable to perform in part…
An Undertaking
An Undertaking is a diddy to a dirge, a compost pile of characters, a eulogy of ourselves always shifting. This multimedia dance-theater piece will happen at Laurel Hill Cemetery East. As undertakers, it is our business to prepare for burial, and what we bury carries on underground. The arrangements have been made, like a bed once messy with little and big deaths, soiled, but planted with seedlings seeking sun while…
American Dream: One Clown’s Love Affair with Capitalism
Join Commonwealth Circus Center and Artivism Dance Theatre for this circus and dance extravaganza. You watch the classic American dream as it plays out for one young clown on the heels of entering the job market for the first time. Oh, how the world spins in bombastic and brutally unfair ways for even folks who are efforting hard. Isn’t it a meritocracy anymore? If only she knew. Watch the story…
Alternative Theatre Festival 2023
Alternative Theatre Festival is a collection of short, experimental pieces written and directed by students at the University of Pennsylvania.
All My Little Words
Are you an artist? Or a person who’s made things? Or a human who has failed at something? Have you ever thought “I’m afraid of being an artist who doesn’t make art”? ALL MY LITTLE WORDS looks at what it means to fail at art. Or what it’s like to be afraid of failing at art. Which is to say, what it means to be an artist – though that…
Alas, Confederates
Greytown, Nicaragua. 1899. An old Rebel general pens his Civil War memoirs. Using a local girl as his stenographer, the recollections come easily, until the writing session when he tries to remember the third day at Gettysburg. This is the final play from the Trilogy of the Confederacy, written by Virginia playwright James F. Bruns. First came, Confederates (2016) reviewed by DC METRO ARTS writing, “If you are a Civil War…
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