Campus Comedy Night: Tan & Joe Present
Tan & Joe Present! Tan Hoang and Joe Bell, the brains and guts behind Tattooed Momedy, bring their favorite performers to the Fringe Bar stage for two nights of top quality comedy. Hoang has produced shows for Blue Heaven Comedy Festival and Cannonball Festival and was a featured performer in 2022 and 2023’s The Very Big Very Asian Comedy Festival. She’s opened for such acts as Jon Daly, Whitmer Thomas…
Sarah Knittel/Marina Abramović
Sarah Knittel/Marina Abramović is a sloppy, sexy autopsy about the agony of starting over. Ouchies, Daddy! An ooey gooey clown show that is part therapy session, part stand up, and full ARTSY FARTSY PERFORMANCE ART WET DREAM. GQ’s “Sexiest Clown of the Year” is back with a solo female clown show that will leave your horny ass upping your mood stabilizers. Beats provided by sugar rush pop sensation Child Princess.
Johnny & Red Knock ’em Dead!
FringeArts’ favorites Red 40 and Johnny Showcase reunite to perform an electrifying variety show. Drawn together by their sibling rivalry and a deep love of harmonizing with each other, they’ll sing a set list of their favorite duets for one-night-only.
A Patchwork of Stories for GrownUps
Patchwork: A Storytelling Guild presents A Patchwork of Stories for Grown Ups on Sunday, September 24 @ 5 PM EST at Da Vinci Art Alliance, 704 Catharine St, Philadelphia, PA. This live event is open to the public. Tickets: $15. PWYC options. Light refreshments available. Running Time: 75 minutes. Patchwork is celebrating the art of storytelling by taking audiences on a joyride into an eclectic mix of amazing tales recounted…
Panini Press
It’s a coming out party! Sourced from interviews with 20+ trans and queer people who recognized their queerness in isolation, Panini Press welcomes you into a party organized by solo performer Hal Martenson to celebrate a lucky audience member’s small and large triumphs over the last three years. After 2020, the *Pandilini* condensed our lives into tiny boxes – our homes, the squares on screens, scraps of fabric on our…
Let It Go: A Musical Theatre Workshop from Music Theatre Philly
“Let It Go” A Musical Theatre Workshop from Music Theatre Philly For kids ages 5 – 12. Music Theatre Philly is a professional training ground for the performing arts for children and teens. Participants will learn the choreography and vocals to one of the musical numbers from our upcoming production of FROZEN.
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit is a contemporary circus show about freeing yourself from the conditioning to be a certain way, socially or other. It’s about sexual freedom, expression and undoing the work that has been done by many people in our lives but most importantly right at home and in our communities. It also quietly yells at the American beauty standards and is sometimes just about how sexy you dare to be.
Expelled: A Comedic Journey
Andrew Steiner was a problem child – expelled from four schools, diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, and Oppositional Defiance Disorder, and raised by two loving but very distracted parents, it’s no wonder he had issues. This is the story of his attempts to overcome his isolated and chaotic past in order to find self-acceptance, deep friendships, love, and community, all while keeping his inner child alive.
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…
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