Romeo and Juliet
Join us for the most famous love story ever told! This intimate production will reimagine Romeo and Juliet for the modern stage, questioning whether our fate is truly written in the stars or heldin the hands of our environment, experiences and choices.
Runnin’ Late Presents: The Marathon
Crossroads Comedy Theater and Runnin’ Late Present The Marathon. The Marathon is a weekend of comedy shows hosted by comedians Cab Washington and Marcely Jean Pierre. Showcasing some of the top standup comics and comedic improvisers on the East Coast, these shows will have you walking out with deeper joy, higher energy, and tighter abs than you came in with! CHECK BACK FOR LINE-UP INFO Can’t find tickets through Fringe? Head…
Reception
From the puckish mind of Nick Gillette, winner of the 2021 Philly Fringe Festival audience choice award for best comedy. RECEPTION is your chance to speak to and hear from an alien intelligence, channeled through one of Philadelphia’s most charming improvisers. In 2014, the first interstellar object ever sighted near our sun mysteriously changed course and tumbled away. Soon after, voices purporting to originate from Vega poured uncontrollably from the…
Pocketbook Diaries
The Pocketbook Diaries is based on a poem written by my collaborator, Eugene “the Composer” Brown. Over the years of Eugene presenting this satirical piece, I suggested, why not create a series of skits/proofs based on his poem. This project begin in 2017, had its first reading last November and was well received. A very. visual and whimsical piece that represents the attachment and survival of the average handbag thru…
Poison Garden
Tonight is the 100th anniversary of the date five members of the Alden Household went missing – the two adult children, and three members of their staff. Quinn, a descendent of the gardener, has gathered everyone here to help him awaken the memories of the house to discover what happened. Come discover what really happened to them that night, the dark relationships tying the five of them together, and what…
Recollection
If you knew that one day you would lose all of your memories- would you approach each day differently? Through a devised, interactive dance-theater piece that incorporates the five senses, contact improvisation, recycled material, photographs, olives, original music, and suitcases, a group of wanderers will reinvent the space of Sunflower Philly and call upon a diverse audience to reminisce together and contemplate how life experience and the passage of time…
Real PlaNet Life
Real PlaNet Life is a reality TV show made by and for aliens. It’s Real Housewives meets E.T. meets the Muppets. Following a screening of one of the show’s most famous episodes, the stars gather to greet their fans, make confessions, and Get Real. Old feuds resurface, grievances are aired, and unexpected alien truths come out. Featuring a short film created by Applied Mechanics as part of their ongoing OTHER ORBITS…
Rising from a Thousand Thrones
Victor Frankenstein created a monster. Mary Shelley composed a son. In 1816, the daemon of paper and ink became a child of flesh and blood, but now that child is threatened by an ancient power that reaches out from the fathomless ocean depths. Within the walls of her house, the shadows of Mary’s dark imagination come to life, each intent on bending the author’s will to their whim. To save…
Roll Play: An Improvised Adventure
Dungeons & Dragons meets improv comedy! ROLL PLAY is a live, interactive, fully-improvised love letter to tabletop RPGs and the fantasy genre. Guided by a mysterious Dungeon Master, four brave heroes embark on an epic quest— determined entirely by audience suggestions and rolls of the dice. Write spells for the Wizard, enchant the Fighter’s sword, or even offer divine guidance to the Cleric. Every show is a brand new adventure!…
PEDESTRIAN CIRCUS
Pedestrian Circus is a one-human show spanning many discovery zones. Characters and self-perception are shaken and stirred. A fantastic voyage where we feast on a hot wet fantasy of persona pizza, insecurity extra cheese toppings, pepperoni ego death. Hey y’all, the body is a stretched canvas just waiting for the scrumptious tidbits of humanity to get messy. Watch ya girl Rose Luardo and her radical performative costume changes as she…
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