Rx and Chill
Experience a live installation where you receive, and prescribe, unorthodox therapy based on Abyss: The Greatest Proposal Ever — a dramatic narrative short film about the wild adventures of an Army Officer who gets stranded by SEPTA when a botched TV audition shakes up his wedding plans.
Rough and Tumble: Pickled Peaches and Herring
Rough and Tumble: Pickled Peaches and Herring is an up close and hyper-personal tongue and cheeky look at life’s hopes and disappointments. Buckle up to be taken on a rough and tumble, show and tell clown-dance-burlesque-theater and somewhere in between ride that acknowledges how pain is so close to pleasure; loss so close to love. Asked about her work, Lillian cites the writing of David Whyte and bell hooks who…
Ronnie, The Musical
Ronnie is a snail. In this one act musical, Ronnie lives in a shower drain, and one day, climbs out into the bathtub. In this new world, he discovers a life full of light, soap, cucumbers, and water falling from the sky. And you’re in luck, because he’s taking you along for the journey. Come see life thorugh the eyes of a snail inside a bathtub.
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…
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