Shoop
Whisper Theatre Collective invites you into Shoop, a luxury shipping and packing facility. Clients coming to Shoop spend top dollars to receive the BEST treatment for themselves and their packages, complete with healing energy rituals. According to CEO and lifestyle guru, Gabriel (breath), Shoop is not only a business of luxury – it is the business of one’s spirit. When a computer malfunction causes the company to spiral into chaos,…
OVERBOARD!
OVERBOARD! is Cannonball’s nightly offering of music, cabaret, side show, circus, storytelling, strange anthems to toaster ovens and ecstatic participatory rituals that will be sure to be the perfect end to your night at the Fringe. OVERBOARD! takes place in the beautiful Maas Garden Bar, one of Philly’s ‘best kept secrets,’ where there’s room to have a drink with a friend, sidle up to the stage, or enjoy a pizza from the…
Sewer Rats Sketch Night
Three writers and four actors have come together to tell stories of hilarity and miscommunication, joy and weirdness, stories about life and about people. Join us for an evening of stories.
Rogues’ Gallery
Everyone has a story to tell. A phone call from a stranger may hold the key to an opportunity for a fresh start. A cabaret singer does not like the janitor at her club. An aggrieved husband seeks revenge on the man who seduced his wife. A homeowner is taken off guard by something discovered in his new house. A journalist becomes infatuated with a writer, leaving her fiancé behind….
Returning to Normal Through Improv
After 14 months of lockdowns, quarantines, and closures Philly is starting to open up! Restrictions are being lifted and the gradual process of returning to “normal” is beginning. Come remember what it’s like interacting with real human beings in this one day improv workshop! Brush up on your social skills, learn to loosen up, meet some new people, and have some fun while you’re doing it! You’ll also learn the…
PADA PRESENTS The Greatest Showman
Pennsylvania Academy of Dance Arts takes on its first ever Fringe Festival.
Plein Air Guitar
THE TOOLS REMAIN Derek Ayres’ new watercolors have something to do with the concept of “personal archeology” and a feeling of his mortality, or at least the mortality of his own culture. Parallel to the gods of ancient Greece or Rome, the gods of his 13-year-old self walked the earth: Jimmy Page, Ace Frehley, Angus Young. And just like the ancient gods, only a few artifacts remain. Often only the…
RagTag: A Circus in Stitches
Have you ever stopped to think about the threads which make up the fabric of everyday life? How sometimes they feel so perfectly knit together, while at other times they feel more like a tangled web of knots? Every fiber has a source, but what prevents it from completely unraveling? Woven together, these loose ends create a new story. Follow our RagTag group of threadbare, yarn-spinning characters as they explore…
Portrait of a Lady
Is baroque style about formal elegance? Or about emotion, atmosphere or drama? All of the above! We’ve been diving deep into rediscovered performance practices, and finding that music can be like impassioned and eloquent speech and can tell stories and paint pictures. Who is the lady in the picture and what story does she tell? Performed on eighteenth century instruments, the viola da gamba, harpsichord and theorbo will take on…
Quarantined Ill At Ease: Covid-19 Allstars
Join Sonja Pacho and Stephanie Parker every Monday night of the festival as they welcome many of their favorite comedians from Philadelphia’s own IRL Ill At Ease & virtual Quarantined Ill At Ease comedy open mics. The virtual bar opens at 7:30, the show will begin at 8:00 p.m.
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