2009 Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe Guide

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2009 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Philly Fringe

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Presenting Sponsor

Partner Sponsors

Show Sponsors

In-kind Sponsors

Festival Bar Sponsor

2009 T-Shirt Sponsor

Media Sponsors

Official University City Sponsor

Festival Planner

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Venue Listings + Maps

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Live Arts at a glance

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Ticket Information

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Day-by-Day Schedule

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Getting to the Festival

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Festival Bar

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46 Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz

30 Kill Me Now

Michał Zadara / Capitol Theatre

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre STORE

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anonymous bodies

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34 Urban Scuba

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Cie. Willi Dorner

Brian Sanders/JUNK

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36 Welcome to Yuba City

Back to Back Theatre

Pig Iron Theatre Company

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Performance Practice

Avoiding Catastrophe

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One Party at a Time

Chunky Move

New Paradise Laboratories 42 How Theater Failed America

58 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests

The Last Cargo Cult

Dean Wareham and

Mike Daisey

Britta Phillips

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Headlong Dance Theater

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Comedy + Improv

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Dance

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Interdisciplinary

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Panel Discussions about

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Music

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Festival Checklist

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Index by Show

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Theater

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Index by Artist

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Thank you

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Visual

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Tickets are on sale now at www.livearts-fringe.org

Box Office Pre-Festival Hours

Ticket Prices

/ Weeknight and Sunday night Live Arts Festival shows are $25. / Weekend afternoon and Saturday night Live Arts Festival shows are $30. / Philly Fringe show prices are listed with each show description.

Aug 24–Sept 3: 1pm–7pm

Buying Tickets

Tickets are available at the Box Office beginning August 24.

From the Festival Website

Box Office Festival Hours Sun–Thu: 12pm–9pm Fri–Sat: 11am–9pm Sept 7 (Labor Day): 12pm–7pm

1. Select the show you want to see from the “Shows” menu, or use the “Search” function.

2. Choose a performance date/time listed on the show page.

3. Repeat for each show/performance you wish to attend.

/ Orders must be placed at least 24 hours before show time. / Online ticket purchases require a credit card.

In Person and by Phone at the Box Office

/ The 2009 Festival Box Office opens August 24. / In person you may buy tickets using cash, check, or credit card. / During Box Office hours, you may purchase tickets by phone using a credit card. / Tickets for each performance are available until two hours before show time. Remaining tickets are sold at the venue, beginning 30 minutes before show time.

Box Office at The Hub SW corner of 5th + Fairmount (Northern Liberties) Onsite parking Phone: 215.413.1318 Fax: 215.413.1342 www.livearts-fringe.org

At the Performance Venue

/ Purchase tickets at the venue starting 30 minutes prior to performance. / Cash and checks only.

How to Get Your Tickets

Web and phone orders may be picked up until two hours before show time at the Box Office, or starting 30 minutes before show time at the venue.

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Discounts

The more you see, the more you save! / Buy tickets to two or more shows and save 20%. / Discount is only valid for tickets purchased for multiple shows (not for multiple tickets to an individual show) and only applied when tickets are purchased in a single transaction.

Cannot be applied to previous ticket orders. Discount is not valid at the door. / Discounts cannot be combined.

Students and Festival goers 25 and under / $15 Live Arts Festival tickets. / $5 off Philly Fringe tickets priced $15 and over.

Groups

/ Groups of 10+ save 25%. / Contact Janice Rowland at janice@livearts-fringe.org for group orders. / Contact Alice Hershey at alice@livearts-fringe.org for student group orders.

All-Access Pass

The All-Access Pass ($325 for a one-person pass, or $650 for a twoperson pass) grants admission to every Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe show.

To purchase or learn more about All-Access Passes prior to August 24, contact Janice Rowland at janice@livearts-fringe.org. After August 24, contact the Festival Box Office.

Seating Policy

Seating for all shows is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the House Manager.

Some shows do not allow late seating, so arrive early!

The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe do not offer exchanges or refunds on ticket purchases.

Getting to the Festival

Public Transportation

All public transportation route and schedule information is available online at www.septa.org. Our venue map on page 11 includes major SEPTA routes.

Regional Transit

All SEPTA regional rail lines stop at the city’s three major train stations. / Market East Station: 8th to 11th Streets along Market Street (near Old City and Greyhound bus terminal) / Suburban Station: 15th to 17th Streets, between Market Street + JFK Boulevard (Center City) / 30th Street Station: 30th + Market Streets (for West Philly and University City spots)

Parking Street parking is limited in some Festival neighborhoods. There are private lots throughout the city.

Old City

/ Central Parking System Lot, 21 South 2nd Street / Central Parking System Lot, 218 Arch Street / E-Z Parks, Inc. Lot, 26 South Front Street / Patriot Parking Lot, 101 Market Street

Center City

/ Parkway Corp. Garage, Broad + Spruce Streets / Five Star Parking Garage, 337 South Broad Street / Park America Garage, Broad + Locust Streets / Five Star Parking Lot, 1314 Spruce Street / InterPark Garage, 1327 Locust Street / Central Parking System Garage, 219 South Broad Street

Northern Liberties

/ Patriot Parking Inc. Lot, 1201 Callowhill Street / Patriot Parking Inc. Lot, 304 Race Street / DLC Management Inc. Lot, North 12th + Callowhill Streets

Bella Vista/Queen Village

/ Patriot Parking Lot, 620 South 7th Street / Five Star Parking Garage, 530 South 3rd Street / Central Parking System Lot, 516 South Street

West Philly

/ Central Parking System Lot, 3901 Market Street / Parkway Corp. Lot, 3801 Market Street / DLC Management Inc. Lot, 3400 Spruce Street

Sleeping Visiting from out of town? Consider staying with one of our preferred hotel sponsors:

Comfort Inn

100 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard 215.627.7900 www.comfortinnphila.com Mention “Live Arts & Philly Fringe” for a rate of $95/night. Rate will be offered Aug 31–Sept 21 and is based on availability. The Comfort Inn offers a complimentary deluxe continental breakfast, as well as a courtesy shuttle which will be available to bring guests to a majority of the Festival activities!

Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia 237 South Broad Street 215.893.1600 www.philadelphia.doubletree.com Mention “Avenue of the Arts” for a special discounted rate. Offer based on availability.

While You Are Here Bars, Restaurants, and Sightseeing

Check out www.gophila.com for information about the city’s historic attractions, dining, and shopping.

Visit our online neighborhood guide (www.livearts-fringe.org/neighborhood-guide.cfm) for restaurant and bar recommendations from Festival staff.

First Friday

On the first Friday of every month, Old City galleries and design studios hold their receptions and openings. Get to the Festival early on September 4 and enjoy First Friday in Old City!

Festival Blog

Check out the Festival blog for posts about Festival artists and other performing arts goings-on in Philadelphia. Includes interviews, in-depth articles, photos, video, and more! www.livearts-fringe.org/blog

Volunteers

Become a volunteer! Ushers, Box Office staff, house managers, we need ’em all!

Volunteering is a great way to get an inside peek at the Festival and to see shows for free. For volunteer information, email volunteer@livearts-fringe.org or call 215.413.9006 x23 (before August 24) or 215.413.1270 (after August 24).

Getting to the Festival

Getting Here

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13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips

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Festival Plus Panel Discussions about New Ways of Performing

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Wednesday, Sept 2 7:00pm

Urban Scuba (preview), 50min, CC / p34 8:00pm

SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, 120min, CC / p104 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, 120min, North Philly / p107 Welcome to Yuba City (preview), 75min, NL / p36

Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34 7:30pm

Call Mr. Robeson, 80min, UC / p89 CREDITORS by August Strindberg, translated by Elizabeth Sprigge, 90min, WP / p81 Murder!, 90min, Chestnut Hill / p99 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106 8:00pm

Thursday, Sept 3 7:00pm

Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia, 60min, WP / p99 8:00pm

SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, 120min, CC / p104 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, 120min, North Philly / p107 Trad The Remount, 75min, CC / p107 8:30pm

The Action Section Presents: Life, 75min, CC / p71 9:00pm

Ubu Roi, ou les polanais, 80min, WP / p107 10:30pm

Super Heroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p105

Friday, Sept 4 10:00am

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108 5:00pm

It’s Not Me It’s You, 45min, OC / p81 5:30pm

The Hear Again Radio Project, 60min, CC / p84 6:00pm

Company, 60min, SP / p89 In(visible) Keepsakes, 120min, CC / p81 Salesmanship For Life & Limb, 40min, CC / p104 Stimulus, 120min, NL / p84 The Atomic Catwalk, ongoing, OC / p108 6:30pm

Darwinii: The Comeuppance Of Man, 60min, CC / p91 7:00pm

A Singer’s Circus, 70min, CC / p87 A Taste of Sisterhood: Learning To Swim, 80min, North Philly / p87 Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 CUBED with Special Guest Todd Chappelle, 60min, CC / p67 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 Elixir, 75min, OC / p75 Kill Me Now, 60min, CC / p30 Love After Death, 60min, Grad. Hosp. / p97 Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia, 60min, WP / p99 Mr. Harry, 70min, OC / p99 POOF!, 90min, FSH / p77 The Dark Heart of Meteorology, 75min, CC / p106 The Gonzales Cantata, 60min, UC / p85

A History of Shit: Manson in Thebes, 60min, UC / p87 Everyman, 90min, CC / p93 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Felon Fiercely’s OPEN MIC NIGHT IN HELL, 60min, QV / p85 Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, 85min, CC / p95 Heresy, 90min, CC / p95 How Theater Failed America, 100min, CC / p42 Improv Comedy: The N Crowd Double Header, 90min, OC / p69 Like, So Totally 80s?, 75min, SP / p97 Out of the Rose, 75min, FMT / p75 Pandora’s Box, 50min, SP / p75 Pretty Young Thang, 60min, SP / p101 REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM, 120min, CC / p104 Salesmanship For Life & Limb, 40min, CC / p104 Salvation Road, 75min, CC / p104 SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, 120min, CC / p104 Sex, Dreams, & Self Control, 90min, CC / p104 Spherus, 60min, Germantown / p105 TIDE, 60min, FSH / p38 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, 120min, North Philly / p107 Trad The Remount, 75min, CC / p107 Wawapalooza 3: The Dark Roast, 75min, QV / p107 Where Do We Go From Here?, 80min, UC / p71

Improv Comedy: The N Crowd Double Header, 90min, OC / p69 Rare Bird Show, 60min, CC / p69 The Annihilation Point, 63min, CC / p105 10:30pm

Super Heroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p105 Midnight

Zombie! The Musical, 100min, CC / p108

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Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108 11:00am

The Hear Again Radio Project, 60min, CC / p84 Noon

Fractured Fairytales, 45min, FSH / p93 1:30pm

the 9 muses, 60min, SP / p77 2:00pm

A Singer’s Circus, 70min, CC / p87 Like, So Totally 80s?, 75min, SP / p97 Love After Death, 60min, Grad. Hosp. / p97 Pretty Young Thang, 60min, SP / p101 REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM, 120min, CC / p104 Salvation Road, 75min, CC / p104 SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, 120min, CC / p104 Spherus, 60min, Germantown / p105 The Brothers Flanagan (preview), 120min, CC / p106 Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34 3:00pm

Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 Food Fight, 60min, Mt. Airy / p93 Out of the Rose, 75min, FMT / p75 Pumpernickel and Marmalade, 50min, East Falls / p101 Salesmanship For Life & Limb, 40min, CC/ p104 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, 120min, North Philly / p107 3:30pm

the 9 muses, 60min, SP / p77

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barFlies, 45min, CC / p89 The Moops, 60min, CC / p71

Sex, Dreams, & Self Control, 90min, CC / p104 TIDE, 60min, FSH / p38

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Company, 60min, SP / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 Phuk What Ya Heard, 90min, FSH / p69 POOF!, 90min, FSH / p77 Preparations for Departure, 75min, OC / p101 STORE, 60min, WP / p32 Take Us To The Comedy Scene . . ., 45min, OC / p69 Timejawn, 60min, SP / p71 Ubu Roi, ou les polanais, 80min, WP / p107 Welcome to Yuba City (preview), 75min, NL / p36

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Darwinii: The Comeuppance Of Man, 60min, CC / p91 Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson, 50min, CC / p99

Armageddon at the Mushroom Village, 70min, CC / p87 10:00pm

Angry People Building Things, 90min, QV / p67

Felon Fiercely’s OPEN MIC NIGHT IN HELL, 60min, QV / 85 Fletcher, 60min, CC / p69 It’s Not Me It’s You, 45min, OC / p81 Preparations for Departure, 75min, OC / p101 6:00 pm

Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 Salesmanship For Life & Limb, 40min, CC / p104 The Brothers Flanagan, 120min, CC / p106 Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34 6:30pm

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A Singer’s Circus, 70min, CC / p87

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

Take Us To The Comedy Scene . . ., 45min, OC / p69 Thinking Out Loud, 90min, UC / p79 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, 120min, North Philly / p107 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36

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4:00pm

Preparations for Departure, 75min OC / p101 Armageddon at the Mushroom Village, 70min, CC / p87

Big Fun!, 70min, FSH / p79 Citizen Paine, 65min, CC / p89 Kill Me Now, 60min, CC / p30 The Brothers Flanagan, 120min, CC / p106 The Dark Heart of Meteorology, 75min, CC / p106 TIDE, 60min, FSH / p38

10:30pm

Call Mr. Robeson, 80min, UC / p89 Clean Sheets, 60min, FMT / p89 CREDITORS by August Strindberg, translated by Elizabeth Sprigge, 90min, WP / p81 Murder!, 90min, Chestnut Hill / p99 the 9 muses, 60min, SP / p77 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106

Super Heroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p105

8:00pm

CUBED with Special Guest Todd Chappelle, 60min, SP / p67 Everyman, 90min, CC / p93 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Felon Fiercely’s OPEN MIC NIGHT IN HELL, 60min, QV / p85 Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, 80min, CC / p95 Heresy, 90min, CC / p95 Hermitage: The Strange Story of the Ghost Men of Harlem, 80min, CC / p95 How Theater Failed America, 100min, CC / p42 Like, So Totally 80s?, 75min, SP / p97 Pandora’s Box, 50min, SP / p75 REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM, 120min, CC / p104 SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, 120, CC / p104 Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo, 95min, FSH / p105 Spherus, 60min, Germantown / p105 TIDE, 60min, FSH / p38 TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, 120min, North Philly / p107 Veggie Cabaret II, 90min, UC / p71 Wawapalooza 3: The Dark Roast, 75min, QV / p107 Where Do We Go From Here, 80min, UC / p71

The Hear Again Radio Project, 60min, CC / p84

8:30pm

Rusted Gates Volume 1: Leopard’s Mouth, 60min, FMT / p85 The Action Section Presents: Life, 75min, CC / p71 9:00pm

daDAda, 43min, NL / p91 Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93 Inside Julia Child, 60min, CC / p97 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 Phuk What Ya Heard, 90min, FSH / p69

Angry People Building Things, 90min, QV/ p67 Joey Bear and Edna Lamb, 60min, North Philly / p97 Rare Bird Show, 60min, CC / p69 The Annihilation Point, 63min, CC / p105

4:30pm

Call Mr. Robeson, 80min, UC / p89 5:00pm

10:00am

Brainstorm, 90min, CC / p89 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Enlightenment, 85min, FMT / p75 Illegal Refill, 60min, CC / p69 It’s Not Me It’s You, 45min, OC / p81 Preparations for Departure, 75min, OC / p101 The Hear Again Radio Project, 60min, CC / p84

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

6:00pm

11:00am

The Waitstaff Sells Out, 50min, QV / p71 Zombie! The Musical, 100min, CC / p108

Midnight

Zombie! The Musical, 100min, CC / p108

Sunday, Sept 6

1:00pm

Festival Plus: The Theaters of Witold Gombrowicz and Michał Zadara, 90min, CC / p60 Hermitage: The Strange Story of the Ghost Men of Harlem, 80min, CC / p95 STORE, 60min, WP / p32 2:00pm

A Singer’s Circus, 70min, CC / p87 Fractured Fairytales, 45min, FSH / p93 Like, So Totally 80s?, 75min, SP / p97 Pretty Young Thang, 60min, SP / p101 REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM, 120min, CC / p104 Salvation Road, 75min, CC / p104 SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE, 120min, CC / p104 Spherus, 60min, Germantown / p105 The Gonzales Cantata, 60min, UC / p85 3:00pm

Angry People Building Things, 90min, CC / p67 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 Crowning Glory: Hair Portraits and Stories, ongoing, OC / p108 Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93 Food Fight, 60min, Mt. Airy / p93 Fusion, 60min, UC / p75 How Theater Failed America, 100min, CC / p42 Murder!, 90min, Chestnut Hill / p99 Pumpernickel and Marmalade, 50min, East Falls / p101 Sacred Soul Sisters, 90min, CC / p85 Salesmanship For Life & Limb, 40min, CC / p104 STORE, 60min, WP / p32

6:30pm

Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson, 50min, CC / p99 7:00pm

Are We They?, 90min, SP / p74 A Taste of Sisterhood: Learning To Swim, 80min, North Philly / p87 Brainstorm, 90min, CC / p89 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 Kill Me Now, 60min, CC / p30 Orphans, 90min, NL / p99 POOF!, 90min, FSH / p77 Rails, 80min, FMT / p104 Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo, 95min, FSH / p105 The Dark Heart of Meteorology, 75min, CC / p106 The Hear Again Radio Project, 60min, CC / p84 The Moops, 60min, CC / p71 Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34 Vamps & Vixens Vaudeville Revue, 55min, FMT / p84 7:30pm

REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM, 120min, CC / p104 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106 8:00pm

CREDITORS by August Strindberg, translated by Elizabeth Sprigge, 90min, WP / p81 Everyman, 90min, CC / p93 Heresy, 90min, CC / p95 Inside Julia Child, 60min, CC / p97

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

Day-by-Day

7:30pm

10:00pm

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STORE, 60min, WP / p32 Take Us To The Comedy Scene. . ., 45min, OC / p69 Timejawn, 60min, SP / p71 Ubu Roi, ou les polanais, 80min, WP / p107 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36

A Taste of Sisterhood: Learning To Swim, 80min, North Philly / p87 barFlies, 45min, CC / p89 daDAda, 43min, NL / p91 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 Elixir, 75min, OC / p75 Everything Must Go, 60min, CC / p69 Kill Me Now, 60min, CC / p30 Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia, 60min, WP / p99 Mr. Harry, 70min, OC / p99 POOF!, 90min, FSH / p77 The Dark Heart of Meteorology, 75min, CC / p106 The Gonzales Cantata, 60min, UC / p85 Vamps & Vixens Vaudeville Revue, 55min, FMT / p84 Wake Up Philadelphia!, 60min, FSH / p71

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Like, So Totally 80s?, 75min, SP / p97 Spherus, 60min, Germantown / p105 Wawapalooza 3: The Dark Roast, 75min, QV / p107

Tuesday, Sept 8

8:30pm

4:00pm

STORE, 60min, WP / p32 The Brothers Flanagan, 120min, CC / p106 The Greatest Performance of My Life: I Pretend, 90min, FMT / p85 Trad The Remount, 75min, CC / p107

3 Mad Rituals, 60min, CC / p67

FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95

7:30pm

9:00pm

6:00pm

MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 Preparations for Departure, 75min, OC / p101 The Hear Again Radio Project, 60min, CC / p84 The Waitstaff Sells Out, 50min, QV / p71

Salesmanship For Life & Limb, 40min, CC / p104 Stimulus, 120min, NL / p84

‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106

9:30pm

Armageddon at the Mushroom Village, 70min, CC / p87

10:00am

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

6:30pm

Happy Hour, 60min, CC / p95 Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson, 50min, CC / p99 7:00pm

1:00pm

DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 Eliza and Patsy, 60min, OC / p93 FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 Katie and Pitark, 60min, UC / p97 Preparations for Departure, 75min, OC / p101 Sketch and Improv Comedy Spectacular with Meg & Rob and BWP, 70min, CC / p69 STORE, 60min, WP / p32

STORE, 60min, WP / p32

7:30pm

2:00pm

Death & Destruction, 120min, UC / p74 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106

10:00pm

Inside Julia Child, 60min, CC / p97

Monday, Sept 7 10:00am

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

Spherus, 60min, Germantown / p105 TIDE, 60min, FSH, p38 3:00pm

Crowning Glory: Hair Portraits and Stories, ongoing, OC / p108 STORE, 60min, WP / p32 4:00pm

FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 Hermitage: The Strange Story of the Ghost Men of Harlem, 80min, CC / p95 Kill Me Now, 60min, CC, p30 6:00pm

8:00pm

ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera, 95min, CC / p85 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 MEELEY or The Fun of It, 60min, SP / p97 REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM, 120min, CC / p104 The Waitstaff Sells Out, 50min, QV / p71 Zombie! The Musical, 100min, CC / p108

8:00pm

7 (x1) Samurai, 60min, UC / p87 ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera, 95min, CC / p85 CUBED with Special Guest Todd Chappelle, 60min, SP / p67 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 In a Sense Nonsense, 65min, North Philly / p95 Like, So Totally 80s?, 75min, SP / p97 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH / p105 “The Scene,” 60min, CC / p79 The Stuttering Preacher, 80min, North Philly / p106 The Waitstaff Sells Out, 50min, QV / p71 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36 What FIUP?, 90min, SP / p107 8:30pm

Illegal Refill, 60min, CC / p69 9:00pm

daDAda, 43min, NL / p91 Eliza and Patsy, 60min, OC / p93 FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson, 50min, CC / p99 9:30pm

Armageddon at the Mushroom Village, 70min, CC / p87 GOLD, 70min, OC / p75

INFLUX, 75min, Kensington / p75 Salesmanship For Life & Limb, 40min, CC / p104

8:30pm

7:00pm

9:00pm

Activity Book, 60min, CC / p67 Armageddon at the Mushroom Village, 70min, CC / p87 Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 Citizen Paine, 65min, CC / p89 Company, 60min, SP / p89 FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 Orphans, 90min, NL / p99 Preparations for Departure, 75min, OC / p101 Rails, 80min, FMT / p104

Eliza and Patsy, 60min, OC / p93 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99

Thursday, Sept 10

10:00pm

10:00am

Joey Bear and Edna Lamb, 60min, North Philly / p97 Rare Bird Show, 60min, CC / p69

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

8:00pm

Noon

Are We They?, 90min, SP / p74 Big Fun!, 70min, FSH / p79 Coach and Fly, 45min, QV / p67 REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM, 120min, CC / p104

City Dances/Parkway, 60min, FMT / p74

8:30pm

7:00pm

Abrdgd Frng, 90min, CC / p67

¿...?, 50min, SP / p74 Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque, 70min, CC / p79 Citizen Paine, 65min, CC / p89 daDAda, 43min, NL / p91 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 Discordia, 60min, FSH / p91 Eliza and Patsy, 60min, OC / p93 Fletcher, 60min, CC / p69 Life is a Dream, 20min, OC / p97

9:00pm

Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Inside Julia Child, 60min, CC / p97

Everything Must Go, 60min, CC / p69 Company, 60min, SP / p89

10:00pm

Happy Hour, 60min, CC / p95

Noon

City Dances/Parkway, 60min, FMT / p74 2:00pm

Wednesday, Sept 9

The Stuttering Preacher, 80min, North Philly / p106

10:00am

6:00pm

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

3:30pm

It’s Hard Times at the Camera Blanca, 70min, FSH / p97 The Power Of Magic: An International Commedia for Everyone, 60min, OC / p106

¿...?, 50min, SP / p74

6:30pm

4:00pm

Happy Hour, 60min, CC / p95 Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson, 50min, CC / p99

FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95

7:00pm

¿...?, 50min, SP / p74 A Singer’s Circus, 70min, CC / p87 Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque, 70min, CC / p79 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Desert of Hallways, 60min, CC / p91 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

7:30pm

5:00pm

Call Mr. Robeson, 80min, UC / p89 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106

FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95

7:45pm

Sex, Dreams, & Self Control, 90min, FSH / p104

10:00am

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108 Noon

City Dances/Parkway, 60min, FMT / p74 2:00pm

The Stuttering Preacher, 80min, North Philly / p106

6:00pm

DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 It’s Hard Times at the Camera Blanca, 70min, FSH / p97 Love & Geography, 60min, NL / p84 6:15pm

8:00pm

Getting Your Life, 90min, CC / p95

4Play, 75min, CC / p87 Coach and Fly, 45min, SP / p67 ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera, 95min, CC / p85 Diving in Backwards, 45min, WP / p91 Double & Small, 90min, OC / p91 Dumb Show by Joe Penhall, 90min, CC / p93 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Fractured Scary Tales: The Black Cat, 40min, NL / p93 Her Body Cannot Tell A Lie, 50min, FMT / p81 In a Sense Nonsense, 65min, North Philly / p95 INFLUX, 75min, Kensington / p75 Like, So Totally 80s?, 75min, SP / p97 MEELEY or The Fun of It, 60min, SP / p97 more., 80min, CC / p44 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH / p105 Teenager: Anne Frank, 60min, FMT / p105 The Last Cargo Cult, 100min, CC / p42 “The Scene,” 60min, CC / p79 The Stuttering Preacher, 80min, North Philly / p106 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36

6:30pm

8:30pm

Rare Bird Show, 60min, CC / p69 9:00pm

Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 Company, 60min, SP / p89 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 Salvation Road, 75min, CC / p104 Trad The Remount, 75min, CC / p107 Ubu Roi, ou les polanais, 80min, WP / p107 Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34 9:30pm

Armageddon at the Mushroom Village, 70min, CC / p87 GOLD, 70min, OC / p75 10:00pm

CREDITORS by August Strindberg, translated by Elizabeth Sprigge, 90min, WP / p81 The Annihilation Point, 63min, CC / p105 The Moops, 60min, CC / p71 Zombie! The Musical, 100min, CC / p108

Darwinii: The Comeuppance Of Man, 60min, CC / p91 Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson, 50min, CC / p99 7:00pm

¿...?, 50min, SP / p74 Armageddon at the Mushroom Village, 70min, CC / p87 A Singer’s Circus, 70min, CC / p87 Activity Book, 60min, CC / p67 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 Desert of Hallways, 60min, CC / p91 Life is a Dream, 20min, OC / p97 Love After Death, 60min, Grad. Hosp. / p97 Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia, 60min, WP / p99 Mr. Harry, 70min, OC / p99 My Dwelling Is In Rooms Of Sound: Performing Gert Jonke, 90min, CC / p84 Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz, 195min, CC / p46 Satellite Submission/Nutmeg Overdose, 90min, OC / p77 Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo, 95min, FSH / p105 The Greatest Performance of My Life: I Pretend, 90min, FMT / p85 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p106 XFS Philly Song Shuffle, 240min, UC / p87 7:30pm

Call Mr. Robeson, 80min, UC / p89 Clean Sheets, 60min, FMT / p89 Light of Our Own True Nature, 75min, CC / p85 Murder!, 90min, Chestnut Hill / p99 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106 7:45pm

Sex, Dreams, & Self Control, 90min, FSH / p104 8:00pm

4Play, 75min, CC / p87 above under inbetween, 60min, FSH / p50 A History of Shit: Manson in Thebes, 60min, CC / p87 Afro-Brazilian Dances and Folktales, 60min, SP / p79 Cirque-ular, 50min, Germantown / p89

ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera, 95min, CC / p85 Diving in Backwards, 45min, WP / p91 Dumb Show by Joe Penhall, 90min, CC / p93 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Felon Fiercely’s OPEN MIC NIGHT IN HELL, 60min, QV / p85 Fractured Scary Tales: The Black Cat, 40min, NL / p93 Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, 85min, CC / p95 Improv Comedy: The N Crowd Double Header, 90min, OC / p69 In a Sense Nonsense, 65min, North Philly / p95 Insomnaeria, 50min, Germantown / p81 Like, So Totally 80s?, 75min, SP / p97 MEELEY or The Fun of It, 60min, SP / p97 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 more., 80min, CC / p44 PILLS the Musical, 120min, CC / p101 Poe-sers, 40min, OC / p101 Something Striking, 90min, FMT / p77 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH / p105 Sunshineface, 55min, SP / p69 Teenager: Anne Frank, 60min, FMT / p105 The Alternative Theatre Festival, 120min, UC / p105 The Enchanted, 75min, UC / p106 The Last Cargo Cult, 100min, CC / p42 The Stuttering Preacher, 80min, North Philly / p106 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36

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Friday, Sept 11

8:15pm

Getting Your Life, 90min, CC / p95 8:30pm

Sketch and Improv Comedy Spectacular with Meg & Rob and BWP, 70min, CC / p69 9:00pm

Company, 60min, SP / p89 Formed Declarations, 50min, NL / p75 Love & Geography, 60min, NL / p84 Salvation Road, 75min, CC / p104 Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo, 95min, FSH / p105 Timejawn, 60min, SP / p71 Trad The Remount, 75min, CC / p107 Ubu Roi, ou les polanais, 80min, WP / p107 Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34 9:30pm

A World of Seduction Passion & Vulnerability, 90min, OC / p74 10:00pm

Angry People Building Things, 90min, SP / p67 Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque, 70min, CC / p79 Everyman, 90min, CC / p93 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Fractured Scary Tales: The Black Cat, 40min, NL / p93 Illegal Refill, 60min, CC / p69 Improv Comedy: The N Crowd Double Header, 90min, OC / p69

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

Day-by-Day

Everything Must Go, 60min, CC / p69 Love After Death, 60min, GH / p97 Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia, 60min, WP / p99 Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz, 195min, CC / p46 Poe-sers, 40min, OC / p101 Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo, 95min, FSH / p105 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p106

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Joey Bear and Edna Lamb, 60min, North Philly / p97 Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigigus Fantasy in D, 90min / p104 Splitting the Difference, 45min, CC / p77 The Annihilation Point, 63min, CC / p105 The Breakup Booth, 3-8min / p106 10:30pm

Felon Fiercely’s OPEN MIC NIGHT IN HELL, 60min, QV / p85 Icarus, ongooing, WP / p108 Life is a Dream, 20min, OC / p97 One Giant Leap, 60min, CC / p99 Something Striking, 90min, FMT / p77 Splitting the Difference, 45min, CC / p77 Sunshineface, 55min, SP / p69

FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Super Heroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p105

5:15pm

11:00pm

FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95

Rusted Gates Volume 1: Leopard’s Mouth, 60min, CC / p85

Midnight

6:00pm

24 Hour Improv Marathon: Dazed and Amused, 24hrs, CC / p67 Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93 Zombie! The Musical, 100min, CC / p108

Saturday, Sept 12

Clover, 70min, CC / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 Love & Geography, 60min, NL / p84 The Brothers Flanagan, 120min, CC / p106 The Power Of Magic: An International Commedia for Everyone, 60min, OC / p106

10:00am

6:30pm

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108 The Breakup Booth, 3–8min, UC / p106 Noon

Darwinii: The Comeuppance Of Man, 60min, CC / p91 Salvation Road, 75min, CC / p104

Fractured Fairytales, 45min, FSH / p93

7:00pm

1:00pm

A Singer’s Circus, 70min, CC / p87 FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 It’s Hard Times at the Camera Blanca, 70min, FSH / p97 Love & Geography, 60min, NL / p84 Love After Death, 60min, Grad. Hosp. / p97 Pretty Young Thang, 60min, SP / p101 Salvation Road, 75min, CC / p104 Satellite Submission/Nutmeg Overdose, 90min, OC / p77 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Brothers Flanagan, 120min, CC / p106 The Enchanted, 75min, UC / p106

A Singer’s Circus, 70 min, CC / p87 barFlies, 45min, CC / p89 Chloe and Solved, 65min, SP / p74 Company, 60min, SP / p89 daDAda, 43min, NL / p91 Desert of Hallways, 60min, CC / p91 Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia, 60min, WP / p99 One Giant Leap, 60min, CC / p99 Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz, 195min, CC / p46 Passion, 60min, NL / p77 Rails, 80min, FMT / p104 Satellite Submission/Nutmeg Overdose, 90min, OC / p77 The Ibsen Project, 120min, CC / p106 Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34

3:00pm

7:30pm

Clover, 70min, CC / p89 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 Double & Small, 90min, OC / p91 In a Sense Nonsense, 65min, North Philly / p95 Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz, 195min, CC / p46 Pumpernickel and Marmalade, 50min, CC / p101 Sunshineface, 55min, SP / p69 The Last Cargo Cult, 100min, CC / p42 Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34

Murder!, 90min, Chestnut Hill / p99 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106

Festival Plus: Social Media and the Arts, 90min, CC / p60 2:00pm

3:15pm

Getting Your Life, 90min, CC / p95 4:00pm

4Play, 75min, CC / p87 more., 80min, CC / p42 Stimulus, 120min, NL / p84 4:30pm

Formed Declarations, 50min, NL / p75 5:00pm

Company, 60min, SP / p89 Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93

Getting Your Life, 90min, CC / p95 5:30pm

8:00pm

above under inbetween, 60min, FSH / p50 Afro-Brazilian Dances and Folktales, 60min, SP / p79 Angry People Building Things, 90min, SP / p67 Cirque-ular, 50min, Germantown / p89 Coach and Fly, 45min, QV / p67 ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera, 95min, CC / p85 Danse4Nia Meets Forces of Nature, The Move/Meant, 90min, North Philly / p74 Diving in Backwards, 45min, WP / p91 Double & Small, 90min, OC / p91 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Felon Fiercely’s OPEN MIC NIGHT IN HELL, 60min, QV / p85 Fractured Scary Tales: The Black Cat, 40min, NL / p93 Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, 85min, CC / p95

Her Body Cannot Tell A Lie, 50min, FMT / p81 Hermitage: The Strange Story of the Ghost Men of Harlem, 80min, CC / p95 In a Sense Nonsense, 65min, North Philly / p95 Insomnaeria, 50min, Germantown / p81 Little Girl Blue, 90min, WP / p97 MEELEY or The Fun of It, 60min, SP / p97 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 more., 80min, CC / p44 PILLS the Musical, 120min, CC / p101 Please Make Us Happy, or Protagonismo!, 60min, FSH / p101 Poe-sers, 40min, OC / p101 Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo, 95min, FSH / p105 Something Striking, 90min, FMT / p77 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH Teenager: Anne Frank, 60min, FMT / p105 The Enchanted, 75min, UC / p106 The Last Cargo Cult, 100min, CC / p42 Wake Up Philadelphia!, 60min, FSH / p71 8:30pm

Dumb Show by Joe Penhall, 90min, CC / p93 Rusted Gates Volume 1: Leopard’s Mouth, 60min, CC / p85 9:00pm

daDAda, 43min, NL / p91 Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93 Love & Geography, 60min, NL / p84 Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson, 50min, CC / p99 Timejawn, 60min, SP / p71 Ubu Roi, ou les polanais, 80min, WP / p107 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36 9:30pm

Chloe and Solved, 65min, SP / p74 Formed Declarations, 50min, NL / p75 10:00pm

CREDITORS by August Strindberg, translated by Elizabeth Sprigge, 90min, WP / p81 Everyman, 90min, CC / p93 Fractured Scary Tales: The Black Cat, 40min, NL / p93 Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigigus Fantasy in D, 90min/ p104 Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo, 95min, FSH / p105 Splitting the Difference, 45min, CC / p77 The Breakup Booth, 3-8min / p106 10:15pm

Sex, Dreams, & Self Control, 90min, FSH / p104 10:30pm

Super Heroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p105 11:00pm

Vamps & Vixens Vaudeville Revue, 55min, FMT / p84 Midnight

The Annihilation Point, 63min, CC / p105

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

5:15pm

10:00am

6:00pm

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

Chloe and Solved, 65min, SP / p74 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 INFLUX, 75min, Kensington / p75 Life is a Dream, 20min, OC / p97 Love & Geography, 60min, NL / p84 Passion, 60min, NL / p77 The Power Of Magic: An International Commedia for Everyone, 60min, OC / p106

8:00pm

6:30pm

Abrdgd Frng, 90min, CC / p67

Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson, 50min, CC / p99

9:00pm

7:00pm

10:00pm

Activity Book, 60min, CC / p67 Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 Company, 60min, SP / p89 ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera, 95min, CC / p85 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, 85min, CC / p95 Orphans, 90min, NL / p99 The Ibsen Project, 120min, CC / p106 The Pointe of Water, 70min, OC / p79 Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34 Vamps & Vixens Vaudeville Revue, 55min, FMT / p84 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107

Fefu and Her Friends, 90min, CC / p93 To The Girl In The Yellow Dress. . . , 40min, QV / p107

3 Mad Rituals, 60min, CC / p67 2:00pm

A Singer’s Circus, 70min, CC / p87 Citizen Paine, 65min, CC / p89 Diving in Backwards, 45min, WP / p91 Fractured Fairytales, 45min, FSH / p93 FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 Hermitage: The Strange Story of the Ghost Men of Harlem, 80min, CC / p95 Love & Geography, 60min, NL / p84 Pretty Young Thang, 60min, SP / p101 Satellite Submission/Nutmeg Overdose, 90min, OC / p77 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH / p105 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107 3:00pm

Call Mr. Robeson, 80min, UC / p89 Canvas in Concert, 120min, NL / p79 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 Crowning Glory: Hair Portraits and Stories, ongoing, OC / p108 CUBED with Special Guest Todd Chappelle, 60min, CC / p67 Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93 My Dwelling Is In Rooms Of Sound: Performing Gert Jonke, 90min, CC / p84 Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz, 195min, CC / p46 Pumpernickel and Marmalade, 50min, CC / p101 The Last Cargo Cult, 100min, CC / p42 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36 Urban Scuba, 50min, CC / p34 We Only Hurt The Ones We Love, 105min, UC / p87 3:15pm

Getting Your Life, 90min, CC / p95 4:00pm

4Play, 75min, CC / p87 Danse4Nia Meets Forces of Nature, The Move/Meant, 90min, North Philly / p74 It’s Hard Times at the Camera Blanca, 70min, FSH / p97 more., 80min, CC / p44 One Giant Leap, 60min, CC / p99 PILLS the Musical, 120min, CC / p101 The Brothers Flanagan, 120min, CC / p106 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107 4:30pm

To The Girl In The Yellow Dress. . . , 40min, QV / p107 5:00pm

7 (x1) Samurai, 60min, UC / p87 Clover, 70min, CC / p89 Company, 60min, SP / p89 The Action Section Presents: Life, 75min, CC / p71 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p106 Wake Up Philadelphia!, 60min, FSH / p71

7:30min

The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106 8:00pm

Clover, 70min, CC / p89 Diving in Backwards, 45min, WP / p91 Everyman, 90min, CC / p93 Insomnaeria, 50min, Germantown / p81 Love Is In The Air, 40min, NL / p84 Passion: An Evening with Lili Bita, 75min, UC / p101 Super Heroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p105 Teenager: Anne Frank, 60min, FMT / p105 The Waitstaff Sells Out, 50min, QV / p71 8:30pm

Fletcher, 60min, CC / p69 9:00pm

Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 10:00pm

7 (x1) Samurai, 60min, UC / p87 Big Fun!, 70min, FSH / p79 It’s Hard Times at the Camera Blanca, 70min, FSH / p97 Please Make Us Happy, or Protagonismo!, 60min, FSH / p101 What FIUP?, 90min, SP / p107 8:30pm

Company, 60min, SP / p89

Tuesday, Sept 15 10:00am

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108 6:30pm

Happy Hour, 60min, CC / p95 7:00pm

3 Mad Rituals, 60min, CC / p67 Clover, 70min, CC / p89 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 Eliza and Patsy, 60min, OC / p93 Emma’s Parlour, 68min, UC / p81 Katie and Pitark, 60min, UC / p97 Orphans, 90min, NL / p99 Other People’s Money, 120min, CC / p99 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107 7:30pm

Death & Destruction, 120min, UC / p74 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106 8:00pm

Big Fun!, 70min, FSH / p79 Fefu and Her Friends, 90min, CC / p93 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH / p105 Teenager: Anne Frank, 60min, FMT / p105 The A.W.A.R.D. Show! (prelim), 105min, CC / p48 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36 8:30pm

Sketch and Improv Comedy Spectacular with Meg & Rob and BWP, 70min, CC / p69

Joey Bear and Edna Lamb, 60min, North Philly / p97

9:00pm

Monday, Sept 14

10:00pm

10:00am

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Eliza and Patsy, 60min, OC / p93 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 To The Girl In The Yellow Dress. . . , 40min, QV / p107

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108 4:00pm

FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 7:00pm

Company, 60min, SP / p89 FrankenFestival, 55min, CC / p95 more., 80min, CC / p44

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

Day-by-Day

1:00pm

Getting Your Life, 90min, CC / p95

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Orphans, 90min, NL / p99 Rails, 80min, FMT / p104 The Moops, 60min, CC / p71

Sunday, Sept 13

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Wednesday, Sept 16

Thursday, Sept 17

10:00am

10:00am

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

Noon

Noon

Please Make Us Happy, or Protagonismo!, 60min, FSH / p101 The Annihilation Point, 63min, CC / p105 The Sound of Young America LIVE!, 90min, CC / p71

City Dances/Parkway, 60min, FMT / p74

City Dances/Parkway, 60min, FMT / p74

10:30pm

12:30pm

5:30pm

The Enchanted, 75min, UC / p106

small metal objects, 55min, UC / p52

Super Heroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p105

6:00pm

6:00pm

Stimulus, 120min, NL / p84

The Power Of Magic: An International Commedia for Everyone, 60min, OC / p106

Friday, Sept 18

6:30pm

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

Happy Hour, 60min, CC / p95

Noon

7:00pm

City Dances/Parkway, 60min, FMT / p74

barFlies, 45min, CC / p89 Clover, 70min, CC / p89 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Dangerous Fools, 60min, CC / p67 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 El Duelo (The Wake), 60min, WP / p74 Emma’s Parlour, 68min, UC / p81 GOLD, 70min, OC / p75 Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia, 60min, WP / p99 Mortal Engine, 55min, CC / p50 Other People’s Money, 120min, CC / p99 Paint the American Eagle, 60min, OC / p101 Postcards from the Woods, 55min, FSH / p54 Rails, 80min, FMT / p104 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p106 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107

1:00pm

7:00pm

Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 El Duelo (The Wake), 60min, WP / p74 Eliza and Patsy, 60min, OC / p93 Emma’s Parlour, 68min, UC / p81 Illegal Refill, 60min, CC / p69 Orphans, 90min, NL / p99 Other People’s Money, 120min, CC / p99 Postcards from the Woods, 55min, FSH / p54 small metal objects, 55min, UC / p52 The Brothers Flanagan, 120min, CC / p106 Trad The Remount, 75min, CC / p107 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC /p107 7:30pm

Formed Declarations, 50min, NL / p75 Half Way Home, 80min, CC / p95 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, 80min, QV / p106 7:45pm

Sex, Dreams, & Self Control, 90min, FSH / p104 8:00pm

Clover, 70min, CC / p89 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Fefu and Her Friends, 90min, CC / p93 It’s Hard Times at the Camera Blanca, 70min, FSH / p97 Please Make Us Happy, or Protagonismo!, 60min, FSH / p101 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH / p105 Teenager: Anne Frank, 60min, FMT / p105 The Annihilation Point, 63min, CC / p105 The A.W.A.R.D. Show! (prelim), 105min, CC / p48 The Waitstaff Sells Out, 50min, QV / p71 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36 What FIUP?, 90min, SP / p107 8:30pm

Dangerous Fools, 60min, CC / p67 9:00pm

Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 Eliza and Patsy, 60min, OC / p93 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99

7:30pm

Half Way Home, 80min, CC / p95 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 small metal objects, 55min, UC / p52 7:45pm

Sex, Dreams, & Self Control, 90min, FSH / p104 8:00pm

A History of Shit: Manson in Thebes, 60min, UC / p87 Double & Small, 90min, OC / p91 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Shrug, 90min, SP / p77 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH / p105 Sweet Like Chocolate Poetry in Motion II, 60min, UC / p84 Teenager: Anne Frank, 60min, FMT / p105 The A.W.A.R.D. Show! (prelim), 105min, CC / p48 The Waitstaff Sells Out, 50min, QV / p71 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36 8:30pm

9:30pm

Activity Book, 60min, CC / p67 Dumb Show by Joe Penhall, 90min, CC / p93

GOLD, 70min, OC / p75

9:00pm

10:00pm

Company, 60min, SP / p89 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 Trad The Remount, 75min, CC / p107 Ubu Roi, ou les polanais, 80min, WP / p107 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107

Happy Hour, 60min, CC / p95 Joey Bear and Edna Lamb, 60min, North Philly / p97 Monsters of Podcasting, 90min, CC / p69

10:00pm

Fefu and Her Friends, 90min, CC / p93

10:00am

small metal objects, 55min, UC / p52 5:00pm

Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93 6:00pm

The Power Of Magic: An International Commedia for Everyone, 60min, OC / p106 7:00pm

13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, 70min, CC / p58 Bike Part Art Show, ongoing, WP / p108 Clover, 70min, CC / p89 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 Dangerous Fools, 60min, CC / p67 Desert of Hallways, 60min, CC / p91 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 El Duelo (The Wake), 60min, WP / p74 Emma’s Parlour, 68min, UC / p81 Life is a Dream, 20min, OC / p97 Light of Our Own True Nature, 75min, OC / p85 Lilacs and Roses for Walt, Abe and My Father, 75min, CC / p81 Mr. Harry, 70min, OC / p99 Other People’s Money, 120min, CC / p99 Postcards from the Woods, 55min, FSH / p54 Series IV: The Demystification, 120min, OC / p77 small metal objects, 55min, UC / p52 The Action Section Presents: Life, 75min, CC / p71 Trad The Remount, 75min, CC / p107 Wake Up Philadelphia!, 60min, FSH / p71 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107 7:30pm

Clean Sheets, 60min, FMT / p89 Same Spirit Different Movement Fest, 90min, FMT / p84 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 8:00pm

4Play, 75min, CC / p87 Cirque-ular, 50min, Germantown / p89 eSights eSounds, 120min, SP / p81 FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Half Way Home, 80min, CC / p95 Improv Comedy: The N Crowd Double Header, 90min, OC / p69 Insomnaeria, 50min, Germantown / p81 Mortal Engine, 55min, CC / p56 Paint the American Eagle, 60min, OC / p101

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

3 Mad Rituals, 60min, CC / p67 Dumb Show by Joe Penhall, 90min, CC / p93 9:00pm

13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, 70min, CC / p58 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Dangerous Fools, 60min, CC / p67 Formed Declarations, 50min, NL / p75 Love Is In The Air, 40min, NL / p84 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 Philadelphia Fire Arts Presents: SimpLaFire, 80min, NL / p84 Phuk What Ya Heard, 90min, FSH / p69 Take Us To The Comedy Scene . . ., 45min, OC / p69 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p106 Ubu Roi, ou les polanais, 80min, WP / p107 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107

Passion: An Evening with Lili Bita, 75min, UC / p101 Pretty Young Thang, 60min, SP / p101 Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo, 95min, FSH / p105 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH / 105 Sweet Like Chocolate Poetry in Motion II, 60min, UC / p84 The A.W.A.R.D. Show! (final), 105min, CC / p48 Wawapalooza 3: The Dark Roast, 75min, QV / p107

4:00pm

8:30pm

Mortal Engine, 55min, CC / p56 Postcards from the Woods, 55min, FSH/ p54 Sex, Dreams, & Self Control, 90min, CC / p104 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107

Sketch and Improv Comedy Spectacular with Meg & Rob and BWP, 70min, CC / p69

4:30pm

Formed Declarations, 50min, NL / p75 5:00pm

7 (x1) Samurai, 60min, UC / p87 Abrdgd Frng, 90min, CC / p67 Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 Company, 60min, SP / p89 Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93 One Giant Leap, 60min, CC / p99 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p106 6:00pm

Please Make Us Happy, or Protagonismo!, 60min, FSH / p101

Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 The Brothers Flanagan, 120min, CC / p106 The Power Of Magic: An International Commedia for Everyone, 60min, OC / p106

10:00pm

7:00pm

Angry People Building Things, 90min, CC / p67 Clover, 70min, CC / p89 Improv Comedy: The N Crowd Double Header, 90min, OC / p69 Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigigus Fantasy in D, 90min / p104 The Annihilation Point, 63min, CC / p105 The Breakup Booth, 3-8min / p106

Muralmorphosis, ongoing, OC / p108

Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 barFlies, 45min, CC / p89 Company, 60min, SP / p89 daDAda, 43min, NL / p91 Dangerous Fools, 60min, CC / p67 Desert of Hallways, 60min, CC / p91 DIGITAL EFFECTS, 45min, OC / p91 El Duelo (The Wake), 60min, WP / p74 Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia, 60min, WP / p99 Mr. Harry, 70min, OC / p99 One Giant Leap, 60min, CC / p99 Other People’s Money, 120min, CC / p99 Series IV: The Demystification, 120min, OC / p77 small metal objects, 55min, UC / p52 Vamps & Vixens Vaudeville Revue, 55min, FMT / p84 Wake Up Philadelphia!, 60min, FSH / p71 Who Will Carry The Word?, 75min, CC / p107

Noon

7:30pm

Fractured Fairytales, 45min, FSH / p93

Clean Sheets, 60min, FMT / p89 Same Spirit Different Movement Fest, 90min, FMT / p84 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105

9:30pm

10:30pm

FATEBOOK, 80min, NL / p40 Super Heroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p105 Midnight

Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93

Saturday, Sept 19 10:00am

1:00pm

Festival Plus: Technology as Performance, 90min, CC / p60 small metal objects, 55min, UC / p52 2:00pm

Postcards from the Woods, 55min, FSH / p54 Pretty Young Thang, 60min, SP / p101 ‘Ships, 90min, CC / p105 The Brothers Flanagan, 120min, CC / p106

9:00pm

Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom, 45min, CC / p67 barFlies, 45min, CC / p89 daDAda, 43min, NL / p91 Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!, 65min, FMT / p93 MICROWORLD(s) Part #1, 65min, OC / p99 Philadelphia Fire Arts Presents: SimpLaFire, 80min, NL / p84 Phuk What Ya Heard, 90min, FSH / p69 Take Us To The Comedy Scene. . . , 45min, OC / p69 Ubu Roi, ou les polanais, 80min, WP / p107 Welcome to Yuba City, 75min, NL / p36

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8:30pm

Company, 60min, SP / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 Discordia, 60min, FSH / p91 Double & Small, 90min, OC / p91 El Duelo (The Wake), 60min, WP / p74 Everything Must Go, 60min, CC / p69 Half Way Home, 80min, CC / p95 Passion: An Evening with Lili Bita, 75min, UC / p101 Same Spirit Different Movement Fest, 90min, FMT / p84

3:00pm

9:30pm

Formed Declarations, 50min, NL / p75 Please Make Us Happy, or Protagonismo!, 60min, FSH / p101 10:00pm

Fletcher, 60min, CC / p69 Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigigus Fantasy in D, 90min / p104 The Breakup Booth, 3-8min / p106 10:30pm

Super Heroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p105 11:30pm

Illegal Refill, 60min, CC / p69 Midnight

The Annihilation Point, 63min, CC / p105

Continuing Company, 60min, SP / p89 Crooked House, 45min, FSH / p91 Half Way Home, 80min, CC / p95 Insomnaeria, 50min, Germantown / p81 Love Is In The Air, 40min, NL / p84 Series IV: The Demystification, 120min, OC / p77 Trad The Remount, 75min, CC / p107

8:00pm

4Play, 75min, CC / p87 Cirque-ular, 50min, Germantown / p89 Double & Small, 90min, OC / p91 Half Way Home, 80min, CC / p95 Insomnaeria, 50min, Germantown / p81 Love Is In The Air, 40min, NL / p84 Mortal Engine, 55min, CC / p56

Neighborhood Key: CC = Center City FMT = Fairmount FSH = Fishtown NL = Northern Liberties OC = Old City QV = Queen Village SP = South Philly UC = University City WP = West Philly

Day-by-Day

Passion: An Evening with Lili Bita, 75min, UC / p101 Sex, Dreams, & Self Control, 90min, CC / p104 Shrug, 90min, SP / p77 Something With Wings, 120min, FSH / p105 Sweet Like Chocolate Poetry in Motion II, 60min, UC / p84 Teenager: Anne Frank, 60min, FMT / p105 Wawapalooza 3: The Dark Roast, 75min, QV / p107

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Festival Bar at The Hub

SW corner of 5th + Fairmount in Northern Liberties

21+ / No cover Doors open at 9pm (weekdays) and 10pm (weekends) Onsite parking

The Festival Bar morphs from a lounge on weekdays, cozy as your grandma’s living room, to a surreal club party on weekends. Grab a beer, a glass of wine, or a pretty looking cocktail, and kick back for a movie screening or rev it up on the dance floor.

Let loose at the end of each Festival day with Festival artists, techies, and fellow show-goers. Mix it up till late—every night is a party.

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Media + Visual Arts

VJ Yakov projects his special blend of found footage, Super 8, and 80s commercials all over the Festival Bar walls and a network of screens.

Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (philaopenstudios.org) outfits the Bar with art installations straight from the studios of Philly artists.

DJs + Music

Every night the music helps you indulge in your rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle.

On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights Philly’s best DJs turn this raucous party into a dance riot.

Guest DJs include the Broadzilla DJs, Robotique DJs, DJ Apt One, and Dave Tat.

The Festival Bar is sponsored by Earl Girls.

Festival Bar

Photo: M. Elizabeth Hershey

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“The Festival is like a performing arts thrill ride, a window into what’s current— from the boisterous and totally crazy to the quiet and supremely beautiful.”

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Nick Stuccio, producing director, Live Arts Festival

Photo: Alan Kolc

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Even before the curtain rises, you become familiar with the contestants though the videotaped confessionals playing in the lobby—and by reading their profiles on Facebook. The dancers range from Dexter Allen Anderson giving his 125,000 percent to Tina Marina’s floor-licking routine, while judges like Sarah Manning with her pointless pontificating and Nigel Bruce Hancock with his oversexed ego battle for attention.

Yell out to your favorite dancers as they alternate between contestants and judges while trying to win your heart and your vote—all under the whip of an MC whom some might call a dominatrix.

“The setting is a game show competition and it appeals to me because . . . [I can] manipulate its elements to say something different about the cosmetic and destructive nature of competition in our culture.” Melanie Stewart, director of Kill Me Now “Entertaining and tightly choreographed work.” Merilyn Jackson, Philadelphia Inquirer

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Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre

You’ve seen Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance, now get ready for the newest dance-competitionreality-show-craze Kill Me Now. Playing with the live ammunition of real audiences voting for fictional characters, Kill Me Now blurs the line between art and reality, exposing the performers to the casual cruelty of the crowd. Kill Me Now is a fast-paced, comic experience with a different outcome every show. With the audience pulling the strings, the show becomes a ruthless examination of the performers’ desire for an ultimate prize and all they are willing to do to get it.

In short: dance show satire, you participate, lust, fame, manipulation, role-play.

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre’s past Festival works include Claire (Philly Fringe, 2007) and Babel (Live Arts Festival, 2004).

The show Kill Me Now was devised by the entire company.

Hosting duties are performed by Catherine Gillard, co-artistic director of benchtours. The text is written by Obie Award winner John Clancy.

Direction and Choreography Melanie Stewart Text John Clancy Set/Lighting Design Clifford Greer Jr Costume Design Stephanie Nichols Sound Design David Cimetta Videography Les Rivera Performers Bethany Formica, Cassie Eckerman, Catherine Gillard, Scott McPheeters, Janet Pilla, Megan Mazarick, Les Rivera, Karl Schappell $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 60 minutes Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 5 at 7pm Sept 6 at 4pm* + 7pm Sept 7 at 4pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Nick Stuccio, producing director, Live Arts Festival Executive Producers Karl and Linda Claus

The creation of Kill Me Now has been made possible by a generous gift from the Katherine Alexander Foundation.

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Kill Me Now

STORE

World Premiere!

kate watsonwallace/ anonymous bodies Chronicling the inner life of the American consumer and performed inside an abandoned megastore, STORE is inspired by how and why we buy. It imagines what our world would be like if we only had the rules left and everything else were gone, except for the leftovers, the wreckage of our excess. What will our bodies do in a world where the product is no more but the rules—detest, discover, purchase, apply, empty, repeat—still hold?

Part performance art, part dance party, part replication of the shopping experience, STORE is the third work in the American Spaces Trilogy (HOUSE, 2006; CAR, 2008).

Audiences surround the set of an absurdist infomercial that’s being shot for a shopping network. On screens throughout the store a shopping-lady avatar gives guidance on products and protocol. A set built of thousands of clothes morphs throughout the show, from vast garbage-like piles to neatly stacked walls to outfits for the audience to wear. A society continues the rituals of a world that no longer exists.

In short: abandoned store, dance party, infomercial from hell, cart-pushers, video projection, cleanup in aisle five.

Kate Watson-Wallace, a Philadelphia-based choreographer and performer, is the director of anonymous bodies, an interdisciplinary performance company that creates sitebased performances that re-imagine everyday spaces.

Direction and Choreography Kate Watson-Wallace Text Brian Osbourne Video Artist Ricardo Rivera Composer and Sound Design Josh Cicetti Dramaturg Sebastienne Mundheim Costume Design Millie Hiibel Visual Consultation Steven Dufala Performers Charlotte Ford (on film), Makoto Hirano, Jaamil Kosoko, Lorin Lyle, John Luna, Heather Murphy, Kate Watson-Wallace $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 60 minutes The Former Rite Aid 4237 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 5 at 9pm Sept 6 + 7 at 1pm + 3pm Sept 8* + 9 at 7pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Pia Agrawal, programming director, Live Arts Festival Portions of this show require the audience to move about the venue.

Executive Producer Malin VanAntwerp Special thanks to Avi Eden and The Judith S. Eden Small Theater Initiative.

STORE has been created with generous support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance, and from the Rockefeller Map Fund, a program of Creative Capital.

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“Philly isn’t a cute, pretty city, so why make work that is?” Kate WatsonWallace, director of STORE “Wild imagination ruled.”

The New York Times “Kate Watson-Wallace and her anonymous bodies group . . . continue to push performance into the unexpected settings that reveal that all of life is a stage for performers.”

Broad Street Review

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Urban Scuba Brian Sanders/ JUNK

The newest creation from choreographer Brian Sanders emerges from a huge, abandoned swimming pool under The Gershman Y. The site has been deserted for fifteen years.

It’s gritty, broken down, graffiti-strewn, and in need of a good scrubbing. In other words, the perfect location for all the crazy underworld creatures that come to life in Urban Scuba. The audience sits on a riser in the shallow end watching the high-flying, athletic, and supremely talented JUNK dancers in the deep end. Wild illusions are created with movement and fantastical costumes over water. Humor, extreme physicality, and stunning imagination will be at the forefront of this world premiere.

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In short: underground pool, physical prowess, grit, upside down dancers, sewer life, audience in the shallow end.

“Sir Isaac Newton’s got nothing on the guerilla performers in JUNK. The dancers don’t simply defy gravity; they challenge the very construct, through the sort of contorted choreography usually seen in Cirque du Soleil shows.” Andrew Parks, Philadelphia City Paper “JUNK gives an aerial floor show that could make your hair stand on end.” Dance Magazine

Sanders is a former principal dancer with Momix. His past Live Arts shows have proven immensely popular: Patio Plastico starred plastic water slides, pogo sticks, and lawn furniture; silver painted dancers spun about the air like cogs in a machine in AdShock; and The Gate had naked dancers scaling a 20-foot sculpture. His 2008 Philly Fringe hit Flushdance reinterpreted Flashdance with toilets.

Direction and Choreography Brian Sanders Lighting Terry Smith Performers John Luna, Lesya Popil, William Robinson, Brian Sanders $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 50 minutes The Pool at The Gershman Y 401 South Broad Street (at Pine) Sept 2 ($20 preview) + 4 at 7pm Sept 5 at 2pm + 6pm* Sept 6 at 7pm Sept 10 + 11 at 9pm Sept 12 + 13 at 3pm + 7pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Nick Stuccio, producing director, Live Arts Festival This performance may contain nudity.

Executive Producers David and Linda Glickstein

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Welcome to Yuba City Pig Iron Theatre Company

Home of the Prune Festival and the bee-beard contest, Yuba City is an invisible gem tucked away in the desert. Rest here on your travels along that long unswerving snake we call the interstate, park your rig, unfold your legs, drain the main vein, and try our world-famous prairie dog “dog.” Cowboys and aliens, curmudgeons and troubadours, bassoonists and balloonists, you’re all welcome. So go ahead, play the piano with your feet, stitch an armadillo-skin purse, and build a cactus mailbox.

A massive set recreates a mythical truck stop—parking lot included—where a wild cascade of characters explores the limits of human lunacy. Gaze in wonder as cowboys perform a clown ballet on asphalt! Watch a group of small town criminals make a citizen’s arrest! See—if you can!—an invisible jackalope who dines all day on pie! Long hidden stories of the American West are revealed by clowning, dancing, live music played on tubas and spoons, cowboy philosophers, and a stunningly mean group of foulmouthed waitresses. Welcome to Yuba City promises a hilarious—and outrageous—evening of tall tales and tinfoil handicrafts that reminds us of the truly odd experience of living on this planet.

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Pig Iron Theatre Company tests and breaks the boundaries of dance, drama, clown, puppetry, and music. For Yuba, the company is joined by composer Michael Friedman and Giovanni Fusetti, a master teacher of physical performance forms.

“Maybe the play depicts the battle between a cactus and a ficus.” Quinn Bauriedel, director of Welcome to Yuba City “Prodigious talent and discipline.” The Village Voice

Direction Quinn Bauriedel Text Deborah Stein Composer Michael Friedman Set Design Mimi Lien Lighting Design James Clotfelter Costume Design Maiko Matsushima Choreography Christina Zani Artistic Advisor Giovanni Fusetti Performers Hinako Arao, Charlotte Ford, Sarah Sanford, Geoff Sobelle, James Sugg, Alex Torra, Dito Van Reigersberg $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 75 minutes Festival Theater at The Hub SW corner of 5th Street + Fairmount Avenue Wheelchair accessible Onsite parking Sept 2 at 8pm ($20 preview) Sept 4 ($20 preview) + 5 at 9pm Sept 6 at 3pm Sept 9–11 at 8pm Sept 12 at 9pm Sept 13 at 3pm* Sept 15, 16* + 17 at 8pm Sept 18 + 19 at 9pm *Post-show discussion Executive Producers Al and Nancy Hirsig

Welcome to Yuba City was funded in part by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative.

This project is also made possible with support from the William Penn Foundation and the Charlotte Cushman Foundation.

Opening Night sponsors:

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In short: clown-ballet, truckers, music, mythmaking, oddballs, tumbleweed, handicrafts, Americana.

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“If you see me with my head tilted slightly sideways, quietly mumbling to myself as I stare off into space don’t worry—I am merely listening to the place and its ghosts.” Madison Cario, co-creator of TIDE “Tradition of physical risk, brilliant technique and intense emotion . . . very affecting.”

Robert Ackerman, Philadelphia City Paper “A wonderful collision of rapture, capture, and trap—hot themes explored in a postmodern style.”

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Into the immense and ultra-sparse ice box—a blank slate of whitespace—step six dancers with distinct personalities displaying the pieces of their past they hold on to to survive.

While some seek to forge bonds over traditions, others enjoy disrupting the peace of their fellow dancers with wild movement and hilarious self-importance. SCRAP’s choreography is always site-specific and created alongside the light, video, and sound design, inseparably melding technical elements with dance. TIDE promises an intensely sensual, visually intricate, and emotionally raw vision of our shared experience.

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SCRAP Performance Group

SCRAP Performance Group celebrates its 15-year anniversary with a new TIDE and the return of co-artistic director Myra Bazell to the stage. An ever-evolving work of experimental dance theater, this TIDE investigates what of our histories and our shared and personal experiences would accompany us to a place where the natural world no longer exists. What would you think of? What would you want to say?

In short: sensual, dance at the edge of the world, survival, stories in movement, technical beauty.

Known for their humor and blazing physicality, married co-artistic directors Myra Bazell and Madison Cario use their relationship, their inherited values, and the life experiences of SCRAP’s dancers as ingredients for their artistic explorations.

Creation Myra Bazell and Madison Cario in collaboration with the performers Sound Myra Bazell and Madison Cario Costumes Jamie Grace-Duff Company Manager Jennifer McGill-Rusynyk Performers Myra Bazell, Marie Brown, Lindsay Browning, Katharine Livingston, Shannon Murphy, Sara Kamara Yassky $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 60 minutes ICE BOX Projects Space 1400 North American Street (at Jefferson) Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 8pm Sept 5 at 4pm + 8pm Sept 6 at 4pm Sept 7 at 2pm* *Post-show discussion with Manfred Fischbeck, artistic director, Group Motion Dance Company Audiences move about the venue during the performance.

Generous support for TIDE was provided by: The University of the Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Magic Gardens, The Puffin Foundation, the Painted Bride Art Center, Angler Movement Arts Center, Beau Monde, The Bus Stop Boutique, and The Bellman Foundation.

Special thanks to SCRAP Performance Group’s board of directors for its consistent support and encouragement.

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Danh

Andrew

Ame

Clayton

Tim

Anita

They need friends . . . do you?

FATEBOOK: Avoiding Catastrophe One Party at a Time New Paradise Laboratories

FATEBOOK explores what happens when our online lives collide with the physical world. A massive undertaking with 13 central characters and 100 secondary characters, audiences attend FATEBOOK in person at the Festival and online (go to www.fatebooktheshow.com, and learn how you can “friend” the characters). In the online world, the actors communicate in character with each other and with you, building an ever-expanding network of relationships and memories that are both real and imagined.

At the Festival show, audiences experience FATEBOOK by trailing individual characters at will. The action plays out within a labyrinth of screens displaying the shifting cityscapes and intimate spaces in which the characters live. Twelve projectors and 4 live video feeds blur the line between the digital environment and the physical one; performers seem to step in and out of a virtual world filled with pleasure and peril.

Thirteen individual stories weave into one looping, shifting world; FATEBOOK allows you to follow the story from the varying perspectives and characters, until a final retelling smashes all expectations.

In short: video interplay, physical vs online life, mystery, join the party, follow in the characters’ footsteps.

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Julia

Cherie

Darren

Courtney

June

Logan

Zoe

Friend them through www.fatebooktheshow.com

Conception and Direction Whit MacLaughlin Set and Media Design Matt Saunders Media and Projection Design Jorge Cousineau Lighting Design Drew Billiau Costume Design Alison Johnson Production Manager Emily Rea Technical Consultants Educated Guesswork Web Design and Webmastery Jeremy Beaudry, Matt Saunders, Jorge Cousineau Performers Alex Bechtel, Kate Brennan, Moriah Cebollero, Samantha Kristina Clarke, David Greene, Delanté Keys, Nhut Le, Emily Letts, Tom Osborne, Jesse Paulsen, Rachel Radenberg, Cindy Spitko, Anne MacGillivray Wilson $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 80 minutes 919 North 5th Street (at Poplar) Wheelchair accessible Onsite parking Sept 4, 5, 8, 9* + 10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 8pm + 10:30pm Sept 12 at 8pm Sept 15*–17 at 8pm Sept 18 at 8pm + 10:30pm *Post-show discussion See Festival Plus (page 60) for a panel discussion involving this show on Sept 12 at 1pm.

This show requires the audience to move about the venue.

Each evening AREA 919 hosts a pre-performance reception in their adjacent gallery featuring Mark Khaisman: INTRAspective. Doors open at 7pm. Beer and wine served.

Executive Producers Lenny Haas and Mary Lee Bednarek

“[The audience] can interact with the characters, both online and in person. They can be a part of the show in discreet, mischievous, and comfortable ways.” Whit MacLaughlin, director of FATEBOOK “Each year, NPL sets out to create one completely original— and distinctive—work . . . [that] manages to be funny and, most important, wildly entertaining.”

Philadelphia Magazine

FATEBOOK was funded in part by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative. This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Theatre Initiative.

This project is also supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Under the artistic direction of Obie and Barrymore Award winner Whit MacLaughlin, New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) creates experimental theater that values wild humor, striking visuals, and a fascination with the utopian impulse.

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“The master storyteller—one of the finest solo performers of his generation. What distinguishes him from most solo performers is how elegantly he blends personal stories, historical digressions, and philosophical ruminations.” New York Times

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“Comedy is a huge part of what I do—the shows are funny, and alternate between comedy and tragedy within a single piece.

I feel strongly that this is the best way to strive toward catharsis.” Mike Daisey

A co-presentation with

philadelphiatheatrecompany Executive Producers Marty Tuzman, Eileen Heisman, and Jenkintown Building Services

Mike Daisey’s groundbreaking monologues weave together autobiography, gonzo journalism, and unscripted performance to tell hilarious and heartbreaking tales that cut to the bone, exposing secret histories and unexpected connections. A captivating performer, Daisey reenergizes modern performance with the art of great storytelling.

Mike Daisey’s many monologues include If You See Something Say Something, Great Men of Genius, TRUTH, Monopoly!, and Invincible Summer. He is the author of 21 Dog Years, has appeared as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, and contributes to WIRED, Slate, Salon, Studio 360, and the BBC.

How Theater Failed America

Performed and Created by Mike Daisey Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory

From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to “successful” working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian state of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. Ship in freeze-dried actors from New York City?

Certainly! Create generations of theater professors who have never worked in theater? Absolutely! Earn no pay and have no hope of a living wage? Sign us up! Daisey gives a darkly hilarious and truthful dissection of the art that’s being made, the legacy we leave to the future, and just who it is the theater believes it’s speaking to.

480 South Broad Street (at Lombard) Wheelchair accessible Sept 4* + 5 at 8pm Sept 6 at 3pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Sara Garonzik, producing artistic director, Philadelphia Theatre Company

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Two Shows

by Mike Daisey

$25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 100 minutes

In short: storytelling, why we make art, sponsorship hell, audiences on life support, a tall glass of water.

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Mike Daisey tells the true-life story of his time on a remote South Pacific island where the inhabitants worship America.

There he lived with the cult, hunted feral pigs beneath the erupting volcano of Mount Yasur, and learned of the islanders’ stories of belief, faith, and sympathetic magic. Part adventure story and part memoir, The Last Cargo Cult weaves these stories with a searing examination of the international financial crisis. From the belief in the infallibility of markets to the ultimate achievement in sympathetic magic—money— Daisey wrestles with what the collapse says about our deepest values. He uses each culture to illuminate the other to find—between the seemingly primitive and the achingly modern—a human answer.

In short: island cultists, erupting volcanoes, feral pigs, magical realism, world economic fantasy.

Performed and Created by Mike Daisey Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 100 minutes

480 South Broad Street (at Lombard) Wheelchair accessible Sept 10 + 11* at 8pm Sept 12 at 3pm + 8pm Sept 13 at 3pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Nick Stuccio, producing director, Live Arts Festival

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The Last Cargo Cult

more.

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Headlong Dance Theater What goes away and what stays?

Body parts go away. Pretty much all possessions go away with the exceptions of pets and houseplants. Dancing stays. Music stays. Chronic pain, anxiety, regrets—all go away. Fear stays.

So for those of you who have a lot of fear that can be rough.

Family goes away. And some people are very happy about that.

Sex stays, but it shifts into something more like farming.

In more., Headlong imagines a dance of our bodies after our bodies have gone away. In an ever-shifting landscape, a house is built, dismantled, and built up again. Rooms morph into sculptures strewn with bodies. An office party gathers by a horse field where dancers gallop about and are honored for their long years of service. Though it all, a furious dance of what the body isn’t tears across a domestic world. Two years in the making, Headlong uprooted their 16-year collaborative approach to create more., the company’s most intense and gripping work to date.

In short: messing with the ordinary, body parts going away, smash this dance, home, secrets.

For more., Headlong’s artistic directors were inspired by in-depth conversations and provocations from choreographer Tere O’Connor (Rammed Earth, Live Arts Festival, 2007).

Headlong’s past Festival shows include Explanatorium (2007), Hotel Pool (2004), and Britney’s Inferno (2002).

Direction and Choreography David Brick, Andrew Simonet, Amy Smith Dramaturg Mark Lord Production Designer Maiko Matsushima Performers Nichole Canuso, Niki Cousineau, Devynn Emory, Jaamil Kosoko, Kate Watson-Wallace, Christina Zani $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 80 minutes Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible Sept 10 + 11 at 8pm Sept 12 at 4pm + 8pm Sept 13 at 4pm* Sept 14 at 7pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Andrew Zitcer, senior research associate, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University Executive Producer Christie Hartwell

This project is supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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“We are mere bodies and the whole world at once.”

David Brick, co-director of more.

“Amy Smith, Andrew Simonet, and David Brick make some of the most affecting dances around.”

The Village Voice

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Directed by Michał Zadara Capitol Theatre (Wrocław, Poland)

Music, fashion, dancing, and chaos—and a cast of 22—dominate Operetta, a wild fable about a young woman whose desire to be naked plunges a nation into revolution. The story begins with a fashion-loving count who pines for the beauty Albertine, yet all she wants to do is strip off her clothes. A rival suitor proclaims his love. There’s a duel. There’s a ball. There’s panic, war, class-struggle, skiing . . . there’s a camel falling from the sky.

Written in the early 1960s by Polish literary giant Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), each production of Operetta receives entirely new music. For this latest staging, genre-defying composer and jazz pianist Leszek Możdżer created an eclectic score that ranges from yearning ballads to punk rock. An operetta is the romantic comedy of opera; this Operetta explodes the form.

In short: naked singing, pickpockets, live band, revolution, a camel, ski vacation, love triangle, steam bath party.

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Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz

Director Michał Zadara, born in 1976, represents the younger generation of Polish rebel directors. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he won the prestigious “Polityka’s Passport” for the year 2007 for his creative activity in theater.

Direction Michał Zadara Writer Witold Gombrowicz Music Leszek Możdżer Choreography Tomasz Wygoda Stage Scenery Magdalena Musiał Costumes Julia Kornacka Lights Ewa Garniec Video Lea Mattausch Musicians Dariusz Kaliszuk, Rafał Karasiewicz, Cybulka Marzena, Katarzyna Mirowska, Ewa Mizerska, Katarzyna Ruda, Magda Śniadecka Skrzypek, Elżbieta Woleńska Performers Ewelina Adamska, Krzysztof Boczkowski, Arkadiusz Brykalski, Jacek Gebura, Michał Juzon, Ewa Klaniecka, Ryszard Klaniecki, Rafał Kronenberger, Piotr Malecki, Mirosław Owczarek, Bartosz Picher, Michał Pietrzak, Cezary Studniak, Justyna Szafran, Marek Szczygieł, Tomasz Sztonyk, Marek Szydło, Łukasz Wójcik, Bogna Wozniak

$25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 195 minutes (2 intermissions) The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street (at Spruce) Wheelchair accessible Sept 10* + 11 at 7pm Sept 12 at 3pm + 7pm Sept 13 at 3pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Allen Kuharski, professor and chair, department of theater, Swarthmore College See Festival Plus (page 60) for a panel discussion involving this show on Sept 6 at 1pm.

Executive Producers Lynne and Bert Strieb This show is performed in Polish with English supertitles.

It also includes nudity.

The presentation of Operetta was funded in part by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative.

The presentation of Operetta is made possible due to the initiative and support of the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.

Additional support for Operetta comes from The William J. Cooper Foundation, Swarthmore College. Performances of Operetta are sponsored by the Doubletree Hotel.

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“Well, the thing about revolutions is that we don’t see them coming.”

Michał Zadara, director of Operetta

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The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009: Philadelphia Artists With Audiences Responding to Dance A co-presentation with

The Joyce Theater 12 choreographers. $10,000. Who takes it home?

You be the judge.

Twelve Philadelphia-area choreographers were chosen for their ability to create inspirational and inventive contemporary dance. Now they compete over three preliminary performances (four choreographers per night) for the chance to be voted by the audience onto the final night, when the three finalists present their work and the winner takes home $10,000. The prize pays for the creation of a new piece. The two runnersup each receive $1,000.

More than a gladiatorial dance-off, The A.W.A.R.D. Show! features talkbacks so that audiences can express their ideas about the work directly to the choreographers. By having you choose what’s best, the performances entice you to pay close attention to the dance that’s presented. And while not every choreographer goes home with the Benjamins, the show provides a platform for emerging artists to present their work, and for audiences to be exposed to the next wave of American choreography.

In short: live dance competition, 10K prize, you vote, Philly choreographers. $25 (preliminaries), $30 (final) (student tickets $15) / 105 minutes (includes talkback) Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible Sept 15 at 8pm, preliminary: Jumatatu Poe, Jenn Rose, Kathryn TeBordo, Kate Watson-Wallace Host: Amy Smith, co-artistic director, Headlong Dance Theater Sept 16 at 8pm, preliminary: Nichole Canuso, Kirsten Kaschock, Gabrielle Revlock, Zornitsa Stoyanova Host: Anna Drozdowski, director, Ladybird Sept 17 at 8pm, preliminary: Braham Logan Crane, Devynn Emory, Megan Mazarick, Jen McGinn Host: Melanie Stewart, artistic director, Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre Sept 19 at 8pm, final: You decide! Host: Lois Welk, director, Dance/USA Philadelphia A reception with the artists is held after each show.

The A.W.A.R.D. Show! was founded in 2006 by choreographer Neta Pulvermacher/The Neta Dance Company and producer Marisa König Beatty in response to a need for a lab-like space in which working dance artists can engage in an open dialogue with the audience about the work presented. The A.W.A.R.D. Show! is now administered and produced by The Joyce Theater Foundation (www.joyce.org) and has been expanded from an annual series held in New York City at Joyce SoHo to a multi-city format in 2009.

Additional 2009 series are taking place at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and On the Boards (Seattle).

The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009 productions and awards in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Seattle are made possible by a generous grant from The Boeing Company.

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“Is it possible to give a conventional object a new meaning and a new perspective?” Willi Dorner, director of above under inbetween “Imagine choreographer Willi Dorner is a therapist who, in his innermost personality, is a level-headed engineer.

Or maybe the other way around: he is a binary code researcher fascinated by the power of the sign. In any case, it would help to imagine a person working at the interface where contradictions collide.” Karin Cerny, Falter Magazine

above under inbetween Cie. Willi Dorner (Austria)

You may never think of a chair the same way again.

above under inbetween follows Cie. Willi Dorner’s popular 2008 Live Arts show bodies in urban spaces, which had audiences wandering the streets, discovering startling formations of dancers piled upon one another in strange and unexpected places. above under inbetween uses human bodies to redesign our home.

How would you act around a chair if you didn’t know it was a chair? Or a doorway? Or a banister? And what if your body were joined with these objects for an architectural project? Like bendable, multi-jointed building materials, dancers’ bodies are stacked, folded, and fitted together to create a new living space constructed of human beings. Set to new music by composer Bernhard Lang, the result is a compelling, absurd, and humorous view of the ordinary.

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In short: human architecture, hide and seek, warped home design, contortion.

Concept and Choreography Willi Dorner Music Bernhard Lang Stage Construction Katharina Heistinger Audio Software Thomas Musil, IEM/KUG Visual Interface Software IOhannes m zmölnig, IEM/KUG Performers Megan Bridge, Tomas Danielis, Sebastian Gec, Michael O’Connor, Åsa Odemark, Anna Reitbauer, Esther Steinkogler $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 60 minutes ICE BOX Projects Space 1400 North American Street (at Jefferson) Wheelchair accessible Sept 11* + 12 at 8pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Raymond J. Ricketts, instructor in English, Bryn Mawr College Audiences move about the venue during the performance.

Executive Producer Robert M. Dever

Co-produced by LINZ09 European Cultural Capital City and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance. Cie. Willi Dorner is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Vienna. This tour of Cie. Willi Dorner is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program.

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Cie. Willi Dorner’s stage and site-specific works have been presented throughout Europe, Africa, North and South America, and China. Willi Dorner is keen on creating events that give the audience a different perception of everyday life.

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small metal objects Back to Back Theatre (Australia) Actors are outfitted with microphones. You are given headphones. From a prominent riser you listen to an intense drama happening somewhere in the crowd. In a public space with pedestrians wandering every which way, only gradually do the actors become distinguishable from the rest of the passersby.

small metal objects explores how respect is withheld from outsiders—the disabled or unemployed—whom society deems “unproductive.” Here they play a pivotal role in the night of two ambitious executives they’ve arranged to meet for a financial transaction that goes terribly awry. Meanwhile, a second drama is played out: Philadelphia’s pedestrians have become unknowing extras in a dramatic narrative, but they only see the 150 audience members listening intently to their headphones, and not the actors creating the drama.

In short: eavesdropping, public venue, drama, random encounters, headphones, pedestrian traffic.

Based in Geelong, Australia, Back to Back Theatre’s creations come from the minds and experiences of an ensemble of actors with disabilities, giving voice to social and political issues that speak to all people.

Direction Bruce Gladwin Text Bruce Gladwin, Simon Laherty, Sonia Teuben, Genevieve Morris, Jim Russell Sound Design and Composition Hugh Covill Performers Simon Laherty, Sonia Teuben, Genevieve Picot $25–$30 (students tickets $15) / 55 minutes The 40th Street Field, University of Pennsylvania 40th Street between Walnut and Locust Wheelchair accessible Sept 16 at 7pm* Sept 17 at 5:30pm + 7:30pm Sept 18 + 19 at 1pm + 7pm *Post-show discussion with Nick Stuccio, producing director, Live Arts Festival Please note that small metal objects takes place outdoors, rain or shine. Audiences will be seated on a riser on the field and remain seated for the entire performance. Headphones for the performance will be provided to each ticket holder.

Executive Producers Tom and Carol Beam, Steven Dressler

small metal objects was initiated through the Victoria Commissions, and supported by the Victorian Government, through the Community Support Fund and Arts Victoria.

Support also comes from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body and through the Australian International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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“Once we started working with headphones we asked ourselves would it be possible, and what would the experience be like, to present a show in chaos?” Bruce Gladwin, director of small metal objects

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“A glorious exercise in multiple layers of perception, small metal objects insists that we participate beyond the bounds of mute observance: we are in a public space, isolated by technology yet bound together by it, following a narrative that becomes intensely personal.”

Irish Theatre Magazine

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Postcards from the Woods Merián Soto/ Performance Practice

Enter a space of reverie where performers dance with branches, as long as 20 feet. A massive video installation projects nature in extreme close-up covering walls, dancers, branches, and the audience in snowstorms, wind-blown leaves, and moving water. The interplay between video and dancers produces fantastical shadows that frame the abstract images of the natural world. Size and perspective morph in relation to shadow and light, and—like a hall of mirrors— everything becomes reflective.

Amid a hypnotic soundscape, dancers ever-so-slowly shift their bodies to accommodate the shifting balance of the massive branches. A sense of danger enshrouds the room, as the precarious symmetry of dancer and branch—despite their gentle beauty—is forever on the precipice of destruction.

Postcards from the Woods continues Merián Soto’s States of Gravity & Light series which has included the Wissahickon Park Project (performed throughout the park) and States of Gravity & Light, Vol. 2 (2007 Live Arts Festival).

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“I want to bring the outside inside.”

Merián Soto

Photo: Pepón Osorio

“Quite beautiful.”

Janet Anderson, Philadelphia City Paper

Merián Soto is an award-winning Philadelphia-based choreographer who has been creating and presenting critically acclaimed work internationally for more than 30 years.

Direction Merián Soto Lighting Design Dave Overcamp Collaborators/Performers Jumatatu Poe, Olive Prince, Noemí Segarra $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 55 minutes ICE BOX Projects Space 1400 North American Street (at Jefferson) Wheelchair accessible Sept 16*–18 at 7pm Sept 19 at 2pm + 4pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Pia Agrawal, programming director, Live Arts Festival Audiences move about the venue during the performance.

The creation of Postcards from the Woods is made possible with grants from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance, Temple University, and the Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance. Residency support has been provided by Pregones Theater (with support from PennPat and the National Endowment from the Arts), and DanceNow/NY/Silo.

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In short: hypnotic dance, video installation, nature, shadow, tipping point, life in a kaleidoscope.

Mortal Engine

US Premiere!

Chunky Move (Australia) Chunky Move’s highly acclaimed, cutting-edge fusion of technology and dance is on full display in Mortal Engine. This intensely physical, sensual, and visually daring work uses movement and soundresponsive projections that morph human figures into light and sound and back again. Mortal Engine has no pre-rendered video, light, or laser images. Instead, interactive systems allow light, video, sound, and performers to respond to each other in real time. With this mind-blowing visual power, Mortal Engine leads us into a world where unformed bodies search to connect and evolve. Dancers appear trapped in a constant state of becoming, veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence right before your eyes.

In short: lasers, body-techno interplay, dance, distortion, strength, spider webs.

Founded in Melbourne, Australia, by artistic director Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance.

Direction and Choreography Gideon Obarzanek Interactive System Design Frieder Weiss Laser and Sound Artist Robin Fox Composer Ben Frost Set Design Richard Dinnen and Gideon Obarzanek Costume Design Paula Levis Lighting Design Damien Cooper Executive Producer Rachael Azzopardi Production And Operations Manager Chris Mercer Multimedia Engineer Nick Roux Stage Manager Lydia Teychenne Head Mechanist Michael Carr Dancers Kristy Ayre, Amber Haines, Marnie Palomares, James Shannon, Adam Synnott, Charmene Yap $25–$30 (student tickets $15) / 55 minutes The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street (at Spruce) Wheelchair accessible Sept 17 at 7pm* Sept 18 at 8pm Sept 19 at 4pm + 8pm *Post-show discussion moderated by Nick Stuccio, producing director, Live Arts Festival See Festival Plus (page 60) for a panel discussion involving this show on Sept 19 at 1pm This production contains partial nudity, smoke, laser and strobe lighting effects, and loud volume audio.

Executive Producers Tobey and Mark Dichter, Carol Klein and Larry Spitz, David Seltzer and Lisa Roberts The presentation of Chunky Move’s Mortal Engine is made possible by a grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance. Chunky Move is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. This project is also supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Performances of Chunky Move’s Mortal Engine are sponsored by the Doubletree Hotel.

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“One body became two, two became one. A large moving blob of amoeba-like creatures swallowed up everything in its path. Laser displays diminished the dancers, then magnified them. Giant tangles of spiders’ webs were created, and exploding snowflakes, and splintering abstract shapes.” Bridget Stevens, EIF Critic “That was the best thing I’ve seen in my life, ever. I want to go and see it again NOW!” Audience comment overheard in the bathroom after Chunky Move’s performance of Mortal Engine at the Edinburgh International Festival

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Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips

Andy Warhol shot nearly five hundred Screen Tests of the famous and the anonymous in his studio, The Factory, between 1964 and 1966. The subjects were asked to pose, lit with a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black-and-white, 100-foot rolls of film. Each screen test was only as long as the roll of film. The resulting 2 and 3/4 minute films were projected in slow motion so that each lasted four minutes.

Rockers Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of Luna and currently with Dean & Britta, perform onstage with their band (Lee Waters and Matt Sumrow) while the Warhol films are projected overhead. Commissioned by The Andy Warhol Museum to compose music for thirteen of the Screen Tests, the songwriting duo created new songs (with the exceptions of a Bob Dylan song and an obscure Velvet Underground cover) tailored to the personality of each film portrait. The resulting 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests is a rocking live art experience that brings new perspective to Warhol’s iconic films.

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13 Most Beautiful . . .

Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests

In short: Warhol, live concert, toothbrush, the Factory, film portraits, Billy Name, Nico, Lou Reed.

“Punk rock celebrates the commonplace and the ugly and elevates it, and I think Warhol did the same.” Dean Wareham, co-composer of 13 Most Beautiful . . .

Composed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips Developed

by Ben Harrison, associate curator for performance, with Geralyn Huxley, curator of film and video, and Greg Pierce, assistant curator of film and video, of The Andy Warhol Museum Musicians Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips, Lee Waters, Matt Sumrow

“[S]ound and image powerfully entwined.”

Ty Burr, Boston Globe

$25 (student tickets $15) / 70 minutes Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 at 7pm + 9pm* *Post-show discussion moderated by Sid Sachs, director, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery Executive Producer Tony Forte Photo: Andy Warhol, Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick, 1964-66, 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4 minutes at 16 frames per second ©2008 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests is a project jointly commissioned by The Andy Warhol Museum and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts 2008.

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“I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty . . .

I always hear myself saying, She’s a beauty! or He’s a beauty! or What a beauty!

But . . . if everybody’s not a beauty, then nobody is.” Andy Warhol quoted in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975

Festival Plus Panel Discussions About New Ways of Performing

Through panel discussions with Festival artists and cultural critics, Festival Plus events allow artists to discuss the ideas, challenges, and goals of their work in an open setting, giving audiences a chance to ask questions and convey their experiences as viewers.

Photo: Josh McIlvain

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This panel is made possible by a grant from the William J. Cooper Foundation, Swarthmore College.

Social Media and the Arts: a conversation on art, social media, and participation Panelists Whit MacLaughlin, artistic director of New Paradise Laboratories; kanarinka, The Institute for Infinitely Small Things Moderator Jo-anne Green, co-director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., cofounder of Networked Performance blog Panel Organizer Jeremy Beaudry, assistant professor, multimedia, College of Media and Communication, The University of the Arts

Technology as Performance: discussing the future models of live performance Panelists Members of the creative team behind Chunky Move’s Mortal Engine; Dawn Stoppiello, executive director, artistic co-director, Troika Ranch Moderator Kathleen Forde, curator for Time-Based Arts at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)

Free / 90 minutes Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 1pm

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Panelists Michał Zadara, director of Operetta; Rita Gombrowicz, widow, biographer, and literary executor of Witold Gombrowicz; Thomas Sellar, critic and editor of Theater (Yale School of Drama) Moderator Allen Kuharski, professor and chair, department of theater, Swarthmore College

Witold Gombrowicz (1905–1969) remains Poland’s most successful theatrical export. Polish director Michał Zadara, a Swarthmore graduate, has created the most important recent production of the playwright’s satirical musical Operetta (getting its US premiere at the 2009 Live Arts Festival). Rita Gombrowicz (b. 1935) has overseen her husband’s literary estate since his death, including the years of the suppression and censorship of his work in Poland, and has authored two essential biographies of Gombrowicz. Moderator Allen Kuharski is the chairman of the theater department at Swarthmore College and an authority on Gombrowicz’s work.

The digital network is the new default cultural metaphor: we understand ourselves and bits of information less as discrete bodies but rather as links in a web of relationships. Nowhere is this trend more evident than in the mass of online participation on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter; the citizen journalism of independent media organizations; and the self-published blogs about every topic imaginable. This panel brings together performing arts practitioners and critics to address this phenomenon through the frame of contemporary art.

Free / 90 minutes Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Sreet) Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 1pm

Technology is shifting from the periphery to the roots of contemporary performance. More than ever, performing artists and designers, engineers, and scientists are allied in pursuit of innovative visual experiences. But what does this really mean for the arts world? What brilliant ideas are on the horizon? And will they spell the end of live performance as we know it? This state-of-the-arts panel reflects on creative advances in lighting, sound, video, the internet, and more, and the cautionary considerations that accompany them.

Free / 90 minutes Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible Sept 19 at 1pm

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The Theaters of Witold Gombrowicz and Michał Zadara

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“Performance with a sort of anything goes ethos and an I’ll just do it myself attitude—that’s the essence of the Fringe. Shows pop up in unexpected places, like where you get your hair cut or where you go to get a beer.

Just walk down the street in early September and you know it’s happening all around you.”

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John Emory, Fringe coordinator, Philly Fringe

“Remember the kids who used to make you play parts in their home movies or basement productions?

The Fringe Festival is what those kids are doing now.”

“In a nutshell: performing arts heaven for two weeks.”

Steven Weisz, artistic director and founder, Music & Motion Dance Productions

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Eric Balchunas, director, IdRatherBeHere Productions

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Eight improvisers making it all up for 24 hours straight?! Come watch Philly’s funniest, including Karen Getz, Mary Carpenter, and Nathan Holt, make the impossible hysterical by improvising short-form, long-form, musicals, and more for 24 hours straight. Can they make it to midnight with their wit and wits intact? $10 / 24 hours Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at midnight

Activity Book creates playful improv comedy—constantly racing ahead of itself and daring the performers and audience to catch up—driven by its cast’s love of one-upmanship, good-natured foolishness, and healthy competition. Since 2008 they have performed for thousands along the East Coast, including off-Broadway in May 2009. $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7, 11 + 13 at 7pm Sept 17 at 8:30pm

Angry People Building Things Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) The Angry People find out what makes you angry and channel your rage and theirs into hilarious improv. They attack the stage with a ferocious energy unmatched in the entire history of the known universe.

Enraged? Furious? Depressed?

Euphoric? Asthmatic?

Regardless, Angry People is a must-see. $10 / 90 minutes The Shubin Theatre 407 Bainbridge Street Sept 4, 5 + 11 at 10pm Sept 12 at 8pm Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street

BAILOUT! This six-episode, live-action sitcom follows Drew Korman. Down on his luck, he just wants to get his package stimulated! At his new job for unpredictable Philadelphia congressman Elias Flynn, things seem to be headed in the right direction, but his troubles are only beginning.

He needs a bailout! $5 / 45 minutes Laurie Beechman Cabaret at the Arts Bank 601 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 7 at 7pm (Episode 1) Sept 7 at 9pm + Sept 10 at 7pm (Episode 2) Sept 10 at 9pm + Sept 13 at 7pm (Episode 3) Sept 13 at 9pm + Sept 16 at 7pm (Episode 4) Sept 16 at 9pm + Sept 19 at 5pm (Episode 5) Sept 19 at 7pm + 9pm (Episode 6)

Coach and Fly Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) Coach and Fly is a 2-man sketch show centered around two young men who are the quiet heroes of their shoddy apartment. As these two roommates abet bad decision-making, face the bludgeoning of unrequited love, and refuse to temper their obsessions, they begin to learn the true meaning of friendship. $10 / 45 minutes The Shubin Theatre 407 Bainbridge Street Sept 7, 10 + 12 at 8pm

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The cubicle-bound neighbors of CUBED improvise a day in the life of the workplace chosen by you, the audience.

Todd Chappelle is a solo guitarist whose R-rated comedy songs are a cross between those of Stephen Lynch and Rodney Carrington.

It’s two fantastic comedy shows for the price of one! $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 7pm Sept 13 at 3pm

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Dangerous Fools Freefall Productions “Better than any improv group I’ve seen” (City Paper). A fool from LA . . . a fool from Philadelphia . . . no script. Thomas Fowler and Mary Carpenter, Philadelphia’s funniest and most mesmerizing improv duo, are back to take you on an improvised ride that is hilarious, unique, and dangerously unpredictable. $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 16 at 8:30pm Sept 17 + 19 at 7pm Moonstone Arts Center 110A South 13th Street Sept 18 at 7pm + 9pm

Comedy + Improv

24 Hour Improv Marathon: Dazed and Amused Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Activity Book Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

CUBED with Special Guest Todd Chappelle Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Philly Fringe

Mario Fraboni

3 Mad Rituals is back-toback-to-back improv sets from a single group of improvisers—inspired by a single suggestion—that blend to create a single, hilarious, one-of-a-kind show. The brainchild of Chicago improv guru Del Close (1934-1999), this year’s Fringe run will be the Philadelphia premiere of this classic performance format! $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 + 18 at 8:30pm Sept 13 at 1pm Sept 15 at 7pm

Catch the entire Fringe in just 90 minutes! Philly’s best improv and sketch comedians have studied this year’s Fringe Guide, made snap decisions about the content of each show, and scripted summary performances. Now they stand ready to present any show in 60 seconds or less at the audience’s request. $15 / 90 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 + 14 at 8:30pm Sept 19 at 5pm

Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 3pm Sept 18 at 10pm

Thomas Fowler

3 Mad Rituals Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Abrdgd Frng Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Evan Rosen

Comedy + Improv

Illegal Refill Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) Illegal Refill has performed its living room chats and smart long-form improv comedy to sold-out crowds from NYC to Durham to the 2008 Philly Fringe. Come pull up a chair for a sharp new Fringe run by one of PHIT’s premiere Affiliate troupes. $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 5pm

Internet sensations You Look Nice Today and Jordan, Jesse, Go! record their podcasts— with special guests—in front of a live audience! Having performed/recorded in New York, Los Angeles, and at the San Francisco Sketchfest, these gentlemen offer all the fun of a podcast with none of the convenience! $15 / 90 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 16 at 10pm

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Sunshineface is the comingof-age revue from Chicago comic Devin Keast, and it feels like more of a party with the audience than an inside joke.

It’s a one-man show that pays homage to Broadway, The Second City, late night talk shows, and the one that got away. $10 / 55 minutes The Shubin Theatre 407 Bainbridge Street Sept 11 at 8pm Sept 12 at 3pm + 5pm

Rare Bird Show Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) You yell out a word. They turn it into comedy. Just back from shows at Second City and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Rare Bird Show creates hilarious, unscripted improv comedy, all from one audience suggestion (with a different special guest opener at each show). “Top 10” (aroundphilly.com). $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 5 + 8 at 10pm Sept 10 at 8:30pm

Sketch and Improv Comedy Spectacular with Meg & Rob and BWP Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) Two sassy broads named Connie + two charactershifting sketch comedians = one of the funniest shows in the Fringe! Witty, energetic, and absurd, this two-in-one performance is the only show where you can get your problems solved live and see the only Philly group selected

Take Us To The Comedy Scene . . .

Bacivo Nuggets Comedy Troupe A collection of sketches, live and video, by three guys on the things that influence them the most—TV and New York. From Pac-Man fever to love on the subway to black people having the darnedest names, the Bacivo Nuggets are fully ready to take you to the comedy scene . . . $10 / 45 minutes Church Street Studios 122 Church Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 5, 18 + 19 at 9pm Sept 6 at 3pm

Comedy + Improv

Monsters of Podcasting Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Sunshineface Devin Keast

Philly Fringe

Some of the freshest and most talented improvisers in Philadelphia headline this show, fresh from playing for sold out crowds at their Greenwich Village run. The night begins with candid moments from the cast’s sometimes charming, sometimes twisted childhoods before hopscotching through scenes that are equal parts bizarre and hilarious. $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 at 5pm Sept 9 at 7pm Sept 13 at 8:30pm Sept 19 at 10pm

The N Crowd is a short-form improv comedy troupe that has been performing weekly in Philadelphia since 2005. Each hilarious scene starts with a suggestion from the audience.

We won’t know what we are doing until you suggest it! Join in on the fun and share a laugh. $10 / 90 minutes The Actors Center 257 North 3rd Street Sept 4, 11 + 18 at 8pm + 10pm

“The Champagne of Comedy” has been accused of impregnating teenaged boys, pirating Hallmark made-for-TV movies, and re-electing George W. Bush for a third term. Well . . .

Phuk What Ya Heard!—our newest original sketch comedy show! Don’t come because you want to, but because you NEED to!!!!! $15 / 90 minutes Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 5, 18 + 19 at 9pm

Oliver Correa

Fletcher Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Improv Comedy: The N Crowd Double Header The N Crowd

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Phuk What Ya Heard!

High Dramma

Sarah Crawford

PHIT Resident Group’s Everything Must Go showcases improv that explores the humor in widely varied characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. From the chaos of their initial moments on stage, their characters’ stories emerge to be told for one night only, creating a unique show each and every performance. $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 + 10 at 7pm Sept 8 at 8:30pm Sept 19 at 3pm

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Omar Ahmadein

Everything Must Go Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

The Sound of Young America LIVE! Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) The Sound of Young America is a public radio show about things that are awesome, hosted by Jesse Thorn (“America’s Radio Sweetheart”) who interviews personalities from the world of entertainment and the arts. For this special live taping, Mr. Thorn’s

Timejawn The Sixth Borough Sketch comedy group The Sixth Borough takes you on a journey to another dimension in Timejawn, where the impossible becomes possible.

Blending science fiction, satire, and good old-fashioned punk rock, Timejawn will leave you laughing on the edge of your seat, even though that probably doesn’t make sense. $10 / 60 minutes Connie’s Ric Rac 1132 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 5, 11 + 12 at 9pm

Wake Up Philadelphia!

Casaburdan Productions Besides the essential cup of Wawa coffee, how do Philadelphians wake up every morning? They go to Wake Up Philadelphia! for their breaking news, weather, sports and traffic. Join Casaburdan Productions and the cast and crew of Channel 42 News. It’s what you need to know to get you on the go! $15 / 60 minutes Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 5, 18 + 19 at 7pm Sept 12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 5pm

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Laugh your ass-paragus off as cartoonist Dan Piraro of Bizarro comics returns to Philly for Public Eye: Artists for Animals’s Veggie Cabaret II. Edgy comedian Dave Lambon, quirky storyteller Annie Hart, and others round out an evening of veg-zaniness with comedy, theater, and music.

All palates are welcome! www.publiceyephilly.org $15 / 90 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 at 8pm

Comedy + Improv

“Philadelphia’s hottest sketch comedy troupe” (Philadelphia Inquirer) returns for a seventh year. Fringe favorite Domenick Scudera directs this brand new show. Looking for a performance that plumbs the depths of human emotion? This ain’t it. But they will make you laugh.

And they will sell out! $15 / 50 minutes L’Etage Cabaret 6th and Bainbridge Street Sept 6 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 8, 9, 13, 16 + 17 at 8pm

Veggie Cabaret II Public Eye: Artists for Animals

This Thing of Ours, formerly of Boy Meets Tractor (Helium Comedy Club’s Best College Sketch Comedy Group), presents an evening of us.

Entertaining you. Funnier than a horse head in your bed but without the cleanup, TToO will delight and delite (for those with dietary restrictions).

Come join the family. $10 / 80 minutes Penn Museum 3260 South Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 5 at 8pm

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The Moops are to improv what the Supremes are to Motown.

This all-star cast of Philly’s best improv comedians provides the backdrop for a different special guest every night! From your suggestions, the VIPs tell on-the-spot stories, which the Moops turn into scenes so hilarious you’ll swear they were scripted. $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 8:30pm Sept 6 + 14 at 7pm Sept 10 at 10pm

The Waitstaff Sells Out The Waitstaff Sketch Comedy Troupe

Where Do We Go From Here?

This Thing of Ours

Kevin W. Jordan

The Moops Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

Kyle Warren

Philly’s most ambitious sketch comedy group, The Action Section, tackles life, death, and the creamy filling between. A sold-out hit in April 2009, Life returns with new sketches, new videos, and a level of emotionally-charged absurdity rivaled only by actual life. $10 / 75 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 + 5 at 8:30pm Sept 13 at 5pm Sept 18 at 7pm

Andrew Fitzgerald

Eric Humble

The Action Section Presents: Life Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

guest will be Paul F. Tompkins of Best Week Ever. $15 / 90 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 17 at 10pm

Dance

Michael Susten, the creator of Xhale, brings dancers, choreographers, and live musicians from around the city to create his ensemble. Xhale, known for its contemporary style, mixes musical theater, tap, and modern into its shows, creating a wide variety of talent and an entertaining experience for all ages! $15 / 90 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 9:30pm

City Dances/Parkway Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater City Dances/Parkway, a travelling performance involving dance, music, art, and technology, engages iconic art sites such as The Thinker and The Gates of Hell (Rodin), Iroquois and Prometheus (Art Museum).

Using your iPod, you will be led by dancers and their “moving music” on this interactive walking tour.

Free / 60 minutes Courtyard of the Rodin Museum Benjamin Franklin Parkway + 22nd Street Sept 9–11 + 16–18 at noon

Chloe and Solved Beau Hancock, Colleen Hooper, and Jennifer Morley

Dangerous And Movin’ is a contemporary dance company and will premiere work for the show Are We They? We are among you. However, we are not you. We see changes that are needed and will finally take over. Through video projection, the audience is personally involved in questioning values. $10 / 90 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 7pm Sept 7 at 8pm

Solved, Part Two captures the queasy feeling you get when you encounter a stranger in an unexpected way. Chloe is a score-based work developed from a catalog of repeatable phrases that are manipulated in performance. An Outer Space Project creates an irresistible fantasy of what outer space could be. $10 / 65 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 7pm + 9:30pm Sept 13 at 6pm

Gabriel Bienczycki

Are We They?

Scott Park Dance Company: Dangerous And Movin’

Danse4Nia Meets Forces of Nature, The Move/Meant Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble Exploring the role of dance as a healer, The Move/Meant series promotes the history, legacy, and lineage of African-American dance. Themes of ecology, spirituality, and social responsibility are explored in the critically acclaimed choreography of NYC’s Abdel Salaam, a unique blend of modern, West African, ballet, house, and hip-hop. $25 / 90 minutes John E. Allen, Jr. Theatre at

Death & Destruction Stray Cats & Wayward Bats Fresh off the tails of their sold-out show last year, the Stray Cats have picked up some Wayward Bat companions and are bringing you an eclectic array of cutting edge choreography that will make you purr with delight.

Apocalyptic? Perhaps. Upbeat?

Definitely. Disclaimer: This is a rad dance show. $15 / 120 minutes Meeting House Theater at the Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue Sept 8 + 15 at 7:30pm

Jacques-Jean Tiziou

A World of Seduction, Passion & Vulnerability Xhale Dance Company

Bill Hebert

Dance

Deborah Boardman, David Hansen, Bill Hebert

Bill Hebert

Gabriel Bienczycki

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KCuffs Dance Collaborative Most every religion promotes very unusual practices which regularly occur in the lives of religious people. These peculiar acts are intended to bring one closer to knowing the true intentions of The Spirit/Allah/Bliss. Through movement, the KCuffs Dance Collaborative is exploring the meaning and purpose of these ritualistic acts. $10 / 50 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 at 3:30pm + 7pm Sept 10 + 11 at 7pm

Philly Fringe

the New Freedom Theatre 1346 North Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 4pm

Steven Schreiber

Jaosn Chen

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El Duelo (The Wake) Pasión y Arte Pasión y Arte invites you to a viewing of the new work-inprogress El Duelo (The Wake).

Enter the inner world of five women who are in mourning: the mother, the wife, the lover, and two daughters. Witness the profundity of the modern Flamenco language and be part of the experience. $25 / 60 minutes Woodlands Cemetery 4000 Woodland Avenue Sept 16–18 at 7pm Sept 19 at 3pm + 7pm

Hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003 as a “compelling performance pair,” the Berry & Nance Dance Project returns to Philadelphia with Enlightenment. Stafford C. Berry, Jr. and C. Kemal Nance currently direct the companies of Chuck Davis and Kariamu Welsh. They’re back to share their brand of African dance. $15 / 85 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Sept 6 at 5pm

Fusion Fusion Dance Company Not your traditional modern dance company, Fusion Dance Company transcends the boundaries between different genres of dance and performance, purposely defying categorization.

Come experience Fusion as it proudly makes its debut with a collection of contemporary works fused together into an entertaining and evocative collage of dance. $10 / 60 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 3pm

INFLUX Mascher Space Cooperative Mascher Space Cooperative hosts a mixed goody bag yielding four yet-to-be-unwrapped delightful danceworks by some of the Philly dance scene’s finest at INFLUX Performance Series. Whether or not you got a sweet taste of last year’s INFLUX, you’ll want to sample these varied and thoughtful works. $10 / 75 minutes Mascher Space Co-op 155 Cecil B Moore Avenue Sept 10 at 8pm Sept 13 at 6pm

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Out of the Rose Annex Dance Company

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Annex Dance Company presents Out of the Rose, an evening-length work created in the spirit of “total theater”. The poetry of W.B. Yeats comes to life through a unique integration of dance, spoken poetry, and American Sign Language. Accessible to all audiences (hearing, deaf, and those apprehensive about modern dance). $15 / 75 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Sept 4 at 8pm Sept 5 at 3pm

Pandora’s Box Imprint Dance Co. of Sanbrooka Productions & The Blind Faith Project Pandora’s Box unleashes stories of courage and hope.

Imprint Dance Company of Sanbrooka Productions and The Blind Faith Project collaborate to delve into our internal voice, insecurities, and breaking points, and what we do when have no chance but to survive. Expressed through contemporary jazz, hip-hop, and performance art. $10 / 50 minutes Gloria Dei Old Swedes’ Church 916 South Swanson Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 5 at 8pm

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Enlightenment Berry & Nance Dance Project

A century after F.T. Marinetti envisioned his avant-garde movement, his Futurist dance manifesto finally comes to life.

This work examines technology’s impact on humanity and Futurism’s goal of fusing bodies with machinery. The remainder of the program explores other movements’ use of dance as a declaration of politics and aesthetics. $10 / 50 minutes MBN Studios (Gallery) 725 North 4th Street Sept 11 + 18 at 9pm Sept 12 + 19 at 4:30pm + 9:30pm Sept 16 at 7:30pm

GOLD is pirate booty. It’s what stays in Vegas. It’s 1920s chorus girls and modern day video girls. Keila Cordova and her multitalented company return to the Philly Fringe with a breathtaking, dance-theater deconstruction of the price of desire in the war on love.

Presented with Happy Inside and Meteorologica. $15 / 70 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9, 10 + 16 at 9:30pm Sept 17 at 7pm

Fig Tree Photography

Steve Clark

Alchemy Dance Company presents a world premiere dance performance with new works by artistic director Amy Harding and guest choreographer Ami Dowden-Fant (dancer, dance theatre X).

Dowden-Fant’s style offers a fluid abandonment of the body while Alchemy’s contemporary jazz piece Sideshow Noir brings a carnivalesque dance/ theater experience to the stage. $20 / 75 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 5 at 7pm

Kristi McInerney

Elixir Alchemy Dance Company

Formed Declarations Christina Catanese and Julia Cuccaro

GOLD keila cordova dances

Steve Weinik

Bill Hebert

Gabriel Bienczycki

Keila Cordova

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Pinkerbell Fairy flutters down, zaps you with her wand and “poof.” The moon is full.

The mist is thick. The spell is cast. Dare to situate your unsettled self in this magical world of dance where the rewards are enchanting and the dangers dark. $15 / 90 minutes the fidget space 1714 North Mascher Street Sept 4 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 5 + 6 at 7pm

Choreographic Sketches, a choreography series based in New York City, investigates the demystification of the choreographic process and features works by emerging and evolving African Diasporic choreographers and their companies. Series IV encompasses Program A & B, featuring eight choreographers in two events. Series will close with dance workshops. $25 / 120 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 + 19 at 7pm Sept 20 at 3pm + 5pm

Something Striking Sarah Carlson & Pamela Vail Something Striking brings together the work of two formerly NYC-based artists.

Now living in the bowels of Pennsylvania, Sarah and Pam imagine spiders and strippers, identity and ecstasy all living in the same web. Powerful bodies, sound, and text map the peculiar, the particular, the personal, and the universal. $15 / 90 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Sept 11 at 8pm Sept 12 at 5pm + 8pm

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“The body is like a sentence that invites us to re-imagine it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through an endless series of anagrams.”

(Hans Bellmer) This choreographic solo work proposes an “alien” body with a very present subject within that physically states, “This body is your body, too.” $10 / 45 minutes James Oliver Gallery, 4th Floor 723 Chestnut Street Sept 11 at 10pm Sept 12 at 5pm + 10pm

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Series IV: The Demystification Choreographic Sketches

Benjiman Carlson

Steven Smith

Texting in the bathroom???

Disconnect and see Indigenous Pitch’s special brand of hip hop, vertical trickin’, and media-infused dance set to original music by emerging Philadelphia composers!

Interactive ringtones, speed-texting playoffs . . . featuring Binc, Illadelphlave, IlReality, Stephen Welsh/ SWERVE, Underground Dance Works, and Syne Film’s Mockumentary, Nutmeg Overdose. $15 / 90 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 7pm Sept 12 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 13 at 2pm

Splitting the Difference Kelly Bond

the 9 muses Music & Motion Dance What inspires you? In ancient Greece there were nine muses that ruled over the arts and sciences offering inspiration.

For dancers, it is a sacred space to retreat to and ultimately find oneself. It is a playground that has the power to transport us and help resuscitate our imaginations. $15 / 60 minutes The Studio at Filmtech 2019 South Juniper Street 2nd Floor Sept 5 at 1:30pm, 3:30pm + 7:30pm

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POOF! Pink Hair Affair

Satellite Submission/ Nutmeg Overdose Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective

RealLivePeople is a collective of six choreographers who spend their days coping, hoping, filling out forms, and freezing leftovers just like everyone else . . . but we make dances about it. Please join us as we explore those things that make us most human through movement, text, and a few cardboard boxes. $10 / 90 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 17 + 18 at 8pm

Gabriel Bienczycki

Josh Jenkins & David Terzian

Premiering Uncharted Land, a precisely pulsing dance set to the rhythms and sounds of African drums. Focusing on how community, family, and merriment strengthen our inner spirit, and what makes us completely human. Serendipity Dance Ensemble will also be presenting a heartrending work in this joint venture program. Come witness! $15 / 60 minutes 954 Dance Movement Collective 954 North 8th Street Sept 12 at 7pm Sept 13 at 6pm

Shrug RealLivePeople

Sasa Asentic

Kait Privitera

Bill Herbert

Passion Eng & Friends Dance Company

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Afro-Brazilian Dances and Folktales Philadelphia Capoeira Arts Center Live music, storytelling, and vibrant traditional AfroBrazilian dances are just a taste of what the Philadelphia Capoeira Arts Center has to offer. Experience the dynamic power of Brazilian arts here in Philly. Audience participation encouraged! $15 / 60 minutes Philadelphia Capoeira Arts Center 756 South 11th Street Sept 11 + 12 at 8pm

Bill Hebert

Big Fun! Vaudevilliains New Years Brigade

“The Scene” Rachel Hammer, Samantha Jakus & Alyse Landis

Philadelphia Amateur Dance and Party League’s Vaudevilliains New Years Brigade and Club Lyfestile host a rotating lineup of giant marching bands and dance troupes from out of town. Inspired by Riverdance, Janet Jackson, orchestras, and January 1st. $15 / 70 minutes The Barbary 951 Frankford Avenue Sept 6 at 4pm Sept 7, 14 + 15 at 8pm

Upswept hair, pensive shadowy eyes, sculpted cheekbones, and sharply defined lips. Her face spirals around her elongated neck. An image is only a glimpse into a greater story, transforming in between the lights. Actions of bodies fighting to be unseen.

Rain location: Jewish Center of Northern Liberties 851 North American Street Wheelchair accessible

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Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque Gigi Naglak and Meghann Williams You’ve never taken a sex-ed class like this one! Learn about safe sex, STDs, sexual orientation, menstruation, and much, much more through striptease, comedy, songs, and dance—all the parts of a traditional burlesque show.

Come for the titillation, stay for the education. $15 / 70 minutes 2nd Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 9 + 10 at 7pm Sept 11 at 10pm

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Featuring artist collaboration and multimedia work, Vada Dance’s Thinking Out Loud explores the relationship between the internal and the external of one’s mind and the delicate translation of thoughts into movement.

Enjoy an afternoon of vibrant, technically driven choreography by Rebecca Moyer and Katie Kasari. $15 / 90 minutes Studio 34 4522 Baltimore Avenue Sept 6 at 3pm

Debbie Schafer (aka artgirl. com) and the rockin’ Baal Shem Tov Band blend high energy music, art, and classical painting. Colossal and breathtaking images on canvas are produced quickly before the eyes of the audience. This improvisational performance art is an exhilarating mix of music and color. $5 / 120 minutes Liberty Lands Park 3rd + Poplar Streets Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 3pm

Andrew Beal

Thinking Out Loud Vada Dance Collective

Will Noon

We dance for social change.

Proceeds from this event will go towards bringing clean, safe drinking water to communities in Africa. Born in the hearts of American Repertory Ballet’s impressive dancers, COME UNITY has raised over $50,000 since 2007. Fresh choreography. Phenomenal dancing. Inspiring stories.

Heartbreaking truths. Join us. www.comeunity.yolasite.com $15 / 70 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 7pm

Krystle Marcelus

The Pointe of Water COME UNITY

Chris Kasari

Ajja DeShayne

Canvas in Concert Art Girl Debbie Schafer and the Baal Shem Tov Band

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Interdisciplinary

D. Schafer & H. Saffren

Observe the physical transformation, powdering and painting, zippering and buttoning . . . $10 / 60 minutes Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square Sept 9 + 10 at 8pm

Her Body Cannot Tell A Lie Ellen Gayda/BodyWord

Howard Zinn’s free-spirited thinker Emma Goldman is re-imagined within a 21st century parlour. A place where material culture is re-examined and gender roles are fluid.

Installation art and Victorianstyle miniature theater engage the spirit of nostalgia during a tumultuous time when anarchy, labor struggles, and women’s sexual liberation bear equal weight. $20 / 68 minutes University City Arts League 4226 Spruce Street Sept 15–18 at 7pm

Life experiences breathe the feminine into being, creating an interactive, communicative, sensual woman. Inhaling, she is informed; exhaling, her flesh forms. This interdisciplinary performance of spoken word, interpretive dance, live music, and figurative art slide show awakens somatic awareness to the feminine experience of inhabited emotions. Co-produced By Janet Rice Stern. www.bodyword.com $15 / 50 minutes Rembrandt’s Restaurant & Bar, 2nd Floor 741 North 23rd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 10 + 12 at 8pm

In(visible) Keepsakes New Philadelphia Poets Come witness the birth of a poem, the burial of another, and the wedding of word, music, and image as the New Philadelphia Poets locate a collective tongue in the city of brotherly love. Featuring poetic fortunes, imbibements, and prizes, In(visible) Keepsakes is an ecstatic celebration of language and community. $5 / 120 minutes Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens 1020–1022 South Street Sept 4 at 6pm

Lilacs and Roses for Walt, Abe and My Father Rocky Wilson Using poetry, dance, stories, and sign language, Wilson, a Walt Whitman impersonator, celebrates the Good Gray Poet’s life and honors his love for President Lincoln. Closer to home, Wilson explores the life of a man he has found much harder to appreciate than either poet or president—his own father. $15 / 75 minutes Friends Center 1501 Cherry Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 at 7pm

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“. . . satisfying cross between Zen ritual and Fluxus fun” (Artinfo). The Japanese artist draws on mirrored reflections.

Her sudden detachment challenges the audience’s involuntary expectation of secure continuity. She repeats the process, suggesting transience as well as the renewal that is propelled by destruction. See updates and additional venue info at www.eyrbag.com.

Free / 45 minutes 3rd Street sidewalk (between Market and Arch) Wheelchair accessible Sept 4–6 at 5pm

Interdisciplinary

Emma’s Parlour Martina Plag/Laureen Griffin/Leah Walton

It’s Not Me It’s You Mayumi Ishino

Mary Heron

Patrick Lucy

Tim Portlock

Premiere of interactive new media works: economic data transformed into animated mural by Timothy Portlock; online folk arts museum by FACTS Charter School, Asian Americans United, and Philadelphia Folklore Project; interactive resource for holistic health by Serena Reed; testimony confronting poverty

by Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign.

Outdoors/indoors. www.scribe.org $5 / 120 minutes Apogee@Brandywine 730–732 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 at 8pm

Re-imagining aerial circus as theater, T displays stunning strength and odd flexibility, utilizing aerial fabric, rope, a couch, and a chandelier. The original concept, an eight minute aerial fabric act, was created during his training with Headlong. Now you can see the full-length creation, a story of restlessness and exhaustion. www.TtheAmazing.com $10 / 50 minutes Philadelphia School of Circus Arts 5900A Greene Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11–13 + 18–20 at 8pm

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Laureen Griffin

Psychological maneuvering is paired with heightened physicality in this story of a slighted husband who systematically dismantles his rival’s independence, sanity, and sense of self. Featuring an all-female cast, Creditors presents a chilling world in which love has become nothing more than a commodity and a debt to be collected.

Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge.

Pay what you can / 90 minutes Studio 34 4522 Baltimore Avenue Sept 4 + 5 at 7:30pm Sept 6 at 8pm Sept 10 + 12 at 10pm

eSights eSounds Scribe Video Center

Insomnaeria T Lawrence-Simon

Iris Cavanaugh

CREDITORS by August Strindberg, translated

by Elizabeth Sprigge Rowen Haigh, Danger Goddess Productions

Matt Lawrence

Oliver Correa

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FOURSOME returns with the last installment of their American Idle/Idol/Idyll trilogy, Love Is In The Air. Join the loquacious Leslie Elkins, luxurious Grace Mi-He Lee, lickerish Jeff Prall, and lilting Darcy Sebright as they satirize the mysteries of the human heart and other useful organs. $10 / 40 minutes Angler Movement Arts Center 1550 East Montgomery Avenue Sept 13, 19 + 26 at 8pm Sept 18 + 25 at 9pm

My Dwelling is in Rooms of Sound: Performing Gert Jonke Vincent Kling, Joseph Cambell, and the La Salle University Jazz Essemble, director Steven Jamison The rhythm and sound painting of Gert Jonke’s prose and poetry make him a writer’s writer, but also an artist whose virtuosic work cries out for performance as audiences delight in his riffs, cascades of sound, and the jazzlike structures of the words

Alistair E. May

Performace Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Sept 18 at 7:30pm Sept 19 at 3pm + 7:30pm

Stimulus Termite TV Collective

Philadelphia Fire Arts Presents: SimpLaFire SimpLaFire Combining elements of fire, yoga, object manipulation, and dance, SimpLaFire is a fun, sassy, and sensual performance that balances on the edge of danger and beauty.

Presented by Philadelphia Fire Arts, SimpLaFire will ignite and inspire the audience with a fascinating exploration into the realms of creation, destruction, and transformation. www.simplafire.com Free / 80 minutes The Piazza at Schmidt’s 2nd Street + Germantown Ave Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 + 19 at 9pm

Same Spirit Different Movement Fest Illstyle & Peace Productions Same Spirit Different Movement Fest celebrates the art forms of dance, music, rhythm, and movement. It is a collaborative effort that brings various dance styles, rhythms, and music together, sharing the same spirit of individual expression and the unity of movement which Brandon “Peace” identifies as the spirit of God. $15 / 90 minutes Pennsylvania Convention Center

Take a guided trip through Old City. Follow along on a video tour using an iPod or iPhone for a stimulating, unique experience. These experimental walking videos are personal interpretations that evoke moods, memories, and motives. Or download the videos and take a walk anytime! Website: termite.org/ walkphilly. Meet in the lobby.

Free / Ongoing Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 8 + 16, 6pm–8pm Sept 12, 4pm–6pm

The Hear Again Radio Project Aspire Arts, Inc. Aspire Arts presents Hear Again Radio Project. Join us for the very best in vintage radio drama, live in-studio or at home via the magic of the internet. Great for families!

It’s radio better than you remember. Hear Again Radio Project . . . because things are so much nicer when you’re Hear Again! $10 / 60 minutes Caplan Studio at The University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 5:30pm Sept 5 at 11am Sept 6 at 11am, 5pm, 7pm + 9pm

Linda Jang

Love Is In The Air FOURSOME

1101 Arch Street Sept 11 at TBA Please see Festival website.

Krista Bonura

Nicole Ross

Interdisciplinary

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All Geography and no Love simply won’t do in Piehole’s museum installation of Bjornstjerne, Bjornson’s long-forgotten play. Featuring toy theater, 3D puppets, dioramas, video, and small-talking automatons, this abandoned exhibit pines over love, whines over loss, and obsesses over location in time/ space. Join us on a farcical tour through (super)nature. $15 / 60 minutes Vox Populi 319 North 11th Street Sept 11 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 12 at 2pm, 6pm + 9pm Sept 13 at 2pm + 6pm

themselves when poetry fuses with music. $5 / 90 minutes Tbar 117 South 12th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 7pm Sept 13 at 3pm

Lars Larsen

Love & Geography Piehole

William A. Hebert

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Sweet Like Chocolate Poetry in Motion II Naja This work, written and produced by spoken word artist Naja, incorporates the poetic intimacy of the Song of Solomon scriptures with her own original poetry, music written and produced by her husband Robin Williams Sr., and modern/jazz dance.

Experience the intimacy of love from the scriptures to the 21st century. $15 / 60 minutes Meeting House Theater at the Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue Sept 17–19 at 8pm

Vamps & Vixens Vaudeville Revue Valerie Rushmere/Shake Charmers Vamps and Vixens Vaudeville Revue is a fun-filled romp with the songstresses, sirens, and sexpots of yesterday. A bevy of talented beauties will belt out a tune, belly dance, sword swallow, and more to jazz and blues standards by Eartha Kitt, Ruth Brown, Peggy Lee, and many other great artists. $15 / 55 minutes Studio 1831 1831 Brandywine Street Sept 5, 6, 13 + 19 at 7pm Sept 12 at 11pm

Joe Quirk

Arch Street Meeting House 320 Arch Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 at 7pm

John Felon and Joe Fiercely are dead. And that’s probably going to be the highlight of their day. They now face Satan’s most gruesome experiment in torture: an Open Mic Night. Can these singing comedians (and ex-partners) put aside their grudges and entertain the residents of Hell?

Mature audiences. $15 / 60 minutes O’Neals Pub, 2nd Floor 611 South 3rd Street Sept 4 + 11 at 8pm Sept 5 + 12 at 5pm + 8pm

Sacred Soul Sisters Dove Comm Sacred Soul Sisters is a performance of original music and poetry with pianist Trudy Pitts and spoken word artist Lady Dove (aka Pheralyn Dove).

Their shared artistry is a buoyant expression of love, respect, and inspiration. The women honor their creative gifts as they chronicle their soulful, sanctified sisterhood. $15 / 90 minutes Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square Sept 6 at 3pm

Wes Harman

Felon Fiercely’s OPEN MIC NIGHT IN HELL Felon Fiercely

Rusted Gates Volume 1: Leopard’s Mouth Northern Valentine Leopard is a young man who is abandoned at a sanitarium, where he begins to question life and his very existence.

Northern Valentine will

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The Gonzales Cantata Melissa Dunphy Miss America meets PDQ Bach on Capitol Hill in this choral

The Greatest Performance of My Life: I Pretend Pamela Knight Pamela Knight’s one-woman show The Greatest Performance of My Life is a dramedy about growing up as the weird arts kid. This show is more than one woman—it’s the struggle between fantasy and reality played out live on stage with dancers, musicians, a choir, and a drill team. $20 / 90 minutes Bonnell Auditorium at the Community College of Philadelphia 1700 Spring Garden Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 + 11 at 7pm

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PLP TheUnity honors the human spirit with improvisational, meditative, jazzy music utilizing African rhythms, percussion, wind instruments, spoken word, and storytelling.

Brother Robb Carter, Kitsi Watterson, and Dominic Cartwright sing about justice, love, oppression and rising above the forces thereof from without and within, mystery, magic, and beginning again. $10 / 75 minutes African American Museum in Philadelphia 701 Arch Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 7:30pm

work with a libretto taken directly from the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Thirty performers in concert present one of the most dramatic moments in modern US politics—with genders reversed. Suitable for all ages. $20 / 60 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 5 at 7pm Sept 6 at 2pm

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A timeless story of true love in the face of multiple obstacles told in dance and song paired with an artist’s struggle to achieve fame as the world’s greatest tightrope walker by braving Niagara Falls as witnessed by Mark Twain and the Prince of Wales. Alternates with staged-workshops of new operas. $25 /95 minutes Lantern Theater 10th + Ludlow Streets Sept 8–12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 7pm

First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, Small Chapel 2125 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 5:30pm + 8:30pm

Matt Dunphy

ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera Center City Opera Theater

Light of Our Own True Nature PLP TheUnity (Peace, Love & Power)

compose a live score of music and sound art to accompany film and images that chronicle Leopard’s descent through madness and reality. Seating is limited. $10 / 60 minutes Eastern State Penitentiary 2124 Fairmount Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 at 8:30pm

Lamont B. Steptoe

Dominic Cartwright

City City Opera Theate

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Theater

Mixing juvenile humor with Greek tragedy and the psychotic megalomania of Charles Manson, this production makes an argument for the redemptive, cathartic, transformative, and spiritual value of human excrement. $5 / 60 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 17 at 8pm

XFS Philly Song Shuffle Xtreme Folk Scene Three plus hours of fast, dirty fun involving four minute sets, four second set changes, fifty artists on one stage, and a Philly-sized dose of complete mayhem. City Paper described its 2003 debut as “an excellent idea that should become a regular event.” The first and only live song shuffle anywhere! $20 / 240 minutes World Café Live 3025 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 7pm

7 (x1) Samurai David Gaines “Best Solo Performance” in DC Fringe 2008! “Best Solo Show AND Best of the Fest” in Orlando Fringe 2009! One man performs the epic story of “Seven Samurai,” complete with victimized peasants, marauding bandits, samurai warriors, and spectacular fight scenes. Retold at a comic, breakneck pace. Unique, riveting, and very funny. $15 / 60 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 + 14 at 8pm Sept 13 + 19 at 5pm

Jay Wojnarowski

Grey Cremer

Jonathan Benham

First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 8pm

Armageddon at the Mushroom Village Tribe of Fools Armageddon at the Mushroom Village is a musical satire about the end of the world in the cutest place on Earth.

Original songs, dancing, acrobatics, and projection tell the story of political schism, unrequited love, sexual intrigue, and murder. Think Richard III meets the Smurfs. $20 / 70 minutes 2nd Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 4–6, 9 + 10 at 9:30pm Sept 7 + 11 at 7pm

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Music/Theater

Four plays about foreplay. Face licking? Check. Twisted obsession? Check. A noir about a vagina with all the answers?

Check. A 50s musical about a guy with a kitchen appliance fetish? Obviously. From the producers behind 4X4, 13 Lemonade Ave., and LURE. www.secretroomtheatre.com.

Please come. $15 / 75 minutes Plays and Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 10, 11, 18 + 19 at 8pm Sept 12 + 13 at 4pm

Step right up, folks! Meet Philadelphia artist Jen Fellman as she explores her journey as a singer through the lives and music of Judy Garland and Edith Piaf. Song, story, and clown combine in this unique solo cabaret. www.jenfellman.com $15 / 70 minutes Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5 825 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 10 + 11 at 7pm Sept 5 + 12 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 6 + 13 at 2pm

A Taste of Sisterhood: Learning To Swim Raw Fruit Raw Fruit Theater Troupe presents A Taste of Sisterhood: Learning to Swim. This unique medley of new and timeless short plays celebrates various facets of sisterhood. Laugh, dance, and get your feet wet!

Adapted/directed by Jamila Capitman, featuring playwrights Kirstin Greenidge, Elaine Jackson, and Ntozake Shange. $10 / 80 minutes Black Box at the New Freedom Theatre 1346 North Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4–6 at 7pm

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4Play Secret Room Theatre

Heather Thomas

Experience opera at its grittiest extremes. Observe the consequences of tragic mistaken identity with Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and jealous rage in Leoncavallo’s verismo masterpiece Pagliacci.

Two short operas paced for a modern audience of all experience levels: a perfect first opera. www.sycamoreproductions.org $15 / 105 minutes The Philadelphia Cathedral 3723 Chestnut Street Sept 13 at 3pm

A Singer’s Circus Jen Fellman

Naoko Masuda

We Only Hurt The Ones We Love Sycamore Opera

Ed Seiz

Don Bayley

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Thomas Paine, most radical of the Revolutionaries and self-proclaimed Citizen of the World, offers some Common Sense to our world today and reinvigorates the promise of America. In this vibrant, compelling play, Paine’s vision of freedom, citizenship, revolution, and social justice is examined through the lens of his amazing life. $10 / 65 minutes Moonstone Arts Center 110 South 13th Street Sept 6 at 4pm Sept 7 + 9 at 7pm Sept 13 at 2pm

Brenna Geffers

Cirque-ular One Man Sideshow What if you ran away with the circus . . . and regretted it? A mix of death-defying circus performances, live music, and original story, Cirque-ular tells the story of a bitter ringmaster whose career comes full circle when he meets an optimistic young juggler who dreams of joining his circus. $15 / 50 minutes Greene Street Studio 6122 Greene Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11, 12, 18 + 19 at 8pm

Three lovers, two betrayals, one dead Irishman, and a few too many pints. Someone holds the key to the murder, but that someone isn’t talking. Clover weaves a suspenseful tale of love, honor and revenge. A Places Ensemble Theatre world premier inspired by the folk song “The Long Black Veil.” $10 / 70 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Sept 12 at 3pm + 6pm Sept 13 at 5pm + 8pm Sept 15 + 17 at 7pm Sept 16 at 8pm Sept 18 at 7pm + 10pm

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Christopher M. Bohan

Anthony Moran

Citizen Paine Iron Age Theatre

Clover Places Ensemble Theatre

Company EgoPo Clean Sheets Miho Kahn The journey of a young artist caught in a world of drugs and violence is told with humor and pathos, interweaving music and storytelling and ultimately bringing the audience together in a celebration of faith and redemption. Not suitable for children under 14. 45 minutes long with discussion afterwards. $10 / 60 minutes (with discussion) The Arts Garage 1533–35 Ridge Avenue Sept 5, 11, 18 + 19 at 7:30pm

Bring your blanket and pillow along for this Beckett slumber party. This interactive theatrical event played to sold-out audiences in Chicago, NYC, and SF. The audience, blinded on their back in the dark, listens to haunting text within a complete sensory experience.

Free cookies and milk!

“Resoundingly brilliant experience.” —Backstage $15 / 60 minutes The Studio at Filmtech 2019 South Juniper Street Sept 4 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 + 26 at 3pm, 5pm + 7pm Sept 7, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 21, 24 + 25 at 7pm + 9pm

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Ready . . . set . . . create!

Students in the College of Performing Arts at the University of the Arts will devise a collection of innovative, interdisciplinary performances in a 48-hour marathon of creativity. When these talented young actors, directors, musicians, dancers, and technicians bring their “brainstorms” to life, you can expect the unexpected! $5 / 90 minutes Gershman Hall Blackbox Theater 401 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 5pm + 7pm

From England! A rollercoaster journey through the remarkable and turbulent life of singer, actor, and civil rights pioneer Paul Robeson (died Philadelphia, 1976). Written and performed by British/ Nigerian Tayo Aluko. Winner: Best Male Actor, Argus Angel Award: Brighton Fringe (UK), 2008. Much more than just pretty songs! $15 / 80 minutes Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue Sept 4, 5, 10 + 11 at 7:30pm Sept 6 at 4:30pm Sept 13 at 3pm

Carter Weeber

Brainstorm Ira Brind School of Theater Arts, University of the Arts

Call Mr. Robeson tayoalukoandfriends

Colleen Joy

A darkly comic physical submersion into life at the bottom of a glass and the spirits we all serve, barFlies delivers an exhilarating excursion to the edge.

Conceived and developed

by Aileen McCulloch with Christian Lisak, Andrew Thompson, and the Vagabond Core Ensemble. www. vagabondactingtroupe.org.

Dinner and drinks at L2 available. $10 / 45 minutes L2 Restaurant and Bar 2201 South Street Sept 4 at 8:30pm Sept 5, 12, + 17 at 7pm Sept 19 at 7pm + 9pm

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barFlies Vagabond Acting Troupe

Double & Small Six Benches Spectacles

Joy Lesley

daDAda Anthology Project Pandemonium! Revolution!

Log rolling! Throwing convention to xylophones, this original work is based on the traditions of Dadaism. No = Yes. daDa is nothing. dAda is everything. Lemonade me walking and incompetence is expected to hiccup.

Confused yet? Come find out what is behind the madness. $15 / 43 minutes Northern Liberties Community Center 700 North 3rd Street Sept 5, 9, 12 + 19 at 7pm + 9pm

Anna Corrigan

Rebecca Leopold

Homo sapiens I am, like you.

Equally evolved, like you. And the gibbon. And Balanus tintinnabulum (the barnacle that peals). Unlike you, I am the great-great-great-great-lovegrandchild of Charles Darwin.

And unlike you, I tango evenings at the APS Museum, too. Come, I’ll sing. I’ll tell you everything. Yours, Cristobal. $10 / 60 minutes American Philosophical Society 104 South 5th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 5, 11 + 12 at 6:30pm

DIGITAL EFFECTS is a demonstration of deceitful cleverness using only two hands and a deck of cards.

Steve Cuiffo is a celebrated New York magician and actor who has consulted for David Blaine and performed with the Wooster Group, and is currently working with Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford. $15 / 45 minutes Painted Bride Studios 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4–6, 9, 10, 13 + 16–19 at 7pm Sept 11 + 12 at 6pm

Discordia April Smith Desert of Hallways Western Narrative Company Since being rescued from obscurity, Desert of Hallways has shaken the American literary canon. Western Narrative’s original musical production uses this nearly forgotten domestic novel to guide a family as they ready themselves for a neighbor’s

Time travel and ancestor worship allow contact between a piano-playing Michigan farm girl and a flamenco-dancing mystic who talks to the walls.

Experience a delightful, serendipitous chain of incidents where myth, language, song, and stories collide. Watch death get conquered by funny and poignant women who. . . $5 / 45 minutes Studio 34 4522 Baltimore Avenue Sept 10–12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 2pm + 8pm

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Darwinii: The Comeuppance of Man Nightjar Apothecary

Thomas Choinacky

Crooked House is full of crooked people telling crooked tales with crooked meanings in a crooked language about their crooked lives in a crooked world. Crooked House is written and performed by a single crooked creator. $10 / 45 minutes Germ Books + Gallery 2005 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 7pm* + 9pm* Sept 5, 12 + 19 at 3pm + 6pm Sept 6, 13 + 20 at 3pm + 7pm Sept 11 + 18 at 7pm *Free

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Discordia, the Goddess of Strife, can sow discord or calm it with a toss of her golden apple. She started the Trojan War, and she can stir up conflict in your life. Come worship her and receive your own magic golden apple . . . to do with as you will. $5 / 60 minutes Thelesis Lodge 1627 North 2nd Street Sept 9 at 7pm Sept 19 at 3pm

On a Tuesday morning, a photograph of Mr. Li—116 years old, Chinese and pregnant—is published in the tabloid Weekly World Standard. Halfway around the globe, this photo challenges Liza to bring her life into focus in this odd, surprising fairy tale about the snapshots we choose to frame. $15 / 90 minutes The Actors Center 257 North 3rd Street Sept 10 + 17 at 8pm Sept 12 + 19 at 3pm + 8pm

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foreclosure party, reading their own lives through the fictionalized characters of the page. $10 / 60 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 10–12, 18 + 19 at 7pm

Aaron Bilenky

Everyman Cross Cultural Theatre Initiative Terrifying, humorous, contemplative, and kinetic, Everyman examines age-old questions about life, death, and hope. CCTI’s “avant-garde” progressive performance of the classic medieval morality play invites the audience to follow the actors “down the rabbit hole” through claustrophobic hallways, eerie basements, and ceremonial chambers. Includes

Food Fight Judy Freed This boldly honest solo performance (featured on WHYY Radio) portrays the poignant reality of eating disorders through original music, monologue, and movement. Freed, a psychotherapist, takes the audience

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Fun for the whole family!

Two professional actors and two young actors take on our favorite fairytales in a fast-paced, interactive romp.

Lots of local color and people we love to skewer! $5 / 45 minutes Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 5, 12 + 19 at noon Sept 6 + 13 at 2pm

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Insanity, violence, sexual frustration, repressed lesbian desire. Follow the lives of eight women, room to room, through house and garden in 1930s New England. Evocative monologues and interaction between members of the all-female cast reveal the unpleasant decay beneath life’s gentle façades. Absurd, insightful, honest, engaging, disturbing, outrageous, hilarious. $10 / 90 minutes Plays and Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 14 + 17 at 10pm Sept 15 + 16 at 8pm

Fractured Fairytales B. Someday Productions

Fractured Scary Tales: The Black Cat Little Bunny Voodoo What makes a murderer?

LBV honors the master of the macabre in its latest foray into the perversity of the human spirit. Haunting animations tell the tale of Poe’s classic psychological thriller in an intimate venue that’s sure to chill you to the bone.

Details on Facebook and www.littlebunnyvoodoo.com. $10 / 40 minutes Grasso’s Magic Theatre 103 Callowhill Street Sept 10 at 8pm Sept 11 + 12 at 8pm + 10pm

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In this spellbinding 65-minute play, Edgar Allan Poe comes back to life to chat humorously with the audience and to present eight of his classic poems and short stories, including riveting word-forword performances of “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, and more. $15 / 65 minutes Studio 1831 1831 Brandywine Street Sept 5 at 9pm Sept 6 + 13 at 3pm Sept 11 at midnight Sept 12 + 19 at 5pm + 9pm Sept 18 at 5pm + midnight

Philip Barry

Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!

Traveling Jones Theater

Fefu and Her Friends DysFUNctional Theater

Teri Ramsay

Philadelphia socialite and wife of “Patriot Mayor” Samuel Powel, Elizabeth Willing Powel hosts none other than Martha Washington in this world premiere two-woman show starring Colleen O’Brien as Mrs. Powel (Eliza) and Janice Erickson Smith as Mrs. Washington (Patsy). Eavesdrop as they discuss their worlds and their men. $10 / 60 minutes Powel House 244 South 3rd Street Sept 8, 9, 15 + 16 at 7pm + 9pm

James Domingo

Howard Starrett Photograghy DC

Hypocrisy’s never been more hilarious than in Joe Penhall’s play on celebrity and the media machine that feeds on it. A hapless TV comic thinks he’ll laugh all the way to the bank when execs promise fat fees and star treatment. All he has to do is sell his soul. $15 / 90 minutes L2 Restaurant and Bar 2201 South Street Sept 10 + 11 at 8pm Sept 12, 17 + 18 at 8:30pm

Eliza and Patsy Colleen O’Brien and Janice Erickson Smith

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on a deeply personal journey of recovery—frightening and humorous, touching and triumphant—revealing stories of struggle, strength, and survival. Post-performance discussion. $10 / 60 minutes Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration 6900 Stenton Avenue Sept 5 + 6 at 3pm

Alisa Sickora Kleckner

Kevin S. Nash

Emma Gibson

Dumb Show by Joe Penhall Stripped Bare Theatre Company

hauntingly original music and charged choreography. $15 / 90 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4–6 + 13 at 8pm Sept 11 + 12 at 10pm

Crayola YumYum, a preoperation male-female transsexual, becomes the mother figure to two runaway teens. This play focuses on the choices made while surviving the pains of life and “TINA”, or crystal methamphetamine.

This is a workshop production about life and meth in our (Gay, Black, American, and all) communities. $15 / 90 minutes William Way Community Center 1315 Spruce Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 6:15pm + 8:15pm Sept 12 + 13 at 3:15pm + 5:15pm

Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller is a one-man show in two acts. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright confronts his choices in life as he looks back from the Great Beyond. A rollicking, witty, wrenching, fiery look at Scranton’s favorite son. $15 / 85 minutes Arch Street United Methodist Church 55 North Broad Street Sept 4, 5, 11 + 12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 7pm

Tony Lawton

In a Sense Nonsense Rhythmog the Innovation

Half Way Home Falling Gnome Productions When the local halfway house closes, a state legislator takes a group of convicted sex offenders into his home.

He must ultimately decide what’s more important in his life—the group of men he’s come to love and understand, or his own family. $15 / 80 minutes Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5 825 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 16 + 17 at 7:30pm Sept 18 at 8pm Sept 19 at 3pm + 8pm Sept 20 at 2pm

“There’s a dead man at 2078 Fifth Avenue.” Enter the world of the Collyer brothers, history’s most notorious hoarders who, over almost four decades, filled their Harlem brownstone with 163 tons of junk. Hermitage is a time-shifting dream that explores their lives and asks: Why? What happened in that house? http://hermitage. homestead.com. $15 / 80 minutes Plays and Players Theatre, Third Floor 1714 Delancey Place Sept 5 + 12 at 8pm Sept 6 at 1pm Sept 7 at 4pm Sept 13 at 2pm

Heresy Tony Lawton and the Mirror Theatre Company Tony Lawton and the Mirror Theatre Company, who produced The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters, present a probing, comic, autobiographical work-inprogress in which Lawton wrestles with the value of religion. Where is the line between faith and superstition?

Does Christianity improve people? WARNING: Profanity, Blasphemy, Sex, Real Life. $15 / 90 minutes Lantern Theater 10th + Ludlow Streets Sept 4–6 at 8pm

Perception vs conformity, lies vs truth, meaning vs word salad; replicants (artificial humans) malfunction and question their existence, ascending to a different plane of thought through a mass of sound bytes, sound clips, video clips, commercials, news headlines, news crawls, and live video feeds. Are you ready for the truth? $15 / 65 minutes Black Box at the New Freedom Theatre 1346 North Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9–11 at 8pm Sept 12 at 3pm + 8pm

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Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller Robert Hughes

Belly up to the bar and have a drink with Madhouse’s Happy Hour by John Stanton. A shot of laughter, a splash of fun, and a twist of the outrageous. The perfect Fringe cocktail! $15 / 60 minutes Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street Sept 8, 10, 15 + 17 at 6:30pm Sept 9 + 16 at 10pm

Hermitage: The Strange Story of the Ghost Men of Harlem Frederick Andersen

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Getting Your Life Gladys Productions

Happy Hour Madhouse Theater Company

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Shareef Hadid Jenkins

A collection of four titillating, bizarre, and downright hilarious ten-minute monster plays stitched together and violently shocked to life. Come spend an hour with spacemen, undead flesh-eaters, and everyone’s favorite mythical forest ape for a romp-rollicking good time. A must-see for fans of B-Horror films and outrageous comedy. $10 / 55 minutes The Playground at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 7pm Sept 7, 8 + 14 at 4pm + 7pm Sept 9 at 4pm + 9pm Sept 11 at 5pm + 11pm Sept 12 at 2pm Sept 13 at 2pm + 7pm

Frederick Andersen

John Stanton

Christine Schulte

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An adult-themed puppet musical. Joey Bear, who plays in a traveling Band of Bears, meets Edna Lamb after a show in Sheep Town. He is instantly smitten by her soft, soft fleece, and hot puppet-on-puppet action ensues. However, their long-distance interspecies romance ends tragically. $5 / 60 minutes NERD Island

Life is a Dream Aleksandra Berczynski In this minimalist onewoman show inspired by 17th century Spanish playwright Calderón’s play La Vida es Sueno, Berczynski visits the world of philosophy where she learns that beauty, reality, and dreams dissolve together in disturbing ways. $10 / 20 minutes Philadelphia International Institute & PII Gallery 242 Race Street

It’s back to school at Rick Astley Senior High, where big hair, shoulder pads, fingerless gloves, and Members Only jackets crowd the hallways.

Relive the music, the good times and the heartaches, the friendships, and the loneliness of growing up in the greatest decade of all time. $15 / 75 minutes The Shubin Theatre 407 Bainbridge Street Sept 4 + 9–11 at 8pm Sept 5 + 6 at 2pm + 8pm

Little Girl Blue Dove Comm Lady Dove (aka Pheralyn Dove) portrays 17 characters in Little Girl Blue, a one-woman show.

Bassist Warren Oree accompanies her with original compositions. Monologues and poetry reveal decades of desperation a Black woman endures until she reconciles her past and emerges victorious and magnificently transformed. Recommended for mature audiences. $15 / 90 minutes Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue Sept 12 at 8pm

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Okay, hear me out—sure, Tom is a little awkward, and he’s been sort of weird since his wife Janet died. Let’s just say he’s a little stuck in the past.

But trust me, he’s a wonderful guy once you get to know him. I should know—I’m Janet. $10 (suggested donation) 60 minutes Marian Anderson Recreation Center 744 South 17th Street Sept 4, 10 + 11 at 7pm Sept 5 + 12 at 2pm

Nick Forrest

Jonathan Sorber Photography

Six unemployed circus workers seek refuge in the Bar Camera Blanca when economic collapse lays waste to their country. Their interlocking stories unfold simultaneously, and the audience is free to choose which characters to follow. It’s a play without a stage, a show that can’t go on. $10 / 70 minutes Murph’s Bar 202 East Girard Avenue Sept 10 + 11 at 6pm Sept 12 at 2pm Sept 13 at 4pm Sept 14 + 16 at 8pm

Joey Bear and Edna Lamb David Fishkin

Derek Moench

Colleen Quinn

Katie wishes for more excitement in her life, but be careful what you wish for!

Pitark, a passionate artist who stands up for what he believes in, inspires her to want to live a more creative life. However, there is more to Pitark than Katie can ever guess. . . $10 / 60 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 + 15 at 7pm

Love After Death Evil Eye Arts

Hannan Saleh

It’s Hard Times at the Camera Blanca Applied Mechanics

Like, So Totally 80s ETC Theater

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MEELEY or The Fun of It Earth Speed Productions The doomed flight of a beloved aviatrix, her forgotten navigator, a bird of prey, and a fleet of musicians. Earth Speed Productions imagines the final flight of Amelia Earhart, weaving together a fantasy where Earhart knows the end before the propellers even begin to spin. $10 / 60 minutes Circle of Hope 1125 South Broad Street, 2nd Floor Sept 8 + 10–12 at 8pm

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As Julia Child demonstrates how to make tarte tatin, the set and soul of The French Chef open up and take us far beyond layers of pastry and deep within one of the best and worst performers of our time.

Special epicurean events included with ticket. Food and drinks served. $5 / 60 minutes Philly Kitchen Share 1514 South Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 + 7 at 9pm Sept 6 at 8pm + 10pm

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Emily Cardin

1634 North Randolph Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5, 8, 11, 13 + 16 at 10pm

Maria Shaplin

Inside Julia Child Rebecca Wright and John Jarboe

Matthew Zoke

Other People’s Money Wellbilt Theater Factory

Murder!

Dark Side Theatre Company Booze, a body, and a boomerang. What more could you want in a murder mystery?

Paul DeVille is found dead in newspaper-man Woodrow Carlton’s lake house. The killer must be one of his friends. Is it womanizing Jackson? Cavalier Woodrow? Dramatic Dahlia?

Scorned Martha? Seeminglyinnocent Sheri? Or brooding Landen? $15 / 90 minutes Chestnut Hill College Gruber Theater

One Giant Leap 180 Theatre Company Moses is a foreigner with a speech impediment! David is a shepherd with a confidence complex! What could God possibly want with these two most unlikely heroes? Using only eight golfing umbrellas, 180 Theatre Company explores the tales of two men who, finding themselves in impossible situations, achieve incredible things!

Corporate greed! Big business sticking it to the little guy!

Government bailouts! Well, no bailouts—Uncle Sam’s staying out of this one. But if Wall Street takeover artist “Larry the Liquidator” can grab enough stock to take control of New England Wire & Cable, the little guy’s just as screwed! $15 / 120 minutes Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3 825 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 15–19 at 7pm

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Join our first-class ensemble for the Philadelphia premier of Obie Award-winning playwright Melissa James Gibson’s work. Become immersed in this dream/ memory play told through modern verse language, Greek chorus scenes, and moving images. Wearing pajamas optional, but recommended.

Go to http://natalieplays. wordpress.com for more info. $15 / 50 minutes Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3 825 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5, 6, 8, 10, 11 + 13 at 6:30pm Sept 9 + 12 at 9pm

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Alana Reichfeld

Mr. Harry is missing. Was it the crazy lady across the street or the angry immigrant plants in the backyard? Kiefer Sutherland or Bob Barker? Georgian peasants or a government conspiracy? A family searches for its beloved pet in this zany comedy with an oversized heart. $10 / 70 minutes Church Street Studios 122 Church Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 5, 11, 18 + 19 at 7pm

Lyle Kessler’s Orphans tracks two orphaned brothers and their life of petty crime and violence. When one brother kidnaps a man who turns out to be a mobster on the run, new roads pave themselves for the young men, opening their world to something quite unexpected.

Free / 90 minutes Orianna Street Gallery 929 North Orianna Street Sept 6, 7 + 13–16 at 7pm

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$10 / 60 minutes Arch Street United Methodist Church 55 North Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 + 19 at 5pm + 7pm Sept 13 at 4pm

Mr. Harry Flying Whale Theatre Co.

Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia Curio Theatre Company Curio Theatre Company Presents Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia An ensemble-based piece created from found test, primarily from Philadelphia Craigslist personal and community forums. We seek to create a through line that explores the social dichotomy of Anonymity and Identity on the internet using only found text. $15 / 60 minutes Calvary Center Sanctuary 4740 Baltimore Avenue Sept 3–5, 10–12, 17 + 19 at 7pm

9601 Germantown Avenue Sept 4, 5, 11 + 12 at 7:30pm Sept 6 at 3pm

Orphans Running Fish Productions

Peter Mrsich

Robert Hornak

From the creators of THE MeLTING BRiDgE, FLAMINGO/WINNEBAGO, and ¡EL CONQUISTADOR! comes a world premiere set within a 3' by 3' by 8' white box. Set in Tokyo, this solo theater work is about a man named Milo and his rubber duckie named Fumio, and will be powered entirely by renewable energy. $15 / 65 minutes Painted Bride Studios 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4–6, 8–10, 13 + 15–19 at 9pm Sept 11 + 12 at 8pm

Mary Tuomanen

MICROWORLD(s) Part #1 LUCIDITY SUITCASE INTERCONTINENTAL/ THADDEUS PHILLIPS

Dynamic Greek actress Lili Bita presents her impassioned love poems, her daring performance pieces, and her searing personal memoir in an electrifying evening of theater.

Meet Lili and her friends: Medea, Electra, Lysistrata, and more. The goddess of love, fertility, and magic presides at these rites! Share the excitement! $15 / 75 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 + 18 at 8pm Sept 19 at 3pm + 8pm

Lecoq-trained at the London International School of Performing Arts, Burvil Hoist drops you into the subterranean world of an office under the nine hole where human contact is obtuse and Bacchanalia rages outside the only window.

With a raucous assembly of theatrical fabricators, Burvil Hoist does the lifting for you! $10 / 60 minutes NEXUS 1400 North American Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12, 14 + 16 at 8pm Sept 17 at 10pm Sept 18 + 19 at 9:30pm

Pretty Young Thang Raine Djonson/ THEACTORLADY A child’s peering eyes will always see things that affect them when they grow up. Why can’t this woman put her past to rest? Why can’t she communicate with her mother?

Johnnie Hobbs, Jr. directs this dynamic piece from everyday life. Recommended for mature audiences. $10 / 60 minutes The Scottish Rite House 1525 Fitzwater Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 8pm Sept 5, 6, 12 + 13 at 2pm Sept 19 at 2pm + 8pm

Matchbox Theater presents: euphoria, bike wheels, music for dancing, silence, an adventure, bodies, Philadelphia: Your Hometown, intimacy (or at least proximity), something beautiful, a second silence (this one lasting a long, long time), a story that you’ve already heard, wonder, and one small truth. $10 / 75 minutes Power Plant Productions 233 North Bread Street Sept 4 at 9pm Sept 5 at 5pm + 9:30pm Sept 6 at 5pm + 9pm Sept 7 + 8 at 7pm

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Preparations for Departure Matchbox Theater Company

Pumpernickel and Marmalade Keyspeak Come see two silent performers act out everyday events with a comic twist.

This nonstop action show recalls the frenzied hijinks of Charlie Chaplin and the poetic movement of pantomime artist Marcel Marceau.

Fun for all with live vaudeville piano accompaniment by local professor Don Kawash. $10 / 50 minutes Old Academy Players 3544 Indian Queen Lane Sept 5 + 6 at 3pm Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square Sept 12 + 13 at 3pm

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Please Make Us Happy, or Protagonismo!

Burvil Hoist Passion: An Evening With Lili Bita Lili Bita/The Theater Cooperative

What if time weren’t a straight line, but an intricately woven fabric, and the threads which held it together were the poems of Edgar Allan Poe? A woman’s life. A dark tapestry. A twisted tale. $10 / 40 minutes Historic St. George’s Church 235 North 4th Street Sept 10 at 7pm Sept 11 + 12 at 8pm

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

PILLS the Musical is a sidesplitting comedy about the universal dilemma of aging. This original musical is an uproariously funny yet poignant depiction of what happens when people still dare to dream. www.pillsthemusical.com $15 / 120 minutes Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square Sept 11 + 12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 4pm

Poe-sers Pink Hanger Presents

Andy Pettit

PILLS the Musical Octorara YMCA Red Brick Players

Karim Muasher

Kimon Rethis

Charles Dickens toured America in 1842 and, in his travellog titled American Notes, rendered the American eagle as he saw it. But this isn’t just about Dickens, and it isn’t just about American Notes. You may be surprised by what you hear and by what you didn’t know about Mr. Dickens’ traveling companion. $15 / 60 minutes Old First Reformed United Church of Christ North 4th Street at Race Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 17 at 7pm Sept 18 + 19 at 8pm

Christine Schulte

Paint the American Eagle Reuben Wade

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Johnny Showcase’s mission: rock your sweet face off. Purr, Pull, Reign exposes the tortured soul beneath the mad genius of this “top shelf Rhode Island crooner.” Experience this underground sensation, take it to the next level, and shower yourself in lilac agony.

You will be formerly known as not blown away! www.johnnyshowcase.com $15 / 90 minutes Refer to Festival website for venue Sept 11, 12, 18 + 19 at 10pm

REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM Parallax Theatre Company Jamison Foreman’s musical REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM examines the life of outsider artist and writer Henry Darger during the period when he began writing his 15,000 page work In the Realms of the Unreal. The musical explores the place where fantasy and reality intersected in Darger’s mind. $15 / 120 minutes Broad Street Ministry 315 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 7 + 8 at 8pm Sept 5 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 6 at 2pm + 7:30pm

Emma Gibson

Johnny Showcase and the Lefty Lucy Cabaret

Rails Stumble Goat Productions Honest, reliable, and a-bitslouched Wilbur Burland uncovers crooked dealings perpetrated by his straightspined employer, while a mysterious femme fatale turns everyone’s lives upside down.

Come witness puppets, people, and a live band collide in a railyard, with nods to both dark

Salesmanship For Life & Limb Thomas Tirney & Tall Grass Productions How far would you go to earn a bonus? Would you risk life and limb? Charged with boosting profits at Bleerox, head of sales Manfred Manifold motivates

SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE Ira Brind School of Theater Arts, University of the Arts Love or loathing? Miracle or hoax? Victim or attacker? The truth lies in the eye of the beholder in this provocative new musical about crimes of passion and crises of faith.

LaChiusa is at the forefront of new writers, creating smart, sexy musicals from intriguing literary sources. A Philadelphia premiere! $20 / 120 minutes Caplan Studio at the University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2–4 at 8pm Sept 5 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 6 at 2pm

Salvation Road Art Riot Theatrical Company Denise traded her grunge rocker lifestyle for a handful of carnations and the promise of Eternal Life. Now her brother races to save her from the mysterious church that took her away—but how do you argue with someone who already has The Answer? www.salvationroad.net $15 / 75 minutes Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3 825 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 8pm* Sept 5 + 6 at 2pm Sept 10 + 11 at 9pm Sept 12 at 2pm* + 6:30pm *Post-show discussion

Chuck Willis

Henry Darger

Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigious Fantasy in D

his team with incentifications, self-help books, and surgery.

Come see this sidesplitting corporate farce by a Wall Street investor- turned-playwright. www.salesmanshipforlifeandlimb.com $10 / 40 minutes Plays and Players Theatre, Third Floor 1714 Delancey Place Sept 4 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 5 at 3pm + 6pm Sept 6 at 3pm Sept 7 + 8 at 6pm

Aaron Oster’

comedy and pulp-melodrama.

Bar and free parking onsite! www.railstheplay.weebly.com $10 / 80 minutes The Arts Garage 1533–35 Ridge Avenue Sept 6, 7, 12, 14 + 17 at 7pm Jamie Moffett and Bradley K. Wrenn

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Sex, Dreams, & Self Control Kevin Thornton This Los Angeles Times “Best Bet” is a fusion of music, spoken word, and standup comedy—a “sexual and romantic odyssey” (EDGE Los Angeles). This rites-of-passage tale presents itself as bold and racy, and speaks loudly about sexuality and religion. One guitar. One man. A wild ride. $15 / 90 minutes William Way Community Center

Writing Man Productions, who brought you the hilarious Starlight Supply in 2007 and

Super Heroes Who Are Super!

Plays & Players Super heroes brought to life before your very eyes!

Word-for-word staged readings of classic comic books featuring some of Philadelphia’s finest actors.

Will Spiderman save the day?

Will the Hulk smash? Will this description get you to come to our show? Find out! $10 / 60 minutes Plays and Players Theatre, Third Floor 1714 Delancey Place Sept 3–5, 11, 12 + 17–19 at 10:30pm Sept 13 at 8pm

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Experience student performance art and student-written theater that challenges the boundaries of student work.

With six short student pieces ranging from hilarious to intellectual, The Alternative Theatre Festival will show the quirkiness of modern student theater. $5 / 120 minutes The Muravchick Family Cabaret Stage, Platt House, UPenn 3702 Spruce Street Sept 11 at 8pm

The Annihilation Point Time Mender Productions

Spherus Innovative Juggler Featuring international juggling champion Greg Kennedy, complemented by two aerial dancers, the trio fills the stage with mesmerizing imagery. Jugglers know Kennedy for his award-winning creativity; audiences know him for his entertaining

Teenager: Anne Frank Theatre Inbetween “Isn’t it important for every girl, when she gets her first kiss?”

The German team of actress Anna Watson and director

The Jersey Devil . . . the Giant Squid . . . will it ever end? No. These tomorrow-men have punched a hole in the time-space continuum and all this future shit is pukin’ out.

Cyborg vigilantes. Parallel dimensions. Alien home fries.

None of you will survive, so put the kids to bed—forever. $10 / 63 minutes Art Underground at the Wolf Building 340 North 12th Street Sept 4 at 10pm (preview) Sept 5, 10, 11, 17 + 18 at 10pm Sept 12 + 19 at midnight Sept 16 at 8pm

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‘Ships Writing Man Productions

The Alternative Theatre Festival iNtuitons Experimental Theatre

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God is dead. But nobody told us the details. How did it happen? Was it a murder?

What happened with the corpse? Thirteen performers explore these questions to tell the fundamental myth of contemporary society. An original piece involving live music, clown, philosophy, powerful images, and compelling storytelling. $15 / 120 minutes Fishtown Collective 1425 Front Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 + 10 at 8pm (previews) Sept 11, 12 + 15–19 at 8pm Sept 13 at 2pm

Colleen Joy

See the throat-slashing, dick-sucking, rhyme-busting Shakesploitation II: Iambic Boogaloo, sequel to the sold-out 2005 Fringe hit, including R. Kelly and Juliet’s Trapped in the Closet, the pornorific Taming of the Screw, Viola’s screams in the muderdertastic Friday the 13th Night and Richard III: Cobra Commander. The badass bard is back! $15 / 95 minutes 941 Theater 941 North Front Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 + 19 at 8pm Sept 6 + 10 at 7pm Sept 11 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 12 at 8pm + 10pm

Something With Wings Barracuda Carmela

Frank Brückner presents a one-woman show about yearnings, isolation, hope, and awakening sexuality.

Anne Frank the icon becomes Anne the teenager. $15 / 60 minutes Parkway House (roof deck) 2201 Pennsylvania Avenue Sept 10–13 + 15–18 at 8pm

Tim Sawicki

Shakesploitation II: Iambic Boogaloo Iron Age Theatre

performance, including visual spectacles made from everyday objects as well as dazzling artistry on trapezes, silks, and spinning hoops. $15 / 60 minutes Greene Street Studios 6122 Greene Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 8pm Sept 5 + 6 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 7 at 2pm

Linda Schirona & Hannes Richert

Geraldine Glisson

Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 10, 11, 16 + 17 at 7:45pm Sept 12 at 10:15pm

the touching Strawberries & Jellybeans in 2008, presents ‘Ships, a romantic comedy about two brothers, Noah and Chip, their housemate Dillon, and Chip’s girlfriend Joanna, who go on a wild exploration of love, family, friendship, and outer space! $10 / 90 minutes The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre 2111 Sansom Street Sept 4, 8–11 + 15–18 at 7:30pm Sept 12 + 19 at 2pm + 7:30pm

David Miranda

1315 Spruce Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 18 at 8pm Sept 5 + 19 at 4pm

The Dark Heart of Meteorology The Assembly Theater The Dark Heart of Meteorology is a series of barely-multimedia presentations—part lecture/ slideshow, part happening— by lonely traveling weatherman Franklin Elijah White.

Developed by New Yorkbased ensemble The Assembly, Dark Heart is an amusing and provocative investigation of the intersection between the personal and the meteorological. $10 / 75 minutes 2nd Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 4 + 5 at 7pm Sept 6 at 4pm + 7pm

The Enchanted Ruthanne E. Ankney Bill Brock

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The Flanagan brothers, Michael Toner and Michael Walls, have run a Philly pub for decades, but a degenerate serial killer is ruining their business as frightened customers cower at home.

Add an arrogant drunk and a cop desperate to land the killer. Stir. Do not shake.

Really, do not shake. $20 / 120 minutes Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street Sept 5 at 2pm (preview) + 6pm Sept 6 + 13 at 4pm Sept 9 + 16 at 7pm Sept 12 + 19 at 2pm + 6pm

The Ibsen Project MasterBuilder Productions

Michael Chayes

Howard Silverman

Clark Park 43rd Street + Baltimore Avenue Sept 12, 10am–2pm

The Brothers Flanagan The Flanagan Project

The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium

word to describe this family friendly show: ZannTastic!!

Pay what you can / 60 minutes Betsy Ross House Courtyard 239 Arch Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 10, 12, 13 + 17–19 at 6pm

(c) Karla Korn

with a hypnotic fiddler, mad toad, woodland enchantress, and fantastical creatures. $15 / 75 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 8pm Sept 12 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 16 at 12:30pm* *Includes workshop

You will be stolen away by enchanted fae. Captives enter the magical mystical fae world through dazzling shadow puppetry, traditional music, the ater, and dance. Sneeze and a tree sprite might swallow you up. Dare to join a fairy round

Delving into the mind and life of the man who wrote A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler, this exciting interdisciplinary artistic venture utilizes the skills of actors, dancers, musicians, and visual artists in developing a new play about the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. $15 / 120 minutes Plays and Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Wheelchair accessible Sept 12* + 13 at 7pm *Post-show discussion

The Stuttering Preacher new black box/mel donaldson ADULTS ONLY. A hilarious romantic comedy. Reverend Clarence Jackson, Jr. preaches the gospel. His congregation loves him and the women adore him. The thing is . . . when not in the pulpit, he stutters. He meets Efay, an attractive, strong, black woman who has sworn off men.

Reverend Clarence attempts to seduce the aloof Efay. $30 / 80 minutes John E. Allen, Jr. Theatre at the New Freedom Theatre 1346 North Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 at 8pm Sept 10 + 11 at 2pm + 8pm

The Power Of Magic: An International Commedia for Everyone OMBELICO Mask Ensemble We’re bringing together actors from four different countries who speak in their mother tongues, all while performing a highly physical improv/ theater hybrid. Come see Arlecchino, Pantalone, Dottore, and all the rest in this full-throttle Commedia dell’Arte, a Cirque-meetsShakespeare theatrical spectacle. There’s only one

Aaron Oster

The Breakup Booth is a 3-8 minute public installation/ private performance. A portable booth is a romantic restaurant with a table set for two. A waiter seats one audience member, who is presumably waiting for his or her date. Momentarily, a performer joins the audience member at the table. A breakup ensues.

Donation / 3–8 minutes Refer to Festival website for venue Sept 11, 12, 18 + 19 at 10pm

Society Hill Playhouse’s historic Red Room transforms into “a lighthouse at the edge of a watery nighttime universe” for Ionesco’s classic farce celebrating life and laughter, inspired by silent films and vaudeville antics. Brought to you by The IRC: “We Bring Good Nothingness to Life.”

Very limited seating. $20 / 80 minutes The Red Room at Society Hill Playhouse 507 South 8th Street Sept 4 (preview) at 7:30pm Sept 5, 6, 8–13, 15 + 16 at 7:30pm

Andrew Beal

The Breakup Booth The Missoula Oblongata Presents

Bea Chenkin

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Tongue & Groove Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater Inspired by true, anonymous secrets provided by the audience, this unique ensemble spontaneously

Some use Craigslist to find apartments, jobs, and furniture,

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Ubu Roi, ou les polanais Renegade Performance Group Alfred Jarry’s absurdist work gets a modern makeover in this new adaptation. Six actors play the over twenty characters by manipulating masks and

What FIUP? Leon I. Rosenberg Good movies are hypnotizing.

For this evening’s entertainment, be ready to be hypnotized. EVERYONE in the audience will enjoy this adventure with eyes closed, in a hypnotic trance. No experience necessary.

Daydreaming and highway

John Hoey

Who Will Carry The Word?

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre This survivor’s play follows twenty women in Auschwitz as they strive to keep the strongest alive so that someone can return to bear witness. This sobering, inspirational, physicallydriven piece celebrates the resilience of ordinary people in extraordinarily horrifying circumstances. An evocative, lyrical tribute to the millions lost in the Holocaust. $15 / 75 minutes 2nd Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 2pm, 4pm + 7pm Sept 15 + 16 at 7pm Sept 17 + 18 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 19 at 4pm + 7pm

Theater

Jake Rosenberg

2007 Live Arts hit returns! A comedy about 100-year- old Irish Thomas and his even older father. When Thomas reveals that he may have fathered a child seventy years ago, the two set off to find the child with nothing more than a limp and a prayer between them. $15 / 75 minutes The Playground at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 + 4 at 8pm Sept 9, 16, 18 + 23–25 at 7pm Sept 10, 11 + 17 at 9pm

Hot off a streak of sold-out runs in ’07 and ’08, IdRatherBeHere is back with a fresh batch of short films and plays parodying Whole Foods, the Mummers, moms, K-Mart, camping, life after Brian Dawkins, and much more.

“Biting, incisive and inspired.”

—Courier-Post. “Terrifically abnormal.” —City Paper. $10 / 75 minutes Society Hill Playhouse 507 South 8th Street Sept 4–6, 18 + 19 at 8pm

Philly Fringe

To The Girl In The Yellow Dress . . .

Katie Gould

Trad The Remount Inis Nua Theatre Company

Patrick H. Kane

Andrew Beal

Forbidden Culture (LLC) presents TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, a story revolving around the strained relationships between two brothers ironically named Lincoln and Booth. We welcome you to start your night with a visual arts gallery followed by a raw, heartwrenching theatrical performance. Join us for a new beginning. $25 / 120 minutes John E. Allen, Jr. Theatre at the New Freedom Theatre 1346 North Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2–4 at 8pm Sept 5 at 3pm + 8pm Sept 6 at 3pm

hypnosis are common hypnotic states almost everyone experiences.

For tonight’s adventure, YOU are the hypnotic hero. $15 / 90 minutes Philadelphia Clef Club 738 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9, 14 + 16 at 8pm

Wawapalooza 3: The Dark Roast IdRatherBeHere

Jon Zan Den Eeden

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG

by Suzan-Lori Parks Forbidden Culture

employing Commedia dell’Arte heightened physicality. The cavernous space of the Calvary Center creates an engulfing experience for audience members and performers. $15 / 80 minutes Calvary Center 801 South 48th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 3–5, 10–12 + 17–19 at 9pm

Janice Peal

but many use it to find love.

The voices of Craigslist’s Missed Connections inspired Katie Gould’s energetic theatrical experiment, To The Girl In The Yellow Dress . . .

Through text, song, and movement, Gould explores her generation’s search for human connection in the virtual world. $10 / 40 minutes L’Etage Cabaret 6th + Bainbridge Streets Sept 13 at 4:30pm Sept 14 + 15 at 10pm

Katie Reing

creates a one-of-a-kind, serio-comic theater piece on the spot. “Eight skilled actors create genuine, complex, unscripted relationships . . . both hilarious and painful . . . anchored by a delicate clarity, and more moving than the best scripted plays” (City Paper). www.tongue-groove.com $10 / 60 minutes The Playground at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 10, 11 + 17 at 7pm Sept 13 + 19 at 5pm Sept 18 at 9pm

Visual

Philly Fringe

219 Race Street Sept 4–19, 10am–8pm

hasn’t had a bad hair day?

Share your stories of good and bad hair days.

Free / Ongoing The Book Trader 7 North 2nd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6, 7 + 13, 3pm–6pm

Bike Part Art Show Neighborhood Bike Works Neighborhood Bike Works challenged over a hundred local artists to create new work that celebrates cycling using bits and pieces from our scrap pile. The party and auction of the amazing results, from paintings to jewelry to light fixtures, benefit Bike Works’ free youth cycling programs and summer camp scholarships. $5 (suggested donation) / Ongoing Studio 34 4522 Baltimore Avenue Sept 18, 7pm–10pm

Crowning Glory: Hair Portraits and Stories Linda Dubin Garfield “. . . long beautiful hair, shining, gleaming, flaxen, waxen!” Sing it! . . . and dance over to this installation to create your own hair portrait for inclusion in the evergrowing installation. We all know the power of hair. Who

The Atomic Catwalk Project for Nuclear Awareness James Garvy

It’s a musical. About zombies.

Inspired by classic horror films and cult musicals, our story follows a mad scientist, a surly sheriff, a pair of young lovers, and a zombie hunter as they try to survive in a world overrun by zombies . . . and sing about it. $15 / 100 minutes Plays and Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 5 + 11 at midnight Sept 6 at 6pm Sept 8 at 8pm Sept 10 at 10pm

Neighborhood Bike Works

Zombie! The Musical Plays & Players

Linda Dubin Garfield

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Icarus Jordan Griska Icarus is a mechanical sculpture by local artist Jordan Griska, which consists of a large airplane propeller powered by the artist (wearing spaceage white spandex and a fighter jet pilot’s helmet) as he operates a modified rowing machine to inflate a massive metallic parachute. www.jordangriska.com Free / Ongoing Philadelphia Traction Company 4100 Haverford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 5pm

T-shirts and buttons have long been used by activists to express political statements.

However, with changing times, more effective measures must be taken.

Philadelphia-based Ban All Nukes Generation takes the global urgency for nuclear weapons disarmament and nonproliferation to a new level in their interactive performance, The Atomic Catwalk.

Free / Ongoing 2nd–5th Streets on Market Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 from 6pm–9pm

InLiquid & Crane Arts present a video installation in the Grey Area InLiquid & Crane Arts For more information, please visit www.inliquid.com and www.cranearts.com.

Free / Ongoing The Grey Area at Crane Arts Building 1400 North American Street Sept 2-27 (Wed-Sun), 12-6 pm

Muralmorphosis City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program in collaboration with Sean Stoops A continuously evolving sequence of images will be drawn and painted at 2nd and Race Streets throughout the festival. This mural and stop-motion animation project will feature Space 1026-affiliated artist Bonnie Brenda Scott, Eve Biddle and Josh Frankel from NYC, and others. Closing party on Saturday, Sept 19 at 9pm.

Free / Ongoing Empty Lot

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Festival Checklist How many shows can you see in 16 days?

Mark down the ones you catch, twitter your daily counts, and post your reviews on phillyfunguide.com.

Live Arts Festival / p27 ___ 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests / p58 ___ above under inbetween / p50 ___ FATEBOOK: Avoiding Catastrophe One Party at a Time / p40 ___ How Theater Failed America / p42 ___ Kill Me Now / p30 ___ more. / p44

___ Shrug / p77

___ Inside Julia Child / p97

___ Sketch and Improv Comedy

___ Call Mr. Robeson / p89

___ Insomnaeria / p81

___ Canvas in Concert / p79

___ It’s Hard Times at the Camera

___ Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque / p79

Blanca / p97

Spectacular with Meg & Rob and BWP / p69 ___ Something Striking / p77

___ It’s Not Me It’s You / p81

___ Something With Wings / p105

___ Chloe and Solved / p74

___ Joey Bear and Edna Lamb / p97

___ Spherus / p105

___ Cirque-ular / p89

___ Katie and Pitark / p97

___ Splitting the Difference / p77

___ Citizen Paine / p89

___ Life is a Dream / p97

___ Stimulus / p84

___ City Dances/Parkway / p74

___ Light of Our Own True Nature / p85

___ Sunshineface / p69

___ Clean Sheets / p89

___ Like, So Totally 80s? / p97

___ Super Heroes Who Are Super!

___ Clover / p89

___ Lilacs and Roses for Walt, Abe and

___ Coach and Fly / p67

My Father / p81

___ Company / p89

___ Little Girl Blue / p97

___ ConNEXTions: The Next

___ Love & Geography / p84

Generation of Opera / p85 ___ CREDITORS by August Strindberg, translated by Elizabeth Sprigge / p81

___ Love After Death / p97

/ p105 ___ Sweet Like Chocolate Poetry in Motion II / p84 ___ Take Us To The Comedy Scene. . . / p69

___ Love Is In The Air / p84

___ Teenager: Anne Frank / p105

___ MEELEY or The Fun of It / p97

___ the 9 muses / p77

___ Crooked House / p91

___ MICROWORLD(s) Part #1 / p99

___ The Action Section Presents:

___ Crowning Glory: Hair Portraits and

___ Missed Connections, A Craigslist

Stories / p108 ___ CUBED with Special Guest Todd Chappelle / p67

Fantasia / p99 ___ Monsters of Podcasting / p69

Life / p71 ___ The Alternative Theatre Festival / p105

___ Mr. Harry / p99

___ The Annihilation Point / p105

___ daDAda / p91

___ Muralmorphosis / p108

___ The Atomic Catwalk / p108

___ Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz

___ Dangerous Fools / p67

___ Murder! / p99

___ The Breakup Booth / p106

___ Danse4Nia Meets Forces of

___ My Dwelling Is In Rooms Of Sound:

___ The Brothers Flanagan / p106

___ Postcards from the Woods / p54 ___ small metal objects / p52 ___ STORE / p32

Nature, The Move/Meant / p74 ___ Darwinii: The Comeuppance Of Man / p91

Performing Gert Jonke / p84 ___ Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson / p99

___ The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco / p106 ___ The Dark Heart of Meteorology / p106

___ Death & Destruction / p74

___ One Giant Leap / p99

Philadelphia (Final) / p48

___ Desert of Hallways / p91

___ Orphans / p99

___ The Enchanted / p106

___ Prelim 1

___ DIGITAL EFFECTS / p91

___ Other People’s Money / p99

___ The Gonzales Cantata / p85

___ Prelim 2

___ Discordia / p91

___ Out of the Rose / p75

___ The Greatest Performance of My

___ Prelim 3

___ Diving in Backwards / p91

___ Paint the American Eagle / p101

___ The Last Cargo Cult / p42

___ Double & Small / p91

___ Pandora’s Box / p75

___ TIDE / p38

___ Dumb Show by Joe Penhall / p93

___ Passion / p77

___ Urban Scuba / p34

___ Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive! / p93

___ Passion: An Evening with Lili Bita

___ Welcome to Yuba City / p36

___ El Duelo (The Wake) / p74

___ The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009:

Live Arts Festival Philly Fringe

___ INFLUX / p75

___ Brainstorm / p89

___ Mortal Engine / p56 / p46

___ Elixir / p75

/ p101 ___ Philadelphia Fire Arts Presents: SimpLaFire / p84

Festival Plus / p60

___ Eliza and Patsy / p93

___ The Theaters of Witold

___ Emma’s Parlour / p81

___ Phuk What Ya Heard / p69

___ Enlightenment / p75

___ PILLS the Musical / p101

___ Social Media and the Arts

___ eSights eSounds / p81

___ Please Make Us Happy, or

___ Technology as Performance

___ Everyman / p93

Gombrowicz and Michał Zadara

Protagonismo! / p101

Life: I Pretend / p85 ___ The Hear Again Radio Project / p84 ___ The Ibsen Project / p106 ___ The Moops / p71 ___ The Pointe of Water / p79 ___ The Power Of Magic: An International Commedia for Everyone / p106 ___ ”The Scene” / p79 ___ The Sound of Young America LIVE! / p71

___ Everything Must Go / p69

___ Poe-sers / p101

Philly Fringe / p65

___ Fefu and Her Friends / p93

___ POOF! / p77

___ The Stuttering Preacher / p106

___ ¿...? / p74

___ Felon Fiercely’s OPEN MIC NIGHT

___ Preparations for Departure / p101

___ The Waitstaff Sells Out / p71

___ Pretty Young Thang / p101

___ Thinking Out Loud / p79

___ Pumpernickel and Marmalade

___ Timejawn / p71

___ 24 Hour Improv Marathon: Dazed and Amused / p67

IN HELL / p85 ___ Fletcher / p69

___ 3 Mad Rituals / p67

___ Food Fight / p93

___ 4Play / p87

___ Formed Declarations / p75

___ 7 (x1) Samurai / p87

___ Fractured Fairytales / p93

___ A History of Shit: Manson in

___ Fractured Scary Tales: The Black

Thebes / p87

Cat / p93

___ A Singer’s Circus / p87

___ FrankenFestival / p95

___ A Taste of Sisterhood: Learning

___ Fusion / p75

to Swim / p87 ___ A World of Seduction Passion & Vulnerability / p74

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___ Bike Part Art Show / p108

___ Getting Your Life / p95 ___ Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller / p95

/ p101 ___ Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigigus Fantasy in D / p104 ___ Rails / p104 ___ Rare Bird Show / p69 ___ REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM / p104 ___ Rusted Gates Volume 1: Leopard’s Mouth / p85

___ Afro-Brazilian Dances and

___ Happy Hour / p95

___ Salvation Road / p104

___ Her Body Cannot Tell A Lie / p81

___ Same Spirit Different Movement

___ Are We They? / p74 ___ Armageddon at the Mushroom Village / p87 ___ Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom / p67

___ Hermitage: The Strange Story of the Ghost Men of Harlem / p95

___ Ubu Roi, ou les polanais / p107 ___ Vamps & Vixens Vaudeville Revue / p84 ___ Wake Up Philadelphia! / p71

___ Half Way Home / p95

___ Heresy / p95

/ p107 ___ Trad The Remount / p107

___ Salesmanship For Life & Limb

___ GOLD / p75

/ p67

Suzan-Lori Parks / p107 ___ To The Girl In The Yellow Dress. . .

___ Veggie Cabaret II / p71

___ Activity Book / p67

___ Angry People Building Things

___ TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by

___ Sacred Soul Sisters / p85

___ Abrdgd Frng / p67

Folktales / p79

___ Tongue & Groove / p106

/ p104

Fest / p84 ___ Satellite Submission/Nutmeg Overdose / p77

___ Wawapalooza 3: The Dark Roast / p107 ___ We Only Hurt The Ones We Love / p87 ___ What FIUP? / p107 ___ Where Do We Go From Here? / p71

___ Icarus / p108

___ SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE / p104

___ Who Will Carry The Word? / p107

___ Illegal Refill / p69

___ Series IV: The Demystification / p77

___ XFS Philly Song Shuffle / p87

___ Improv Comedy: The N Crowd

___ Sex, Dreams, & Self Control / p104

___ Zombie! The Musical / p108

Double Header / p69

___ barFlies / p89

___ In a Sense Nonsense / p95

___ Big Fun! / p79

___ In(visible) Keepsakes / p81

___ Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo / p105 ___ ’Ships / p105

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Fractured Scary Tales: The Black Cat / p93

Salvation Road / p104

FrankenFestival / p95

Same Spirit Different Movement Fest / p84

¿...? / p74

Fusion / p75

Satellite Submission/Nutmeg Overdose / p77

13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen

Getting Your Life / p95

SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE / p104

Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller / p95

Series IV: The Demystification / p77

24 Hour Improv Marathon: Dazed and Amused / p67

GOLD / p75

Sex, Dreams, & Self Control / p104

3 Mad Rituals / p67

Half Way Home / p95

Shakesploitation II Iambic Boogaloo / p105

4Play / p87

Happy Hour / p95

‘Ships / p105

7 (x1) Samurai / p87

Her Body Cannot Tell A Lie / p81

Shrug / p77

above under inbetween / p50

Heresy / p95

Sketch and Improv Comedy Spectacular with Meg &

A History of Shit: Manson in Thebes / p87

Hermitage: The Strange Story of the Ghost Men of

Tests / p58

A Singer’s Circus / p87

Harlem / p95

Rob and BWP / p69 small metal objects / p52

A Taste of Sisterhood: Learning to Swim / p87

How Theater Failed America / p42

Something Striking / p77

A World of Seduction Passion & Vulnerability / p74

Icarus / p108

Something With Wings / p105

Abrdgd Frng / p67

Illegal Refill / p69

Spherus / p105

Activity Book / p67

Improv Comedy: The N Crowd Double Header / p69

Splitting the Difference / p77

Afro-Brazilian Dances and Folktales / p79

In a Sense Nonsense / p95

Stimulus / p84

Angry People Building Things / p67

In(visible) Keepsakes / p81

STORE / p32

Are We They? / p74

INFLUX / p75

Sunshineface / p69

Armageddon at the Mushroom Village / p87

Inside Julia Child / p97

Super Heroes Who Are Super! / p105

Bailout! The Live Action Sitcom / p67

Insomnaeria / p81

Sweet Like Chocolate Poetry in Motion II / p84

barFlies / p89

It’s Hard Times at the Camera Blanca / p97

Take Us To The Comedy Scene . . . / p69

Big Fun! / p79

It’s Not Me It’s You / p81

Teenager: Anne Frank / p105

Bike Part Art Show / p108

Joey Bear and Edna Lamb / p97

the 9 muses / p77

Brainstorm / p89

Katie and Pitark / p97

The Action Section Presents: Life / p71

Call Mr. Robeson / p89

Kill Me Now / p30

The Alternative Theatre Festival / p105

Canvas in Concert / p79

Life is a Dream / p97

The Annihilation Point / p105

Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque / p79

Light of Our Own True Nature / p85

The Atomic Catwalk / p108

Chloe and Solved / p74

Like, So Totally 80s? / p97

The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009: Philadelphia / p48

Cirque-ular / p89

Lilacs and Roses for Walt, Abe and My Father / p81

The Breakup Booth / p106

Citizen Paine / p89

Little Girl Blue / p97

The Brothers Flanagan / p106

City Dances/Parkway / p74

Love & Geography / p84

The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco / p106

Clean Sheets / p89

Love After Death / p97

The Dark Heart of Meteorology / p106

Clover / p89

Love Is In The Air / p84

The Enchanted / p106

Coach and Fly / p67

MEELEY or The Fun of It / p97

The Gonzales Cantata / p85

Company / p89

MICROWORLD(s) Part #1 / p99

The Greatest Performance of My Life: I Pretend / p85

ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera / p85

Missed Connections, A Craigslist Fantasia / p99

The Hear Again Radio Project / p84

CREDITORS by August Strindberg, translated by

Monsters of Podcasting / p69

The Ibsen Project / p106

more. / p44

The Last Cargo Cult / p42

Crooked House / p91

Mortal Engine / p56

The Moops / p71

Crowning Glory: Hair Portraits and Stories / p108

Mr. Harry / p99

The Pointe of Water / p79

CUBED with Special Guest Todd Chappelle / p67

Muralmorphosis / p108

The Power Of Magic: An International Commedia for

daDAda / p91

Murder! / p99

Dangerous Fools / p67

My Dwelling is in Rooms of Sound: Performing Gert

Elizabeth Sprigge / p81

Danse4Nia Meets Forces of Nature, The Move/Meant / p74

Jonke / p84

Everyone / p106 “The Scene” / p79 The Sound of Young America LIVE! / p71

Nuda Veritas by Melissa James Gibson / p99

The Stuttering Preacher / p106

Darwinii: The Comeuppance Of Man / p91

One Giant Leap / p99

The Waitstaff Sells Out / p71

Death & Destruction / p74

Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz / p46

Thinking Out Loud / p79

Desert of Hallways / p91

Orphans / p99

TIDE / p38

DIGITAL EFFECTS / p91

Other People’s Money / p99

Timejawn / p71

Discordia / p91

Out of the Rose / p75

Tongue & Groove / p106

Diving in Backwards / p91

Paint the American Eagle / p101

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks / p107

Double & Small / p91

Pandora’s Box / p75

To The Girl In The Yellow Dress. . . / p107

Dumb Show by Joe Penhall / p93

Passion / p77

Trad The Remount / p107

Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive! / p93

Passion: An Evening with Lili Bita / p101

Ubu Roi, ou les polanais / p107

El Duelo (The Wake) / p74

Philadelphia Fire Arts Presents: SimpLaFire / p84

Urban Scuba / p34

Elixir / p75

Phuk What Ya Heard / p69

Vamps & Vixens Vaudeville Revue / p84

Eliza and Patsy / p93

PILLS the Musical / p101

Veggie Cabaret II / p71

Emma’s Parlour / p81

Please Make Us Happy, or Protagonismo! / p101

Videozoom / p108

Enlightenment / p75

Poe-sers / p101

Wake Up Philadelphia! / p71

eSights eSounds / p81

POOF! / p77

Wawapalooza 3: The Dark Roast / p107

Everyman / p93

Postcards from the Woods / p54

We Only Hurt The Ones We Love / p87

Everything Must Go / p69

Preparations for Departure / p101

Welcome to Yuba City / p36

FATEBOOK: Avoiding Catastrophe One Party

Pretty Young Thang / p101

What FIUP? / p107

Pumpernickel and Marmalade / p101

Where Do We Go From Here? / p71

Fefu and Her Friends / p93

Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigigus Fantasy in D / p104

Who Will Carry The Word? / p107

Felon Fiercely’s OPEN MIC NIGHT IN HELL / p85

Rails / p104

XFS Philly Song Shuffle / p87

Festival Plus / p60

Rare Bird Show / p69

Zombie! The Musical / p108

Fletcher / p69

REALM OF THE UNREAL: THE VIVIAN REQUIEM / p104

Food Fight / p93

Rusted Gates Volume 1: Leopard’s Mouth / p85

Formed Declarations / p75

Sacred Soul Sisters / p85

Fractured Fairytales / p93

Salesmanship For Life & Limb / p104

at a Time / p40

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Live Arts Festival Philly Fringe

Quinn Compositions / p97

Inis Nua Theatre Company / p107

Rachel Hammer, Samantha Jakus & Alyse Landis

180 Theatre Company / p99

InLiquid + Crane Arts / p108

Alchemy Dance Company / p75

Innovative Juggler / p105

Raine Djonson /THEACTORLADY / p101

Aleksandra Berczynski / p97

iNtuitons Experimental Theatre / p105

Raw Fruit / p87

Anna Watson / p105

Ira Brind School of Theater Arts / p89 + p104

RealLivePeople / p77

Annex Dance Company / p75

Iron Age Theatre / p89 + p105

Rebecca Wright and John Jarboe / p97

Anthology Project / p91

Jen Fellman / p87

Renegade Performance Group / p107

Applied Mechanics / p97

Jen McGinn / p48

Reuben Wade / p101

April Smith / p91

Jenn Rose / p48

Rhythmog the Innovation / p95

Art Girl Debbie Schafer and the Baal Shem

Johnny Showcase and the Lefty Lucy Cabaret / p104

Rowen Haigh, Danger Goddess Productions / p81

Jordan Griska / p108

Robert Hughes / p95

Artists With Audiences Responding to Dance / p48

Judy Freed / p93

Rocky Wilson / p81

Art Riot Theatrical Company / p104

Jumatatu Poe / p48

Running Fish Productions / p99

Aspire Arts, Inc. / p84

kate watson-wallace/anonymous bodies / p32 + p48

Ruthanne E. Ankney / p106

Bacivo Nuggets Comedy Troupe / p69

Kathryn TeBordo / p48

Quinn Compositions / p97

Back to Back Theatre / p52

Katie Gould / p107

Sarah Carlson & Pamela Vail / p77

Barracuda Carmela / p105

KCuffs Dance Collaborative / p74

SCRAP Performance Group / p38

Beau Hancock, Colleen Hooper, and Jennifer

keila cordova dances / p75

Scott Park Dance Company: Dangerous and Movin’

Tov Band / p79

Morley / p74

Index by Artist

Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective / p77

Kelly Bond / p77

/ p79

/ p74

Berry & Nance Dance Project / p75

Kevin Thornton / p104

Scribe Video Center / p81

Braham Logan Crane / p48

Keyspeak / p101

Secret Room Theatre / p87

Brian Sanders/JUNK / p34

Kirsten Kaschock / p48

SET / p99

B. Someday Productions / p93

La Salle University Jazz Ensemble / p84

SimpLaFire / p84

Burvil Hoist / p101

Leon I. Rosenberg / p107

Six Benches Spectacles / p91

Capitol Theatre / p46

Lili Bita/The Theater Cooperative / p101

Stray Cats & Wayward Bats / p74

Casaburdan Productions / p71

Linda Dubin Garfield / p108

Stripped Bare Theatre Company / p93

Center City Opera Theater / p85

Little Bunny Voodoo / p93

Stumble Goat Productions / p104

Choreographic Sketches / p77

LizZ / p91

Sycamore Opera / p87

Christina Catanese and Julia Cuccaro / p75

Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental /

T Lawrence-Simon / p81

Chunky Move / p56

THADDEUS PHILLIPS / p91 + p99

tayoalukoandfriends / p89

Cie. Willi Dorner / p50

Madhouse Theater Company / p95

Termite TV Collective / p84

City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program in

Martina Plag/Laureen Griffin/Leah Walton / p81

The Assembly Theater / p106

Mascher Space Cooperative / p75

The Flanagan Project / p106

Colleen O’Brien and Janice Erickson Smith / p93

MasterBuilder Productions / p106

The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium / p106

COME UNITY / p79

Matchbox Theater Company / p101

The Missoula Oblongata Presents / p106

Cross Cultural Theatre Initiative / p93

Mayumi Ishino / p81

The N Crowd / p69

Curio Theatre Company / p99

Megan Mazarick / p48

The Sixth Borough / p71

Danger Goddess Productions / p81

Melanie Stewart Dance Theater / p30 + p107

The Waitstaff Sketch Comedy Troupe / p71

Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble / p74

Melissa Dunphy / p85

Theatre Inbetween / p105

Dark Side Theatre Company / p99

Merián Soto/Performance Practice / p54

Theatre of the Evangelical Scientific Revolution / p87

David Fishkin / p97

Michał Zadara / p46

Thomas Tirney & Tall Grass Prodcutions / p104

David Gaines / p87

Miho Kahn / p89

This Thing of Ours / p71

Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips / p58

Mike Daisey / p42

Time Mender Productions / p105

Devin Keast / p69

Music & Motion Dance / p77

T Lawrence-Simon / p81

Devynn Emory / p48

Naja / p84

Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater / p106

Dove Comm / p85 + p97

Neighborhood Bike Works / p108

Tony Lawton and the Mirror Theatre Company / p95

DysFUNctional Theater / p93

new black box/mel donaldson / p106

Traveling Jones Theater / p93

Earth Speed Productions / p97

New Paradise Laboratories / p40

Tribe of Fools / p87

EgoPo / p89

New Philadelphia Poets / p81

Vada Dance Collective / p79

Ellen Gayda/BodyWord / p81

Nichole Canuso / p48

Vagabond Acting Troupe / p89

Eng & Friends Dance Company / p77

Nightjar Apothecary / p91

Valerie Rushmere/Shake Charmers / p84

ETC Theater / p97

Northern Valentine / p85

Vagabond Acting Troupe / p89

Evil Eye Arts / p97

Octorara YMCA Red Brick Players / p101

Vaudevilliains New Years Brigade / p79

Falling Gnome Productions / p95

Off-Color Theatre Company / p67

Vincent Kling, Joseph Cambell, La Salle University

Felon Fiercely / p85

OMBELICO Mask Ensemble / p106

Flying Whale Theatre Co. / p99

One Man Sideshow / p89

Wellbilt Theater Factory / p99

Forbidden Culture / p107

Pamela Knight / p85

Western Narrative Company / p91

FOURSOME / p84

Parallax Theatre Company / p104

Witold Gombrowicz / p46

Frederick Andersen / p95

Pasión y Arte / p74

Women Who / p91

Freefall Productions / p67

Paul Jerue / p95

Writing Man Productions / p105

Fusion Dance Company / p75

Philadelphia Capoeira Arts Center / p79

Xhale Dance Company / p74

Gabrielle Revlock / p48

Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) / p67 + p69 + p71

Xtreme Folk Scene / p87

Gigi Naglak and Meghann Williams / p79

Piehole / p84

Zornitsa Stoyanova / p48

Gladys Productions / p95

Pig Iron Theatre Company / p36

Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater / p74

Pink Hair Affair / p77

Headlong Dance Theatre / p44

Pink Hanger Presents / p101

High Dramma / p69

Places Theatre Ensemble / p89

IdRatherBeHere / p107

Plays & Players / p105 + p108

Illstyle & Peace Productions / p84

PLP TheUnity / p85

Imprint Dance Co. of Sanbrooka Productions &

Project for Nuclear Awareness / p108

collaboration with Sean Stoops / p108

The Blind Faith Project / p75

Public Eye: Artists for Animals / p71

Jazz Essemble, director Steven Jamison / p84

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Thank You

Our Foundation and Government Sponsors

/ Berwind Corporation / The Charlotte Cushman Foundation / Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation / Samuel S. Fels Fund / Phoebe W. and Otto Haas Charitable Trusts / The Hirsig Family Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation / The Horace Goldsmith Foundation / Independence Foundation / The Lida Foundation / The Lubert Family Foundation / Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation / Mid-Size Presenting Organizations Initiative, implemented by the Nonprofit Finance Fund and funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation / The National Endowment for the Arts / The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts / Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development / The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance / The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative / Philadelphia Department of Commerce / The Philadelphia Foundation / PNC Arts Alive / The Suzanne F. Roberts Cultural Development Fund / Trust for Mutual Understanding / The Wallace Foundation / The William Penn Foundation

Producers’ Circle

/ Tom and Carol Beam / Karl and Linda Claus / Robert M. Dever / Tobey and Mark Dichter / Steven Dressler / Avi Eden and The Judith S. Eden Small Theater Initiative / Tony Forte / David and Linda Glickstein / Lenny Haas and Mary Lee Bednarek / Christie Hartwell / Al and Nancy Hirsig / David Seltzer and Lisa Roberts / Franklyn and Cintra Rodgers / Carol Klein and Larry Spitz / Lynne and Bert Strieb / Marty Tuzman, Eileen Heisman, and Jenkintown Building Services / Malin VanAntwerp

Festival Benefactors

/ Jennifer Bohnenberger / Harvey and Virginia Kimmel / Josephine Klein / Kevin Kleinschmidt / Nancy Lanham / Tom Lussenhop / Bernadine Munley / Elizabeth Anne O’Donnell / Suzanne Roberts / Peter C. and Sheryl K. Rothberg / Andy and Bryna Scott / Rich Thom / Richard Vague / Edward Wagner / Ted and Stevie Wolf / Paul Wright

Festival Friends

/ Conrad Bender / James Domenick, Domenick & Associates / Shelley Z. Green / Gail M. Harrity / Liza Herzog / Linda Witt and James Marsh / Robbin and Michael McCarthy / Ready Net Go / Stanev Potts Architects / Lee van de Velde

Festival Fans

/ Anonymous (2) / Brian Abernathy / David Baldwin / Joyce Beerbower / Nancy Burd, The Burd Group / Sandra L. Chaff / David and Nancy Colman / Ed and Pat Coyle / Joseph M. Evancich / Adrienne and Eric Hart / George Faulkner and Helen Anderson / Klatha.com / Ann Kupinski / Barb and Steve Lember / Nick Leonard / Leslie Lewis / Sissie and Herb Lipton / Bernadette and Michael Osborne and family / Jane G. Pepper / Aaron Posner / L. Gerald and Helen Rigby / Jim Ronca and Deb Baird / Vesna and Howard Sacks / Hether and Don Smith / Dr. R. J. Wallner / Wendy and Larry White / Bob Weinberg and Eleanor Wilner / Harriet and Larry Weiss, CRW Graphics

Board of Directors

/ Richard Vague, President / Jennifer Bohnenberger, Vice President / Robert E. Williams, CPA, Treasurer / Tom Lussenhop, Secretary / Brian Abernathy / Conrad Bender / Mark Dichter / Anthony P. Forte / Lenny Haas / Gail M. Harrity / Liza Herzog / Kevin Kleinschmidt / Bernadine J. Munley / Peter C. Rothberg / Nick Stuccio / Marty Tuzman / Paul Wright

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Our Staff

/ Nick Stuccio, Producing Director / Carolyn Schlecker, Managing Director / Melissa E. Bridge, Office Administrator / Pia Agrawal, Programming Director / John Emory, Philly Fringe Coordinator / Robin Barnes, Marketing Director / Janice Rowland, Marketing Coordinator / Josh McIlvain, Information Manager and Copywriter / Alice Hershey, Community Outreach Coordinator / Nicholas Gilewicz, Blog Manager / Anneliese Van Arsdale, Development Manager / Conrad Bender, Executive Technical Director / Perry Fertig, Technical Director / Amy Harting, Box Office Manager / Maura Roche, Assistant Box Office Manager / Karina Kacala, Volunteer Coordinator / Joanna Mongelli, Assistant Volunteer Coordinator / Brian Castello, Security / John Smith, Website Designer and Webmaster / David Chaplin-Loebelle, Website Software Developer / Kummer & Herrman (Netherlands), www.kummer-herrman.nl, Guide Design / Masters Group Design, www.MastersGroupDesign.net, Guide Layout / Megan Wendell/Canary Promotion, Publicity / Robert Davis, Office and Venue Maintenance

Interns

/ Cooper Dukes / Jennifer Hannan / Caitlin McMahon / Kate Miller / Mara Miller / Alexandra Nielsen / Sophia Ozenbaugh / Jackie Vitale / Geoff Weathersby

Thank You

Special Thanks