2011 Festival Guide

FESTIVAL NO. 15

2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival + Philly Fringe

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The Method Gun by Rude Mechs (p. 44 ) / Photo: Bret Brookshire

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Ticket Information Getting to the Festival

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Venue Listings + Maps Day-by-Day Schedule Festival Bar

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Live Arts Schedule

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WHaLE OPTICS Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental

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Elephant Room Dennis Diamond Louie Magic Daryl Hannah

40 Red Rovers Headlong Dance Theater and Chris Doyle

54 Zon-Mai Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Gilles Delmas 56

Namasya Shantala Shivalingappa

58 Play Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa 60

Canyon John Jasperse

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will Pig Iron Theatre Company

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Traces 7 Fingers

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The Method Gun Rude Mechs

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The Radio Show Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion

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The Devil and Mister Punch Improbable Theatre

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Xavier Le Roy

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Lady M Swim Pony Performing Arts

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68 Extremely Public Displays of Privacy

New Paradise Laboratories 70

Susan Foster! Susan Foster!

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Rockys

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Index by Show Index by Artist Thank you

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Comedy + Improv Dance Happening Interdisciplinary Music Spoken Word Theater Visual Art + Film

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Festival PLANNER 5

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That, friend, is a qr code. It’s high-end technology, developed for robots, and you’ll find one next to every show in this guide. If you have a smartphone, scan the QR code and it will connect your phone to the show page on our website and you can buy your tickets pronto. That’s right, the 2011 Festival Guide is a paper portal into the internet—how cool is that?

Box Office Pre-Festival Hours Aug 22–Sept 1: 12pm–7pm

Box Office Festival Hours Sept 2–17 Sun–Thu: 12pm–9pm Fri–Sat: 11am–9pm Sept 5 (Labor Day): 12pm–7pm

Ticket Prices

How to Buy Tickets

/ Live Arts Festival shows are $25–$30.* / Philly Fringe show prices are listed with each show description.

From the Festival Website

*Tickets for Traces are $20–$55 and available only through the Kimmel Center box office. See page 62 for details.

Membership Discount Festival Members save 20% on all shows! / Discount applied to a maximum of 2–4 tickets per show depending on Membership level. / Discounts cannot be combined. / Membership is the ONLY way to get 20% off shows. Visit www.livearts-fringe.org to choose your Membership level.

Students + 25-and-under

Box Office

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New Center City Location

Groups

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All-Access Passes

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Tickets

The All-Access Pass ($400 for a one-person pass, or $800 for a twoperson pass) grants admission to every Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe show, 20% off for up to 3 additional tickets per performance, and ticket exchange service up to 48 hours call 215.413.1318 x18.

1. Go to www.livearts-fringe.org and select TICKETS button.

2. Browse, search, or use our shows filter function to find the show you want.

3. Click BUY or visit the show page.

4. Select a performance date/time. Your selection will appear in your FESTIVAL PLANNER. 5. Repeat for each show/performance you wish to attend.

6. Add to CART and purchase! / Online orders must be placed before 10am the day of the performance. / Online ticket purchases require a credit card.

In Person + by Phone at the Box Office / The Festival Box Office opens August 22. / In person you may buy tickets using cash or credit card. / During Box Office hours you may purchase tickets by phone using a credit card. / Tickets for each performance are on sale at the Box Office up to four hours before show time. Remaining tickets are sold at the venue, beginning 30 minutes before show time.

At the Performance Venue / Purchase tickets at the venue starting 30 minutes prior to performance. / Cash only.

How to Get Your Tickets Web and phone orders may be picked up until four hours before show time at the Box Office, or starting 30 minutes before show time at the venue.

Seating Policy Seating for most shows is on a first-come, firstserved 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 does not offer refunds on ticket purchases. Exchanges are only offered to All-Access Pass holders, Festival Supreme Members, and Producers Circle members.

Getting to the Festival

Public Transportation All public transportation route and schedule information is available online at www.septa.org. Our venue map on pages 13 + 15 include major SEPTA routes.

Regional Transit All SEPTA (www.septa.org) 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 venues below Broad Street) / 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)

Old City / Lot, 21 South 2nd Street / Lot, 218 Arch Street / Lot, 26 South Front Street / Lot, 101 Market Street

Center City / Garage, 1327 Locust Street / Garage, 219 South Broad Street / Garage, 337 South Broad Street / Garage, Broad + Locust Streets / Garage, Broad + Spruce Streets / Lot, 1314 Spruce Street

Northern Liberties / Lot, North 12th + Callowhill Streets / Lot, 304 Race Street

Bella Vista/Queen Village / Garage, 530 South 3rd Street / Lot, 620 South 7th Street / Lot, 516 South Street

West Philly

Parking Parking Discount for Festival Box Office and Prince Music Theater Shows Ask for a Prince parking coupon at our Box Office. The coupon reduces your parking fee to $6 at the following lot, during specified times.

Liberty Place Parkway Garage 44 South 16th Street (enter on 16th Street just past Chestnut Street on the left under Liberty Place) Mon–Fri: 5pm to 11pm Sat–Sun: 11am–midnight

Parking Lots + Garages Street parking is limited in some Festival neighborhoods. The following is a partial list of private lots. Venues in Northern Liberties, Fishtown, and West Philly (outside of University City) tend to have decent off-street parking.

/ Lot, 3801 Market Street / Lot, 3901 Market Street / Lot, 3400 Spruce Street

Sleeping Visiting from out of town?

Consider staying with our preferred hotel sponsors at these Center City locations.

Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia 237 South Broad Street 215.893.1600 www.philadelphia.doubletree.com

Philadelphia Marriot Downtown 1201 Market Street 215.625.2900 www.marriott.com

Navigating

By Phone Plan your Festival on your phone!

Use our smartphone apps. Download from www.livearts-fringe.org.

While You are Here Bars, Restaurants, and Sightseeing Check out www.gophila.com for information about the city’s historic attractions, dining, and shopping.

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

First Friday + Second Thursday 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 2 and enjoy First Friday in Old City! Plus check out Second Thursday at Northern Liberties and Fishtown galleries on September 8th.

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 starting August 22 you may also call 215.413.1270.

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Teach Your Children, 90min, CC / p111

Thursday, Sept 1

Inescapable Foreboding, 90min, FMT / p83 Kabbalah the Musical, 120min, Elkins Park / p91 Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 8:00pm

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92

A Safe Distance From Oblivion, 60min, Kensington / p99 A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 Afrikaner, 60min, UC / p93 All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 Coriolanus, 100min, WP / p103 Doris Says . . . 73min, SP / p81 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 Fire / Truce, 45min, UC / p105 Getting the Knack, 90min, SP / p105 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 One Space, Three Dances, 65min, FSH / p85 Saucy Bible Tales, 120min, CC / p109 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Dutchman, 60min, CC / p112 The N Crowd Triple Double Header, 80min, OC / p79 The Servant of Two Masters, 120min, OC / p113 The Speed of Surprise!, 80min, CC / p113 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 This Is How It Goes, 90min, CC / p113 topos topio, 90min, CC / p87 Ubu Roi, 90min, OC / p114 Voltron, 90min, QV / p79 Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction, 70min, QV / p114 White Light, 35min, NL / p89

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A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99

Asteroid!, 60min, CC / p78 The Gray Area, 90min, FSH / p112

6:30pm

How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107 Tickets: livearts-fringe.org + 215.413.1318 Festival Members save 20%

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3 Mad Rituals, 60min, CC / p78 Lady M, 90min, CC / p50 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 WHaLE OPTICS, 165min, CC / p36 8:00pm

Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, 105min, FSH / p103 Doris Says . . ., 73min, SP / p81 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 8:30pm

twenty-four, 60min, CC / p79 10:00pm

Dark Comedy, 60min, CC / p78

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Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 6:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness, 100min, SP / p101 Run Grunt Sing: An Open Air Theatric, 60min, NL / p109

BREW, 60min, FSH / p89 Comedy House Party!, 20min, SP / p78 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 9:30pm

White Light, 35min, NL / p89

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How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107

Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 The Method Gun, 90min, CC / p44 The N Crowd Triple Double Header, 80min, OC / p79

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Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p78 Grab Bag, 60min, FSH / p83 Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 Lady M, 90min, CC / p50 Lord of the Flies, 90min, WP / p108 My Name is Sam Johnson, 90min, FMT / p109 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!, 60min, QV / p79 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 WHaLE OPTICS, 165min, CC / p36

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PRO-MANIA!, 60min, CC / p79

Saturday, Sept 3 10:00am

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92

Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 2:00pm

Bury the Hatchet (a play about forgiveness), 90min, CC / p101 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Jericho Road Improvement Association, 90min, Kensington / p107 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 QARNIVALE of the PEOPLE, ongoing, CC / p92 The Greek Theatre Project, 75min, CC / p112 3:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 The Articulate Landscape, 90min, NL / p97 The Method Gun, 90min, CC / p44 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 4:00pm

Bodies of Text III, 45min, WP / p81 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40 4:30pm

Bury the Hatchet (a play about forgiveness), 90min, CC / p101 5:00pm

One Space, Three Dances, 65min, FSH / p85 6:00pm

Amédée or How to Get Rid of It, 90min / p99 BREW, 60min, FSH / p89 Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness, 100min, SP / p101 Grab Bag, 60min, FSH / p83 Let Me Tell You About a Dream I Had, ongoing, WP / p92 Run Grunt Sing: An Open Air Theatric, 60min, NL / p109 7:00pm

Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p91 Bodies of Text III, 45min, WP / p81 Christie In Love, 45min, FMT / p103 Confluence of the Two Indian Classical Music Styles: Master of the Sarod, Hindustani Instrumental Concert, 120min, OC / p97 Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 Lady M, 90min, CC / p50 Lord of the Flies, 90min, WP / p108 My Name is Sam Johnson, 90min, FMT / p109 One Space, Three Dances, 65min, FSH / p85 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111 The Dressing Room, 75min, CC / p93 The Greek Theatre Project, 75min, CC / p112 twenty-four, 60min, CC / p79 WHaLE OPTICS, 165min, CC / p36 7:30pm

Noon

Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 1:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99

Eurydice in Market East, 60min, CC / p91 Inescapable Foreboding, 90min, FMT / p83 Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108

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

8:00pm

A Safe Distance From Oblivion, 60min, Kensington / p99 A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 Getting the Knack, 90min, SP / p105 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 Saucy Bible Tales, 120min, CC / p109 Susannah, An American Opera by Carlisle Floyd, 110min, CC / p97 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The Dutchman, 60min, CC / p112 The Method Gun, 90min, CC / p44 The Servant of Two Masters, 120min, OC / p113 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 topos topio, 90min, CC / p87 Ubu Roi, 90min, OC / p114 Voltron, 90min, QV / p79 Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction, 70min, QV / p114 White Light, 35min, NL / p89 8:30pm

Five Minutes Follies, 90min, UC / p91 Fletcher, 60min, CC / p78 The Gray Area, 90min, FSH / p112

1:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 WHaLE OPTICS, 165min, CC / p36 2:00pm

Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, 105min, FSH / p103 Fire / Truce, 45min, UC / p105 How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Jericho Road Improvement Association, 90min, Kensington / p107 Mediate Me, 60min, FSH / p108 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Dutchman, 60min, CC / p112 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 This Is How It Goes, 90min, CC / p113 We the People, 20min, OC / p93 2:30pm

Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 We the People, 20min, OC / p93 3:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 Dark Comedy, 60min, CC / p78 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Smiley, 70min, NL / p109 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The Method Gun, 90min, CC / p44 Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction, 70min, QV / p114 We the People, 20min, OC / p93

Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Lady M, 90min, CC / p50 Smiley, 70min, NL / p109 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The Dressing Room, 75min, CC / p93 The Speed of Surprise!, 80min, CC / p113 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 Whiskey and Elephants, 75min, FMT / p89 7:30pm

The XX Chromosome Genome Project, 90, Old City / p113 8:00pm

All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 An Opera a Day, 60min, CC / p93 Christie In Love, 45min, FMT / p103 Coriolanus, 100min, WP / p103 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 Fire / Truce, 45min, UC / p105 Getting the Knack, 90min, SP / p105 Overseers, 85min, SP / p109 PAPER CUT, 50min, NL / p109 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 This Is How It Goes, 90min, CC / p113 Time Is The Mercy Of Eternity, 60min, CC / p113

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The XX Chromosome Genome Project, 90min, OC / p113

8:30pm

Asteroid!, 60min, CC / p78

9:00

BREW, 60min, FSH / p89 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Overseers, 85min, SP / p109 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111 9:30pm

4:00pm

Confluence of the Two Indian Classical Music Styles: Carnatic and Hindustani Vocal Duo, 180min, OC / p97 Eurydice in Market East, 60min, CC / p91 Grab Bag, 60min, FSH / p83 Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 PAPER CUT, 50min, NL / p109 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40

Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 The Speed of Surprise!, 80min, CC / p113 White Light, 35min, NL / p89

4:30pm

10:00pm

5:00pm

Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p78 Water Bears in Space, 90min, SP / p114 11:00pm

Amédée or How to Get Rid of It, 90min, / p99 3 Mad Rituals, 60min, CC / p78 A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Whiskey and Elephants, 75min, FMT / p89

Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109

9:00pm

Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111

Monday, Sept 5 10:00am

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 Noon

Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 2:00pm

PAPER CUT, 50min, NL / p109 We the People, 20min, OC / p93 2:30pm

We the People, 20min, OC / p93 6:00pm

11:30pm

Dark Comedy, 60min, CC / p78 The Boy, 45min, Kensington / p112 Midnight

Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness, 100min, SP / p101 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Run Grunt Sing: An Open Air Theatric, 60min, NL / p109

Fun Thing, 28min, SP / p83

3:00pm

Smiley, 70min, NL / p109 We the People, 20min, OC / p93 4:00pm

Lickety Skits, 75min, CC / p108 6:30pm

10:00am

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 Noon

Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54

Christie In Love, 45min, FMT / p103

6:00pm

Mediate Me, 60min, FSH / p108 7:00pm

Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Eurydice in Market East, 60min, CC / p91 Fletcher, 60min, CC / p78 Green People, 60min, FMT / p105

7:00pm

Amédée or How to Get Rid of It, 90min, / p99 Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 PAPER CUT, 50min, NL / p109 Water Bears in Space, 90min, SP / p114 Whiskey and Elephants, 75min, FMT / p89 Wired, 60min, CC / p114

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

Sunday, Sept 4

7:30pm

5:00pm

The XX Chromosome Genome Project, 90min, OC / p113

Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54

Thursday, Sept 8

6:00pm

10:00am

Japan House/Philadelphia, 60min, FMT / p85 Run Grunt Sing: An Open Air Theatric, 60min, NL / p109 Smiley, 70min, NL / p109

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92

6:30pm

5:30pm

Going Back Naked, 65 min, CC / p105

Too Darn Hot, 90min, Society Hill / p87

7:00pm

6:00pm

Amédée or How to Get Rid of It, 90min, / p99 Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 Dark Comedy, 60min, CC / p78 Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 Lady M, 90min, CC / p50 Lord of the Flies, 90min, WP / p108 PAPER CUT, 50min, NL / p109 Plentiful, 60min, QV / p85 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40 Shaky Shaky Planet, 45min, OC / p92 The Dressing Room, 75min, CC / p93 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 70min, CC / p42 WHaLE OPTICS, 70min, CC / p36

Japan House/Philadelphia, 60min, FMT / p85 Mediate Me, 60min, FSH / p108 Poetic Passageways, 75min, SP / p92 Run Grunt Sing: An Open Air Theatric, 60min, NL / p109

9:30pm

Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 10:00pm

Overseers, 85min, SP / p109

Tuesday, Sept 6 10:00am

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 5:00pm

Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 7:30pm

Going Back Naked, 65 min, CC / p105

Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108

7:00pm

8:00pm

Fire / Truce, 45min, UC / p105 Lady M, 90min, CC / p50 Mayor Karen, 60min, CC / p79 PAPER CUT, 50min, NL / p109 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 WHaLE OPTICS, 165min, CC / p36 Whiskey and Elephants, 75min, FMT / p89

All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 An Opera a Day, 60min, CC / p93 Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead, 60min, WP / p101 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 Fire / Truce, 45min, UC / p105 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 Lion (El León), 105min, CC / p108 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Angel, The Devil, and Greg Brady, 90min, SP / p112 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!, 60min, QV / p79 This Is How It Goes, 90min, CC / p113 Time Is The Mercy Of Eternity, 60min, CC / p113 von Brockman at Bridgid’s, 50min, FMT / p114 Woyzeck, 90min FSH / p114

6:30pm

7:30pm

Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 8:00pm

An Opera a Day, 60min, CC / p93 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Smiley, 70min, NL / p109 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 This Is How It Goes, 90min, CC / p113 Time Is The Mercy Of Eternity, 60min, CC / p113

8:30pm

Friends of Alcatraz, 60min, CC / p78 The Eros Trilogy, 75min, CC / p112

Dead Dogs, 65min, FSH / p103 Friends of Alcatraz, 60min, CC / p78 Girl on Gurl, 90min, CC / p105

9:00pm

9:00pm

Nevermore, 90min, CC / p109

Checkers, 50min, QV / p101 Nevermore, 90min, CC / p109

8:30pm

10:00pm

Meat Man, 50min, CC / p108

9:30pm

Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107

Wednesday, Sept 7 10:00am

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 2:00pm

A Place To Be, ongoing, OC / p115

10:00pm

3 Mad Rituals, 60min, CC / p78

5:00pm

Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54

6:30pm

Going Back Naked, 65 min, CC / p105 How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107 7:00pm

Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 blank, 90min, OC / p48 EXPOSED, 60min, CC / p83 Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 Lady M, 70min, CC / p50 Lord of the Flies, 90min, WP / p108 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40 Superego, 90min, UC / p111 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p114 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 70min, CC / p42 Wired, 60min, CC / p114 WHaLE OPTICS, 70min, CC / p36

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An Opera a Day, 60min, CC / p93 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Grab Bag, 60min, FSH / p83 Le Mirage/Dead City Philly, 60min, UC / p92 Smiley, 70min, NL / p109 The Oresteia Project, 60min, CC / p112 Time Is The Mercy Of Eternity, 60min, CC / p113

7:30pm

Ampersand, 90min, FSH / p89 Checkers, 50min, QV / p101 Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 8:00pm

A Safe Distance From Oblivion, 60min, Kensington / p99 A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 An Opera a Day, 60min, CC / p93 Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead, 60min, WP / p101 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 My Dad is Now Ready For His Sponge Bath, 70min, NL / p108 Poetic Passageways, 75min, SP / p92 Song of the Sacred Whore, 75min, NL / p111 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Angel, The Devil, and Greg Brady, 90min, SP / p112 The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46 The Green Fairy Cabaret, 60min, Germantown / p93 The Speed of Surprise!, 80min, CC / p113 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113

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

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8:00pm

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This Is How It Goes, 90min, CC / p113 Too Darn Hot, 90min, Society Hill / p87 Trappings, 85min, OC / p114 Woyzeck, 90min, FSH / p114 X/Y, 90min, CC / p115 8:30pm

Dead Dogs, 65min, FSH / p103 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p78 Girl on Gurl, 90min, CC / p105

Lion (El León), 105min, CC / p108 Lord of the Flies, 90min, WP / p108 Lady M, 90min, CC / p50 Superego, 90min, UC / p111 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!, 60min, QV / p79 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p114 Wars and Whores: The Henry IV Musical, 90min, UC / p114 WHaLE OPTICS, 165min, CC / p36 XFS Philly Song Shuffle, ongoing, UC / p97

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9:00pm

He Was Either Well and Over It, or Lost and Gone Forever., 30min, OC / p83 Voltron, 90min, QV / p79 The Undead, 105min, CC / p93 10:00pm

7:40pm

9:00pm

Ampersand, 90min, FSH / p89 Checkers, 50min, QV / p101 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Daydreams, 80min, North Philly / p81 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 Voltron, 90min, QV / p79

Dark Comedy, 60min, CC / p78 Solo Tales of Terror: Lovecraft and Stoker, 120min, CC / p109

Hello America . . . My Name is Jimmy Baldwin, 52 min, UC / p107

9:30pm

Amédée or How to Get Rid of It, 90min, / p99 Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 The Undead, 105min, CC / p93 10:00pm

8:00pm 10:30pm

Dead Dogs, 65min, FSH / p103 Midnight

Fun Thing, 28min, SP / p83

Friday, Sept 9 10:00am

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 Noon

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 4:30pm

The Boy, 45min, Kensington / p112 5:00pm

Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91 Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 6:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness, 100min, SP / p101 Japan House/Philadelphia, 60min, FMT / p85 Poetic Passageways, 75min, SP / p92 Run Grunt Sing: An Open Air Theatric, 60min, NL / p109 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 6:30pm

Ampersand, 90min, FSH / p89 Going Back Naked, 65 min, CC / p105 How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107 Revolving Spaces, 45min, QV / p87 7:00pm

Day by Day

Girl on Gurl, 90min, CC / p105 Mayor Karen, 60min, CC / p79

7:30pm

Kabbalah the Musical, 120min, Elkins Park / p91 Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 Revolving Spaces, 45min, QV / p87

9:30pm

8:30pm

Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 blank, 90min, OC / p48 EXPOSED, 60min, CC / p83 Gender Reel Multi-Media Festival, ongoing, CC / p115 Green People, 60min, FMT / p105 Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107

A Safe Distance From Oblivion, 60min, Kensington / p99 A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 An Opera a Day, 60min, CC / p93 Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead, 60min, WP / p101 Big Star California, 85min, CC / p101 Canyon, 70min, CC / p60 Christie In Love, 45min, Norristown / p103 Comedy House Party!, 20min, WP / p78 Coriolanus, 100min, WP / p103 Dancefusion......to Mary Anthony, 90min, UC / p81 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 “Don’t Blow It,” 60min, SP / p115 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 My Dad is Now Ready For His Sponge Bath, 70min, NL / p108 Philly Phantasy, 45min, FMT / p85 Poetic Passageways, 75min, SP / p92 Saucy Bible Tales, 120min, CC / p109 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Song of the Sacred Whore, 75min, NL / p111 TASK, 120min, FSH / p111 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Angel, The Devil, and Greg Brady, 90min, SP / p112 The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46 The Dutchman, 60min, CC / p112 The Gray Area, 90min, UC / p112 The Green Fairy Cabaret, 60min, Germantown / p93 The N Crowd Triple Double Header, 80min, OC / p79 The Speed of Surprise!, 80min, CC / p113 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 This Is How It Goes, 90min, CC / p113 Ubu Roi, 90min, OC / p114 Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction, 70min, QV / p114 Where We Collide, 90min, SP / p89 Woyzeck, 90min, FSH / p114 X/Y, 90min, CC / p115 Yoga Stories, 60min, OC / p93

A Vegan Kid’s Dance For Adults With Nudity, 75min, FSH / p79 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Lickety Skits, 75min, CC / p108 Mediate Me, 60min, FSH / p108 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 The N Crowd Triple Double Header, 80min, OC / p79 twenty-four, 60min, CC / p79 11:30pm

PRO-MANIA!, 60min, CC / p79 Midnight

Fun Thing, 28min, SP / p83

Saturday, Sept 10 10:00am

Gender Reel Multi-Media Festival, ongoing, CC / p115 One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 11:00am

Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 Noon

The Greek Theatre Project, 75min, CC / p112 The Green Fairy Cabaret, 60min, Germantown / p93 Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 1:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89 Checkers, 50min, QV / p101 Grandma’s House: The Documentary, 40min, WP / p105 Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 Lickety Skits, 75min, CC / p108 The Estate of Real: Changing Philadelphia Neighborhoods, 45min, Manayunk / p93 1:10pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89 1:20pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89

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

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1:30pm

3:30pm

7:40pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89 Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92

Philly Phantasy, 45min, FMT / p85

Hello America . . . My Name is Jimmy Baldwin, 52 min, UC / p107

1:40pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89

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1:50pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89

4:00pm

Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 Japan House/Philadelphia, 60min, FMT / p85 Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 The Estate of Real: Changing Philadelphia Neighborhoods, 45min, Manayunk / p93 Wired, 60min, CC / p114 4:30pm

2:00pm

A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 A Vegan Kid’s Dance For Adults With Nudity, 75min, FSH / p79 AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89 Bury the Hatchet (a play about forgiveness), 90min, CC / p101 Dancefusion......to Mary Anthony, 90min, UC / p81 Daydreams, 80min, North Philly / p81 Dead Dogs, 65min, FSH / p103 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Jericho Road Improvement Association, 90min, Kensington / p107 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 ONE WORD, 60min, FSH / p85 Plentiful, 60min, QV / p85 QARNIVALE of the PEOPLE, ongoing, CC / p92 Rittenhouse Dance Mob, 5min, CC / p89 The Undead, 105min, CC / p93 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 von Brockman at Bridgid’s, 50min, FMT / p114 Wars and Whores: The Henry IV Musical, 90min, UC / p114 Woyzeck, 90min FSH / p114 Yoga Stories, 60min, OC / p93 2:10pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89 2:20pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89 2:30pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89 2:40pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89 2:50pm

AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89

Bury the Hatchet (a play about forgiveness), 90min, CC / p101 The Boy, 45min, Kensington / p112 5:00pm

Asteroid!, 60min, CC / p78 Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91 Grandma’s House: The Documentary, 40min, WP / p105 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The Greek Theatre Project, 75min, CC / p112 Woyzeck, 90min, FSH / p114 5:30pm

Revolving Spaces, 45min, QV / p87 6:00pm

Amédée or How to Get Rid of It, 90min, / p99 Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness, 100min, SP / p101 Hughie, 60min, FMT / p107 Japan House/Philadelphia, 60min, FMT / p85 6:30pm

Revolving Spaces, 45min, QV / p87 The Articulate Landscape, 90min, NL / p97 7:00pm

Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 blank, 90min, OC / p48 Christie In Love, 45min, Norristown / p103 Green People, 60min, FMT / p105 Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 Plentiful, 60min, QV / p85 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Solo Tales of Terror: Lovecraft and Stoker, 120min, CC / p109 Superego, 90min, UC / p111 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111 The Dressing Room, 75min, CC / p93 The Estate of Real: Changing Philadelphia Neighborhoods, 45min, Manayunk / p93 The Oresteia Project, 60min, CC / p112 twenty-four, 60min, CC / p79 Wars and Whores: The Henry IV Musical, 90min, UC / p114 WHaLE OPTICS, 165min, CC / p36

Day by Day

3:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 AFOOT! On the Parkway, 75min, Philadelphia Museum of Art / p89 Meat Man, 50min, CC / p108 The Articulate Landscape, 90min, NL / p97 The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46 The Gray Area, 90min, FSH / p112

8:00pm

A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 An Opera a Day, 60min, CC / p93 Angry People Building Things, 90min, SP / p78 Awakened Ruins, 45min, FMT / p81 Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead, 60min, WP / p101 Big Star California, 85min, CC / p101 Canyon, 70min, CC / p60 Checking Out, 90min, CC / p103 Dancefusion......to Mary Anthony, 90min, UC / p81 Daydreams, 80min, North Philly / p81 Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, 105min, FSH / p103 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 “Don’t Blow It,” 60min, SP / p115 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Female Trouble, 90min, OC / p91 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 My Dad is Now Ready For His Sponge Bath, 70min, NL / p108 Philly Phantasy, 45min, FMT / p85 RISK! True Tales Boldly Told, 75min, CC / p79 Saucy Bible Tales, 120min, CC / p109 Song of the Sacred Whore, 75min, NL / p111 Susannah, An American Opera by Carlisle Floyd, 110min, CC / p97 TASK, 120min, FSH / p111 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Gray Area, 90min, UC / p112 The Parts and the Whole, 70min, WP / p87 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 To by 5, 90min, CC / p87 Trappings, 85min, OC / p114 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 Ubu Roi, 90min, OC / p114 Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction, 70min, QV / p114 Where We Collide, 90min, SP / p89 Woyzeck, 90min FSH / p114 X/Y, 90min, CC / p115 9:00pm

Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Hughie, 60min, FMT / p107 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The Green Fairy Cabaret, 60min, Germantown / p93 Voltron, 90min, QV / p79 9:30pm

Dangerous Fools, 60min, SP / p78 The Speed of Surprise!, 80min, CC / p113

7:30pm

Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 ONE WORD, 60min, FSH / p85 Revolving Spaces, 45min, QV / p87

10:00pm

Lion (El León), 105min, CC / 108 Red Rovers, 70min, NL / p40 RISK! True Tales Boldly Told, 75min, CC / p79 The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46

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

11:00pm

Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109

Lion (El León), 105min, CC / p108 Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 That’s what she danced., 90min, SP / p87 The Dutchman, 60min, CC / p112

11:30pm

Dark Comedy, 60min, CC / p78 Midnight

Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, 105min, FSH / p103 Fun Thing, 28min, SP / p83

The Gray Area, 90min, UC / p112 The Parts and the Whole, 70min, WP / p87 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!, 60min, QV / p79 Ubu Roi, 90min, OC / p114 8:30pm

5:00pm

Awakened Ruins, 45, FMT / p81 Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p78 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109

3 Mad Rituals, 60min, CC / p78 9:00pm

Overseers, 85min, SP / p109 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111

Sunday, Sept 11

5:30pm

10:00pm

Revolving Spaces, 45min, QV / p87

Meat Man, 50min, CC / p108

10:00am

6:00pm

Monday, Sept 12

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 Noon

Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 1:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 Checkers, 50min, QV / p101 Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 Solo Tales of Terror: Lovecraft and Stoker, 120min, CC / p109 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 WHaLE OPTICS, 165min, CC / p36 1:30pm

Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92

Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness, 100min, SP / p101 Checkers, 50min, QV / p101 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Run Grunt Sing: An Open Air Theatric, 60min, NL / p109 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!, 60min, QV / p79 Yoga Stories, 60min, OC / p93

4:00pm

Angry People Building Things, 90min, SP / p78 Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105

Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91 Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 Going Back Naked, 65 min, CC / p105

7:00pm

7:30pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 Big Star California, 85min, CC / p101 Checking Out, 90min, CC / p103 Friends of Alcatraz, 60min, CC / p78 Pattern Recognition, 100min, WP / p85 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The Gray Area, 90min, FSH / p112

5:00pm

6:30pm

3:00pm

2:30pm

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92

How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107 Revolving Spaces, 45min, QV / p87

Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108

A Place To Be, ongoing, OC / p115 Canyon, 70min, CC / p60 Dead Dogs, 65min, FSH / p103 Female Trouble, 90min, OC / p91 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Japan House/Philadelphia, 60min, FMT / p85 Jericho Road Improvement Association, 90min, Kensington / p107 Kabbalah the Musical, 120min, Elkins Park / p91 Song of the Sacred Whore, 75min, NL / p111 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 This Is How It Goes, 90min, CC / p113 To by 5, 90min, CC / p87 Woyzeck, 90min FSH / p114

10:00am

6:30pm

A Vegan Kid’s Dance For Adults With Nudity, 75min, FSH / p79 Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Dangerous Fools, 60min, SP / p78 Green People, 60min, FMT / p105 Heavy Metal Dance Fag, 82min, CC / p107 Hughie, 60min, FMT / p107 In the Blood, 135min, CC / p107 Lickety Skits, 75min, CC / p108 Mayor Karen, 60min, CC / p79 Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111 That’s what she danced., 90min, SP / p87 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46 The Dressing Room, 75min, CC / p93 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 Wars and Whores: The Henry IV Musical, 90min, UC / p114

2:00pm

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Revolving Spaces, 45min, QV / p87

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Checkers, 50min, QV / p101

7:00pm

Checking Out, 90min, CC / p103 Christie In Love, 45min, FMT / p103 Le Mirage/Dead City Philly, 60min, UC / p92 Mayor Karen, 60min, CC / p79 The Undead, 105min, CC / p93 Water Bears in Space, 90min, SP / p114 8:00pm

Dangerous Fools, 60min, SP / p78 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Kathy’s Daughter, 90min, Society Hill / p107 Lion (El León), 105min, CC / p108 Mediate Me, 60min, FSH / p108 Namasya, 60min, CC / p56 Overseers, 85min, SP / p109 The Oresteia Project, 60min, CC / p112 Underneath the Surface, 60min, FMT / p87 8:30pm

Fletcher, 60min, CC / p78 The Eros Trilogy, 75min, CC / p112 9:00pm

Le Mirage/Dead City Philly, 60min, UC / p92

Tuesday, Sept 13 10:00am

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 7:40pm

Hello America . . . My Name is Jimmy Baldwin, 52 min, UC / p107 8:00pm

Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 Namasya, 60min, CC / p56 Song of the Sacred Whore, 75min, NL / p111 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111

5:00pm

Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91 Longing with Language: A Performance Smorgasbord, 60min, SP / p108 Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 6:30pm

Girl on Gurl, 90min, CC / p105 Should I Be Sweet?, 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

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7:00pm

Dangerous Fools, 60min, SP / p78 Nagarika Series: Kalarippayattu, 60min, CC / p52 Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46 The Undead, 105min, CC / p93 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 twenty-four, 60min, CC / p79 7:30pm

Kabbalah the Musical, 120min, Elkins Park / p91 Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 8:00pm

Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Kathy’s Daughter, 90, Society Hill / p107 Overseers, 85min, SP / p109 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Bacchae, 90min, UC / p112 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!, 60min, QV / p79 8:30pm

Asteroid!, 60min, CC / p78 The Eros Trilogy, 75min, CC / p112

The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46 The Dressing Room, 75min, CC / p93 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p114 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 Water Bears in Space, 90min, SP / p114 7:30pm

Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 8:00pm

All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 BASH, 90min, CC / p101 Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead, 60min, WP / p101 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 Kathy’s Daughter, 90min, Society Hill / p107 Longing with Language: A Performance Smorgasbord, 60min, SP / p108 Mediate Me, 60min, FSH / p108 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The Bacchae, 90min, UC / p112 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!, 60min, QV / p79 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 Trappings, 85min, OC / p114 8:30pm

Meat Man, 50min, CC / p108

Asteroid!, 60min, CC / p78 The Eros Trilogy, 75min, CC / p112

Wednesday, Sept 14

9:00pm

10:00pm

10:00am

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92

Branded, 60min, OC / p101 Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, 105min, FSH / p103 Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 3, Privacy, 75min, CC / p91

2:00pm

A Place To Be, ongoing, OC / p115

10:00pm

Mayor Karen, 60min, CC / p79 3:00pm

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 5:00pm

Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91 Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54

Thursday, Sept 15

Day by Day

7:00pm

Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 Dangerous Fools, 60min, SP / p78 DEER HEAD: yet another—though equally hilarious, and perhaps even more so, as the first two—evening of outrageous short comedies by Josh McIlvain, 85min, FMT / p103 Feelin’ Alright, 120min, OC / p83 Les Ballets de-ci de-là, 110, CC / p52 Lickety Skits, 75min, CC / p108 One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92

7:30pm

Hughie, 60min, FMT / p107 Look/Alive, 65min, UC / p108 Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 8:00pm

A Safe Distance From Oblivion, 60min, Kensington / p99 A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead, 60min, WP / p101 Branded, 60min, OC / p101 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, 105min, FSH / p103 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 Le Mirage/Dead City Philly, 60min, UC / p92 Longing with Language: A Performance Smorgasbord, 60min, SP / p108 One City Under a Groove, 90min, CC / p85 Play, 75 min, CC / p58 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Seer, 90min, CC / p113 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 Trappings, 85min, OC / p114 Waterways, 80min, FSH / p87 White Light, 35min, NL / p89 X/Y, 90min, CC / p115 8:30pm

5:00pm

Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91 Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54

6:30pm

Girl on Gurl, 90min, CC / p105 How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107

Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 Straw, Stick, Brick, 45min, CC / p111 Superego, 90min, UC / p111 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 Traces, 90min, CC / p62 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 Water Bears in Space, 90min, SP / p114 Wired, 60min, CC / p114

Girl on Gurl, 90min, CC / p105 The Witch in the Wood, 30min, CC / p113 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p114 9:00pm

6:00pm

The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46 6:30pm Going Back Naked, 65 min, CC / p105 How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107 The Art Anti-Gallery!, ongoing, CC / p92

Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 3, Privacy, 75min, CC / p91 He Was Either Well and Over It, or Lost and Gone Forever., 30min, OC / p83 The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46 9:30pm

The Undead, 105min, CC / p93

7:00pm

10:00pm

Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 Dangerous Fools, 60min, SP / p78 DEER HEAD: yet another—though equally hilarious, and perhaps even more so, as the first two—evening of outrageous short comedies by Josh McIlvain, 85min, FMT / p103 Feelin’ Alright, 120min, OC / p83 Fletcher, 60min, CC / p78

Friends of Alcatraz, 60min, CC / p78 Le Mirage/Dead City Philly, 60min, UC / p92 Solo Tales of Terror: Lovecraft and Stoker, 120min, CC / p109 10:30pm

The Witch in the Wood, 30min, CC / p113 Midnight

Fun Thing, 28min, SP / p83

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

One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 Noon

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 4:30pm

The Boy, 45min, Kensington / p112 5:00pm

Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91 Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 6:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness, 100min, SP / p101 Christie In Love, 45min, FMT / p103 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 6:30pm

Going Back Naked, 65 min, CC / p105 How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107 The Art Anti-Gallery, ongoing, CC / p92 7:00pm

Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 blank, 90min, OC / p48 Branded, 60min, OC / p101 DEER HEAD: yet another—though equally hilarious, and perhaps even more so, as the first two—evening of outrageous short comedies by Josh McIlvain, 85min, FMT / p103 Friends of Alcatraz, 60min, CC / p78 Green People, 60min, FMT / p105 Lion (El León), 105min, CC / p108 Straw, Stick, Brick, 45min, CC / p111 Superego, 90min, UC / p111 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!, 60min, QV / p79 Water Bears in Space, 90min, SP / p114

8:30pm

eMerge—The Preview, 70min, CC / p83 The Witch in the Wood, 30min, CC / p113 twenty-four, 60min, CC / p79 9:00pm

Agnes Falling, 45min, North Philly / p79 Branded, 60min, OC / p101 Comedy House Party!, 20min, SP / p78 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 El Proceso/The Process, 45min, FSH / p81 Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 3, Privacy, 75min, CC / p91 Straw, Stick, Brick, 45min, CC / p111 Voltron, 90min, QV / p79 9:30pm

Angry People Building Things, 90min, SP / p78 The Seer, 90min, CC / p113 White Light, 35min, NL / p89

In due time . . ., 45min, WP / p83 Look/Alive, 65min, UC / p108 Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 8:00pm

A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 BASH, 90min, CC / p101 Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead, 60min, WP / p101 Carnivores Anonymous, 90min, UC / p78 Checking Out, 90min, CC / p103 Christie In Love, 45min, FMT / p103 Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, 105min, FSH / p103 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 “Don’t Blow It,” 60min, SP / p115 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103

Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, 105min, FSH / p103

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Saturday, Sept 17 10:00am

Conversations on Cross Cultural Identity in 21st Century Performance, ongoing, CC / p53 One Peace at a Time, 90min, CC / p92 11:00am

Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 Noon

Zon-Mai, ongoing, OC / p54 1:00pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 Lion (El León), 105min, CC / p108 1:30pm

Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 2:00pm

A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 Agnes Falling, 45min, North Philly / p79 Jericho Road Improvement Association, 90min, Kensington / p107 Traces, 90min, CC / p62 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 Longing with Language: A Performance Smorgasbord, 60min, SP / p108 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Seer, 90min, CC / p113 The Undead, 105min, CC / p93 Traces, 90min, CC / p62 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 von Brockman at Bridgid’s, 50min, FMT / p114 3:00pm

9:45pm 7:30pm

Midnight

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10:00am

Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 Longing with Language: A Performance Smorgasbord, 60min, SP / p108 More Mouvements für Lachenmann, 70min, CC / p66 My Dad is Now Ready For His Sponge Bath, 70min, NL / p108 One City Under a Groove, 90min, CC / p85 Play, 75min, CC / p58 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 TASK, 120min, FSH / p111 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Devil and Mister Punch, 75min, OC / p46 The N Crowd Triple Double Header, 80min, OC / p79 The Radio Show, 75min, UC / p64 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 topos topio, 90min, CC / p87 Traces, 90min, CC / p62 Voice of this Generation: Love Lost, 90min, UC / p97 Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction, 70min, QV / p114 White Light, 35min, NL / p89 X/Y, 90min, CC / p115 Yoga Stories, 60min, OC / p93

Hughie, 60min, FMT / p107 10:00pm

Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Mediate Me, 60min, FSH / p108 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Solo Tales of Terror: Lovecraft and Stoker, 120min, CC / p109 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 The N Crowd Triple Double Header, 80min, OC / p79 Tongue & Groove, 60min, CC / p114 10:15pm

A Paper Garden, 35min, OC / p99 Branded, 60min, OC / p101 Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, 135min, CC / p111 The Witch in the Wood, 30min, CC / p113 4:00pm

Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 Solo Tales of Terror: Lovecraft and Stoker, 120min, CC / p109

The Undead, 105min, CC / p93 4:30pm 10:30pm

The Boy, 45min, Kensington / p112

The Witch in the Wood, 30min, CC / p113 5:00pm

11:30pm

PRO-MANIA!, 60min, CC / p79

Awakened Ruins, 45min, FMT / p81 Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / 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

Day by Day

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Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness, 100min, SP / p101 Hughie, 60min, FMT / p107 7:00pm

Argo: Quest For the Golden Fleece, 90min, OC / p99 blank, 90min, OC / p48 Branded, 60min, OC / p101 Christie In Love, 45min, FMT / p103 DEER HEAD: yet another—though equally hilarious, and perhaps even more so, as the first two—evening of outrageous short comedies by Josh McIlvain, 85min, FMT / p103 El Proceso/The Process, 45min, FSH / p81 Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 3, Privacy, 75min, CC / p91 Fresh Laughs, 60min, CC / p78 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Straw, Stick, Brick, 45min, CC / p111 Superego, 90min, UC / p111 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111 The Dressing Room, 75min, CC / p93 Wired, 60min, CC / p114 Yoga Stories, 60min, OC / p93 7:30pm

In due time . . ., 45min, WP / p83 Kabbalah the Musical, 120min, Elkins Park / p91 Laura’s Dance, 80min, CC / p91 Look/Alive, 65min, UC / p108 Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 8:00pm

A Safe Distance From Oblivion, 60min, Kensington / p99 A Series of Tests, 100min, NL / p99 Agnes Falling, 45min, North Philly / p79 All Places From Here, 90min, FSH / p99 Alternative Theatre Festival, 100min, UC / p99 Angry People Building Things, 90min, SP / p78 Awakened Ruins, 45min, FMT / p81 BASH, 90min, CC / p101 Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead, 60min, WP / p101 Coriolanus, 100min, WP / p103 Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical, 105min, FSH / p103 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 “Don’t Blow It,” 60min, SP / p115 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 Judith: the Other Shakespeare, 120min, CC / p107 More Mouvements für Lachenmann, 70min, CC / p66 My Dad is Now Ready For His Sponge Bath, 70min, NL / p108 One City Under a Groove, 90min, CC / p85 Play, 75min, CC / p58 Re/live/fe, 55min, NL / p85

2:30pm

Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs), 80min, CC / p108 3:00pm

Checking Out, 90min, CC / p103 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 4:00pm

Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 5:00pm

Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91 6:00pm

8:30pm

Illustrating Truths, 80min, OC / p83 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!, 60min, QV / p79

Friends of Alcatraz, 60min, CC / p78 The Witch in the Wood, 30min, CC / p113

6:30pm

9:00pm

Christie In Love, 45min, FMT / p103 Dancing Dead, 50min, OC / p81 El Proceso/The Process, 45min, FSH / p81 Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 3, Privacy, 75min, CC / p91 Hughie, 60min, FMT / p107 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109 Straw, Stick, Brick, 45min, CC / p111 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 Voltron, 90min, QV / p79

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How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found, 90min, CC / p107

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6:00pm

Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, 135min, CC / p111 TASK, 120min, FSH / p111 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111 The Bacchae, 90min, UC / p112 The Radio Show, 75min, UC / p64 The Seer, 90min, CC / p113 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113 topos topio, 90min, CC / p87 Traces, 90min, CC / p62 Trappings, 85min, OC / p114 Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 135min, CC / p42 Voice of this Generation: Love Lost, 90min, UC / p97 Waterways, 80min, FSH / p87 Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction, 70min, QV / p114 White Light, 35min, NL / p89 X/Y, 90min, CC / p115

7:00pm

Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry, 60min, UC / p115 Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112 8:00pm

Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium, 63.1415342min / p91 Event End., 90min, FSH / p103 Teach Your Children, 90 min, CC / p111

9:30pm

White Light, 35min, NL / p89

9:00pm

10:00pm

Superheroes Who Are Super!, 60min, CC / p111

3 Mad Rituals, 60min, CC / p78 Elephant Room, 75min, CC / p38 Lickety Skits, 75min, CC / p108

Monday, Sept 19

11:00pm

5:00pm

Christie In Love, 45min, FMT / p103 Savage/Love and Tongues, 60min, CC / p109

Extremely Public Acts of Privacy: Act 2, Displays, ongoing, CC / p91

Sunday, Sept 18

8:00pm

The Oresteia Project, 60min, CC / p112

11:00am

Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 1:00pm

Hear Again Radio Project, 90min, CC / p105 Traces, 90min, CC / p62 1:30pm

Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . ., 35min, FSH / p92 2:00pm

Jericho Road Improvement Association, 90min, Kensington / p107 The Wedding Consultant, 90min, OC / p113

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

Fletcher, 60min, CC / p78 Longing with Language: A Performance Smorgasbord, 60min, SP / p108 The Aliens, 120min, SP / p112

Variety show hosted by BRAT Productions

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A relaxed social environment that brings together Festival artists and audiences in an intimate setting where they can have post-show drinks and conversation, enjoy late-night cabaret and variety shows, listen to live music and mood-setting deejays, and generally unwind in the cozy and artful confines of this off-the-beaten-path destination. Here, the plans for the next arts revolution will be laid out between the accordion and the motherboard.

21+ / No Cover Doors open at 10pm every night of the Festival First come, first serve, doors close at capacity Visit www.livearts-fringe.org for a full list of performers and schedule.

RUBA Club supports members and their communities through social arts-entertainment production (and physics) with local talent, local settings, local themes. Membership applications available. www.RubaClub.org

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LIV E A RT FES S FE TIV AL

“For 15 years years we’ve presented artists who are curious about the world and about the boundaries of their art—linking cultural, artistic, and performancebased ideas that are of-the-moment.

Still, as much research as we do, we can’t say which themes will ultimately define a Festival until that Festival happens. At least half of the shows are new, and none of the shows have ever been seen here before. Only when September comes—and you see all these shows all at once—are the ideas, explorations, and crazy, creative concoctions of the artists truly revealed. The Festival has a life of its own that cannot be predetermined.

It is live in the true sense of the word.”

N ick Stuccio Producing Director Philadelphia Live Arts Festival

Live Arts Festival

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Elephant Room Dennis Diamond Louie Magic Daryl Hannah

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Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 1, Extremely Public New Paradise Laboratories

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Lady M Swim Pony Performing Arts

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More Mouvements fur Lachenmann Xavier LeRoy

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Red Rovers Headlong Dance Theater

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WH A LE OPTICS

World Premiere!

“Abstractly this performance is set in the ocean, where sounds, ideas, the past, future, and history float and glide in liquid and submerged form.”

Thaddeus Phillips, director of WHaLE OPTICS

Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental

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Prince Music Theater 1412 Chestnut Street $25–$30 (students + 25-and-under tickets $15) 165 minutes (with 2 intermissions)

Sept 1 at 7pm ($20 preview) Sept 2 at 7pm (opening) Sept 3 at 7pm Sept 4 at 1pm Sept 6–8* at 7pm Sept 9 + 10 at 7pm Sept 11 at 1pm

“I’m always elated when I leave one of Thaddeus Phillips’s productions. It’s something about the way he fuses intellect and feeling with an entirely original vision of the world.”

Juliet Whittman, Denver Westword

From the mind of Thaddeus Phillips comes an equally inventive and mysterious theatrical epic that connects worldwide telecommunications systems, humpback whale songs, Carl Sagan, and dinner at Applebee’s.

A modern Moby Dick adventure (with microphones instead of harpoons), this mythic tale follows a composer who chases whale songs on a seemingly accidental quest from New York to the wilds of Colombia’s Pacific coast to the white icescapes of Antarctica.

Audiences sit on both sides the size of a long stage the size of a humpback whale. Scaffolding, books, sails, flippers, buckets of water, and a tea kettle are transformed into ice shelves, a fiber optics station in New Jersey, a library, the ocean, outer space, a dive shop, a fishing boat, airplanes, bars, museums, and the belly of a whale. As objects float above and in front of them, and sound swirls around and beneath them, audiences experience intimate contact with a major theatrical spectacle.

In short: whale songs, transformative staging, Carl Sagan, stage as ocean, intimate spectacle, marimbas and dive shops.

Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental is a theater creation team that uses transformational scenery, improvisation, documentary footage, and research to create theatrical windows into rarely seen worlds. Previous Live Arts shows include: ¡EL CONQUISTADOR! (2010), The MeLTING BRiDgE (2008), Flamingo/Winnebago (2007).

Conceived and Directed by Thaddeus Phillips Dramaturgy Pamela Riley and Tatiana Mallarino Set Thaddeus Phillips Lighting Drew Billiau Original Score Juan Gabriel Turbay Video Spencer Sheridan Sound Kevin Francis Creators/Performers Brian Osborne, Makoto Hirano, Lee Ann Etzold, James Ijames, Emily Letts

*Post-show discussion moderated by David Brick, co-director, Headlong Dance Theater.

WHaLE OPTICS has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative.

Additional support was provided by the Wyncote Foundation, the Live Arts Brewery (LAB) programs, which are supported

by The Kresge Foundation, Independence Foundation, and the PNC Foundation through PNC Arts Alive.

Festival Producers Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Festival Co-Producers Marty Tuzman, Eileen Heisman, and Jenkintown Building Services

Photo: © Masa Ushioda SpecialistStock

Sept 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Appropriate for ages 12 and up.

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38 “The great dramatist Shakespeare wrote: Only an idiot would strut and fret for an hour upon the stage.

Well let me tell you, we do not fret during this hour-long show. We mostly do magic instead.”

Dennis Diamond, mindreader/performer of Elephant Room “A big ball of hi-larious and mezmerizing artertainment . . . mark my words—and your calendar—this show is going to be gangbusters.”

Andy Horowitz, Culturebot

ELEPHANT ROOM

World Premiere!

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Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place $25–$30 (student + 25and-under tickets $15) Reserved seating 75 minutes

Sept 2 at 10pm Sept 3 at 4pm + 8pm Sept 4 at 6pm Sept 8 at 8pm Sept 9 at 10pm Sept 10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 6pm* Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 10pm Sept 17 at 4pm + 10pm

Dear Esteemed Reader, You are cordially invited to a clandestine place. The place between the back of your mind and the tip of your tongue. Call it a room. Yes, reader, let’s pretend it’s a room—a real room. And you’re really here . . . in this room. Elephant Room. I see you reading these words. You have beautiful eyes, by the way.

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Dennis Diamond Louie Magic Daryl Hannah

Since the dawn of time mankind has consulted their mystics, their gurus, their warlocks, to unlock the secrets of the physical universe.

Well, mankind . . . please look no further. For the first time in the greater Philadelphia area, world-class semi-pro conjurors Dennis Diamond, Daryl Hannah, and Louie Magic take you on a journey you never even knew existed. Prepare to be confounded, amazed, and mystified until you are slack-mouthed and twitching, beyond remedy in a puddle of your own crushed perception.

(Sorry, that’s just what we do.)

Sincerely, The Elephant Room In short: three illusionists, two acts, one room, zero boring stuff, sub-zero intelligence.

In the winter of 2010–11 writers Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, and Geoff Sobelle researched the performative techniques of magicians. They were taken under the wing of Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic, and Daryl Hannah, who granted them access to the Elephant Room.

Forever changed by what they witnessed, the authors persuaded the magicians to showcase their craft at the Live Arts Festival. Previous Live Arts shows include: Amnesia Curiosa (2006), all wear bowlers (2005).

Written by Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, and Geoff Sobelle in collaboration with the magicians Direction Paul Lazar Illusionists/ Performers Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic, Daryl Hannah

*Post-show discussion moderated by Dan Rothenberg, co-artistic director, Pig Iron Theatre Company.

Elephant Room was commissioned

by Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, California, and is presented by special arrangement with Arena Stage, Washington, DC. Elephant Room is funded in part by the Creative Capital Foundation. Elephant Room was funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative. Additional support was provided by the Live Arts Brewery

(LAB) programs, which are supported

by The Kresge Foundation, Independence Foundation, and The PNC Foundation through PNC Arts Alive.

Festival Creative Producers David and Linda Glickstein Kevin Kleinschmidt Festival Producers Holly and David Stichka Festival Co-Producer Nancy Lanham

Live Arts Festival

Photo: Gregory Coztanzo

Appropriate for ages 10 and up.

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RED ROVERS

World Premiere!

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Live Arts Studio 919 North 5th Street (at Poplar) Wheelchair accessible Free onsite parking

Sept 2 at 7pm Sept 3 at 4pm + 9pm Sept 4 at 4pm Sept 6–8 at 7pm Sept 9 at 9pm* Sept 10 at 7pm + 10pm

$25–$30 (student + 25and-under tickets $15) 70 minutes

If do see window, send no_op during window

If no window, sweep at 9:40 then send beep

“The piece was inspired initially by the true story of the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, and the humans who drive them.”

Amy Smith, co-director of Red Rovers

Welcome to the Jet Propulsion Laboratories 2011 Rover Driver Conference !

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Headlong Dance Theater and Chris Doyle

This year we are fortunate to have JPL rover drivers Jeffrey Merbold and Clementine Nardello—remember Clem from the Jacksonville conference?—as our hosts. Please register, put on your name tag, and get your group ready for action. Engineering, Coding, Landing Apparatus, and Sustainability. There’s work to do.

Headlong Dance Theater teams up with visual artist Chris Doyle, performers David Disbrow and Christina Zani, and you, conference attendee, for a short trip to the red planet. Two robotic explorers. One lonely landscape. Dust is in the hard drive. Wires are crossed.

Interplanetary yoga. Sending a text 19,000,000 miles. Combining dance theater, art installation, silent films, vintage Donkey Kong, and Mars, Red Rovers is an immersive experience about scientific searching, comical mishaps, and the impossibility of connection across vast distances.

“Headlong is clearly not your typical dance company, with dances in keeping with the troupe’s motto that intelligent experimentation can be compelling and in some cases, hilarious.”

The New York Times

In short: super long distance relationship, Donkey Kong dream sequence, robot explorers, interplanetary yoga, Mars love.

Headlong Dance Theater is known for their collaborative interdisciplinary approach to making works that are innovative and accessible. Chris Doyle is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work has been exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, MassMoCA, and P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art. Previous Live Arts Shows include: More (2009), Explanatorium (2007), CELL (2006).

Conceived and Created by Headlong Dance Theater and Chris Doyle Dramaturgy Mark Lord Lighting David Todaro Props Jenna Horton Costumes Kelly Cobb Performers David Disbrow, Christina Zani

Image: Chris Doyle

*Post-show discussion moderated by Craig Peterson, director of the Live Arts Brewery (LAB) and Philly Fringe.

Red Rovers was generously funded by the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Festival Co-Producers Christie Hartwell June and Steve Wolfson

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Appropriate for ages 12 and up.

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TWELFTH NIGHT, or What You Will

Sept 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Pig Iron Theatre Company

480 South Broad Street (at Lombard) Wheelchair accessible $25–$30 (student + 25-and-under tickets $15) Reserved seating 135 minutes (with intermission) Sept 1 + 2 at 7pm ($20–$25 previews) Sept 3 at 3pm ($20–$25 preview) Sept 4 at 7pm (opening) Sept 7* + 8 at 7pm Sept 9 at 6pm** Sept 10 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 11 at 1pm + 7pm Sept 13–15 at 7pm Sept 16 at 6pm Sept 17 at 2pm + 8pm

It’s Shakespeare, Pig Iron style.

Welcome to an uproarious world of drunkards and wine-drenched parties, depressive noblemen and dueling musicians, idiots and veteran jesters, religious zealots and erotic misunderstandings, performed to the beat of a live Balkan band. Pig Iron uses its highly physical performance style to ignite one of Shakespeare’s most wicked comedies, and infuses his wordplay with an immediacy that is alive, funny, and unpredictable.

Alternately absurd and heartfelt, Twelfth Night, or What You Will is replete with practical jokes, gender confusion, and mistaken identity. Girl washes up on beach, disguises herself as boy. Girl, disguised as boy, falls in love with Duke. Woos lady on behalf of Duke.

Lady falls in love with girl-disguised-as-boy. Longing ensues. As does the imbibing of enormous quantities of alcohol, plus outrageously melodramatic breakdowns to “the saddest music in the world.”

“I’ve always been fascinated with this eternal struggle between imagination and death that runs through all of Shakespeare’s plays.”

Dan Rothenberg, director of Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Photo: Dan Rothenberg

“One of the few groups successfully taking theater in new directions.”

The New York Times

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World Premiere!

Pig Iron brings a cast of familiar faces including the return of Birgit Huppuch (Isabella, Live Arts Festival, 2008), and the Pig Iron debut of Scott Greer. With music by Rosie Langabeer (Cankerblossom, Live Arts Festival, 2010). Previous Live Arts shows also include: Welcome to Yuba City (2009), Pay Up (2005).

Directed by Dan Rothenberg Text William Shakespeare Music Rosie Langabeer Performers Blake DeLong, Scott Greer, Birgit Huppuch, Michael Sean McGuinness, Charleigh Parker, Andy Paterson, Dito van Reigersberg, Sarah Sanford, James Sugg, Alex Torra Appropriate for ages 15 and up. *Post-show discussion moderated by Abbe Blum, professor of English literature at Swarthmore College. **Post-show discussion moderated by Nat Anderson, professor of English literature and director of the creative writing program at Swarthmore College.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the William Penn Foundation.

Festival Executive Producers Al and Nancy Hirsig

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In short: Toby Belch, gypsy-rock, eleven days, accordions, boy you look just like your sister.

Sept 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

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44 “The show is named for an acting exercise said to have taken the lives of some who attempted it. Though Rude Mechs tried in rehearsals to recreate it, we were unsuccessful, thankfully, insofar as everyone who worked on the show is still alive.”

Kirk Lynn, writer of The Method Gun “In this immensely funny, abruptly touching physicaltheater work. . . . They keep taking perilous theatrical leaps, but we are the ones to feel sweaty-palmed, nearly vertiginous exhilaration.”

Helen Shaw, Time Out New York

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THE METHOD GUN Rude Mechs The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street (at Spruce) Wheelchair accessible

Sept 2 at 10pm Sept 3 at 3pm + 8pm* Sept 4 at 3pm

$25–$30 (student + 25and-under tickets $15) 90 minutes

From Austin-based Rude Mechs comes a theatrical exploration about the ecstasy and excesses of performing. The Method Gun is based on the methods of Stella Burden, the 60s and 70s actor-training guru who disappeared in 1972 under mysterious circumstances.

Burden created what became known as the most dangerous acting technique in the world, The Approach, which injected even the smallest role with sex, death, and violence.

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A co-presentation with The Wilma Theater

Based on historical documents, the show explores what happened to the company after Burden’s sudden departure, enacting the final months of rehearsals for a nine-years-in-the-making production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Set within the company’s rehearsal room, where company members lived and worked, the show bounces between radical rehearsal sequences, haunting interior monologues, and incendiary group interactions as a growing sense of inadequacy, frustration, and desperation takes over. Hilarious and deeply felt, The Method Gun is the ultimate immersion into an insular community going terribly awry.

In short: a gun, acting in the 70s, overdoing it, when gurus depart.

Since 1995, Rude Mechs has created 23 theatrical productions that represent a genre-defying cocktail of big ideas, cheap laughs, and dizzying spectacle. Common to these works are the use of play to make performance, the use of theaters as meeting places for audiences and artists, and the use of humor for the investigation of ideas. Previous Live Arts shows: Get Your War On (2006), How Late It Was, How Late (2004).

Created by Rude Mechs Writing Kirk Lynn Direction Shawn Sides Sound/Composition Graham Reynolds Set Leilah Stewart Lighting Brian H Scott Costumes Katey Gilligan Performers Thomas Graves, Heather Hanna, Hannah Kenah, Lana Lesley, Jason Liebrecht Appropriate for ages 16 and up.

A project of Creative Capital, The Method Gun was presented in the 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The Method Gun has also received support from the Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, The Orchard Project Theatre Residency Program orchardproject.com, the University of Texas Humanities Institute, The Harry Ransom Center, and The Long Center for the Performing Arts,

and touring support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Festival Producer Tom Lussenhop Festival Co-Producers Andy and Bryna Scott

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Photo: Bret Brookshire

*Post-show discussion moderated by Walter Bilderback, dramaturg and literary manager, The Wilma Theater.

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The Devil and Mister Punch Is a good beating really cause for a good laugh?

Improbable Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street (by 2nd + Market Streets) Wheelchair accessible $25–$30 (student + 25-and-under tickets $15) / 90 minutes Sept 8 at 8pm (preview) Sept 9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 3pm* + 10pm Sept 11 at 7pm Sept 13 + 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 16 at 8pm

The iconic Mr. Punch (of Punch and Judy fame) murders his way through life’s inconveniences, and yet his story has been the basis for beloved family entertainment for centuries. Unsatisfied with mere murder, The Devil and Mister Punch delves into the even darker world of Punch’s manipulators, the puppeteers themselves, and a pair of down-on-their-luck vaudeville-era theater producers, the ever-battling brothers Harvey and Hovey.

They’ve hit rock bottom, reduced to presenting a puppet show that goes wildly off-course.

A stage resembling a giant Victorian armoire has secret openings, a piano, and surprise performance areas.

Inside this shadowy, magical world are transatlantic wooden and papier-mâché players, music of the jug band era, a steaming crocodile, a parade of elephants, hangings, beatings, the devil, and—of course—sausages.

“We can promise puppets and pianos, fingers and hands, crocodiles and sausages. It’s a beautiful and dirty show about love and fighting—not for the squeamish.”

Julian Crouch, co-creator of The Devil and Mister Punch

Photo: Courtesy of Improbable

“Improbable . . . is one of the most energizing and provocative forces in British theater.”

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian (London)

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World Premiere!

Improbable’s works include Obie award winning 70 Hill Lane and the Philip Glass opera Satyagraha (The Metropolitan Opera). Artistic director Julian Crouch served as a co-director and co-designer on the off-Broadway hit Shockheaded Peter, winner of a 2002 Laurence Olivier Award, as well as the Broadway musical The Addams Family and Jerry Springer: The Opera at the National Theatre in London.

Created by Julian Crouch, Marcus Doshi, Rob Thirtle, Nick Haverson, John Foti, Mike Kerns, Saskia Lane, Jessica Scott, Seamus Maynard, Sarah Laux, Ragnar Freidank, Darron West Appropriate for ages 16 and up. *Post-show discussion moderated by Nick Stuccio, producing director, Live Arts Festival.

The Devil and Mister Punch has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative. The Devil and Mister Punch has been commissioned by Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, and Barbican (London). This production is also supported by Pomegranate Arts.

Festival Creative Producers Tom and Carol Beam Festival Producers Vesna and Howard Sacks Festival Co-Producers Lynne and Bert Strieb

Live Arts Festival

In short: gutter entertainment, devilish doings, bells, puppet murders, leaning tower of pigs, mad actors.

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BLANK Sept 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Cie. Willi Dorner Site-specific throughout Old City Starting point at lot at Race + 2nd Streets Free / 90 minutes (ongoing) Tickets recommended Sept 8–10, 16 + 17 from 7–8:30pm

The anonymous stop being anonymous when they take to the streets.

Within a seven block radius within Old City, Willi Dorner is unleashing 65 performers down narrow lanes, over archways and support beams, walking up walls where there once were steps, falling out of windows, and stacking themselves below I-95. Dorner plays with perception by reconstituting the spaces and people you take for granted.

In this free, outdoor show from the creator of the immensely popular bodies in urban spaces (Live Arts Festival, 2008), audiences roam the streets and side alleys, open spaces, passageways, and empty lots to discover wild formations of bodies, like anonymous inhabitants, using the city’s buildings and spaces for their own expression.

“When I walked in Old City, I had the feeling of being in a maze. This architectonical setting allows me to create surprising moments.

Also, people that are unfamiliar with this area, can get easily lost.”

Willi Dorner, choreographer of blank

Photo: Willi Dorner

“Cool as it looks, kids, don’t try this at home!”

Ellen Dunkel, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Vienna/Austria based Cie. Willi Dorner was founded by Willi Dorner in 1999. Besides his international touring dance performances Dorner creates events that give the audience the opportunity for new experiences, insights, and a different perception of everyday life.

Conceived and Choreographed by Willi Dorner Live Music by Tim Motzer Corps Dancers Jon Bulak, Rick Callender, Bethany Formica, Kate Jordan, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Jennifer Morley, Gabrielle Revlock, Lisa Rothstein, Kristen Shahverdian, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Daniele Strawmyre, Sara Kamara Yassky Previous Live Arts shows: above under inbetween (2009), bodies in urban spaces (2008).

Appropriate for all ages.

blank has been commissioned by the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival with support from The PNC Foundation through PNC Arts Alive.

Live Arts Festival

In short: outdoors, urban maze, 65 performers, dangling dancers, Old City alleyways, faded stairwells.

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LADY M

World Premiere!

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Swim Pony Performing Arts Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible

“I want this piece to feel like watching a gladiator battle or an athlete on the verge of collapse— visceral, dirty, and so intense you almost feel yourself standing up to scream back at what’s happening.”

Adrienne Mackey, director of Lady M

Sept 1 at 7pm ($20 preview) Sept 2 at 7pm (opening) Sept 3*, 4 + 6–9 at 7pm

$25–$30 (student + 25and-under tickets $15) 90 minutes

Enter the mind of Lady Macbeth.

With the help (be careful what you ask for) of a chorus of witches, Lady M reassembles the story of her life in Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy. Killing the king. The ghost at the table. The frenzied dances of the witches. Out damn spot. A battle is waged against Lady Macbeth’s fate as her story cycles around in a nightmare of bloodshed superimposed onto a background of vocal chaos.

“Affecting and thoughtprovoking.”

J. Cooper Robb, Philadelphia Weekly

Lady M highlights its demented anti-heroine, played by Barrymore Award winning Catharine Slusar, by heightening the text of Macbeth with voice and movement that is equally extreme. An all-female ensemble explores what might happen if Lady Macbeth summoned Shakespeare’s witches— expanded here to a coven of ten—for her own purposes. When called upon, the witches act out the play’s various roles, form moveable sets out of their bodies, and intone layered beds of sound to create a startling sonic backdrop. Like a hive of bees, they alternately serve and overtake their queen.

In short: dangerous ladies, stain removal, vocal chaos, ten witches, marital problems, bloody fate.

Conceived by Adrienne Mackey and Catharine Slusar Direction and Vocal Arrangements Adrienne Mackey Based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth Additional Writing Lauren Feldman and the ensemble Movement Jamie McKittrick Set Lisi Stoessel Lights Maria Shaplin Sound Dan Perelstein Costumes Alisa Sickora Kleckner Performers Catharine Slusar with Mary Lee Bednarek, Kate Black-Regan, Amanda Damron, Karen Getz, Colleen Hughes, Kelly Jennings, Jamie McKittrick, Charlotte Northeast, Catherine Palfinier, Wendy Staton, Anna Watson Appropriate for ages 14 and up. *Post-show discussion moderated by Lauren Feldman, collaborating writer, Lady M. Lady M is made possible with support from the Wyncote Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and with support from the Live Arts Brewery (LAB) programs, which are supported

by The Kresge Foundation, the Independence Foundation, The PNC Foundation through PNC Arts Alive. Lady M is also

supported by The Charlotte Cushman Foundation Trustees in memory of their treasured colleague, Norma Testardi Egendorf Pomerantz.

Festival Producers Anne and Edward Wagner

Image: Lisi Stoessel

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Adrienne Mackey, founder Swim Pony Performing Arts, creates compelling theater through the power of the human voice and the forms of the human body. Lady M’s all-female chorus trained on a vocal technique that uses many kinds of voices—screams, yowls, trills, squeaks—to generate a vocal score. Previous Live Arts Festival show: Recitatif (2007). Previous Philly Fringe shows include: Purr, Pull, Reign (2009), The Giant Squid (2008).

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Festival Spotlight Series

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At Home, Elsewhere Cross-Cultural Identity in the 21st Century Performances Namasya by Shantala Shivalingappa (p. 56) Play by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa (p. 58) Art Installation Zon-Mai (p. 54)

Film Series Les Ballets de-ci de-là Directed by Alain Platel Special screening followed by a discussion with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Independence Black Box at the Prince Music Theater 1412 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Free / 110 minutes Sept 14 at 7pm

Nagarika Series Kalarippayattu Talk and film by Jayachandran Palazhy, director of Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, India Demonstration by Hema Bharathy Palani, senior dancer at Attakkalari Independence Black Box at the Prince Music Theater 1412 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Free / 60 minutes Sept 13 at 7pm

We live in a time when cultural identity is often effusive and rarely singular. And if we look closely enough, it is never singular. Yet even as we become more aware of the inherent artifice of borders, issues of identity and labels can still be given an importance that goes beyond an individual’s humanity.

Through our featured artists Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa we see how cross-cultural perspectives manifest themselves into art that challenges the limits of performance as well as staid notions of cultural boundaries. This is not melding one culture into the other, but rather claiming both, or as many as exist, at one time, and often in one place, one home.

At Home, Elsewhere features public events and performances, a multi-media art installation, film screenings, talks, master classes, and a symposium featuring leading makers of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary work.

“Each artist’s performance is never simply a choreographic performance, but something that emerges from everyday life, which is intimately linked to the socio-political context in which this something was created.” — Alain Platel Alain Platel directed this documentary about members of his highly acclaimed Belgian company Les Ballets C de la B. Who are the dancers of Les Ballets C de la B? Where do they come from? And how do they transcend the world on stage?

In a series of portraits Patel traces the life stories of the performers whose origins include Turkey, France, Burkina Faso, and Vietnam. Performance and rehearsal footage features the choreography of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Christine de Smedt, Koen Augustijnen, and Alain Platel.

Explore the physical traditions of Indian performing arts with the artistic director of the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, India’s premiere organization working in contemporary movement arts. From its research of ancient forms, Attakkalari is developing a contemporary South Asian physical training program for a new generation of performing artists. This presentation focuses on Kalarippayattu, one of the oldest known martial arts forms, and its various body concepts and movement principles. Features filmed interviews with master teachers, movement sequences, and stunning shots from inside the training arenas, dug down into the red soil of Kerala, in southwestern India, where the form first evolved. Interspersed with the film segments are a conversation with Jayachandran, the project’s director, and a live movement demonstration.

Workshops Five-day Master Workshop in Contemporary Indian Dance Movement with Jayachandran Palazhy and Hema Bharathy Palani Sept 12–16 Previously selected Philadelphia dancers receive an intensive introduction to the ideas of Attakkalari’s unique contemporary movement vocabulary, which incorporates concepts of Indian performance and physical traditions including Kalarippayattu.

Jayachandran is the director of Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts. Hema Bharati is one of Attakkalari’s leading dancers.

Master Class with Shantala Shivalingappa Sept 13 Shivalingappa will introduce area dancers to Kuchupudi, a classical dance form of South India characterized by its rhythmic, vibrant style, full of quick, intricate footwork and jumps. Reserved for professional dancers.

Interested participants should email workshops@livearts-fringe.org.

Selected participants will be notified

by August 26th.

The Festival Spotlight Series is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.

Independence Black Box at the Prince Music Theater 1412 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 17 from 10am–2 pm Free “I am deeply interested in how my American formalism, and the nationalism that it implies, clashes, intersects, manipulates and is manipulated by the art and life aesthetics of distinct world cultures . . . What I once viewed as boundaries have become artistic and philosophical border crossings. ” Ralph Lemon, choreographer and visual artist “The medium of dance—the body—is shaped and moved by the cultural contexts it inhabits. It can express nuance and complexity in ways that we can intuit without resorting to words, language, or reasoning.”

Simon Dove, Festival Spotlight Series curator Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary approaches are catalyzing new possibilities in dance and contemporary art-making. The migration of forms, ideas, and perspectives across borders has given rise to a huge variety of intercultural work. Leading artists from Africa, Europe, North America, and South Asia discuss their current projects, which raise questions about identity, culture, and our notions of borders. These conversations highlight the perspectives of the artists themselves, and provide a fascinating insight into the ways artists navigate complex ideas of identity.

Moderated by Simon Dove, director of the Herberger Institute School of Dance at Arizona State University, curator of Crossing the Line festival in New York, and

former artistic director of Springdance, the international dance festival in the Netherlands.

10am / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa Both discuss the making of Play (p. 58) and their individual approaches to the work. Larbi is the son of a Flemish mother and Moroccan father. A former member of the Ghentbased choreographic group Les Ballets C. de la B, his work focuses on identity, cultural differences, and boundaries.

Shivalingappa was born in Chennai, India, and brought up in Paris. She is an accomplished dancer in the classical Kuchipudi form, and has been a collaborator/performer with Pina Bausch and Peter Brook amongst others.

10:45pm / Ralph Lemon One of America’s leading figures in choreographic, visual, and interdisciplinary arts, Lemon talks about his recent production How can you stay . . . and how his personal experience informs his art practice. He grew up in Minnesota and is the artistic director of Cross Performance. For each of his projects, he builds a team of collaborating artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, countries, and artistic disciplines, who bring their own histories and cultural aesthetics to the work.

Noon / Jayachandran Palazhy The artistic director of Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore, India, discusses and demonstrates his new performance work at the center, and his development of a distinct contemporary South Asian dance practice.

Jayachandran’s background includes training in classical dance in Chennai, performing street theater, and exploring Western contemporary dance in London.

12:45pm / Nora Chipaumire with Ralph Lemon A Bessie Award winner, Chipaumire is a solo artist and the former associate director of the renowned Urban Bush Women.

She investigates the cultural, political, and economic identities of contemporary Africa. She holds degrees in law from Zimbabwe University and dance from Mills College, California.

1:30pm / Open Discussion A roundtable talk with all the artists, and featuring questions and comments from the audience.

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Conversations on Cross Cultural Identity in 21st Century Performance Ralph Lemon, Nora Chipaumire, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Shantala Shivalingappa, and Jayachandran Palazhy

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ZON-MAI

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Former Pumping Station 140 North Columbus Boulevard (at Race Street) Free/Ongoing

Sept 2–17 Weekends and Labor Day: Noon–8pm Weekdays: 5pm–8pm Gallery opening: Sept 8, 5pm–8pm

Opposite the new Race Street Pier park, inside a former pumping station is a house of screens 20 feet high and wide, a massive multimedia installation named Zon-Mai, French slang for home (maison spelled backwards). Like a home that is backwards, Zon-Mai has no windows or doors, and is imagined as a home turned inside out. Projected on the screens are films of dancers performing in their homes—choreography set in their bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, under and above their furniture, by their windows and refrigerators— capturing fragments of dance and everyday life.

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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Gilles Delmas

Traveling across 10 countries, choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and filmmaker Gilles Delmas walked into the homes of 21 dancers— who have experienced migration and displacement—to find out what home means to them. Then Larbi set choreography on the dancers within their houses and apartments and had it filmed. The installation, lit by these intimate moments within a large darkened space, takes on the sacred atmosphere of a church. Visitors observe this congregation of projected dancers performing within their most personal, intimate, and interior spaces.

“On the one hand, the project underscored that nomadism was the most natural and most perennial thing on earth; and on the other, it brought to the fore a longing for a place where I could stay a little longer.”

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, co-creator of Zon-Mai

In short: massive art installation, 21 dances projected, house of screens, interior lives on exterior walls.

Conception Gilles Delmas and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Direction Gilles Delmas Dancers Iris Bouche, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Serge-Aimé Coulibaly, Juan Kruz De Garaio Esnaola, Lisa Drake, Lisi Estaras, Alexandra Gilbert, Asa Lundvik Gustafson, Damien Jalet, Akram Khan, Mimoza Koike, Satoshi Kudo, Sri Louise, Gioia Masala, James O’Hara, George Oliveira, Erna Omarsdottir, Shantala Shivalingappa, Asier Uriagereka, Nicolas Vladyslav, Shanell Winlock

“Loosely-knit episodes that are stuffed with allusions to history, mythology, everyday life and inner desires. “ Sanjoy Roy, The Guardian (London)

Appropriate for all ages.

The presentation of Zon-Mai in the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.

Produced by the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration (Paris, France), Zon-Mai travels in France and abroad as an emblem of this cultural institution (histoireimmigration.fr), whose purpose is to spread the history of

immigration and acknowledge the input of immigrant cultures in building the French nation and society over the last two centuries.

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Photo by Laurent Phillippe

Photo: Kader Benamer

Festival Spotlight Series: At Home, Elsewhere Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is performing alongside Shantala Shivalingappa in their dance Play (p. 58). Shivalingappa also performs her solo evening work, Namasya (p. 56). See p. 52 for additional Spotlight Series programming.

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NAMASYA

Festival Spotlight Series “The greatest driving force is the sheer joy and thrill of the moment of dancing itself.”

Shantala Shivalingappa, creator of Namasya

Shantala Shivalingappa

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Presented in partnership with the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible

Sept 11 + 12* at 8pm

“Shantala’s dance is like the dancing glow of a flame.”

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$25–$30 (student + 25and-under tickets $15) 60 minutes

From the classical Indian dance form Kuchipudi to contemporary movement, Namasya is a virtuosic and very personal contemporary dance work. The evening is made up of four solos choreographed

by Ushio Amagatsu, Pina Bausch, Shivalingappa, and Savitry Nair (Shivalingappa’s mother). Namasya is a Sanskrit word which means to pay homage or reverence, adoration. Conceived and performed by Shantala Shivalingappa, Namasya pays homage to friends and mentors who have passed away, to traditions and forms that have influenced her life, and to artists from whom she has drawn inspiration.

Dancing nearly uninterruptedly for an hour and maintaining the highest level of concentration and energy, Shivalingappa invites the audience into her smallest gestures, while also moving with impossible speed and grace. Her command of the choreography gives a weight, substance, and texture even to the empty space that surrounds her.

When she dances, movement does not stop at the body’s extremities, but extends into the space around it in invisible ripples.

In short: joy in movement, dancer at her apex, perfect form, in a dream, from ancient to modern.

Born in India and raised in Paris, Shivalingappa has worked with such artists as Maurice Béjart, Peter Brook, Bartabas, and Pina Bausch.

Appropriate for ages 12 and up. *Post-show discussion moderated by Simon Dove, director of the Herberger Institute School of Dance, Arizona State University.

Festival Spotlight Series: Shantala Shivalingappa also performs alongside Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in their dance Play (p. 58), and is featured in the multimedia installation Zon-Mai (p. 54). See p. 52 for additional series programming.

The presentation of Namasya in the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.

Festival Co-Producers Miffy and Howard Coonley

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Conceived by Shantala Shivalingappa Choreography Ushio Amagatsu (“Ibuki”), Pina Bausch (“Solo”), Shantala Shivalingappa (“Shift”), Savitry Nair (“Smarana”) Original Music Yoichiro Yoshikawa, Ferran Savall Costumes Ushio Amagatsu, Marion Cito Video Alexandre Castres Lighting Nicolas Boudier Sound and Video Technician Baptiste Klein Performed by Shantala Shivalingappa

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58 “Dance is always a temporary drawing, it disappears when the movement ends.

So the drawing can be written over, or rewritten at any time. Each performance has to be drawn again the next evening.”

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, co-creator of Play “Cherkaoui is . . . one of the bright young stars of contemporary European dance. He has . . . consistently blurred the boundaries between dance, theater and music; juxtaposed movement styles; and tackled political, spiritual, and existential themes.”

Susan Josephs, The Los Angeles Times

PLAY

Festival Spotlight Series

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa

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Prince Music Theater 1412 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible $25–$30 (student + 25and-under tickets $15) Reserved seating 75 minutes Sept 15*–17 at 8pm

Welcome to a vast playground, a place for experiments between two riveting performers with seemingly opposing techniques and styles: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the sinuous Western contemporary dancer whose movements ride a wave of chaos, and Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa, whose masterly control of movement comes from her training in the classical Indian form Kuchipudi. Play portrays the teasing, playful games they engage in to form a world of their own.

Role-play, seduction, imitation, human-sized puppets, blindfolds, masks, music: all are employed to win the other over, to test boundaries, and finally to express the joy of communicating through dance.

On moveable platforms, a quartet of musicians alternates between intense percussive music and soaring melodies, and they join the dancers in the choreography. Small details—hand gestures, a chess match—are projected on a backdrop of large rotating squares. Play moves from moments of extreme intimacy to a production that envelopes the stage. In a creation that refuses to be categorized, Larbi, of Flemish and Moroccan descent, and Shivalingappa, who was born in India but raised in France, play with their own—and then each other’s—vast array of traditions, techniques, and personal histories.

Photo: Koen Broos

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US Premiere!

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is a former member of Les Ballets C. de la B. Focusing on themes of ethnicity, identity, cultural differences, and boundaries, his recent work includes collaborations with Shaolin Temple monks, flamenco dancer Maria Pagés, and the sculptor Antony Gormley. Shantala Shivalingappa is an extremely sought after performer who has worked with Maurice Béjart, Peter Brook, Bartabas, Pina Bausch, and Ushio Amagatsu. Play began as a short piece for Pina Bausch’s 2008 dance festival, Fest with Pina.

Choreography Shantala Shivalingappa and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Assistant Choreographer Jon Filip Fahlstrom Artistic Consultant Arthur Nauzyciel Lighting Adam Carrée Visual and Puppet Design Filip Peeters Video Paul Van Caudenberg Costumes Lieve Meeussen Musicians Patrizia Bovi, Gabriele Miracle, Olga Wojciechowska, Tsubasa Hori Produced by Eastman Performers Shantala Shivalingappa and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Appropriate for ages 12 and up. *Post-show discussion moderated by Simon Dove, director of the Herberger Institute School of Dance, Arizona State University.

Festival Spotlight Series: At Home, Elsewhere Shivalingappa also performs her solo work Namasya (p. 56), and is featured in the multi-media installation Zon-Mai (p. 54), which was conceived of by Cherkaoui. See p 52 for additional Spotlight Series programming.

The presentation of Play in the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance. Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts. NDP is supported by lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with additional fund-

ing from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust. This presentation of Play was also funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Festival Co-Producers Marc Chaikin and Sandra Betner

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In short: two great dancers, playing with the rules, reinvention, live music, formality to wildness.

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CANYON

World Premiere!

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John Jasperse The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street (at Spruce) Wheelchair accessible

Sept 9 + 10* at 8pm Sept 11 at 2pm

$25–$30 (student + 25and-under tickets $15) 70 minutes

From groundbreaking New York choreographer John Jasperse comes a collaborative new work that captures the wonder of the ineffable. Six dancers, including Jasperse, create a space where the supremacy of the intellect is humbled into a state of awe, where you lose yourself in the transformative power of pure visceral experience.

Integrating an evocative musical score and striking stage design, Canyon plays with engineered disorientation, sensory overload, spaciousness, fractured connectivity, and rapture.

In short: all that you ever wanted to know about the spaces in between (but were afraid to ask).

John Jasperse has been presented by the Joyce Theater, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Walker Art Center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, and many others. In addition to his own company, Jasperse has created works for the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, the Batsheva Dance Company, and the Lyon Opéra Ballet.

Choreography and Direction John Jasperse Composer Hahn Rowe Visual Design Tony Orrico Lighting James Clotfelter Costumes Reid Bartelme Created and Performed by Lindsay Clark, Erin Cornell, Kennis Hawkins, John Jasperse, Burr Johnson, James McGinn Moderated by Lisa Kraus, performing arts coordinator, Bryn Mawr College.

“The need to make work is like an itch that needs to be scratched. It is felt and acted upon more than it can be understood.”

John Jasperse, choreographer of Canyon “When John Jasperse makes a new work, it should be seen: end of story.”

Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

Appropriate for ages 16 and up.

Canyon is commissioned as part of the BAM 2011 Next Wave Festival, and is co-commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts. Canyon is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Canyon is supported by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon |Foundation. Canyon is commissioned through Meet The Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA program and by the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program.

Canyon is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Canyon was developed in residencies at MANCC, MASS MoCA and CPR. Festival Co-Producers Henry S. McNeil Sissie and Herb Lipton

Photo: Alex Escalante, Image Editing by Tony Orrico © 2011.

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*Post-show discussion moderated by Lisa Kraus, performing arts coordinator, Bryn Mawr College.

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Traces Presented in association with the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Merriam Theater 250 South Broad Street (at Spruce) Wheelchair accessible

Sept 15 at 7pm Sept 16 at 8pm Sept 17 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 18 at 2pm

$20–$55 (students + 18–25 tickets $15, 17and-under tickets ½ price)* 90 minutes

Traces is high-energy urban acrobatics—poetic and explosive, humorous and thoughtful—from 7 Fingers, a Montreal-based circus arts company founded with the goal to present circus on a human scale. Circus feats—including traditional Chinese acrobatics, tumbling through hoops, leaping between giant poles—combine with skateboarding and parkour, and mix with theater, music, and contemporary dance. Traces celebrates the individuals on stage, their bond and talents; their risk-taking; and their unbridled energy.

For seven performers, catastrophe waits outside the doors of tarp and gaffer tape of a makeshift shelter. Inside, they live to the fullest what they believe are their last moments, leaving nothing unsaid or undone. The only antidote to destruction is their brand of creation— stories told through music, song, dance, speech, illustration, and high-risk acrobatics. The familiarity grows, and the acrobatics—a seemingly inhuman element—takes on a startlingly human nature.

The acrobatics become ever more physically daring, the perfumers’ stories become more personal, and the audience finds itself intensely bound to the fate of those on stage.

“Very often, I have wished that the world functioned more like a circus: people coming together from every corner of the world to work together, depend, and support each other, because no matter what the show must go on.”

Gypsy Snider, co-director of Traces

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7 Fingers

“A gorgeously pure, loose, and personal circus.”

Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune “Beautifully choreographed and hugely impressive.”

Steve Oxman, Variety

In short: circus up close, parkour, mulit-disciplinary, real folks flying, no fear, no net.

Les 7 Doigts de la Main (7 Fingers) is a twist on a French idiom—“the five fingers of the hand”—describing distinct parts moving in coordination towards one common goal. The company’s seven founding directors combine their distinct talents to work towards their common artistic goals—with the beautifully awkward dexterity of a seven-fingered hand. Other shows include Loft, La Vie, and Psy.

Photo: Cyrus McCrimmon

This show is appropriate for all ages.

Festival Producers Mark and Tobey Dichter Steven Dressler Larry Spitz and Carol Klein David Seltzer and Lisa Roberts

Festival Honorary Producers Cat, Annie, and Steven Bohnenberger

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Direction and Choreography Shana Carroll and Gypsy Snider Acrobatic Designer Sébastien Soldevila Performers (subject to change) Mason Ames, Valérie Benoît-Charbonneau, Mathieu Cloutier, Bradley Henderson, Philippe Normand-Jenny, Xia Zhengqi, Florian Zumkehr

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THE RADIO SHOW

Bessie Award Winner!

Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion

“I’ve seen audiences dancing before, during intermission, and after the show.”

Kyle Abraham, choreographer of The Radio Show

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Presented in partnership with the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Zellerbach Theatre 3680 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible

Sept 16* + 17 at 8pm

“How roomy and various is Abraham’s way with dance—elastic and electric, luxuriantly rippling, poetically arranged with moments of perfect stillness that arrive amid splashes of expression.” Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Dance Magazine

$25–$30 (student + 25and-under tickets $15) 75 minutes

Without black radio, where is the audible voice of the black community?

Some of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s fondest memories are of driving with his family and listening to Pittsburgh’s Hot 106.7FM WAMO and its sister station AM 860. On September 8, 2009, WAMO, the only black urban radio station still in Pittsburgh, went off-air. The voice of a community disappeared, becoming a fading memory. Creating an abstract narrative around the loss of communication, The Radio Show investigates the effects of a radio station’s abrupt discontinuation on a community and in turn relates it to the effects of Alzheimer’s and loss of memory on a family.

Broken into shorter works, memories are met with disruption and loss, but not without a fight. The Radio Show is a high energy dance performance.

The cast of seven includes Abraham, one of the most captivating movers dancing today. The score mixes classic soul and hip-hop with classical compositions, developing a rhythm that is hypnotic and unpredictable, causing audiences to rise up. The Radio Show is not merely movement to music, but the physical expression of the lives of a community.

In short: high-energy dance performance, hometown radio memories, fed on music.

Choreographer Kyle Abraham intertwines sensual and provocative movement with his strong understanding of music. The company has performed extensively, including at The Joyce Theatre, Danspace Project, and Jacob’s Pillow.

Choreography Kyle Abraham Costumes Sarah Cubbage Lighting Design Dan Scully Lighting Supervisor Michael Jarrett Performers Kyle Abraham, Rena Butler, Chalvar Monteiro, Elyse Morris, Rachelle Rafailedes, Hsiao-Jou Tang

*Post-show discussion moderated by Joan Myers Brown, founder and executive artistic director, PHILADANCO. The Radio Show is made possible by the generous support of The Heinz Endowments and with funds from the 2009–2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional support for the commissioning and development of The Radio Show has been provided through The Kelly Strayhorn Theater and the Harlem Stage Fund for New Work, which has received support from the Jerome Foundation. The Radio Show was created during a

residency provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation, New York City, with major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Radio Show world premiered at The Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh in January 2010.

Festival Producer Elizabeth H. Gemmill Festival Co-Producer Robert M. Dever Festival Honorary Producer David Lipson

Photo: Steven Schreiber

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Appropriate for ages 12 and up.

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When seeing becomes hearing and vice versa.”

Xavier Le Roy, choreographer of More Mouvements für Lachenmann “He approaches dance intellectually, but with a wry humanity.”

Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

MORE MOUVEMENTS FUR LACHENMANN Xavier Le Roy

Sept 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

A co-presentation with Bowerbird Arts Bank at The University of the Arts 601 South Broad Street (at South Street) Wheelchair accessible $25–$30 (student + 25-and-under tickets $15) 70 minutes Sept 16* + 17 at 8pm

Experience a hidden world outside of sound, but within music.

A cello solo alternates between inaudible notes played with large visual gestures and loud cacophonous sections performed in complete darkness. A work composed for two classical guitars is performed by two duos, one concealed from the audience, and the other on stage pantomiming the music being heard. In another section a musical ensemble plays a score, then puts their instruments down, and plays it again with movement only.

German composer Helmut Lachenmann’s physically demanding compositions require musicians to perform very unusual movements. His music is about the conditions under which the music is made, the motions necessary for creating sound, producing a startlingly visceral musical experience. More Mouvements für Lachenmann is French choreographer Xavier Le Roy’s poetic and fascinating version of a contemporary music concert from the point of view of someone obsessed with movement. This dance for eight virtuoso musicians, including members of the Austrian new music ensemble Klangforum Wien, breaks down the work of making music by uncoupling sounds and movements, sonic

Photo: Reinhard Werner

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In short: something between a theater, a choreography, and a concert performance.

With his fiercely independent style, choreographer Xavier Le Roy’s work—including self unfinished (1998), Product of Circumstances (1999), Project (2003), Le Sacre du Printemps (2007) low pieces (2008-2011)—has opened new perspectives for dance and radicalized the conversation about the body and choreographic art.

More Mouvements includes the Lachenmann works “Pression,” “Salut für Caudwell,” and “Gran Torso.”

Choreography Xavier Le Roy Music Helmut Lachenmann Dramaturg Bojana Cvejic, Berno Odo Polzer Technical Director Götz Dihlman Sound Engineer Wolfgang Musil Musicians Gunter Schneider, Barbara Romen, Tom Pauwels, Günther Lebbing, Annette Bik, Sophie Schafleitner, Dimitrios Polisoidis, Andreas Lindenbaum Appropriate for ages 14 and up. *Post-show discussion introduced by Dustin Hurt, director of Bowerbird.

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bowerbird

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events and silences, actions and stillness.

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Extremely Public Displays Of Privacy: A Sept 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

New Paradise Laboratories www.extremelypublicdisplays.com Free / ongoing Sept 2–Oct 1, all hours

Fess and Beatrix meet online, where nothing is quite as it seems. In the real world, Fess is a mother and a school teacher, who writes amazing songs that nobody hears. Beatrix is a cool hunter, a performance artist, a mysterious entrepreneur—and manipulative in ways Fess can’t possibly anticipate. Beatrix sweeps Fess off her feet and into a surreal landscape that gets all too extremely public; all too extremely real.

Part musical, part illusion, part real-life drama, Extremely Public Displays of Privacy is a performance adventure in three acts. Experience and interact with the story the way it unfolds for the characters. Follow Act 1 wherever you are—at home, at work, in a coffee shop, on a train, anywhere you have internet access. Get to know Fess and Beatrix as they get to know each other.

Take the free walking tour of Act 2, Displays (p. 91) and discover the secret location of Act 3, Privacy (p. 91) in the Philly Fringe.

Ready to get lost in their story?

Log on to www.extremelypublicdisplays.com.

“We sleuth the world today with online investigatory tools. We live in a dataverse that is at our fingertips . . . we wanted to make a piece—not about the internet—but inside the internet.”

Whit MacLaughlin, director of Extremely Public Displays Of Privacy

Photo: Fess Elliot

“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

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Act 1, Extremely Public Under the artistic direction of Obie and Barrymore Award winner Whit MacLaughlin, New Paradise Laboratories creates experimental theater that values wild humor, striking visuals, and a fascination with the utopian impulse. Previous Live Arts shows include: FREEDOM CLUB (2010), FATEBOOK (2009), BATCH (2007).

Direction Whit MacLaughlin Created and Written by Jorge Cousineau, Annie Enneking, Brittany Freece, Larry Loebell, and Whit MacLaughlin Music and Lyrics Annie Enneking Dramaturg Larry Loebell Production, Video, and Sound Design Jorge Cousineau Costumes Rosemarie McKelvey Web Conception and Design Rick Banister and Johnny Benson Production Coordinator and Continuity Emily E. Rea Produced by New Paradise Laboratories Performers Fess Elliot, Beatrix Luff Appropriate for ages 16 and up.

Extremely Public Displays of Privacy has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the National Endowment for the Arts, the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Independence Foundation New Theatre Works Initiative, and the Wyncote Foundation.

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In short: log-in show, exposure 24/7, intimate strangers, online soul, cybermusical, TMI, custom for you.

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“I first began presenting danced lectures in 1980 and have been experimenting with alternative ways to deliver a lecture while dancing ever since.”

Susan Foster, dance lecturer

Susan Foster! Susan Foster!

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Kinesthetic Empathies & The Politics of Compassion A danced lecture performed

by Susan Foster Introduced by Linda Caruso-Haviland, director of dance, Bryn Mawr College Live Arts Studio 919 North 5th Street (at Poplar) Wheelchair accessible Free onsite parking Free / 90 minutes

Sept 11 at 4pm

Susan Foster performs her lectures. She hurls herself around the auditorium, climbing over seats, attacking the podium. All while dancing—whether on stage or in the audience—she explores the topic of the dancing body and the nature of movement, putting in front of the audience an example of the subject she lectures about. After all, how can you truly communicate about the nature of performance without performing?

Kinesthetic Empathies & The Politics of Compassion is a danced lecture that explores how and what people feel while they are watching dance. It looks at various theories about how dancing provokes physical feelings in its audience, arguing that there is no immediate or unmitigated connection between performers and viewers, but instead, that such a connection is culturally constructed and can be traced though historical events. Susan Foster’s insights into this relationship come from her engaging delivery of ideas through words and performance.

Dr. Susan Foster is a choreographer, dancer, and writer who began presenting concerts of her own work in 1977.

Her books include Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance (Routledge, 2010), and Choreography and Narrative (Indiana University Press, 1996).

This series of performative lectures

by Susan Foster is sponsored as a professional development activity by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.

2011 Rockys

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Presented

by Dance/UP

September 5 at 8pm Free / 90 minutes / 21+ Ruba Club Studios 416 Green Street (one block north of Spring Garden) Northern Liberties Hosted by Jaamil Kosoko + a super secret special surprise guest Presenters: Niki and Jorge Cousineau, Gabrielle Revlock, Corinne Karon, Charon Mapp, Janet Pilla, and Vince Johnson.

Photo: John Altdorfer

The Rocky Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in Greater Philadelphia’s dance community. Presented by the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe with support from Dance/USA Philadelphia (Dance/UP).

Dance/UP is a dance service organization providing advocacy, resources and collaborative opportunities to the Greater Philadelphia professional dance community. Dance/UP is a branch office of Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance.

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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 10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 4pm Sept 16 at 9:30pm Sept 17 at 8pm

Asteroid!

Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) The eclectic, nerdy-sexy cast of Philly’s best-dressed improv group will do more than impress you with their sartorial choices. Each Asteroid! performance promises the group’s signature high energy and pop-culture heavy comedy with guarantee of dysfunctional family values, an improvised death, and at least

Dangerous Fools Dangerous Fools

Carnivores Anonymous Public Eye: Artists for Animals Get vegucated at Carnivores Anonymous with celebrities sharing their vegan evolution.

Imagine a talk show with famous vegans performing their talents and fielding questions from the audience. Featured guests include anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, comedian Myq Kaplan, “chef to the stars” Kurt E. Smith, and a mystery performer! $15 / 90 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 16 at 8pm

Comedy House Party!

Rookie Card Rookie Card shrugs off conventional improv with their irreverent variety show. Join high society as the group takes to the art galleries of Philadelphia, or experience a secret house party that only you can attend! Surprises are in store as the boundaries of comedy are shoved aside by Rookie Card. $10 / 120 minutes Cha-Cha’razzi 1918 South Bancroft Street Sept 2 at 9pm Sept 16 at 9pm West Philadelphia Trinity For venue email rookiecardimprov@gmail.com Sept 9 at 8pm

“Better than any improv group I’ve seen.” (City Paper) A fool from L.A. . . . A fool from Philadelphia. . . . No script.

With nothing but a blank stage, a single suggestion, and two twisted minds, Thomas Fowler (IO West) and Mary Carpenter (ComedySportz) take you on an improvised ride that is hilarious, unique, and dangerously unpredictable. $12 / 60 minutes The Shubin Theatre 407 Bainbridge Street Sept 10 at 9:30pm Sept 11 at 7pm Sept 12 at 8pm Sept 13, 14 + 15 at 7pm

Dark Comedy Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) Chicago’s famous improv format, “The Bat,” makes for a show unlike any that Philly Fringe audiences have witnessed before: a spontaneously created comedy performed in pitch blackness.

Come see Philly’s top improvisers do it in the dark. $15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 1 at 10pm Sept 3 at 11:30pm Sept 4 at 3pm Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 10pm Sept 10 at 11:30pm

Fletcher Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) Fletcher features the freshest and most talented improvisers to hit Philadelphia since Rare Bird Show. Last year’s Philly Fringe performances were described as “dark comedy” by City Paper, who also warned:

“You’ll be laughing too hard to realize how wrong it all is, until you leave the theater.” $15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 at 8:30pm Sept 4 at 7pm Sept 12 at 8:30pm Sept 15 at 7pm Sept 17 at 5pm

Fresh Laughs Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) PHIT’s House Teams are the cornerstone of Philly’s improv scene. Mixing amazing storytelling, quick wits, hilarious chaos, and a dash of audience participation, the two elite casts of PHIT’s new ensembles create shows that are never before seen and will never be seen again at every performance.

Truth! Comedy! Laughs! $15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 at 7pm Sept 3 at 10pm Sept 8 at 8:30pm Sept 11 at 5pm Sept 17 at 7pm Dan Plehal Photography

PHIT House Team King Friday (Chicago Improv Festival, Del Close Marathon in New York City) delivers back-toback-to-back improv sets that blend to create a single, hilarious, one-of-a-kind show based on a song lyric suggested by you! A hit at the 2009 Philly Fringe, this year’s remount will be a coveted ticket. $15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 1 at 7pm Sept 4 at 5pm Sept 7 at 10pm Sept 11 at 8:30pm Sept 17 at 10pm

Thomas Fowler

3 Mad Rituals Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

one terrible celebrity impression. $15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 + 4 at 8:30pm Sept 10 at 5pm Sept 13 + 14 at 8:30pm

Z. Schulz

Friends of Fletcher Dark Comedy Comedy House Carniverous Anonymous Angry People 3 Mad

Philly Fringe

Comedy + Improv

Angry People Building Things Angry People Building Things

Asteroid

Comedy + Improv

Dangerous Fools

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Friends of Alcatraz Philly Improv Theatre (PHIT) Alcatraz, the most desirable cat in the world, is putting on a night of comedy with his fleece-faced puppet friends— and you’re invited! Featuring innovative staging that lets the audience watch the show on stage or on screen, this production is the first fully improvised puppet show ever seen in Philadelphia. $20 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 + 7 at 8:30pm Sept 11 at 3pm Sept 15 at 10pm Sept 16 at 7pm Sept 17 at 8:30pm

Keila Cordova creates a coming-of-age fable inspired by Manifest Destiny, comfortable furniture, and the migration of birds. With dance, words, and song, the company invites audience members into a world inhabited by fragments of the ordinary, the improbable, the unloved, and the familiar. $15 / 60 minutes Conwell Dance Theater Temple University 1801 North Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 16 at 9pm Sept 17 at 2pm + 8pm

Comedy + Improv / DANCE

A Vegan Voltron

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Agnes Falling

Agnes Falling Keila Cordova Dances

Philly Fringe

Polygon’s performances surprise everyone—even the players. Each show grows organically, instantly from a quick, innocent audience interview. Characters climb out of history and fantasy and gallop into their audiences’ own fears. Confusingly funny, some shows are dark, others musical. Forgotten “loose ends” can be rejoined, tickling a sinister suspicion of script. $15 / 90 minutes O’Neals Pub 611 South 3rd Street Sept 2 + 3 at 8pm Sept 8–10, 16 + 17 at 9pm

The N

Voltron Polygon Improv Comedy

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Dances from Philly and New York, appropriate for all ages.

Miss this show and you’ll cry. $18 / 75 minutes Mascher Space Co-op 155 Cecil B Moore Avenue Sept 9 at 10pm Sept 10 at 2pm Sept 11 at 7pm

The Real

mostly practical people spark and tumble. an awkward puzzle solved.

RISK

RISK! is an audio podcast and live stage show where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to tell in public! RISK! features some of the brightest actors, writers, and comedians around, and these live tapings will be no different: with Philly storytellers and special guests from NYC! $20 / 75 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 10 at 8pm + 10pm

The WaitStaff, “Philadelphia’s hottest sketch comedy troupe” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), plunges into the Philly Fringe once again! Domenick Scudera directs this brand new sketch show featuring audience favorites, The Real Housewives of South Philly. This intrepid crew of comedians has been playing to sold-out houses since 2003. $15 / 60 minutes L’Etage Cabaret 624 South 6th Street Sept 2 at 7pm Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 9 at 7pm Sept 11 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 13 + 14 at 8pm Sept 16 at 7pm Sept 18 at 6pm

A Vegan Kid’s Dance For Adults With Nudity Green Chair Dance Group

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RISK! True Tales Boldly Told Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark!

The WaitStaff

Cara Schmidt

A sport-stravagant celebration of the larger-than-life spectacle that is professional wrestling (with only some of the wrestling). Philly’s top comedic performers pay homage to the flashy trash talking promos, slick video packages, and bitter rivalries of the squared circle.

WARNING: Our performers may break your chair over each other’s heads. $10 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2, 9 + 16 at 11:30pm

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

They promise you won’t legally have this much fun in eighty minutes for $15. $15 / 80 minutes The Actors Center 257 North 3rd Street Sept 2, 9 + 16 at 8pm + 10pm

Kyle Warren

PRO-MANIA! Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

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Mayor Karen

Each completely improvised performance of twenty-four unfolds in real time, a twenty-four minute window on the realistic relationship dynamics of six individuals. A stripped-down tour-de-force focusing on characters, their intentions, and their interactions—with a cast of improv veterans—twenty-four is funny, moving, theatrical, and not to be missed! $15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 1 at 8:30pm Sept 3 at 7pm Sept 9 at 10pm Sept 10 + 13 at 7pm Sept 16 at 8:30pm

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John Altdorfer

PHIT House Team Mayor Karen (Official Selection: Chicago Improv Festival) bring their unique mix of serious acting and comedic improvising experience to the stage as “Mayor” of anything suggested by their audience. The only show that will keep a campaign promise: Mayor Karen will make you laugh! $15 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 7pm Sept 9 at 8:30pm Sept 11 + 12 at 7pm Sept 14 at 10pm

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J. Makary

twenty-four Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) Erin Pitts

Mayor Karen Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)

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El Proceso Doris Says

DANCE

Witness Pasion y Arte’s raw and informal performance of its first commissioned work by the innovative, world-renowned Flamenco artist, Rosario Toledo. This laboratory style offering gives an intimate peek into this experimental phase as it evolves, before the world premier at the March 2012 First Philadelphia Flamenco Festival. $20 / 45 minutes The Maas Building 1325 North Randolph Street Sept 16 at 9pm Sept 17 at 7pm + 9pm

Daydreams

The Call Me Crazy Dancers combine ballet, jazz, modern, and tap to take you on a dancing journey through time, remembering the kids we were, the adults we became, and the dreams we’re still chasing. The ensemble features Kicks Academy of Dance and Institute of Dance Artistry. $15 / 80 minutes Conwell Dance Theater, Temple University 1801 North Broad Street Wheelchair Accessible Sept 9 at 9pm Sept 10 at 2pm + 8pm

Doris Says . . .

A. Sigley, J. Warchal-King, and M. T. Roberts Rules. Rules? Rules! Join Angela R. Sigley, Jessica C. WarchalKing, and Michael T. Roberts as they bend them, break them, and

Philly Fringe

Dancing Dead is the latest dance-theater work from Festival-blockbuster Brian Sanders’ JUNK. Last year’s Sanctuary was described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as “nonstop, exhilarating, wondering-what’s-next action.” This year, Sanders goes underground. Expect

Bodies of

Dancing Dead Brian Sanders’ JUNK

Awakened Ruins

Michael T. Roberts

Bodies of Text is rooted in the idea of Art à la Rue, bringing art to the street in West Philadelphia. Stone Depot Dance Lab and Melissa Diane interpret artist books by Center for the Book artists in collaborative outdoor dance performances. Performances are accompanied by exhibits of artist books.

Free / 45 minutes Clark Park 43rd Street and Baltimore Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 at 4pm + 7pm

Daydreams Call Me Crazy Dancers

Dancefusion to

Bodies of Text III Stone Depot Dance Lab & Melissa Diane

El Proceso / The Process Pasion y Arte Flamenco Co.

Dancing Dead

Featuring the reconstruction of Mary Anthony’s 1956 masterpiece, Threnody. Based on the play Riders to the Sea

by J.M. Synge, set to music by Benjamin Britten, Threnody depicts the struggles of a mother and the loss of her sons to the sea. The program will include works by Daniel Maloney and company members. $25 / 90 minutes Mandell Theater Drexel University 3300 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 2pm + 8pm

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make some of their own in an evening of chaos, confrontation, and creation. Doris Says . . . is a performance challenging classical and contemporary notions of concert dance. $16 / 73 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 1 + 2 at 8pm

Sebastien Derenoncourt

Dancefusion …… to Mary Anthony Dancefusion

Kara Curtis

There is often more beauty in the corroded than the complete. This evening-length site-specific dance installation explores the beauty, decay, and permanence of the forgotten and antiquated architectural forms that once existed.

Accompanied by live violin and piano, five dancers embody the traces of life that remain within these “fallen” forms. $20 / 45 minutes Founder’s Hall at Girard College 2101 South College Avenue Sept 10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 5pm Sept 17 at 5pm + 8pm

Randl Bye

Craig Harris

Awakened Ruins LawrenceHerchenroether Dance Company

a tractor, bodies, grass, dirt, digging, stone, grit, ash, John Denver, ten dead, darkness, candlelight, dancing . . . $25 / 50 minutes Sub-Basement at 444 Lofts 444 North 4th Street Sept 2 at 9pm Sept 3 at 4pm + 9pm Sept 4 at 7pm Sept 8 at 8pm Sept 9 at 9pm Sept 10 at 4pm + 9pm Sept 11 at 7pm Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 9pm Sept 17 at 4pm + 9pm

Illustrating Truths COME UNITY Incredibly talented regional artists paint, photograph, and sketch their illustrations on ten truths that COME UNITY seeks to change. Did you know that

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Inescapable Foreboding In due Illustrating Truths He Was

Inescapable Foreboding Infatuation Dance Company Emanating from our obsessions that torment— but get us through our day— Inescapable Foreboding creates images through highly stylized choreography and vibrant athleticism. Enriched with thoughts one’s subconscious typically avoids, the premier of Infatuation’s series of works brings us to the simple awareness of the desires we crave as humans. $10 / 90 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 + 3 at 7:30pm

DANCE

Fun Thing

Grab Bag

Luke Haggerty

A series of effervescent movement exploring the human frustration and joy of waiting, practicing, waiting, participating, routine, waiting, failing, waiting, achieving, waiting, and arriving to what was supposed to be. . . .

A work-in-progress comes to life before your very eyes. $18 / 45 minutes Meeting House Theater at the Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue Sept 16 + 17 at 7:30pm

Philly Fringe

Grab Bag Lora Allen, Ellie Goudie-Averill, Christina Gesualdi, David Konyk, Gina Hoch-Stall, and Annie Wilson

In due time . . .

KAOS Dance Company

Feelin’ Alright

1900. Two rival chemists accidentally invent a cure for hope. The twentieth century ensues. Fun Thing is a play for one person at a time by local games and theory enthusiast Sam Henderson and his ilk. $10 / 28 minutes The Machine Shop 2037 Washington Avenue Sept 3, 8–10 + 15 at midnight

pillardance’s love letter to all fans of epic music: five facemelting, ear-ringing tracks that kick ass in their purest forms, from the psychedelic rock of Pink Floyd to the arena rock of Queen. Prefer your dancers in leather jackets instead of tutus?

This is the show for you. $10 / 30 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 + 15 at 9pm

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EXPOSED

Project Moshen makes their debut in the Philly Fringe with EXPOSED. Two nights of original, high energy, captivating dances will be performed by coEXISTdance, Project Moshen, and other Philadelphia-based dance companies. These companies will be performing jazz, hip-hop, and modern pieces.

Be prepared to have a night of fun, entertainment, and variety. $10 / 60 minutes Old First Reformed United Church of Christ 151 North 4th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 + 9 at 7pm

Fun Thing Bad Operator

He Was Either Well and Over It, or Lost and Gone Forever. pillardance company

dirty water kills more people each year than all forms of violence? Featured artists are superb choreographers and dancers from Philadanco, Lustigdancetheatre, 180 Dance, and more. www.comeunitynow.org. $20 / 80 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 at 6pm

eMerge— The

Exposed Project Moshen

BalletFleming returns to the Painted Bride after its sold-out premiere, Tapas, in February.

For two nights only, the company will debut awardwinning choreographer Christopher Fleming’s Long Train Running, set to music by Philly’s own Time for Three.

The company will close out its program with the hugely popular rock-and-roll ballet, Janis and Joe. $25 / 120 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 14 + 15 at 7pm

Max Strand

Holly Max

Join Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble as we preview our sixth season, eMerge.

Featuring choreography by Hollie Wright, Bill Thomas, and a special performance by our apprentice company Nia-Next.

The evening will include a talkback with the artistic director, choreographers, dancers, and a post-preview reception. $15 / 70 minutes The Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre, 3rd Floor 1714 Delancey Place Sept 16 at 8:30pm

Matthew Wright

Feelin’ Alright BalletFleming

Ajja DeShayne

Brian Mengini

Alexander Iziliaev

eMerge—The Preview Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble

Lora Allen, Ellie Goudie-Averill, Christina Gesualdi, David Konyk, Gina Hoch-Stall, and Annie Wilson dive into thefidget space for four nights of honest miscellanea. Projecting sneak peeks, roof top beauty, a present-time collage, take your pick. Grab Bag is presenting a uniquely different line-up each and every night. $15 / 60 minutes thefidget space 1714 North Mascher Street Sept 2 at 7pm Sept 3 at 6pm Sept 4 at 4pm Sept 5 at 8pm

Plentiful Fresh Blood InMovement Jennifer Morley Plentiful is a family-fun feast of dance, music, treats, and

Re/live/fe

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Carrie Brzezinski Walsh

Plentiful Philly Phantasy ONE WORD

Pattern Recognition

Philly Fringe

Eight dancers, eight choreographers, ONE WORD. Within our own thoughts, spoken or written, words have the power to transform the world we live in. Love, laughter, heroism, friendship, and virtually every emotion we feel as human beings can be inspired by words.

Unfortunately, fear, anger, and hatred can also be invoked. $15 / 60 minutes The Maas Building 1325 Randolph Street Sept 10 at 2pm + 7:30pm

Join Guy and his friends as he fights to save the world and defeat the darkness in his heart.

Set as a tribute to the popular video game series Final Fantasy, Philly Phantasy follows the journey of seven dynamic characters as they get hooked in this epic tango of destiny. $12 / 45 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 3:30pm + 8pm

Re/live/fe, a new work by Carrie Brzezinski Walsh, MFA, is a comprehensive representation of the human life cycle, physiologically and socially.

Re/live/fe embodies our humble cellular beginnings, reliant humble endings, and the need for other humans for emotional and spiritual nourishment. $15 / 55 minutes Hip Philly at the Piazza at Schmidt’s 1050 North Hancock Street, Suite 79 Wheelchair Accessible Sept 17 at 8pm

One Space

ONE WORD MM2 Modern Dance Company

Philly Phantasy RenZoku Danceworks

One City

Disco, funk, psychedelic rock . . . can you dig it? Hustle on down to the pink side of the moon for peace, love, and soul flashback. Grab your bellbottoms, fluff yo’ ‘fro, and strut to 1970s stellar tunes with the far out Pink Hair Affair. Be there or be square. $15 / 90 minutes MacGuffin Theatre & Film Company at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 15–17 at 8pm

Re/live/fe Venus Dance Company

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Japan House

One City Under a Groove Pink Hair Affair

Lauren Williams

Join us for an evening of thoughtful, expressive, and bold dance by these four emerging artists. One Space, Three Dances will immerse you into distinct choreographic worlds with contrasting approaches to occupying one space while investigating themes of fear, rules, and boundaries. Please visit www.onespacethreedances. com to learn more. $10 / 65 minutes Mascher Space Co-op 155 Cecil B Moore Avenue Sept 2 at 8pm Sept 3 at 5pm + 7pm

Experience modern dance, live music and art in an intimate setting with Vada Dance’s Pattern Recognition.

In their fourth Philly Fringe event at Studio 34, artistic directors Rebecca Moyer and Katie Kasari feature new works, and collaborate with talented local artists, to present an engaging and eclectic afternoon of dance. $15 / 100 minutes Studio 34 4522 Baltimore Avenue Sept 11 at 3pm

revelry by choreographers Sara Trindade, Jennifer Morley, Jennifer Schmermund, and KC Chun-Manning. Serving up a sugar-smacked bounty of highflying athleticism and fare, we offer this multidisciplinary collision of food, art-making, and honoring the plenty. $12 / 60 minutes InMovement Studio 500 Kenilworth Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 10 at 2pm + 7pm

Jennifer Morley

One Space, Three Dances Marion Ramirez, Jung Woong Kim, Katherine Kiefer Stark, Justin Tornow

Steven Weisz

Bill Herbert

Leah Stein Dance Company takes you on a dance journey through the 17th century Shofuso Japanese House and Garden in Fairmount Park.

Follow American and Japanese dancers as they incorporate the site and its Senju paintings into choreography, expressing cultural synergies through movement and sound. $20 / 60 minutes Shofuso Japanese House and Garden West Fairmount Park 4301 Lansdowne Drive Sept 7–9 at 6pm Sept 10 at 4pm + 6pm Sept 11 at 2pm

Justin Tornow

Michael Bartmann

Japan House/ Philadelphia Leah Stein Dance Company

Pattern Recognition Vada Dance Collective

topos topio brings together over a dozen distinctive women artists for four days of live performance curated by Donna Faye Burchfield. Complete artist listing and description of works available online. $10 / 90 minutes Dance Theater at the Drake at The University of the Arts 1512 Spruce Street Wheelchair Accessible Sept 2, 3, 16 + 17 at 8pm

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Waterways Underneath the topos topio Too Darn

DANCE

Water inspires this evening of dance. Three choreographers examine water’s physical and intuitive qualities in works that integrate movement with text, music, and visual media. Exploring reflection and refraction, aquatic life forms, nautical vessels, stages of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff, water’s myriad expressions are rendered through movement. $10 / 80 minutes thefidget space 1714 North Mascher Street Sept 15 + 17 at 8pm

Philly Fringe

topos topio Donna Faye Burchfield

To by

How can we measure the value of a view, a moment, or a thought? How can movement portray the depth of human relationships and the mass of life events? How do altered amounts of space change us? $10 / 90 minutes Moonstone Arts Center 110A South 13th Street Sept 10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 2pm

Waterways Salena Braun, Claire Lutz, and Katherine Paulson

The Parts

To by 5 coEXISTdance

Sam Nagel

Brian Mengini

Christopher Wise

It’s ladies night! Tap is back and better than ever when some of Philly’s finest female tap dancers hit the floor. Join us for an evening of live jazz and fierce footwork. Just don’t say we didn’t warn you: these rhythms may be Too Darn Hot to handle. www.tapintothefringe. wordpress.com $18 / 90 minutes Bistro Romano 120 Lombard Street Sept 8 at 5:30pm + 8pm

Michael Susten’s Xhale Dance Company is back for its fourth Philly Fringe. His latest work Underneath the Surface shows the different paths one may choose while exploring the things that affect the directions in which we move. The show will also feature talented musicians from around the city. $20 / 60 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 12 at 8pm

That’s what

Choreographers Danielle Greene, Megan Mizanty, Rori Smith, Meredith Steinberg and Becca Weber present a collection of diverse original dance works investigating the spontaneous, visceral, brainy, quirky, thoughtful nature of movement. That’s what she said. That’s what she danced. $10 / 90 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 11 at 4pm + 7pm

Too Darn Hot The Lady Hoofer’s Society

Underneath the Surface Xhale Dance Company

Revolving Spaces

That’s what she danced.

Megan Mizanty, Becca Weber, Meredith Steinberg, Danielle Greene, and Rori Smith

Group Motion presents The Parts and the Whole featuring guest artists Laina Fischbeck (Rennes, France) in Licht Motiv Koncept, Aura Fischbeck (San Francisco) in Bodies That Won’t Behave, and Group Motion Company’s new work Whole. $15 / 70 minutes Meeting House Theater at the Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue Sept 10 + 11 at 8pm

Dick Costa

Bill Hebert

Beginning in South Philadelphia’s Bardascino Park, Revolving Spaces uses dance and music to reflect the neighborhood bocce ball court and park’s role in the community. Inspired by history and cultural trends, the piece travels through side streets and ends in the Italian Market.

Move with us and wear comfortable shoes! $12 / 45 minutes Bardascino Park 10th + Carpenter Streets Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 at 6:30pm + 7:30pm Sept 10 + 11 at 5:30pm, 6:30pm + 7:30pm

The Parts and the Whole Group Motion Dance Company

Seth Easter

Revolving Spaces Colleen Hooper and Frances Gremillion

Molly Jackson

Shailer Kern-Carruth

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We brew. We blend. We create. We erase. BodyFields continues their collaborative work with music holding the hand of dance while remaining fused with visual arts. BodyFields displays a distillation of their shared experiences to create a bliss that giggles and grins with exploration.

Brewed beverages on hand. www.bodyfieldscollective.com By donation / 60 minutes The Maas Building 1325 Randolph Street Sept 2 at 9pm Sept 3 at 6pm + 9pm

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DANCe / HAPPENINGS / INTERDISCIPLINARY

AFOOT! On White Light

BREW BodyFields Performance Collective

Whiskey & Elephants

Seventeen interviews, two elephants, some dancers, and some whiskey. Combining film and movement, The Maeko Film Project presents a surreal journey through the darker crevices of the self, putting into light the illusions we create and dwell in.

What are these silly lies we’ve been told and tell ourselves? $12 / 75 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 5pm + 7pm Sept 5 + 6 at 7pm

Where We

Whiskey & Elephants The Maeko Film Project

Have you ever wanted to participate in Philly Fringe?

Now is your chance! Burning Sphere is organizing a Dance Flash Mob Performance in Rittenhouse Square and is looking for as many participants as we can gather! Join us on YouTube and Facebook to learn more!

Free / 5 minutes Locust Street + West Rittenhouse Square Sept 10 at 2pm

Shailer Kern-Carruth

Elli Morris

Rittenhouse Dance Mob Burning Sphere

Philly Fringe

Trapeze, tree branches, aerial silks, a jar of fireflies, a basket of laundry. In a circus-theater style, Tangle explores the extraordinary meaning of ordinary objects.

Come travel the heights and depths of an urban dreamscape in this journey through acrobatic dance, music, spoken word, and aerial spectacle! $15 / 90 minutes Philadelphia Soundstages 1600 North 5th Street Sept 8 at 7:30pm Sept 9 at 6:30pm + 9pm

BREW

Ampersand Tangle

Ampersand

The Brothers Cromie bring their hit Philly Fringe treasure hunt AFOOT! to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. With only a map and your wits, you and your team of 4-6 people must unlock the clues that will guide you along the beautiful and historic museum mile. If you can think on your feet, you just might win one of our many cool prizes! $15 / 75 minutes Philadelphia Museum of Art, east staircase (outside) 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway Sept 10 from 1pm–3pm A new show begins every 10 minutes

Madeline Smith & Lea Deutsch

AFOOT! On the Parkway The Brothers Cromie

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Rittenhouse Dance

Within each blink of time, one lies idle while another lies in despair. Yet our heartbreaking human experiences collide in the blaring silence of movement. We dance—speechless, breathless, and humbled by the realization that our own sorrows and joys are indeed the sorrows and joys of us all. $10 / 90 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 + 10 at 8pm

From the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) emerges a rare expression of the “dance of darkness.” White Light, a solo Butoh performance, explores the threshold between “being” and “non-being” and examines intentionality, consciousness, ritual, bodies in motion, and impermanence.

Audiences can expect an experience unlike anything they’ve experienced before. $8 / 35 minutes 954 Dance Movement Collective 954 North 8th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 + 3 at 8pm + 9:30pm Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 16 + 17 at 8pm + 9:30pm

Benjamin Cromie

Chris Magorian Scott Lam

Where We Collide Out On A Limb Movement Collective

White Light Joseph Thomas

HappeningS Interdisciplinary

How do we absorb and understand the information that surrounds us? Through dance, music, and sounds, Eurydice explores the story of her love, life, and death. Wondering how she ended up dead— twice—she asks how she could have misinterpreted the world around her, and grows toward selfhood.

Fess is enthralled with Beatrix, a mysterious personality she meets online. Swept up in Bea’s force, Fess begins to question who Beatrix really is and just how public she wants to be.

Enter her extremely private performance. For inside information: ExtremelyPublicDisplays.com/ Info. (See page 68 to discover Act 1, Extremely Public.)

Five Minute Follies Five Minute Follies The golden age of variety is back. Five Minute Follies is a fast-paced variety extravaganza in the Ed Sullivan tradition, featuring dancers, singers, comics, magicians, and more.

Acts include belly dancer Fatima Bassmah, wacky singing duo Lords of Liechtenstein,

Laura’s Dance Kabbalah the Five Minutes Female Trouble Extremely Act 3

One of the many places Laura took her free-form dance was to a rest stop along the Atlantic City Expressway. Using poetry, sign language, music, and movement, Wilson weaves his own spiritual journey with that of this young Philadelphia Quaker woman, who, like Isadora Duncan, made the world her dance floor. $15 / 80 minutes Old First Reformed Church of Christ 151 North 4th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 17 at 7:30pm

Extremely Act 2

Fess Elliot

Eurydice in Market East Tactus Theatre Project

Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 3, Privacy New Paradise Laboratories

Laura’s Dance Rocky Wilson

Eurydice in

Over 176,000,000 women suffer physical and psychological pain from endometriosis. Ever heard of it? Ignorance prevents progress. Through theater and dance, Female Trouble powerfully delves into the taboos and conditioned thinking that have deprived this women’s reproductive health issue of the attention it deserves.

Knowledge is power—come be informed! $14 / 90 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair Accessible Sept 10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 2pm

Tammy McGinley

A performance adventure in three acts. Fess and Beatrix meet online. Beatrix sweeps Fess off her feet into a surreal game of escalating public dares. Access your own personal walking tour of Fess’s extremely public displays at ExtremelyPublic Displays.com/info. Download the podcast to your own device or reserve a preloaded iPod by calling 215-923-0334.

(See page 68 to discover Act 1, Extremely Public.)

Free / 45 minutes Tour starts at northwest corner of Rittenhouse Square Park (corner of Walnut Street + West Rittenhouse Square) Sept 9–Oct 2 (best viewed after 5pm)

Aras Azuolas

Experience deep-trance phenomena inside a traveling planetarium. Lights, poetry, hypnosis, ambiguous imagery, simulated motion, interlocking language patterns, and wordplay guide us through fantastic visions, automatic movements, spontaneous catalepsy, levitation, intense multisensory hallucinations, mystical ecstasy, optional multiple orgasms, and more. Focus, imagination, mood, flow—all are enhanced after every time. Some medical restrictions. $10 / 63.1415342 minutes Refer to Festival website for venue Sept 4–18 at 8pm

Female Trouble Cathy Quigley

Gabriel Bienczycki

Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium XZXZXZXZX.Z@Every Any Only Mo’RR &e*

Deep Trance

Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 2, Displays New Paradise Laboratories

Enter the world of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition.

Explore the legends of Shechinah and the Feminine Divine of the Kabbalistic system through interactive story, song, and meditation.

Rabbi Rayzel Raphael will bring alive the Shechinah Oracle Cards to illuminate the next steps of your journey. Know the Infinite Unknown! $18 / 120 minutes The Elkins Estate 1750 Ashbourne Road, Elkins Park Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 + 9 at 7:30pm Sept 11 at 2pm Sept 13 + 17 at 7:30pm

Lawrence Burke

Fess Elliot

Kabbalah the Musical Rabbi Rayzel Raphael

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and gangster/illusionist “Big Daddy Cool.” No act longer than five minutes! $10 / 90 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 at 8:30pm

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$15 / 75 minutes Meet at 17th + Sansom Streets Sept 14 + 15 at 9pm (previews) Sept 16 at 9pm (opening) Sept 17 at 7pm + 9pm Runs through Oct 2, for additional shows and information call 215-923-0334

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$10 / 60 minutes Vox Populi Performance Venue 319 North 11th Street Sept 3 at 7:30pm Sept 4 at 4pm + 7pm

Cold fingers reach beyond the grave. Woman and a ghostly double battle for the love of the same man.

Based on Georges Rodenbach’s stage adaptation of his 1892 novella Bruges-la-Morte.

Re-imagined as a rock opera.

This time, the dead city is Philadelphia. Featuring music by Sylvia Platypus. $10 / 60 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 at 8pm Sept 12 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 15 at 8pm + 10pm

Let Me Tell You About a Dream I Had The Miss Rockaway Armada In collaboration with Spiral Q Puppet Theater, the nationally recognized artist collective The Miss Rockaway Armada will parade from Broad and Pine Streets to Clark Park followed by live music, a puppet show, and theatrical performances.

Organized by the Philadelphia Art Alliance on Saturday, September 3rd.

Free / 120 minutes Clark Park 43rd Street + Baltimore Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 at 6pm

One Peace at a Time Live Your Peace and Central Free Library

Central Library (panel discussion/book signing) 1901 Vine Street Sept 14 at 3pm + 7pm

Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . .

Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . .

White Box Theatre/ Sebastienne Mundheim Dance puppetry, music, storytelling. . . . Glimpse

Anne Daley

Paris through the eyes of Henri Rousseau. The Ready-Maids parade the Champs Elysees.

Zoo animals float out of cages into a pink-leafed garden, past footsteps of soldiers.

Performed to sold-out audiences at the Kimmel Center in April, 2011—back by popular demand. Appropriate for all ages/languages. $15 / 35 minutes Crane Old School, White Space 1417 North 2nd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 10 at 11am, 1:30pm + 4pm Sept 11 at 1:30pm, 4pm + 7pm Sept 13–15 at 7pm Sept 17 + 18 at 11am, 1:30pm + 4pm

Use your videophone/flipcam to participate in a daily movie project with award winning artists, poets, authors, teachers, musicians, entrepreneurs . . . who answered this question: “What if you had sixty seconds to communicate your a message of peace, passion, and prosperity on the global stage?” using art, poetry, silence, dance, music . . .

Free / 90 minutes LiveYourPeace.com (daily mp3 downloads/discussions) Sept 2–17 at 10am

Sebastienne Mundheim/Amber Martin

Le Mirage/ Dead City Philly DysFUNctional Theater

Jason Wood

Ginger Bedlam

The Art Shaky Shaky Poetic Passageways Paris Wheels Le Mirage

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Let Me

One Peace

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QARNIVALE of

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QARNIVALE of the PEOPLE Spiral Q Puppet Theater The festival within the festival, a celebration of culture and creativity. Theater in the raw, in the round, giant puppets abound! Come one, come all. An open call to watch or walk with giants through an afternoon of agitprop, puppet pageants, and popcorn (of course). For a detailed schedule and rain dates, see www.spiralq.org.

Free / Ongoing Outdoor lot next to Broad Street Ministry 315 South Broad Street Sept 3 +10 from 2pm–6pm

Shaky Shaky Planet The Shaky Shaky Players

Poetic Passageways Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, Olive Prince Dance, Rit Mo Collective Wildly interpretive dance (Olive Prince Dance) and experimental musical compositions (Rit Mo Collective) inspired by surrealist writings and dada artworks transform PMG’s tunnels and tiled hallways into thrilling, site-specific performances.

Audiences wander through intimate performance stations, interacting with the space and the wondrous movements and sounds. $20 / 75 minutes Philadelphia’s Magic Garden 1020 South Street Sept 8 + 9 at 6pm + 8pm

1950s sci-fi meets telenovela meets seafood restaurant!

The Shaky Shaky Players of PDDC’s Cultural Arts Center in collaboration with Emily Schumacher take you to Jupiter Venus, where blob-men, robots, and goblins break into song for no reason and the bad guys sometimes poison your Alaskan crab legs with Potion #52. $15 / 45 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 7pm

The Art Anti-Gallery!

HomeSkooled Gallery HomeSkooled encourages you to break some rules and even some art. As a nomadic art space, HomeSkooled rejects the idea that galleries should be boring, judgmental, and hands-off. Our installation allows you to experience the opposite—alter the work, talk loudly, even admit if you don’t like the art . . . $5 / Ongoing PhilaMOCA 531 North 12th Street Sept 15 + 16 from 6.30pm–10:30pm

Amrita Yoga, Fishtown 1204 Frankford Avenue Sept 17 at 7pm

Get your daily dose of opera!

7 operas in 7 days . . .

Sept 4: Mozart’s The Impresario Sept 5: Vaughan Williams’ Riders to the Sea Sept 6: Menotti’s The Telephone Sept 7: Holst’s S āvitri Sept 8: Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief Sept 9: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas Sept 10: Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti All shows at 8pm $15 / 60 minutes Trinity Memorial Church 2212 Spruce Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4–10 at 8pm

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INTERDISCIPLINARY / MUSIC

An Opera The Green

An Opera a Day Poor Richards Opera

Philly Fringe

Philly Power Yoga, Rittenhouse 2016 Walnut Street Sept 11 at 6pm Sept 16 at 8pm

Afrikaner The Undead

Yoga Stories Rose Ping Productions Grab a mat and find a space on the floor to participate in this interactive theater piece. Six heart-opening yoga stories will be revealed as you experience a gentle yoga class. Visit www.YogaStoriesYogaClass.com for more information about this unique production. $10 / 60 minutes Dhyana Yoga, Old City 68 North 2nd Street Sept 9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 2pm

Yoga Stories We the

Delicious melody lines, captivating poetry, contagious rhythms. These words describe ZIYA’s music. This original South African artist takes her audience on a journey . . . an aural fest of mood and texture in an unusual blend of styles. This producersinger-songwriter resonates unique sounds, incorporating Afrikaans and African elements from her continent.

Free / 60 minutes World Café Live 3025 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 at 8pm

The Estate

Part real estate office, part urban history museum, part covert agency for community change, The Estate of Real reveals “ins” and “outs” of city neighborhoods. Join agents D. Zaster and Amelia Rayshon for a wild and witty performance exploring Philadelphia through surprising oral history, found objects, and new media installation.

Free / 45 minutes COSACOSA art at large, Inc. 4427 Main Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 10 at 1pm, 4pm + 7pm

The Undead Zacherle In the wake of last year’s experiment in gothic horror, Zacherle rises again to stitch together an exquisite corpse of drama, music, and more out of the fevered dreams of some of Philadelphia’s most tortured artists. This year’s undertaking is resurrected for mature audiences only. $15 / 105 minutes The Playground at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 + 9 at 9:30pm Sept 10 at 2pm Sept 12 + 13 at 7pm Sept 15 at 9:30pm Sept 16 at 10:15pm Sept 17 at 2pm

Afrikaner ZIYA

Elise Luce Kraemer

Sharnae Mask

The Estate of Real: Changing Philadelphia Neighborhoods COSACOSA art at large, Inc.

Hannes Viljoen

Traveling through Washington Square Park where hundreds of Revolutionary War soldiers rest, our dance reflects on political polarization and the struggle for democratic ideals. Game-like improvisation moves between conflict and cooperation, making creative use of the terrain and including some optional audience participation. It’s free, like the people (donations welcome). $5 (suggested) / 20 minutes Washington Square South Washington Square at 7th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 + 5 at 2pm, 2:30pm + 3pm

The Dressing

Look up! Philadelphia School of Circus Arts presents a dazzling flight back to 1900s Paris with The Green Fairy Cabaret. Fly with the Green Fairy as she presents aerial and acrobatic feats, plus comedy, juggling, and spectacular physical skills. Daytime performances are familyfriendly. Nighttime shows have special rewards. $20 / 60 minutes Philadelphia School of Circus Arts 5900A Greene Street Sept 8 + 9 at 8pm Sept 10 at noon + 9pm

We the People Lacy James/Mereminne Dancers

Iva Bezjak

The Dressing Room is where we reveal ourselves, where we put on the new us and reinvent ourselves. Now, Green Light Arts slips into the rituals and customs performed only in The Dressing Room. Join us for the fun, the excitement, and the freedom found only in The Dressing Room. $15 / 75 minutes Plastic Club 247 South Camac Street Sept 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14 + 17 at 7pm

The Green Fairy Cabaret Philadelphia School of Circus Arts

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Erin Lauer

The Dressing Room Green Light Arts

Bill Hebert

Roman Paik

Jacques-Jean Tiziou

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The Articulate

MUSIC / SPOKEN WORD

Voice of Susannah, An

Be read to. Be amused. Be aroused. Beware. Be beguiled as a young woman considers becoming a book, an aviary considers a coup, and the sky considers the difficulty of raining on a dog. This staged reading includes seductive stories woven with earthy illustrations and roots-noir music from Sweetbriar Rose. $12 / 90 minutes The Fire 412 West Girard Avenue Sept 3 at 3pm Sept 10 at 3pm + 6:30pm

Slaying the

The Articulate Landscape Heather Shayne Blakeslee & Sweetbriar Rose

XFS Philly

Julie Melton

Dese’Rae Stage

CCOT presents a musicworkshop of a new opera Slaying the Dragon. Music by Michael Ching; libretto by Ellen Frankel. Based on Not By the Sword by Katheryn Watterson.

Inspired by the real events of the Nebraska Grand Dragon who turned his back on bigotry after the local rabbi reaches out to him. Refer to Festival website for additional info.

Kanye West claims to be the “Voice of this Generation.”

We beg to differ. While older classical music institutions are going bust, six young Philadelphia composers are reinventing the concert experience with fresh new songs hot off the presses.

Come casual. Expect edge.

This ain’t yo mamma’s lieder. www.voiceofthisgen.com.

Free / 90 minutes Amado Recital Hall at Irvine Auditorium University of Pennsylvania 3401 Spruce Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 16 + 17 at 8pm

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When an innocent girl is seen bathing by local church elders,

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Susannah, An American Opera by Carlisle Floyd The Philadelphia Opera Company

Three plus hours of fast, dirty fun involving four minute sets, four second set changes, fifty five 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! $25 / Ongoing World Café Live 3025 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 at 7pm

Should I

XFS Philly Song Shuffle Xtreme Folk Scene

Confluence Carnatic

Expand your musical repertoire and experience a rather undiscovered corner of Philadelphia culture. Sruti presents Confluence of two Indian Classical Music Styles with a vocal duet by the renowned Malladi Brothers and Gundecha Brothers.

Make sure to also attend the educational programming and outreach activities to acclimate to Indian classical music. $35 / 180 minutes Independence Seaport Museum 211 South Columbus Boulevard Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 4pm

Slaying the Dragon Center City Opera Theatre

Voice of this Generation: Love Lost City Wide Composers Collective

Spoken Word

Confluence Master

Confluence of the Two Indian Classical Music Styles: Carnatic and Hindustani Vocal Duo Malladi Brothers and Gundelcha Brothers

In her one-woman show Should I Be Sweet?, which recently had its NYC debut, Amber draws on all of her musical roots and tells the tale of her life’s journey to the Big Apple through the genres of musical theater standards, pop, gospel, and country.

Free / 60 minutes Jolly’s Dueling Piano Bar 1420 Locust Street Sept 13 at 6:30pm

Matt & Melissa Dunphy

Expand your musical repertoire and experience a rather undiscovered corner of Philadelphia culture. Sruti presents Maestro Amjad Ali Khan and his sons Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan in a Sarod (stringed instrument) concert. Make sure to attend the educational programming and outreach activities to acclimate to Indian classical music. $35 / 120 minutes Independence Seaport Museum 211 South Columbus Boulevard Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 at 7pm

Should I Be Sweet?

Amber Womack

Emilie Krause

Confluence of the Two Indian Classical Music Styles: Master of the Sarod, Hindustani Instrumental Concert Ustad Amjad Ali Khan accompanied by his sons Amaan and Ayaan

she becomes the target of traveling, revivalist preacher Olin Blitch. The unrelenting nature of the situation creates an environment of lust, hatred, and murder in a church community of rural Tennessee. $15 / 110 minutes Old First Reformed United Church of Christ 151 North 4th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 + 10 at 8pm

Adventurers! Warrior sisters!

Brother heroes! The usurper, Pelias, refuses to restore me to my rightful throne. A challenge has been laid. The Argo sets sail to quest for the Golden Fleece. Brave the tempests.

Behold mystery. Defy the monsters that block our passage. Argonauts arise!

Join me! –Jason. $20 / 90 minutes Columbus Memorial South Columbus Boulevard at Dock Street Sept 2–4, 7–11 + 14–17 at 7pm

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Argo: Quest Amédée or

Argo: Quest For The Golden Fleece MCCC Drama Club

All Places From Here Bright Light Theatre Company Philly’s pavement provides the setting for live music, dance,

For fifteen years, Amédée and Madeleine Buccinioni have shared their Paris apartment with a growing corpse, hiding from the outside world. Ionesco’s impossible play navigates the thin lines between performance and reality, love and resentment, death and life. Two actors

A Safe

Philly Fringe

Two brand-new friends meet at a diner after work to continue an ongoing conversation. One is a tremendously successful and wealthy hedge fund manager.

Amédée or How to Get Rid of It A:B

A Paper

A Safe Distance from Oblivion Nimrods

Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din

Joe Rosato

Nick Allin

A Series

NYC-based AGGROCRAG (2010 Philly Fringe hit Hello from the Children of Planet Earth) returns to Philadelphia with an adventure of life and death.

When an ill patient and a broke hospital realize their final days are fast approaching, they turn to a dangerous new treatment: the Shrink Ray. $15 / 100 minutes Underground Arts at the Wolf Building 1200 Callowhill Street Sept 2 + 3 at 8pm Sept 4 at 5pm Sept 8 + 9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 15 + 16 at 8pm Sept 17 at 2pm + 8pm

In this fourth annual one-night mini-festival, the iNtuitons Experimental Theatre Company presents four original pieces in four different locations. The audience will travel from space to space to view works that engage with the body and the mind, providing insights into Shakespeare, marriage, and much more. $7 / 100 minutes Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania 3417 Spruce Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 17 at 8pm

All Places

A Series of Tests AGGROCRAG

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with 26 wire-puppets present Amédée in an abandoned Philadelphia apartment. $15 / 90 minutes Refer to Festival website for venue Sept 3 at 6pm Sept 4 at 4:30pm Sept 5 + 7 at 7pm Sept 9 at 9:30pm Sept 10 at 6pm

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Alternative Theatre Festival iNtuitons Experimental Theatre Company

A Paper Garden Aaron Cromie, Mary Tuomanen, and Genevieve Perrier At the turn of the 19th century, an exotic plant sprouts from an unusual box sent across the Atlantic Ocean by famous world explorer, raconteur, and botanist André Michaux to Empress Josephine’s French estate. What blooms is a story full of tall tales, love songs, and one unique French garden.

Free / 35 minutes Jefferson Garden, American Philosophical Society 104 South 5th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 at noon + 6pm Sept 3 + 4 at 1pm + 3pm Sept 9 at noon + 6pm Sept 10 + 11 at 1pm + 3pm Sept 16 at noon + 6pm Sept 17 at 1pm + 3pm

and projections as BLTC brings to life the work of Mohsin Mohi-Uh-Din’s Lollipops Crown Youth Arts Initiative.

Meet the extraordinary children of Tangier, Morocco, as they share their stories, dreams, and nightmares— bridging two worlds through the power of creation. www.brightlighttheatre.org. $17 / 90 minutes The Loading Dock 1236 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 2–4, 7–10 + 14–17 at 8pm

Alternative Theatre

The other is a day laborer, who works many odd jobs to make ends meet. He is an ass. Literally.

In the event of rain, tickets will be honored at all performances. $15 / 60 minutes Emerald Street Park 2317 Emerald Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2, 3, 8, 9, 15 + 17 at 8pm

Ian Berg

Cherie B. Tay

Theater

Wanted: dedicated, thick-skinned, cutthroat individuals capable of excelling in a rigorous, redefining work environment. Unwavering allegiance and willingness to eviscerate competition, internal and external, is essential.

Offering: an interactive, varying perspective, mind-virus infused, theatrical experience. Alarmists need not apply. We are an Equal

Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness REV Theatre Company An outdoor, site-specific production in a Philadelphia

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Checkers Carthaginians by

THEATER

Bury the

How do you speak to your true love when you’ve never spoken? Especially when she’s dead? Checkers has no idea, but the words are coming out.

Witness a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead-ening of Witold Gombrowicz’s absurdist classic Ivona, Princess of Burgundia and help little servant Checkers find his voice. $15 / 50 minutes Fleisher Art Memorial, the Sanctuary 719 Catharine Street Sept 7 at 9pm Sept 8 at 7:30pm Sept 9 at 9pm Sept 10 at 1pm + 10:30pm Sept 11 at 1pm + 6pm

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Branded Hyphen-Nation Arts

Checkers Mark Kennedy

Branded

A memoir with flourishes.

Religious and scholarly perspectives, along with home movies and possibly a gorilla, combine to present a multimedia montage about the nature of forgiveness. A multitude of characters explores this uneven and unexpected terrain. Who can forgive? Is anything unforgivable?

Should it ever be denied? $10 / 90 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, Chapel 2125 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 + 10 at 2pm + 4:30pm

Big Star

New York playwright and NYU professor Jeffrey Stanley premieres his autobiographical, one-man black comedy about family secrets, séances, dream interpretation, Nietzsche, and death by acute alcoholism: all the things that make life great.

Featuring live ouija action from audience volunteers, the show has multiple endings depending on which ghosts appear. $20 / 60 minutes The Blue Grotto in the CEC Cellar 3500 Lancaster Avenue Sept 7–10, 14–17 at 8pm

Bury the Hatchet (a play about forgiveness) Bump in the Road Theatre

Madeleine Shapiro

Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead Jeffrey Stanley

Laurel Hill Cemetery 3822 Ridge Avenue Sept 16 +17 at 8pm Refer to Festival website for rain dates

Mary Stewart

A one-woman show with a rock band, Big Star California, follows a young woman, Ryan, on a road trip from Los Angeles to Seattle as she tries to define the important relationships in her life and let go of what is holding her back to fully embrace the future. $10 / 85 minutes The Penthouse at the Residences at Two Liberty Place 57th Floor 20 South 16th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 + 10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 3pm

Ishan Benjamin

Neil LaBute’s BASH is a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays. Two daring and talented young actors take the audience on a trip through this trio of personal accounts. LaBute’s signature raw lyrical intensity is exhibited in these unblinking portraits of the complexities of evil in everyday life. $15 / 90 minutes Moonstone Arts Center 110A South 13th Street Sept 14, 16 + 17 at 8pm

Beautiful Zion

Big Star California Missing Bolts Productions M. Lawrence

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cemetery, Carthaginians is set in a Derry, North Ireland, graveyard where seven survivors of the 1972 Bloody Sunday Massacre wait for the dead to rise. Funny and moving, savage and lyrical, Carthaginians explores a powerful landscape of love, loss, redemption, and forgiveness. Please bring chairs and blankets. $20 / 100 minutes Gloria Dei Old Swedes Church 916 South Swanson Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2–4 + 9–11 at 8pm For rain dates refer to Festival website

BASH

Eric Kubo

Christopher Kadish

Opportunity Employer. $15 / 60 minutes Power Plant Productions 230 North 2nd Street Sept 14 at 9pm Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 7pm + 9pm Sept 17 at 3pm + 7pm

Greg Steinbruner

An evening of murder, necrophilia, blow up dolls, and interrogation in Howard Brenton’s controversial play Christie in Love. Iron Age Theatre takes the police procedural genre and pushes it to its limits in the distorted view of a police interrogation.

Join us as we exhume the bodies and penetrate man’s madness. $15 / 45 minutes Eastern State Penitentiary 2027 Fairmount Avenue Wheelchair accessible

Dead Dogs Brooklyn Contemporary Theatre A young soldier finds himself in a holding cell locked up by his own unit. His only contact

Event End.

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Mayhem! Destruction!

Calamity! Collapse! This Philly Fringe, Found Theater will take on asteroids, terrorists, global warming, poison gas, 2012, artificial intelligence, atomic bombs, natural disasters, plagues, total corporate world domination, and the sneaking, sinking feeling that disaster is upon us. Afraid yet? Welcome to the end. $15 / 90 minutes Bon Vivants 1205 North 4th Street Sept 2–4, 7–9, 11 + 15–18 at 8pm

Christine In

Christie In Love Iron Age Theatre

Event End. Found Theater Company

DEER HEAD: yet another—though equally hilarious, and perhaps even more

Philly Fringe

Shakespeare is unhinged in this new adaptation of his little-performed tragedy, as the audience is immersed in the action and stage walls are battered down for an intimate look into the lives and lusts of a world that is at once Ancient Rome, a future dystopia, and our own time. $5 / 100 minutes Studio 34 4522 Baltimore Avenue Sept 2, 4, 9 + 17 at 8pm

Lisa Modica

John Doyle

Coriolanus

Follow Debbie Benton and her cheerleader gal-pals as they eXpose it all and do anything it takes (while remaining “good girls” of course) to help Debbie pay her way to Dallas in this campy, bawdy musical send-up of the infamous 70s porno of the same name! $20 / 105 minutes Mascher Co-op Space 155 Cecil B Moore Avenue 2B Sept 1 at 8pm Sept 4 at 2pm Sept 10 at 8pm + midnight Sept 14 at 9pm Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 8pm + midnight Sept 17 at 8pm

DEER HEAD

Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical eXposed Theatre Company

Checking Out

Tom—grocery store cashier by day, struggling stand-up comedian by night—tries to win the affection of Claire, his toughest audience yet.

He navigates financial trouble, fake illness, and an accidental cat poisoning in trying to get the gig—and the girl—of his dreams. $12 / 90 minutes William Way Community Center 1315 Spruce Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 3pm Sept 12 at 7pm Sept 16 at 8pm Sept 18 at 3pm

From the creators of Boat Hole (named one of 2010’s “10 Essentials at the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe” by Philly Weekly) come 15 more outlandish short plays seamlessly staged into one evening of smart, edgy, and completely outrageous humor. And you don’t want to miss the tomato. $15 / 85 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 14–17 at 7pm

Debbie Does

Sean Casey

Checking Out Act Normal Theatre

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Dead Dogs

Liam Daley

The Centre Theater at Montgomery County Cultural Center 208 DeKalb Street, Norristown Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 7pm

so, as the first two— evening of outrageous short comedies by Josh McIlvain SmokeyScout Productions

Coriolanus

with the world is an army doctor as he confronts his past and owns the truth of his present. But in war, the truth doesn’t always set you free. $15 / 65 minutes Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 8:30pm Sept 8 at 8:30pm + 10:30pm Sept 10 + 11 at 2pm

Darin Dunston & Frederick Andersen

Sept 3 at 7pm Sept 4 at 6:30pm + 8pm Sept 12 at 7pm Sept 16 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 17 at 7pm, 9pm + 11pm

Green People Yes! And . . . ’s SHADOW Company A show about what connects us, what makes community, and how to claim humanity from the rubble of our differences. From Yes! And . . .’s SHADOW Company, who brought you to the streets last year with the flash mob inspired Flash!, comes another original, cutting-edge

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Darin Dunston & Frederick Andersen

Hear Again Green People Grandma’s House

Philly Fringe

When girls were only three things—virgins, wives, or whores—a grieving daughter discovers a mother she never knew: child star and bold lover. Through Depression-Era letters and recordings from Moorestown and Rittenhouse Square, villains and heroes come to life. One woman.

One act. One hour. $20 / 65 minutes The Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre 3rd Floor 1714 Delancey Place Sept 6–9, 12, 15 + 16 at 6:30pm

Hear Again is here again!

We look to the past to explore the future! Vintage old time radio goodness: two classic radio programs for the whole family, featuring live music & Foley sound effects at each performance. Scripts from X Minus One and Suspense!

Different episodes on Saturday and Sunday. $12 / 90 minutes The Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre, 3rd Floor 1714 Delancey Place Sept 3, 4, 10, 11, 17 + 18 at 1pm + 4pm

Going Back

Going Back Naked Melissa McBain

Hear Again Radio Project Plays and Players

Girl on

1979. I just graduated High School. No Job. No Future. No Girl. Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Gasoline shot up to 86 cents a gallon and Disco Sucked. It seemed hopeless, until I opened the album that changed my life, killed Disco and ushered in the 80s. $15 / 90 minutes The Shubin Theatre 407 Bainbridge Street Sept 2–4 at 8pm

This documentary stems from the children’s book I wrote called Grandma’s House.

You will hear from three “Grandmas” who have been asked to tell their stories and to give advice. Their stories are full of wisdom. Please come out and support the project I created in tribute to grandparents everywhere. $5 / 40 minutes Saint Cyprian Catholic Church 525 South Cobbs Creek Parkway Sept 10 at 1pm + 5pm

Getting The

Getting The Knack ETC Theater

Grandma’s House: The Documentary SamiyMotif

Fire / Truce

SanJay Shendge

Rebecca Maule

1911: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. 1914: The Christmas Eve Truce. Two landmark events marred by man’s inhumanity, yet highlighted by the triumph of the human spirit. Join Beacon Theatre Productions as they examine both with pathos, humor, and hope in what is ultimately a celebration of life amidst tragedy. $10 / 45 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 at 8pm Sept 4 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 6 at 7pm Sept 7 at 8pm

Demitre Rodriguez

Fire / Truce Beacon Theatre Productions

REP THEATRE presents Girl on Gurl, a night of 10-minute plays pairing female playwrights with female directors in an estrogen-induced salute to GURL POWER . . . produced by two DUDES! Girls just wanna have fun! Gurls have the most fun, together! Sounds hot! Say goodbye to the summer with a little GIRL ON GURL ACTION!! $15 / 90 minutes The Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre, 3rd Floor 1714 Delancey Place Sept 7–9 at 8:30pm Sept 13 + 14 at 6:30pm Sept 15 at 8:30pm

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by Philadelphia’s best teenage storytellers. $7 / 60 minutes The Old Reading Viaduct Railroad Tunnel 2100 Hamilton Street (entrance just past Whole Foods) Wheelchair accessible Sept 4, 9–11 + 16 at 7pm

Martin Regusters “Leaping Lion Photography”

Ben Smallen

Girl on Gurl REP THEATRE

Hughie Red Square Theatre 1920s NYC. Seedy hotel lobby.

Drunken gambler. Distracted night clerk. RST (Clover ‘09, Lunch Lady Tarot ‘10) gets classical with the only surviving play from O’Neill’s Obit Cycle. O’Neill said it was meant to be read, not performed. RST begs to differ and will breathe new life into O’Neill’s Hughie. $15 / 60 minutes London Grill 2301 Fairmount Avenue Sept 10 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 11 at 7pm

Paul, a veteran police officer, moves to the Oakland neighborhood where he fought the Black Panthers 30 years ago, seeking self-redemption.

Espousing Martin Luther King’s “The Good Samaritan” sermon, Paul befriends a young black man and violently alters both their lives. “A searing drama.”

(East Bay Express)

Too weak to carry the baggage from her past, Christina Leeds decides to take her life. As she shares the life experiences that have encouraged her suicide attempt, Christina must find a way to face the one person who stands in the way of her attaining love and happiness . . . herself. $20 / 90 minutes Society Hill Playhouse 507 South 8th Street Sept 12–14 at 8pm

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Kathy’s Daughter Judith: the Jericho Road

THEATER

In The Hughie

Vanessa Bell & Kevin Stackhouse

Jericho Road Improvement Association Hella Fresh Theater

Kathy’s Daughter K. J. Deaton

Philly Fringe

James Baldwin was one of the most sought after speakers of his time. His books and countless articles won him critical acclaim. He’s been away for a while, but now he’s back to reintroduce himself. $20 / 52 minutes Harold Prince Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9–11 at 7:40pm

John Rosenberg

Hello America . . . My Name is Jimmy Baldwin 1828.1 Production Co.

How To

What if Shakespeare’s plays were written by a little-known sister? Judith: The Other Shakespeare, adapted from Viginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, is the story of a young woman on an epic journey to find a place of her own, as she encounters actors, merchants, rude mechanicals, and clowns. $15 / 120 minutes Arch Street United Methodist Church 55 North Broad Street Sept 2 at 8pm Sept 3 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 7–9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 14–16 at 8pm Sept 17 at 2pm + 8pm

Hello America

In this modern-day riff on The Scarlet Letter, Hester, a homeless mother of five, fights to survive illiteracy, prostitution, corruption, and degrading social conditions.

Exploiting her vulnerability, her hypocritical helpers drive her to desperate extremes. A 2000 Pulitzer Prize nominee hailed

by The New York Times as an “extraordinary new play.” $15 / 135 minutes Caplan Studio at The University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street, 16th floor Wheelchair accessible Sept 1 + 2 at 8pm Sept 3 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 4 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 8 + 9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 11 at 2pm + 7pm

Heavy Metal

Judith: the Other Shakespeare Smile/Frown Theatre Guild

Tara Lessard of Freedom G Photography, & Jhett Bond

What makes you who you are?

A name? A random collection of experiences and memories?

You are who you can prove you are. You are what people think.

And that’s the easiest thing in the world to change. This critically acclaimed premiere grapples with questions of identity, escape, and rebirth. $20 / 90 minutes The Playground at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 1 + 2 at 6:30 pm Sept 4 at 2pm Sept 8, 9, 11, 14–16 + 18 at 6:30pm

In the Blood Ira Brind School of Theater Arts, University of the Arts

Christopher M. Bohan

Timmy Bagley is a tough, blue collar, South Philly dockworker with a secret passion for tap-dancing . . . to 1980s hair metal. Heavy Metal Dance Fag is an outrageous comedy about identity, repression, and the complications of love and dancing in South Philly. $20 / 82 minutes St. Stephen’s Theater 10th + Ludlow Streets Sept 2 at 7pm Sept 3 at 7pm + 9:30pm Sept 4 at 7pm Sept 5 + 7 at 7pm + 9:30pm Sept 8 at 7pm Sept 9 at 7pm at 9:30pm Sept 10 + 11 at 7pm

How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found Luna Theater Company

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$10 / 90 minutes Papermill Theater 2825 Ormes Street Sept 3, 4, 10, 11, 17 + 18 at 2pm

(c) Galina Stepanova

istockphoto.com Jay Wojnarowski

Heavy Metal Dance Fag Tribe of Fools

Sept 15 at 7:30pm Sept 16 at 9:45pm Sept 17 at 6pm + 9pm

Meat Man

Mediate Me

The clock is ticking with this lightning-fast collection of plays under 5 minutes.

You may be sitting in the theater, but your brain will be running to a new location, plot, and set of characters every 300 seconds. From the group behind SKITSoid, 4Play,and Dirty Laundry. www.secretroomtheatre.com. $15 / 75 minutes 2nd Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 at 4pm Sept 9 at 10pm Sept 10 at 1pm Sept 11 + 14 at 7pm Sept 17 at 10pm

John Greenbaum

Lord of Look/ Alive Lickity Skits

Lion (El León)

Longing With

THEATER Philly Fringe

Maybe a play or a puzzle, maybe a sonnet or a limerick, maybe a song or two. At every event, different favorite artists take a look at our most bittersweet preoccupation. P.S. If you liked Grace, or the Art of Climbing—we will be featuring Lauren Feldman’s The Seven Lovers of Bluehat Whistletop (A Children’s Play for Adults). $10 / 60 minutes The Machine Shop 2037 Washington Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 13 at 5pm Sept 14–16 at 8pm Sept 17 at 2pm + 5pm

Look/Alive Penn Theatre Ensemble Lion (El León) Philapolis Theatre Company Trapped in the biggest apartment in the world, lifelong friends David and Keith are forced to question their identities as the world is willingly taken over by a pleasantly disfiguring epidemic.

This absurdist bilingual (Spanish and English) comedy explores culture clash, alienation, and the occasional animal nose.

Lion (El León) is written for an English-speaking audience. $15 / 105 minutes 2nd Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 9 at 7pm Sept 10 at 10pm Sept 11 at 4pm Sept 12 at 8pm Sept 16 at 7pm Sept 17 at 1pm

Wii players fall in love with their avatars, a sculptor falls in love with his statue, and a puppeteer’s marionettes come to life in tales adapted from Ovid, Grimm, Anderson, and others.

Is it real, or mind games? $6 / 65 minutes Bruce Montgomery Theatre at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 15–17 at 7:30pm

Lord of the Flies Curio Theatre Company When their plane crashes on a deserted island, a group of schoolboys learn where evil truly lives. Curio Theatre Company presents this unique outdoor experience of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in Clark Park.

Come see the darkness within mankind and yell, “Kill the Pig!” Free / 90 minutes Clark Park 4398 Chester Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 2, 3 + 7–9 at 7pm

Doug Bailey

Tessa Kuhn

David O’Connor

Longing with Language: A Performance Smorgasbord The Songlines

Meat Man Reel 9 Productions Meet the “Meat Man,” a simple vendor of carnivorous delights, and the small American town of meat eaters whose lives are rocked by the unexpected influx of vegetarian neighbors.

Meat Man is a comic musical about the little nuances that keep us at odds and the chance for unexpected love. $12 / 50 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 at 10pm Sept 10 at 3pm Sept 11 + 13 at 10pm

Mediate Me Candelabra Theater Company

Bill Brock

Lickety Skits Secret Room Theatre

Max Frisch’s

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My Dad

LICKETY SKITS: Melissa King

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Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs) The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium INCENDIARY HILARITY ALERT! A Greek chorus of Keystone Kops guides us through Frisch’s 1958 absurdist classic, where sparks fly as an unemployed circus wrestler and his pyromaniacal partner pervade the life of a morally bereft hair rejuvenator magnate. “Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” –Chico Marx. $20 / 80 minutes Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5 825 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 + 3 at 7:30pm Sept 4 at 2:30pm Sept 6–10 at 7:30pm Sept 11 at 2:30pm Sept 13–17 at 7:30pm Sept 18 at 2:30pm

A disturbing exploration of women, power, and bargaining, Mediate Me uses phones, avatars, and live polling technology to turn spectators into actors, literally playing with the female reality that speaking one’s truth means losing one’s audience. $10 / 60 minutes Lamp Factory 1700 North 5h Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 4 at 2pm Sept 5 + 8 at 6pm Sept 9 at 10pm Sept 12 + 14 at 8pm Sept 16 at 10pm

My Dad Is Now Ready For His Sponge Bath Jay Nachman Approximately 219,000 people each year in the United States will be diagnosed with lung cancer. Even if one of them is your dad, it can be funnier than you think. The perfect show for anyone who has, or ever had, a father. $15 / 70 minutes Grasso’s Magic Theatre 103 Callowhill Street Sept 8–10, 16 + 17 at 8pm

From the folks who brought you Portmanteau, comes a dangerous new tale of power, persuasion, and perpendicularity.

Come explore a magical world of imperialists, inoculators, guards, footmen, and thieves as Applied Mechanics literally strives for new heights and tackles the question: what can

Ed Pokropski

Overseers Applied Mechanics

Maria Shaplin

Sam Shepard’s companion pieces unfurl in this physical theatrical experience. Savage/ Love is a propulsive quest of a lonely man looking for love and a prelude to Tongues, a passionate fever dream in which a dying man delivers his last rites. These stream of consciousness confessionals are performed with live musical accompaniment. $18 / 60 minutes Symmetry Dance Studio 1923 Chestnut Street, 3rd floor Sept 2 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 3 at 7pm, 9pm + 11pm Sept 4 at 3pm + 5pm Sept 9 at 8pm + 10pm

Two classics of Gothic horror are brought to the stage in a pair of chilling one-man adaptations by Chris Morse and Josh Hitchens.

Lovecraft’s The Statement of Randolph Carter and Stoker’s Dracula will bring you to the mountains of madness and over the edge. Mature audiences only. $20 / 120 minutes 2nd Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8 at 10pm Sept 10 at 7pm Sept 11 at 1 pm Sept 15 + 16 at 10pm Sept 17 at 4pm

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PAPER CUT

Solo Tales of Terror: Lovecraft & Stoker Magic Circle Theater Company

Overseers

Savage/Love and Tongues New City Stage Company

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Solo Tales Smiley Savage/ Love Saucy Bible

Josh Hitchens

Descend into the mouth of madness, courtesy of the mind of the master of the macabre himself, Edgar Allan Poe. Three tales to prove that we all go a little crazy sometimes. Sorrow, desperation, and revenge are the themes in a literary world where no one is safe.

Free / 90 minutes Hard Rock Cafe 1113–31 Market Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 6 + 7 at 9pm

From Israel comes an awardwinning solo performance.

A lonely secretary escapes into a world of daydreams where she is a glamorous 1940s movie star. As the story unravels, imagination and reality collide, and her romantic tale becomes a Hitchcock nightmare!

Black-and-white cinema is transformed to universe of paper cutouts and object theater, creating a tension that is absurd, painful, and humorous. $15 / 50 minutes Media Bureau 725 North 4th Street Sept 4 at 4pm + 8pm Sept 5 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 6 + 7 at 7pm

One of Tel Aviv’s longest running fringe shows. Set in a New Age empowerment workshop, Smiley is a series of sexuallycharged monologues that also transforms into an interactive experience with the audience.

Each character reveals the lives of young adults—exposing their lives on the internet, in bars, or inside themselves—struggling with situations, emotions, and identities from which you, the audience, can’t stay indifferent. $15 / 70 minutes Media Bureau 725 North 4th Street Sept 4 at 3pm + 7pm Sept 5 at 3pm + 8pm Sept 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 6pm

Annie Such

J. Steckervetz

Nevermore Devennie

The Bible is the greatest book ever written, the source material for two of the world’s largest religions. It is also one of the raunchiest books ever created! Join Father Rufus as he explores the stories not covered in Sunday school in Saucy Biblical Tales. $20 / 120 minutes Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square Sept 2, 3, 9 + 10 at 8pm

Smiley Shufra

Run Grunt

It’s a commedia show—which means daring feats of comedy in fantastical masks at breakneck speed—set to stompin’ live music in three languages, and all for your enjoyment.

Kids love us. Adults love us.

Old people and teenagers are skeptical . . . but then love us.

BYO chair/picnic!

Free / 60 minutes Liberty Lands Park 913–961 North 3rd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2–4, 7–9 + 11 at 6pm

Saucy Bible Tales One Percent Productions

PAPER CUT Yael Rasooly

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Sept 10 at 7pm, 9pm + 11pm Sept 11 at 3pm + 5pm Sept 16 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 17 at 7pm, 9pm + 11pm

Philly Fringe

Run Grunt Sing: An Open Air Theatric OMBELICO Mask Ensemble

Nevermore

My Name is Sam Johnson is a one-woman show. Sam, a single mother of two, finds herself awake in the middle of the night questioning her adequacies as a mother through the lens of her abusive childhood. She recounts childhood stories that are funny, heartbreaking, and full of hope. $15 / 90 minutes The Arts Garage 1533–35 Ridge Avenue Sept 2 + 3 at 7pm

you, and can’t you, control? $15 / 85 minutes The Machine Shop 2037 Washington Avenue Sept 3 at 9pm Sept 4 at 8pm Sept 5 at 10pm Sept 11 at 9pm Sept 12 + 13 at 8pm

My Name

My Name is Sam Johnson Cymande Lewis

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Teach Your TASK

THEATER

Superheroes Who Superego Straw, Stick

TASK is a hypersexualized Lord of the Flies meets Peanuts. Brutal, honest, and funny, it takes on everything from sex and drugs to coming out, race, teen pregnancy, and suicide. The play comically impales education, church, and authority figures. Not for the easily offended. $15 / 120 minutes Walking Fish Theater 2509 Frankford Ave Wheelchair accessible Sept 9, 10, 16 + 17 at 8pm

Philly Fringe

The World’s Worst Opera Singer, Florence Foster Jenkins “screeched to new highs” during her 1944 sold-out Carnegie Hall concert. Although audiences laughed at her, their applause was genuine.

This flamboyant eccentric and her unflappable accompanist are played by award-winning actors April Woodall and Bill Kincaid, fresh from Cortland Repertory Theatre, New York. $20 / 135 minutes The Academy of Vocal Arts 1920 Spruce Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 17 at 3pm + 8pm

A “New Renissance” is upon us. And it’s misspelled. If only Leonardo had painted the Sistine ceiling pink, he would’ve “brought the bitches.” Who will lead this revolution? One brave young man with no filter. He stands in the nucleus of free thought biding his time before his inevitable arrest. $15 / 90 minutes Upstairs at World Café Live 3025 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8–10 + 15–17 at 7pm

TASK Diversion Productions

A teenage crush explores how digital media fractures the way we communicate, allowing different personas to emerge within relationships. Multitaskers take note! Action onstage is augmented by simultaneous, real-time text messaging from characters offstage. This Lolita with pompoms is funny, raunchy, sad, and surprising. $13 / 90 minutes The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre 2111 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Aug 31 at 8pm (preview) Sept 1–3 at 8pm Sept 4 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 6–10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 13–16 at 8pm Sept 17 at 2pm + 8pm

Souvenir: A

Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins Cortland Repertory Theatre

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superheroes Who Are Super! returning once again with word-for-word staged readings of classic comics featuring the best in low-budget superhero costumes, witty word play and absurd physical hijinks. Will the Hulk smash?

Will Thor hammer? Will Superman be wearing blue spandex? Find out! $12 / 60 minutes The Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre, 3rd Floor 1714 Delancey Place Sept 3, 4, 10, 11, 17 + 18 at 7pm + 9pm

Teach Your Children Tall Grass Productions

Song of

Superego Overlap Live

Superheroes Who Are Super!

Plays and Players

David Miranda Hardy

A lone man toils in his room.

He needs to build something— a shelter, a tower, a monument— but they all threaten to fall.

Exploring the fragile relationship between man and his creations, Straw, Stick, Brick begs the question—what will you leave behind? $10 / 45 minutes St Stephen’s Theater 10th and Ludlow Streets Sept 15 at 7pm Sept 16 + 17 at 7pm + 9pm

Ian Nicholson

Connie Koppe and Marie Maginity

Deemed a “whore risk” by her father from birth, performance artist Monica Day takes a journey from convents to hotel rooms to find the true essence of the whore she feared.

Instead, an ancient, sacred whore is revealed, one who lives inside every woman willing to look beyond the label. $15 / 75 minutes Media Bureau 725 North 4th Street Sept 8–10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 2pm + 8pm

Straw, Stick, Brick M. Craig Getting & Jillian Taylor

Big World Design

M. Craig Getting

Darin Dunston & Frederick Andersen

Ron Greenberg

Song of the Sacred Whore Monica Day/ The Sensual Life

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SanJay Shendge

The Angel The Aliens

Philly Fringe

The Angel, The Devil, and Greg Brady ETC Theater It’s Take Your Daughter to Work Day in a very peculiar office:

The Dutchman inVersion Theater The Obie-award winning show highlights the race issues of the 1960s through a brutal interaction between a black man and a white woman on a New York City subway. $15 / 60 minutes First Unitarian Church Parish Room 2125 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 + 3 at 8pm Sept 4 at 2pm Sept 9 at 8pm Sept 11 at 4pm

Unspeakable acts . . . impossible crimes . . . unbearable pleasures.

When the gods descend, all bets are off. The Theatre Cooperative presents a new adaptation of Euripides’s The Bacchae, the harrowing spectacle of divine incarnation, orgy, and violence that has been blowing minds for more than 2000 years. With renowned Greek actress Lili Bita. $15 / 90 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 13, 14 + 17 at 8pm

The Boy The Wooden Spoon Theatre Company Sonny is in trouble. Sonny thinks a helicopter will be his escape. Sonny is wrong. $15 / 45 minutes Walking Fish Theatre

The Eros Trilogy COLO Creations In The Eros Trilogy, Nicky Silver creates an emotionally electrifying piece that delves into the human experience of sexual awakenings with three short pieces, connecting four characters. Each stands on the precipice of decision between emotional intimacy and pure carnal pleasure as sanctuary from the outside world. $15 / 75 minutes The Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre, 3rd Floor 1714 Delancey Place Sept 6 + 12–14 at 8:30pm

The Gray Area Ocelot on a Leash Theatre Company You are entering a world in which the defining line between black and white fades

and you are left to navigate The Gray Area. Original stories of science fiction and suspense brought to you live on stage in total grayscale, reminiscent of an old television in the living rooms of yesteryear. $10 / 90 minutes Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 + 3 at 8:30pm The Rotunda $15 / 90 minutes 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 at 8pm Sept 10 + 11 at 3pm + 8pm

The Greek Theatre Project Iris Theatre Company Told through the stories of four ancient Greek myths, The Greek Theatre Project fuses original music, choreography, Motown and soul, original and classic texts, visual art, and live performance by artists who collaborated from around the world via phone, email, and the web to explore four of our ancient heroines. $10 / 75 minutes Broad Street Ministry 315 South Broad Street Sept 3 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 10 at noon + 5pm

Dan Hodge

Kimon Rethis

2509 Frankford Avenue Wheelchair accessible Sept 3 at 11:30pm Sept 9, 10, 16 + 17 at 4:30pm

The Bacchae The Theater Cooperative

Daniel Kennedy

The Dutchman The Boy

Two ex-band members introduce a lonely teenager into their world of alienation and rebellion. A night of music, Bukowski, and shrooms. Theatre Exile presents the Philadelphia premier of one of America’s hottest playwrights, Annie Baker, staged in the intimate Studio X. Starring Jeb Kreager, Sam Henderson, and Aubiee Merrylees. $20 / 120 minutes Studio X 1340 South 13th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 1 at 7pm Sept 2 at 9pm Sept 3 at 8pm Sept 4 at 3pm + 7pm Sept 6 + 8 at 7pm Sept 9 at 9pm Sept 10 at 5pm + 9pm Sept 11 at 3pm + 7pm Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 7pm Sept 16 at 7pm + 10pm Sept 17 at 5pm + 9pm Sept 18 at 3pm + 7pm

The Bacchae

THEATER

Robert Hakalski

The Greek The Gray

The Aliens Theatre Exile

The Eros

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The Oresteia

one where Damien and Gabe are working side-by-side to claim the soul of Greg Brady (yes, that Greg Brady). Written

by Todd Cardin and directed

by Emily Cardin. $15 / 90 minutes The Shubin Theatre 407 Bainbridge Street Sept 7–9 at 8pm

Amanda Curry

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The Oresteia Project The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective Director Brenna Geffers tackles history’s first great trilogy—the epic story of a royal family’s downfall. See each workshop as an individual event, or pack a lunch and brave the whole saga in one day. Power, sex, vengeance, and terror

G.J. Ruggiero Productions presents Carlo Goldoni’s The

The XX Chromosome Genome Project S. Ann Johnson Our genetic structure is 99.9% identical. The rest is just flavor—Chocolate (Black), Vanilla (White), Lemon (Asian), Cinnamon (Indigenous), White Chocolate (Mixed), and Caramel (Latina). Through poetry, song, and dance, six women explore heartache, friendship,

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Time Is

Love and loss, time and memory—the fragile beauty of human existence are seen through the eyes of the ghost of a suicide bomber, a grieving couple, a woman at gunpoint, and a department store clerk.

All piercing, all painful, all absurd, all true. $15 / 60 minutes The Arts Parlor 1170 South Broad Street Sept 4–7 at 8pm

The XX

This Is

Time Is The Mercy Of Eternity Leah Franqui

THEATER

Black light theatre: a popular, innovative Czech style rarely performed in the States.

Dark Star Theatre premieres with a wondrous show to draw Philadelphia into a magical realm of play and possibility, masks and puppetry, monsters and heartache, mischief and dark enchantments. Beware the witch in the wood!

Free / 30 minutes AxD Gallery 265 South 10th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 15 + 16 at 8:30pm + 10:30pm Sept 17 at 3pm + 8:30pm

The Witch

Four intergalactic assassins zoom through the void. The target? Just a name. The threat? Unfathomable. In The Groundswell Players’ second contribution to Philly Fringe, watch as this expert team negotiates deep space and alienation whilst their murderous destiny fast approaches.

Directed by Charlotte Ford and inspired by the cosmos. $15 / 80 minutes MacGuffin Theatre & Film Company at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 at 8pm Sept 3 at 9:30pm Sept 4 at 7pm Sept 8 + 9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 9:30pm

The Wedding

The Witch in the Wood Dark Star Theatre

Sex, dominance, and race.

The Philadelphia premiere of Neil Labute’s provocative comedy/drama grabs you right from the start and stays with you long after you have left the theatre. Our intimate setting and simplistic style put you right in the middle of the action.

Come and enjoy the ride! $15 / 90 minutes AxD Gallery 265 South 10th Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 at 8pm Sept 4 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 6–9 at 8pm Sept 11 at 2pm

The Speed

The Speed of Surprise!

The Groundswell Players

This Is How It Goes Room6Theatre

The Servant

One wedding is just like another, until The Wedding Consultant from hell takes over, determined to make your wedding unique, just like everybody else’s. See marriage equality in a whole new way in the play Variety called “ . . . the most engaging entertainment in the Philadelphia New Play Festival . . . funny, complicated, and satisfying.” $20 / 90 minutes Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3 825 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 + 3 at 8pm Sept 4 at 2pm Sept 8–10 at 8pm Sept 11 at 2pm Sept 14–17 at 8pm Sept 18 at 2pm

Philly Fringe

The Servant of Two Masters G.J. Ruggiero Productions

The Wedding Consultant Eric Singel

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self-worth, white guilt and colored pain. This multicultural choreopoem elucidates the commonalities between American women. $22 / 90 minutes The Actors Center 257 North 3rd Street Sept 3–5 at 7:30pm

The Seer

Ray Cordero

Trip into a dark heaven of hysterical and surreal tragedy, inspired by the life of Arthur Rimbaud—rock-poet, gay guru, and gun-smuggler. The very first play from a brand new, all-star, international ensemble.

Babies bounce, camels fly—all is abracadabrantesque. $10 / 90 minutes Vox Populi Gallery 319 North 11th Street Sept 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 9:30pm Sept 17 at 2pm + 8pm

Merrie Bentley

The Seer Penn Dixie Alive

Rene Goodwin/Ed Hagopian

Servant of Two Masters, a comic masterpiece of Commedia dell’Arte theater—its rollicking plot and stunning characterizations have thrilled and kept audiences laughing since its 1743 opening in Venice. G.J.R. is the professional wing of World Theatre of Children whose actors begin training at 5 years old. $13 / 120 minutes Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 2 + 3 at 8pm

Anisa George

command the stage proving that good stories never die. $20 / 60 minutes Broad Street Ministry 315 South Broad Street Sept 5 at 8pm Sept 10 at 7pm Sept 12 + 19 at 8pm

Surrounded by the embrace of the bar at Bridgid’s (in Fairmount), the blogger Marcus von Brockman wields his influence. The talented actors manage to focus on— everything. Go figure. Folks promising to attend could fill Lincoln Financial Field. So grab your ticket today and cozy up to the bar. $15 / 50 minutes Bridgid’s Bar and Restaurant 726 North 24th Street Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 10 + 17 at 2pm

Austin Stanton

Candra Kennedy

Aaron Oster

Woyzeck Wired Wawapalooza 5

von Brockman at Bridgid’s vonPaco Productions

von Brockman

This ensemble spontaneously performs scenes and monologues inspired by six-word memoirs anonymously written by the audience. “Improv or not . . . this is great theater, acted with soul-baring sincerity, intelligence, and humor.”

(City Paper) “[T&G] explodes expectations about what improvisation can be . . . they dig deep into human behavior . . . and you’ll laugh till you get a head rush!” (Phawker) $12 / 60 minutes Mainstage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 8, 9 + 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 8:30pm Sept 16 at 10pm

laundromat. City Paper called last year’s show “spot-on . . . smart, inspired bits of funny business.” Each ticket comes with one FREE drink. $15 / 70 minutes Society Hill Playhouse 507 South 8th Street Sept 2 + 3 at 8pm Sept 4 at 3pm Sept 9, 10, 16 + 17 at 8pm

Water Bears In Space PuppeTyranny

Wired Secret Room Theater

Is it possible for life to exist in the vacuum of space? Join a team of scientists, puppets, musicians, and dry aquatic invertebrates as they search for the answer. From the team that created 2009’s “fiendishly clever” Rails, comes a sci-fi fantasy spectacular where the cosmic and microscopic worlds collide. $10 / 90 minutes Circle of Hope 1125 South Broad Street Sept 3 at 10pm Sept 5, 12 + 14–16 at 7pm

From our cell phones to double red-eye shots of espresso to ticking time bombs, the writers and producers behind past Philly Fringe hits 4Play and Dirty Laundry get “wired.” Plug in to this new theatrical experience of short plays, monologues, and a splash of new media. www.secretroomtheatre.com. $15 / 60 minutes 2nd Stage at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 5 + 8 at 7pm Sept 10 at 4pm Sept 15 + 17 at 7pm

Tongue & Groove

Philly Fringe

Wars and Whores: The Henry IV Musical Underground Shakespeare Company You never knew Shakespeare was all about the hootenanny.

This raucous original new musical presents the Bard’s classic tale of a prince’s coming-of-age as it was intended—with all the

Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction IdRatherBeHere Come watch us turn lemonade into lemons in this annual deconstructive comedy whose subjects include baseball fans, college kids, new parents, the Apple store, lame bachelor parties, meditation, and the

Lydia Yeakel

It’s everyone’s worst nightmare: high school reunions. In the past ten years, you haven’t had that great job, husband, or kid, and it’s way too late to change that . . . or is it? Find out how far some are willing to go to rewrite the past ten years of their lives. $15 / 85 minutes The Actors Center 257 North 3rd Street Sept 8, 10, 14, 15 + 17 at 8pm

Megan Edelman

Trappings

Trappings Crack the Glass Theatre Company

Jessica Kupferman

Ubu Roi

THEATER

Wars and

Water Bears

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Tongue & Groove Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater

Warped, strange, and ruthless in a way conceivable only by the most twisted of prepubescent French minds, Pa Ubu is a man who uses his cunning, his guile, his arrogance, and his disgusting toilet brush to rise to power over the humble, unsuspecting Poles. His subsequent reign of greed and oppression is the stuff of cartoons and legends. $15 / 90 minutes Church Street Studios 122 Church Street Sept 2, 3 + 9–11 at 8pm

foot-stomping, harmonicablowing, acoustic-throwdown tunes your boxcar-riding bones can handle. And yes, whores. $10 / 90 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 at 7pm Sept 10 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 11 at 7pm

Christopher Gould

Ubu Roi GDP Productions

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Woyzeck Homunculus Inc. What happens when the children of our war-ravaged future force the outcast amidst their ranks to act as Woyzeck, an abused soldier suffering

A garbage man/failed artist creates a phone book chronicling

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THEATER / VISUAL ART + FILM

The Wonders Gender Reel

The Wonders of the Galápagos Islands Interactive Reading Program is a reading activity for children to learn about the Galápagos Islands. The Wonders of the Galápagos Islands, by Shara Taylor, is read to children and followed by the feeding of a live turtle, interactive vocabulary games, prizes, and balloon art.

Free / 60 minutes Refer to Festival website for venue and times

Philly Fringe

Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry Daniel Barrow

The Wonders of the Galápagos Islands Interactive Reading Program Shara Taylor

Every Time

“Don’t Blow It” is an animation/ live action film that explores the meaning of ritual to the individual. The film illustrates a dreamlike image of birthday as a symbol of self-immolation and the passage of time. The viewer will follow the fantastic character as she slowly disappears and the ritual takes over the importance of her physical form.

Free / 60 minutes Jefferson Square Park Washington Avenue and 3rd Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9, 10, 16 + 17 at 8pm

Don’t Blow

“Don’t Blow It” Baroke Productions

Gender Reel, the East Coast’s first and only multi-media festival, is dedicated to enhancing the visibility of gender non-conforming, gender variant, and transgender images and experiences in film, photography, and art. $10–$15 / Ongoing CBS Auditorium at The University of the Arts 320 South Broad Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 9 from 7pm–10pm Sept 10 from 10am–10pm

A Place

Linda Dubin Garfield & Susan DiPronio

Dive into piles of art supplies while meeting interesting people on the same mission as you: to create a portrait of what you think of as home—a gift to yourself or have it included in the ongoing memoir installation which includes textual and photographic art.

Free / Ongoing The Book Trader 7 North 2nd Street Sept 7, 11 + 14 from 2pm–4pm

Gender Reel Multi-Media Festival Gender Reel Festival

X/Y

One woman. One man. So many possibilities. Join award winning theatre company The Porch Room for an evening of three short plays which examine Him (J. Michael DeAngelis) and Her (Kate Davis) in romance and in the workplace. From the creators of last year’s Philly Fringe hit, Signs from God. $10 / 90 minutes Raven Lounge 1718 Sansom Street Sept 8–10 + 15–17 at 8pm

A Place To Be Linda Dubin Garfield and Susan DiPronio

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the lives of everyone in his city as a deranged killer murders each citizen he catalogues, rendering his efforts obsolete.

Winner of the 2008 Images Festival’s Images Prize, this manual animation combines overhead projection with video, music, and live narration. $10 / 60 minutes Ibrahim Theater @ International House Philly 3701 Chestnut Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 18 at 7pm

Shara Taylor

X/Y The Porch Room

VIsual Art + Film

Daniel Barrow

The Porch Room LLC

from apocalyptic visions, in their imagination games?

This visceral, haunting, and darkly comic re-imagination of Buchner’s feverish text brings his 19th century play slamming into the 21st. $14 / 90 minutes Crane Arts 1400 North American Street Wheelchair accessible Sept 7–9 at 8pm Sept 10 at 2pm, 5pm + 8pm Sept 11 at 2pm

Slaying the Dragon / p97 Smiley / p109 Solo Tales of Terror: Lovecraft and Stoker / p109 Song of the Sacred Whore / p111 Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins / p111 Straw, Stick, Brick / p111 Superego / p111 Superheroes Who Are Super! / p111 Susannah, An American Opera by Carlisle Floyd / p97 TASK / p111 Teach Your Children / p111 That’s what she danced. / p87 The Aliens / p112 The Angel, The Devil, and Greg Brady / p112 The Art Anti-Gallery! / p92 The Articulate Landscape / p97 The Bacchae / p112 The Boy / p112 The Devil and Mister Punch / p46 The Dressing Room / p93 The Dutchman / p112 The Eros Trilogy / p112 The Estate of Real: Changing Philadelphia Neighborhoods / p93 The Gray Area / p112 The Greek Theatre Project / p112 The Green Fairy Cabaret / p93 The Method Gun / p44 The N Crowd Triple Double Header / p79 The Oresteia Project / p112 The Parts and the Whole / p87 The Radio Show / p64 The Real Housewives of South Philly Jump the Shark / p79 The Seer / p113 The Servant of Two Masters / p113 The Speed of Surprise! / p113 The Undead / p93 The Wedding Consultant / p113 The Witch in the Wood / p113 The Wonders of the Galápagos Islands Interactive Reading Program / p115 The XX Chromosome Genome Project / p113 This Is How It Goes / p113 Time Is The Mercy Of Eternity / p113 To by 5 / p87 Tongue & Groove / p114 Too Darn Hot / p87 topos topio / p87 Traces / p62 Trappings / p114 Twelfth Night, or What You Will / p42 twenty-four / p79 Ubu Roi / p114 Underneath the Surface / p87 Voice of this Generation: Love Lost / p97 Voltron / p79 von Brockman at Bridgid’s / p114 Wars and Whores: The Henry IV Musical / p114 Water Bears In Space / p114 Waterways / p87 Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction / p114 We the People / p93 WHaLE OPTICS / p36 Where We Collide / p89 Whiskey and Elephants / p89 White Light / p89 Wired / p114 Woyzeck / p114 X/Y / p115 XFS Philly Song Shuffle / p97 Yoga Stories / p93 Zon Mai / p54

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3 Mad Rituals / p78 A Paper Garden / p99 A Place To Be / p115 A Safe Distance from Oblivion / p99 A Series of Tests / p99 A Vegan Kid’s Dance For Adults With Nudity / p79 AFOOT! On the Parkway / p89 Afrikaner / p93 Agnes Falling / p79 All Places From Here / p99 Alternative Theatre Festival / p99 Amédée or How to Get Rid of It / p99 Ampersand / p89 An Opera a Day / p93 Angry People Building Things / p78 Argo: Quest For The Golden Fleece / p99 Asteroid! / p78 Awakened Ruins / p81 BASH / p101 Beautiful Zion: A Book Of The Dead / p101 Big Star California / p101 blank / p48 Bodies of Text III / p81 Branded / p101 BREW / p89 Bury the Hatchet (a play about forgiveness) / p101 Canyon / p60 Carnivores Anonymous / p78 Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness / p101 Checkers / p101 Checking Out / p103 Christie In Love / p103 Comedy House Party! / p78 Confluence of the Two Indian Classical Music Styles: Carnatic and Hindustani Vocal Duo / p97 Confluence of the Two Indian Classical Music Styles: Master of the Sarod, Hindustani Instrumental Concert / p97 Coriolanus / p103 Dancefusion......to Mary Anthony / p81 Dancing Dead / p81 Dangerous Fools / p78 Dark Comedy / p78 Daydreams / p81 Dead Dogs / p103 Debbie Does Dallas, the Musical / p103 Deep Trance Inside a Dancing Planetarium / p91 DEER HEAD: yet another—though equally hilarious, and perhaps even more so, as the first two—evening of outrageous short comedies by Josh McIlvain / p103 “Don’t Blow It” / p115 Doris Says . . . / p81 Elephant Room / p38 El Proceso/The Process / p81 eMerge—The Preview / p83 Eurydice in Market East / p91 Event End. / p103 Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry / p115 EXPOSED / p83 Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 1, Extremely Public / p68 Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 2, Displays / p91 Extremely Public Displays of Privacy: Act 3, Privacy / p91 Feelin’ Alright / p83 Female Trouble / p91

Fire / Truce / p105 Five Minute Follies / p91 Fletcher / p78 Fresh Laughs / p78 Friends of Alcatraz / p78 Fun Thing / p83 Gender Reel Multi-Media Festival / p115 Getting The Knack / p105 Girl on Gurl / p105 Going Back Naked / p105 Grab Bag / p83 Grandma’s House: The Documentary / p105 Green People / p105 He Was Either Well and Over It, or Lost and Gone Forever. / p83 Hear Again Radio Project / p105 Heavy Metal Dance Fag / p107 Hello America . . . My name is Jimmy Baldwin / p107 How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found / p107 Hughie / p107 Illustrating Truths / p83 In due time . . . / p83 In the Blood / p107 Inescapable Foreboding / p83 Japan House/Philadelphia / p85 Jericho Road Improvement Association / p107 Judith: the Other Shakespeare / p107 Kabbalah the Musical / p91 Kathy’s Daughter / p107 Lady M / p50 Laura’s Dance / p91 Le Mirage/Dead City Philly / p92 Let Me Tell You About a Dream I Had / p92 Lickety Skits / p108 Lion (El León) / p108 Longing with Language: A Performance Smorgasbord / p108 Look/Alive / p108 Lord of the Flies / p108 Max Frisch’s The Arsonists (The Firebugs) / p108 Mayor Karen / p79 Meat Man / p108 Mediate Me / p108 More Mouvements für Lachenmann / p66 My Dad Is Now Ready For His Sponge Bath / p108 My Name is Sam Johnson / p109 Namasya / p56 Nevermore / p109 One City Under a Groove / p85 One Peace at a Time / p92 One Space, Three Dances / p85 ONE WORD / p85 Overseers / p109 PAPER CUT / p109 Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . . Not the Henri Rousseau that Some of You Know . . . / p92 Pattern Recognition / p85 Philly Phantasy / p85 Play / p58 Plentiful / p85 Poetic Passageways / p92 PRO-MANIA! / p79 QARNIVALE of the PEOPLE / p92 Red Rovers / p40 Re/live/fe / p85 Revolving Spaces / p87 RISK! True Tales Boldly Told / p79 Rittenhouse Dance Mob / p89 Run Grunt Sing: An Open Air Theatric / p109 Saucy Bible Tales / p109 Savage/Love and Tongues / p109 Shaky Shaky Planet / p92 Should I Be Sweet? / p97

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Rose Ping Productions / p93 Rude Mechs / p44 S. Ann Johnson / p113 Salena Braun, Claire Lutz and Katherine Paulson / p87 SamiyMotif / p105 Secret Room Theatre / p108 + p114 Shantala Shivalingappa / p56 Shara Taylor / p115 Shufra / p109 Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Gilles Delmas / p54 Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa / p58 Smile/Frown Theatre Guild / p107 SmokeyScout Productions / p103 Spiral Q Puppet Theater / p92 Stone Depot Dance Lab & Melissa Diane / p81 Swim Pony Performing Arts / p50 Tactus Theatre Project / p91 Tall Grass Productions / p111 Tangle / p89 Thaddeus Phillips / p36 The Brothers Cromie / p89 The Groundswell Players / p113 The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium / p108 The Lady Hoofer’s Society / p87 The Maeko Film Project / p89 The Miss Rockaway Armada / p92 The N Crowd / p79 The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective / p112 The Philadelphia Opera Company / p97 The Porch Room / p115 The Shaky Shaky Players / p92 The Songlines / p108 The Theater Cooperative / p112 The WaitStaff / p79 The Wooden Spoon Theatre Company / p112 Theatre Exile / p112 Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater / p114 Tribe of Fools / p107 Underground Shakespeare Company / p114 Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and his sons Amaan and Ayaan / p97 Vada Dance Collective / p85 Venus Dance Company / p85 vonPaco Productions / p114 White Box Theatre/Sebastienne Mundheim / p92 Xavier Le Roy / p66 Xhale Dance Company / p87 Xtreme Folk Scene / p97 XZXZXZXZX.Z@Every Any Only Mo’RR &e* / p91 Yael Rasooly / p109 Yes! And . . .’s SHADOW Company / p105 Zacherle / p93 ZIYA / p93

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1828.1 Production Co. / p107 7 Fingers / p62 A. Sigley, J. Warchal-King, and M. T. Roberts / p81 Aaron Cromie, Mary Tuomanen, and Genevieve Perrier / p99 A:B / p99 Act Normal Theatre Company / p103 Adrienne Mackey / p 50 AGGROCRAG / p99 Amber Womack / p97 Angry People Building Things / p78 Applied Mechanics / p109 Bad Operator / p83 BalletFleming / p83 Baroke Productions / p115 Beacon Theatre Productions / p105 BodyFields Performance Collective / p89 Brian Sanders’ JUNK / p81 Bright Light Theatre Company / p99 Brooklyn Contemporary Theatre / p103 Bump in the Road Theatre / p101 Burning Sphere / p89 Call Me Crazy Dancers / p81 Candelabra Theater Company / p108 Cathy Quigley / p91 Center City Opera Theatre / p97 Cie. Willi Dorner / p48 City Wide Composers Collective / p97 coEXISTdance / p87 Colleen Hooper and Frances Gremilion / p87 COLO Creations / p112 COME UNITY / p83 Cortland Repertory Theatre / p111 COSACOSA art at large, Inc. / p93 Crack the Glass Theatre Company / p114 Curio Theatre Company / p108 Cymande Lewis / p109 Dancefusion / p81 Dangerous Fools / p78 Daniel Barrow / p115 Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble / p83 Dark Star Theatre / p113 Dennis Diamond / Louie Magic / Daryl Hannah / p38 Devennie / p109 Diversion Productions / p111 Donna Faye Burchfield / p87 DysFUNctional Theater / p92 Eric Singel / p113 ETC Theater / p105 + p112 eXposed Theatre Company / p103 Five Minute Follies / p91 Found Theater Company / p103 Fresh Blood InMovement Jennifer Morley / p85 GDP Productions / p114 Gender Reel Festival / p115 G.J. Ruggiero Productions / p113 Green Chair Dance Group / p79 Green Light Arts / p93 Group Motion Dance Company / p87 Headlong Dance Theater and Chris Doyle / p40 Heather Shayne Blakeslee & Sweetbriar Rose / p97 Hella Fresh Theater / p107 HomeSkooled Gallery / p92 Homunculus Inc. / p114 Hyphen-Nation Arts / p101 IdRatherBeHere / p114

Improbable / p46 Infatuation Dance Company / p83 iNtuitons Experimental Theatre Company / p99 inVersion Theater / p112 Ira Brind School of Theater Arts, University of the Arts / p107 Iris Theatre Company / p112 Iron Age Theatre / p103 Jay Nachman / p108 Jeffrey Stanley / p101 John Jasperse / p60 Joseph Thomas / p89 Josh McIlvain / p103 K. J. Deaton / p107 KAOS Dance Company / p83 Keila Cordova Dances / p79 Kyle Abraham / Abraham.In.Motion / p64 Lacy James/Mereminne Dancers / p93 Lawrence-Herchenroether Dance Company / p81 Leah Franqui / p113 Leah Stein Dance Company / p85 Linda Dubin Garfield and Susan DiPronio / p115 Live Your Peace and Central Free Library / p92 Lora Allen, Ellie Goudie-Averill, Christina Gesualdi, David Konyk, Gina Hoch-Stall, and Annie Wilson / p83 Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental / p36 Luna Theater Company / p107 M. Craig Getting & Jillian Taylor / p111 Magic Circle Theater Company / p109 Malladi Brothers and Gundelcha Brothers / p97 Marion Ramirez, Jung Woong Kim, Katherine Kiefer Stark, Justin Tornow / p85 Mark Kennedy / p101 MCCC Drama Club / p99 Megan Mizanty, Becca Weber, Meredith Steinberg, Danielle Greene, and Rori Smith / p87 Melissa McBain / p105 Missing Bolts Productions / p101 MM2 Modern Dance Company / p85 Monica Day/The Sensual Life / p111 New City Stage Company / p109 New Paradise Laboratories / p68 + p91 Nimrods / p99 Ocelot on a Leash Theater Company / p112 OMBELICO Mask Ensemble / p109 One Percent Productions / p109 Out On A Limb Movement Collective / p89 Overlap Live / p111 Pasion y Arte Flamenco Co. / p81 Penn Dixie Alive / p113 Penn Theatre Ensemble / p108 Philadelphia School of Circus Arts / p93 Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, Olive Prince Dance, Rit Mo Collective / p92 Philapolis Theatre Company / p108 Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) / p78 + p79 Pig Iron Theatre Company / p42 pillardance company / p83 Pink Hair Affair / p85 Plays and Players / p105 + p111 Polygon Improv Comedy / p79 Poor Richard’s Opera / p93 Project Moshen / p83 Public Eye: Artists for Animals / p78 PuppeTyranny / p114 Rabbi Rayzel Raphael / p91 Red Square Theatre / p107 Reel 9 Productions / p108 RenZoku Danceworks / p85 REP THEATRE / p105 REV Theatre Company / p101 RileSmith Arts / p101 Rocky Wilson / p91 Rookie Card / p78 Room6Theatre / p113

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Live Arts Brewery (LAB)

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A laboratory for creative research and development

The Live Arts Brewery (LAB) supports artistic research, experimentation, and exploration of contemporary theater, dance, and cross-genre live performance work. Our programs give artists the opportunity to deeply explore their work in a supportive environment, and engage audiences by inviting them to interact in the art-making process.

Fellowship Program Through the LAB Fellowship Program, artists are engaged in a yearlong curriculum designed to support and expand their research and development practices.

2010 Thaddeus Phillips Geoff Sobelle Charlotte Ford Niki and Jorge Cousineau Nichole Canuso Katherine Tebordo

2011 Adrienne Mackey, Lady M, 2011 Live Arts Festival Alex Torra Jumatatu Poe Greg Holt Megan Mazarick Makoto Hirano Les Rivera Mary McCool

2012 Brian Osborne Justin Jain Eun Jung Choi Jaamil Kosoko Michael Kiley Sara Yassky

LAB Test Series

“As I begin to explore my work as an individual, away from company and producer, the LAB has served as a home base, a place and a community on which I could rely, and a space for true experimentation and research.”

Alex Torra, LAB Fellow, 2011 “The LAB is a place where artists deeply engage in new and shared practices, where process is as highly regarded as the artistic product and where audiences not only peer through the window into the creative minds of artists but also share in their innovation and creation.”

Craig Peterson, director of the LAB and Philly Fringe.

Through our new LAB Test Series, selected artists are given the opportunity to have intensive residencies for up to a month of time and are given full access to the LAB black box theater—fully equipped with lights, sound and video capabilities.

Thaddeus Phillips, Whale Optics, 2011 Live Arts Festival

Coming soon! More public showings in our LAB space with artists from Philadelphia and beyond. Audiences and artists alike are invited to share, interact and exchange in the midst of the creative process.

LAB

Geoff Sobelle, Elephant Room, 2011 Live Arts Festival