Fall Guide 2016

Fall 2016

Welcome to FringeArts, Philadelphia’s home for

Philadelphia Magazine’s Best Place to See New Theater 2015

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December

12 | 8pm Music Series A Recital For Terry Adkins by George Lewis / Ensemble Pamplemousse

2 | 7pm FringeArts Presents Jérôme Bel by Jérôme Bel

1 | 8pm FringeArts Presents At Home with the Humorless Bastard by Annie Wilson

28 | 8pm Movie Series Not So Silent Cinema presents Nosferatu

“FringeArts has curated a lineup of programming that you won’t be able to catch anywhere else.”

Allie Volpe, Philly.com

3 | 7pm FringeArts Presents Jérôme Bel by Jérôme Bel 7 | 7pm Scratch Night Works-in-progress sampler by area artists (Free) 11 | 10:30pm Late Night NOWHERE FAST, a rock noir cabaret by Sam Tower + Ensemble and BRAT Productions 17 | 8pm FringeArts Presents JEAN & TERRY: Your Guides through Dark, Light, and Nebulous by Melissa & Kelly 17 | 10:30pm Late Night NOWHERE FAST, a rock noir cabaret by Sam Tower + Ensemble and BRAT Productions 18 | 8pm FringeArts Presents JEAN & TERRY: Your Guides through Dark, Light, and Nebulous by Melissa & Kelly 18 | 10:30pm Late Night Get Pegged Cabaret with Jenn Kidwell and Jess Conda, Dane Terry

FringeArts thanks PNC Arts Alive as the Presenting Sponsor of year-round programming.

We also thank William Penn Foundation, Independence Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation, Louis N. Cassett Foundation, MKM Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Comcast NBC10 Telemundo62 Comcast Spectacor, Wyncote Foundation, and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for their support.

19 | 8pm FringeArts Presents JEAN & TERRY: Your Guides through Dark, Light, and Nebulous by Melissa & Kelly 28 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Brent Green and Sam Green: Live Cinema

by Brent Green and Sam Green

Location and Parking

Membership

FringeArts + La Peg 140 North Columbus Boulevard (at Race Street) Philadelphia, PA 19106

Join now at FringeArts.com/membership.

Members save 30% on tickets prices plus receive priority access to tickets and seats, and enjoy VIP treatment at all events.

2 | 8pm FringeArts Presents At Home with the Humorless Bastard by Annie Wilson

Philadelphia Magazine’s Best Cultural Membership 2015

3 | 8pm FringeArts Presents At Home with the Humorless Bastard by Annie Wilson

La Peg The restaurant and bar at FringeArts.

Fall 2016

5 | 7pm Scratch Night Works-in-progress sampler by area artists (Free) 16 | 10:30pm Late Night Get Pegged Cabaret with R. Eric Thomas, Penny Arcade

Philadelphia Magazine’s Best American Restaurant 2016

No onsite parking. Nearby parking lots are shown on map. Street parking is metered in Old City and on Columbus Boulevard.

19 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret’s Soulstice Spectacular

Subway: Market Frankford Line 2nd St. Station at 2nd and Market Streets.

31 | 10:30pm Late Night New Year’s Funkin’ Eve with Red 40 & The Last Groovement

Buses: 5, 17, 25, 21, 33, 42, 48, 57 Above numbered buses stop within close walking distance of FringeArts.

Cover photo: Ilan Bachrach

21 | 10:30pm Late Night Get Pegged Cabaret with Cherdonna Shinatra

convention-smashing contemporary performing arts.

Tickets Purchase tickets at FringeArts.com or call 215.413.1318.

Tickets available at the door one hour before show time.

Chef Peter Woolsey’s contemporary brasserie featuring American comfort food and regional cuisine, a heralded wine and beer list, and fringetastic cocktails.

Dinner 5pm–10:30pm Monday–Thursday 5pm–11:30pm Friday and Saturday 5pm–10pm Sunday Brunch 11am–2pm Sunday Happy Hour Monday–Friday, 5pm–7pm: $3 drafts + house wine, $5 specialty cocktails Bar open late every night. Late night menus available during late night performances until 11:30pm and a bar menu between brunch and dinner on Sundays.

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Scratch Night Great food. Great drinks. Great views.

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Monday November 7 | 7pm Monday December 5 | 7pm

Photo: Bill Hebert

La Peg’s Seafood Shack at the Haas Biergarten is open 5pm–10pm every day till the end of October and beyond when weather permitting.

Photos: Peggy Baud-Woosley

Haas Biergarten

See art in the making.

Free / rsvp suggested FringeArts Theater

Artists experiment with new material in this fast-paced sampling of contemporary theater, dance, performance art, and everything in between. A fun opportunity to see what’s around-the-bend in Philadelphia performing arts, Scratch Nights feature short performances by up to six artists/companies.

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Get Pegged Cabaret

NOWHERE FAST

Hosted by John Jarboe of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

a rock noir cabaret, co-created by Sam Tower + Ensemble and BRAT Productions

Friday December 16 | 10:30pm R. Eric Thomas Penny Arcade: Longing Lasts Longer

Entertainment into the wee hours of the night. Live music.

Djs. Craziness. Schedule changes weekly, keep up to date at FringeArts.com.

FringeArts stage at La Peg + Haas Biergarten 4

Get Pegged Producers David and Linda Glickstein

“BRAT Productions, Philly’s foremost purveyor of fearless rock-and-roll theater” – Deb Miller, Phindie

Check the schedule at FringeArts.com for updates and more artist details.

Photo: Kate Raines / Plate3 Photography

Friday November 18 | 10:30pm Jenn Kidwell and Jess Conda Dane Terry

Friday November 11 | 10:30pm Thursday November 17 | 10:30pm

Photo: Kate Raines/plate3 Photo: Kate Raines/plate3

Friday October 21 | 10:30pm Cherdonna Shinatra

“I didn’t know whether to run for my life or fall in love.” – Mark Cofta, Philadelphia City Paper, on 901 Nowhere Street

Late Night at La Peg

BRAT Productions and the creators of Fringe Festival hit, 901 Nowhere Street transform La Peg into the seedy underbelly of a film noir crime caper. Join two triggerhappy, gin-guzzling songstresses as they race to the top of the scrapheap. Scored by a live set of gritty, guitar-fueled rock n’ roll, this wild ride to nowhere features an all-female, all-Philly cast of dancetheater badasses.

FringeArts stage at La Peg $5 for Standing Room $15 per seat for Table* *Tables must be bought in full (2-seat table costs $30, 4-seat table costs $60, etc.).

Additionally, each person is required to order a $15 minimum of food or drink.

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A Recital For Terry Adkins George Lewis / Ensemble Pamplemousse A co-presentation with the Institute of Contemporary Art and Ars Nova Workshop

Music Series Wednesday October 12 | 8pm FringeArts Theater $15 (general) $10.50 (member) This performance is in conjunction with the Institute of Contemporary Art’s exhibition The Freedom Principle.

A Recital For Terry Adkins was commissioned for the exhibition Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, a project conceived and directed by Robert G. O’Meally of The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University

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From pioneering composer and pioneering electronic musician George Lewis, comes this homage to the artist, performer, and multiinstrumentalist Terry Adkins.

Adkins, who passed away in 2014, was celebrated for his Recitals, which began as live performances within his gallery installations. A Recital For Terry Adkins is a largescale open-form ritual with live interaction between instruments, electronic sounds, and digitized still and moving images drawn from the work of Adkins, and one of his signal influences, Romare Bearden, a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

George Lewis, electronics and video; David Broome, keyboards; Natacha Diels, flute, piccolo, bass flute; Josh Modney, violin; Andrew Greenwald, percussion; Jessie Marino, cello

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“A mischievously entertaining conceptualist who is less interested in movement than in messing with your head.” Sanjoy Roy, The Guardian Taking the stage: the body in all its objective simplicity and functionality.

FringeArts Presents Wednesday November 2 | 7pm Thursday November 3 | 7pm $29 general / $20.30 member $15 student and 25-and-under FringeArts Theater 50 minutes

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Photos: Herman Sorgeloos

Jérôme Bel Jérôme Bel (France)

A rare showing of one of Jérôme Bel‘s earliest and most controversial works. Four performers deconstruct the theatrics of dance with minimal movement, nudity, and shadow.

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JEAN & TERRY: Your Guides through Dark, Light, and Nebulous Kelly Bond & Melissa Krodman When the mundanity of everyday life crashes into psychic phenomena it helps to have a guide.

FringeArts Presents Thursday November 17 | 8pm Friday November 18 | 8pm Saturday November 19 | 8pm $20 (general) / $14 (member) $15 student and 25-and-under FringeArts Theater “We are perceivers. We are an awareness. We are not objects.

We have no solidity. The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient.” Michael Talbot

Jean & Terry are a housewife and her spirit guide. They are alter egos for a neurotic choreographer and her zen-ed out collaborator, a pair of mountains, and a team of gods who smile from above. They are me and they are you.

In their new experimental play and self-described form of psychic activism, choreographers and performing artists Melissa Krodman and Kelly Bond peer with a curious and open third eye into ideas of the Universal Consciousness. The performers stage their attempts at seeking one-ness, achieving telepathy, elevating our collective vibrational frequencies, and acknowledging the impossibility of it all. Set against a journey across the astral plane, Jean & Terry asks us to consider what we are made of and what, if anything, separates us.

Featuring performer-creators Mark McCloughan and Jaime Maseda, along with Ilan Bachrach’s video design and music composition by Greg Svitil.

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FringeArts.com + 215.413.1318 “If Mark Twain were with us today, he would probably be engaged in endeavors comparable to [Brent] Green’s films.” Art Forum “The whole point of this kind of cinema is that this is a live experience that will never happen again—it’s a celebration of the moment and the ephemeral and being present.” Sam Green

Music Series Monday November 28 | 8pm $20 (general) $14 (member) $15 student and 25-and-under FringeArts Theater

Brent Green and Sam Green: Live Cinema

They aren’t related but one Green makes narrative shorts while the other Green makes documentaries.

Self-taught animator Brent Green and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green pair live music and narration with screenings of their best short films. Foley sound artist Kate Ryan and a band comprising Brendan Canty (Fugazi), James Canty (Nation of Ulysses), and Becky Foon (Silver Mt. Zion) perform live alongside the cinematic proceedings: flickering stop-motion Southern Gothic forays from Brent, engrossing documentaries about provincial dreamers and doers from Sam.

Previous Sam Green at FringeArts: The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, The Measure of All Things.

Brent Green and Sam Green 12

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At Home with the Humorless Bastard

FringeArts Presents Thursday December 1 | 8pm Friday December 2 | 8pm Saturday December 3 | 8pm

Annie Wilson

$20 (general) / $14 (member) $15 student and 25-and-under

The bedridden bastard waits by the window, like a cat with all four legs cut into stumps, and watches you somersault across the lawn. The bastard emits a low-frequency hum that gently unsettles your bowels.

The bastard throws glitter every goddamn where. Pulls you down a waterfall. Drags you onstage. Sips a beer and keens in your ear until you develop encephalopathy. From Annie Wilson, creator of the 2014 Fringe hit Lovertits, comes a work of theater, dance, magic, and ritual about the body and its fragility—and the lengths we go to protect ourselves.

Photos: Jen Cleary

FringeArts Theater

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Saturday December 31 | 10:30pm $49 general / $34.30 member $15 student and 25-and-under

New Years Funkin’ Eve Featuring Red 40 & The Last Groovement

“The Drag Queen King,” The Philadelphia Inquirer

Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret’s Soulstice Spectacular 16

$20–$35 (general) $14–$24.50 (member) $15 (student and 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Theater

Photo: Johanna Austin

Friday December 19 | 8pm

Photo: Kevin Monko

Music Series

Who will save your soulstice?

Spend the shortest day of the year with Philadelphia’s tallest lady. Celebrate the season of darkness turning into light with the hairy-chested, fake eyelashladen alter ego of thespian Dito Van Reigersberg in this balls-tothe-wall drag cabaret. Backed by her stellar band and with her killer voice, Martha Graham Cracker takes you on a raucous, joyous, uninhibited sleigh ride around her world.

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Dare to Engage

Coming to FringeArts Winter 2017

Become a FringeArts Producer!

Producers Circle is a dedicated group of performing arts enthusiasts who support FringeArts and engage with the art we present at the deepest possible level.

As a member of this exciting group you have exclusive access to an array of benefits and unique events that take you further into the art that you make happen. We take Producers Circle members behind the scenes, offering a peek into the work we present and the creative process.

You’ll get: Access to artists.

Private parties.

Concierge ticket services.

Restaurant privileges.

Early access. ...and much more!

Visit fringearts.com/support/producers-circle for a full list of options.

Make Your Contribution Let the world know that you support adventurous art.

BY WEB Visit FringeArts.com/Support to make an online contribution.

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BY PHONE

Call 267.612.4901 or 267.612.4902

BY MAIL

Make checks payable to FringeArts and mail to: Attn: Development FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19106

Erin Markey’s A Ride on the Irish Cream

Mary Tuomanen’s Hello! Sadness!

Image: Samuel Henderson

Lightning Rod Special’s Sans Everything

Photo: Allison Michael Orenstein

Photo: Johanna Austin

Stay up to date at FringeArts.com as new artists are added.

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215.375.7744

Peter Woolsey

Executive Chef / Proprietor

www.lapegbrasserie.com

Nicholas Bazik

140 N Columbus Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19106

Michael Slavin

Chef de Cuisine

General Manager

VEGETABLES house mesclun salad

FISH 7

soft and bitter lettuces, tahini, lemon vinaigrette

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Dinner

salmon

Monday through Thursday lentils, seasonal vegetables, horseradish cream 5pm–10:00pm pan roasted striped bass

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beef tartare

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9 tuna tartare warm autumnal salad, chicken jusInside the FringeArts Friday and Saturday building, frisee, poached egg, bacon, sustainable ahi tuna, soy, walnut oil, pickled 5pm–11:30pm discover Chef Peter Woolsey’s potatoes, mustard vinaigrette ginger, yellow pepper, japanese cucumber, 19 idaho trout red miso green beans, lemon brown butter emulsion contemporary brasserie featuring trio of vegetables 9 Sunday Brunch American comfort food and beets with orange vinaigrette and oyster trio 11am–2pm yogurt, lentils with vegetable macedoine smoked creaminspired and salmon roe, lemon regional cuisine.

Enjoy and mustard vinaigrette, haricots vets with herb purée, chili oil and lime toasted almonds and mustard vinaigrette plates made from the highest Happy Hour the piece: quality sourcedby vegetables and seasonal vegetables 8 $30 $3 MENU Monday–Friday, 5pm–7pm: daily selection cider-braised butternut squash, black oysters meats, a heralded wine and beer drafts + house wine, trumpet puree, cranberry chutney, herb butternut squashlist, soupand fringetastic shrimp puree, wild mushrooms cocktails. $5 specialty cocktails or salad lyonnaise

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potato rosti

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mustard vinaigrette, scallion, cornichons, lemon, chorizo, egg yolk, grilled bread

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(served with mignonette, cocktail sauce and lemon)

trio of salads

(choose three from the salad menu)

Peruse the menu at:salad crab potato cake with shallot, fresh tomato Bar open late every night.

— sauce, parmesan 1.5 oz. crab meat, avocado, mango, cayenne, roastedduring half chickenlapegbrasserie.com. and fries Late night menus available tarragon mayonaise or late night performances salmon with until lentils and horseradish — 11:30pm and a bar menu between lobster salad APPETIZERS chocolate cake 1.5 oz. lobster meat, chive, lemon, mayonaise brunch and dinner on Sundays. or Philadelphia Magazine’s Best American Restaurant 2016

butternut squash soup mussels mariniere

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blue bay mussels, cream leek cloud, baguette

seared scallops

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braised endive, orange fumé

snails 6 burgundy snails, garlic herb butter

SANDWICHES

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esplette candied pecans, seared mushrooms

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MEAT roasted 1/2 chicken

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lancaster raised, brined, spinach, brown butter mashed potatoes, jus

brioche bun, bacon and caramelized onion marmalade, red wine reduction, pickles, smear of delice de bourgogne, corn shoots …. or your way

the parisian pork cheek carbonade beer-braised, onions, spice bread croutons

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baguette, french ham, butter, cornichons

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la peg sundae

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pho consommé

reinterpreted steak and vietnamese noodle soup, oxtail ravioli, traditional garnish

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“The FringeArts venue is fantastic.”

Victor Fiorillo, Philadelphia Magazine Photo: Jen Cleary