2019 Fringe Festival Guide

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WHAT IS THE FRINGE FESTIVAL? Now in its twenty-third year, the Fringe Festival is a three-week, Philadelphia-wide celebration of innovation and creativity through performance, visual, and digital art.

Each September, the Fringe Festival explodes into every nook and cranny of neighborhoods across Philadelphia, with more than one thousand artistically daring performances.

Welcome.

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FringeArts Curated Venue Map

The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation The Wooster Group

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Tickets + Info

Day by Day

FringeArts Curated

FringeArts Curated Schedule

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Free at FringeArts

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Superterranean Pig Iron Theatre Company / Mimi Lien

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Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants Mariana Arteaga

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Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription Tina Satter / Half Straddle

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Cartography Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Myers

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There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other Blanka Zizka and Rosa Barba with the Wilma HotHouse

Photos: Anne Van Aerschot, Ishka Michocka, elmanstudio, Steven Gunther

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Maps + Index by Venue

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Thank You

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Index by Show

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Index by Artist

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Coming Soon

Pursuit of Happiness Nature Theater of Oklahoma / EN-KNAP Group

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Edited by: Christopher Munden, Seth Boyce + FringeArts staff

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Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

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Un Poyo Royo Un Poyo Royo

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Let Me Die Joseph Keckler

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Late Night Snacks The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

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Fringe by Genre

Comedy + Improv

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Dance

Digital

Interdisciplinary

Design: Masters Group Design Maps: Sean Andrade Cover photo: Anne Van Aerschot

Music

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Theater

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Visual Art + Film

Fringe Festival Bookstore

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Companion Works

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HOW DO I DECIDE WHICH SHOWS I WANT TO SEE? Do you know what you like?

Fringe for free

Each year, hundreds of independent artists present daring, fun new work at the Fringe Festival. This year, those shows are listed alphabetically by genre (pages 67–99). Browse the pages for your favorite discipline and read about the varied works. If you’ve heard about a show or artist and you’re not sure about the discipline, consult the handy indexes, arranged alphabetically by show name (page 131) and artist name (page 133).

Party late into the night with free entertainment plus food and drink at the Festival Bar at FringeArts (page 32). During the day, check out free programming at the Fringe Festival Bookstore at Cherry Street Pier (pages 56 + 57) and FringeArts (pages 32 + 33)

Let us help you FringeArts has a team of curators who travel the world watching work by a wide range of performers and makers. They’ve compiled a roster of shows—dance, theater, music, and simply beyond categorization—tackling the biggest ideas of our time in beautiful, digestible, provocative ways. Check out the FringeArts Curated section (pages 26–57): You’ll definitely find some shows you need to see.

Glued to your screen?

Stay close to home Want to Fringe without leaving the neighborhood?

Looking to see a show at an unusual venue? The index by venue (pages 102–109) breaks down the Fringe Festival by area and location.

Delve deeper Get additional and up-to-date information on all Fringe Festival shows at FringeArts.com and the FringeArts App, compatible with Apple and Android phones. The newly updated App lets you organize your schedule, see what shows other people are liking and recommending, and find the shows closest to you.

Experience the Fringe Festival from anywhere with a selection of one-of-a-kind Digital Fringe shows (pages 74–76).

Fringe Festival Box Office: 140 North Columbus Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19106 215.413.1318 Pre-Festival Hours Aug 26–Sept 4: 11am–5pm Festival Hours Sept 5–22: 11am–8pm

HOW DO I GET MY TICKETS? At FringeArts.com

At the Fringe Festival Box Office

Add tickets for multiple shows to your shopping cart and purchase with a credit card. FringeArts Members, be sure to log in first to receive your discount!

Purchase tickets with cash or credit card at the official Fringe Festival Box Office. Tickets to FringeArts Curated shows are sold until one hour before performance time. Tickets to all other Fringe shows are sold until two hours before performance time.

Call 215.413.1318 Our box office staff is happy to process your ticket order over the phone with a credit card weekdays 11am–5pm, and daily during Fringe Festival Box Office hours (see box, opposite page).

At the performance venue Tickets are available at the venue one hour before performances for FringeArts Curated shows, and 30 minutes before performances for all other Fringe shows. Most independently produced Fringe shows are cash only.

REFUNDS & EXCHANGES

SEATING POLICY

After purchase, you receive an email confirmation with your tickets attached as a PDF. Print or display tickets on your electronic device for admission at the venue. Tickets purchased at the Fringe Festival Box Office can be printed there.

FringeArts does not offer refunds, but you may exchange your tickets for a different performance of the same show by phone or at the Fringe Festival Box Office. Exchanges are free for FringeArts members and Producers Circle members, and $2 per ticket for non-members. Exchanges can be made up to two hours before the ticketed performance.

Seating for most shows is on a firstcome, first-served basis. Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the house manager. Some shows do not allow late seating, so arrive early!

HOW CAN I SAVE ON MY TICKETS? FringeArts Members

Artist/Industry Rush

FringeACCESS

Members receive 20%+ off tickets to Fringe Festival shows and FringeArts events throughout the year, along with free ticket exchanges, advance access to tickets and seats, and numerous other benefits. See page 125 or FringeArts.com/Membership for more info.

Artists participating in the Fringe Festival receive $5 rush tickets to all Fringe Festival shows, at the door 30 minutes before showtime, subject to availability. Other artists and theater industry members can rush FringeArts Curated shows for $15. Proof of industry required.

Pennsylvania ACCESS Card holders can receive up to four $2 tickets to all FringeArts Curated shows with a free FringeACCESS membership.

Visit FringeArts.com/FringeACCESS for more info.

Students + 25-and-under All current students and anyone 25-and-under gets FringeArts Curated show tickets for just $15 and $5 off independently produced Fringe Festival show tickets if the original price is $20 or more. Valid student ID or proof of age required.

Groups Groups of 10+ save 25% on tickets.

Email patronservices@FringeArts.com or call 215.413.1318 for group orders.

TICKETS + INFO

TICKET DELIVERY

Volunteer Volunteering is a great way to be a part of the Fringe Festival and to see shows for free.

For more information, email volunteer@FringeArts.com or call 267.612.4903.

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INSTITUTIONAL + GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation

Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation

The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation

Thomas T. Phillips, Jr. Foundation, Inc.

CORPORATE SPONSORS

MEDIA SPONSORS

ACCESSIBILITY Photo: Johanna Austin

FringeArts is committed to being of Philadelphia, for Philadelphia. As an artistic and cultural institution in this city, we take seriously our responsibility to be accessible to everybody, at every entryway. From our ticket-buying process to arriving at an event, the performances themselves to our post-show experiences, we are working hard to continuously improve our accessibility and that of our participating Fringe Festival artists and venues.

For a description of what to expect when you come to a performance at FringeArts and the accessibility services we offer, visit FringeArts.com/Accessibility.

Select performances in the 2019 Fringe Festival offer accessibility services, including: C artography (p42) Relaxed Performance G ay Mis (p89) ASL Interpretation I s This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription (p40) ASL Interpretation Pursuit of Happiness (p50) Open Captioning R E: SHE, a litany of adventures (p94) ASL Interpretation S ee Amid the Winter Snow (p95) Audio Description

See FringeArts.com and individual show webpages for dates, details, and additional accessibility information.

Plus, look for these accessibility icons in show descriptions in this guide and online: = Wheelchair accessible = American Sign Language Interpretation = Audio Description

S ince They Left: A Pied Piper Musical (p95) Open Captioning

= Open Captioning

S neakers (p72) ASL Interpretation

= Relaxed Performance

T here: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other (p44) Open Captioning U n Poyo Rojo (p48) Audio Description

To request additional accessibility services for a specific performance, please email patronservices@FringeArts.com.

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TUESDAY 9.3 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 7pm The Edge, 60 min / p79 8pm Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87

WEDNESDAY 9.4 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 5:30pm The Edge, 60 min / p79 7pm The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 8pm Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 In Transit, 90 min / p90

THURSDAY 9.5 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 2pm Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 4pm This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 5:30pm The Edge, 60 min / p79 6pm Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 7pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens, 45 min / p85

H5¹, a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s HENRY V, 85 min / p89 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 Real Housewives of Camden, 50 min / p80 Richard III, 90 min / p94 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 Since They Left: A Pied Piper Musical, 90 min / p95 Two Bedroom, One Bath, 90 min / p96 Whine & Waffles, 100 min / p96 7:30pm Beards: A New Musical, 90 min / p85 In America, That is to Say No Where, 60 min / p90 Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91 Out of The Shadows, 50 min / p93 Significant Other, 120 min / p95 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 8pm The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation, 65 min / p34 BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 Immigrant Concierge Services, 55 min / p79 In Transit, 90 min / p90 Lavender Life, 45 min / p79 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 8:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Myths & Monsters, 60 min / p68 9pm Wear and Tear, 60 min / p96

FRIDAY 9.6 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 2pm Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99

4pm This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 6pm H5¹, a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s HENRY V, 85 min / p89 Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 Sneakers, 60 min / p72 7pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens, 45 min / p85 Brown-eyed Rapunzel, 75 min / p87 Dull Space and Dance, 45– 90 min / p88 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 The Miseducation of Generation Never, 50 min / p79 Real Housewives of Camden, 50 min / p80 Richard III, 90 min / p94 Since They Left: A Pied Piper Musical, 90 min / p95 Two Bedroom, One Bath, 90 min / p96 7:30pm Beards: A New Musical, 90 min / p85 The Edge, 60 min / p79 Howie Hypnotize, 50 min / p68 In America, That is to Say No Where, 60 min / p90 Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91 re. TRANSVERBERATION, 50 min / p94 Significant Other, 120 min / p95 States of Matter, 90 min / p73 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 8pm Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation, 65 min / p34 BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 In Transit, 90 min / p90 INK, 65 min / p90 Operatic Addictions, 80 min / p82 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Rat Ruse, 90 min / p69

8:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Myths & Monsters, 60 min / p68 9pm bilialien, 75 min / p70 H5¹, a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s HENRY V, 85 min / p89 Lavender Life, 45 min / p79 The Murder & Booze Cabaret, 70 min / p91 Noir AF: An Improvised Film Noir, 75 min / p69 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 Wear and Tear, 60 min / p96 10pm Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 SplitScreen, 45 min / p72 10:30pm Festival Kickoff Party, 90 min / p32

SATURDAY 9.7 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 11am Billy the Baaadly Behaving Bully Goat: The Musical, 45 min / p87 2pm Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 Autopia, 90 min / p85 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Out of The Shadows, 50 min / p93 Since They Left: A Pied Piper Musical, 90 min / p95 Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 Wear and Tear, 60 min / p96 3pm And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens, 45 min / p85 bilialien, 75 min / p70 In Transit, 90 min / p90 The Miseducation of Generation Never, 50 min / p79 Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 3:30pm Two Bedroom, One Bath, 90 min / p96

4pm H5¹, a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s HENRY V, 85 min / p89 Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants, 45 min / p38 5pm 60’s FOLK Revisited, 60 min / p82 An Iliad, 100 min / p85 Myths & Monsters, 60 min / p68 Out of The Shadows, 50 min / p93 RE:figuring, 60 min / p72 Richard III, 90 min / p94 6pm KCBC x KCBCII, 90 min / p71 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69

7:30pm Beards: A New Musical, 90 min / p85 Howie Hypnotize, 50 min / p68 Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91 RE:figuring, 60 min / p72 re. TRANSVERBERATION, 50 min / p94 Richard III, 90 min / p94 Significant Other, 120 min / p95 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 8pm And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens, 45 min / p85 The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation, 65 min / p34 BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Dancing Again in Love, 70 min / p88 Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 In Transit, 90 min / p90 KCBC x KCBCII, 90 min / p71

8:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Myths & Monsters, 60 min / p68 Red Lodge, Montana, 85 min / p94 9pm H5¹, a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s HENRY V, 85 min / p89 Noir AF: An Improvised Film Noir, 75 min / p69 Wear and Tear, 60 min / p96 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54 10pm Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 The Murder & Booze Cabaret, 70 min / p91 11:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

SUNDAY 9.8 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 11am Billy the Baaadly Behaving Bully Goat: The Musical, 45 min / p87 Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 2pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 amethyst., 60 min / p85 Autopia, 90 min / p85 The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation, 65 min / p34 Beards: A New Musical, 90 min / p85 Dancing Again in Love, 70 min / p88 KCBC x KCBCII, 90 min / p71 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 RE:figuring, 60 min / p72 re. TRANSVERBERATION, 50 min / p94 Significant Other, 120 min / p95 Since They Left: A Pied Piper Musical, 90 min / p95 Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 SplitScreen, 45 min / p72 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 Wear and Tear, 60 min / p96

2:30pm Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87

8:30pm Male Tears: A Clown Castration, 45 min / p79

3pm Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens, 45 min / p85 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 Sneakers, 60 min / p72 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 Ujima Dance Theatre’s Words and Movement Two, 120 min / p73

9:00pm Wear and Tear, 60 min / p96

3:30pm Red Lodge, Montana, 85 min / p94 4pm An Iliad, 100 min / p85 The Clinic, 45 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 H5¹, a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s HENRY V, 85 min / p89 KCBC x KCBCII, 90 min / p71 5pm 60’s FOLK Revisited, 60 min / p82 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Late Night Snacks: Family Cabaret / p54 Period House, 75 min / p93 Richard III, 90 min / p94 6pm The Clinic, 45 min / p87 Destiny is a Careless Waiter, 60 min / p88 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 The Murder & Booze Cabaret, 70 min / p91 Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 7pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Gay Mis, 120 min / p89 Male Tears: A Clown Castration, 45 min / p79 Period House, 75 min / p93 Roll Play: An Improvised Adventure, 60 min / p69 Since They Left: A Pied Piper Musical, 90 min / p95 You Are Not a Shining Star, 60 min / p73 7:30pm Red Lodge, Montana, 85 min / p94 Richard III, 90 min / p94 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 8pm BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 bilialien, 75 min / p70 The Clinic, 45 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80

9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54 10pm Gay Mis, 120 min / p89

MONDAY 9.9 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 12:30pm Dear qupid, ongoing / p82 4pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Give Your Heart, 60 min / p79 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 5pm bilialien, 75 min / p70 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 5:30pm The Edge, 60 min / p79 6pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88

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7pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 amethyst., 60 min / p85 Brown-eyed Rapunzel, 75 min / p87 Dull Space and Dance, 45–90 min / p88 Gay Mis, 120 min / p89 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 The Miseducation of Generation Never, 50 min / p79 Period House, 75 min / p93 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 Since They Left: A Pied Piper Musical, 90 min / p95 Two Bedroom, One Bath, 90 min / p96 Ujima Dance Theatre’s Words and Movement Two, 120 min / p73 You Are Not a Shining Star, 60 min / p73

Operatic Addictions, 80 min / p82 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 Sneakers, 60 min / p72 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 SplitScreen, 45 min / p72

7pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Khan!!! The Musical!!!, 120 min / p90 Male Tears: A Clown Castration, 45 min / p79 Richard III, 90 min / p94 7:30pm Beards: A New Musical, 90 min / p85 8pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Sneakers, 60 min / p72 8:30pm Male Tears: A Clown Castration, 45 min / p79 Red Lodge, Montana, 85 min / p94

TUESDAY 9.10 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99

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1pm bilialien, 75 min / p70

5:30pm The Edge, 60 min / p79

4pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99

6pm Destiny is a Careless Waiter, 60 min / p88 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Everything Okay in There?, 100 min / p88

5pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 6pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 7pm Churn, 60 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 Khan!!! The Musical!!!, 120 min / p90 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 SPIES!! Even More Spying, 90 min / p95 7:30pm The Edge, 60 min / p79 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 8pm BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Sneakers, 60 min / p72 8:30pm Dumpster Dance for Garbage People, 90 min / p79 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 9pm Question Reality, 30 min / p79 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

WEDNESDAY 9.11 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 Noon Give Your Heart, 60 min / p79 2pm Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 4pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 5pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88

7pm Animation Nation Pt. 2, 90 min / p98 The Break Fast Club, 55 min / p87 Churn, 60 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 Harrison, 50 min / p89 Richard III, 90 min / p94 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 7:30pm How It Really Happens, 65 min / p90 Significant Other, 120 min / p95 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 Tesla’s Dream, 65 min / p96 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44 8pm BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 Immigrant Concierge Services, 55 min / p79 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 Queer Bait: Sterile, 70 min / p69 Riot In Rittenhouse: A Philly Sketch Comedy Show, 60 min / p69 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 8:30pm Dumpster Dance for Garbage People, 90 min / p79 Red Lodge, Montana, 85 min / p94 9pm Party At DeeDee’s, 90 min / p93 9:30pm The Edge, 60 min / p79 Late Night Snacks / p54

THURSDAY 9.12 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99

Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 2pm Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 4pm This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 5pm Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91 5:30pm The Edge, 60 min / p79 6pm Everything Okay in There?, 100 min / p88 Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 7pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 The Break Fast Club, 55 min / p87 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 Harrison, 50 min / p89 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Richard III, 90 min / p94 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 SPIES!! Even More Spying, 90 min / p95 T U R F, 60 min / p73 Whine & Waffles, 100 min / p96 7:30pm Atrytone/Fixed, 60 min / p85 The Destination is the Downbeat, 90 min / p71 How It Really Happens, 65 min / p90 I Spy, With My Little Eye, 55 min / p71 Knock ’Em Dead, 100 min / p68 Out of The Shadows, 50 min / p93 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Shirley Valentine, 85 min / p95 Significant Other, 120 min / p95 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 Tesla’s Dream, 65 min / p96 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44 8pm A Manayunk Mystery Tour, 60 min / p84 BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Cartography, 75 min / p42 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, 70 min / p46 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Queer Bait: Sterile, 70 min / p69 Question Reality, 30 min / p79

Riot In Rittenhouse: A Philly Sketch Comedy Show, 60 min / p69 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 Sprout! A Full Length Not-ABallet, 45 min / p72 Stripping the Yellow Wallpaper, 50 min / p95 8:30pm Fear Itself, 45 min / p89 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Red Lodge, Montana, 85 min / p94 9pm Manifest Destiny, 55 min / p82 Party At DeeDee’s, 90 min / p93 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 9:30 pm The Edge, 60 min / p79 Late Night Snacks / p54 Midnight Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88

FRIDAY 9.13 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 2pm Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 4pm This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 5pm Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91 6pm Everything Okay in There?, 100 min / p88 Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 7pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 Dance Collection, 85 min / p71 Fear Itself, 45 min / p89 Fragments from a Witch’s Journal, 35 min / p89 Harrison, 50 min / p89 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 Khan!!! The Musical!!!, 120 min / p90 The Miseducation of Generation Never, 50 min / p79 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Richard III, 90 min / p94 The Rose Garden, 45 min / p94 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 Sprout! A Full Length Not-ABallet, 45 min / p72

DAY BY DAY Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants, 45 min / p38 Whine & Waffles, 100 min / p96

8pm A Manayunk Mystery Tour, 60 min / p84 Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Cartography, 75 min / p42 Coated: 1944 Circus Fire Project, 70 min / p78 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Dancing Again in Love, 70 min / p88 Eurydice by Radio Eris, 110 min / p88 Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, 70 min / p46 FreeWork, 90 min / p89 INK, 65 min / p90 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 My Last Revolution, 70 min / p93 NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret, 60 min / p93 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Rat Ruse, 90 min / p69 Riot In Rittenhouse: A Philly Sketch Comedy Show, 60 min / p69

8:15pm Fear Itself, 45 min / p89

Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 Give Your Heart, 60 min / p79 Run Boy Run Production Presents: Complex[ion] Woman, 75 min / p94 1pm Churn, 60 min / p87

9:30pm Fear Itself, 45 min / p89 Late Night Snacks / p54

2pm Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 Alternative Theatre Festival 2019, 80 min / p85 Atrytone/Fixed, 60 min / p85 Autopia, 90 min / p85 Harrison, 50 min / p89 Is This a Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription, 80 min / p40 Lysistratra, Cross Your Legs Sister, 95 min / p91 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Out of The Shadows, 50 min / p93 RISE: Relationship is Self Existing, 25 min / p72 Roll Play: An Improvised Adventure, 60 min / p69 The Rose Garden, 45 min / p94 Superterranean, 80 min / p36

10pm A Manayunk Mystery Tour, 60 min / p84 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 INK, 65 min / p90 Queer Bait: Sterile, 70 min / p69 Red Lodge, Montana, 85 min / p94 SplitScreen, 45 min / p72

3pm Dance Collection, 85 min / p71 The Miseducation of Generation Never, 50 min / p79 RISE: Relationship is Self Existing, 25 min / p72 Tesla’s Dream, 65 min / p96 Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99

11pm NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret, 60 min / p93

3:30pm Party At DeeDee’s, 90 min / p93

11:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

4pm 50th Anniversary of the Original Woodstock 1969!, 105 min / p70 RISE: Relationship is Self Existing, 25 min / p72 Shirley Valentine, 85 min / p95 Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants, 45 min / p38

8:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Queer Bait: Sterile, 70 min / p69 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 RE: SHE, a litany of adventures, 80 min / p94 9pm Fire in the Sky, 60 min / p71 Manifest Destiny, 55 min / p82 Noir AF: An Improvised Film Noir, 75 min / p69 Party At DeeDee’s, 90 min / p93 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 Temple of Venus, 90 min / p99

SATURDAY 9.14 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 11am Billy the Baaadly Behaving Bully Goat: The Musical, 45 min / p87

5pm 60’s FOLK Revisited, 60 min / p82 An Iliad, 100 min / p85

I Spy, With My Little Eye, 55 min / p71 Out of The Shadows, 50 min / p93 Richard III, 90 min / p94 Riot In Rittenhouse: A Philly Sketch Comedy Show, 60 min / p69 SPIES!! Even More Spying, 90 min / p95 6pm Dance Collection, 85 min / p71 Knock ’Em Dead, 100 min / p68 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 7pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 Fear Itself, 45 min / p89 Gay Mis, 120 min / p89 Harrison, 50 min / p89 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 Khan!!! The Musical!!!, 120 min / p90 The Miseducation of Generation Never, 50 min / p79 Period House, 75 min / p93 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 The Rose Garden, 45 min / p94 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94

DAY BY DAY

7:30pm Atrytone/Fixed, 60 min / p85 The Destination is the Downbeat, 90 min / p71 Honey, 60 min / p71 How It Really Happens, 65 min / p90 I Spy, With My Little Eye, 55 min / p71 Is This a Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription, 80 min / p40 Knock ’Em Dead, 100 min / p68 Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Lysistratra, Cross Your Legs Sister, 95 min / p91 Out of The Shadows, 50 min / p93 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Significant Other, 120 min / p95 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 Tesla’s Dream, 65 min / p96 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44

Run Boy Run Production Presents: Complex[ion] Woman, 75 min / p94 she didn’t want to be found, 60 min / p95 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 Stripping the Yellow Wallpaper, 50 min / p95 T U R F, 60 min / p73

7:30pm 50th Anniversary of the Original Woodstock 1969!, 105 min / p70 Atrytone/Fixed, 60 min / p85 Candle, Sword, and Fan, 60 min / p70 Honey, 60 min / p71 How It Really Happens, 65 min / p90 I Spy, With My Little Eye, 55 min / p71 Lysistratra, Cross Your Legs Sister, 95 min / p91 Manifest Destiny, 55 min / p82 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Richard III, 90 min / p94 Significant Other, 120 min / p95 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 8pm A Manayunk Mystery Tour, 60 min / p84 Alternative Theatre Festival 2019, 80 min / p85 BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Cartography, 75 min / p42 Coated: 1944 Circus Fire Project, 70 min / p78 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Dancing Again in Love, 70 min / p88

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Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, 70 min / p46 FreeWork, 90 min / p89 Is This a Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription, 80 min / p40 The Live-streaming Confessional of #stacylucky, 60 min / p91 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret, 60 min / p93 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Riot In Rittenhouse: A Philly Sketch Comedy Show, 60 min / p69 Run Boy Run Production Presents: Complex[ion] Woman, 75 min / p94 she didn’t want to be found, 60 min / p95 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 SplitScreen, 45 min / p72 Sprout! A Full Length Not-ABallet, 45 min / p72 Stripping the Yellow Wallpaper, 50 min / p95 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44 8:15pm Fear Itself, 45 min / p89 8:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Queer Bait: Sterile, 70 min / p69 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 9pm Fire in the Sky, 60 min / p71 Noir AF: An Improvised Film Noir, 75 min / p69 Party At DeeDee’s, 90 min / p93 Question Reality, 30 min / p79

Knock ’Em Dead, 100 min / p68 Manifest Destiny, 55 min / p82 Queer Bait: Sterile, 70 min / p69 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 10:30pm Festival Halftime Party: FEELS, 90 min / p32 11pm NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret, 60 min / p93 11:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

SUNDAY 9.15 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 11am Billy the Baaadly Behaving Bully Goat: The Musical, 45 min / p87 Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 11:30pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Noon Artists & Makers Fair, ongoing / p33 Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 12:30pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78

9:30pm Fear Itself, 45 min / p89 Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Late Night Snacks / p54 RE: SHE, a litany of adventures, 80 min / p94

1pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Dear qupid, ongoing / p82 Run Boy Run Production Presents: Complex[ion] Woman, 75 min / p94 Tesla’s Dream, 65 min / p96 Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99

10pm A Manayunk Mystery Tour, 60 min / p84 BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 HABIT@, 60 min / p89

1:30pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Khan!!! The Musical!!!, 120 min / p90

2pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 Autopia, 90 min / p85 Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Dancing Again in Love, 70 min / p88 FreeWork, 90 min / p89 Immigrant Concierge Services, 55 min / p79 Knock ’Em Dead, 100 min / p68 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 The Rose Garden, 45 min / p94 Significant Other, 120 min / p95 Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 SplitScreen, 45 min / p72 Sprout! A Full Length Not-ABallet, 45 min / p72 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44 2:30pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 3pm 50th Anniversary of the Original Woodstock 1969!, 105 min / p70 Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Cartography, 75 min / p42 Coated: 1944 Circus Fire Project, 70 min / p78 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 Lysistratra, Cross Your Legs Sister, 95 min / p91 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 3:30pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Cambridge Footlights: Look Alive!, 60 min / p68 I Spy, With My Little Eye, 55 min / p71 Manifest Destiny, 55 min / p82 Red Lodge, Montana, 85 min / p94 4pm An Iliad, 100 min / p85 Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78

Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 5pm 60’s FOLK Revisited, 60 min / p82 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Late Night Snacks: Family Cabaret / p54 Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91 Period House, 75 min / p93 Richard III, 90 min / p94 6pm Destiny is a Careless Waiter, 60 min / p88 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Honey, 60 min / p71 Siren Songs, 90 min / p95 7pm Coated: 1944 Circus Fire Project, 70 min / p78 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Gay Mis, 120 min / p89 Is This a Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription, 80 min / p40 Period House, 75 min / p93 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Roll Play: An Improvised Adventure, 60 min / p69 7:30pm Question Reality, 30 min / p79 Red Lodge, Montana, 85 min / p94 Richard III, 90 min / p94 Superterranean, 80 min / p36 8pm A Manayunk Mystery Tour, 60 min / p84 BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Cambridge Footlights: Look Alive!, 60 min / p68 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 The Live-streaming Confessional of #stacylucky, 60 min / p91 Question Reality, 30 min / p79 she didn’t want to be found, 60 min / p95 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 8:30pm Question Reality, 30 min / p79 9pm Question Reality, 30 min / p79

9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54 our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked, 120 min / p93 RE: SHE, a litany of adventures, 80 min / p94

4pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99

10pm A Manayunk Mystery Tour, 60 min / p84 Gay Mis, 120 min / p89

6pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88

MONDAY 9.16 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 4pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 5pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88

6:30pm Another Agatha: a myth of perception, 60 min / p78 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44 7pm Churn, 60 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Happy Days, 50 min / p89 Life and Times – Episode 7, 135 min / p57 SPIES!! Even More Spying, 90 min / p95 8pm BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 Medusa Volution, 90 min / p91 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91

7:30pm There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44 8pm BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Beyond The Light, 50 min / p87 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 Lavender Life, 45 min / p79 Medusa Volution, 90 min / p91 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 Prestige Drama, 70 min / p69 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 8:30pm ¡Que Ridículo!, 60 min / p69 Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 9pm Another Agatha: a myth of perception, 60 min / p78

7pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 The Live-streaming Confessional of #stacylucky, 60 min / p91 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94

9pm Another Agatha: a myth of perception, 60 min / p78

9:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Late Night Snacks / p54

9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

7:30pm Knock ’Em Dead, 100 min / p68 Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91

9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98

10:30pm our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked, 120 min / p93

8pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 8:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 10pm our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked, 120 min / p93

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10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 2pm Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 4pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 5pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88

9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98

6pm Destiny is a Careless Waiter, 60 min / p88 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88

10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99

6:30pm Another Agatha: a myth of perception, 60 min / p78

THURSDAY 9.19 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98 10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 2pm Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 4pm This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 6:30pm Another Agatha: a myth of perception, 60 min / p78 7pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84

Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60 min / p85 Between, 150 min / p82 Churn, 60 min / p87 Everybody Loves Each Other These Days, 80 min / p88 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 SPIES!! Even More Spying, 90 min / p95 Whine & Waffles, 100 min / p96 7:30pm 12 Chairs, 90 min / p84 The Destination is the Downbeat, 90 min / p71 Eurydice by Radio Eris, 110 min / p88 Knock ’Em Dead, 100 min / p68 La Bolivianita, 55 min / p71 Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44 8pm BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Beyond The Light, 50 min / p87 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 The Insanity of Mary Girard, 80 min / p90 Lavender Life, 45 min / p79 The Live-streaming Confessional of #stacylucky, 60 min / p91 Medusa Volution, 90 min / p91 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 The Murder & Booze Cabaret, 70 min / p91 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Prestige Drama, 70 min / p69 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 Translation: Cracking the Girl Code, 60 min / p96 Tubey Frank’s Variety for Charity, 80 min / p96 Un Poyo Rojo, 60 min / p48

DAY BY DAY

6pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked, 120 min / p93

5pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88

7pm Churn, 60 min / p87 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Everybody Loves Each Other These Days, 80 min / p88 Fringe Festival Quizzo, 60 min / p33 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 INK, 65 min / p90 Period House, 75 min / p93 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94

8:30pm ¡Que Ridículo!, 60 min / p69 9pm Another Agatha: a myth of perception, 60 min / p78 See Amid The Winter Snow, 105 min / p95 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54 10:30pm our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked, 120 min / p93

FRIDAY 9.20 9am Composition in Concert, gallery hours / p98

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10am Mythical Chinese Dragon, gallery hours / p99 Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 2pm Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 4pm This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 6pm BalletX Pop-Up, 30 min / p33 Medusa Volution, 90 min / p91 7pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60 min / p85 Between, 150 min / p82 Brand New Pieta, 60 min / p87 Churn, 60 min / p87 Everybody Loves Each Other These Days, 80 min / p88 Fragments from a Witch’s Journal, 35 min / p89 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 Pursuit of Happiness, 100 min / p50 The Sea Voyage, 120 min / p94 7:30pm 12 Chairs, 90 min / p84 The Destination is the Downbeat, 90 min / p71 I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman, 75 min / p90 Knock ’Em Dead, 100 min / p68 Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 La Bolivianita, 55 min / p71 Lysistratra, Cross Your Legs Sister, 95 min / p91 Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91 Proceed with Caution, 90 min / p72 rail., 90 min / p94 Shirley Valentine, 85 min / p95 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44 Women in Mummers Project, 45 min / p96 8pm Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Beyond The Light, 50 min / p87 Circadium Presents: 4:18 AM / Chaos Theory, 90 min / p78 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Dancing Again in Love, 70 min / p88 FreeWork, 90 min / p89 The Insanity of Mary Girard, 80 min / p90 The Live-streaming Confessional of #stacylucky, 60 min / p91

The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 My Last Revolution, 70 min / p93 NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret, 60 min / p93 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 Rat Ruse, 90 min / p69 Roll Play: An Improvised Adventure, 60 min / p69 she didn’t want to be found, 60 min / p95 Tubey Frank’s Variety for Charity, 80 min / p96 Un Poyo Rojo, 60 min / p48 8:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Prestige Drama, 70 min / p69 ¡Que Ridículo!, 60 min / p69 RE: SHE, a litany of adventures, 80 min / p94 9pm Lavender Life, 45 min / p79 Medusa Volution, 90 min / p91 The Murder & Booze Cabaret, 70 min / p91 Noir AF: An Improvised Film Noir, 75 min / p69 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54 10pm Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 INK, 65 min / p90 Prestige Drama, 70 min / p69 rail., 90 min / p94 10:30pm our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked, 120 min / p93 11pm NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret, 60 min / p93 11:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54 Midnight See Amid The Winter Snow, 105 min / p95

SATURDAY 9.21 9am This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 11am Billy the Baaadly Behaving Bully Goat: The Musical, 45 min / p87 Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 1pm Between, 150 min / p82 Churn, 60 min / p87 Dull Space and Dance, 45–90 min / p88

1:30pm See Amid The Winter Snow, 105 min / p95 2pm Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 Autopia, 90 min / p85 Brand New Pieta, 60 min / p87 Lysistratra, Cross Your Legs Sister, 95 min / p91 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 3pm I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman, 75 min / p90 The Live-streaming Confessional of #stacylucky, 60 min / p91 Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 3:30pm Everybody Loves Each Other These Days, 80 min / p88 4pm Close To Home, 60 min / p71 Shirley Valentine, 85 min / p95 unbird unbeast, 45 min / p73 5pm An Iliad, 100 min / p85 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60 min / p85 INK, 65 min / p90 ¡Que Ridículo!, 60 min / p69 SPIES!! Even More Spying, 90 min / p95 6pm Beyond The Light, 50 min / p87 The Live-streaming Confessional of #stacylucky, 60 min / p91 The Quiet Room, 30 min / p72 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 7pm A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 Between, 150 min / p82 Brand New Pieta, 60 min / p87 Churn, 60 min / p87 Everybody Loves Each Other These Days, 80 min / p88 Fragments from a Witch’s Journal, 35 min / p89 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 Period House, 75 min / p93 Pursuit of Happiness, 100 min / p50 unbird unbeast, 45 min / p73 You Are Not a Shining Star, 60 min / p73 7:30pm 12 Chairs, 90 min / p84 Candle, Sword, and Fan, 60 min / p70 I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman, 75 min / p90 Knock ’Em Dead, 100 min / p68 La Bolivianita, 55 min / p71

Lysistratra, Cross Your Legs Sister, 95 min / p91 Much to Do, Much to Fix, 75 min / p91 Proceed with Caution, 90 min / p72 Women in Mummers Project, 45 min / p96 8pm BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Circadium Presents: 4:18 AM / Chaos Theory, 90 min / p78 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Dancing Again in Love, 70 min / p88 Empanada Loca, 90 min / p88 FreeWork, 90 min / p89 The Insanity of Mary Girard, 80 min / p90 Let Me Die, 80 min / p52 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 My Last Revolution, 70 min / p93 NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret, 60 min / p93 Operation: Wawa Road Trip, 85 min / p93 The Quiet Room, 30 min / p72 she didn’t want to be found, 60 min / p95 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 Sock It To Me!, 60 min / p69 Sunset CypHER, 50 min / p73 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44 Tubey Frank’s Variety for Charity, 80 min / p96 Un Poyo Rojo, 60 min / p48 8:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Prestige Drama, 70 min / p69 Puppet-delphia Fringe Slam, 65 min / p93 ¡Que Ridículo!, 60 min / p69 9pm Noir AF: An Improvised Film Noir, 75 min / p69 9:30pm Know Thyself, 60 min / p91 Late Night Snacks / p54 RE: SHE, a litany of adventures, 80 min / p94 10pm BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 The Murder & Booze Cabaret, 70 min / p91 Prestige Drama, 70 min / p69 Skein of Heart, 45 min / p80 10:30pm Festival Closing Night Party, 90 min / p33 11pm NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret, 60 min / p93 our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked, 120 min / p93

DAY BY DAY 11:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

SUNDAY 9.22 9am This Art Moves, bar hours / p99 11am Billy the Baaadly Behaving Bully Goat: The Musical, 45 min / p87 Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 11:30am Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78

12:30pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 1pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Churn, 60 min / p87 Visionary Fringe, gallery hours / p99 1:30pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 2pm 12 Chairs, 90 min / p84 A Literal Doll House, 140 min / p84 Autopia, 90 min / p85 Beyond The Light, 50 min / p87 Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Brand New Pieta, 60 min / p87 Dancing Again in Love, 70 min / p88 FreeWork, 90 min / p89 The Insanity of Mary Girard, 80 min / p90 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, 90 min / p91 Proceed with Caution, 90 min / p72 The Quiet Room, 30 min / p72 Shimmy your Fringe!, 60 min / p72 Shirley Valentine, 85 min / p95

2:30pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, 100 min / p87 Translation: Cracking the Girl Code, 60 min / p96 3pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman, 75 min / p90 Lysistratra, Cross Your Legs Sister, 95 min / p91 rail., 90 min / p94 Women in Mummers Project, 45 min / p96 3:30pm Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 4pm An Iliad, 100 min / p85 Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Close To Home, 60 min / p71 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 unbird unbeast, 45 min / p73 5pm Actually by Anna Ziegler, 70 min / p84 B. Franklin: Words Matter, 60 min / p85 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 Late Night Snacks: Family Cabaret / p54 Period House, 75 min / p93 6pm Destiny is a Careless Waiter, 60 min / p88 Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 The Murder & Booze Cabaret, 70 min / p91 our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked, 120 min / p93 6:30pm La Bolivianita, 55 min / p71

7pm Emergency Contact, 45 min / p88 HABIT@, 60 min / p89 The Live-streaming Confessional of #stacylucky, 60 min / p91 Period House, 75 min / p93 You Are Not a Shining Star, 60 min / p73 8pm BASEMENT, 60 min / p70 Circadium Presents: 4:18 AM / Chaos Theory, 90 min / p78 Let Me Die, 80 min / p52 she didn’t want to be found, 60 min / p95 Tubey Frank’s Variety for Charity, 80 min / p96 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54 our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked, 120 min / p93 RE: SHE, a litany of adventures, 80 min / p94

MONDAY 9.23 Do laundry, clean your place, check your emails, take a nap.

TUESDAY 9.24 8pm rail., 90 min / p94 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

WEDNESDAY 9.25 8pm Let Me Die, 80 min / p52 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

THURSDAY 9.26 Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98

FRIDAY 9.27 Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 8pm Let Me Die, 80 min / p52 9pm rail., 90 min / p94 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54 11:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

SATURDAY 9.28 Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 4pm Close To Home, 60 min / p71

DAY BY DAY

Noon Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation, 30 min / p78 Dear qupid, ongoing / p82 Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98

There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other, 60 min / p44

8pm Let Me Die, 80 min / p52 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54 11:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

SUNDAY 9.29 Noon Dissonance, gallery hours / p98 Generations, gallery hours / p98 4pm Close To Home, 60 min / p71 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

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8pm Let Me Die, 80 min / p52 rail., 90 min / p94 9:30pm Late Night Snacks / p54

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Christ Church Neighborhood House,2020 North American Street Between Shunk and Oregon Church Neighborhood House, North American StreetStreet 7 75th5th Between Shunk and Oregon 2 Christ Street 8 Mifflin Square, 6th and Rittner Cherry Street Pier, 121 North Columbus Boulevard

Pier,for Cherry Street and North Columbus Boulevard 6th andat Rittner Annenberg Center the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut Street 8 9Mifflin Mandell Theater Drexel University, 3220 Chestnut Street 3 Cherry Street Square, 10 1316 South Percy Street The Wilma Theater, 265 South Broad Street

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The Wilma Theater, 265 South Broad Street

(pages 14–29): Andrej Lamut, Anne Van Aerschot, 10Photos Late Night Snacks, 1315-21 East Passyunk Avenue

Mandell Theater at Drexel University, 3220 Chestnut Street

Jauhien Sasnou, Ishka Michocka, Paola Evelina

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SEPT 9 SEPT 10 6 Superterranean 7:30pm / 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm SEPT 11 6 Superterranean 7:30pm / 5 There 7:30pm / 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm SEPT 12 6 Superterranean 7:30pm / 5 There 7:30pm / 2 Cartography 8pm / 1 Fase 8pm 10

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SEPT 16 SEPT 17 5 There 6:30pm / 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm SEPT 18 5 There 7:30pm / 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm SEPT 19 5 There 7:30pm / 2 Un Poyo Rojo 8pm / 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm

FRINGEARTS CURATED

SEPT 14 4 Is This A Room 2pm / 6 Superterranean 2pm / 7 – 8 Úumbal 4pm / 6 Superterranean 7:30pm

SEPT 20 9 Pursuit of Happiness 7pm / 5 There 7:30pm / 2 Un Poyo Rojo 8pm 10

Late Night Snacks 9:30pm + 11:30pm

SEPT 21 9 Pursuit of Happiness 7pm / 1 Let Me Die 8pm / 5 There 8pm / 2 Un Poyo Rojo 8pm 10

Late Night Snacks 9:30pm + 11:30pm

SEPT 22 5 There 2pm / 10 Late Night Snacks: Family Cabaret 5pm / 1 Let Me Die 8pm 10

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SEPT 23 SEPT 24 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm SEPT 25 1 Let Me Die 8pm / 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm SEPT 26 1 Let Me Die 8pm / 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm SEPT 27 1 Let Me Die 8pm / 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm + 11:30pm SEPT 28 1 Let Me Die 8pm / 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm + 11:30pm SEPT 29 10 Late Night Snacks 9:30pm

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Festival Bar After the Fringe it’s the after-Fringe. Every night during the festival artists and audiences congregate at FringeArts’ waterfront headquarters on Columbus Boulevard at Race.

Join us at La Peg and the Haas Biergarten at FringeArts for drink and food specials, plus entertainment into the wee hours.

Sept 5–22

RIN GES T R

Festival Kickoff Party The Illustrious Blacks FringeArts.com/9002 The Illustrious Blacks have arrived to save the world one beat at a time! The acclaimed duo fuse music, dance, theater, and fashion to expand minds, shake bootys, and encourage all to be bold, be brave, and be you!

Sept 6 at 10:30pm

Festival Halftime Party: FEELS DJ HVNLEE FringeArts.com/9003 Stripping back genres and themes, DJ HVNLEE and a special guest do what FEELS right at this dance party filled with house/soul, hip-hop, disco, reggae, and everything in between.

Sept 14 at 10:30pm

Plus!

Scratch Nights: Fringe Festival Preview FringeArts.com/9006 Performers from a range of genres give brief previews of their Fringe Festival shows.

Aug 5, 19 + 26 at 7pm (Aug 19 show at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street)

Fringe Festival Quizzo FringeArts.com/9004 Bring friends, answer questions, win prizes.

Philly’s favorite bar trivia game gets Fringey.

Sept 18 at 7pm

FringeArts.com/9007 Independent artists from the Fringe Festival gather to sell their wares and display their arts. Join them in the Haas Biergarten at FringeArts for drinks, food, and handmade goods.

Sept 15 at noon–6pm

BalletX Pop-Up

FRINGEARTS CURATED

Artists & Makers Fair

FringeArts.com/9008 This series of free performances by Philly’s premier contemporary ballet company comes to FringeArts for a one-off al fresco presentation.

Sept 20 at 6pm

Festival Closing Night Party Johnny Showcase & The Mystic Ticket FringeArts.com/9005 Ten-piece absurdist outfit Johnny Showcase returns with a joyfully sexy dance-funk experience that toes the line between performance art and psychedelic soul revival.

Sept 21 at 10:30pm

FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard

Photos: Johanna Austin, Fabian Gomez

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THE B-SIDE:

“ NEGRO FOLKLORE FROM TEXAS STATE PRISONS,” A RECORD ALBUM INTERPRETATION

The Wooster Group

THEATER

Photo: Steven Gunther

“Nothing short of transcendent.”

The New York Times

MUSIC

FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard 65 minutes

The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation is an original performance

by The Wooster Group based on an LP of work songs, spirituals, and toasts recorded in 1964 in Texas’ thensegregated prison farms.

Performers Eric Berryman, Jasper McGruder, and Philip Moore channel the inmates’ voices from the record via inear receivers and transmit the full album live. In between tracks, Berryman reads from the liner-notes and provides context from a book by Bruce Jackson, the folklorist who recorded the album. The voices of the live performers blend with and complement the voices on the record, creating a moving and intense theatrical experience.

The B-Side is directed by Kate Valk and designed by Elizabeth LeCompte.

FRINGEARTS CURATED

Sept 5–7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm

$39 general $15 students/25-and-under $2 FringeACCESS Member discounts available FringeArts.com/9015

Festival Star Producers Arthur M. Kaplan & R. Duane Perry Festival Producers Carol & Tom Beam Festival Co-Producers Chris Deephouse & Donna Hunt Cat, Annie & Steven Bohnenberger Lynne & Bert Strieb

The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation has been made possible in part by support from the Independence Foundation.

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Photo: Jauhien Sasnou / Picturebox Creative

Pig Iron Theatre Company / Mimi Lien

SUPERTERRANEAN

THEATER

“When I see a huge refinery, with its vast and intricate system of metal pipes, tanks, and catwalks, I feel inexplicably emotional.

Why do these structures evoke in my body such a deep-seated feeling of pleasure and despair?”

Mimi Lien

WORLD PREMIERE

On the outskirts of an unknown city, massive structures emerge from the murk. Nine performers embody our hunger for permanence and our dreams of utopia in a melancholy contemplation of our skin, our organs, and our deepest urges.

A world premiere by acclaimed Fringe veterans Pig Iron Theatre Company (A Period of Animate Existence, Pay Up, Welcome to Yuba City) and award-winning designer Mimi Lien, Superterranean is a work of visual theater driven by Lien’s fascinations with urban infrastructure and the human body’s place within it.

Companion installation: Section, Void (page 57), Sept 5–22

Sept 5–7 at 7:30pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 10–13 at 7:30pm Sept 14 + 15 at 2pm + 7:30pm

FRINGEARTS CURATED

Refineries, dams, and wastewater treatment plants tower over us and sprawl beneath us. These massive works of infrastructure seem almost anti-human in their complexity and scale—like machines that run themselves—but they are the beating hearts that allow a city to function.

2300 Arena 2300 South Swanson Street 80 minutes $39–$45 general $15 students/25-and-under $2 FringeACCESS Member discounts available FringeArts.com/9020

Festival Star Producers Al & Nancy Hirsig Festival Co-Producers Libby Harwitz & Burton Blender Support for Superterranean has been provided to Pig Iron Theatre Company by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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NOMADIC CHOREOGRAPHY FOR INHABITANTS

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DANCE

Mariana Arteaga

ÚUMBAL

“I was obsessed with the idea of making a collective body visible, recovering the streets with the social power of dance, demanding the right of joy, the right to be happy together.”

Mariana Arteaga

Winding through a South Philly neighborhood, Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants is an ambulatory performance wholly created by the people of this city and enacted by residents representing its diverse population.

Choreographer Mariana Arteaga and her local collaborators set up collection points in various neighborhoods to solicit dance steps from residents. Local volunteers helped mold these contributions into a communal performance that includes movement, choreography, and choreographic actions in public spaces along the streets, parks, and sidewalks of South Philadelphia.

Arteaga developed Úumbal (Mayan for “balance”) in response to an incident in 2014, when the Mexican government repressed mass protests in the wake of the disappearance of forty-three students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. If repression could be choreographed, she mused, so could freedom and joy. Join as a nomadic companion and participate in this joyful procession.

Sept 7 at 4pm Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 4pm Ambulatory performance begins on 5th Street between Shunk Street and Oregon Avenue 45 minutes FREE FringeArts.com/9030

Festival Executive Producers Salem Shuchman & Barbara Klock Festival Co-Producer Jane G. Pepper

Major support for Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants has been provided by William Penn Foundation.

FRINGEARTS CURATED

Photo: Antonieta López

U.S. PREMIERE

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IS THIS A ROOM

Photo: Paula Court, courtesy of The Kitchen

“A beautiful work—impassioned yet made with a cool hand; straight-faced yet often funny. It is also devastating because damn, the real world is a hell of a writer.”

ARTFORUM

REALITY WINNER VERBATIM TRANSCRIPTION THEATER

Tina Satter / Half Straddle As the verbal dance between knife-sharp Reality and the FBI agents unfolds in Reality’s home and her autonomy shrinks before her eyes, a simmering real-life thriller emerges—with consequences that extend from the most personal to the totally political.

Arrested and charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference in our election, Reality now sits in jail serving a record-breaking sentence. Reading about her fate, Tina Satter, artistic director of Obie-winning ensemble Half Straddle (In The Pony Palace/FOOTBALL, 2014 Fringe Festival; Ghost Rings, 2017 Fringe Festival), followed a link to the FBI transcript of the interrogation and was struck by the young woman’s humor, self-assuredness, and predicament. Half Straddle’s staging of the verbatim transcript—tinged with the company’s signature surreal style yet frighteningly visceral in its realism—lays bare the power dynamics, natural drama, and relevancy of a true story, still unfolding.

Sept 13 at 7:30pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 15 at 7pm (ASL interpretation on Sept 14 at 2pm) Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street 80 minutes

FRINGEARTS CURATED

June 3, 2017. A 25-year-old former Air Force linguist named Reality Winner is surprised at her home by FBI agents.

$35 general $15 students/25-and-under $2 FringeACCESS members Member discounts available FringeArts.com/9035

Festival Star Producers Tobey & Mark Dichter Festival Executive Producers Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Festival Producers Lawrence Spitz & Carol Klein

Copresented with the Annenberg Center Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription premiered at The Kitchen, NYC, January 5, 2019.

Developed in part at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, New York Theatre Workshop’s Dartmouth Residency, and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency in 2018.

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Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Myers

CARTOGRAPHY

THEATER

“A wonder of theater-making … a live documentary about young people searching for asylum as harrowing times and hostile environments overtake their lives.”

DC Metro Theater Arts

How do we navigate our worlds? We build maps of our histories, our memories, and our futures.

In 2016, theater director Kaneza Schaal and award-winning author for young people Christopher Myers flew to Munich, Germany, as 30,000 people were arriving in the city each day in the largest migration in recorded history. Listening to stories of young refugees they pondered how to create an artwork that places all of us in this historical moment.

Sept 12–14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 3pm (relaxed performance) Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street 75 minutes $35 general $15 students/25-and-under $2 FringeACCESS Member discounts available FringeArts.com/9040

Combining simple storytelling with interactive video technology (audiences shape the onstage video projections with their own cell phones), Cartography maps the perilous physical journeys and the confusing interior journeys of five young migrants as they discover what it means to leave home and begin a new life. Performed by a diverse company of actors from El Salvador, Syria, Lebanon, South Africa, and Rwanda, this is theater for our times, theater for all ages, theater at its most relevant.

FRINGEARTS CURATED

Companion exhibition: Suspended Lives / Vidas Suspendidas (pages 57 + 75), Sept 5–22 Photo: elmanstudio.

Fringe For Young Audiences

Part of the SPARK: Fringe for Young Audiences series of family-friendly programming.

The SPARK Series is made possible by a leadership gift from the Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation.

Produced by ArKtype. Cartography was made possible by a generous grant from The Joyce Foundation, and is a co-commission of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, and Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH, with additional development support provided by Young People’s Theatre, Toronto, Canada, and Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Developed as part of New Victory Lab Works at The New Victory Theater in New York City. This play was workshopped and presented as a rehearsed reading in April 2018 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of New Visions/New Voices 2018.

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THERE

“Where are we? where? There is a where, because we are, stubbornly, and have been, and who are we, if not you and me?” Etel Adnan

Photo: Rosa Barba

THEATER

IN THE LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS OF THE SELF AND OF THE OTHER Blanka Zizka and Rosa Barba

WORLD PREMIERE

with the Wilma HotHouse

Mining English phrases for the essential thoughts from which language was born, Etel Adnan’s book-length meditation on conflict and identity makes an ideal vehicle for the critically acclaimed Wilma HotHouse Company. This |20 delves 19actors WILMA SEASON diverse group of Philadelphia beneath the surface meanings of the text to its emotional core.

There

Sept 11 + 12 at 7:30pm (previews) Sept 13 at 7:30pm (opening) Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 17 at 6:30pm Sept 18–20 at 7:30pm Sept 21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm (open captioning) GET YOUR Call 215.546.7824

wilmatheater.org TICKETS The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street

FRINGEARTS CURATED

Visual arts pioneer Rosa Barba and The Wilma Theater’s innovative artistic director Blanka Zizka collaborate to bring a seminal work of contemporary poetry to the stage.

By Etel Adnan | Co-Created by Blanka Zizka and Rosa Barba with the Wilma HotHouse 60 minutes

Barba’s set reconfigures the Wilma’s proscenium space, September 11-22, 2019 has been supported

by The Pew Center for $35–$52 Arts & Heritage. general stretching over the usual seating plan andThere serving as both $15 students/25-and-under a stage and a projection surface, recasting the audience as Dance Nation $2 FringeACCESS Clare Barron | Directed by Margot Bordelon an active observer-participant in Adnan’s Byself-discovery.

As Member discounts available October 22-November 10, 2019 FringeArts.com/9050 the Wilma HotHouse interpretation reveals, when we seek to discover ourselves (a search which is inherently also a Night Describe the

By Rajiv Joseph | Directed by Blanka Zizka consideration of other people), what we are embarking Festival Executive Producers January 28-February 16, 2020 upon is a quest for love.

David & Linda Glickstein Festival Co-Producers

Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale & Richard Greenawalt Features original music by Alex Dowling. By Jaylene Clark Owens, Hollis Heath, Janelle Heatley,Peggy and Chyann Sapp | Directed by Jaylene Clark Owens February 26-March 3, 2020

Presented in partnership with The Wilma Theater

Is God Is

By Aleshea Harris | Directed by James Ijames

May 26-June 14, 2020 Support for There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other has been provided to The Wilma Theater

by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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“I wanted to come up with my own vocabulary of movements, with its own grammar.� Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Photo: Anne Van Aerschot

FASE

FOUR MOVEMENTS TO THE MUSIC OF STEVE REICH

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

Both the music and the dance start from the principle of phase shifting through tiny variations: movements that are initially perfectly synchronous gradually start slipping and sliding, resulting in an ingenious play of continuously changing forms and patterns.

Premiered in 1982, Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich laid the foundation for a groundbreaking choreographic career. Having always danced Fase herself, De Keersmaeker now passes her first performance piece on to two new dancers.

FRINGEARTS CURATED

Before she became an internationally acclaimed choreographer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was a young Belgian student moving to New York City with a music cassette in her travel pack. The deceptively simple repetitive compositions by American minimalist Steve Reich became the soundtrack and inspiration for a breakthrough choreographic work—three duets and one solo credited with creating a new vocabulary of movement for contemporary dance.

Sept 12–14 at 8pm FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard 70 minutes $39 general $15 students/25-and-under $2 FringeACCESS Member discounts available FringeArts.com/9060

Festival Co-Producers Bill & Joyce Kunkle Lynne & Bert Strieb Judith Tannenbaum DANCE

Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and by the BNP Paribas Foundation.

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Two men stand side-by-side inside a locker room.

The tension between them is palpable. This is theater, but there’s very little dialogue, just the sound of their bodies and the found noises of a portable radio. Instead, we are drawn into their primal language, a physical communication which intensifies throughout the show.

Mining multiple expressive forms—dance, athletic competition, clowning, martial arts, acrobatics, body percussion, mime, cockfighting, and more—Un Poyo Rojo explores the range of possible relationships between individuals and probes the boundaries of our bodily and spiritual interactions. It’s a provocation, an invitation for us to laugh at ourselves, and, at the same time, to accept ourselves entirely.

Un Poyo Rojo

Sept 19–21 at 8pm (audio description on Sept 21)

Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street 60 minutes $35 general $15 students/25-and-under $2 FringeACCESS Member discounts available FringeArts.com/9070

Festival Star Producers Hank, Calder & Cole McNeil

DANCE

Photo: Ishka Michocka

UN POYO ROJO

U.S. PREMIERE

“A joyful, brilliantly funny dance parody of macho peacocking.”

The Stage (UK)

THEATER

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PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

Nature Theater of Oklahoma / EN-KNAP Group

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“Trump and Chekhov joined together in a bizarre fusion of thriller and comedy.” TheaterKrant (Netherlands)

A Mexican bar man. An Austrian sales rep. A trip to Baghdad.

A modern-day magic potion. Unsettlingly uplifting cowboy dances. Creators Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma (named after the theater in Kafka’s novel Amerika) and internationally renowned Slovenian dance troupe EN-KNAP Group follow the American Dream from a Wild West saloon to the battlefields of Iraq.

Part barn dance, part movie pitch, part comedy of manners, Pursuit of Happiness plays with language, movement, setting, and genre through an endlessly morphing folk tale of ultra-violent Western expansion, taking on the myth and legacy of the American Dream and its aspirational aftermath.

Companion film: Life and Times – Episode 7 (page 57), Sept 17

Sept 20 + 21 at 7pm (open captioning) Mandell Theater at Drexel University 3220 Chestnut Street 100 minutes $39 general $15 students/25-and-under $2 FringeACCESS Member discounts available FringeArts.com/9080

Festival Executive Producers Andy & Bryna Scott Festival Producers Robert M. Dever Edward & Anne Wagner Festival Co-Producer Christie Hartwell Produced by EN-KNAP Productions.

Coproduction by Théâtre de la Ville, steirischer herbst. Supported by City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.

FRINGEARTS CURATED

Photo: Andrej Lamut

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WORLD PREMIERE

“What begins as funny becomes increasingly tragic. Keckler’s power as a singer and his commanding stage presence draw the audience out of the comedy of the work—but then he punctuates the drama with humorous commentary.” Hyperallergic

LET ME DIE

THEATER

Joseph Keckler With the style of a rock star, the three-plus-octave voice of a classically trained bass-baritone, and a keen comic sensibility, Keckler brings his rich voice and one-of-a-kind vision to an absurd yet affecting world premiere. Featuring full-length arias and snippets of songs, Let Me Die combines death sequences drawn from the canon of classic opera with original narratives and music. This ensemble performance collage is at once a festive meditation, a strange ritual, and a morbid medley of epic proportions.

Presented in partnership with Opera Philadelphia as part of Festival O19

Sept 21, 22 + 25–28 at 8 pm FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard 80 minutes $40–$60 general $15 students/25-and-under $2 FringeACCESS Member discounts available FringeArts.com/9085

FRINGEARTS CURATED

Conversations swirl about opera’s demise. But just as death arias provide the emotional heart of classic opera, Joseph Keckler extols the enduring life and relevance of an artform purportedly in its death throes.

Festival Producers Larry & Ann Rosen Spector Festival Co-Producers Tony Forte & Ryan Hummel Shelley Green & Michael Golden Sissie & Herb Lipton

Major support for Let Me Die was provided to Opera Philadelphia by William Penn Foundation.

MUSIC

A project of Creative Capital. Developed in part through Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Roman J. Witt Artist Residence Program at The University of Michigan, Camp Fringe at FringeArts, and The Orchard Project (Ari Edelson, artistic director).

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Back by popular demand! Cabaret connoisseurs The Bearded Ladies return with another platter of deliciously dangerous, sensationally sweet, and provocatively pleasurable Late Night Snacks. Running throughout the Fringe Festival in a refitted East Passyunk industrial space, these after-hours performances feature different artists every night—from opera singers to drag queens, cabaret stars to art clowns, and everything in between.

Come for one show, come for many shows, or just stop by for a cocktail and to mingle with Fringe artists and audiences. Part performance installation, part fever dream, part neighborhood jawn, Late Night Snacks is a Fringe Festival after-party guaranteed to satisfy your hunger.

Full lineup of performers announced in mid-August, including all-ages Family Cabaret for the young ones in your lives!

Sept 7 at 9:30pm + 11:30pm Sept 8 at 5pm* + 9:30pm Sept 10–12 at 9:30pm Sept 13 + 14 at 9:30pm + 11:30pm Sept 15 at 5pm* + 9:30pm Sept 17–19 at 9:30pm Sept 20 + 21 at 9:30pm + 11:30pm Sept 22 at 5pm* + 9:30pm Sept 24–26 at 9:30pm Sept 27 + 28 at 9:30pm + 11:30pm Sept 29 at 9:30pm *Family Cabaret 1316 South Percy Street FREE–$48 (sliding scale) FringeArts.com/9090 Festival Co-Producers Richard E. & Diane Dalto Woosnam Bearded Ladies Honorary Producers David & Linda Glickstein

The Bearded Ladies present Late Night Snacks in partnership with Opera Philadelphia as part of Festival O19, with community support from Vox Populi, Hidden City Philadelphia, Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation, and the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs for the City of Philadelphia.

Photo: Ben MacMaster. Pictured: Messapotamia Lefae

CABARET

The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

LATE NIGHT SNACKS

Heyyyyy, u up? Want a post-Fringe nightcap?

A consensual art hookup?

“Quite simply the best party you have never been invited to.”

Talkin’ Broadway

FRINGEARTS CURATED

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FRINGE FESTIVAL BOOKSTORE at Cherry Street Pier

Schedule Let Me Die: Artist Talk Joseph Keckler and Sarah Williams (Opera Philadelphia) Sept 6 at 4pm The B-Side: Live Podcast Recording Eric Berryman and Kate Valk (The Wooster Group) and FringeArts staff Sept 7 at 3pm Úumbal: Community Conversation Mariana Arteaga and Philadelphia participants Sept 8 at 4pm

FringeArts partners with much-loved local bookseller Head House Books to present a pop-up emporium on Cherry Street Pier. Head down to Philadelphia’s newest, most artsfriendly waterfront park ( just across Columbus Boulevard from the Festival Bar at FringeArts) to browse books and publications by and about the artists in the 2019 Fringe Festival.

Delve deeper into the Curated Fringe Festival shows at a series of intimate conversations and live podcasts with the artists and community partners behind the shows.

Superterranean: Live Podcast Recording Dan Rothenberg (Pig Iron Theatre Company) and cast members, moderated by Hidden Cities Sept 13 at 4pm

Sept 5–22 Thursdays + Fridays: 4–8pm Saturdays: 10am–8pm Sundays: noon–8pm

Pursuit of Happiness: Community Conversation Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper (Nature Theater of Oklahoma) and community partners Sept 21 at 4pm

All events FREE Cherry Street Pier 121 North Columbus Boulevard FringeArts.com/9009

Cartography: Community Conversation Kaneza Schaal and community partners Sept 14 at 4pm Is This A Room: Artist Talk Tina Satter (Half Straddle) Sept 15 at 2pm Un Poyo Rojo: Live Podcast Recording Un Poyo Rojo and FringeArts staff Sept 20 at 4pm

Late Night Snacks: Artist Talk Performers and curators from The Bearded Ladies Cabaret and FringeArts Sept 22 at 4pm

VISUAL ART

Section, Void A public artwork and installation that serves as a companion work of visual art to Superterranean (see page 36), Section, Void creates a primal architectural experience of seeing and sensing, and a way for viewers to contemplate the human body’s peculiar vibrations amid large constructions. While at the installation, enjoy a custom Section, Void ice cream from Little Baby’s Ice Cream at Cherry Street Pier.

Sept 5–22

FREE. On view at Cherry Street Pier.

Suspended Lives / Vidas Suspendidas Puentes de Salud FringeArts.com/9041 Latinx artists from across Philadelphia shed their favored mediums and reclaim the piñata as a common cultural construction. What emerges are life-sized self-portraits embodying Mexican iconography and kinetic self realization. A companion piece to Cartography (see page 42), Suspended Lives / Vidas Suspendidas is an exploration and restoration of latinidad as not only a politically charged identity, but a mystic existence, celebrating individuality through sculpture and story. This project was created by Nora Hiriart Litz, director for art and culture at Puentes de Salud, a nonprofit that promotes the wellness of Philadelphia’s Latinx immigrant population through health, education, and community programs.

Sept 5–22

FREE. On view at the Cherry Street Pier, at FringeArts, and at the Christ Church Neighborhood House. Use the QR codes which accompany the sculptures to visit the Suspended Lives / Vidas Suspendidas Digital Fringe project (see page 75).

FRINGEARTS CURATED

COMPANION WORKS

Pig Iron Theatre Company / Mimi Lien FringeArts.com/9021

Life and Times – Episode 7 Nature Theater of Oklahoma FringeArts.com/9081

FILM

This year’s Fringe Festival show Pursuit of Happiness marks the first offering from New York’s Nature Theater of Oklahoma since it completed the eight-part Life and Times series. Revisit that epic series with the screening of Episode 7 at Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia. With burning passion and limited means, Nature Theater of Oklahoma takes on Hollywood in an ode to Citizen Kane. Based on stories by Kristen Worrall, the film deploys rear screen projection, wigs, and a cast of eight to portray over one hundred characters on three continents, spanning the early adult years of the heroine’s life.

Sept 17 at 7pm

$10 general, $8 students + seniors, Free for Lightbox + FringeArts members 135 minutes Lightbox Film Center, International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street Talkback with Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper follows the film

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arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody/ Joy Episalla/ Zoe Leonard/ Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified

SEP 13, 2019–MAY 10, 2020 Michelle Lopez: Ballast & Barricades

118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 icaphila.org Free. For All.

SEP 13–DEC 22, 2019

Colored People Time: Banal Presents

IMAGE: Carrie Yamaoka, A is for Angel, 1991, Letraset and rubber cement on vellum, 17 × 14 inches framed.

Courtesy of Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design. Photo: Stephen Takacs. Major support for Colored People Time: Banal Presents has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support has been provided by Arthur Cohen & Daryl Otte, Cheri & Steven Friedman, and Brett & Daniel Sundheim.

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COMEDY + IMPROV Fringe that’s funny

Cambridge Footlights: Look Alive!

Cambridge Footlights / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/9101 Don’t miss your chance to see the latest from the group that launched many of the greatest names in British comedy, including Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, and others! Forget everything you think you know and learn it all again in this spectacular, sketch-shaped trip through the kinks and quirks of life on Earth! $15 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 15 at 3:30pm + 8pm

Howie Hypnotize

Knock ’Em Dead

Myths & Monsters

Howie Jones FringeArts.com/9102 Mind blown! The Howie Hypnotize Show is an interactive experience that makes you the star! Whether you stay in the audience or make it on stage, you’ll laugh, laugh, and laugh some more.

Howie has performed at the NYC FRIGID, Rochester and Pittsburgh Fringe Festivals, and all over the East Coast. $12 / 50 minutes Pacific Yoga 2518 Cedar Street Sept 6 + 7 at 7:30pm

Raw Street Productions FringeArts.com/9103 An incompetent ventriloquist, a foul-mouthed comedian, a batontwirling babe, a lip-synching poodle, an out-of-touch chanteuse, and an overbearing hypnotist all compete at Vinnie’s Club—till Vinnie is found dead. All hell breaks loose and laughs fly as YOU must find the culprit in this interactive murder mystery. $20 / 100 minutes Connie’s Ric Rac 1132 South 9th Street Sept 12 + 13 at 7:30pm Sept 14 at 6pm + 10pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 16, 19–21 at 7:30pm

Nick Gillette / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/9104 An improvised hero’s journey. The ensemble encounters mythical beasts, mad gods, and trickster spirits in a transformational epic of self-discovery. Never the same performance twice—the audience discovers how Joseph Campbell’s theory of the monomyth could have a thousand faces and still be written anew. $15 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 5 + 6 at 8:30pm Sept 7 at 5pm + 8:30pm

Noir AF: An Improvised Film Noir N Crowd FringeArts/9105 Philly’s long-running improv comedy show the N Crowd presents an improvised noir. Incorporating classic Whose Line Is It Anyway?– style improv games, this show breaks the mold of the classic 1950s crime drama to place noir in surprising settings. Expect music, drama, danger, sci-fi, romance, and uncontrollable laughter. $15 / 75 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 + 21 at 9pm

¡Que Ridículo!

Queer Bait: Sterile

Good Good Comedy Theatre FringeArts.com/9106 One man is pushed to the edge in a story of betrayal, sex, drugs, murder, hot dogs, karaoke, and muscle milk.

You know, just like on those basic cable dramas like Breaking Bad, True Detective, or Mad Men. From the visionary minds of Michael S. Watkins and Joe Bell (hosts of Comedian Psychoanalysis). Student tickets $12. $20 / 70 minutes Good Good Comedy Theatre 215 North 11th Street Sept 18 + 19 at 8pm Sept 20 + 21 at 8:30pm + 10pm

¿Qué? / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/9107 Comedy that will make you say “How Ridiculous!” This crosscultural comedy show was constructed through the lens of the immigrant experience.

Featuring sketch and improv by ¿Qué?—an all-Spanish-speaking group (except for one white dude)—this show is meant to be enjoyed by English speakers as well as Spanish speakers. $15 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 18–20 at 8:30pm Sept 21 at 5pm + 8:30pm

Good Good Comedy Theatre FringeArts.com/9108 Queer Bait (Rose Luardo and Shannon Fahey) sensitively stroke your Elsa and Anna as they freeze and squeeze the daylights out of your fun factory. Two parts performance art, one part comedy, one part clown, three parts dance, five parts friendship, two parts dress-up, one part queer, zero parts bait, maybe another part queer.

Student tickets $12. $20 / 70 minutes Good Good Comedy Theatre 215 North 11th Street Sept 11 + 12 at 8pm Sept 13 + 14 at 8:30pm + 10pm

Riot In Rittenhouse: A Philly Sketch Comedy Show

Roll Play: An Improvised Adventure

Sock It To Me!

COMEDY

Prestige Drama

Rat Ruse Without a Cue Productions FringeArts.com/9109 Mystery, intrigue, comedy, death, and plenty of twists! Laugh and be surprised by Without a Cue Productions’ parody of the longest-running stage show in history, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. Find yourself squarely in the middle of the action, as you ask: Whodunit? We kill, you laugh. $12 / 90 minutes O’Neal’s Pub 611 South 3rd Street Sept 6, 13 + 20 at 8pm

Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/9111 Sketch comedy about New Philadelphia—not what we were, but what we’re becoming.

A show about Philadelphia by Philadelphians, but also by nonPhiladelphians, but also by people who lived here but moved. This is getting confusing—just get down here before the theater is turned into luxury condos. $15 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 11–13 at 8pm Sept 14 at 5pm + 8pm

Roll Play Improv FringeArts.com/9112 Dungeons & Dragons & Improv!

Like Whose Line Is It Anyway? meets The Lord of the Rings, Roll Play cleverly combines fantasy storytelling games with interactive improv comedy. With YOUR suggestions shaping the world, the characters, and their quest, every show is a brand new adventure! $15 / 60 minutes CSz Philadelphia at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 8 at 7pm Sept 14 at 2pm Sept 15 at 7pm Sept 20 at 8pm

The WaitStaff Sketch Comedy FringeArts.com/9113 Inquiring minds want to know: Where was The WaitStaff last year? The answer’s a gas! Tune in, turn on, and laugh out loud with the Real Housewives of South Philly as The WaitStaff (America’s Favorite Sketch Comedy Troupe) makes its 18th appearance in the Fringe Festival! $20 / 60 minutes L’Etage 624 South 6th Street Sept 7 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 8 at 3pm Sept 11 + 13 at 8pm Sept 14 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 15 at 3pm Sept 18 + 19 at 8pm Sept 21 at 6pm + 8pm

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DANCE Fringe that moves;

Fringe that moves you

50th Anniversary of the Original Woodstock 1969!

Rock on Pointe Dance Company FringeArts.com/9201 This year is the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock! Rock on Pointe, the dance company that dances to rock music on pointe shoes, revisits that unforgettable concert, performing to the music that was recorded live that weekend, including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and others. $28 / 105 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Sept 14 at 4pm + 7:30pm Sept 15 at 3pm

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Candle, Sword, and Fan

Gunnar Montana FringeArts.com/9202 Gunnar Montana transports us once again, this time downward into the dark depths of terror.

Follow one man’s frightening descent into deranged madness and witness his unrelenting, visceral nightmare unfold. Graphic content. Runs through September 28; visit GunnarMontana.com for more dates. $45 / 60 minutes The Latvian Society 531 North 7th Street Sept 5–8, 10–13 at 8pm Sept 14 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 15, 17–20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 22 at 8pm

Annie Wilson FringeArts.com/9220 several short new works, one performed in blackout. let us construct a vessel made with sinusoids, capillaries, tentacles. let it be unconcerned with survival, more concerned with gulping and discharging through as many portals as it can. yesterday’s garbage follows the friday and sunday shows. In repertory with Sneakers by Nichole Canuso Dance (page 72). $20 / 75 minutes Theatre Exile 1340 South 13th Street Sept 6 at 9pm Sept 7 at 3pm Sept 8 at 8pm Sept 9 at 5pm Sept 10 at 1pm

Irene Reinke FringeArts.com/9203 Exploring three phases of life— youth, adult, and elder—through the metaphor of dancing while balancing, with candle (youth), sword (adult), and fan (elder). The performance takes place in The Plastic Club, one of the oldest art clubs in America, and showcases the venue and its artists as a muse for dance. $15 / 60 minutes The Plastic Club 247 South Camac Street Sept 14 + 21 at 7:30pm

Close To Home

Dance Collection

Leah Stein Dance Company FringeArts.com/9204 An intimate performance project for eleven dancers in response to the paintings of Edith Neff, a Philadelphia native and visual artist whose subjects include family, Philadelphia public spaces, and mythological allegory. Photo: Mira Treatman. $20 / 60 minutes The Art Room Studio 2329 South 3rd Street Sept 21, 22, 28 + 29 at 4pm

Dancefusion / Megan Flynn Dance Company / Dance Iquail FringeArts.com/9205 Dancefusion presents Dance Collection with Dance Iquail and Megan Flynn Dance Company. The program features Dancefusion in the revival of Mary Anthony’s Seascape (1973) along with new works by Janet Pilla Marini, Camille Heasley, and Omar-Frederick Pratt.

Dance Iquail and Megan Flynn Dance Company present compelling new works. $25 / 85 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 3pm + 6pm

The Destination is the Downbeat Take It Away Dance FringeArts.com/9210 This new tap dance and jazz music work by Pamela Hetherington considers how to “keep time” in jazz music. For tap dancers, how they keep time in jazz music has everything to do with who they are as human beings. Time is a feeling; it is swing, groove, and rhythm— the essence of tap dancing itself.

Rhythm is personal and music is the original DM (direct message).

The concert explores the music of Bobby Timmons, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Mel Lewis, and others. $15 / 90 minutes Drummers 2152 East Norris Street Sept 12, 13, 19 + 20 at 7:30pm

Fire in the Sky UMA presents: Maddie & Kayla, Queenz Collective, Haylee Warner FringeArts.com/9206 This is a cosmic constellation. Come for the conversation. Stargaze for days. Costarring the interstellar Maddie & Kayla, Queenz Collective (Sanchel Brown, Caitlin Green), and Haylee Warner. This work supports and is supported by Urban Movement Arts (UMA). Come take a class! UMA welcomes adults of all ages and experience levels. $15 / 60 minutes Urban Movement Arts 2100 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor Sept 13 + 14 at 9pm

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I Spy, With My Little Eye

KCBC x KCBCII

La Bolivianita

Evalina “Wally” Carbonell / Melissa Rector FringeArts.com/9207 An evening of original dance created and conceived by Phillybased artists Evalina “Wally” Carbonell and Melissa Rector, Honey delves into the intoxicating search for sweetness, alternately stinging and smooth, viscous and flowing. $20 / 60 minutes CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street Sept 13 + 14 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at 6pm

Kalila Kingsford Smith Dance FringeArts.com/9208 I Spy, With My Little Eye slides down the Chutes and Ladders of youth into the Scrabble of your earliest memories. This interactive dance performance provides an opportunity to Connect Four a moment in the shared joys and toys of childhood experience. Children are welcome! $20 / 55 minutes Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Sept 12 + 13 at 7:30pm Sept 14 at 5pm + 7:30pm Sept 15 at 3:30pm

Klassic Contemporary Ballet Company FringeArts.com/9209 The Klassic Contemporary Ballet Company (KCBC) and KCBCII perform in their third annual Fringe Festival performance. Under the direction of Kimberly D. Landle, KCBC and KCBCII premiere three new pieces with vastly different ideas and concepts. $20 / 90 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Sept 7 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 4pm

Elba Hevia y Vaca / Pasión y Arte FringeArts.com/9211 This autobiographical one-woman performance work by Pasión y Arte artistic director Elba Hevia y Vaca explores her story as a Bolivian immigrant and mother. La Bolivianita delves into her almost lifelong journey with Flamenco and how that has continued to evolve as she ages. The piece will culminate in an interactive dialogue with the audience. Directed by world-renowned Flamenco artist Belen Maya. World premiere. Photo: Aidan Un. $20 / 55 minutes exuberance 1220 North Mascher Street Sept 19–21 at 7:30pm Sept 22 at 6:30pm

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Proceed with Caution

The Quiet Room

RE:figuring

Lyons and Tigers FringeArts.com/9212 Proceed with Caution grapples with personal, social, and global security and trust in the present-day—a time of global violence, the Trump presidency, mass shootings, and the #MeToo movement. A group of performers explore security through dance, video projection, and spoken and recorded words. $20 / 90 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Sept 20 + 21 at 7:30pm Sept 22 at 2pm

Hailey Hubbs FringeArts.com/9213 The Quiet Room examines the internal and external notions of Alzheimer’s victims through movement. The movers attempt to track their improvised movements and patterns while crucial components of their archetype fade away. They fight to keep their memory alive from their impending yet uncertain outcome. $10 / 30 minutes Pig Iron School Studio B 1417 North 2nd Street Sept 21 at 6pm + 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm

Leslie Elkins / foursome performance FringeArts.com/9228 RE:figuring gathers, shapes, and rearranges. Working with a team of artist-designers, Leslie Elkins and foursome performance partner with Corinne Karon to play with ordered motifs and improvised ephemera, delighting in the discovery of patterns, fleeting and continuing. $15 / 60 minutes Caplan Recital Hall at University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street, 17th Floor Sept 7 at 5pm + 7:30pm Sept 8 at 2pm

RISE: Relationship is Self Existing Asimina Chremos & Leah Stein Dance Company FringeArts.com/9214 A collaboration between Leah Stein and Asimina Chremos that engages dancers and community members to perform at LOVE Park, RISE raises awareness of momentary spatial relationships, groupings, and constellations created by everyday folks in our city as they travel from place to place.

Free / 25 minutes LOVE Park 16th Street and JFK Boulevard Sept 14 at 2pm, 3pm + 4pm Sept 15 at 2pm, 3pm + 4pm (rain date)

A Fringe Festival performance in LOVE Park (see page 97).

Shimmy your Fringe!

Sneakers

SplitScreen

State Street Tribal FringeArts.com/9215 Dance performance with a short workshop featuring American Tribal Style® made famous by FatChanceBellyDance®. We will show you some fun tribal belly dance steps, then invite you up on the dance floor to get your Fringe moving! Come for the show and stay for the fun!

Free / 60 minutes Institute of Dance Artistry 400 Commerce Drive Fort Washington, PA Sept 22 at 2pm

Nichole Canuso Dance FringeArts.com/9216 When someone departs your life they also enter it in a new way.

Created and performed by Nichole Canuso (Wandering Alice, TAKES, The Garden, Pandæmonium) in collaboration with director Suli Holum, Sneakers is an elegy for what has gone, and a tender tumble through what remains. “Impressive fluency and unassuming humor” (The New York Times). $20 / 60 minutes Theatre Exile 1340 South 13th Street Sept 6 at 6pm Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 3pm (ASL interpretation) Sept 9 + 10 at 8pm

Tree.Lock//Productions FringeArts.com/9217 Separated by time and space, Meg and Sterling have to find their way back to the center of the Wild Wild Web. Through dance, theater, and video, SplitScreen helps us rediscover who we are in this new digital landscape. No one is turned away at the door due to lack of funds. $10 / 45 minutes Pig Iron School Studio B 1417 North 2nd Street Sept 6 at 10pm Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 13 at 10pm Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm

Sprout! A Full Length Not-A-Ballet Madeline Rabin FringeArts.com/9218 A sprout pops up in early spring, losing one of its precious leaves in the process. Heartbroken, it uproots to journey in search of The Answers.

Step into the surreal world of Sprout! as alligator brass bands and lonely accordion lovers take to the stage to contemplate love, loss, and what it means to be (not) human. $25 / 45 minutes Panorama Philly 5213 Grays Avenue* Sept 12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm *Note: location on Grays Avenue NOT Grays Ferry Avenue

States of Matter

Sunset CypHER

TURF

Blythe E. Smith and Laura Katz Rizzo FringeArts.com/9219 An evening of contemporary ballet featuring new work by Laura Katz Rizzo and Blythe E. Smith. Blythe will present eUSa, inspired by the music of Yann Tiersen and Emanation. Laura will present Elemental Frequencies, three dances evoking and embodying the universal elements of air, earth, and fire. $20 / 90 minutes Conwell Dance Theater 1801 North Broad Street, 5th Floor Sept 6 at 7:30 pm

Ani/Malayaworks / Drum Like a Lady FringeArts.com/9221 A collaboration between three notable Philadelphia female artists—Ani Gavino (movement artist), Latreice Branson (percussionist), and Jasmine Lynea (director)—Sunset CypHER is an improvisational performance between dance, drums, the sunset, and an audience that actively takes part in the communal expression. $10 / 50 minutes Bartram’s Garden 5400 Lindbergh Boulevard Sept 21 at 8pm

Inclined Dance Project FringeArts.com/9222 This immersive dance experience places the audience in and around the performance space in an unconventional theater setup. The all-female cast from NYC-based Inclined Dance Project invites the audience to experience dance from a fresh point of view and explore new perceptions of environment. $15 / 60 minutes The Maas Building 1325 North Randolph Street Sept 12 at 7pm Sept 13 at 8pm

Ujima Dance Theatre’s Words and Movement Two Ujima Dance Theatre FringeArts.com/9223 A concert combining spoken word and dance, Words and Movement Two includes new works by director Shana El, guest choreographers Liz Miles and J Bogan El, spoken word artist Alicia Smith, Burgundy Blue Dance Company, and others. $25 / 120 minutes Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Avenue Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 3pm

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Katie Swords Thurman, Jesse Zaritt, and Laura Frazure FringeArts.com/9224 A dance performance and sculptural installation, unbird unbeast engages in contemporary mythmaking as an embodied practice.

By activating a lush sensorium of dense movement within complex sculptural environment, we ask ourselves to constantly attempt to feel more and feel differently. $8 / 45 minutes Gershman Hall at University of the Arts 401 South Broad Street Sept 21 at 4pm + 7pm Sept 22 at 4pm

You Are Not a Shining Star UMA presents: Mark “Metal” Wong and Vince Johnson FringeArts.com/9225 Have you ever thought about your legacy? I mean, what makes you SPECIAL? What does it mean to be YOU? Are you the experiences you’ve accumulated? Are you the thoughts in your brain? If you’ve never pondered this, don’t worry.

We’re here to help. Shining Star is a movement-based performance that is weird but not boring. This work supports and is supported by Urban Movement Arts (UMA), where we both work and teach. Come dance with us! UMA welcomes adults of all ages and experience levels. $15 / 60 minutes Urban Movement Arts 2100 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor Sept 7, 8, 21 + 22 at 7pm

Dancefusion presents

Dance Collection

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Dance Company

www.gbyedance.org

September 13 & 14 @ Performance Garage

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DIGITAL Fringe on the world wide web

Ancestral Movements

ArtDates

Dear Friend Society

Grasslands With Out Time

Breanna Moore FringeArts.com/9301 Highlighting traditional African dance forms and modern dance forms of the African diaspora, Ancestral Movements expresses the dance experiences of the enslaved who were forced to dance on the decks of slave ships and on the auction block, and explores how they used dance as a source of spiritual strength.

Miryam Coppersmith FringeArts.com/9302 ArtDates attempts to stop the cycle of meeting potential collaborators, talking about performing together, and then never being able to make it happen. Collaborators meet for just a few hours on one day and make something from scratch, creating a digital artifact to mark the collaboration’s completion.

Loretta Gary / Radical Hearts Print Lab FringeArts.com/9303 Dear friend, Have you heard about our new society yet? If you’re looking to spread more positive energy or you’re in search of a little pick-meup, feel free to stop by anytime.

We’ve saved space just for you!

With love, the universe P.S. You’re worthy just as you are.

Grasslands With Out Time FringeArts.com/9310 Podcast woven with photography exploring a digital nature-world through surrealistic fiction and images that strike a chord.

If You Can’t Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cum: The Life Story of a Thieving, Whoring Saint James Bradford FringeArts.com/9304 Equal parts hilarious and dark, this autobiography of actor, singer, comedian, and filthy whore James Bradford details a life spent on the stage and TV screen and behind closed doors as an escort. The one-of-a-kind audiobook features traditional readings plus live storytelling, intimate Q&A sessions, and comedic retellings of the written version.

The Island Shawn Pierre FringeArts.com/9305 Rescue your friends from the peril they encountered on their vacation.

You can only use your voice and your wits to uncover the secrets of the Island.

Kingdom of Oz: An Immersive Audio Experience

REAL Immersive FringeArts.com/9306 Dorothy’s gone home. The Wizard’s in the wind. Many Ozians seek to claim the Emerald Throne. Will the wise Scarecrow ascend to lead?

Does the Tin Woodman’s heart

yearn for power? What sinister players lie beyond the Great Sandy Waste? Will you help discover the rightful ruler of Oz?

Mad Deep Dish Die-Cast FringeArts.com/9307 Menu now available online at die-castphilly.org.

DIGITAL

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Pseudoverse

williamCromar FringeArts.com/9308 Concrete poems scripted through randomization and memetic engineering.

Pseudonym Productions FringeArts.com/9309 Pseudonym Productions presents an interactive adventure into the unexpected. Join our new layer of reality: the Pseudoverse. A game with no controller. A state of mind.

An opportunity to be yourself— or whoever you wish to be. A companion to Question Reality, our physical Fringe Festival experience (page 79). Play either or both.

Your choice.

Suspended Lives / Vidas Suspendidas Puentes de Salud FringeArts.com/9311 Latinx artists from across Philadelphia shed their favored mediums and reclaim the piñata as a common cultural construction, creating life-sized self-portraits that embody Mexican iconography and kinetic self realization. View these sculptures at locations around Old City (see page 57 for more info) and use the QR codes which accompany them to visit the corresponding webpage and hear the artists share their stories in their own words.

Thimble: Staged Thimble Literary Magazine FringeArts.com/9312 Poetry can be performance.

Performance can be poetry. To explore this relationship, Thimble Literary Magazine recorded a series of podcasts in which poets and actors read poetry, discuss the creative process, and explore common ground. Listen to all the episodes at Thimblelitmag.com.

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The Upstage

Voicemail Poems

Ann Marley FringeArts.com/9313 New plays from new voices. This podcast is dedicated to telling stories by and about artists of diverse backgrounds. The Upstage produces play readings and interviews with playwrights to aid in exposure for artists and to spread awareness of social issues. Join our community at annmarley.com/ the-upstage.

Voicemail Poems FringeArts.com/9314 An online magazine and podcast that highlights the intimate and raw voices of new and established writers of all styles. Poets submit to the magazine by reading their work to a voicemail box. Our favorites are picked seasonally and published on our website and our Soundcloud. We also publish a specially hosted podcast episode after each issue. Listen and submit at voicemailpoems.org.

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Join us as we plunge into the nightmares and daydreams of history’s most enigmatic inventor.

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Sept. 11/12/13 at 7:30 PM Sept. 14 at 3 PM | Sept. 15 at 1 PM learn more at www.fi.edu

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INTERDISCIPLINARY Fringe that mixes it up

Another Agatha: a myth of perception

Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation

Circadium Presents: 4:18 AM / Chaos Theory

Coated: 1944 Circus Fire Project

Migration Theory FringeArts.com/9401 A mother and a daughter imagine each other’s lives in this immersive, subversive prayer from Migration Theory. Their stories loop, collide, morph, and transform in this dance meditation on perception, survival, and unbridgeable distances.

Accompanied by music, dark humor, and dessert. $10–$20 / 60 minutes Vox Populi 319 North 11th Street Sept 17–19 at 6:30pm + 9pm

Gary Ames FringeArts.com/9402 Solo journey deep within your mind. With a brainwave sensor, a few words, and guiding sounds, eyes-closed EEG biofeedback enables profound neural relaxation.

Your mind may meander down to theta land where hypnagogic images arise while the bridge is open between conscious and subconscious realms. Let creativity and talent arise. $24 / 30 minutes 28 Rock Hill Road Bala Cynwyd, PA Sept 15 + 22 at 11am, 11:30am, noon, 12:30pm, 1pm, 1:30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm, 3pm, 3:30pm + 4pm

Circadium FringeArts.com/9403 A contemporary circus double feature: 4:18 AM is an introspective visual album of Let Them Eat Chaos by poet and musician Kate Tempest. In one surreal minute, seven strangers question their own humanity. Chaos Theory uses juggling, equilibristics, and theater to study the differences between order and chaos. 15-minute intermission between shows. $20 / 90 minutes Circadium School of Contemporary Circus 6452 Greene Street Sept 20–22 at 8pm

Open Ring Circus FringeArts.com/9414 On July 6, 1944, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus tent went up in flames during a matinee show in Hartford, CT. Through aerial arts and acrobatic storytelling, Coated asks questions about blame and responsibility, human fragility and resilience, while keeping the memories of the 1944 Circus Fire victims alive. $25 / 70 minutes Secret Circus 428 East Erie Avenue Sept 13 + 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 3pm + 7pm

Dumpster Dance for Garbage People Prudence Anne Amsden FringeArts.com/9404 Dumpster Dance for Garbage People is not a solution, it’s a recognition of a process. A bizarre fever dream of aggressive camp dance, it embraces so much wrong that it’s right. We are all garbage— own it and feel the fantasy.

Dumpster Dance for Garbage People: welcome to the void. $15 / 90 minutes Franky Bradley’s 1320 Chancellor Street Sept 10 + 11 at 8:30pm

Ultra V Theatre Co. FringeArts.com/9408 Slip into the Lavender Lounge, a 1930s speakeasy where the underground LGBTQ+ community comes together in search of strength amid the rise of fascism.

Come as you are and BYOB as the music of the era tells the story of a community whose spirits cannot be broken and a place where everyone can be themselves for a little while. $10 / 45 minutes Philadelphia Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square Sept 5 at 8pm Sept 6 at 9pm Sept 18 + 19 at 8pm Sept 20 at 9pm

Give Your Heart

Almanac Dance Circus Theatre FringeArts.com/9405 Through video, acrobatic dance, and live music, this original world premiere reveals the relationships between those struggling with debilitating diseases and those who take care of them. It’s a highly personal kinetic exploration of mutual grief, the balance between vitality and decay, and the slaphappy effect of unusual routines. Shows begin August 27, see thealmanac.us for more dates. $25 / 60 minutes Community Education Center 3500 Lancaster Ave Sept 3 at 7pm Sept 4 + 5 at 5:30pm Sept 6 at 7:30pm Sept 9 at 5:30pm Sept 10 at 7:30pm Sept 11 + 12 at 5:30pm + 9:30pm

Eric Thayer FringeArts.com/9406 This open-ended participatory performance is designed to both involve and reflect the Philadelphia community. Using medical technology, audience members will have their heartbeats simultaneously recorded, looped, and played back into LOVE Park as an abstract soundscape, reminiscent of a communal drum circle.

Free / 60 minutes LOVE Park 16th Street and JFK Boulevard Sept 9 at 4pm Sept 11 + 14 at noon Sept 16 + 18 at noon (rain dates)

Male Tears: A Clown Castration

The Miseducation of Generation Never

Nathan Alford-Tate, Travis Draper, and Rebecca Posner FringeArts.com/9409 Brick and Bristle explore masculinity the only way possible, through a red nose and booty shorts. When does masculinity become toxic? With the smallest masks, these two clowns seek to unmask a space where masculinity can be vulnerable.

Is castration inevitable? Don’t manspread too much. $10 / 45 minutes The Maas Building 1325 North Randolph Street Sept 8 + 9 at 7pm + 8:30pm

Yes! And...Collaborative Arts FringeArts.com/9411 Yes! And...’s Shadow Company delves into what it means to be a teenager as the world changes with lightning speed. They use spoken word poetry, movement, and their dynamic brand of storytelling to reveal the struggle for hope, compassion, and perseverance in the face of a crumbling social and economic infrastructure. $10 / 50 minutes Yes! And... Collaborative Arts 21 West Washington Lane Sept 6 at 7pm Sept 7 at 3pm + 7pm Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 3pm + 7pm

Immigrant Concierge Services Brian Shapiro Presents FringeArts.com/9407 What happened when a conservative billionaire had a freak accident in the Mexican desert and was rescued by a group of migrants? A mutually profitable business partnership, of course!

In a tale told with live music, hear how they disrupted the current immigration system to offer a novel pathway toward the American dream. $12 / 55 minutes Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art 531 North 12th Street Sept 5 + 11 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm

A Fringe Festival performance in LOVE Park (see page 97).

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Lavender Life

The Edge

Question Reality Pseudonym Productions FringeArts.com/9412 Pseudonym Productions invites you to step out of your reality and into a Lynchian world of mystery and intrigue. Inside this vibrant immersive world, you’ll get swept away into unexpected experiences where nothing is as it seems. Come early and stay late in our Immersive HQ, the hub for immersive entertainment at the Fringe Festival, where performance is not just a show, but an adventure. $20 / 30 minutes Immersive HQ @ Kismet Kismet Cowork Spring Arts 448 North 10th Street, 6th Floor Sept 10 + 12–15 at 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm + 9pm

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Real Housewives of Camden

Camden Rep FringeArts.com/9413 Sat·ire noun 1. the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices. Episode 1: “The Vision Board.” Episode 2: “Big Stan’s Tennis Party.” Episode 3: “TBD.” Episode 4: “To Be Young, Gifted and Broke.” Conceived by Desi P Shelton. $15 / 50 minutes The Tiny Theater 445 Mechanic Street Camden, NJ Sept 5 + 6 at 7pm

Skein of Heart JUNK FringeArts.com/9410 Enter/Exit the broken way.

Always right? The metal is transparent and the softness of heart urges you forward. Find your way through a labyrinth of ugly human/beautiful monster.

Part maze, part performance, part musical homage—a cryptic love. Those who enter the Skein of Heart do not leave as they came. $30–$35 / 45 minutes JUNK 2040 Christian Street Sept 5 at 8pm Sept 6 at 9pm Sept 7 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 8 + 12 at 8pm Sept 13 at 9pm Sept 14 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 15 + 19 at 8pm Sept 20 at 9pm Sept 21 at 8pm + 10pm

Solo Journey Deep Within Your Mind Sunday 11:00-4:00, Sept 15 and 22. $24 Sessions offered every half hour for 24 minutes.

Explore your open, creative mind.

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Brain wave biofeedback can relax your body and mind profoundly.

The sounds guide you down to where where your consciousness can mingle with your subconsciousness.

Let your creativity well up. Have your talents coalese. Enjoy your mind roaming free.

Gary Ames, Licensed Psychologist, 28 Rock Hill Road, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 CalmFocus.com

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GUNNAR MONTANA PRESENTS

SEPTEMBER 5–28 THE LATVIAN SOCIETY 531 N. 7TH STREET, PHILADELPHIA TICKETS AVAILABLE AT GUNNARMONTANA.COM

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60’s FOLK Revisited Vagabond Productions FringeArts.com/9501 Protests, prevaricating politicians, pandemonium. It feels like the ’60s again! Time to revisit songs by Woody Guthrie, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Bob Gibson, Shel Silverstein, Chad Mitchell, Joni Mitchell, and others. Sung by BackStage Bistro Award–winner Kate Loitz. Joyful, passionate music in a gorgeous rooftop setting. $10 / 60 minutes Roof Deck at the Davison Apartments 210 South 13th Street Sept 7, 8, 14 + 15 at 5pm

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Dear qupid

Manifest Destiny

Operatic Addictions

ENAensemble FringeArts.com/9502 Each show features a new opera and a band. The first half: a bingestaging of The 2019 Serial Opera Project (shows II and III) or the world premiere of the sci-fi opera Pornography (I and IV) by Evan Kassof and Aleksandar Hut Kono.

The second half: sets from Brother Martin (I and IV), The Cheddar Boys (II), or Lee Mo (III). $20 / 150 minutes Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 19 at 7pm (I) Sept 20 at 7pm (II) Sept 21 at 1pm (III) + 7pm (IV)

Dana Suleymanova FringeArts.com/9503 Viewers are invited to seek love advice from qupid at this interactive performance situated near the LOVE sculpture. Part awkward school play, part shoddy lemonade stand, this is a combination of advice columns, dating shows, themes around romance, and the divine in a strange whimsical experience.

Free / 60 minutes LOVE Park 16th Street and JFK Boulevard Sept 9 at 12:30pm Sept 15 at 1pm Sept 22 at 12pm

Jesus G FringeArts.com/9506 A theatrical presentation of alternative-rock songs written by singer-songwriter Jesus G. Inspired by the juxtaposition of his Catholic upbringing, Native American ancestry, and sexuality, this work seeks to challenge the abuse of power and honor the soul’s journey, from its trials to its triumphs. $15 / 55 minutes Arden Theatre 40 North 2nd Street Sept 12 + 13 at 9pm Sept 14 at 7:30pm + 10pm Sept 15 at 3:30pm

Alter Ego Chamber Opera FringeArts.com/9504 A fully staged operatic doublebill about two of our most major addictions—coffee and smartphones—with a new adaptation of J.S. Bach’s The Coffee Cantata and Phony, a premiere micro-opera by David Brown and Alize Rozsnyai. Accompanied by a reorchestrated chamber ensemble that includes electric guitar, bass guitar, and saxophone. $25 / 80 minutes St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 19 South 10th Street Sept 6 + 7 at 8pm

A Fringe Festival performance in LOVE Park (see page 97).

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12 Chairs

A Literal Doll House

A Manayunk Mystery Tour

Actually by Anna Ziegler

Juniper Productions FringeArts.com/9601 Often funny, sometimes sad, and always engaging, the Barrymorerecommended 12 Chairs moves us through the lives of Louise and her mother Ann. As Louise empties Ann’s house after her funeral, we experience, chair-by-chair and scene-by-scene, the moments—by turn tender and turbulent—that are seared into memory. $25 / 90 minutes Buttonwood Studios 1022 Buttonwood Street Sept 19–21 at 7:30pm Sept 22 at 2pm

MACHO GOAT FringeArts.com/9602 This deconstruction of Ibsen’s Victorian classic A Doll House features the entire play acted out by a girl playing with literal dolls.

Do not be fooled: There is more to this show than meets the eye. A struggle that rings true throughout the ages. This is not a one-woman show. Come and find out why. $10 / 140 minutes A Literal Apartment 247 South Juniper Street Sept 5–7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 12–14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 19–21 at 7pm Sept 22 at 2pm

Manayunk Theatre Company FringeArts.com/9603 It was a dark and stormy night when a young woman from Manayunk mysteriously went missing … AND WAS MURDERED!!!

Follow Manayunk’s finest private investigator, a child genius turned conspiracy enthusiast, and a VERY serious podcast reporter as they try to solve the MURDER of Manayunk’s Missing Millennial.

Free / 60 minutes Manayunk Towpath Main Street and Green Lane Sept 12 at 8pm Sept 13–15 at 8pm + 10pm

Half Key Theatre Company FringeArts.com/9604 Princeton freshmen Amber and Tom spend a night together that changes their lives. They agree on the drinking and attraction, but not on how or whether consent was given. This new play by Anna Ziegler investigates gender and race politics, our desire to fit in, and the three sides to every story. $20 / 70 minutes Philadelphia Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square Sept 5 at 7pm Sept 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 2pm Sept 8 at 3pm Sept 12 at 7pm Sept 13 at 8pm Sept 14 at 2pm Sept 15 at 3pm Sept 19 at 7pm Sept 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 2pm Sept 22 at 5pm

Alternative Theater Festival 2019

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An Iliad

iNtuitons Experimental Theatre FringeArts.com/9605 The Alternative Theater Festival is an annual festival celebrating weird, unconventional plays—all written, directed, and produced by students.

This year, we bring you experiments in subjects ranging from British spies to dentists. iNtuitons is the University of Pennsylvania’s one and only experimental theater group. $5 / 80 minutes Platt Student Performing Arts House 3702 Spruce Street Sept 14 at 2pm + 8pm

EveryLibrary and Love Drunk Life FringeArts.com/9606 The world has ended. Vodka is now made from seashells and the only music to have survived the apocalypse is Tchaikovsky and Britney Spears. The survivors must begin to build a new world. Step one: build a library? The reading of this new play is sponsored by EveryLibrary and presented by Love Drunk Life. $5 / 60 minutes Arden Theatre Hamilton Family Arts Center 62 North 2nd Street Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 2pm

Jason Greenfield FringeArts.com/9607 This new adaptation by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare based on Robert Fagles’s translation of The Iliad telescopes Homer’s Trojan War epic into a gripping monologue which captures both the heroism and horror of war.

Crafted around the stories of Achilles and Hector, in language that is by turns poetic and conversational, An Iliad brilliantly refreshes this world classic.

Directed and performed by Jason Greenfield. $10 / 100 minutes Millésimé 33 North 2nd Street Sept 7 at 5pm Sept 8 at 4pm Sept 14 at 5pm Sept 15 at 4pm Sept 21 at 5pm Sept 22 at 4pm

And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens

Atrytone/Fixed

Autopia

B. Franklin: Words Matter

Beards: A New Musical

Wings of Paper FringeArts.com/9609 How does the Greek goddess Athena deal with a headache? Can Leon remember what happened to him, and why he deserves to be in the prison he woke up in? A double bill of new works, Atrytone/Fixed asks what happens when people are pushed to their physical limit, and how their decisions ricochet to those around them. $10 / 60 minutes Mayfair Theater 6243 Frankford Avenue Sept 12 + 13 at 7:30pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 7:30pm

Hella Fresh Theater FringeArts.com/9611 Friends try to be disappointed by each other while waiting in line at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1978. $10 / 90 minutes Papermill Theater 2825 Ormes Street Sept 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 + 22 at 2pm

Albert Sherman FringeArts.com/9612 Sharp in wit, frail in body, Philly’s favorite Founding Father eloquently holds court on life, liberty, and love.

Family, royalty, lady friends, and surprise visitors join in. Is it truth?

Exaggeration? Vanity? Legend informs the words. You decide the matter. “Extraordinarily splendid” (Phindie). $15 / 60 minutes Joseph Priestley Chapel First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Sept 19 + 20 at 7pm Sept 21 + 22 at 5pm

Elana Mirella Mariani and Liberty Laferriere FringeArts.com/9613 Eva is a young woman in 1959 Manhattan who creates a business that pairs women with gay men to act as heterosexual couples. Beards examines themes of feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, family values, and emotional prostitution through a modern lens. $10 / 90 minutes University of the Arts Gershman Black Box Theatre 401 South Broad Street Sept 5–7 at 7:30pm Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 9 at 7:30pm

EgoPo Classic Theater FringeArts.com/9608 Candy Delaney is a “New Orleans queen” approaching his dreaded 35th birthday. While Candy is looking for romance, his newest pickup is looking for his next drink.

Audiences are welcomed into Candy’s apartment, champagne in hand, for this stunning portrait of unrequited love. Coproduced with Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. $20 / 45 minutes Asian Arts Initiative Studio B 1219 Vine Street Sept 5 + 6 at 7pm Sept 7 at 3pm + 8pm Sept 8 at 3pm

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Beyond The Light Pantea Productions FringeArts.com/9614 A captivating creation story of the origin of love. One soul split into two struggles to reunite through a world of shadows and light. This all-ages story combines puppetry, dance, and stunning visual effects. Beyond the Light is sure to captivate the senses. Called “stunning!” by Jane Henson, cofounder of The Muppets. $10 / 50 minutes Theatre Exile 1340 South 13th Street Sept 18–20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 6pm Sept 22 at 2pm

Billy the Baaadly Behaving Bully Goat: The Musical Play Nice Productions FringeArts.com/9616 Billy’s parents and teachers are at their wits’ end! They cannot stop this Bully Goat from picking on the kids in his class. Luckily, the Wise Old Goat has a plan. Will it work?

Can Billy change his behavior?

Laugh and sing along with this original musical. Ages 4–9. Tickets: $8 for kids; $12 for adults. $8–$12 / 45 minutes Nest 1301 Locust Street Sept 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 + 22 at 11am

The Break Fast Club

Molly Ward FringeArts.com/9617 A woman’s solitary urban existence is challenged by the public death of a stranger. One performer navigates seven characters in a storytelling experiment that explores the metaphor of survival. $10 / 60 minutes Magu Yoga 6825 Germantown Avenue Sept 20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 22 at 2pm

Tribe 12 Performing Arts Group FringeArts.com/9618 The Break Fast Club explores the lives of a few wildly different teenagers who find themselves in detention this High Holiday season: a brain (maybe he’ll be a doctor one day!), an athlete (not basketball), a basket case (oy vey!), a princess (Jewish American), and a criminal (putting the high in High Holidays). $15 / 55 minutes Philadelphia Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square Sept 11 + 12 at 7pm

Come Back, Little Sheba

by William Inge

THEATER

Brand New Pieta

Brown-eyed Rapunzel

Churn

The Clinic

Philly PACK FringeArts.com/9619 Rinnie studies fairy tales and spins a story she doesn’t need (she’s biracial). Her mom Karen tucks them away, especially the tough ones (yep, she’s white). On a rooftop under the clouds, they must learn how to tell a new story together. A dance/shadow/time-travel poem about what it’s like to mother a multiracial family. $20 / 75 minutes Philly PACK 233 Federal Street Sept 6 + 7 at 7pm

Nick Jonczak FringeArts.com/9621 This original solo performance seeks the deep dark and exalted in human ingenuity through a queered historical sci-fi epic. From the first test of an atomic bomb to the spread of white nationalism and our race to the stars, Churn reveals: You are every age you have ever been, and every age you will ever be. $25 / 60 minutes Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Sept 10 + 11 at 7pm Sept 14 at 1pm Sept 17–20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 1pm + 7pm Sept 22 at 1pm

Lone Brick Theatre Company FringeArts.com/9622 Two strangers arrive at a local clinic for their appointments.

Neither is there voluntarily. As the waiting room becomes more nightmarish and the clinic’s employees more twisted, the two find themselves at the mercy of a powerful system that considers it a civic duty to relinquish bodily autonomy when called upon.

Free / 45 minutes Old City Art House 144 Vine Street Sept 8 at 4pm, 6pm + 8pm

The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium FringeArts.com/9623 Precarious sobriety: poignant and potent with humor to spare, the quietness of quiet desperation explodes the claustrophobic lives of Lola and Doc. Inge’s 1950 classic comes alive amid outsider art in The Bethany Mission Gallery, illustrating how the pursuit of primal instincts derails and illuminates everyday lives. $15–$28 / 100 minutes The Bethany Mission Gallery 1527 Brandywine Street Sept 3 + 4 at 8pm (previews) Sept 5–7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 2:30pm Sept 10–14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2:30 pm Sept 17–21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2:30pm

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Dancing Again in Love Sabriaya Shipley, Victoria Goins FringeArts.com/9624 Dancing Again in Love is an ode to Black love, a choreopoem that puts the Black femme at the forefront of her story. Taking us on a journey through dance, poetry, and song, it asks whether we choose to repeat generational ways of love or break the cycle and redefine love for ourselves! $10 / 70 minutes Tree House Books 1430 West Susquehanna Avenue Sept 7 at 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 13 + 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 20 + 21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm

Destiny is a Careless Waiter Juniper Productions FringeArts.com/9625 The course of true love never did run smooth, especially when a waiter disrupts the path of romantic destiny over dessert.

Three delightful comedic short plays set in a café by local playwright Julie Zaffarano.

Delicious food available. Doors open at 6pm for you to pre-order dinner. Plays served at 6:30pm. $18 / 60 minutes Trolley Car Cafe 3269 South Ferry Road Sept 8, 11, 15, 18 + 22 at 6pm

Empanada Loca

Eurydice by Radio Eris

Recondite Tourist Activities FringeArts.com/9628 Deep underground, underneath the subways, Dolores is waiting to tell her story. A story of gentrification, survival, and murder inspired by the legend of Sweeney Todd, Empanada Loca is a solo Grand Guignol of one woman’s fight to survive in a bloody-minded world of reckless consumerism. $20 / 90 minutes Panorama Philly 5213 Grays Avenue Sept 5 at 8pm Sept 6 at 10pm Sept 7, 10 + 11 at 8pm Sept 12 at midnight Sept 17–19 at 8pm Sept 20 at 10pm Sept 21 at 8pm

Radio Eris FringeArts.com/9629 Discordian rock band Radio Eris tells the lost tale of Eurydice in this psychedelic rock opera, a mythological journey through the underworld and dimensions beyond time with the goddess Eris as a guide. “Daring players … making gorgeously melodic rock with irresistibly odd storylines … [an] always epic song-story” (A.D. Amorosi, City Paper). $8 / 110 minutes The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street Sept 13 at 8pm Sept 19 at 7:30pm

Dull Space and Dance

Emergency Contact

The Rock School presents a Light Street Pictures Production FringeArts.com/9626 This multidisciplinary theatrical (45 minutes) and dance (45 minutes) series pairs the work of playwright Brian McCole with an exhibition featuring the internationally acclaimed dancers of The Rock School. See one or both performances; café dining also available. $15 / 45–90 minutes The Rock School for Dance 1101 South Broad Street Sept 6 + 7 at 7pm Sept 21 at 1pm

Ann Kreitman FringeArts.com/9627 Headphones on, follow along.

Jenny has been summoned and you agreed to help. Retrace her steps and listen to her final dispatch to discover how we break the cycle.

Emergency Contact is an immersive, traveling experience for a solo audience member. $20 / 45 minutes Good Karma Cafe at The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street Sept 8–11 + 15–18 at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm + 8pm Sept 22 at 4pm, 5pm, 6pm + 7pm

Everybody Loves Each Other These Days

Everything Okay in There?

Nathan Crawford / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/9631 Without a job or a home after graduating from college, Ezra crashes with his sister. After his boyfriend dumps him, Ezra develops a crush on his sister’s roommate, Sam. Sam complicates matters by leaving it unclear whether she knows Ezra is pansexual or is wrongly assuming he is gay. $15 / 80 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 18–20 at 7pm Sept 21 at 3:30pm + 7pm

MyVision Theater Ensemble FringeArts.com/9632 Billy Joel said it best: “You know that when the truth is told, you can get what you want or you get old.” Vienna’s birthday is always celebrated with a sleepover. There are three games to play: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

However, Youth can be neither won nor lost. Vienna waits for you… $12 / 100 minutes The Philadelphia High School for Creative & Performing Arts 901 South Broad Street Sept 11–13 at 6pm

Fear Itself The Hum’n’bards FringeArts.com/1930 We live with fear everyday. Fear Itself takes the audience on a tour through a real historical cemetery to explore the concept of fear, the lost souls we encounter along the way, and the choices we get to make to either save these souls or leave them behind. $10–$20 / 45 minutes Gloria Dei Old Swedes Episcopal Church 927 South Water Street Sept 12 at 8:30pm Sept 13 + 14 at 7pm, 8:15pm + 9:30pm

Fragments from a Witch’s Journal Wild Plum Productions FringeArts.com/9633 The life of a witch is revealed from a lost journal that traces her journey through the world. A woman reads from the manuscript, relating the story the witch tells. $8 / 35 minutes Jed Williams Art Gallery 615 Bainbridge Street Sept 13, 20 + 21 at 7pm

Gay Mis

Open Concept Productions FringeArts.com/9634 Welcome to NorthBank! To increase employee engagement, we’re rolling out FreeWork. No one gets a desk, and employees can work wherever.

Feel free to collaborate, innovate, and even steal. Laugh along as two unlikely work friends stick it to the man in this comedy about a heist of mid-century modern furniture. $20 / 90 minutes Kleinbard 1717 Arch Street, 5th Floor Sept 13 + 14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 20 + 21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm

Eric Jaffe FringeArts.com/9635 If you like Les Misérables, you’ll LOVE Gay Mis! Join us for a queer, drag queen–infused parody of everyone’s favorite musical! Join Parmesan, Jabear, Fontina, Epanini and the whole gang as they go on a journey through time, space, and cheese. Visit theericjaffe.com for more information. $25 / 120 minutes Franky Bradley’s 1320 Chancellor Street Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 7pm + 10pm Sept 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 7pm + 10pm

Happy Days

Harrison

SpArc Services FringeArts.com/9638 SpArc Services presents a new take on an old classic. A lonely girl is transported to a mystical land where she meets new friends, conquers fears, and faces challenges. Join Jill, Evil Batman, Peter, Paul, Fabulous, and more as they sing and dance their way through Peaceful Meadow in search of a way home. $10 / 50 minutes Arden Theatre Hamilton Family Arts Center 62 North 2nd Street Sept 17 at 7pm

Harrison Scantling / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/9639 An autobiographical one-man show written and performed by Harrison Scantling. Harrison shares the story of his transition from female to male, chronicling his journey from childhood to adulthood. $15 / 50 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 11–13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 7pm

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H5¹, a one-man adaptation HABIT@ of Shakespeare’s HENRY V Matter Movement Group Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company FringeArts.com/9636 A bare-bones staging of Shakespeare’s Henry V in a oneman performance highlighting the necessity for authentic, compelling, and selfless leadership. Directed

by Ann Ciccolella. Featuring Paul Parente. $10 / 85 minutes URBN Center Black Box Theater 3401 Filbert Street Sept 5 at 7pm Sept 6 at 6pm + 9pm Sept 7 at 4pm + 9pm Sept 8 at 4pm

FringeArts.com/9637 Urban environments attempt to bury primal urges and archetypes under concrete and asphalt lucre.

Withal life finds light through fractures in terrain and suspension of urbanities. Wash away the doldrums and allow the inner fire to combust. Are you a product of your environment or is your environment a product of you? $35 / 60 minutes Sept 5–7 + 10–12 at 7pm Sept 13 + 14 at 7pm + 10pm Sept 15 at noon + 3pm Sept 16, 18 + 19 at 7pm Sept 20 + 21 at 7pm + 10pm Sept 22 at 7pm See website for address

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How It Really Happens TSquared Productions FringeArts.com/9641 How It Really Happens is an unromantic comedy that tackles the struggles of adulting as a twentysomething in the 21st century (or any century). In a world where people speak as though they have self-knowledge but still simply have bad habits, what prods us to truly change? $15 / 65 minutes Arden Theatre Hamilton Family Arts Center 62 North 2nd Street Sept 11–14 at 7:30pm

I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman Tara Lake / Lawnmower Media FringeArts.com/9642 In this award-winning sojourn embracing Southern roots, gospel rhythms, and queer identity, one family’s love conquers all. A scrappy Jersey girl finds the courage to live authentically in this soul-rich performance of storytelling, theater, song, and poetry. Philly premiere! $13 / 75 minutes The Whole Shebang 1813 South 11th Street (entrance in rear) Sept 20 at 7:30pm Sept 21 at 3pm + 7:30pm Sept 22 at 3pm

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Tangle Movement Arts FringeArts.com/9645 Stand clear of the closing doors!

In this new circus-theater show, nine women climb silks and hang from trapezes as subway rides and bus trips become a platform for aerial dance and intimate moments between strangers. Tangle’s acrobats travel through our public spaces to find love, frustration, and missing umbrellas. Tickets for the preview performance will be sold at a reduced price of $14. $14–$20 / 90 minutes Christ Church Neighborhood House 20 North American Street Sept 4 at 8pm (preview) Sept 5 + 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 3pm + 8pm

Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater FringeArts.com/9646 T&G’s improvised show is inspired by stories and pics of your tattoos— and other personal symbols.

Whether you have a tattoo, want one, or would never get one, tell us the things that are so important they’re forever etched in your heart—or skin. “Hilarious and fearless” (Philadelphia Weekly).

“Dazzling” (Philadelphia Inquirer). tongue-groove.com $18 / 65 minutes CSz Philadelphia at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 6 at 8pm Sept 13 at 8pm + 10pm Sept 18 at 7pm Sept 20 at 10pm Sept 21 at 5pm

The Illustrated Woman University of the Arts - Ira Brind School of Theater FringeArts.com/9643 Misplaced time and tales of traveling carnivals convene into an expressive and design-led exploration of what it means to look to the women of our past for present strength. The Illustrated Woman by Nancy Kiefer, directed by Anastassia Vertjanova (’19), is an odyssey of flourishing beyond trauma under the guise of a sadly all-too-familiar coming-ofage story. $15 / 90 minutes Caplan Studio Theater at University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street, 16th Floor Sept 13–22 See website for exact dates and times

The Insanity of Mary Girard Allens Lane Theater FringeArts.com/9647 In 1790, the wife of noted Philadelphian Stephen Girard awoke to find herself in the mental asylum at the Pennsylvania Hospital. How did she get here?

Why has her husband not come to have her released? Is it all a mistake, or is she truly insane? Join us on the inside where we find out more as the tale unfolds. $25 / 80 minutes Allens Lane Art Center 601 West Allens Lane Sept 19–21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm

In America, That is to Say No Where Rowan Theatre FringeArts.com/9644 A devised movement-driven theater piece inspired by Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, In America, That is to Say No Where takes a shocking and exaggerated look at the turmoil created by a gluttonous, childlike political figure as he comes to power and wreaks havoc. $15 / 60 minutes Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street Sept 5 + 6 at 7:30pm

Khan!!! The Musical!!!

Brent Black FringeArts.com/9648 In this live reading of the unauthorized Star Trek parody, Captain Picard and Data present an uproarious comedy adaptation of the iconic film The Wrath of Khan. Written for Trekkies and Broadway fans alike, Khan!!! is equal parts snarky, slapstick, and heartfelt. Come for the Vulcan tap dancing, stay for the mutant space chickens! 110 minutes plus 10-minute intermission. $10 / 120 minutes 954 Dance Movement Collective 954 North 8th Street Sept 9, 10, 13 + 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 1:30pm

Know Thyself IKantKoan FringeArts.com/9649 Philosophy is just a fun little game we play in our minds, right? Stoic, anarchist, or existentialist, we would never act on our darkest impulses … but do we know ourselves as well as we think we do? In this immersive, small-audience, game-theater salon, the rules we live by are always in play ;) $25 / 60 minutes Immersive HQ @ Kismet Kismet Cowork Spring Arts 448 North 10th Street, 6th Floor Sept 5–7 + 13 at 7:30pm + 8:30pm Sept 14 at 8:30pm + 9:30pm Sept 16 at 7:30pm + 8:30pm Sept 18 at 8:30pm + 9:30pm Sept 20 at 7:30pm + 8:30pm Sept 21 at 8:30pm + 9:30pm

The Live-Streaming Confessional of #stacylucky Leigh E. Bicica FringeArts.com/9651 Twitch. Periscope. Instagram.

Youtube. #stacylucky is live on all the social media apps to make friends, tell stories, and figure her life out. As it becomes Stacy’s safe haven, the internet waits with bated breath for every new post. But what is the price for revealing an inner life in the most public of forums? $20 / 60 minutes Twenty-Two Gallery 236 South 22nd Street Sept 14 + 15 at 8pm Sept 16 at 7pm Sept 19 + 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 3pm + 6pm Sept 22 at 7pm

Lysistrata, Cross Your Legs Sister!

Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Collective FringeArts.com/9652 The women withhold sexual privileges and occupy the main bank building to force the men to make peace and end the war. This musical adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata explores the timeless message “make love not war.” $25 / 95 minutes Kline Theater at the Church of the Advocate 2121 Gratz Street Sept 13 at 7:30pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 15 at 3pm Sept 20 at 7:30pm Sept 21 at 2pm + 7:30pm Sept 22 at 3pm

Medusa Volution Samieva Theater FringeArts.com/9654 A true story of sex, power, and monsters. “Feel of an ancient epic” (Plays To See). “Deliciously sticky … unexpected rapid fire of emotions“ (BKReader). “Conceptually ambitious” (Culture Catch). Medusa Volution takes a darkly comedic look at what is really going on with Medusa and her sister archetypes, intertwining their stories with those of modern womanhood. $22 / 90 minutes The Maas Building 1325 North Randolph Street Sept 17–19 at 8pm Sept 20 at 6pm + 9pm

THEATER

The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute

Mother Courage and Her Children

Convergent Stages FringeArts.com/9655 What if you had a chance to hit the reset button on your life? Neil LaBute’s response to the 9/11 attacks “occurs in one of those feverish nights of the soul in which men and women lock in vicious sexual combat, as in Strindberg’s Dance of Death and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

(The New York Times). Featuring Thomas-Robert Irvin and Ruth Wells Fischer. $25 / 90 minutes Immersive 600 Catharine Street Sept 11–14 at 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 17–21 at 8pm Sept 22 at 2pm

University of the Arts - Ira Brind School of Theater Arts FringeArts.com/9656 Mother Courage drags her cart across the battlefields of the Thirty Years War, profiteering from a conflict that destroys her children, one by one. It isn’t easy, starting a war, but nothing worthwhile is easy.

Although some may pray for peace, Mother Courage knows war is like love, it always finds a way. Written

by Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin, translated by Eric Bentley, directed by Brittney Anderson (’19). $15 / 90 minutes Caplan Studio Theater at University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street, 16th Floor Sept 13–21 See website for exact dates and times

Much to Do, Much to Fix Wings of Paper FringeArts.com/9657 A new take on immersive theater written and directed by John Cambridge, Much to Do, Much to Fix explores the production of electricity, apathy, and love. Join us to experience the other side of energy in a world of dance lords, story gods, and Methesda (a mischievous fox lord). BYOB. Absolutely no late admission. $15 / 75 minutes A warehouse where much was done and much was fixed 5200 Unruh Avenue Sept 5–7 at 7:30pm Sept 12, 13 + 15 at 5pm Sept 16, 19–21 at 7:30pm

The Murder & Booze Cabaret Love Drunk Life FringeArts.com/9658 Florence and Texas have three things in common: liquor, death, and music.

Real and real-crazy drunken tales of fame and violence from the 1920s fuse with jazzy riffs on modern pop songs for a night of high notes, low blows, and bespoke cocktails. $15 / 70 minutes Arden Theatre Hamilton Family Arts Center 62 North 2nd Street Sept 6 at 9pm Sept 7 at 10pm Sept 8 at 6pm Sept 19 at 8pm Sept 20 at 9pm Sept 21 at 10pm Sept 22 at 6pm

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Much to Do, Much to Fix This is definitely an ad for the new show Much to Do, Much to Fix by John Cambridge. However, this is also definitely an opportunity (not to be squandered) to put anything we wanted on this page. As we sat here trying to figure out what to do, we remembered those awesome games that existed in magazines when we were all smaller and even more naïve. As Much to Do, Much to Fix is a Wings of Paper Theatre Company production, we felt like it would be OK to use the company logo in one of those, “spot the differences between the pictures” games. So get out that magnifying glass and good luck!

After we realized that we weren’t great at making those games, and especially after we saw how much room on the page was already gone, we figured it best to put at least a little bit of information about the 10,000 sq ft guided immersive set we built.

Despite the similarities in symbolism, this play has nothing to do with Pokémon. That’s a diagram of a birds-eye view of the set. The audience sits in the center. They spin while the show happens on the six sets around them. The story moves in sequence through the space, rotation after rotation.

In a different reality, it might be interesting to use this space to talk about the story itself and entice you to come see it based on the merit of the narrative alone. But we’re really about out of room now so let’s not do that and instead be happy with the following anemic summary: it uses a world of gods and mortals to touch on issues surrounding electrical production, apathy, and love.

Yikes! Ok, we’re out of room!

More details can be found in other parts of this guide!

My Last Revolution

NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret

Operation: Wawa Road Trip

REV Theatre Company FringeArts.com/9661 Tap your toes and drink yourself to “death” as you imbibe with the embalmed! “Cocktails and cabaret that spook and stir the soul” (Philly Voice). “Performers with killer pipes—spine-tingling, dead-on sexy” (Phindie). “A show filled with nothing but highlights. GO!” (DC Metro Theater Arts). Suggested attire: dress dead or undead! $30 / 60 minutes Ulana’s 205 Bainbridge Street Sept 13, 14, 20 + 21 at 8pm + 11pm

Tribe of Fools FringeArts.com/9662 After their father’s death, Lee and Joey road-trip from Dayton to Philadelphia to scatter his ashes in a meaningful place: the Wawa parking lot. Features Dungeons & Dragons, sibling rivalry, rest stops, tunnel wizards, soda cave wisdom, and a disgusting hoagie legacy that must be upheld. $15–$25 / 85 minutes Proscenium Theatre at the Drake 302 South Hicks Street Sept 5 + 6 at 8pm Sept 7 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 9, 12 + 13 at 8pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 8pm Sept 15 at 2pm Sept 16, 19 + 20 at 8pm Sept 21 at 2pm + 8pm

Out of the Shadows

Party At DeeDee’s

Period House

Marissa Kennedy FringeArts.com/9664 Out of the Shadows is a solo performance that follows three generations of women confronted with the question, “Who is Dinah?” It explores the nuances of the #MeToo movement from a personal, spiritual, and historical perspective rooted in the African American experience. $15–$20 / 50 minutes St. Mark’s Church Frankford 4442 Frankford Avenue Sept 5 at 7:30pm Sept 7 at 2pm + 5pm Sept 12 + 13 at 7:30pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 5pm

Jack O’Keeffe / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/9665 A towering coyote has been birthed from the well within this planet and declared that the Earth will cease to be. One week before the end of everything, DeeDee is throwing a party in her terrible South Philly apartment. BYOB, don’t mess with the playlist, and most importantly, have fun. $15 / 90 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 11–13 at 9pm Sept 14 at 3:30pm + 9pm

Ragtime Players FringeArts.com/9666 Welcome to Period House, the luxury hotel and spa exclusively for ladies at that time of the month! Margaret isn’t the typical guest, and she has a lot to learn.

Fortunately, an eclectic group of fellow guests and expert staff are there to guide and support her with ice cream, martinis, sass, and steam treatments. See periodhouseplay.com. $13 / 75 minutes Inspire Art Space 1646 Ridge Avenue Sept 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 5pm + 7pm Sept 14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 5pm + 7pm Sept 18 at 7pm Sept 21 at 7pm Sept 22 at 5pm + 7pm

Gerhardus FringeArts.com/9659 A peace-loving, card-carrying social democratic, passionate environmentalist, bicycle advocate, full-time stay-at home dad, playwright, and Dutch transplant in the American heartland takes up Kendo with local “men” and is challenged to the fight of his life.

This and other stories of battles and self-discovery. $12 / 70 minutes Yorick & Sons 1864 Frankford Avenue Sept 13, 20 + 21 at 8pm

our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hate-fucked ON THE ROCKS: Elaina Di Monaco & Haygen-Brice Walker FringeArts.com/9663 ouija boards | necrophilia | Kelly Rowland | yearbooks | Satan | YA fiction | sexual perversions | kitten play | instas | finstas | high school reunions | dog attacks | mascots | christianity | lesbians | crocodile teeth | passing notes | road head | celebrity ghost hunters | gotta sign a waiver | BYOB $20 / 120 minutes Asian Arts Initiative Studio B 1219 Vine Street Sept 15 at 9:30pm Sept 16 at 6pm + 10pm Sept 18–20 at 10:30pm Sept 21 at 11pm Sept 22 at 6pm + 9:30pm

THEATER

Puppet-delphia Fringe Slam Pantea Productions FringeArts.com/9667 Watch puppets and their humans get risky and frisky at this late-night variety puppet show. Presenting a wide range of short puppet acts, from silly to bawdy to sublime, this ADULTS ONLY show will unleash the world of puppetry on Philly.

With musical acts, special guest stars, and puppeteers from Philly and New York City. $12 / 65 minutes Theatre Exile 1340 South 13th Street Sept 21 at 8:30pm

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the after-image FringeArts.com/9668 Born into a lineage of hate, a band of modern-day explorers exhumes an unseen but cancerous tale. As they awaken alternative stories, some must atone for their sins and those they’ve inherited, while others must avenge wrongs still ongoing. If they don’t, they may write the next chapter in this horrific penny dreadful. $20 / 80 minutes PlayArts 1241 North Front Street Sept 13 at 8:30pm Sept 14 + 15 at 9:30pm Sept 20 at 8:30pm (ASL interpretation) Sept 21 + 22 at 9:30pm

Sasha Wolfe and Ellen Zahniser FringeArts.com/9671 A formal presentation on the Divine Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila.

Forgive the lecturer for being out of sorts, it’s a weirdly stressful subject.

Please consider in advance: What makes something sacred? Do you think hallucinations make you feel more lonely or less? Can divine figures be sexy?! There may be a pop quiz!

Free / 50 minutes Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue Sept 6 + 7 at 7:30pm Sept 8 at 2pm

Richard III

The Rose Garden

Hestia Theatre Company FringeArts.com/9673 Three Richards. Six women. Ninety minutes. This infamous play will be performed in one of the city’s most historic sites. Hestia Theatre Company teams up with Christ Church Burial Ground’s 300th anniversary. Whether you are new to Shakespeare or a well-seasoned lover of verse, this all-female production has something for you. $25 / 90 minutes Christ Church Burial Ground 340 North 5th Street Sept 5 + 6 at 7pm Sept 7 + 8 at 5pm + 7:30pm Sept 9 + 11–13 at 7pm Sept 14 + 15 at 5pm + 7:30pm

Emily Betts & Monti Cerabino FringeArts.com/9674 An existentialist play masquerading as a ridiculous farce. The Rose Garden toes the line between raucous comedy and cerebral drama, and leaves audiences asking themselves: What are you waiting for? $10 / 45 minutes University of the Arts Gershman Black Box Theatre 401 South Broad Street Sept 13 at 7pm Sept 14 at 2pm + 7pm Sept 15 at 2pm

Run Boy Run Production Presents: Complex[ion] Woman

Missing Bolts Productions FringeArts.com/9670 Staged in the 100-year-old racquets court in the exclusive confines of the Racquet Club of Philadelphia, this is a new play about feminism, climate change, the fate of big cities, loss of love, and what it means to live a truly independent life. $16 / 90 minutes Racquet Club of Philadelphia 215 South 16th Street Sept 20 at 7:30pm + 10pm Sept 22 at 3pm Sept 24 + 26 at 8pm Sept 27 at 9pm

Run Boy Run Productions FringeArts.com/9675 Complex[ion] Woman explores the intricacies of contemporary women of color. From straightening or curling our hair to coping with difficulties within the Black community, women of color live lives that are unique in their experiences but universal in their issues. But that’s what makes us complex. $25 / 75 minutes Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 13 at 8pm Sept 14 at noon + 8pm Sept 15 at 1pm

Red Lodge, Montana The Antidote FringeArts.com/9672 A mysterious death. An enigmatic detective. And some damn fine huckleberry pie. Inspired by the work of filmmaker David Lynch, Red Lodge, Montana will immerse you in a nightmare world of danger, desire, and doppelgängers. (Pie not included.) $20 / 85 minutes Bok 800 Mifflin Street Sept 7 at 8:30pm Sept 8 at 3:30pm + 7:30pm Sept 9, 11 + 12 at 8:30 pm Sept 13 at 10pm Sept 15 at 3:30 + 7:30pm

The Sea Voyage The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective FringeArts.com/9676 A war of love and duty breaks out when a band of privateers find themselves stranded on a seemingly uninhabited island. A true maritime romp of the Jacobean era: raw, bold, and devilishly funny by The PAC (The Sea Plays, 2013; Fair Maid of the West, 2015; Iphigenia at Aulis, 2017). $25 / 120 minutes Independence Seaport Museum 211 South Christopher Columbus Boulevard Sept 4, 5 + 7 at 7pm Sept 8 at 3pm Sept 11–14 at 7pm Sept 15 at 3pm Sept 16 + 18–20 at 7pm

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Shirley Valentine

Significant Other

Three Sheets FringeArts.com/9678 Three scary stories told in fragments, moments, and installations: “The Ghost of Mediocrity,” “The Body that Wouldn’t Be,” and “Papa’s Done Gone Crazy.” Marshmallows, tragic dogs, guitars, deadbeats, abandoned farmhouses, campfires, dreams, diaries of the dead, hot chocolate, shades, surgeries, and dirges gather in the dark. $10 / 60 minutes The Iron Factory 118 Fontain Street, 3rd Floor Sept 13–15 + 20–22 at 8pm

Michelle Pauls/Claire Golden Drake FringeArts.com/9679 Shirley Valentine is a workingclass Liverpool housewife. As she stands in her dingy kitchen making egg and chips, she dreams about life beyond the wall, and the possibility of “drinking wine in a country where the grape is grown.”

Eat and drink British pub grub as you enjoy this award-winning comedy by Willy Russell. $18 / 85 minutes The Victoria Freehouse 10 South Front Street Sept 12 at 7:30pm Sept 14 at 4pm Sept 20 at 7:30pm Sept 21 at 4pm Sept 22 at 2pm

ByPeterFenton.com FringeArts.com/9677 It’s Christmastime in September!

Join our lovable snowman for a drink as he narrates the Yuletide pandemonium that is the tale of Mitchell Claus and Daisy Scarlett.

Their love story is threatened when a blackmail scandal emerges in Santa’s workshop amid Mrs. Claus’s critical re-election bid for mayor of the North Pole. $15 / 105 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 19 at 9pm Sept 20 at 11:59pm Sept 21 at 1:30pm (audio description)

Mauckingbird Theatre Company FringeArts.com/9681 The Philadelphia premiere of Significant Other by Joshua Harmon. Four college friends search for relationship and commitment. As Jordan watches his best girlfriends get engaged and married, he is faced with his own circumstance as a single gay man. Will he ever find the one to marry? $25 / 120 minutes Louis Bluver Theatre at the Drake 302 South Hicks Street Sept 5–7 at 7:30pm Sept 8 at 2pm Sept 11–14 at 7:30pm Sept 15 at 2pm

Since They Left: A Pied Piper Musical

Siren Songs

SPIES!! Even More Spying

Amanda Shaffern / Theater Oblivion FringeArts.com/9683 This verbatim-styled theatrical piece is focused on the topic of addiction and substance use disorder. Cultivated from first person interviews, Siren Songs follows seven individuals on their tumultuous journeys through addiction and shows how they fought their way to recovery.

Representation. Humanization.

Education. #endthestigma. Siren Songs is funded through an Alumni TIES small grant from the U.S. Department of State. $20 / 90 minutes Warehouse on Watts 923 North Watts Street Sept 5 + 6 at 6pm Sept 7 at 2pm Sept 8 at 2pm + 6pm Sept 10 at 7pm Sept 12 + 13 at 6pm Sept 15 at 2pm + 6pm

The Agency Bureau LLC FringeArts.com/9684 Agent, you must infiltrate the Future Summit conference to investigate a new threat against your country.

Keep in touch with your Spy Handler via text message as you navigate drinks, lightning talks, overenthusiastic influencers, and dad jokes. Maybe you saved the world before. Time to do it again. $20–$35 / 90 minutes Immersive HQ @ Kismet Kismet Cowork Spring Arts 448 North 10th Street, 6th Floor Sept 10 + 12 at 7pm Sept 14 at 5pm Sept 17 + 19 at 7pm Sept 21 at 5pm

Stripping the Yellow Wallpaper

THEATER

See Amid The Winter Snow

Sarah Hough, Nick Hatcher FringeArts.com/9682 Featuring a cast of women and nonbinary performers, this musically diverse adaptation of the Pied Piper story explores the oppression by their own society of women, people with disabilities, freelance artists, and children. Mystery to myth, myth to story, story to poem, and all pain fades. Open captioning for all performances available upon request, contact patronservices@FringeArts.com. $10 / 90 minutes Skinner Studio at Plays & Players Theatre 1714 Delancey Place Sept 5 + 6 at 7pm Sept 7 + 8 at 2pm + 7pm

Valerie Flower and Katherine Reid FringeArts.com/9686 A contemporary twist on “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the feminist ghost story that first illuminated the horrors of facing mental illness alone. $7 / 50 minutes First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street Sept 12–14 at 8pm

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Tubey Frank’s Variety for Charity

267 Productions Co. FringeArts.com/9688 This new musical by Terrell M. Green follows the journey of the first trans girl group to make it mainstream. Five days out from their first world tour, these women fight for equality and acceptance from the world while navigating the demands of the music industry. $20 / 60 minutes Tabu Lounge & Sports Bar 254 South 12th Street Sept 19 at 8pm William Way Center 1315 Spruce Street Sept 22 at 2:30pm

Theatre of the 12 Dog Sled FringeArts.com/9685 Musician Tubey Frank brings you a variety show four nights in a row!

Each night features one music act, one theater group, and one visual artist. 25% of each ticket will benefit local nonprofits of the featured artists and performers’ choosing. $15 / 80 minutes Mayfair Theater 6243 Frankford Avenue Sept 19–22 at 8pm

Wear and Tear

Whine & Waffles

The Back Pack FringeArts.com/9691 A movement-based comedy extravaganza creatively combining nonverbal performance with music, dance, and media. The Back Pack’s imaginative style has been described as a live-action cartoon, unmatched in its cleverness, and pure entertainment that will leave you with a smile on your face and a glow in your heart. $15 / 60 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 5 + 6 at 9pm Sept 7 + 8 at 2pm + 9pm

Messy Confidence Productions FringeArts.com/9692 Ti likes Jo, Jo likes drugs, Lionel hates work, and Janelle hates Lionel. Watch these twentysomethings tackle clubs, drugs, and insecurities in a city where dancing strangers become fast friends. But can their wineinduced whine sessions handle the gay crushes, foul language, failures to love … and ghosts? $15 / 100 minutes Inspire Art Space 1646 Ridge Avenue Sept 5, 12, 13 + 19 at 7pm

Women in Mummers Project

You Only Shoot the Ones You Love

Golden Sunrise NYA FringeArts.com/9693 The Women in Mummers Project gives a voice to the hardworking women in the Mummers organization. These women do everything: building huge suits, organizing people, marching in the parade, feeding everyone, and so much more. Come learn about these outstanding women and the Mummers. $10 / 45 minutes Golden Sunrise NYA 230 Greenwich Street Sept 20 + 21 at 7:30pm Sept 22 at 3pm

Jeffrey Sweet FringeArts.com/9694 One of the hits of the New York Fringe (“Entertaining, compelling,” The New York Times), You Only Shoot the Ones You Love is a yarn about how the Cossacks almost killed Jeffrey Sweet’s grandmother and what that has to do with a generation of Jews bringing teeth and cojones (look it up) to American comedy.

85 minutes See website for more information

The Franklin Institute FringeArts.com/9687 Visually stunning ensemble storytelling fuses with elaborate video and sound design to tell the story of Nikola Tesla’s 1893 visit to The Franklin Institute. Was Tesla mad or a prophetic visionary? Join us as we plunge into the nightmares and daydreams of history’s most enigmatic inventor. Ages 9–99. $20 / 65 minutes The Franklin Institute 222 North 20th Street Sept 11–13 at 7:30pm Sept 14 at 3pm Sept 15 at 1pm

Two Bedroom, One Bath Olivia Kram / Philly Improv Theater FringeArts.com/9689 Grief and trauma surface in people in different ways. Two Bedroom, One Bath is a dramedy that examines these strong emotions in the shared living space of two completely different roommates who are navigating love, life, and bad plumbing. $15 / 90 minutes Philly Improv Theater at the Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street Sept 5 + 6 at 7pm Sept 7 at 3:30pm + 7pm

Festival Performances in LOVE Park Fringe comes to LOVE Park in a series of FREE performances by independent artists: D ear qupid (Dana Suleymanova, p82) Give Your Heart (Eric Thayer, p79) R ISE: Relationship is Self Existing (Asimina Chremos & Leah Stein Dance Company, p72)

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VISUAL ART + FILM Fringe looks good

Animation Nation Pt. 2

Composition in Concert

Dissonance

Generations

The Women’s Film Festival FringeArts.com/9801 The Women’s Film Festival presents an amazing collection of animated films by, for, or about women. Come get a taste of award-winning short films from local and international artists along with a preview of our nine-day festival in March! Bring an open mind with a dusting of imagination! Send submissions to the 2020 festival to bit.ly/ twff2020submissions. $10 / 90 minutes Tokio Theater 122–124 Lombard Street, 2nd Floor Sept 11 at 7pm

Da Vinci Art Alliance FringeArts.com/9803 Inspired by Shimmering Synths: The Film Music of Tangerine Dream—dreamy, minimalist soundscapes and iconic film scores—this exhibition embodies the harmonious relationship between music and visual art forms, exploring the abstract interactions between both worlds. Image by Bill Timmins ( juror). Exhibition opens July 9.

Free / Gallery hours International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street Through Sept 20 at 9am–5pm

Da Vinci Art Alliance FringeArts.com/9804 Dissonance is the result of conflict.

We seek harmony, so we seek to reconcile differences. This process is part of personal growth and part of opening ourselves to empathy.

This solo exhibition explores visual metaphors for dissonance and harmony through geometric patterning in relation to flowing organic forms.

Free / Gallery hours Da Vinci Art Alliance 704 Catharine Street Sept 8, 12–15, 19–22 + 26–29 at noon–5pm

Da Vinci Art Alliance FringeArts.com/9805 Four artists come together to portray the fantastic relationships between mothers and sons. Two sculptors and two painters share not only their family relationship, but also their feelings for the human condition. An exhibition that is whimsical, serious, kinetic, polychromatic, and familial.

Free / Gallery hours Da Vinci Art Alliance 704 Catharine Street Sept 8, 12–15, 19–22 + 26–29 at noon–5pm

Mythical Chinese Dragon

Temple of Venus

This Art Moves

Visionary Fringe

Hua Hua Zhang / Visual Expressions FringeArts.com/9806 The Chinese dragon symbolizes good luck, unity, and strength.

Guided by her curiosity, Hua Hua Zhang experiments with Chinese ink, calligraphy, and objects to create an experimental work that shares her interpretation of Chinese dragons. Exhibition runs through October 4.

Free / Gallery hours Asian Arts Initiative, 2nd Floor Lobby 1219 Vine Street Sept 4–6, 9–13 + 16–20 at 10am–6pm

The Collective of Jawn FringeArts.com/9807 The Temple of Venus is open for worship on Friday the 13th of September. Holding space with light, sound, flesh, scent, and taste, this immersive experience is centered on the divine feminine, presented through an interactive flesh suspension, an art installation accompanied by poetry, burlesque, and ritual. Enjoy a submersion of the senses with curated cocktails and snacks as you explore an ancient artform brought to new life in the city, in honor of Venus. $50 / 90 minutes Thelesis Oasis 1627 North 2nd Street Sept 13 at 9pm

DynamicDisplays / Projector Guy FringeArts.com/9802 Dynamic displays of moving digital imagery set to the beat of eastern philosophy and computing theory.

Never still, always evolving, always dynamic, and always sensual with embedded art images. Chill out at Jerry’s Bar courtyard for drinks and award-winning food and sit back and enjoy the show. Runs for the duration of the Fringe Festival.

Free / Bar hours Jerry’s Bar 129 West Laurel Street Begins Sept 5 at 4pm Sept 5–22 See website or contact bar for hours.

Philadelphia Visionary Arts Gallery FringeArts.com/9808 Visionary art is art that pushes the boundaries of perception—a lens to see reality from a different perspective or a portal to another place entirely. With our LED floor and color-changing lights, we curate an immersive fine art experience showcasing visionary and surreal works unlike anything else in Philadelphia.

Free / Gallery hours Philadelphia Visionary Arts Gallery 764 South 4th Street Opens Sept 5 at 2pm Sept 5–22 See website or contact gallery for hours.

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THE INDEPENDENT ARTIST

FESTIFUND Support Artists in the 2019 Fringe Festival

New this year, the Independent Artist FestiFund supports artists participating in the 2019 Fringe Festival. Producing their own performances, installations, and events comes at a cost for these hard-working independent creators. This scholarship fund aims to offset some of the costs for five artists chosen by an independent panel.

Fundraising for the FestiFund will continue up until the Fringe Festival, with the total funds divided among the five recipients before the festival begins. Contact Fringe Festival Coordinator April Rose at April@FringeArts.com for more information.

The Independent Artist FestiFund is a project of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia

Photo: JJ Tiziou

Thanks to QLab from Figure 53 and all the FestiFund donors.

Make your tax deductible donation now at festifund.wedid.it

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The Adrienne 2030 Sansom Street C ambridge Footlights: Look Alive! / p68 E verybody Loves Each Other These Days / p88 H arrison / p89 I NK / p90 N oir AF: An Improvised Film Noir / p69 M yths & Monsters / p68 P arty At DeeDee’s / p93 ¡ Que Ridículo! / p69 R iot In Rittenhouse: A Philly Sketch Comedy Show / p69 R oll Play: An Improvised Adventure / p69 S ee Amid The Winter Snow / p95 T wo Bedroom, One Bath / p96 W ear and Tear / p96 3

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Performing Arts at University of the Arts 211 South Broad Street T he Illustrated Woman / p90 M other Courage and Her Children / p91 R E:figuring / p72 5

The Davison Apartments

210 South 13th Street 6 0’s FOLK Revisited / p82 6 The Drake 302 South Hicks Street O peration: Wawa Road Trip / p93 S ignificant Other / p95

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of Philadelphia 2125 Chestnut Street B . Franklin: Words Matter / p85 S tripping the Yellow Wallpaper / p95 8

The Franklin Institute 222 North 20th Street T esla’s Dream / p96 9

Franky Bradley’s 1320 Chancellor Street D umpster Dance for Garbage People / p79 G ay Mis / p89 10

Gershman Hall at University

of the Arts 401 South Broad Street B eards: A New Musical / p85 T he Rose Garden / p94 u nbird unbeast / p73 11

Good Good Comedy Theatre 215 North 11th Street P restige Drama / p69 Q ueer Bait: Sterile / p69 12 Kleinbard 1717 Arch Street, 5th Floor F reeWork / p89 13

LOVE Park 16th Street and JFK Boulevard D ear qupid / p82 G ive Your Heart / p79 R ISE: Relationship is Self Existing / p72 14

Nest 1301 Locust Street B illy the Baaadly Behaving Bully Goat: The Musical / p87 15

Philadelphia Ethical Society 1906 Rittenhouse Square A ctually by Anna Ziegler / p84 T he Break Fast Club / p87 L avender Life / p79

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The Plastic Club

247 South Camac Street C andle, Sword, and Fan / p70 17

Plays & Players Theatre

1714 Delancey Place B etween / p82 R un Boy Run Production Presents: Complex[ion] Woman / p94 S ince They Left: A Pied Piper Musical / p95 18 Racquet Club of Philadelphia 215 South 16th Street r ail. / p94 19

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 19 South 10th Street O peratic Addictions / p82 20 Tabu Lounge & Sports Bar 254 South 12th Street T ranslation: Cracking the Girl Code / p96 21

Twenty-Two Gallery 236 South 22nd Street T he Live-Streaming Confessional of #stacylucky / p91 22

Urban Movement Arts

2100 Chestnut Street F ire in the Sky / p71 Y ou Are Not a Shining Star / p73 23 The Wilma Theater 265 South Broad Street E mergency Contact / p88 T here: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other / p44 24

William Way Center 1315 Spruce Street T ranslation: Cracking the Girl Code / p96

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78 PlayArts 1241 North Front Street R E: SHE, a litany of adventures / p94

91 Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street D ance Collection / p71 I n America, That is to Say No Where / p90 K CBC x KCBCII / p71 P roceed with Caution / p72

A warehouse where much was done and much was fixed 5200 Unruh Avenue M uch to Do, Much to Fix / p91

79 Secret Circus 428 East Erie Avenue C oated: 1944 Circus Fire Project / p78

68 Drummers 2152 East Norris Street T he Destination is the Downbeat / p71

80 St. Mark’s Church Frankford

4442 Frankford Avenue O ut of the Shadows / p93

Philadelphia Mausoleum of

Contemporary Art 531 North 12th Street I mmigrant Concierge Services / p79

81 Thelesis Oasis 1627 North 2nd Street T emple of Venus / p99

93 Tree House Books 1430 West Susquehanna Avenue D ancing Again in Love / p88

82 Yorick & Sons 1864 Frankford Avenue M y Last Revolution / p93

94 Vox Populi

319 North 11th Street A nother Agatha: a myth of perception / p78

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exuberance 1220 North Mascher Street L a Bolivianita / p71 70

The Iron Factory 118 Fontain Street s he didn’t want to be found / p95 71

Jerry’s Bar 129 West Laurel Street T his Art Moves / p99 72

The Maas Building 1325 North Randolph Street M ale Tears: A Clown Castration / p79 M edusa Volution / p91 T U R F / p73 73 Mascher Space Cooperative 155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue C hurn / p87 I Spy, With My Little Eye / p71 r e. TRANSVERBERATION / p94 74

Mayfair Theater 6243 Frankford Avenue A trytone/Fixed / p85 T ubey Frank’s Variety for Charity / p96 75 Pacific Yoga

2518 Cedar Street H owie Hypnotize / p68 76 Papermill Theater

2825 Ormes Street A utopia / p85 77 Pig Iron School

1417 North 2nd Street T he Quiet Room / p72 S plitScreen / p72

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954 Dance Movement

Collective 954 North 8th Street K han!!! The Musical!!! / p90 84

The Bethany Mission Gallery 1527 Brandywine Street C ome Back, Little Sheba by William Inge / p87 85 Buttonwood Studios 1022 Buttonwood Street 1 2 Chairs / p84 86 Conwell Dance Theater 1801 North Broad Street S tates of Matter / p73 87

Inspire Art Space 1646 Ridge Avenue P eriod House / p93 W hine & Waffles / p96 88 Kismet Cowork Spring Arts 448 North 10th Street K now Thyself / p91 Q uestion Reality / p79 S PIES!! Even More Spying / p95 89

Kline Theater at the Church of

the Advocate 2121 Gratz Street L ysistrata, Cross Your Legs Sister! / p91 90 The Latvian Society 531 North 7th Street B ASEMENT / p70

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Warehouse on Watts 923 North Watts Street S iren Songs / p95

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96 Allens Lane Art Center 601 West Allens Lane T he Insanity of Mary Girard / p90 97

Circadium School of

Contemporary Circus 6452 Greene Street C ircadium Presents: 4:18 AM / Chaos Theory / p78 98 Magu Yoga 6825 Germantown Avenue B rand New Pieta / p87 99

Manayunk Towpath

Main Street and Green Lane A Manayunk Mystery Tour / p84 100

Trolley Car Cafe

3269 South Ferry Road D estiny is a Careless Waiter / p88 101 Yes! And… Collaborative Arts 21 West Washington Lane T he Miseducation of Generation Never / p79

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CAMDEN

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OLD CITY

includes Delaware Waterfront and Society Hill 25

Arden Theatre

40 North 2nd Street M anifest Destiny / p82 26

Arden Theatre Hamilton

Family Arts Center 62 North 2nd Street a methyst. / p85 H appy Days / p89 H ow It Really Happens / p90 T he Murder & Booze Cabaret / p91 27 Cherry Street Pier 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard F ringe Festival Bookstore / p56 S ection, Void / p57 S uspended Lives / Vidas Suspendidas / p57 28 Christ Church Burial Ground

340 North 5th Street R ichard III / p94 29

Christ Church Neighborhood

House 20 North American Street C artography / p42 I n Transit / p90 S uspended Lives / Vidas Suspendidas / p57 U n Poyo Rojo / p48

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FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard A rtists & Makers Fair / p33 T he B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation / p34 B alletX Pop-Up / p33 F ase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich / p46 F estival Bar (La Peg + Haas Biergarten) / p32 F estival Kickoff Party / p32 F estival Halftime Party / p32 F estival Closing Night Party / p33 F ringe Festival Quizzo / p33 L et Me Die / p52 S uspended Lives / Vidas Suspendidas / p57 31

Independence Seaport

Museum 211 South Christopher Columbus Boulevard T he Sea Voyage / p94 32

Millésimé 33 North 2nd Street A n Iliad / p85 33

Old City Art House

144 Vine Street T he Clinic / p87 34 Tokio Theater 122–124 Lombard Street A nimation Nation Pt. 2 / p98 35 The Victoria Freehouse 10 South Front Street S hirley Valentine / p95

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1316 South Percy Street L ate Night Snacks / p54

37 2300 Arena 2300 South Swanson Street S uperterranean / p36 38

5th Street between Shunk

and Oregon Ú umbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants / p38

39 The Art Room Studio 2329 South 3rd Street C lose To Home / p71 40 Bok

800 Mifflin Street R ed Lodge, Montana / p94 41 CHI Movement Arts Center 1316 South 9th Street H oney / p71 42 Connie’s Ric Rac 1132 South 9th Street K nock ’Em Dead / p68 43 Da Vinci Art Alliance 704 Catharine Street D issonance / p98 G enerations / p98 44

Gloria Dei Old Swedes

Episcopal Church 927 South Water Street F ear Itself / p89 45

Golden Sunrise NYA 230 Greenwich Street W omen in Mummers Project / p96 46 Immersive 600 Catharine Street T he Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute / p91

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OUTSIDE PHILLY

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58 Annenberg Center

3680 Walnut Street I s This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription / p40

102 28 Rock Hill Road

Bala Cynwyd, PA B iofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation / p78

Jed Williams Art Gallery 615 Bainbridge Street F ragments from a Witch’s Journal / p89 JUNK 2040 Christian Street S kein of Heart / p80 49

L’Etage 624 South 6th Street S ock It To Me! / p69 50

O’Neal’s Pub

611 South 3rd Street R at Ruse / p69 The Philadelphia High School

for Creative & Performing Arts 901 South Broad Street E verything Okay in There? / p88 52

Philly PACK 233 Federal Street B rown-eyed Rapunzel / p87 53

Philadelphia Visionary Arts

Gallery 764 South 4th Street V isionary Fringe / p99 54

The Rock School for Dance 1101 South Broad Street D ull Space and Dance / p88 55

Theatre Exile 1340 South 13th Street B eyond The Light / p87 b ilialien / p70 P uppet-delphia Fringe Slam / p93 S neakers / p72 56 Ulana’s 205 Bainbridge Street N ecroPhillyAhhh: A FUNeral Cabaret / p93 57

The Whole Shebang

1813 South 11th Street I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman / p90

Bartram’s Garden 5400 Lindbergh Boulevard S unset CypHER / p73 60

Community Education Center

3500 Lancaster Avenue T he Edge / p79 U jima Dance Theatre’s Words and Movement Two / p73 61

International House

Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street C omposition in Concert / p98 L ife and Times – Episode 7 / p57 62

Mandell Theater at Drexel

University 3220 Chestnut Street P ursuit of Happiness / p50

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Institute of Dance Artistry

400 Commerce Drive, Fort Washington, PA S himmy your Fringe! / p72 104

The Tiny Theater 445 Mechanic Street, Camden, NJ R eal Housewives of Camden / p80 Bold = FringeArts Curated

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Panorama Philly

5213 Grays Avenue E mpanada Loca / p88 S prout! A Full Length Not-ABallet / p72 64

latt Student Performing P Arts House 3702 Spruce Street A lternative Theater Festival 2019 / p85 65

The Rotunda

4014 Walnut Street 5 0th Anniversary of the Original Woodstock 1969! / p70 E urydice by Radio Eris / p88 66

URBN Center Black Box

Theater 3401 Filbert Street H 5¹, a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s HENRY V / p89

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FringeArts: What do you like about the Fringe Festival?

FringeArts: What do you like about it?

Dennis Hallda: The originality, the talent, the great venues, the staff.

Shoshana Lovett-Graff: I am grateful to be able to share theater and performance with friends, neighbors, and strangers. I’ve provided tickets to coworkers, friends-of-friends, roommates, parents of neighbors, and more than one couple going on a first date. I love making connections between people and art, especially if they would not otherwise have access to it.

FringeArts: What do you like about volunteering for FringeArts?

Dennis Hallda: I volunteer to keep up with what is going on at FringeArts and at the Fringe Festival.

Otherwise all this creativity would pass by before I knew it was coming. Also, the staff is great to work with. I have made many friends over the years.

FringeArts: Do you have a favorite memory?

Dennis Hallda: Pig Iron Theatre Company’s show 99 Breakups at PAFA. It was so original and creative.

The police showed up unexpectedly and there was a scene in a freight elevator. So cool.

FringeArts is always looking for volunteers, during the Fringe Festival and throughout the year. Usher a dance performance, collect tokens at a circus festival, or distribute programs at a play. The opportunities are endless; the art is spectacular! There is no minimum commitment and we welcome arts lovers ages 14-and-up. For more information, email volunteer@FringeArts.com or call 267.612.4903.

FringeArts: Do you have a favorite memory?

Shoshana Lovett-Graff: Dancing around and pretending to be seaweed during an early performance of A Hard Time, part of High Pressure Fire Service.

My partner was mortified, and I loved every second.

The FringeArts Ambassador Program is a cohort of volunteers, artistic participants, longtime fans of FringeArts, and community stakeholders who work to connect new audiences with FringeArts. To learn more about the program and how to participate, visit FringeArts.com/Ambassadors.

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INDEX BY SHOW 12 Chairs / p84 50th Anniversary of the Original Woodstock 1969! / p70 60’s FOLK Revisited / p82 A Literal Doll House / p84 A Manayunk Mystery Tour / p84 Actually by Anna Ziegler / p84 Alternative Theatre Festival 2019 / p85 amethyst / p85 An Iliad / p85 Ancestral Movements / p74 And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens / p85 Animation Nation Pt. 2 / p98 Another Agatha: a myth of perception / p78 ArtDates / p74 Artists & Makers Fair / p33 Atrytone/Fixed / p85 Autopia / p85 B. Franklin: Words Matter / p85 The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation / p34 BASEMENT / p70 BalletX Pop-Up / p33 Beards: A New Musical / p85 Between / p82 Beyond The Light / p87 bilialien / p70 Billy the Baaadly Behaving Bully Goat: The Musical / p87 Biofeedback: Brainwave Relaxation / p78 Brand New Pieta / p87 The Break Fast Club / p87 Brown-eyed Rapunzel / p87 Cambridge Footlights: Look Alive! / p68 Candle, Sword, and Fan / p70 Cartography / p42 Churn / p87 Circadium Presents: 4:18 AM / Chaos Theory / p78 The Clinic / p87 Close To Home / p71 Coated: 1944 Circus Fire Project / p78 Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge / p87 Composition in Concert / p98 Dance Collection / p71 Dancing Again in Love / p88 Dear Friend Society / p74 Dear qupid / p82 The Destination is the Downbeat / p71 Destiny is a Careless Waiter / p88 Dissonance / p98 Dull Space and Dance / p88 Dumpster Dance for Garbage People / p79 The Edge / p79 Emergency Contact / p88 Empanada Loca / p88 Eurydice by Radio Eris / p88 Everybody Loves Each Other These Days / p88 Everything Okay in There? / p88 Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich / p46 Fear Itself / p89 Festival Kickoff Party / p32 Festival Halftime Party / p32 Festival Closing Night Party / p33 Fire in the Sky / p71 Fragments from a Witch’s Journal / p89 FreeWork / p89 Fringe Festival Bookstore / p56

Fringe Festival Quizzo / p33 Gay Mis / p89 Generations / p98 Give Your Heart / p79 Grasslands With Out Time / p74 H5¹, a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s HENRY V / p89 HABIT@ / p89 Happy Days / p89 Harrison / p89 Honey / p71 How It Really Happens / p90 Howie Hypnotize / p68 I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman / p90 I Spy, With My Little Eye / p71 If You Can’t Make ‘em Laugh, Make ‘em Cum: The Life Story of a Thieving, Whoring Saint / p75 The Illustrated Woman / p90 Immigrant Concierge Services / p79 In America, That is to Say No Where / p90 In Transit / p90 INK / p90 The Insanity of Mary Girard / p90 Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription / p40 The Island / p75 KCBC x KCBCII / p71 Khan!!! The Musical!!! / p90 Kingdom of Oz / p75 Knock ‘Em Dead / p68 Know Thyself / p91 La Bolivianita / p71 Late Night Snacks / p54 Lavender Life / p79 Let Me Die / p52 Life and Times – Episode 7 / p57 The Live-streaming Confessional of #stacylucky / p91 Lysistrata, Cross Your Legs Sister / p91 Mad Deep Dish / p75 Male Tears: A Clown Castration / p79 Manifest Destiny / p82 Medusa Volution / p91 memerememberme / p75 The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute / p91 The Miseducation of Generation Never / p79 Mother Courage and Her Children / p91 Much to Do, Much to Fix / p91 The Murder and Booze Cabaret / p91 My Last Revolution / p93 Mythical Chinese Dragon / p99 Myths & Monsters / p68 NecroPhillyAhhh: A FUN-eral Cabaret / p93 Noir AF: An Improvised Film Noir / p69 Operatic Addictions / p82 Operation: Wawa Road Trip / p93 our ouija board, the games we played, the shit we conjured, & the dead dude we hatefucked / p93 Out of The Shadows / p93 Party At DeeDee’s / p93 Period House / p93 Prestige Drama / p69 Proceed with Caution / p72 Pseudoverse / p75 Puppet-delphia Fringe Slam / p93 Pursuit of Happiness / p50 ¡Que Ridiculo! / p69

Queer Bait: Sterile / p69 Question Reality / p79 The Quiet Room / p72 rail. / p94 Rat Ruse / p69 RE: SHE, a litany of adventures / p94 RE:figuring / p72 re. TRANSVERBERATION / p94 Real Housewives of Camden / p80 Red Lodge, Montana / p94 Richard III / p94 Riot In Rittenhouse: A Philly Sketch Comedy Show / p69 RISE: Relationship is Self Existing / p72 Roll Play: An Improvised Adventure / p69 The Rose Garden / p94 Run Boy Run Production Presents: Complex[ion] Woman / p94 Scratch Nights: Fringe Festival Preview / p33 The Sea Voyage / p94 Section, Void / p57 See Amid The Winter Snow / p95 she didn’t want to be found / p95 Shimmy your Fringe! / p72 Shirley Valentine / p95 Significant Other / p95 Since They Left: A Pied Piper Musical / p95 Siren Songs / p95 Skein of Heart / p80 Sneakers / p72 Sock It To Me! / p69 SPIES!! Even More Spying / p95 SplitScreen / p72 Sprout! A Full Length Not-A-Ballet / p72 States of Matter / p73 Stripping the Yellow Wallpaper / p95 Sunset CypHER / p73 Superterranean / p36 Suspended Lives / Vidas Suspendidas / p57 + p75 T U R F / p73 Temple of Venus / p99 Tesla’s Dream / p96 There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other / p44 Thimble: Staged / p75 This Art Moves / p99 Translation: Cracking the Girl Code / p96 Tubey Frank’s Variety for Charity / p96 Two Bedroom, One Bath / p96 Ujima Dance Theatre’s Words and Movement Two / p73 Un Poyo Rojo / p48 unbird unbeast / p73 The Upstage / p76 Úumbal: Nomadic Choreography for Inhabitants / p38 Visionary Fringe / p99 Voicemail Poems / p75 Wear and Tear / p96 Whine & Waffles / p96 Women in Mummers Project / p96 You Are Not a Shining Star / p73 You Only Shoot the Ones You Love / p96 Bold = FringeArts Curated

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INDEX BY ARTIST 267 Productions Co. / p96 the after-image / p94 The Agency Bureau LLC / p95 Albert Sherman / p85 Allens Lane Theater / p90 Almanac Dance Circus Theatre / p79 Alter Ego Chamber Opera / p82 Amanda Shaffern / p95 Ani/Malayaworks / p73 Ann Kreitman / p88 Ann Marley / p76 Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / p46 Annie Wilson / p70 The Antidote / p94 Asimina Chremos / p72 The Back Pack / p96 BalletX / p33 The Bearded Ladies Cabaret / p54 Blanka Zizka / p44 Blythe E. Smith / p73 Breanna Moore / p74 Brent Black / p90 Brian Shapiro Presents / p79 ByPeterFenton.com / p95 Cambridge Footlights / p68 Camden Rep / p80 Christopher Myers / p42 Circadium / p78 Claire Golden Drake / p95 The Collective of Jawn / p99 Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company / p89 Convergent Stages / p91 Da Vinci Art Alliance / p98 Dana Suleymanova / p82 Dance Iquail / p71 Dancefusion / p71 Die-Cast / p75 DJ HVNLEE / p33 DynamicDisplays / p99 Drum Like a Lady / p73 EgoPo Classic Theater / p85 Elaina Di Monaco / p93 Elana Mirella Mariani / p85 Elba Hevia y Vaca / p71 Ellen Zahniser / p94 Emily Betts / p94 EN-KNAP Group / p50 ENAensemble / p82 Eric Jaffe / p89 Eric Thayer / p79 Evalina “Wally” Carbonell / p71 EveryLibrary / p85 The Franklin Institute / p96 foursome performance / p72 Gary Ames / p78 Gerhardus / p93 Golden Sunrise NYA / p96 Good Good Comedy Theatre / p69 Grasslands With Out Time / p74 Gunnar Montana / p70 Hailey Hubbs / p72 Half Key Theatre Company / p84 Half Straddle / p40 Harrison Scantling / p89 Haygen-Brice Walker / p93 Haylee Warner / p71 Hella Fresh Theater / p85 Hestia Theatre Company / p94 Howie Jones / p68 Hua Hua Zhang / p99

The Hum’n’bards / p89 The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium / p87 IKantKoan / p91 The Illustrious Blacks / p32 Inclined Dance Project / p73 iNtuitons Experimental Theatre / p85 Irene Reinke / p70 Jack O’Keeffe / p93 James Bradford / p75 Jason Greenfield / p85 Jeffrey Sweet / p96 Jesse Zaritt / p73 Jesus G / p82 Johnny Showcase / p33 Joseph Keckler / p52 Juniper Productions / p84 + p88 JUNK / p80 Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Collective / p91 Kalila Kingsford Smith Dance / p71 Kaneza Schaal / p42 Katherine Reid / p95 Katie Swords Thurman / p73 Klassic Contemporary Ballet Company / p71 Laura Frazure / p73 Laura Katz Rizzo / p73 Lawnmower Media / p90 Leah Stein Dance Company / p71 + p72 Leigh E. Bicica / p91 Leslie Elkins / p72 Liberty Laferriere / p85 Light Street Pictures Production / p88 Lone Brick Theatre Company / p87 Loretta Gary / p74 Love Drunk Life / p85 + p91 Lyons and Tigers / p72 MACHO GOAT / p84 Madeline Rabin / p72 Maddie & Kayla / p71 Manayunk Theatre Company / p84 Mariana Arteaga / p38 Marissa Kennedy / p93 Mark “Metal” Wong / p73 Matter Movement Group / p89 Mauckingbird Theatre Company / p95 Megan Flynn Dance Company / p71 Melissa Rector / p71 Messy Confidence Productions / p96 Michelle Pauls / p95 Migration Theory / p78 Mimi Lien / p36 + p57 Miryam Coppersmith / p74 Missing Bolts Productions / p94 Molly Ward / p87 Monti Cerabino / p94 MyVision Theater Ensemble / p88 N Crowd / p69 Nathan Alford-Tate / p79 Nathan Crawford / p88 Nature Theater of Oklahoma / p50 + p57 Nichole Canuso Dance / p72 Nick Gillette / p68 Nick Hatcher / p95 Nick Jonczak / p87 Olivia Kram / p96 ON THE ROCKS / p93 Open Concept Productions / p89 Open Ring Circus / p78 Pantea Productions / p87 + p93 Pasion y Arte / p71 The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective / p94 Philadelphia Visionary Arts Gallery / p99

Philly Improv Theater / p68, p69, p88, p89, p93 + p96 Philly PACK / p87 Pig Iron Theatre Company / p36 + p57 Play Nice Productions / p87 Projector Guy / p99 Prudence Anne Amsden / p79 Pseudonym Productions / p75 + p79 Puentes de Salud / p57 + p75 ¿Qué? / p69 Queenz Collective / p71 Radical Hearts Print Lab / p74 Radio Eris / p88 Ragtime Players / p93 Raw Street Productions / p68 REAL Immersive / p75 Rebecca Posner / p79 Recondite Tourist Activities / p88 REV Theatre Company / p93 Rock on Pointe Dance Company / p70 The Rock School / p88 Roll Play Improv / p69 Rosa Barba / p44 Rosas / p46 Rowan Theatre / p90 Run Boy Run Productions / p94 Sabriaya Shipley / p88 Samieva Theater / p91 Sarah Hough / p95 Sasha Wolfe / p94 Shawn Pierre / p75 SpArc Services / p89 State Street Tribal / p72 Take It Away Dance / p71 Tangle Movement Arts / p90 Tara Lake / p90 Theater Oblivion / p95 Theatre of the 12 Dog Sled / p96 Thimble Literary Magazine / p75 Three Sheets / p95 Tina Satter / p40 Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater / p90 Travis Draper / p79 Tree.Lock//Productions / p72 Tribe 12 Performing Arts Group / p87 Tribe of Fools / p93 TSquared Productions / p90 Ujima Dance Theatre / p73 Ultra V Theatre Co. / p79 Un Poyo Rojo / p48 University of the Arts - Ira Brind School of Theater Arts / p90 + p91 Urban Movement Arts / p71 + 73 Vagabond Productions / p82 Valerie Flower / p95 Victoria Goins / p88 Vince Johnson / p73 Visual Expressions / p99 Voicemail Poems / p76 The WaitStaff Sketch Comedy / p69 Wild Plum Productions / p89 williamCromar / p75 Wilma HotHouse / p44 Wings of Paper / p85 + p91 Without a Cue Productions / p69 The Women’s Film Festival / p98 The Wooster Group / p34 Yes! And...Collaborative Arts / p79 Bold = FringeArts Curated

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COMING SOON to FringeArts

Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret Oct 24 + 25 Halloqweens DJ Dame Luz Oct 26 at 9pm Scratch Night Works-in-progress by local artists Nov 7 at 7pm Get Pegged Cabaret featuring Morgan Bassichis The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Nov 15 at 10:30pm Scratch Night Works-in-progress by local artists Dec 2 at 7pm

And let your excitement build for…

Blue Heaven A FringeArts comedy festival February 2020

High Pressure Fire Service New works by local performers Spring 2020

Hand to Hand A FringeArts circus festival June 2020

Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret Dec 19 + 20 New Year’s Funkin’ Eve Dec 31 at 10pm

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HIGH PRESSURE FIRE SERVICE EMILY BATE JAMES ALLISTER SPRANG NELL BANG-JENSEN

Philadelphia’s leading contemporary performers come to FringeArts for the second annual festival of new work by local artists.

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