2026 Philly Fringe Festival Guide

Welcome

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Sponsors

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

Fringe Festival Producers

Chris Deephouse and Donna Hunt, Mark and Tobey Dichter, Diane Penneys Edelman and Jonathan Edelman, Ricki and Andy Eisenstein, Steven Engelmyer and Lisa Wershaw, Tony Forte and Ryan Hummel, Linda and David Glickstein, Shelley Green and Michael Golden, Christie Hartwell, Michelle Hong and Alex Goranin, The Honickman Family, Carol Klein, Michele Leff and David Fetkewicz, Susan Leidy, Jonathan Lipson and Kathleen Noonan, Marty Maynard, Jane G. Pepper, Christine Frost Red and Michael Wax, Rosanne Sarkissian, David Seltzer, Shtick Productions, Barbara Klock and Salem Shuchman, Bryna Silver Scott, Valerie Smith, Deborah Solo, Larry and Ann Rosen Spector, Lynne and Bert Strieb, Ginny and Jason Susini, Judith Tannenbaum, Anne and Ed Wagner, Karol M. Wasylyshyn, and anonymous supporters.

Philly

3 weeks, 330+ shows, 100+ venues all over the city

My wish for you this Fringe Festival is that you experience this city as one that can hardly contain the vibrancy of the working, breathing, artists who live here. In Philadelphia, they are all around you—whether your oboe player/neighbor is coming home to an apartment in Germantown after an international tour, or your co-worker’s Grandma is making a play about her life that will be performed in a park in South Philly. Philly is scrappy, gritty, and downright magical because we are all lucky enough to be in the midst of this wild creative expression.

I’m writing this note shortly after the passing of the beloved Dito van Reigersberg. Much has been written about Dito (see more on the back cover), but for those who didn’t have the pleasure of being in his orbit: Dito was one of the best known and beloved artists in this city and beyond—both as Dito, and as his hairy, sequined drag persona Martha Graham Cracker. I was lucky enough to call him a friend.

I first met Dito when he was the substitute professor in my acting class at Swarthmore College (how lucky was 18 year-old me?). In addition to immediately trying to play matchmaker for every student in the class, Dito unlocked something for me—he showed me that Philly was a city of artists. He eventually showed me that I could be one of them.

This story is not unique to me. Through his performance, collaboration, teaching and mentorship, Dito showed a generation of artists they belonged in Philadelphia. He believed in the creative expression of each person—in the poetic, in the bold, in the intimate, the sweet, the gross, and the risky. He cultivated a sense of belonging and, in the ways he showed up to everything he was a part of, told others “you can be part of this too.”

As you travel around the city, sampling the 330+ shows in this festival, you can be part of this too. May you find your proverbial people and discover moments to explore your own creative expression, even if that’s just through watching someone else’s. May you appreciate this wild, beautiful city around you, and most of all, the artists within it. Thank you for traveling with us.

Warmly,

Nell Bang-Jensen CEO + Producing Director FringeArts

Ticketing

How to Purchase Tickets

Tickets go on sale to FringeArts members on Wednesday, July 15 and to the general public on Friday, July 17.

Online at PhillyFringe.org

You may purchase tickets to multiple shows at once; go to individual show pages and add your tickets to the cart, then purchase using a credit card. You will receive an email order confirmation with all of your tickets attached. Print your ticket for admission or add them to your Apple or Google wallet to display your ticket on your phone. FringeArts Members, be sure to log in before shopping to receive your discount!

Call 215-413-1318

Our staff can process your ticket order over the phone with a credit card daily during the Fringe Festival Box Office hours (see below). Before August 24th, we are available on weekdays from 11am-5pm.

At the Fringe Festival Box Office

Stop by the Fringe Festival Box Office, open August 24–September 27. Buy tickets with cash or credit card (no checks). Tickets for FringeArts Presents performances are on sale at the box office until one hour before show time. Tickets for all other Fringe performances are on sale until two hours before show time.

Box office location:

140 N Columbus Blvd (at Race) Philadelphia, PA 19106 215-413-1318

Box office hours:

August 24–Sep 6: 12–5pm September 7–September 27: 11am–8pm

At the Performance Venue

We highly recommend buying tickets in advance to receive important information in our Know Before You Go emails. However, when available, tickets may be purchased at the venue starting one hour prior to performances for FringeArts Presents shows, and 30 minutes prior to performances for independently produced Fringe shows. Most independently produced Fringe shows are cash only. We cannot guarantee tickets will be available at the venue.

Refund & Exchange Policy

FringeArts does not offer refunds. Exchanges are offered for free to FringeArts Members and Producers Circle members, and for $2 per ticket to non-members. Exchanges may only be made up to two hours before the ticketed performance and only for a different performance of the same show.

Seating Policy

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

How Can I Save on My Tickets?

Discounts are available for members, groups, students and 25-and-under, ACCESS cardholders, and artists/industry. Visit PhillyFringe.org/box-office for more information.

FringeArts Members

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 below or FringeArts.com/Membership for more info.

Groups

Groups of 10+ save 25% on tickets. Email PatronServices@ FringeArts.com or call 215-413-1318 for group orders.

Students + 25-and-under

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

ACCESS Cardholders

Pennsylvania ACCESS cardholders can receive up to four $2 tickets to all eligible FringeArts Presents shows with a free FringeACCESS membership. Cards must be registered, either online during ticket purchase or in-person at our FringeArts offices. Visit FringeArts.com/FringeACCESS for more info.

Artist Rush

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.

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

Become a Member

Support FringeArts and save!

Our 12-month membership includes exclusive benefits at FringeArts throughout the year, including the annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and productions at FringeArts. We’re talking discounts, advance purchasing, members-only events, and more.

$100 membership:

• 20% off 2 tickets per show*

• 4 complimentary drink tickets to Fringe Bar

• 2 complimentary “Bring A Friend” guest passes

$65 membership:

• 20% off 1 ticket per show*

• 2 complimentary drink tickets to Fringe Bar

• 1 complimentary “Bring A Friend” guest pass

Additional benefits (both levels):

• Exclusive advance email notification of upcoming events and opportunities to buy tickets before the general public

• Invitations to special events

• Free ticket exchanges

*During the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the 20% off discount only applies to full price tickets priced over $15. Be sure to buy your membership BEFORE you purchase tickets to ensure you receive the membership discount; you will receive discount instructions via email. Membership cannot be combined with any other discounts.

Accessibility

As an artistic and cultural institution in this city, we take seriously our responsibility to be accessible to every Philadelphian, at every entryway. Wheelchair accessibility is indicated in this Guide. Visit PhillyFringe.org to view additional accessibility offerings— including audio description, hearing assistance headsets, relaxed performances, open captioning, and ASL interpretation.

If you have any questions, please contact Patron Services at PatronServices@FringeArts.com or 215-413-1318, or visit the Box Office during business hours. Learn more about FringeArts accessibility practices at FringeArts.com/accessibility.

Health & Safety

We have given artists flexibility to choose a level of precaution that works best for their venue and performance. Please visit PhillyFringe.org for details about the health and safety policies of each show.

FringeBar SeeYouat

Stop by our partner restaurant Fringe Bar throughout the Fringe Festival for dinner, snacks, and drinks. Show your ticket to any Fringe Festival shows for 20% off your tab*! Preview the menu or reserve a table at FringeBarPhilly.com.

*Offer may not be combined with any other discounts or promotions, or used for restaurant week menu. Offer valid once per ticket for ticketholder only, not valid for multiple parties or orders.

Festival Hubs

Festival Hubs are vibrant centers of activity that host multiple performances and artists during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. FringeArts is proud to partner with these independent hubs who provide artist support, community connections, and unique audience experiences! Look for Hub logos on individual events and visit their websites for information.

Cannonball

With nearly 100 offerings—from rebellious circus, delicious dance, fearless theatre and activist art to workshops, parties, and more— Cannonball pushes the boundaries of live performance at three different venues this Fringe. Come as you are and stay past bedtime. Blaze your own trail at cannonballfestival.org

Location: Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine Street Icebox Project Space, 1400 N American St Box Spring Gallery, 1400 N American St

Circus Campus Presents

Join the vibrant community at Circus Campus! We foster a tight-knit group of creators showcasing incredible skills. We invite you to experience the excitement at our workshops & shows. Circus Campus is an educational headquarters & home to unique talent. Be a part of this extraordinary community! circuscampusphiladelphia. com/presents

Location: Circus Campus 6425 Greene Street

Dumb Hub

Philly Fringe’s ONLY ALWAYS ALL clown, alt comedy, performance art, idiot, freaky sh*t hub. Curated by Sarah Knittel. Watched over by baby angels...and your MOM. instagram.com/dumbhubphilly

Location:

Pig Iron Studios

1417 N 2nd St, Studio B Check PhillyFringe.org for additional surprise pop-up venues

Performance Garage

An elegant dance and theater space in Spring Garden. Performances take place in the theater with audiences of up to 110, or in the intimate dance studio with audiences of up to 30. As a dedicated hub for dance and theater during the 2026 Fringe Festival, the Performance Garage brings together artists, audiences, and creative communities in a space designed for discovery and exchange. performancegarage.org

Location: Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street

The Lemonade Stand

The Lemonade Stand strives to create a home for new work and new artists in the expansive Philadelphia arts community. We prioritize the development process, community, and partnership. We are committed to being rough around the edges, adaptive to each process, and true to the artist’s vision. We love homemade. lemonadestandphl.com/fringe

Location:

Plays & Players Skinner Studio 1714 Delancey St.

Studio 34

Studio 34 is a mixed-use yoga/healing/ arts spot in West Philly named for the trolley that stops out front. All year long we host art, comedy, dance, music, poetry and theatre in our gallery, lounge, and studio spaces, as well as healing services, 30 weekly yoga classes. And a wide array of workshops. studio34yoga.com/arts-events

Location: Studio 34 4522 Baltimore Avenue

Explore the Festival

Unsure of what to see during the Festival? Join us for a series of events around town designed to help you navigate the festival. These preview events are perfect opportunities to get a taste of a variety of shows, discover new artists, and start building your festival schedule.

PreviewNights CenterArtsonStage

OpeningPartyNight TourdeFringe FringeFair

2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Preview Nights at FringeArts

Mon, Aug 24 + 31 at 7pm | FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Blvd. | FREE

Each night, a new group of performances will be highlighted on the FringeArts stage. These variety nights feature dance, theater, circus, comedy & more: it’s a Fringe Festival sample platter!

PhillyFringe.org/previews

Arts on Center Stage:

Philly Fringe Sneak Peek

Thu, Aug 6 at 6pm | Dilworth Park

At Arts on Center Stage, you’ll get a sneak peek at a handful of the shows in this September’s festival in Dilworth Park. See short excerpts of works of theater, dance, circus, music, comedy, and more.

Fringe Fair at Cherry St Pier

Saturday, September 5, 12pm–4pm | Cherry Street Pier

Can’t wait for the festival to start? Join us for Fringe Fair! See pop up performances and meet festival artists and staff to get personalized show recommendations.

PhillyFringe.org/FringeFair

Opening Night Party

Tue, Sept 8 at 9pm | Fringe Bar, 140 N. Columbus Blvd. | FREE

Celebrate the opening of the 30th annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival with us at Fringe Bar! Meet FringeArts staff, artists, and audience members, and raise a glass to the start of Fringe season.

PhillyFringe.org/opening26

Tour de Fringe

Friday Sept 11; Saturdays, Sept 19 + 26

$250 GA / $200 FringeArts Members

Looking for an insider’s guide to the Philly Fringe? A FringeArts staff member will lead a small group to 2-3 performances in one day. The experience includes a meal before your last show to talk about what you’ve seen. An exclusive offering for those who don’t know where to start their festival experience, or those who want a deeper dive!

Want to plan a Tour de Fringe for your own private group? Contact us at hello@fringearts.com to get started.

PhillyFringe.org/TourdeFringe

The Philly Fringies

The Philadelphia Fringe Festival Audience Choice Awards

Show some love to your favorite shows! After attending any participating Fringe show, you’re invited to submit a 1-5 star score along with feedback about the performance.

FringeArts will share the frontrunners weekly on social media and announce the overall audience choice winners in each category after the festival. Stay tuned to find out who took home the Philly Fringie in each category!

To vote, look for Philly Fringies posters at the performance venues and scan the QR codes, or click the link sent in the post-show email.

Last Year’s Winners:

Five Star Award (the show with the most five star votes): Urinal, Theater By Development

Art for Young Audiences: Ants on a Log Family Concert, Ants on a Log Cabaret: Dan Kitrosser is KAREN TENDERNESS in QUEER WINDOW!, Asteroid B612

Circus: Lunarium, Skylark Circus Arts

Clown: “Be Good!” with Paulette, Daniel Maseda

Comedy: Haute Glue, Rose Luardo

Dance: Helpful Hints for Strength and Health for Busy People, Rhonda Moore + Ben Grinberg | Almanac Projects

Film: The Women’s Film Festival 2025, The Women’s Film Festival

Immersive: Jake Strong’s Magic Show, Jake Strong Magic

Music: The Beginning of the End: a rock opera by Bad Salmon, Bad Salmon

Storytelling: It’s Giving…Single, Malaika Carpenter

Theater: Queerano, or A Very Great Mischief, Wolfsmouth Players Company

Visual Art: Working Title, See/Hear Now Enterprises Worldwide

Philly Fringe Postcards

Philly Fringe Postcards is a peer-to-peer review experiment edited for the Philly Fringe by Jack McManus and Savannah Reich! A cohort of up to 40 artists will each write a “postcard” to one other artist about their work. Every postcard will be:

• Short & sweet

• Personal—not impartial

• An honest description of how it felt for this artist to see this work

Follow along for writing that lets you in on the juiciest parts of the Fringe: conversations between artists about their work.

Plan Your Philly Fringe

The following pages are your introduction to the 330+ shows in the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival!

Check out FringeArts Presents shows: pull–out

Browse by event category: pages 10–50

Browse events by date: pages 51–58

Browse events by venue: pages 59–62

PhillyFringe.org

Explore the festival on our website dedicated to all things Fringe:

• Find all of the shows in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival!

• Use filters to find shows by date, category, venue accessibility, or keywords.

• Buy tickets and check the most up to date show information.

Visit us year round for performances, events, and more at FringeArts.com

FESTIVAL LISTINGS

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Ants on a Log Family Concert

Ants on a Log

Kids & Family • Music

Music for children and other childlike people! Ants on a Log's award-winning music centers positivity, social justice, and silliness. Full of humor and harmony, Ants concerts are energetic, interactive, and a delight for children and adults. Recommended for ages 4-11.

Sept 19 at 5pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/121682

Double the Trouble!

Ari Allen

Comedy • Theater

OKAY GIRLS LOCK IN! Join our SHE'roes as they navigate high school prom, girlhood, and OH NO, EVIL CROCODILES WITH OPPOSABLE THUMBS!? How will they defeat the, like, totally evil bad guys! Stay tuned for this week's episode of DOUBLE THE TROUBLE, TRIPLE THE FUN!

Sept 10 at 5:30pm, Sept 13 at 5pm, Sept 26 at 1:45pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157753

Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean

Philadelphia Children's Theater

Theater • Puppetry

Featuring colorful puppets and playful interactions, BABY WHALE AND THE PLASTIC OCEAN follows a team of aquatic friends who adventure through the sea to help Mommy Whale. With your help, Baby Whale will learn how teamwork and creativity can help make the ocean more fun for all.

Sept 12 at 12pm, Sept 12, 13, 19, 20 at 3pm, Sept 18 at 1pm

$23/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157146

HUMAN / NATURE: HIBERNATION

Conrad Junior

Comedy • Music

HUMAN / NATURE: HIBERNATION is an experimental treatment center for a variety show host addicted to his shadow. Music, interview, and doc helps him explore his personal and familial history with addiction, and to get clean the absolute worst way: publicly.

Sept 13 at 12:30pm, Sept 19 at 2pm, Sept 25 at 5:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157803

SEPT 30 - OCT 25

CABARET ANDVARIETY

CABA CABARET CABARETAND CABARET

Girls Gotta Eat

Rose Luardo and Sacha Vega

Performance Art • Party & Nightlife

Rose and Sacha are hungry gals singing for their supper at Fat Moon. Armed with mics, props, and questionable boundaries, they’ll spend an hour chasing tips for dinner through songs, dances, crowd work, and acts of public ambition (or humiliation). Admission: a drink or food item. Tips are on you!

Sept 20, 27 at 8pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157566

Fat Moon Restaurant and Karaoke, 1440 CALLOWHILL ST

HONK!

HONK 2NITE

Clown • Drag

LATE NIGHT IS BACK FROM THE DEAD TO TAKE ON PHILADELPHIA. JOIN PHILLY'S MOST SUBVERSIVE NIGHTLIFE PERFORMERS FOR A SURREALIST SHOWCASE OF CLOWN, DRAG, AND BURLESQUE. HEAR THEIR STORIES AND WATCH THEM SQUIRM. PEEK BEHIND THE CURTAIN AND LET US TAKE YOU BACK TO SEE WHAT MAKES THESE FREAKS TICK.

Sept 11, 18, 25 at 9pm

$15/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157088

Presented by The Lemonade Stand, Plays and Players Skinner Studio, 1714 Delancey Street

Impersonator

Spencer Boyce

Solo Show • Comedy

Can you find yourself by being someone else? Spencer Boyce has been an Elvis Tribute Artist since he was six years old. But now, he's not sure if his time spent with the King of Rock 'n' Roll has been a blessing, or a curse. You won't want to miss this one of a kind solo show!

Sept 12 at 1:30pm, Sept 17, 21 at 6:30pm, Sept 24 at 6pm $15/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/152537

JENder BENDER

Jen Fellman

Theater • Comedy

Travel back to the Golden Age of Musical Theater in this stunning musical comedy/cabaret. JEN FELLMAN reclaims the roles/repertoire written for men and gives new voice to the leading ladies through a queer lens in 2026. A coming-of-age story where gender roles are questioned and identity reimagined.

Sept 18, 19, 25 at 7pm, Sept 26 at 3pm

$25/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/155287

The Haus of Wiggles and Giggles Presents: A Drag Clown Cabaret

The Wiggles and Giggles

Drag • Clown

Do you like fun?

Edith Poussard, Goofy Littleguy, Tom Foolery, and Eye Dee Claire invite you to experience the art of drag faaaaaaar away from your television screen. These drag clowns are masters of absurdist comedy, SFX makeup, avant garde costuming, and having an all around good time.

9/19 at 12:30pm, 9/22 + 9/25 at 8:30pm, 9/27 at 2pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157812

Presented by Cannonball, Icebox Project Space Gallery, 1400 N American St

I Don't Dance!

Morgan Kirner

Dance

A reluctant, (but enthusiastic) mover's journey to Broadway! This heartfelt show is 150+ years of Broadway history all bundled up into 60 minutes. From 42nd street, to Chicago, to A Chorus line and beyond, Morgan re-tells how she fell in love, out of love, and back in love with Broadway.

Sept 16 at 6:30pm, Sept 17 at 1:30pm + 6:30pm, Sept 18 at 6:30pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156577

Penn Arts Live: Bruce Montgomery Theatre, 3680 Walnut St

An Inexplicable Evening

Adam Elbaum & Robert Herritt

Magic • Interactive Experience

Named “Best of Philly” by Philadelphia Magazine, An Inexplicable Evening is an intimate close-up magic show performed for a small group gathered around a table. For one night only, Adam Elbaum is joined by Brooklyn’s Robert Herritt for world-class sleight-of-hand and impossible moments.

Sept 19 at 8pm, Sept 19 at 10pm

$55/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157508

Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER

Asteroid B612

Drag • Solo Show

All Aboard! Chaos Cabaret Star Karen Tenderness sets sail on a Self-Love Cruise—until someone steals her identity. Trapped at sea with glitter, heartbreak, and chaos, she investigates. But the real mystery? Herself.

Two-time Fringie winner Dan Kitrosser returns to Philly Fringe with DOPPLE BÄNGER!

Sept 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157626

The Magic Gardens Studio, 1002 Watkins Street

CABARET AND VARIETY

The Light Between

A Modern Cabaret with PJ Casbar and Tom McCormack

Drag • Music

The Light Between is a queer fever dream about masks, meltdowns and the glorious mess of becoming fully seen. Blending original music with reimagined classics, live piano, humor, a little magic, & immersive theatricality, the show explores the tension between who we perform & who we truly are.

Sept 18, 19 at 8pm

$25/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/156484

Monstersongs

Forgotten Lore Theatre

Immersive • Music

A Frankensteinian fusion of Rob Rokicki’s rock album, David O’Neill’s graphic novel, and Forgotten Lore’s immersive stylings, Monstersongs plunges audiences into the dark corners of human imagination to confront the stuff of nightmares and the monsters lurking in us all. The Sirens call you!

FC: Sept 10–13 at 7:30pm. LH: Sept 19 at 7:30pm, Sept 20 at 4 & 7:30pm, Sept 24–26 at 7:30pm

$25/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/153320

Never Can Say Goodbye - REV'S

Graveyard Cabaret

REV Theatre Company

Immersive • Interactive Experience

BACK(FROM THE DEAD) BY POPULAR DEMAND

WITH NEW TUNES! Start your spooky season now! Sip a free cocktail and imbibe with the embalmed as Gothic glamour ghouls appear in the boneyard on their way from this world to the next, singing Blue Oyster Cult, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, Cher, Bessie Smith and more

Sept 24, 25, 26 at 8pm

$40/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/149447

The Performance Lounge

Kasey Britt + Jessica McNamara

Interactive Experience • Party & Nightlife

Part gallery, part live show, the Performance Lounge is a space to gather, giggle, and appreciate the wacky new work in your community. We feature a "please touch" immersive art gallery, live music, puppetry, clown, and work from over 20 di erent artists! Come when u want, stay as long as u like.

Sept 14, 15, 16 at 6pm

PWYC/360 min • PhillyFringe.org/130585

What Had Happened Was

Heavy R. Cream

Drag • Theater

It's 2026 and Hillary R. Clinton is trapped in a fever dream. Alone with a roomful of “everyday Americans," her only way out is to get loose and dish about what really happened in 2016. Relive the chaos of that era and (hopefully) find catharsis in this campy one-woman caper starring Heavy R. Cream.

Sept 16, 26, 27 at 8pm

$25/60 min • PhillyFringe.org

The Love is Afoot! Cabaret

Love Stinks, LLC

Music • Theater

Luigi the shoe cobbler hosts a toe-tapping big-band cabaret from Love Is Afoot!—an original 1940s big band musical comedy about romance, shoes, and the things that make us di erent. A swinging prelude of songs where the music is the spectacle with blaring horns and pounding drums.

Sept 26 at 7:30pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157595

Murdered Darlings

Paper Doll Ensemble

Theater • Interactive Experience

An eclectic evening of songs, monologues, and scenes created by Paper Doll Ensemble from 2017 to present that never made it into our full-length shows. For one night only, these “Murdered Darlings” rise from the cutting room floor to take the stage for the first... and maybe last time!

Sept 26 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156860

Never Land: Presented by Liberty City Arts

Dicky Dutton, Heather Jones, Michael Lewis and Rose Freeman

Music • Theater

A Peter Pan drag cabaret explores queer escapism. What's the gender binary? MOTHER VS PIRATE! Hook and Wendy are here to explore it. Costumes encouraged. Serious clownery guaranteed.

Sept 10 at 7:30pm, Sept 12 at 8pm

PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157503

Philly Puppet Slam!

Hosted by Lacey Mack

Puppetry • Interdisciplinary

Come bask in the warm glow of our stage for two nights of wonderful puppetry! This is a special Fringe Fest installment of Studio 34's puppet slams, where a smorgasbord of puppeteers will perform short acts. Puppet slams are traditionally evening events for an adult audience.

Sept 11, 12 at 9:30pm

PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157407

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2nd Hand Circus

2nd Hand Circus

Cabaret & Variety

A circus in a thrift shop. 2nd Hand Circus: Scrap Night takes over Thunderbird Hall with acrobatics, clown, juggling, carnival games, pupusas, and treasures from the bargain bin. Come see what happens when discarded things get another shot.

Sept 26 at 7:30pm, Sept 27 at 7pm

PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157546

ANARCHY!

The Rebellion Circus

Dance • Immersive

Burn it down. Build it UP! The revolution continues in this immersive production filled with aerials, fierce dancing, and raw theatrical truth. This show is for the troublemakers and those who continue to RESIST!

Sept 8 at 7pm, Sept 9 at 5:30pm, Sept 12 at 12:30pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157793

Costume Closet

Zack Herzig

Dance • Solo Show

A solo show exploring costume and identities. It is a heartwarming piece which contains comedic narration but also moments of sincerity as it explores the impact that costumes can have. The show is a combination of circus including cyr wheel, aerials, acrobatics plus a couple wild cards and dance.

Sept 11 at 6pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157593

Freedom For A Night

Fox Meadow Films

Theater • Music

A fun, female-empowering circus stage play featuring aerial, spoken word, song, and dance. The iconic "dangerous" women of Greek mythology take center stage to reclaim their stories, rewrite their myths, and challenge the systems that silenced them.

Sept 13 at 6pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157296

AFRO

Tim Air-Walker

Readings & Works-In-Progress • Solo Show

AFRO is a solo juggling show that pays homage to the past, critiques the present, and speaks of a brighter, more optimistic future for Black people in the United States.

Sept 10 at 8:30pm, Sept 11 at 7:30pm, Sept 12 at 5pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157791

Body As an Archive

This solo performance is a deeply autobiographical journey that traces the artist’s childhood shaped by military circus training and joining Cirque du Soleil at nine, and the journey from obedience to owning her body and voice.

Sept 22 at 5:30pm, Sept 23 at 7pm, Sept 24 at 5pm

PWYC/55 min • PhillyFringe.org/157768

Earthborn

Arianna Celine & Rey Gabriel

What happens to the Earth when humans have abandoned it? What happens to our homes, our cities, our landfills? How does the world change after adapting to our existence for so long? Join a contemporary circus exploration of the creatures of Mother Nature, after our time has gone.

Sept 20 at 7pm

$20/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157290

Goblet of Light

Axl Osborne

Interdisciplinary

World-class acrobat Axl Osborne experiments with a self-designed system of movement sensors to translate gesture and acrobatic movement into a live light and sound environment. Witness a reactive dialogue where physicality and technology meet in real time.

Sept 8, 9 at 6pm, Sept 9 at 2pm

PWYC/30 min • PhillyFringe.org/157786

International Black and Indigenous Circus Week

International Black & Indigenous Circus Week

Cabaret & Variety • Party & Nightlife

Black Circus Week is a chance for Black and Indigenous circus artists of any discipline and skill level to gather, share, learn and grow in community with like-minded artists. Black Circus Week takes place during Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe.

Sept 10 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157805

meSSeS: Solo circuS

Janoah the Jester

Interactive Experience • Kids & Family

YOU learn to juggle ... while you watch! Precarious unicycles, shimmering puppetry, jaw-dropping juggling. Metaphors emerge from colorful chaos in this "truly unforgettable" experience that "leave(s) you smiling from ear-to-ear" (Apt613). Mostly a show, a tiny bit of practice ... entirely entertaining!

Sept 26 at 4:30pm, Sept 26 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/46009

SALOONIVERSE

DAM Circus

Cabaret & Variety • Music

Howdy, partner! Welcome to Salooniverse, where the Space Frontier meets circus. Join the quirky citizens of Peri Gap as they unravel strange mysteries through burlesque, drag, circus, live music, and comedy. Saddle up for an unforgettable cosmic adventure!

Sept 25 at 7:30pm, Sept 25 at 9pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157298

What Does It Mean To Be Good?

Bradley Johnson

Theater • Dance

Lost and confused, we follow our main character as they endeavor to find out who they are, where they are, and why they are there. This contemporary circus work incorporates aspects of traditional theater and contemporary dance to incite the audience to truly consider what it means to be good.

Sept 12 at 7:30pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156075

Lunarium

Skylark Circus Arts

Cabaret & Variety • Storytelling & Spoken Word

Travel from the moon, navigate the tides, and find meaning in a landscape full of mysterious, unusual creatures. This cabaret style show intertwines spoken word with circus acts including fire dancers and aerial performance. When you're out at sea, there is no real path- just the moon to guide you.

Sept 12 at 5pm, Sept 12 at 7pm

$30/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/127290

Ben Grinberg / Almanac Projects

Immersive • Dance

It both is and isn't a steam room and you both are and aren't there to cruise. Be careful where you put your eyes.

Sept 8 at 8:30pm, Sept 9 at 8pm

PWYC/40 min • PhillyFringe.org/157787

Strange Root, or the murder of PT Barnum by Joice Heth

Julia Baccellieri / Almanac Projects

Clown • Interdisciplinary

In life and death, Joice Heth, an enslaved woman, built PT Barnum's empire. This Black Horror circus imagines Heth coming back to life on stage and killing him, using clown, aerials, and contortion to reclaim a story at the origin of American circus.

Sept 9 at 8:30pm, Sept 11 at 9pm, Sept 12 at 6:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157811

CLOWNCLOWN CLOWNCLOWN CLOWNCLOWNCLOWNCLOWN CLOWN

Business Doing Pleasure With You

Clown Corp LLC

Puppetry • Theater

Join business clowns Argyle, Gingham, and Wensley as they fall in love, fall in lust, and unionize their workplace!

Winners of the Atlanta Fringe Fest audience choice award, Clown Corp LLC is making their big hot threeway Philadelphia debut in this joyful celebration of sex, violence, and labor.

Sept 12 at 7pm

PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157330

6452 Greene St

Enough!

Stephanie Parker, David Wall, Greg Goldstein, & Meg Sarachan

Comedy

Please join PHFish & Chirps & PHFriends in attempting to determine exactly What is Enough? Can one ever truly know? Maybe PHFish & Chirps & PHFriends including Greg Goldstein & Meg Sarachan already do and can help you on your journey to Enough!

Sept 13 at 6pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157646

Good Knight: A Masculinity Journey

Grant O'Connell

Comedy • Solo Show

This show is a one clown's journey as a knight who begs the question: what does it mean to be a man? Through his song, dance and deaths, our Good Knight utilizes the power of live theatré to transform the audience's perception of the world around them.

Sept 23 at 8:30pm, Sept 24 at 7pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157942

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Julia Masli

The blurb is: hahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha

hihihi hahahahahahaha hoho hahahhahaha hehe hahahahahahahahahaha. hahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hihihi hahahahahahahaha hoho hahahhahahaha hehe hahahahahahahahahaha. “Transcendent.” | The New York Times

Sept 10 at 7pm, Sept 11 at 7pm + 10pm, Sept 12 at 7pm, Sept 13 at 3pm

$35/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/157562

Presented by Cannonball, Asian

Clowncuterie 2026

Francesca Montanile Lyons

Comedy • Cabaret & Variety

A scrumptious and/or revolting variety show of bite-sized bits inspired by food from all spheres of Philly clownerie: across drag, burlesque, alt-comedy, & performance art. Flavors may be silly, or sexy, or sad - it’s a charcuterie of contemporary clown - it’s CLOWNCUTERIE!!!

Sept 8 at 7:30pm, Sept 15 at 8:30pm $20/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157623

The Fetus Show

Jessica Farber

Comedy • Theater Balancing vulnerability with irreverent humor, The Fetus Show embraces clown logic to confront the mystery of being alive. Tender, grotesque, surreal and deeply human, Jessica Farber invites audiences to laugh at the miracle, confusion, and absurdity of arriving in a world already in motion.

Sept 24 at 5:45pm, Sept 26 at 2:30pm, Sept 27 at 6:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157784

Gorgeous Gorgus

Frankie Gormley & Ben Capp

Solo Show • Interactive Experience

Want to learn how to overthrow the government? Want to play and create together and contemplate our absurd existence? Well Gorgus has come to Philly for exactly that! Come be thrilled and disgusted by her aura, giggle at her cuteness, and learn how to de-arrest your friends all at the same time!

Sept 19 at 5pm, Sept 26 at 4:45pm, Sept 27 at 3:30pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157756

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Project Space, 1219 Vine St

KACHONK

Suz Murray

Comedy • Solo Show

KACHONK moves loudly through the mundane grind of life, searching for tactile experience and more ca eine. Will they find their purpose? Will they blow out your ear drums? Come scream along with KACHONK! Audiences have called the show "RELATABLE!" and "VERY LOUD!"

Sept 11 at 9pm, Sept 12 at 5pm, Sept 13 at 7pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156604

Presented by

LOSER LION PARTY BUS

Kym Priess

Drag • Immersive

Award-winning troublemaker Kym Priess presents LOSER LION PARTY BUS: an interactive looper-pedal clown-rock ride that slayed Edinburgh Fringe following a failed Vegas wrestler trapped in his lion alter-ego reinventing himself in the party bus biz. Failed Rocky Horror x Pee-Wee rebirth. All aboard!

Sept 23 at 8:30pm, Sept 24 at 7pm, Sept 26 at 5pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157729

Meaghan Robichaud Is The Greatest Show On Earth

Meaghan Robichaud

Comedy • Circus

An anti-acrobatic feat of flapdoodle and ballyhoo served up under the big top by the world’s most fearless performer, Meaghan Robichaud. Step into the three rings of Robichaud’s pervo circus featuring the world’s worst male clown, Spunky T.

Sept 10 at 8:30pm, Sept 11 at 10:30pm, Sept 12 at 9:30pm $20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157582

Palatable

JuggleJawns

Circus • Interactive Experience

Come along for a trip where the toughest obstacle isn’t the destination, it’s airport security.

Sept 8 at 5:30pm, Sept 9 at 7pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157807

Raptures From The Godhole MAZEL

Immersive • Music

A quantum-clown-electro-opera. A ballpit. And you?

Journey with a deranged theorist through the microand macro-cosmos. Endure ecstasies, experiments, and interdisciplinary spectacle. Chase the realm of revelation through piehole/poophole/goophole/ GODHOLE. The prismatic playpen awaits!

Sept 18 at 8:30pm, Sept 19 at 7pm, Sept 20 at 3:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157788

Tell Me Your Name

Yeonshin Kim with Swim Pony

Comedy • Solo Show

Do you know your dead pets refuse to cross the rainbow bridge? They still miss you and need to say a proper goodbye. Luckily, Myeong, Pet Shaman, is here to help. (But remember! No human souls allowed!!) Tell Me Your Name: a clown show summoning generational trauma, communal healing, and fur babies.

Sept 9, 18 at 7:15pm, Sept 13 at 7:45pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157780

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Third Floor, 1219 Vine Street

TRAD

Hannah Mitchell

Theater • Interdisciplinary

A theatrical descent into the trad—or traditional—wives movement and the arsenal of Christian right beliefs they're girded with, which indulges our collective fantasies of escape. This trad wife is eternally rotund with her husband’s seed: What could shake her faith in this idyllic existence?!

Sept 11 at 6pm, Sept 12 at 8pm, Sept 13 at 5:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157513

Presented by Dumb Hub, Pig Iron Theatre Company, 1417 N. 2nd Street

Radiation Station, 5030 Cedar Ave

Maniac

Todd Sullivan

Comedy • Interactive Experience

Maniac is a clown show inspired by history's most intelligent serial killer—blending masks, movement, and lo-fi origami into a lunatic tribunal of comedy and chaos. Judgment becomes spectacle: part ritual, part vaudeville. Should this man's life be spared? That, unfortunately, is now your problem.

Sept 9 at 8pm, Sept 10 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/144614

Mischief Night Masters

Joyballs Productions

Comedy • Theater

A rare night where Philadelphia's living masters conjure the power and precision of the old gods.

Sept 17 at 8:30pm

$25/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/129331

Philly Clown Slam

Philly Clown Slam

Performance Art • Improv

Since Philly’s diagnosis as “a national center for clowns.” (Billy Penn, Sept. 2023), we have felt called to bring clowns together to perform, to connect, to be silly in front of a live audience! We have been hosting monthly Clown Slams for 3 years and excited for another Fringe Festival!

Sept 10 at 8:30pm

PWYC/100 min • PhillyFringe.org/129436

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones

Marry the Night

Madoc & Chelsea LLC (Live, Laugh, Clown)

Theater • Comedy

In the aftermath of a localized nuclear catastrophe, two unlikely heroes are spawned from the mutated remains of forest denizens and nuclear slop. Their actions will decide the fate of the community as they navigate a landscape full of wacky characters, unstable factions, and slime.

Sept 10–12, 16, 19, 24–26, 8pm; Sept 13, 20, 27, 3pm $15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156456

Three Holes Goes to Hollywood

Mitchell Ryan

Theater • Comedy

Three Holes the Octopus steps onto land and into an audition for the role of a lifetime.

Sept 11, 15 at 8pm, Sept 14 at 6:30pm, Sept 27 at 6pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157597

William Acker is William Acker and William Acker is Running for the Mayor of Philadelphia

William Acker

Performance Art • Theater an incompetent (ostensibly), flawed (purportedly), narcissistic (allegedly), yet intensely driven (factually) and idealistic (factually again) citizen runs for the mayor of Philadelphia (GO BIRDS!)

Sept 26, 27 at 7:30pm PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157134

Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral

Zoe Wohlfeld

Comedy • Theater

Take the “fun” out of “fun-eral” and throw the rest away!

Zoe is holding a funeral for her childhood dog and you're invited! She'll teach you how to properly perform your grief. It's gonna be a rough one, so join the solemn ceremony and pay your respects with the good boys (may they rest in peace).

Sept 14 at 8pm, Sept 15 at 7pm, Sept 16 at 9:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/112407

COMEDYCOMEDY COMEDYCOMEDYCOMEDYCOMEDYCOMEDY COMEDYCOMEDY

Another Dimension Girl

Àse Freed

Puppetry • Theater

During her urgent quest for empowerment, Misha’s wardrobe comes to life as a puppet who has no problem spilling all her tea about the trials of a gender nonconforming Trans-Woman. Together, they sashay in the face of contradiction, showing that we all deserve to feel at home in our own body!

Sept 25 at 5pm, Sept 26 at 8pm, Sept 27 at 12pm

PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157720

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater, 1219 Vine Street

CSz Philadelphia, 2030 Sansom St

Book Club: Plot Twist Pending

CSz Philadelphia

Improv • Theater

This is not your grandmother's book club! We're taking on the classic works of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Agatha Christie in this highly irreverent, completely improvised show. Join the authors and their characters in their struggles to create works of staggering genius.

Sept 11, 18, 25 at 7pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157080

Cold Beer Reading

Cease and Desist Productions

Improv • Theater

A panel of actors and comedians employ randomly assigned character stereotypes to perform dramatic interpretations of crowd-sourced beer reviews.

Sept 14, 16, 22 at 6pm

$0/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157018

DOOFY: 2 girls make noise (not like that)

DOOFY

Clown • Cabaret & Variety

DOOFY's here to make you scream! Not like that, pervs. Comedy duo Caroline Dunn & Elizabeth Templeman, present DOOFY: 2 girls make noise. Part clown show, part character comedy, part attempted debut concert. Whatever they pull o , you're gonna cum. We mean laugh! And sing. Well, listen to us sing.

Sept 18 at 8pm, Sept 20 at 7:30pm

$15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157449

Betsy Ross Groundhog Day

Grace Lazarz, Patrick Burke, Claire Bronchick

Clown • Theater

BRGD is a historical dramedy following Betsy Ross stuck in a time loop. Betsy is trapped in the prison of colonial America, perpetually locked in the year between making the American flag and her wedding night. Punxsutawney Phil vs. the Mother of our Country in a brawl for the ages.

Sept 10 at 9pm, Sept 12 at 3:45pm, Sept 20 at 1:45pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157726

Brown Sister Twins

Brown Sister Twins

Clown • Interactive Experience

We are identical twin sisters, Nefertiti and Nefertari, with telepathic powers. We use Uno cards to read people's fortunes, knowing our readings could be life saving.

Sept 13 at 4pm, Sept 14 at 9:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157477

The Complete (and Abridged) Works of August Wilson

Kilo the Genius Child Productions

Readings & Works-In-Progress • Sketch

In a forgotten corner of a nonprofit theater—somewhere between a prop closet and a spiritual crossroad—two employees find themselves tasked with an impossible mission: free the ghost haunting the space. Their only tool? The complete works of August Wilson.

Sept 19, 20 at 9pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157816

DUMPSTER BOYS: straight white dudes doing stand-up at dumpster

Joyballs Productions

a handful of (talented) straight white dudes, who arguably already have way too much stage time, perform stand-up... but THIS time NEAR a dumpster. Hosted by Betty Smithsonian. A part of Dumb Hub's FREAKY OUTPOST.

Sept 24 at 8:30pm $0/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157715

I THINK NOT

James Christy Jr.

Stand-Up • Solo Show

In this evening of stand-up, Barrymore Award-winning playwright Jim Christy goes toe-to-toe with his inner monologue. The result is a delirious battle that ranges from the sexual politics of Leviticus and 16 Candles to birthday greetings to dead friends on Facebook. There will be no personal growth.

Sept 11, 12, 25, 26 at 7pm

$15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156659

Jake Strong's Magic Show

Jake Strong Magic

Kids & Family • Magic

Join magician Jake Strong for a LIVE TAPING of his interactive family-friendly magic show. The performances will be published as his first o cial special, and YOU could be the star of the show!

Sept 26 at 2pm, Sept 26 at 7pm

$25/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/105195

Improv Comedy: The N Crowd

The N Crowd

Improv • Theater

Celebrating 21 years of improv, The N Crowd brings fast, audience‑driven comedy to East Passyunk every week. High‑energy, unscripted, and never the same twice, this long‑running South Philly show turns your suggestions into unforgettable scenes.

Sept 11, 18, 25 at 8:30pm

$15/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/128375

The Mixtape / Andy the Acolyte

Alex Levitt & Josh Holober-Ward

Improv • Solo Show

A double-bill of interactive, fully-improvised solo shows. In "The Mixtape," watch as Alex helps you get something o your chest through the strongest force of all: MUSIC! In "Andy the Acolyte," devout cultist Andy follows ANY command given to him by his ancient lovecraftian master: the audience!

Sept 16, 20 at 7pm $10/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157572

My Needy Letters to Keith Urban

Cute and Powerful

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Solo Show

A lonely dad who buys Keith Urban’s 30 Songs in 30 Days DVD collection through an infomercial opens up to what is going on his life to his new friend. Michael Dermansky reads his letters, reliving embarrassing events as a stay at home dad who desperately needs a friend.

Sept 23, 24, 25 at 8:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/154377

15th St.)

PhotoProv

Katarina Kojic/PhotoProv

Improv • Theater

PhotoProv is an interactive improv show where audience-submitted photos spark unscripted stories. Each image becomes a jumping-o point for bold, funny, and unexpected scenes—blurring truth and imagination while inviting everyone into the creative act.

Sept 20 at 4pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/148484

John Miller Giltner and Gene Farbe Clown • Theater

Turmoil has come to the ghosts of A Christmas Carol. Their hauntings have failed on modern-day billionaires, too hopped up on ketamine and private islands to change. So they turn to the only one left who can still be haunted: a dumbass stoner named me.

17 shows Sept 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27. See website or Day-by-Day guide for times. PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157743

Vine Street

My Dog is Dead and You're the Father

Isabel Beck-Roe, Dom Arp, Alex Braslavsky, Kelly Conrad, Kelsey Hébert, Jake Lucas

Improv • Theater

A melodramatic one-act play inspired by your slimy secrets and grimy gossip. Come watch top Philadelphia performers weave a theatrical tale of over-the-top, Tennessee-Williams-meets-Real-Housewives-style drama.

Sept 18, 19, 22 at 7pm $15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156489

Notice Me, Gwyneth

Matthew Reid

Solo Show • Theater

Matthew's job is critical—he manages GP's schedule, her celery juice, and more. This heartfelt solo show follows the perfect assistant on a path to prove he can do more than comb cashmere. Follow Matthew as he tries to impress his boss, defeat his frenemy, and complete a marathon juice cleanse.

Sept 13, 24 at 7:30pm, Sept 19, 26 at 3pm $15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157417

Presented by The Lemonade Stand, Plays and Players Skinner Studio, 1714 Delancey Street

Private Dick: The Hardest Noir in Town

The Freaks

Solo Show • Theater

Private Dick, Lonesome Town’s premiere Private Investigator, is investigating the case of his missing wife with help from a very special MEMBER of the force, on his HARDEST case yet. In this comedy clown noir, the investigation is INTERNAL.

Sept 10, 11, 12 at 8pm, Sept 12 at 10pm

$15/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/157191

Pit Fractal

Rose Carver + Josh Needles-Braun

Theater • Readings & Works-In-Progress

Hunch prepped for the wrong apocalypse. His cognitively-dissonant routine changes when a feral traveler enters his bunker, showing him that the best salve for the human condition is a messy and true connection. Pit Fractal is a high energy and cathartic play on the futile avoidance of uncertainty.

Sept 13 at 1:45pm

PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157777

Raw Deal

Jennifer Blaine Productions

Solo Show • Theater

Are we in the last orgasm of the patriarchy? Armed with her sense of humor, feminist comedian Jennifer Blaine interrogates our progress, recounts personal stories of adversity, impersonates iconic figures, & uses her beloved original characters to exorcize this raw deal and empower us all.

Sept 25, 26 at 8pm

$28/105 min • PhillyFringe.org/157581

ROADKILL

Kristi Durkin

Stand-Up • Immersive

Roadkill is a comedy show in the back of a U-Haul truck and YEAH it's moving.

Sept 23, 26 at 9pm

$25/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157831

Single Woman: Work In Progress

Tess L

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Solo Show

Eligible single woman, 35, seeks AMWWTHFAPSGFYOS (audience members who want to hear funny and profound stories gathered from years of singlehood). Not actually a work in progress; the single woman IS the work in progress, y'know? Comedy and catharsis and singles event...for Tess.

Sept 12 at 4pm, Sept 17 at 9pm, Sept 23 at 6pm

$12/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/149489

Take Your Shot: A Motivational Seminar with Luigi Mangione

TSTMRKT + INDECLINE

Theater • Immersive

Welcome to the most unhinged seminar of your life.

"Take Your Shot: A Motivational Seminar w/Luigi Mangione" is part performance art, part immersive theatre, and a shot of raw adrenaline, pushing you to decide how much change you want to see in the world, and what you're willing to do to achieve it

Sept 25, 8:30pm; Sept 26, 6:30pm; Sept 27, 2pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157733

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater, 1219 Vine Street

Septar Sketch Comedy

Septar

Sketch

All aboard for a brand-new sketch comedy experience! Embark on a voyage to witness a show taking place entirely on a cruise ship. Brought to you by Septar, we will traverse through the absurd, ridiculous, and downright silly moments and definitely not sink this ship. No seasickness, guaranteed!

Sept 22 at 7:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156200

Situational Beaver

Chip Sinton, Lea Devon Sorrentino & Jake Symbol

Chip Sinton, Lea Devon Sorrentino and Jake Symbol bring you "Situational Beaver". Come watch an absurdist unraveling of the classic family sitcom, "Leave it to Beaver". This week in Mayfield, the Cleavers learn an important lesson about denial.

Sept 20 at 7pm, Sept 23 at 8pm

PWYC/40 min • PhillyFringe.org/156940

We're All Gonna Die So Stop Caring

Nazeer Art’aud

Music • Solo Show

A show that deals with grief and loss, and learning to accept the fact that death is inevitable. We’re all going to die and there’s nothing we can do about it.

Sept 8 at 9:30pm, Sept 11 at 7:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157317

UNHINGED: For Her Pleasure

Snapp and Kat's Big Fat Work in Progress

Theater • Clown

Grab tight onto Snapp & Kat’s backrolls for the ride of your life as they glorify obesity and slap you serious with the realities of being shamed into the shadows and stealing the spotlight anyway. Hear them out, this clown show is more than disjointed absurdity. The Big Fat Work in Progress begins.

Sept 9, 13 at 6pm, Sept 25, 26 at 7:30pm $15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157198

Presented by The Lemonade Stand, Plays and Players Skinner Studio, 1714 Delancey Street

the world's princess guy fletcher

Cabaret & Variety • Music

a kinky musical clown show inspired by the Disney Princesses and whoever shows up in the audience

Sept 9, 16, 23 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org

Wikipedilove

Noam Osband

Music • Cabaret & Variety

Musical comedy based on Wikipedia articles about love and sex with humans and other tragic animals. Using a projector to show articles, photos, and videos, hear songs about the brief romantic life of moths, kinky and consent focused whales, and Hitler's tragic love life. ***** — Edmonton Journal

Sept 13, 20 at 7pm, Sept 18 at 9pm, Sept 19 at 7:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/28793

DANCEDANCE DANCE DANCEDANCEDANCEDANCEDANCE

All the Worlds a Stage

Broken Leg Dance Company

Performance Art • Theater

Inspired by the famous monologue in Shakespeare's As You Like It, "All the World's a Stage" explores life as it is understood and experienced during its many different phases. The only constant in our lives is the inevitability of change.

Sept 20 at 5pm, Sept 27 at 3pm $27/30 min • PhillyFringe.org/152172

Cicada Stories

Ella Sommer Martin

Immersive • Improv

With risk and remix at the forefront, Cicada Stories explores chance, choice, and neutrality in a performance setting. How do our expectations di er as we take on the roles of performer or audience member? How do we impact the performance space just by being?

Sept 17, 20 at 5pm, Sept 19 at 3:30pm PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157795

1400 N American St

DESCENDANZE: IN FULL EFFECT!

Native Nations Dance Theater & AfroDanze

Music • Interdisciplinary

Descendanze: In Full E ect! brings together African and Native American dancers in a vibrant multicultural performance. Featuring the new work The Butterfly E ect, the production explores culture, strength, unity, and endurance through traditional and contemporary dance.

Sept 12 at 7pm, Sept 13 at 5pm PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157866

Echoes of Renewal

Continuum Dance Project

Interdisciplinary

Echoes of Renewal is a visually striking dance work that explores the essential connection between humanity and the natural world. Created by Continuum Dance Project, with projection by Ernesto Galan, the piece blends powerful, expressive choreography with themes of attention, care, and reciprocity.

Sept 27 at 1pm, Sept 27 at 5pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156667

Blank Placard Dance, Replay

Anna Halprin, Anne Collod + Sherwood Chen

Anna Halprin’s Blank Placard Dance was first performed in 1967 in San Francisco in response to the Vietnam War. For the 2026 Philly Fringe, during the celebration of America’s 250th, twenty local dancers pick up the placards and march through Center City to ask: What do you want to protest?

Sept 13 at 11am Free • PhillyFringe.org/157563

Dancing in Yesterday's Stage Makeup

Corps de Ballet PHL

Performance Art • Party & Nightlife

A kaleidoscopic frolic through the inner worlds of ballet dancers swept up in the excitement of a house party.

Sept 11 at 7:30pm, Sept 12 at 5pm, Sept 12 at 8pm, Sept 13 at 2pm $20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157638

A Dream Within A Dream

Leslie Elkins & Foursome Performance

Music

What is? What may be? A dancer and pianist improvise a conversation in real time. Between them, a murder of crows grappling with the improbable extinction of idiots. The performance asks what we risk and what we surrender through music and movement partnerships.

Sept 18 at 5:30pm, Sept 19 at 5pm, Sept 20 at 2pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157790

Echoes of Tranquility

Yuki Ishiguro/Yu.S.Artistry

Music • Interdisciplinary

Through contemporary dance, live piano, and a lecture on Japanese philosophy, Echoes of Tranquility explores the space between Eastern and Western aesthetics. Inspired by concepts such as Ma and Yūgen, the event blends performance, ritual, memory, and cultural dialogue.

Sept 12 at 6:15pm, Sept 19 at 2:15pm, Sept 27 at 2pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157771

Calvary

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself

Nicole Burgio & Jo Kramer Bailey / Burgio Wong

Performance

Theater • Circus

A woman in an EMDR therapy session falls into an eerie internal dreamscape. There she must reckon with her past self, stuck in a vicious loop. This hauntingly beautiful, ‘weird but not boring’ duet presents a fresh take on physical theater, dance, and dynamic circus.

Sept 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/155283

and Community, 801 S. 48th Street

Flood Stones Rising

Leah Stein Dance Company

Immersive • Music

Flood Stone Rising explores time, location, and memory. Grounded in deep listening improvisation, we activate personal story, vocalization practice, and physical gesture. Small stones anchor the space and our bodies exploring sonic, physical, and metaphorical resonances.

Sept 21, 22, 23 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157512

Flow State

Urban Movement Arts

Flow State features physically daring and artistically adventurous dance works, fusing the worlds of street, contemporary theater and folklore.

Sept 20 at 4pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/129289

Friday Night Rat Catchers

Lisa Fagan & Lena Engelstein

Beneath the shimmer of a disco ball, two lucky contestants dance with abandon as a gameshow unfolds at breakneck speed. This glittery, dark, experimental dance theater work makes its Philly premiere after a sold-out run at Live Artery & UTR Festivals. Performed by Lisa Fagan, Lena Engelstein & Marianne Rendón.

Sept 17, 18, 19 at 7pm

$35/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157555

Godavari: Who Am I?

Spilling Ink

Kids & Family • Interdisciplinary

Godavari: Who Am I? is an intimate multidisciplinary performance inspired by the sacred river as a site of memory, devotion, and return. Blending Bharatanatyam, original music, and visual design, it explores identity, longing, and transformation through cycles of return and remembrance.

Sept 12 at 2pm

$30/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/156502

Presented by Performance Garage, Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street

Here Come the Brides

Casual Fifth Music

Holy Matrimony! Casual Fifth presents new and reworked taiko and dance pieces featuring duets and ensemble works. This time, everyone comes as the Bride.

Sept 19, 20 at 3pm, Sept 19 at 7pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157201

Feed//Swallow

Future Adjacent

Interdisciplinary • Performance Art

Feed and Swallow bumble around abruptly falling into their fated meeting, altering each other as the grip of their lone dreams evolve and transform. Audience members will have opportunities to conduct the performance alongside Feed and Swallow as they lead you through familiar and bizarre worlds.

Sept 12, 19 at 7:30pm

PWYC/40 min • PhillyFringe.org/157603

Flood, begin again

The Naked Stark

Immersive • Music

Step into Flood, begin again and immerse yourself in the real and imaginative e ort necessary to ride and become the waters. This dance performance transforms the Fairmount Water Works’ former Kelly Pool into a site of regeneration, a fantastical riverbed, and portal to new beginnings.

Sept 26 at 1pm

PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/156366

Folk Dance Fun!

Née Danse/Theatre

Kids & Family • Theater

Two folk dancing events highlighting Slavic folk dances: An hour-long Folk Dance Workshop, and a Folk Dance Performance, featuring ethnic music and costumes.

Sept 24 at 6:30pm, Sept 24 at 8pm

$5 - $10 / 60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157576

Fuck it I Love You

Kat Brown

Performance Art • Interdisciplinary

Fuck it, I Love You extends my work with vignettes, duration and repetition. I’m interested in how containment can deepen felt experience, letting transformation emerge through continuity rather than a fixed narrative arc. The work takes on the feeling of a landscape or a softly breathing image.

Sept 24 at 8pm, Sept 26 at 2pm, Sept 27 at 5pm PWYC/55 min • PhillyFringe.org/157800

Gone, But Not Forgotten

Prakriti Dance

Theater • Kids & Family

Gone, but not Forgotten is a Kuchipudi dance production by Prakriti Dance exploring animal extinction through movement and music. Reflecting on deforestation, climate change, pollution, and human greed, the piece honors lost species and calls for the protection of those that remain.

Sept 26 at 5pm, Sept 27 at 3:30pm

PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157801

Houndstooth

Vanessa Kamp

Interdisciplinary • Performance Art

drag, French film, long zippers, you may ask, what is happening, and then say oh, yes, keep it coming, and then ask, but, yeah, what is going on, it will be very touching.

Sept 17, 20 at 8pm, Sept 26 at 6:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157802

If ever

five two dance company

five two dance company is a women-led dance collective that shares highly physical contemporary movement. We seek to create expressive, legible work that inspires conversation, imagination, and reflection among all viewers.

Sept 18 at 7pm, Sept 19 at 6:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157804

Illumination

LisaMarie Casazza

“Dance to the light that is your soul.” —Jendayi Frazer

Illumination is a dance work that guides audiences through a show that displays dancers interacting with and around the lighting, whether that be shining on them, or actually on their body.

Sept 19 at 6pm, Sept 19 at 8pm

$15/40 min • PhillyFringe.org/157390

Lakota Day

Delwin Fiddler, Jr. & Yellow Bicycle Company

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Kids & Family

A celebration of Lakota Sioux heritage featuring world-renowned dancer and singer Delwin Elk Bear Fiddler, Jr. Program includes two dance and storytelling performances, White Bu alo (2pm) and Wacipi (5:45), and the award-winning documentary Without Arrows (3:30), each followed by Q&A and photo-ops.

Sept 27 at 2pm, Sept 27 at 3:30pm, Sept 27 at 5:45pm $20/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157640

1435 Arch St. Fl. 2 (on 15th St.)

A Map of Traces

Sydney Co man

Theater • Storytelling & Spoken Word

"A Map of Traces" evolves through visions of sharp juxtaposition, quiet storytellings, and repetitious chantings that build, break, and birth the next breath. This work draws inspiration from fractured memory, and aims to make a mess, confronting isolation as a trauma response.

Sept 15 at 6pm, Sept 19 at 2pm, Sept 20 at 5pm PWYC/40 min • PhillyFringe.org/157745

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Project Space, 1219 Vine St

Nine

Bailey Fleming

Performance Art • Theater

Nine is a retelling of Dante’s Inferno, molding the divine comedy into a contemporary, jazzy and slightly camp dance show. The works of dance are inspired by the 9 circles of hell, Dante’s journey, and the idea of sin, salvation and redemption.

Sept 12 at 4pm, Sept 12 at 7pm

PWYC/40 min • PhillyFringe.org/149549

The Pelican and The Whale

True Dance

Interdisciplinary • Music

The Whale and the Pelican battle Evil in this theatrical dance piece, trying to save the Human who has fallen under Evil’s sway and protect the boundless Ocean. Eight dancers and a musician.

Sept 26 at 7:45pm, Sept 27 at 3pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157315

Roxborough Pocket Park, 6170 Ridge Ave

If I Die Before the Revolution

BIGKID DANCE

Theater

If I Die Before the Revolution is an evening length dance theater eulogy for queers at the end of the world.

Sept 25, 26 at 7pm

$30/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157643

Jade Chloe

Jade Chloe

Performance Art

Jade Chloe’s company of dancers will take you on a journey as we listen to Jade’s soundtrack of the past year accompanied by her visual and emotional interpretations of sound.

Sept 13 at 7pm

$0/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157515

Maiden Mother Crone

Britt Fishel & Artists

Interdisciplinary

Maiden Mother Crone is a new evening-length, multimedia dance work by Britt Fishel & Artists. Through a feminist lens, it explores the lunar cycle and the archetypes of maiden, mother, and crone, examining the cycles of loss, renewal, transformation, resilience, intuition, and collective energy.

Sept 25, 26 at 8pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157575

Masks O

El Rizal & Joshua Marquez

Music • Performance Art

"Masks O " is an exploration of identity through dance and music. El Rizal flows and moves with costuming and movement informed by their Indonesian heritage. Joshua Marquez pounds Filipino percussion over broken beats in this collaborative attempt to shed masks and find diasporic identity.

Sept 12, 13, 14 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157378

Not Yet Complete

Bart.Co Dance x Canzonieri Dance collective

This is a split bill performance between Canzonieri Dance Collective and Bart.Co Dance Company. "Fragmentation" and "Phase 1" come together to talk about the complex concepts of distress, grief, and reflection. These dance performances help cope with the emotional strain of our environments.

Sept 11, 12 at 7pm

$25/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/152946

by Performance Garage, Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street

The Perch (Warehouse), 2321 Emerald St

Philadelphia Butoh Collective

Philadelphia Butoh Collective

Interdisciplinary • Performance Art

The Philadelphia Butoh Collective presents two original works inspired by the Japanese dance form Butoh. Through movement, poetry, music, and surreal imagery, performers explore memory, sensation, and the unconscious body, revealing unexpected landscapes of presence, transformation, and expression.

Sept 13 at 1pm, Sept 20 at 6:30pm

PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157205

The Process - Dance Creation Exploration

ARTIST HOUSE DANCE

Readings & Works-In-Progress

Engage in an intimate setting to explore ARTIST HOUSE Dance Company's dance and choreography creation, themes, and inspirations. A prepared show will also include interaction with the audience, all building to our Main Show in March 2027.

Sept 17 at 7pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157980

ROOMS/THRENODY - SOKOLOW/ ANTHONY

Dancefusion & Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble

Theater • Music

Dancefusion presents Mary Anthony’s greatest work, Threnody (1956) based on the play Riders to the Sea about an Irish mother who loses her sons to the sea.

Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble presents Anna Sokolow’s masterpiece Rooms (1955), examining the isolation of city life and our human condition.

Sept 25, 26 at 7:30pm, Sept 26 at 3pm

$40/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157412

Presented by Performance Garage, Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street

seven ate nine

Jena Barton in collaboration with Michaela Delaney

Guthrie, Shosh Isaacs, Venrick James, & Nadia Ureña.

Interdisciplinary

Have you ever been to summer camp? Well, you can now! Or at least join us for something moderately reminiscent of that (we hope). There will be flashlights, stories, and dance! There might even be a fort. There will definitely be comedic (and maybe devastating) musings on nostalgia. Come see!

Sept 11 at 7:30pm, Sept 17 at 8pm, Sept 18 at 6pm

PWYC/35 min • PhillyFringe.org/157550

Presented by Studio 34, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave

soft spot

Vyette Tiya

Performance Art • Theater

soft spot is a dance work for the child within us, uninhibited and open to the potential of everything. Through movement, Vyette Tiya and her collaborators consider: how do we wish to be seen? Who can see us? How do we remain tender in a world that hardens us?

Sept 13, 17 at 6:30pm, Sept 23 at 5:30pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157810

The Space Between

Allison Smith

The Space Between is a dance solo that investigates the connection between visibility and value. Allison Smith intertwines contemporary, street, and club dance frameworks as she embarks on a journey of peeling back the layers of worth, recognition, expectations, and what lies between substantiality.

Sept 13 at 2pm & 4pm $20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157650

Tӕngle

Miryam Coppersmith

Interdisciplinary • Interactive Experience

|_|_|_| A cast of nine in a pastoral near-Medieval world

|_|_|_| weave through dance, history, song, and yarn

|_|_|_| pull at the lines we use to enclose each other the lines we find ourselves entangled in and invite you to come tangle up with us.

Sept 25, 26 at 7pm, Sept 26 at 2pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/154529

Reckless Abandonment

Tamar Gutherz

Music • Performance Art

"Reckless Abandonment" explores the concept of “abandon” in all senses of the word. Delving into our body’s living memories of abandon, abandoning, abandonment, and being unbound—we acknowledge the duality that that freedom and joy can co-exist with pain, grief and loss inside our bodies.

Sept 13 at 2pm, Sept 13 at 4pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157647

Saddle Tramp

Corinne Jones

Interactive Experience

Alright, here's the lowdown. It's me, you, morning, and everyone else here and we are gonna play with patterns found in the iconic western album, "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" by Marty Robbins. Reimagined in a hot and dusty chromatic future. You in, partner?

Sept 10 at 6pm, Sept 13 at 5:30pm

PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157410

Slowly, Slowly, We Begin Again

Katherine M Yatsko and Dancers

Immersive • Performance Art

“Slowly, slowly we begin again... ” is an immersive dance work by Katherine M. Yatsko exploring firsttime motherhood through the lens of a snail. Set in a dreamlike forest world, the story unspirals exploring themes of slowing down, adapting, and discovering that home can be carried within.

Sept 18, 19 at 7pm, Sept 20 at 3pm $35/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157408

Soseul Dawon: The Stark Garden of Presence

Jungwoong Kim

Interdisciplinary • Theater

When we stop seeing and hearing, what does the body feel? Dive into a dense somatic laboratory of sensory restriction, raw presence, and live sound.

Sept 18 at 8:30pm, Sept 19 at 7:30pm, Sept 20 at 5pm, Sept 25 at 8pm, Sept 26 at 6:30pm

$25/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157089

To Root, To Rise

Coke + Mentos Dance Co

Performance Art

Two women. Two countries left behind. To Root, To Rise is a duet about diaspora, belonging, and the body that carries both - dancing the question no one can answer: should I stay, or should I go?

Sept 11 at 7pm, Sept 13 at 3pm

$15/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/156131

A Voice in Motion

Lismari Rosario

A visceral exploration of what society demands us to hide. A collection of original works exploring silenced individuality, suppressed female rage, grief, trauma, greed, and emotional numbness. Through movement and music, these stories confront what is hidden and reclaim what refuses to disappear.

Sept 24 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157639

We Can Always Tell

Kendall Niblett

Performance Art • Storytelling & Spoken Word

There is space in contemporary dance for trans bodies. In this one human show, Kendall combines dance, visual art, and poetry to ponder how one’s physical form can be both a source of joy and pain, how limitations can inspire creativity, and how their transition has informed these experiences.

Sept 16 at 8:30pm, Sept 20 at 6:30pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157813

WORKINONIT

Urban Movement Arts

WORKINONIT is an UMA event featuring choreography by some of Philly’s brightest street dance artists. Performers of various levels are able to exchange and inspire one another.

Sept 26 at 2pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/105557

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Heart Song

LIVE YOUR PEACE

Interactive Experience • Music

Heart Song is an online, prerecorded choose-your-ownadventure where music meets meaning. Follow the path that calls you—each choice reveals new songs, stories, and emotions. A personal, immersive journey designed to move you, uplift you, and bring you back to yourself.

Sept 8–27 On Demand PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/155661

Smart Art Reggio

The Highland Lakes Players

Comedy

Arthur Reggio draws images on demand for people strolling through Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. University of Texas journalism student Ernestine Maxwell meets Reggio with plans to find out more about his work and experience for The Daily Texan a story about his activity.

Sept 8–27 On Demand PWYC/15 min • PhillyFringe.org/151435

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Bicycle Shorts Film Festival

Yellow Bicycle Company

A Fringie Award Frontrunner Pick at last year's Fringe, BSFF pedals into year four with three blocks of bikethemed films from across the globe, plus a rescreening of the award winners for Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, Animation, Student, and Audience Choice.

Buy the ticket, take the ride!

Sept 26 at 1pm, Sept 26 at 3pm, Sept 26 at 5pm, Sept 26 at 8:30pm PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/150329

Ink & Melanin: Verse One

Karen Moore

Storytelling & Spoken Word

Ink & Melanin: Verse One is a poetic narrative film celebrating the beauty, resilience, and full story of darkskinned Black women — told through poetry, intimate footage, and music.

Sept 8–27 On Demand PWYC/15 min • PhillyFringe.org/157468

INVITED DRESS: THE PORNO

Miss Gender

Drag • Performance Art

H0T SH3MAL3 BARES ALL L1VE! tags: sex-clown, drag-queen, young-milf, milf-2-be, to-be-or-not-tobe, embarrasing, wreckless, dangerous-even, voyeur, voyage-in-2-my-subconscious, self-conscious, am-i-really-that-vulgar, is-my-truth-so-disgusting, pornographic-even-???, private-dancer, dancer-for-$$$

Sept 8, 23 at 8:30pm, Sept 13, 19 at 8pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157806

Presented by Cannonball, Icebox Project Space Gallery, 1400 N American St

Prometheus Bound

Yellow Bicycle Company

Readings & Works-In-Progress • Interactive Experience

In a race to defeat a cataclysmic computer virus, a psychologist interrogates a quarantined AGI built by his estranged father. A groundbreaking indie film merging live performances with AI-generated worlds. Staged reading, sizzle reel, and audience talkback: a first look for sci-fi fans and backers.

Sept 13 at 6pm

PWYC/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/157644

House of Guns - Gunslinger's Ball

Incredible Dreamz

Comedy • Interdisciplinary

Lethal Weapon meets 48 Hours meets Norbit meets Coming to America. The Incredible Dreamz play every single character in this epic buddy cop & baddest bad guy anthology - House of Guns, IHOG, and House of Guns 3: Time War. Gunslinger's Ball is a movie festival and live performance show.

Sept 10, 11, 24, 25, 26 at 7pm, Sept 27 at 2pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156867

The Women's Film Festival 2026

The Women’s Film Festival

The Women’s Film Festival (a former “Fringie Award” winner for film) presents an amazing collection of films, “by, for, or about” women (self-defined). We’re delighted to be celebrating our 11th year with an exciting 10 days of films and events September 17-27, 2026.

Sept 17 at 6pm. Sept 18 at 6 & 8pm. Sept 19 at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm & 8pm. Sept 20 at 2:30pm, 4pm &

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9/11 Memorial - 25th Anniversary

Aurora Classical of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Performance Art

Come join us for a remembrance tribute for the 25th anniversary of the attacks on 9/11. There will be music, a moment of silence, and a time for you to share your stories from that day. Located at a memorial to those from Philadelphia in the WTC at the time of the attack. Mark the morning with us.

Sept 11 at 8:30am

$0/30 min • PhillyFringe.org/157136

Schuylkill River Trail, WTC memorial Under Chestnut St Bridge, enter via Locust St

The Deer Ones

MoonSquid Nights (Michelle Nguyen)

Theater • Immersive

An interactive exploration of childhood memories. The audience is invited to participate as imaginary friends of a kid playing in the woods, guiding them through moral dilemmas. With an ending shaped by audience choice, The Deer Ones asks how do the ghosts of the past shape the adults of the future.

Sept 13 at 6:15pm, Sept 19 at 5:15pm, Sept 26 at 4pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157782

Eloise Bites the Hand that Holds

Her

Gene Farbe

Theater • Performance Art

She stares at me with vicious and delicious eyes and I can never tell which way it's going to go. Eloise Bites the Hand that holds her. This nonlinear dust tale feeds you a morsel and asks questions about how violent violence is if it's confused and sexy too.

Sept 24, 25, 26, 27 at 8pm, Sept 26 at 2pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156980

Fire Portal

Red Rae

Interdisciplinary

• Performance Art

Fire Portal uses fire as a destructive symbol and as a means of manifestation. Through dynamic performance, imagery, sound, movement and of course, flame, Red Rae grapples with the idea of burning down our current systems of power to collectively imagine what might rise out of the ashes.

Sept 10 at 5:30pm, Sept 12 at 8pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157797

The Adoption Game

Andrew Watring with Upstream Performance

Collaborative

Solo Show • Theater

Welcome to The Adoption Game, America’s one-andonly adoption-themed game show! This immersive solo performance blends satire and social experiment into a darkly funny, provocative spectacle about transracial adoption, belonging, and the politics of ownership: who tells the story?

Sept 11, 5:45pm; Sept 12, 3:15pm; Sept 22, 8:45pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157734

Elements

Tima Ozen

Interdisciplinary • Immersive

Elements is a month-long immersive exhibition that journeys through Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Through projections and interdisciplinary performances, the gallery is transformed each week into a new elemental world featuring live music, dance, poetry, and yoga.

Sept 9, 11, 12, 18, 25 at 7pm, Sept 13, 20, 27 at 2:30pm $30/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/155939

exotopia

Kirsten Lydic

Immersive

The Flourishing Systems Team aboard your pioneer craft has perished, leaving you—the only awakened crew—with two hours to make sense of their notes and design the social and political infrastructure of a yet uninhabited, earth-like Unnamed Planet #26, with implementation support from luci.tron

Sept 12, 19, 26 at 6pm, Sept 13 at 3pm

PWYC/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/156531

Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square

The Great Philadelphia Comedy Magic Walk

Robert Malissa/Philly Magic Tours

Magic • Comedy

Experience one of only three walking magic shows in the world. Join Philly native and award-winning magician Rob Malissa as he leads you past historic and offbeat locations in Old City. The history of each location inspires a mind-bending magic trick. You will never see Philly the same way again!

Sept 10, 11, 18, 19 at 1pm

$32.40/60 mins • PhillyFringe.org/56478

Handle with Care

Ontroerend Goed

Theater

Handle with Care is a performance in a box. No actors, no technicians. Just a box. And you. The audience is in control. Together, you create something special: a shared experience. For one hour, you’ll live something unique. Here. Now. Together. No one is watching.

Sept 17 at 6pm, Sept 18, 19 at 12pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157560

Love Abide With You, The Birthplace Quilts

mike durkin projects

Interdisciplinary • Storytelling & Spoken Word

Love Abide With You is a performance and quilting project. mike will be working with members of the Kensington area community in story-sharing circles on the concept of birthplace. Participants will collaborate to create a series of performative quilts.

Sept 18 at 6pm, Sept 19 at 3pm

$0/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/157577

Ave

Love for a New Future

Yackez (Larissa and Jon Velez-Jackson)

Kids & Family • Interdisciplinary

Yackez is a multimedia/musical duo whose projects teeter on the edge of disciplines redefining community accessibility. "Love For A New Future” mixes catchy tunes with experimental soundscapes in a concert installation that invites the audience to join in a joyfully inclusive experiment.

Sept 9, 10 at 5:45pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157775

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Third Floor, 1219 Vine Street

The Philadelphia Experiment

Amazing History Tours

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Immersive

In 1943, an incredible event took place at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The USS Eldridge disappeared in a fateful experiment. Join the tour where we take you back to that day with a unique model of the vessel and engine room. Hear the full story and see the experiment for yourself!

Sept 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 at 8:05pm

$14.82/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157602

Avenue

room/in/nation

Zeze Schorsch

Immersive • Performance Art

You're alone, in your room, rewriting every choice you've ever made. But what if you weren't alone? Starting with the prosaic but catapulting towards the undiscovered, each interactive show's shaped by the subconscious/ conscious choices made by those in the room. Maybe then we won't have any regret.

Sept 11 at 7pm, Sept 12 at 2pm, Sept 13 at 8pm

PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157760

Project Space, 1219 Vine St

SEX & DEATH

AURA

Interdisciplinary • Performance Art

Solo performance divided into 2 parts. The 1st includes a virtual reality simulation called “Afterlife” that renders a concept funeral home within an auric garden. And the 2nd consists of three actions revolving around desire, intimacy, and radical tenderness. Afterwards, the public can try the VR.

Sept 26 at 5pm, Sept 26 at 8pm, Sept 27 at 12pm, Sept 27 at 12:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157808

THE HUMAN COMPUTER

Hayden Eric

Theater • Solo Show

THE HUMAN COMPUTER is an interactive experience re-tracing the history of computing. Together we’ll build a human-centric computer as we investigate the seeds of the Information Age. Spend an afternoon taking a byte out of history.

Sept 12, 27 at 5pm, Sept 18 at 7:30pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157762

Love Beyond The Surface

Hollis Citron/I Am Creative

Immersive • Improv

Curiosity welcome. Perfection not required. Love Beyond the Surface is an interactive playground for connection, creativity, and play. Explore what love means for yourself and others through magnetic poetry, improv, and storytelling that transforms the audiences ideas into live performance.

Sept 13, 27 at 1pm, Sept 26 at 7pm

$25/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/152962

Lunar Retreat

Nichole Canuso | Branching Paths

The Moon is leaving us, slowly, imperceptibly, one inch further from Earth each year. Lunar Retreat is an immersive, multi-sensory performance that follows that quiet drift and asks what it means to move through care, loss, and transformation, both on our own and together.

Sept 9 (preview), 10 + 11 at 6:45pm, 7pm, 7:15pm; Sept 12 at 2pm, 2:15pm, 2:30pm; Sept 13 at 4:45pm, 5pm, 5:15pm; Sept 16 at 3:45pm, 4pm, 4:15pm; Sept 17, 18, 19 + 20 at 6:45pm, 7pm, 7:15pm $35/60-90 mins • PhillyFringe.org/157553

Presented by FringeArts, The Pearlstein Gallery, 3401 Filbert St

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle

The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Welcome to the Bearded Ladies’ Hairport, an interactive installation & performance series built on 16years of accumulated baggage from a queer cabaret company devoted to art, care, mess, and community. Stop by during installation hours to unpack your baggage.

Installation on view from Sept 10-27. Now Hoarding: Live Event Series: Saturdays, Sept 12, 19, 26 at 8pm PWYC / Various • PhillyFringe.org/158249

N. 3rd Street

Dream Dialect, 319 N 11th St Second Floor

Seen & Unseen: A Pylon Experience

The Theoreticals

Immersive

Immersive experience celebrating all things traffic cone. Featuring the short film "PYLON", sculptures, artworks and soundscapes. Presented by The Theoreticals and Cones of Philadelphia.

Sept 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 at 6pm

PWYC/30 min • PhillyFringe.org/155742

The Untitled Court Show

Rachel O'Hanlon-Rodriguez

Solo Show • Readings & Works-In-Progress

An alien who specializes in Earth’s judicial system, a’la Law & Order, invites you to Earth’s first intergalactic court case: The People vs. Their Own Ideas. Can humans save themselves? Take on the role of judge, jury or witness to reflect and truth-tell about the old world and the one yet to be.

Sept 11, 16 at 7pm, Sept 19 at 1:30pm, Sept 27 at 3:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157738

INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

Who Do You Think You Are?

Irene Foley-Chort / Rose Love

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Immersive

Who Do You Think You Are? Is an interactive solo piece blending storytelling, humor, vocal improvisation, ritual, and audience participation. Rose Love invites audiences to reclaim their voices, connect with their childhood dreams, and express authentic joy.

Sept 12, 20 at 3pm, Sept 19 at 7pm

PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/130780

Wisdom Of The Crowd

Simon Rabinowitz

Comedy

Join Simon for Wisdom Of The Crowd - The Live Game Show where You are The Contestant and The Answer. Blending Trivia & Opinion Polls into one unforgettable night of fun, you do not want to miss this show. WINNER GETS $100 REAL CASH DOLLARS. Sponsored by Mermead, the liquid fairytale made from honey.

Sept 21 at 7:30pm

PWYC/65 min • PhillyFringe.org/155366 A Young Man Dressed As A Gorilla Dressed As An Old Man Sits Rocking In A Rocking Chair For Fifty-Six Minutes And Then Leaves A Young Man

Comedy • Performance Art

The most important show of the fringe (and your life) RETURNS!

Sept 10 at 10pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/129339

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An Acoustic Pop Punk Sing-Along at DVAA

James Haro and Kat Siciliano

Interactive Experience

Two of Philly's best singer-songwriters team up to perform a curated set of pop punk anthems live in an art gallery. This come-as-you-are experience provides acoustic arrangements of genre faves with lyrics projected on a screen for max participation. Bring your voice and we'll sing it out loud!

Sept 27 at 6pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/155733

audiOhm Sound Bath

Brett Zweiman

Immersive

Lay back and close your eyes as you’re taken on a relaxing sound journey. Waves of dreamy tones wash over you, subtle rhythms gently pulse, arising and passing away with the moment. A little restorative yoga will also be o ered for any wishing to try it as part of the audiOhm Sound Bath experience!

Sept 8, 15, 22 at 8pm, Sept 14, 21 at 6pm

PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157517

Presented by Studio 34, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave

Blue Lightning Ghost Train:

Inpatient Program 1

Kerosene Jones

Interdisciplinary • Performance Art

Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1 is the first phase of an experimental song, video, and performance cycle using archival materials to explore queer responses to the ongoing opioid crisis.

Sept 12 at 6:30pm, Sept 13 at 3:30pm

PWYC/30 min • PhillyFringe.org/157752

Project Space, 1219 Vine St

Classical Open Mic Matinee

Aurora Classical of CutureTrust Greater Philadelphia

Opera • Performance Art

At the Classical Open Mic Matinee, we begin with some incredible professional musicians as guest artists, and then anyone can get up and perform up to 5 min of classical music. Pianist provided, no need to sign up. You never know what you'll see at the Classical Open Mic Matinee! Come join the fun!

Sept 19 at 4pm

PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/85122

Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906

ADK 2026 Concert

A Di erent Key Singers Association

Chinese and Western folk songs, modern band arrangements, Western musical influences, and vibrant choral singing come together in a musical feast of cultures and styles. Presented by A Di erent Key Singers Association, Burn the Barbecue celebrates community, creativity, and the joy of making music.

Sept 19 at 3pm

PWYC/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/156581

Black Voices in American Art Song

Aurora Classical of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia Lyric Bass Martin Hargrove and Pianist Julia Hanna present a recital of Art Song by African American composers. Looking back to the earliest contributions from Harry Burleigh and Hall Johnson through the twentieth century and beyond.

Sept 10 at 7pm PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157452

Bombe Fits

Bombe Fits

What happens when chamber musicians stop worrying about genre? Bombe Fits answers with an eclectic set of contemporary music, inventive arrangements, art songs, and even heavy metal. Come find out what happens when all of those worlds collide.

Sept 25 at 7pm, Sept 26 at 4pm

$25/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/157497

Cornelius Boots: Bass Shakuhachi

Flute & the Deep Nature Blues

Cornelius Boots

Solo Show

Return to the root! Solo woodwind adventures, primeval animism and forgotten breathing methods. This concert presents the soul-shifting tone of a rare low-pitched, root-end bamboo flute through original compositions rooted in Zen chant and rural blues conjured by Philly's premiere rustic virtuoso.

Sept 20 at 7pm

$25/85 min • PhillyFringe.org/157567

Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square

MUSIC

Dialogues 8: Kaethe Hostetter

Kaethe Hostetter

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Solo Show

5-string violinist of acclaimed Ethiopian group Qwanqwa looks back on her 11 years living in Addis Ababa and the Golden Era of Ethio-jazz through stories, melodies, soundscapes, and film.

Sept 26 at 8pm

PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157295

Extended Techniques, Abbreviated

Free Range/ Urban Movement Arts

Interdisciplinary • Performance Art

Extended Techniques, Abbreviated is an exploration of what instrumental performance can be. Each piece toys with our conceptions of what a musical “instrument” is and how that instrument is “played.” Through improvisation and composition, we interrogate together the music-making process.

Sept 26 at 7:30pm

$10/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/129291

Freedom Fest

DayOneNotDayTwo

Freedom Fest: Rhythms of Revolution brings together cultural organizers, artists, and storytellers from Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and beyond for an evening of powerful performance, community connection, and creative visions for a more just future.

Sept 19 at 12pm

$10/360 min • PhillyFringe.org/157655

How does it feel to look at nothing

Holland Andrews + yuniya edi kwon

Opera

Virtuosic composer-performers and multiinstrumentalists Holland Andrews + yuniya edi kwon premiere an elemental opera shaped by their experiences as partners and trans artists of color. Featuring improvised music and movement, this transcendent work invites audiences into a living creative process.

Sept 25, 26 at 7:30pm, Sept 27 at 2pm

$35/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/157557

140 N Columbus Blvd

Liberty City Arts Presents "My Place of Clear Water"

Rachel DiBlasio

Opera

A love letter to place, body, and the seasons — My Place of Clear Water weaves poetry and music by Mazzoli, Heggie & more into an intimate exploration of the shelters we build inside our own hearts.

Sept 15, 22 at 7pm

PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157500

Evil Sword

Evil Sword

Interdisciplinary • Performance Art

What’s that racket? Crashing pots and pans, flashing lights, literal bells and whistles, exploding furniture... This parade of dreams and nightmares could only be EVIL SWORD. Their unhinged songs and skits conjure up a world of fairy tale magic and monstrosities.

Sept 12 at 8pm

$20/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/156949

Flamencodanza Show

Flamencodanza show

Dance

FLAMENCODANZA, “Best show of dance and physical theatre” Hollywood fringe 2022 is a contemporary flamenco show with dance and guitar, that has toured internationally at festivals in Europe, the UK, Oceania and the USA since 2021 performing over 350 shows.

Sept 27 at 7pm

$18/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/117832

Gut Healthy

James Gentile

Interdisciplinary • Clown

Prepare to be sucked into an infinite social media vortex as Jesha screams at you about her sourdough bread! Brace yourself to be berated by a lone idiot jester, blasted with harsh noise, and trapped in uncanny TikTok loops.

Sept 18 at 9pm, Sept 19 at 8pm, Sept 26 at 7:45pm PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157757

Iolanthe

Aurora Classical of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia

Opera

What happens when Parliament is taken over by the Fairies? Come find out! This is a semi-staged concert version of Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious, satirical masterpiece "Iolanthe" including three newly found songs not heard since the 19th century! First time in Philly, first in Fringe!

Sept 26 at 4pm

PWYC/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/157457

of the Holy Communion, 2110 Chestnut Street

Opera on Tap Philadelphia Presents: Pagliacci

Opera on Tap Philadelphia

Opera • Clown

Opera on Tap Philadelphia presents “Pagliacci”

(“Clowns”) by Ruggero Leoncavallo in the disco room at Franky Bradley’s. Music theatre and tragedy meet cabaret, clowning, and circus arts in an immersive reimagining of this operatic classic.

Sept 18 at 7pm, Sept 20 at 3pm $25/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157463

Liberty City Arts Presents: 'Beyond'

Olivia Broderick and Isabelle Zeledón

Opera

In the distant future, humans have fled a dying Earth and embarked on a voyage to colonize the farthest reaches of outer space. A glimpse of one possible future for humanity in the stars, BEYOND is a compelling meditation on life, death, and what it truly means to be human.

Sept 17, 21 at 7pm

PWYC/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/157501

Phenomenology a music performance

Jenny Lee Maas / Zen Fuzz

Interdisciplinary

It is the o cial release of Phenomenology, the first solo album by Maas. The themes are based on the perspective of Maas & vary from living as a woman in this political climate & simple beauties. It incorporates her writing, fashion, art & music to create a truly unique performance.

Sept 26 at 7:30pm

$30/185 min • PhillyFringe.org/157600

Wherever You Are in situ

Immersive • Performance Art

"Wherever You Are" is a site-specific immersive sound experience composed and guided by Joshua Marquez. Audiences will never share the same experience and will have to navigate the Pocket Park to weave their own sonic tapestry, composing their own piece based on where they sit, stand, or situate.

Sept 8, 9, 10, 11, 15 at 7pm PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157574

Beloved from Hedwig and the Angry Inch and recently the star of Oh, Mary!, this Tony-winner performs in Philly for the first time

SPOKEN SPOKENWORD SPOKEN SPOKENSPOKEN WORD ANDSTORYTELLING

Account

Gum Preston

Interactive Experience • Solo Show

You come in and sit down and I tell you my complete financial history while scrolling through my debit and credit card purchases and pulling up my bank accounts, then you tell me what class I am. Thank you in advance for your help.

Sept 20 at 8pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157747

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Project Space, 1219 Vine St

The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St

The

Countdown

Chris Blackwood

Solo Show • Comedy

For over a year, Chris knew the exact date his grandfather planned to die. The Countdown is a funny, thought-provoking solo show about living with that knowledge and discovering what real closure looks like when someone chooses the ending of their own story.

Sept 19, 20 at 5pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/154831

Blue Quarantine

Kathryn Claire

Music • Dance

Blue Quarantine blends poetry, spoken word, music and dance in this multidisciplinary solo piece. Portland, OR based artist Kathryn Claire explores the inner landscapes of fear, limitation, inherited narratives, and the quiet forces that keep us waiting at the threshold of our own lives.

Sept 26 at 5pm

$20/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157450

Presented by Performance Garage, Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street

The Kenning Place: A Well of Wisdom from the Collective

Memory

Denise McCormack/Patchwork Storytelling Guild

Solo Show • Performance Art

Drawing on ancient tales from the oral tradition, Denise

McCormack invites audiences into The Kenning Place, where the earthbound and the liminal meet. Meaning and connection emerge as living wisdom for the human journey.

Sept 11 at 7pm

PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157409

MOVEMENT

Sherman Fleming Performance Art

Sherman Fleming presents an evocative action in MOVEMENT. Fleming moves imperceptively from kneeling to standing surrounded by a projected montage of vintage footage and texts by those who strggle against social injustice. MOVEMENT illustrates the enduring fight for equity by an aging body.

Sept 12 at 1pm

$0/140 min • PhillyFringe.org/157129

Dr. Amore or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Wearing A Mask

Jesse Bradley-Amore

Solo Show • Comedy

After two divorces, Jesse finally meets his soulmate. And then the world shuts down. A true solo pandemic romantic comedy directed by Indie Theatre Hall of Fame's Padraic Lillis.

Sept 13 at 1pm, Sept 13 at 7pm

$15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/133562

Presented by Performance Garage, Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street

Love, Sex, and Philadelphia

Philly Queer Storytellers

Performance Art

What do dating apps, soft pretzels, SEPTA, queer yearning, and poor decision-making have in common?

You'll find out. Local storytellers will spill the tea on first loves, true loves, almost loves, situationships, friendship drama, and the wonderfully chaotic experience of being queer in Philly.

Sept 19 at 7:30pm $25/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157207

RECKON Stage Reading

Logan Phillips

Interdisciplinary • Performance Art

Through poetry & video, Tucson Poet Laureate Logan Phillips returns to his fabled hometown of Tombstone, Arizona to face the history he was raised on—gunfights and Hollywood cowboys—for a new, personal showdown with the West’s foundational myths of conquest and whiteness, gender and genre.

Sept 17, 21 at 7:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157306

Redeeming Time

John Arthur Lewis/Collective Diogenes

Solo Show • Theater

An origin story . . . 40 years in the making. It’s about Shakespeare. And love, and heartbreak, and failure, and forgiveness, and humanity, and understanding, and appreciation, and my life, and your life, and life ... which is also about Shakespeare. Run time: 70 minutes, no intermission.

Sept 15, 16, 17 at 7pm PWYC/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/148709

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"#Me, Too . . . You"

Exclamation Theater, Inc.

"#Me, Too . . . You" was written over a period of ten years by the Casts and Crews of Exclamation Theater, Inc.

It was inspired by the campus rape of an unconscious person 11 years ago. The play will be presented free, donations only, and lasts an hour with no intermission.

Sept 12, 13 at 2pm, Sept 12, 13 at 7:30pm

PWYC/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/156944

Community Education Center (CEC), 3500 Lancaster Avenue

35 Bucks and a Trio of Broads

Jana M. Rose and Rose Wellness Services, LLC

Performance Art • Comedy

Three women gather funds for a play production and dream about what 35 bucks can accomplish. Blending literature, art, philosophy, and wit, these broads hope to conquer their economic disadvantages as they envision a future that celebrates and honors women's voices and revives lost heroines.

Sept 12, 13, 19, 20 at 7pm

$20/100 min • PhillyFringe.org/157584

400 Miles from Regular

Natalie Picoe

Solo Show • Comedy

400 Miles from Regular takes the audience on a journey with Dina, a woman in mid-life who decides it's now or never to become who she truly is. Can she stand up to her toxic soon to be ex-husband, her video game addicted son, and her nutty family? It's a comedy about survival. Nataliepicoe.com

Sept 26 at 12:15pm, Sept 27 at 2pm PWYC/47 min • PhillyFringe.org/157744

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative

1A Clown's Way: A Clown's Guide to Falling in Line

Frontline Theatricals Group

Comedy • Readings & Works-In-Progress

Madi Distefano has a lesson for you. As the U.S. government becomes an absolute circus show, one desperate clown will teach an incoming circus class. An experimental workshop production exploring fascism and indoctrination. A comic look at the seductive nature of power. Matt Pfei er directs.

Sept: 9, 8:30pm; 10, 5pm; 12, 1pm; 13, 4pm; 15, 8pm PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157718

by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater, 1219 Vine Street

The 40-Year-Old Ballerino

Chris Davis

Solo Show • Comedy

At 40 years old, Chris Davis seizes on ballet class as a way to replace other addictions – drugs, alcohol, Modern Family & 90s John Cusack movies. With only a barre for support, Davis mixes dance and storytelling in a 50-minute comedy that shows you change is always possible no matter what your age.

Sept 12 at 8pm, Sept 13, 27 at 8:30pm, Sept 18 at 7:30pm, Sept 19 at 6:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157438

Presented by Studio 34, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave

Agos Y Viento

AniMalayaWorks Collective Theater • Storytelling & Spoken Word

Agos y Viento is a contemporary opera merging dance theater, spoken word, music, video art, and an autobiographical storytelling by a cross-cultural family—all telling stories of cultural memory, colonial entanglements, and immigration.

Sept 11 at 6pm, Sept 12 at 3:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157792

Action

Yuchen Ye

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Interactive Experience

When I was 18, I discovered that my great-grandfather directed 21 films in 1930s China. Why did nobody ever tell me? Where can I find his films? What did he believe in as an artist? Now, I step onstage, searching through fragments for answers—in a world still falling apart.

Sept 23 at 7pm, Sept 24 at 5:30pm, Sept 26 at 12pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157724

Alpha

Lisa VillaMil

Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

In 2017, a talented, young musher risks her life, and the lives of her beloved dogs, as she foolhardily races one thousand icy miles in Yukon Quest – the most challenging sled dog race in the world.

Sept 8 at 7pm, Sept 9 at 7:30pm, Sept 11 at 5:30pm, Sept 12 at 12:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157748

Alternative Theatre Festival 2026

iNtuitons Experimental Theatre

The Alternative Theatre Festival (ATF) is iNtuitons' annual new play festival that celebrates independent playwriting and all things experimental. Join us to laugh, cry, scream, and shout at novelty student-written plays!

Sept 11 at 8pm, Sept 12 at 2pm, Sept 12 at 6pm

$5/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/155744

Amor/Libertad - Part 1

Joel De Jesus-Pacheco

On Puerto Rican Independence Day, former elected governor Cesar tells her daughter, Valentina, the story of how his relationship with Valentina’s mother, Alba, shaped the political future of Puerto Rico 16 years ago.

Sept 8 at 7:15pm, Sept 13 at 12:15pm, Sept 16 at 5:45pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157766

And Her Name Was Pickles

Dani Brugger

Comedy • Drag

Pickles, a foul-mouthed, overweight guinea pig, wakes up in a cage at a pet store in Jersey with no recollection of how she got there. Only one thing is certain: she is determined to get the hell out.

Sept 17, 18, 19 at 8pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/154548

Presented by Performance Garage, Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street

Armed Hostilities

MAK I Productions

Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

A solo performance exploring the ideas and thoughts on the many conflicts in the world throughout history. In a time of international turmoil, commentaries, personal writings, newspaper articles, quotes, and songs introduce the audience to a multitude of participants and victims of war.

Sept 11, 12 at 7:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157656

Americana Cosplay

Die-Cast

Immersive • Music

In a private club, members celebrate the nation's birth by role-playing their favorite Americana icons. But the true American mythos isn't your forefather fetish. It’s the Cowboy. The Capitalist. The Confederate. Our newest immersive piece is sure to be “Weird and Wonderful”Philly Gay News.

Sept 17, 18, 20 at 8pm

$25/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/157328

ASS2MOUTH

ON THE ROCKS (THE WORKS OF ELAINA DI MONACO & HAYGEN-BRICE WALKER)

Readings & Works-In-Progress • Party & Nightlife

sweaty basements | serial killer | anal sex | cam boy | "fences" by august wilson | fisting | crime scenes | role play | charcuterie | coming of age | chicken murder | footloose

Sept 10 at 8:30pm, Sept 13 at 12:30pm, Sept 20 at 2pm PWYC/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/157750

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Project Space, 1219 Vine St

Anamcara and Phoenix - Two One Acts

Kin Productions

ANAMCARA is about Nathan, who recently lost his best friend Max and is preparing to attend his funeral, but he may not have seen Max for the last time after all. PHOENIX is the story of Margaret, who has been desperately clinging to a mask and whose past self is creeping in to peel it o .

Sept 25, 26 at 7pm, Sept 26, 27 at 2pm

$25/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/157451

archy & mehitabel

Jayson Borenstein Presents

Music • Comedy

Featuring a book co-written by Mel Brooks, this bare bones, bizarre musical takes us to a typewriter as cockroach, poet, philosopher, and moralist, archy (who's too small to hold down the shift key), tries hopelessly to bring alley cat, mehitabel, into a respectable home as a housecat.

Sept 19 at 7:30pm $25/100 min • PhillyFringe.org/156204

Ascension Death March

Rogue Theology

Clown • Dance

Ascension in stilettos. Strip-clown-theology. A mop becomes a cross, a pole becomes a tomb and low art gets crucified. A surreal dance-theater-clown ritual exploring ambition, su ering, spiritual ascent and the brutal density of being human.

Sept 19 at 9pm, Sept 20 at 8:30pm, Sept 25 at 9:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/129100

Presented by Studio 34, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave

Avalanche of 'No'

Je rey Cousar

Storytelling & Spoken Word

Combining Shakespeare's language and Cousar’s picaresque life, with its absurd calamities and unexpected glories, Avalanche of No interweaves DJ culture, the life of a real-life porter, custody battles, and physicalized images of Jean-Michel Basquiat into a frank display of bravura storytelling.

Sept 13 at 5pm, Sept 15 at 5:30pm, Sept 27 at 7pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157794

Assembling My Parts

Nora Hanley

Solo Show

Assembling My Parts is an autobiographical solo show that tells the story of a young woman who is trying to come to terms with her mother’s death and family history - all while attempting to find herself as an artist in New York City.

Sept 20, 27 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/150229

Presented by Performance Garage, Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street

Baggage From BaghDAD: Becoming My Father's Daughter

Valerie David

Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

This award-winning show explores immigration/ generational trauma, recounting Valerie’s family’s harrowing escape from Iraq during the 1941 Farhud pogrom. Though rooted in Jewish history, it resonates broadly, addressing the challenges of displacement, prejudice, and cultural assimilation globally.

Sept 17, 7:15pm; Sept 19, 3:45pm; Sept 20, 4:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157767

by

The Bards 10th Anniversary

Telethon: LIVE

The Bards Theatre Troupe

Cabaret & Variety

The Bards Theatre Troupe is celebrating its ten-year anniversary and YOU'RE invited! Join hosts Quinton J. Alexander and CJ Higgins for a 70s-style live telethon variety show featuring artists from our last decade of creating original musicals and being extremely gay.

Sept 13 at 8pm

PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/156988

BLACK D*CK MATTERS by Kathya

Alexander

The BTMR Project

Storytelling & Spoken Word

From Seattle to the Philadelphia Fringe, BLACK D*CK MATTERS by Kathya Alexander and directed by Nxt

Thrsdy features a Seattle cast in a bold exploration of Black masculinity, identity, love, vulnerability, and resilience through poetic, emotionally resonant monologues.

Sept 10, 11, 12 at 7pm, Sept 12, 13 at 2pm $25/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157631

Bodhi's Guide to History

Jim Hawkins

Interactive Experience • Comedy

Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary with Bodhi’s Guide to History, a new play. On this walking tour, Bodhi gives his unique – and wildly inaccurate – take on American history. Bodhi is proud to do his own research, but tends to veer hilariously o track.

Sept 13, 17, 20 at 4pm, Sept 13, 17, 20 at 7pm

$17.76/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157495

Born To Sing The Gospel

Robin Williams Sr.

Music • Storytelling & Spoken Word

Born to Sing the Gospel is a powerful multimedia production celebrating the life and legacy of Marion Williams. Through music, storytelling, poetry, and visuals, this inspiring tribute honors her groundbreaking voice, faith, and lasting impact on gospel music and culture.

Sept 9 at 5:30pm, Sept 12 at 2:45pm, Sept 27 at 8pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157727

Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater, 1219 Vine Street

Bride To Be

Meg Millane

Comedy • Solo Show

Playful, poetic, and sharply relevant, Bride To Be delivers a fresh feminist perspective on "I do." This energetic character-driven performance invites audiences to laugh, reflect, and maybe even catch the bouquet, as Meg decides weather she is planning her dream wedding or redefining it.

Sept 12 at 7:30pm, Sept 13 at 3pm, Sept 19, 20 at 4:30pm $15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157078

and Players Skinner Studio, 1714

Street

The Call is Coming From Inside the Home is Where the Heart Is

Hayden Eric & M. Rayne Smith

Lead paint, plaster, and real hardwood floors. A century ago there was a housing boom across our cities. Today, we have inherited the bones of these homes. Before the roofs cave in, we will commune with the words of 100 year old playwrights to uncover what’s still left in the cracks.

Sept 11, 25 at 6pm, Sept 13, 27 at 2pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157641

BEHOLD! the angel clown show

Ambrose Devine-Gage

Clown • Comedy

An accidental emissary of the holey host stumbles onto our mortal plane. Messy, salacious, and confused, this ancient and childlike being has a message for humanity... but how can it get anything done while every atom and sense of its new body screams with delightful, delicious, and terrible urgency?!

Sept 11, 15 at 6:30pm, Sept 14 at 8pm, Sept 27 at 7:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157414

The Black Pearl and the Frivolous Prince

3 Pony Show

Dance • Interdisciplinary

Paris, 1930s. Al Brown — Latin America’s first world boxing champion — loses his title when his manager drugs him before a fight. In a grand pivot, Al becomes a cabaret star and meets Jean Cocteau—a watershed moment. What happens when a celebrated Panamanian boxer meets a legendary French artist?

Sept 12, 4:45pm; Sept 16, 8:45pm; Sept 20, 6pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157781

Asian Arts Initiative Third Floor, 1219 Vine Street

Bog Man

The Lemonade Stand

Solo Show

This woman is in a play right now and the play is so bad and she thinks that maybe she’s maybe getting haunted by the bog man (the play is about a bog man) and this could all be one big coincidence and she just really needs health insurance—wait what was that? Do you hear that too?

Sept 9, 10, 11, 14, 19 at 7:30pm, Sept 20 at 3pm $15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156677

BoyGirl Gymnastics

mimebaby

Clown • Dance Gymnastics is hard, but so is life. And their life? Is Gymnastics. And their sleepovers? Full-time jobs. First to fall asleep? Youre fired. Youre dead. This is basically the olympics. Olympic sized stakes. Served rare, bleeding. Like Seriously: What would you do??? if your best friend was lying???

Sept 10, 12, 25, 27 at 6pm

$15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157456

1714

Bully Prep

Terrilyn McCormick/Elise D'Avella

A mash-up of a TED Talk and a surreal after-school special, Bully Prep confronts the real-life consequences of cyberbullying. When a phone is a weapon, and every kid has one, how do we keep them safe? Inspired by true stories.

Sept 16 at 7:15pm, Sept 17, 25 at 8:45pm, Sept 20 at 7:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157778

CALL OF THE WILD

Humble Materials

Dance • Puppetry

Calling all wolves: join Humble Materials in the garage under the moonlight. It's time to make some moves, unearth secrets, and bring shadows to life. No more bed-rotting. No more doom-scrolling. Tonight, we return to where we came from.

Sept 17, 18, 19 at 8pm $20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157109

& Selma

Christmas Carol: The Rap Musical

Michael Radzwilla

Music

Witness the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge, told through an original hip hop musical. Christmas’ most famous ghost story comes back to life.

Sept 8, 12, 19 at 6:30pm, Sept 11 at 9pm, Sept 20 at 1:30pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/150943

Conquering the Canon

C.A.G.E. Theatre Company

Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

Michael Hagins may be the only African-American artist to ever take part in every play of William Shakespeare’s complete Canon. He tells the story about all of the completed works, but he learns along the way that with every great achievement and life changing moment, comes a great and sad loss.

Sept 12 at 9pm, Sept 13 at 1pm, Sept 19 at 4pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/140703

Custody

Lawrence Theatre Company

Performance Art • Storytelling & Spoken Word

A father fights for his son in this one-man dramedy written by Derrell Lawrence, directed by Damien J. Wallace, and performed by actor/comedian Craig McLaren. Raw, funny, and fiercely real — 14 characters, one powerful story.

Sept 17, 18 at 7:30pm, Sept 19 at 4pm $35/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/156093

Declaration

Joe Torsella

Solo Show

A former public official uses the Declaration of Independence to interrogate his life and ours. As the identities that once defined him are stripped away, he is forced to confront what that document still demands of him and us. Developed with Whit MacLaughlin and New Paradise Laboratories.

Sept 10, 11 at 7pm, Sept 12, 19 at 4pm, Sept 13, 20 at 2pm, Sept 17, 18 at 6pm $30/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157071

at the Arden Theatre, 62 N. 2nd St

Do it for me

Bao Nguyen

Comedy • Clown

Do it for me is a wet, one-person performance that explodes ideas of gender and domestic labor through the act of washing laundry, crawling around, cursing dry people, and throwing wet clothes into the air. This is what happens when doing laundry is too much and the performer is mad.

Sept 11 at 7pm, Sept 12 at 6:45pm, Sept 13 at 2pm PWYC/40 min • PhillyFringe.org/157742

Don(na) Giovanni

Art City Opera

Opera • Music

A remorseless womanizer who will stop at nothing to pursue her conquests. Victims determined to find justice. A murdered parent. An interrupted assault. A sinister masquerade. A fatal feast. But don’t worry. It’s a comedy. Don(na) Giovanni is Mozart’s masterpiece as you’ve never heard it before.

Sept 24, 26 at 7pm, Sept 27 at 2:30pm

PWYC/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/154061

COLUMBO'S DAY (The Nonsense Explorer Series, Vol. 1)

Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews

Clown • Puppetry

Rat With Wings or Bird Of Peace? Columbo’s Day exploits all things “Colombian” in a one-clown show with a couple puppets, a broken record player, and stu being knocked o pedestals. Stars Howard Zinn as Lieutenant Columbo, Christopher Columbus as Morrissey, and an Ordinary Pigeon as Noah's Dove.

Sept 16 at 8pm, Sept 17 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157522

Presented by Dumb Hub, Pig Iron Theatre Company, 1417 N. 2nd Street

Creatures of the Deep

Dark Star Theatre

Puppetry • Kids & Family

Dive into the deep ocean with black light puppetry!

Meet the notorious anglerfish, marvel at whale vs. giant squid, wonder about siphonophore colonies, and more as they all come to glowing life in the dark. Appropriate for children and families, beautiful and fascinating for any age.

Sept 11, 14, 15, 16 at 6:45pm, Sept 14, 15, 16 at 8:45pm PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157589

Days of Awe

Leila Einhorn

Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

A year after her mother’s death, a poet in recovery moves home to Philadelphia to get a divorce and begin again. Set during the ten days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, Days of Awe blends poetry, storytelling, and chutzpah into a lyrical reckoning with grief, desire, and the inheritances we carry.

Sept 17 at 5:45pm, Sept 22 at 7:15pm, Sept 26 at 5:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157769

Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie

BETTY (MK Tuomanen, Shelby Richardson, Paul Kruse

Clown • Performance Art Fringe veteran MK Tuomanen and Minneapolis artists Shelby Richardson and Paul Kruse merge clown, drag, and rich visual design to explore the shocking history of Practice Babies, when post-WW2 American universities used orphans to train future mothers.

9/9, 8:45p; 9/10, 7:15p; 9/12, 1:45p; 9/13, 4:45p; 9/15, 7:15p; 9/18, 5:45p; 9/19, 8:15p; 9/20, 1:30p PWYC/55 min • PhillyFringe.org/157770

Third Floor, 1219 Vine Street

Don't Kill Daisy

Soleil Kohl

Interactive Experience • Comedy

Daisy accidentally opened a wormhole. Oops! Now it's your job to keep her alive through an endless array of evil villains, beasts, and environmental dangers. A glitching, interactive comedy and jarringly poetic adventure through nostalgia, and what it means to confront collapse in the digital age.

Sept 18, 27 at 7:30pm, Sept 19, 26 at 9pm $15/55 min • PhillyFringe.org/144576

The Easy Way

Linnea Bond

Solo Show • Comedy

In 2011, Linnea walked 300 miles alone on the side of the road looking for a vision from God.

Sept 10 at 7:30pm, Sept 15 at 6:30pm, Sept 27 at 5pm

PWYC/55 min • PhillyFringe.org/157735

Eat My Shorts

The LAB

Readings & Works-In-Progress • Interdisciplinary

Welcome to The LAB’s incubator! New works bubble up in the EAT MY SHORTS laboratory, where performers tag team multiple scripts and characters in a showcase of staged readings – everything from one-act shorts to experimental ideas to snippets of plays in development.

(hazmat gear optional)

Sept 9, 10 at 6pm

PWYC/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/156945

The End is Nigh; a cataclysmic comedy

Liars and Believers

Clown • Comedy

Join our hosts and live studio audience as three unsuspecting contestants compete for the grand prize

– survival! With physical comedy, live music, and satire, Liars and Believers asks: how do we save ourselves from our own destruction? The End is Nigh is a serious comedy for serious times.

Sept 24, 8:45pm; Sept 26, 12:30pm; Sept 27, 8pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157783

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative

The Enemy at Hand

Liam Forest

Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

Ernst Röhm was not the only homosexual Nazi purged on The Night of the Long Knives. Hitler’s chau eur reported an 18 year old boy was found in bed with a leader of the SA. A blackmail web spanning 1925 to today reveals the patterns of mutually assured destruction and self hatred underlying fascism.

Sept 12 at 3:30pm, Sept 13 at 6:30pm, Sept 16 at 7:30pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157761

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Project Space, 1219 Vine St

An Evening With Joan

Oona Higgins

Solo Show • Comedy

Oona Higgins stars as Joan Crawford in her original solo show. Joan finally sets the record straight about her reputation and her life — from flapper to Hollywood icon to Mommie Dearest. And remember. NO WIRE HANGERS!

Sept 20 at 1pm $15/35 min • PhillyFringe.org/154819

Fictional Names

Cassie Works

Puppetry • Comedy

Fictional Names is a practically e ective, absurdist hour following long-distance friends Cashew Lowman and Sasha. Cashew no longer believes he lives in Pennsylvania, something is o . Sasha is too busy writing about fish and pining for a new perspective to fully engage in his fictional crisis.

Sept 16, 18 at 6pm, Sept 17 at 7:30pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157754

Forge

Antihero Theatre Company Performance Art • Interactive Experience

This is a retelling of Pinocchio, with Greek mythology put in the mix, where Hephaestus, the God of Fire and Blacksmiths, is presented as the father instead of Geppetto. As a deaf character, Hephaestus also chooses to have Pinocchio being deaf, which leads to conflicted reactions from others.

Sept 16, 22, 25 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157799

Encounters with an Electric Mind

Fall Risk Theatre Collective

Do you wish you had an assistant, or perhaps a friend, always by your side whispering support, advice, and suggestions in your ear? Bombadil AI is thrilled to introduce the M43 Neural Interface, the latest in AI brain chip technology! It’s a friend, (permanently implanted) inside your head. :-)

Sept 8, 9 at 8pm

PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157568

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium

Comedy

Celebrating 20 years of producing absurdist theater, the always surprising IRC honors the work of Samuel Beckett with the one-act he clocked as his favorite.

Described as “...a profound, sombre, paradoxical joy...” the IRC considers the play in light of current politics, social change and technology

Sept 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 at 7pm, Sept 13, 20, 27 at 2pm

$28/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/149309

Eve in Paradise

Megan Edelman

Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

EVE IN PARADISE is a loose adaptation of Paradise Lost and at its core, a memoir. As Eve grapples with Milton’s text, she shares her journey as a child of the catechism, a questioning teenager, and an adult who strives to find the beauty in this broken world, not in religion, but in humanity.

Sept 13, 18, 25, 26 at 7:30pm PWYC/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/155297

F***ed Up Fairytales

Rising Sun Performance Comany

Interactive Experience • Comedy

From NYC's Rising Sun Performance Company- F***ed Up Fairytales is a wild, interactive 21+ theatrical experience where twisted fairytales, drinking games, audience challenges, and live gameplay collide. Each night the audience decides which stories are told—so no two performances are ever the same.

Sept 25 at 7:15pm, Sept 26 at 7pm, Sept 27 at 3:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157772

First in the Hearts Lights, Theatre, Action!

If Grover's Corners is OUR TOWN, then what's the village of Grover's Notch? After all, the "Notch" is known for being first with their midnight vote during the New Hampshire presidential primary. So, two losing campaigns send cute volunteers to the "Notch" to seduce folks and rock the midnight vote.

Sept 19, 20 at 9pm, Sept 20 at 4pm

PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/150222

FORIEGNER

Koan Brothers Clown • Solo Show

A dizzying solo that simultaneously explains—and refuses to explain—Sohrab Haghverdi's experience as an Iranian asylum seeker. A paradoxical, autobiographical, anti-identity, anti-comedy clown show inspired by Andy Kaufman’s hijinks and Sufi mystic Rumi's call to kill yourself ( ).

Sept 11 at 8:30pm, Sept 20 at 6:15pm, Sept 22 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/148904

Full Spoilers For One Ton Gundrum

Sam and Stanley Henderson

Kids & Family

Father and son duo spoils entire plot of legendary and totally not at all fake or made up anime One Ton Gundrum in about 45 minutes. Suitable for ages 11 and up. Reminder: One Ton Gundrum is real. It's real.

Sept 24, 25, 26 at 7:30pm, Sept 27 at 2pm

$20/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157544

GERL GURL GORL!

Andie Flores

Solo Show • Clown

GIRL is brand new here. She was born from a butt. She’s part girl, part something else, and she is trying to understand how it all works. GIRL wants to walk and tries to talk. She falls in love with a self-ordering food kiosk. She needs your help. No really. Explain it to her like she's GIRL.

Sept 18 at 5:30pm, Sept 19 at 3pm, Sept 20 at 12:15pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157728

Box Theater, 1219 Vine Street

Gilgamesh

John Heimbuch

Storytelling & Spoken Word

When the tyrant-king Gilgamesh befriends the wildman Enkidu, his heart softens. But the two are beset by gods and monsters on a journey of love to the ends of the earth. An epic solo storytelling show adapted by Charlie Bethel and performed by John Heimbuch.

Sept 22, 23 at 7pm $25/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/129095

The Groundhog

Savannah Reich

Clown • Readings & Works-In-Progress

The Professor gives an excruciatingly detailed lecture on 1993's Groundhog Day while slowly losing their grip on reality. A tour de force monologue for one talking clown (like Groucho) and one silent clown (like Harpo). Content warning: Academia, art education, teaching the worst class of your life.

Sept 13 at 6:15pm, Sept 19 at 4:30pm, Sept 24 at 8:30pm, Sept 26 at 1:30pm PWYC/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/157736

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater, 1219 Vine Street

Heaven by Eugene O'Brien

Inis Aosta

Storytelling & Spoken Word

A struggling marriage, maybe attending a wedding will help Mairead and Mal. A monologue play which is funny, beautiful and dripping with modern Irishness, HEAVEN is a poignant story where from two characters you get to know an entire Irish town.

Sept 13, 19, 20, 26, 27 at 2pm

$20/100 min • PhillyFringe.org/157554

The Garden of Alla

Lorn Ruhnke

Performance Art • Interdisciplinary

Alla Nazimova hosts one final edition of the legendary parties that established her reputation a most iconic mixer of 1910s Sapphic Hollywood . From lavender marriages to antiwar cinema, join Alla as she reminisces upon (and rehashes) a lifetime of queer intimacy that elides historical memory.

Sept 12 at 6pm, Sept 18 at 7pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157085

Ghost Fetus

Sweet Sorry Meat

Interdisciplinary • Music

A ghost seeking revenge. A church caught in its own contradiction. Two queer teens reckon with faith, fear, and desire. Anna Klos and Suz Evans bring you a haunting, hilarious, music-filled piece like no other. Expect to leave haunted.

Sept 18 at 8:45pm, Sept 19 at 6:45pm, Sept 20 at 3pm PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157773

Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play

Sara Malinowski

Solo Show • Cabaret & Variety

A heartbroken 22-year-old road trips to California with her pragmatic, polyamorous Polish barista. A onewoman play about moments where we're certain the answers are anywhere but within ourselves. Twirling her curls, she couldn't help but wonder: were we ever girlfriends? Based on a too-true story.

Sept 24, 25 at 7:30pm, Sept 26 at 6:15pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157755

Happy Accident

Happy Accident

Puppetry • Performance Art

Belching forth from the glorified backwater village of Portland, OR, Happy Accident’s work explores the exponential pace of overwhelming absurdity in our world. Found objects, large-scale puppets, and sputtering lights and sound bring you face to face with the cuddly nightmare that is everyday life.

Sept 12 at 8pm

$20/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/156948

The Holy Fool

Ninth Planet

Through the eyes of an American family, The Holy Fool examines the toll of aging, grieving, and growing up in a culture where normativity is the most valuable currency – and everyday life is live-streamed. A thrilling ghost story unfolds in this new work of dancetheatre, scored by hypnotic original music.

Sept 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 at 7:30pm

$35/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/158248

Helen Keller Wasn't Real

Becky Bondurant

Solo Show • Performance Art

What happens when the people you love slip into a di erent feed? In this solo show, Becky Bondurant traces her mother’s fading vision and increasingly outspoken Facebook posts about Trump alongside a classroom of students who insist Helen Keller wasn’t real.

Sept 17 at 7pm, Sept 18, 19 at 7:30pm, Sept 20 at 3pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/149615

HOME - Snack Break

Soy wa Jin

Performance Art • Music

You're invited to HOME. Join us for tea, snacks, poetry, movement, and sound. An intimate gathering exploring home, memory, and the people we meet along the way. Sept 17 at 3pm

$0/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156810

Hrotsvitha Hremixes

Mopped Stage Productions

Comedy • Readings & Works-In-Progress

What did those medieval nuns get up to in those cloisters? Hrotsvitha Hremixes presents three new adaptions of 10th Century plays by Hrotsvitha of Gandershiem, overlayed with movies like Mean Girls and Pretty Woman, revolutionizing medieval drama with some sexy, sadistic, satirical surprises.

Sept 25 at 5:15pm, Sept 26 at 8:30pm, Sept 27 at 12pm PWYC/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/157774

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Third Floor, 1219 Vine Street

Ideas of Grandeur

Ideas of Grandeur

Interdisciplinary • Storytelling & Spoken Word

“I’ll show you all!” But she only knows a quarter of the story. Past roles she’s shunned are getting mic’d. She’ll have to share the stage tonight. Ideas of Grandeur is about rediscovering freedom through acceptance of all human parts. Serving home-based song, movement, and personal hygiene.

Sept 20 at 1:30pm, Sept 23, 24, 26 at 6pm

$15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157475

Presented by The Lemonade Stand, Plays and Players Skinner Studio, 1714 Delancey Street

Is This Thing On?

Adam Bradley Solo Show

Hilarious, soulful, and deeply human, this multimedia solo show blends live music, storytelling, and visual imagery to trace one man’s journey from Yale singing fame to Wall Street, fatherhood, grief, and creative rebirth.

Sept 8 at 8:45pm, Sept 9, 10 at 6:30pm $25/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/155829

Kennett Square Extension

New Play Theatrical Club of Kennett Square

Readings & Works-In-Progress

Kennett Square is so much more than the mushroom capital of the world. Home to a thriving theatrical society, we, the writers of Kennett Square have formed a perfect evening of new plays for your enjoyment.

Performed by local actors in our brand new Library Theatre, we roam free. No mushrooms needed Sept 24 at 7pm, Sept 26 at 2pm $0/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/149076

LIGEIA by Edgar Allan Poe

William Trevino

Solo Show • Interdisciplinary

Is it the opium, or has your new wife’s corpse been possessed? Obsession descends into madness in this physical theatre adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s LIGEIA.

Solo-performer William Trevino weaves poetic language with his four decades of martial arts training to embody Poe’s most haunting tale.

Sept 16 at 9pm, Sept 17 at 6pm, Sept 19 at 3:30pm

PWYC/58 min • PhillyFringe.org/157758

Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn

Featuring Bob Weick

Radical Acts/Iron Age Theatre/Bob Weick

Marx is back to clear his name. Howard Zinn's classic exploration of Marx filled with pathos, protest and passion returns to Philly after hundreds of performances worldwide featuring Bob Weick. Iron Age Theatre: Come hear the words the billionaires don't want you to hear.

Sept 22, 23, 24 at 7pm, Sept 26, 27 at 3pm

PWYC/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/157462

S 33rd St + Broken

Human In The Loop

Don Allen Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

A solo theatrical journey through identity, memory, grief, AI, and the search for meaning when reality stops making sense. Blending autobiographical storytelling, sound design, humor, and technology, this performance explores how we rebuild ourselves after the systems we trust begin to fail.

Sept 12, 19, 26 at 9pm, Sept 27 at 3pm

$30/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/155889

N 9th St

Rebecca Wilson

Solo Show • Stand-Up

ill. is Rebecca Wilson’s solo, multi-tonal show that combines her unparalleled wit, keen intellect, hardhitting punchlines and empathy to tell the tales of caregiving for her mother, family dynamics, mental health, unhealthy romantic relationships, and addiction.

Sept 23, 24 at 8pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/145983

Jane Eyre Wasn't a Whore

Carly Polistina

Solo Show • Comedy

* Brontë enthusiast and actor Anne Brauer is staunchly opposed to modern dating. Suddenly, she finds herself in a situationship of GOTHIC proportions. Much like in a musical where characters break out into song, in this she breaks into passages from Brontë novels. Part Rom-Com, part Period Piece.

Sept 12, 13 at 4:30pm, Sept 18, 20 at 6pm

$15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157622

Kramer/Fauci

Conceived + Directed by Daniel Fish

Internationally acclaimed director Daniel Fish (Oklahoma!) turns his eye to one of the most combustible conversations of the AIDS crisis: the 1993 televised clash between Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading AIDS researcher, and playwright-activist Larry Kramer.

Sept 8, 9, 10, 11 at 7pm

$50/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157558

The Madness of Hestia Je Evans

Readings & Works-In-Progress • Storytelling & Spoken Word

The gods must be tired. Hestia, goddess of the hearth and home, has a cozy cottage in orbit around Earth. And her roommate Hermes has finally stopped bringing Mortal men home to bed. But when the Mortals abandon Earth, they stop in to make an impossible request of her. (Staged reading)

Sept 19 at 12pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157763

Meat Cute

Julia Pickard and Grace Stewart Gardner

Interdisciplinary

MEAT CUTE is a bloody double-feature that explores themes of the body as meat. CONSUMMATION begins when Rachel responds to an online advertisement seeking a consensual and willing participant in a cannibalistic fantasy. In MEAT PLAY, Bailey begins employment on the slaughterhouse Killing Floor.

Sept 19 at 12pm, Sept 20 at 4:45pm, Sept 22 at 5:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157730

Queen

The Melon's Cry

The Kammerspiel

A retelling of Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, set in an NYC private school on the eve of 9/11. Two best friends cling to each other as they are sucked into the inexorable tragedy of sexual maturity and into the void of a post-ideological era. A fable of surrender—willing and unwilling.

Sept 10, 11, 12, 13 at 7pm, Sept 13 at 2pm

$25/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/157590

Mingus and TOILET TRAIN YOUR CAT

Jim Julien

Puppetry • Storytelling & Spoken Word

A puppet piece that tells the story of the conflict between cats and humans and how one jazz composer and musician, Charles Mingus, o ered a possible solution. Jazz music, narration and sound elements along with unique lighting and shadow puppet e ects propel this unique and funny narrative.

Sept 25 at 8pm, Sept 26 at 6:30pm, Sept 27 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157193

Murder at the Netherfield Ball: An Interactive Mystery

Indecorous Theatre

Interactive Experience • Immersive

When someone is murdered at the much anticipated Netherfield Ball, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy must clear her family name. Join us and the beloved characters of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice outdoors at Elfreth’s Alley for an original interactive murder mystery YOU CAN solve!

Sept 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 at 6:30pm

$30/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/157637

My Allowance

Thomas Choinacky

Interdisciplinary • Performance Art

This intimate tabletop performance reveals the power of objects to hold histories, secrets, and erotics. Private collections of Beanie babies, leather hats, and chastity cages shapeshift from common to subversive. An upclose, curious exploration of the desires embedded in earning your allowance.

Sept 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 at 7:30pm

$30/55 min • PhillyFringe.org/150242

My Friend, Ithamar

Hollow Narrator Media

Storytelling & Spoken Word

A cozy author reading curdles into ritual. Three stories invite the audience to listen and wonder what has been listening back. My Friend, Ithamar is an intimate horror event about grief, attention, and the terrible relief of being understood. Stay for the signing.

Sept 9, 25 at 9pm, Sept 20 at 6:30pm

PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157759

A Midsummer Night's Dream in a Bar

Shakespeare on Tap

Immersive • Cabaret & Variety

This forest is full of fools! Lost lovers, fighting fairies, and failed theatre majors are all tossed together for a night of hijinks you'll never forget. Enjoy Shakespeare's classic comedy in the madcap Shakespeare on Tap style. Real actors. No director. One rehearsal. In a bar.

Sept 12, 14, 22 at 9pm

$15/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157588

Moral Injury

Ubin Theatre (Daniel Ubin Burgess in collaboration w/ Arthur Robinson)

Interdisciplinary • Dance

Dil and Dak are stranded on a deserted island. Desperate and starving, the two attempt to hunt and consume a pig, with dire consequences. Chaos ensues in this genre-blending performance piece featuring heavy movement, mask, and sound work.

Sept 13 at 7pm, Sept 27 at 2pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157605

A Murder Most Felt; or, It's Not Easy Bleeding Green

Murder Most Felt

Puppetry • Comedy

It is a dark and stormy night and veteran detective Jack Russell has been murdered. Join his dinner guests, an eclectic band of familiar but legally distinct puppets, as they attempt to uncover which among them is a killer.

Sept 8 at 5:15pm, Sept 19 at 12:15pm, Sept 22 at 5:45pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157765

My Carmilla

Asha Bagal Kelly & Sabrina Caruso

Dance • Music

My Carmilla is a queer folk horror theatre piece inspired by J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novella, reimagined through a feminist, queer, and postcolonial lens. The actors playing Laura and Carmilla will alternate roles each performance, highlighting the question: who is predator, and who is prey?

Sept 11, 17 at 5:30pm, Sept 19, 26 at 1pm $15/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/157203

and Players

Not Without Her Stories: Her Service Comes With A Sacrifice Too

The Collective Mic Productions

Music • Interdisciplinary

Not Without Her Stories follows four women bound by military sisterhood as they confront PTSD, military sexual trauma, war, loss, and life after service. Through poetry, dance, music, and dialogue, they break the silence to heal and give voice to untold stories of women veterans.

Sept 8, 8:45pm; Sept 11, 7:15pm; Sept 13, 3:15pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157776

1219

1714 Delancey Street

New Works from Nick Jonczak

Nick Jonczak

Readings & Works-In-Progress • Interdisciplinary

Check out some new works from—you guessed it!— Nick Jonczak.

Sept 12, 27 at 8pm, Sept 20 at 12:30pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157716

The Odyssey

John Heimbuch

Storytelling & Spoken Word

Shipwrecks, sirens, and mythical goddesses meet magic, death, and revenge. Voyage across land and sea, through the underworld, and to the top of Mt. Olympus as Odysseus seeks his homeland and the arms of his loving wife. A thrilling epic storytelling adventure performed by John Heimbuch.

Sept 24, 25, 26, 27 at 7pm

PWYC/105 min • PhillyFringe.org/157636

Plays & Players Mainstage, 1714 Delancey Street

O stage Onstage: Everything You Didn't See The Greeks Do little ghost party

Clown • Comedy

Oedipus stabs out his eyes! Medea kills her sons!

And we never got to see it! For the first time ever at Haverford Middle, three theatre kids recreate what happens o stage in Ancient Greek tragedy on a tiny stage. As they perform these unthinkable acts, they confront their own modern-day tragedies.

9/8, 6p; 9/12, 5:15p; 9/13, 2:15p; 9/16, 8:30p; 9/25, 7p

PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157731

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater, 1219 Vine Street

Online & Personal

Elizabeth George Solo Show • Comedy

In this witty and soul-stirring solo show, Paige, a lover girl with a bad case of limerence, recovers from her failed online romance while sequestered in her childhood home. Through familial intervention, she can see her past for the nightmare it was and finally walk out of her bedroom door.

Sept 19 at 2pm, Sept 22 at 7pm

$12.5/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157524

Phillyhood - short plays about what it means to be Philly!

Philadelphia Dramatists Center

Cabaret & Variety • Performance Art

Three short plays that show what it means to be Philly!

A comedy about Betsy Ross and a rabid Eagles fan.

A drama about two young women finding out what really happened to their mother in 1918 Philadelphia. A dramedy about two frenemies looking for a missing husband or is it their own hearts?

Sept 21, 22, 24 at 7pm

PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157624

A Poem and A Mistake

Making Strange and Bossy Productions

Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

Myrrha, a grad student, confronts her professor over the 50 sexual assaults in Ovid’s Metamorphoses; their exchange sparks a cascade of transformations. As literary as it is visceral, as funny as it is moving, this powerful solo play examines our inherited stories and the duality in all of us.

Sept 23, 24, 25 at 6pm PWYC/55 min • PhillyFringe.org/157746

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Project Space, 1219 Vine St

(Warehouse), 2321 Emerald St

Regulator XXL presents: 'When Pigs Fly'

Rachel Hunsinger

Cabaret & Variety • Comedy

If an alien comes to your world to understand human democracy, what will you tell them? Called a “Fat Rock Fantasia,” Black Mirror meets American Idol as Regulator XXL hurtles, slams, belts, and jiggles through THE CONTROLLER'S weight evaluations—because fat pigs can't fly, until they soar.

Sept 10 at 7pm, Sept 12 at 8pm, Sept 20 at 3pm

PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157470

Sad Magic Sins

Sad Magic Productions Comedy • Drag

Meet Marz! Caught between queerness, family and faith, the play follows Mars through New York City, where they meet: A talking cat, a mystical drag queen (and closeted genie) with perfect pitch, and a mysterious stalker on Grindr inching closer and closer.

Sept 11 at 8:45pm, Sept 12 at 7:45pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157779

Oleanna

It's Complicated Productions

Become immersed in our interpretation of this powerful and very timely play, during which the intersectional dynamics of gender, authority, power, control and education are laid bare.

Sept 11, 17, 18 at 7pm, Sept 12 at 12pm

$45/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/149218

Owen Corey and James Ofalt

Punch Each Other in the Dick Until One Submits Again, Again, Again

Owen Corey and James Ofalt

Immersive • Interactive Experience

Philadelphia actors Owen Corey and James Ofalt will punch each other in the dick until one submits. One night only, sellout expected.

Sept 14 at 6:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/149579

Please!

Felicia Cooper

Puppetry • Interdisciplinary

Please! is a solo show using projection, pop music, and puppetry. It's a wild ride exploring surveillance and bodily autonomy inspired by an 1838 German Expressionist play- but fun! This show is co presented as an evening of puppetry with Maisie O’Brien and Lou Hemler’s “Beneath”.

Sept 11 at 8:30pm, Sept 12 at 6:30pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156954

Prudence Play (Sister Prudence is NOT Gay!)

Caroline Dunn, Boyz with Apple, babygood Solo Show

The 5-star Edinburgh Fringe & sold-out NYC hit PRUDENCE PLAY (or Sister Prudence is Not Gay!) stars a young catholic nun having an identity (gay-ashell) crisis. From her fever dream of tap dancing, or her hot and heavy thoughts during the Lenten fish fry, you understand... she’s having a moment.

Sept 17 at 7:30pm, Sept 19 at 7pm, Sept 19 at 9pm $20/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157685

Christ, 151 N 4th Street, Suite C

returned, iridescent

Theatre by Development

Two lovers bound by the stars find each other and lose each other, over and over across a lifetime. "returned, iridescent" by Rose Farrell is a trans love story about the act of becoming, and what it means to return.

Sept 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26 at 7:30pm, Sept 19, 20, 26, 27 at 2pm

PWYC/100 min • PhillyFringe.org/149066

Señor Babyhead

Analisa Raya-Flores Clown • Drag

In an evening of drag, clown, and desperation, Señor Babyhead presents his Día de Muertos Especial. Who is Señor Babyhead? Only Mexico’s most famous (washed up) sitcom star: he sings, he dances, he crawls across the desert and into your heart.

Sept 16 at 5:30pm, Sept 18 at 8:30pm, Sept 19 at 8pm, Sept 20 at 3:15pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157732

The

Shadow Show

Shadow Company

The Shadow Company is a teen-led devised theatre organization of participants aged 13-17 partnered with professional theatre artists. Each year, the Shadow Company devises an original show each year from scratch, through workshops, movement exploration, writing sessions and more.

Sept 12 at 7pm

$25/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157642

SHATTERPROOF

Dana Lee Block

Solo Show • Storytelling & Spoken Word

Multi-character, one-woman show, this hilarious and heart-breaking story follows my brilliant comedian brother who went on the road to try and outrun schizophrenia. Material taken from his own writing. Critically acclaimed, directed by Eric Tucker, Bedlam Theater Company.

Sept 18, 27 at 8:30pm, Sept 26 at 3:30pm PWYC/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/157809

The Sicilian Dilemma

Joe Canuso

Solo Show

Joe Canuso (Founder of Theatre Exile) in a solo show about Identity and family secrets. Using stories of growing up with a Sicilian grandfather who emigrated to America in 1914, I tell the story of a complex man who lived a life of mystery and adventure, but was not the person he seemed to be..

Sept 8, 10 at 7pm, Sept 9 at 2pm, Sept 11, 12 at 8pm $25/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/154313

Studio), 1170 S Broad St

The Suppliants

Sydney Marie Hughes

Storytelling & Spoken Word

In a small Appalachian town, a group of women gather to tell an old story that feels ripped from the present moment. Inspired by Aeschylus’ The Suppliants, this ensemble-driven reimagining blends folklore, music, and collective storytelling into a meditation on refuge and resistance.

Sept 10, 15 at 8:45pm, Sept 23 at 7:15pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157737

Tongue & Groove: ADULTING

Tongue & Groove

Improv • Comedy

When did you feel Adult? "Buying furniture I didn't need to assemble" "My Bar Mitzvah" "When I took my Dad's keys" "Never" Tell us about your adulting - the freedom, the fun, the burden - and watch the cast spontaneously perform hilarious & heartwarming scenes & monologues inspired by your stories.

Sept 17, 23, 24, 25 at 7pm, Sept 19 at 3pm $25/70 min • PhillyFringe.org/157081

TSTMRKT

TSTMRKT

Comedy • Interdisciplinary

TSTMRKT (pronounced "Test Market") is a performance art sketch comedy amalgamation held together with film loops, cut-n-paste theatre, and a relentless soundtrack. There is no "sound person" running the e ects. It's just a "start" button and a bag of nerves.

Sept 27 at 5pm, Sept 27 at 8pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/82049

Shangri-La-La, a musical comedy about Siegfried & Roy

Inspired by actual events. Unfortunately. By Mike Meier & Peter Giambalvo.

Comedy • Music

Shangri-La-La is an irreverent comedy musical that pulls back the velvet curtain on Las Vegas, Siegfried & Roy, white tigers, showbiz illusion, and the price of selling your soul for fame.

Sept 27 at 3pm, Sept 27 at 6pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/150706

Show Pony

Irene Molloy

Solo Show • Music

Show Pony is told by a woman standing on the other side of the story. As a mother, she reflects on ambition and the courage it takes to step out of a role you learned too young how to play.

Sept 18 at 6:30pm, Sept 25 at 6pm

PWYC/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/145650

Stoop Bitch

The LAB

Comedy • Solo Show

She’s the eyes of the street – all knowing, all seeing, always telling it like it is. Don’t dare get on her bad side. You might think you know this Philly neighborhood institution, but there are ghosts from her past, unfulfilled dreams, battles to be won, and much more to her than meets the eye.

Sept 8, 9, 10, at 8pm; Sept 11 at 6pm & 9pm; Sept 12 at 8pm; Sept 13 at 3pm & 6pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156943

Terms of Use: The Scroll

Angela Harmon / Philly Leftovers

Readings & Works-In-Progress

Terms of Use: The Scroll is a tone sequel to the hit 2025 Philly Fringe show Terms of Use: A Millennial Farce, which the Philadelphia Inquirer named Most Likely to Inspire Existential Dread. The Scroll is a collection of short plays exploring our shared tech experience.

Sept 10, 11, 12 at 8pm, Sept 13 at 2pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156094

Trauma Queen

The Lemonade Stand

Comedy • Readings & Works-In-Progress

After of an act of sexual violence, a young woman

finds community in the form of... stand up comedy? Under the persona of “Trauma Queen”, she hits the stage and unexpectedly goes viral. Being an internet microcelebrity is fun – until the fame she thought fixed her life puts her back in danger.

Sept 16 at 7pm, Sept 27 at 1pm PWYC/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157139

TUZLUK

izzy sazak

Solo Show

Izzy Sazak takes the audience on a wild ride, unpacking the awkward beauty of growing up mixed, caught between two empires worth of daddy issues. Tuzluk deconstructs the neo-liberal hero-man; mixing geopolitics with an examination of identity to tell a story of making peace with one’s fortune.

Sept 8 at 7:30pm, Sept 12 at 8:15pm, Sept 17, 22 at 8:30pm, Sept 20 at 7:45pm PWYC/75 min • PhillyFringe.org/157739

Twelve Steps Back

Isaac Pollock

Comedy

In a courtyard in Yorkville, Manhattan, a group of alcoholics in varying stages of recovery meet once a week. During the months leading up to the youngest member’s sixteenth birthday (and, she hopes, imminent emancipation), each member of the group wrestles with a recent change in their life.

Sept 17, 18, 19, 20 at 7pm $15/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/157443

Volpe and Líadan

Jonah Godfrey & Michael Amendola

Music • Puppetry

Part fantasy-heist, part fireside ballad, Volpe & Líadan

unearths the epic tale of two unlikely lovers on a perilous quest to steal a Chrômivâl from the underworld. This production weaves together folk song, shadow puppetry and physical theatre to summon an immortal story of mortal sacrifice.

Sept 12 at 12:15pm, Sept 20 at 12pm, Sept 24 at 7:15pm, Sept 27 at 5pm

PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157785

Arts Initiative Third Floor, 1219 Vine Street

VOYNICH

Nick Gillette Improv Clown • Storytelling & Spoken Word

When words fail. The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th century codex written in an unknown language. VOYNICH is an Homeric tale of loss and redemption performed in that language. Fringie award winning artist Nick Gillette transcends the language barrier with physical theater, mask, and object puppetry.

Sept 13 at 8:15pm, Sept 18 at 7pm, Sept 19, 27 at 6:30pm, Sept 26 at 3:30pm PWYC/55 min • PhillyFringe.org/157740

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater, 1219 Vine Street

Well-Balanced Dads

Whisper Theatre

Circus • Comedy

Grab your finger guns, comb your ‘stache, and brace yourselves for the Well-Balanced Dads! Dick and Dale are taking the audience on a camping trip full of dad jokes, dance moves, acrobatics, macho movie references, and unthreatening audience participation.

Sept 11 at 5:30pm, Sept 12 at 6:45pm, Sept 13 at 12:45pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157741

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater, 1219 Vine Street

Without Consent

Inferno Productions

In Without Consent, a wealthy Main Line socialite interviews a prospective nurse to care for her husband, a disgraced media mogul. As the interview unfolds, both women conceal their true motives, and what begins as a cat-and-mouse game builds to shocking twists neither woman sees coming.

Sept 8, 9, 10, 11 at 7pm

PWYC/80 min • PhillyFringe.org/155834

Your Best Odd Girl Out

Adrian Collins Solo Show

Enough sapphic desire and earnest yearning to fill a U-Haul. This love letter to lesbian longing is a first date, a one-night stand, an ode to life as a dyke in the 21st century. After a sold out run at Dixon Place’s HOT! Fest, Adrian Collins brings her hilariously passionate solo show to Fringe.

Sept 17 at 7:30pm, Sept 19 at 6pm

$15/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/102932

Hamilton Family Arts Center, 62 N 2nd St

Utopian Hotline:

A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance.

Mitu

Interweaving beautiful storytelling and interviews with live music and stunning projections Utopian Hotline invites us to gather under the dome of the planetarium to re-imagine our shared future.

Sept 24 + 25 at 6pm + 8pm; Sept 26 at 1pm, 5pm, + 7pm $35/60 min • PhillyFringe org/157556

VOLTA

The Hum Clown

Wren arrives at the Mariposa Hotel looking for her sister Lottie but finds the Hotel has other plans. Amid shape shifting hallways, memory palaces, and lost connections, Wren must make the choice to move forward into the unknown with Lottie, or stay alone in the comfort of the past.

Sept 12 at 4pm, Sept 13 at 5:30pm, Sept 14 at 6:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/156727

Waiting for Westy

Yellow Bicycle Collective

Immersive • Interactive Experience

Hailed by critics as "fascinating" (BurdReviews) "powerful" (PerformanceFont) "epic" (PhillyDaily) this new play by the winner of the 2026 Lieutenant Broyles Award reexamines the Vietnam Era through the eyes of three vets at the VFW bar in South Philly circa '87. Based on a true story.

Sept 9, 10 at 8:30pm, Sept 13 at 3pm $25/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/157635

The Whole F**king Twilight Saga... in 60 Minutes

Theatre Contra Comedy • Readings & Works-In-Progress Vamipres. Werewolves. Creepy CGI Babies. Theatre Contra is back and they're taking on the ENTIRE Twilight Saga. But can they do it all in just 60 minutes? Watch glitter fly and mock some terrible wigs as they race against the clock so a 100+ year old vamp can marry a freshly minted 18 year old.

Sept 25, 26 at 7pm, Sept 25, 26 at 9pm

$20/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/153744

Xposure Rd

SCRAP HAUS

Cabaret & Variety • Immersive

In a queer night club, five queer sex workers explore their relationship with sexual performance and censorship. Blending sexual musical interludes and crude dialogue, this play asks what the role of shame is in the act of censorship and what a safe space is.

Sept 12 at 6pm, Sept 12 at 8pm, Sept 13 at 7pm $20/85 min • PhillyFringe.org/157019

Your Queen Presents: PETRUS

Edu Díaz

Clown • Solo Show

Queen Catherine de' Medici herself unveils PETRUS, the extraordinary story of a man from the Canary Islands who inspired Beauty and the Beast. Through shadow puppetry and theatrical invention, awardwinning Canarian artist Edu Díaz (A Drag Is Born) conjures a Renaissance spectacle in collapse.

Sept 9 at 5:30pm, Sept 10 at 7pm, Sept 11 at 8:30pm PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157764

ZOMBIED

Hudson Wolfe

Performance Art • Readings & Works-In-Progress

What happens when your body falls apart? And when those parts follow you, waiting for–something? Do you listen to their grievances? Or scream until they leave? Do they ever leave? ZOMBIED is a gothic supernatural thriller about the fight to defend one thing we all think we deserve: our own bodies.

Sept 18 at 8:45pm, Sept 19 at 1:30pm, Sept 20 at 6:30pm PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/155994

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A(mobile)DRIFT 2026

Street Road Artists Space

Interdisciplinary • Interactive Experience

Participatory art journey from Center City Philly to rural Chester County. Sketch, observe, reflect on urbanrural landscapes. Fluxus-inspired, with on-the-road screening of Pablo Nez Garcia’s ‘Stroad Movie’ + EcoSocial Realism exhibition opening. streetroad.org/drift

Sept 19 at 1pm

PWYC/360 min • PhillyFringe.org/157447

BAD CLAY

Justin Jain

Performance Art • Interdisciplinary

BAD CLAY is a performance art experiment that wrestles with the intersection of Ceramics and Performance. Live ceramic construction collides with dance, music, clay, and ceramic sculpture to expand and collapse the limits of 2 bodies into one: clay and flesh. Meditational, Durational, Irreverent.

Sept 8 at 5:30pm, Sept 15 at 7:30pm, Sept 19 at 6:30pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157751

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative Project Space, 1219 Vine St

Echoes of Dammām

Armaghan Fakhraeirad

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Interdisciplinary

Echoes of Dammām is a multimedia solo performance combining live storytelling, projected video, and layered sound to trace fragmented stories entangled with dammām drumming, where grief, resistance, and the struggle for freedom echo through drums, voices, and images.

Sept 16 at 5:30pm, Sept 20 at 3:30pm, Sept 24 at 6:30pm, Sept 26 at 12:30pm PWYC/50 min • PhillyFringe.org/157796

Project Space Gallery, 1400 N American St

Jay Can't Watch "The Holy Mountain"

Jay Adams and James Ofalt

Storytelling & Spoken Word • Interdisciplinary

Over the course of an evening, Jay will attempt to draw in real time James's exhaustive description of Alejandro Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain"! Stop in to play along, have a beer, and watch the film without watching the film in the most high brow game of pictionary ever conceived.

Sept 8 at 6pm

PWYC/180 min • PhillyFringe.org/151407

The Village of The Arts &

Amish Country Queer: A Night of Film, Art & Drag

Little Echo Productions

Drag • Performance Art

You've heard of Amish country. Bet you didn't expect drag queens. An award-winning documentary, a photo exhibition celebrating rural LGBTQ+ life, and a homegrown drag show converge in one unforgettable night. Rural queer joy on Philly's biggest stage.

Sept 17 at 5pm, Sept 17 at 7pm

PWYC/60 min • PhillyFringe.org/157725

Bartram's Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34

Robert G. Smith

Visit Studio 34 for "Batram's Garden: The Seasons," an exhibit of photographs taken by Robert G. Smith on walks through Philadelphia's oldest botanical garden. While the historic garden can be visited in any one season, Smith's photos capture the splendor of all seasons at once.

Sept 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24 at 5pm $0/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/157514

Heart2Art

BreakTheCycle215 - Squirt

Solo Show • Interactive Experience

This immersive, multi-sensory experience brings together visual art, music, and design to explore storytelling rooted in emotional truth. The event features a body of original paintings displayed as layered environments, where themes of memory, labor, care, loss, and survival unfold.

Sept 18, 19 at 6pm

PWYC/205 min • PhillyFringe.org/157872

Let Freedom Ring

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Paul Ramírez Jonas’ monumental artwork plays the song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” in its entirety—all but the final note. Participants must pull a lever to ring the last note on a 600-pound bell to complete the song. Presented by the Association for Public Art at Cherry Street Pier.

Sept 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27; stop by any time 2pm–8pm to interact with the installation. 30 mins recommended.

Free • PhillyFringe.org/157564

Presented by FringeArts, Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd

What She Really Wants

Skye Fort, Charles Manion, and Gwyneth Zeleny

Anderson

Performance Art • Interdisciplinary

An introspective riff on the Beast Games, "What She Really Wants" is a search for meaning under pressure.

See Skye Fort navigate her own personal reality show in a durational, task-based performance about the aesthetics of risk. What is autonomy inside a fish bowl? What new possibilities can emerge?

Sept 22, 23, 24 at 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm + 9pm PWYC/45 min • PhillyFringe.org/157789

offered Free

SPOKENWORKSHOPS WORKSHOPSAND WORKSHOP W WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!

Cannonball

Readings & Works-In-Progress • Party & Nightlife

Workshops, talkbacks, readings, pop-up performances and juicy late night happenings: check cannonballfestival.org/extras for a full listing of this year's offerings.

Sept 11, 18, 25, 26 at 10pm, Sept 12, 13, 19 at 10am, Sept 19 at 9:30pm PWYC/120 min • PhillyFringe.org/157749

Presented by Cannonball, Asian Arts Initiative (Black Box Theater + Third Floor), 1219 Vine Street

Soul Retrieval

Paqo Tom, Luminary Shaman

Immersive • Interactive Experience

Reconnect with your lost inner spark! Life events stolen your joy or energy? Struggling with persistent sense of emptiness that therapies/self-help haven't quite touched? You're not alone! With self love, understanding & forgiveness, we can recover lost parts of ourselves & restore inner harmony.

Sept 9, 10, 24 at 5:30pm, Sept 9, 10, 24 at 7:30pm $44/90 min • PhillyFringe.org/150364

Tue, Sept 8

5:15pm

A Murder Most Felt; or, It’s Not Easy Bleeding Green, pg 43

5:30pm BAD CLAY, pg 48 Palatable, pg 16

6pm Goblet of Light, pg 13

Jay Can’t Watch “The Holy Mountain,” pg 48

Offstage Onstage: Everything You Didn’t See The Greeks Do, pg 44

6:30pm

Christmas Carol: The Rap Musical, pg 39

7pm Alpha, pg 36

ANARCHY!, pg 13

Kramer / Fauci, pg 42

The Sicilian Dilemma, pg 45

Wherever You Are, pg 33 Without Consent, pg 46

7:15pm

Amor/Libertad - Part 1, pg 37

7:30pm

Clowncuterie 2026, pg 15 TUZLUK, pg 45

8pm

audiOhm Sound Bath, pg 31

Encounters with an Electric Mind, pg 40

Stoop Bitch, pg 45

8:30pm

INVITED DRESS: THE PORNO, pg 27 Plausible Deniability v 0.1, pg 14

8:45pm Not Without Her Stories: Her Service Comes With A Sacrifice Too, pg 43 Is This Thing On?, pg 42

9:30pm We’re All Gonna Die So Stop Caring, pg 20

DROP IN Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Wed, Sept 9

2pm

Goblet of Light, pg 13

The Sicilian Dilemma, pg 45

5:15pm John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

5:30pm

ANARCHY!, pg 13

Born To Sing The Gospel, pg 38

Soul Retrieval, pg 50

Your Queen Presents: PETRUS, pg 46

Day by Day

5:45pm

Love for a New Future, pg 29

6pm

Eat My Shorts, pg 40

Goblet of Light, pg 13

UNHINGED: For Her Pleasure, pg 20

6:30pm Is This Thing On?, pg 42

6:45pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7pm

Elements, pg 28

Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER, pg 11

Kramer / Fauci, pg 42

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Palatable, pg 16

the world’s princess, pg 20

Wherever You Are, pg 33 “Without Consent”, pg 46

7:15pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Tell Me Your Name, pg 16

7:30pm Alpha, pg 36

Bog Man, pg 38

Soul Retrieval, pg 50

8pm

Encounters with an Electric Mind, pg 40

Maniac, pg 16

Plausible Deniability v 0.1, pg 14

Stoop Bitch, pg 45

8:30pm

1A Clown’s Way: A Clown’s Guide to Falling in Line, pg 36

Strange Root, or the murder of PT Barnum by Joice Heth, pg 14

Waiting for Westy, pg 46

8:45pm

Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, pg 39

9pm My Friend, Ithamar, pg 43

DROP IN

Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Thu, Sept 10

1pm

The Great Philadelphia Comedy Magic Walk, pg 28

5pm

1A Clown’s Way: A Clown’s Guide to Falling in Line, pg 36

5:30pm

Double the Trouble!, pg 10

Fire Portal, pg 28

Soul Retrieval, pg 50

5:45pm

Love for a New Future, pg 29

6pm

BoyGirl Gymnastics, pg 38

Eat My Shorts, pg 40

Saddle Tramp, pg 24

6:30pm

Is This Thing On?, pg 42

6:45pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7pm

BLACK D*CK MATTERS by Kathya Alexander, pg 38

Black Voices in American Art Song, pg 31

Declaration, pg 39

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, pg 15

House of Guns - Gunslinger’s Ball, pg 27

International Black and Indigenous Circus Week, pg 14

Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER, pg 11

Kramer / Fauci, pg 42

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Maniac, pg 16

Regulator XXL presents: ‘When Pigs Fly’, pg 44

The Melon’s Cry, pg 43

The Sicilian Dilemma, pg 45

Wherever You Are, pg 33

“Without Consent”, pg 46

Your Queen Presents: PETRUS, pg 46

7:15pm

Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, pg 39

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7:30pm

Bog Man, pg 38

Monstersongs, pg 12

Never Land: Presented by Liberty City Arts, pg 12

Soul Retrieval, pg 50

The Easy Way, pg 39

The Holy Fool, pg 41

8pm

Private Dick: The Hardest Noir in Town, pg 19

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

Stoop Bitch, pg 45

Terms of Use: The Scroll, pg 45

8:30pm

AFRO, pg 13

ASS2MOUTH, pg 37

Meaghan Robichaud Is The Greatest Show On Earth, pg 16

Philly Clown Slam, pg 16

Waiting for Westy, pg 46

8:45pm

The Suppliants, pg 45

9pm

Betsy Ross Groundhog Day, pg 18

10pm

A Young Man Dressed As A Gorilla Dressed As An Old Man Sits Rocking In A Rocking Chair For Fifty-Six Minutes And Then Leaves, pg 30

DROP IN

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm), pg 29

Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Fri, Sept 11

8:30am

9/11 Memorial - 25th Anniversary, pg 28

1pm

The Great Philadelphia Comedy Magic Walk, pg 28

5:30pm Alpha, pg 36

My Carmilla, pg 43

Well-Balanced Dads, pg 46

5:45pm

The Adoption Game, pg 28

6pm

Agos Y Viento, pg 36

Costume Closet, pg 13

Seen & Unseen: A Pylon Experience, pg 29

Stoop Bitch, pg 45

The Call is Coming From Inside the Home is Where the Heart Is, pg 38 TRAD, pg 16

6:30pm

BEHOLD! the angel clown show, pg 38

Murder at the Netherfield Ball: An Interactive Mystery, pg 43

6:45pm Creatures of the Deep, pg 39 Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7pm

BLACK D*CK MATTERS by Kathya Alexander, pg 38

Book Club: Plot Twist Pending, pg 18

Declaration, pg 39

Do it for me, pg 39

Elements, pg 28

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40 ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, pg 15

House of Guns - Gunslinger’s Ball, pg 27

I THINK NOT, pg 19

Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER, pg 11

Kramer / Fauci, pg 42

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Not Yet Complete, pg 23

Oleanna, pg 44

room/in/nation, pg 29

The Kenning Place: A Well of Wisdom from the Collective Memory, pg 34

The Melon’s Cry, pg 43

The Untitled Court Show, pg 29 To Root, To Rise, pg 24

Day by Day

Wherever You Are, pg 33

“Without Consent”, pg 46

7:15pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Not Without Her Stories: Her Service Comes With A Sacrifice Too, pg 43

7:30pm

AFRO, pg 13

Armed Hostilities, pg 37

Bog Man, pg 38

Dancing in Yesterday’s Stage Makeup, pg 21 Monstersongs, pg 12

seven ate nine, pg 24

The Holy Fool, pg 41

We’re All Gonna Die So Stop Caring, pg 20

8pm Alternative Theatre Festival 2026, pg 37

Private Dick: The Hardest Noir in Town, pg 19

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

Terms of Use: The Scroll, pg 45

The Sicilian Dilemma, pg 45

Three Holes Goes to Hollywood, pg 16

8:30pm

FORIEGNER, pg 40

Improv Comedy: The N Crowd, pg 19

Please!, pg 44

Your Queen Presents: PETRUS, pg 46

8:45pm Sad Magic Sins, pg 44

9pm

Christmas Carol: The Rap Musical, pg 39

HONK!, pg 11

KACHONK, pg 15

Stoop Bitch, pg 45

Strange Root, or the murder of PT Barnum by Joice Heth, pg 14

9:30pm Philly Puppet Slam!, pg 12

10pm

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!, pg 50

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, pg 15

10:30pm Meaghan Robichaud Is The Greatest Show On Earth, pg 16

DROP IN

Let Freedom Ring (2pm–8pm), pg 48

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm), pg 29

Sat, Sept 12

10am

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!, pg 50

12pm

Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean pg, 10

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19 Oleanna, pg 44

12:15pm Volpe and Líadan, pg 46

12:30pm Alpha, pg 36 ANARCHY!, pg 13

1pm

1A Clown’s Way: A Clown’s Guide to Falling in Line, pg 36 MOVEMENT, pg 34

1:30pm Impersonator, pg 11

1:45

Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, pg 39

2pm

“#Me, Too . . . You”, pg 36

Alternative Theatre Festival 2026, pg 37

BLACK D*CK MATTERS by Kathya Alexander, pg 38

Godavari: Who Am I?, pg 22

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

room/in/nation, pg 29

2:15pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

2:30pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

2:45pm

Born to Sing The Gospel, pg 38

3pm

Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean, pg 10

Who Do You Think You Are?, pg 30

3:15pm

The Adoption Game, pg 28

3:30pm

Agos Y Viento pg, 36

The Enemy at Hand, pg 40

3:45pm Betsy Ross Groundhog Day, pg 18

4pm Declaration, pg 39 Nine, pg 23

Single Woman: Work In Progress, pg 20 VOLTA, pg 46

4:30pm

Jane Eyre Wasn’t a Whore, pg 42

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

4:45pm

The Black Pearl and the Frivolous Prince, pg 38

5pm

AFRO, pg 13

Dancing in Yesterday’s Stage Makeup, pg 21

KACHONK, pg 15

Lunarium, pg 14

THE HUMAN COMPUTER, pg 29

5:15pm

Offstage Onstage: Everything You Didn’t See The Greeks Do, pg 44

6pm

Alternative Theatre Festival 2026, pg 37

BoyGirl Gymnastics, pg 38 exotopia, pg 28

Seen & Unseen: A Pylon Experience, pg 29

The Garden of Alla, pg 41

Xposure Rd, pg 46

6:15pm

Echoes of Tranquility, pg 21

6:30pm

Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1, pg 31

Christmas Carol: The Rap Musical, pg 39

Murder at the Netherfield Ball: An Interactive Mystery, pg 43

Please!, pg 44

Strange Root, or the murder of PT Barnum by Joice Heth, pg 14

6:45pm

Do it for me, pg 39

Well-Balanced Dads, pg 46

7pm

35 Bucks and a Trio of Broads, pg 36 BLACK D*CK MATTERS by Kathya Alexander, pg 38

Business Doing Pleasure With You, pg 15

DESCENDANZE: IN FULL EFFECT!, pg 21

Elements, pg 28

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40 ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, pg 15 I THINK NOT, pg 19

Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL

BÄNGER, pg 11

Lunarium, pg 14

Masks Off, pg 23

Nine, pg 23

Not Yet Complete, pg 23

The Melon’s Cry, pg 43

The Shadow Show, pg 45

7:30pm

“#Me, Too . . . You”, pg 36

Armed Hostilities, pg 37

Bride To Be, pg 38

Feed//Swallow, pg 22

Monstersongs, pg 12

My Allowance, pg 43

The Holy Fool, pg 41

What Does It Mean To Be Good?, pg 14

7:45pm

Sad Magic Sins, pg 44

8pm

Dancing in Yesterday’s Stage Makeup, pg 21

Evil Sword, pg 32

Fire Portal, pg 28

Happy Accident, pg 41

Never Land: Presented by Liberty City Arts, pg 12

New Works from Nick Jonczak, pg 43

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle, pg 29

Private Dick: The Hardest Noir in Town, pg 19

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

Regulator XXL presents: ‘When Pigs Fly’, pg 44

Stoop Bitch, pg 45

Terms of Use: The Scroll, pg 45

The 40-Year-Old Ballerino, pg 36

The Sicilian Dilemma, pg 45 TRAD, pg 16

Xposure Rd, pg 46

8:15pm TUZLUK, pg 45

9pm

A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a Bar, pg 43

Conquering the Canon, pg 39

Human In The Loop, pg 42

9:30pm Meaghan Robichaud Is The Greatest Show On Earth, pg 16

Philly Puppet Slam!, pg 12

10pm

Private Dick: The Hardest Noir in Town, pg 19

DROP IN

Let Freedom Ring (2pm–8pm), pg 48

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm), pg 29

Sun, Sept 13

10am

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!, pg 50

11am

Blank Placard Dance, Replay, pg 21

12pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

12:15pm

Amor/Libertad - Part 1, pg 37

12:30pm

ASS2MOUTH, pg 37

HUMAN / NATURE: HIBERNATION, pg 10

12:45pm

Well-Balanced Dads, pg 46

1pm

Conquering the Canon, pg 39

Dr. Amore or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Wearing A Mask, pg 34

Love Beyond The Surface, pg 29

Philadelphia Butoh Collective, pg 23

1:45pm Pit Fractal, pg 19

2pm

“#Me, Too . . . You”, pg 36

BLACK D*CK MATTERS by Kathya Alexander, pg 38

Dancing in Yesterday’s Stage Makeup, pg 21

Declaration, pg 39 Do it for me, pg 39

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

Heaven by Eugene O’Brien, pg 41

Reckless Abandonment, pg 24

Terms of Use: The Scroll, pg 45

The Call is Coming From Inside the Home is Where the Heart Is, pg 38

The Melon’s Cry, pg 43

The Space Between, pg 24

2:15pm

Offstage Onstage: Everything You Didn’t See The Greeks Do, pg 44

2:30pm

Elements, pg 28

3pm

Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean, pg 10

Bride To Be, pg 38

exotopia, pg 28

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, pg 15

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

Stoop Bitch, pg 45 To Root, To Rise, pg 24

Waiting for Westy, pg 46

3:15pm Not Without Her Stories: Her Service Comes With A Sacrifice Too, pg 43

3:30pm

Blue Lightning Ghost Train: Inpatient Program 1, pg 31

4pm

1A Clown’s Way: A Clown’s Guide to Falling in Line, pg 36

Bodhi’s Guide to History, pg 38

Brown Sister Twins, pg 18

Reckless Abandonment, pg 24

The Space Between, pg 24

4:30pm

Jane Eyre Wasn’t a Whore, pg 42

4:45pm Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, pg 39

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

5pm Avalanche of ‘No’, pg 37

DESCENDANZE: IN FULL EFFECT!, pg 21

Day by Day

Double the Trouble!, pg 10

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

5:15pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

5:30pm

Saddle Tramp, pg 24

TRAD, pg 16

VOLTA, pg 46

6pm

Enough!, pg 15

Freedom For A Night, pg 13

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

Prometheus Bound, pg 27

Stoop Bitch, pg 45

UNHINGED: For Her Pleasure, pg 20

6:15pm

The Deer Ones, pg 28

The Groundhog, pg 41

6:30pm

Murder at the Netherfield Ball: An Interactive Mystery, pg 43 soft spot, pg 24

The Enemy at Hand, pg 40

7pm

35 Bucks and a Trio of Broads, pg 36

Bodhi’s Guide to History, pg 38

Dr. Amore or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Wearing A Mask, pg 34

Jade Chloe, pg 23

KACHONK, pg 15

Masks Off, pg 23

Moral Injury, pg 43

The Melon’s Cry, pg 43

Wikipedilove, pg 20

Xposure Rd, pg 46

7:30pm

“#Me, Too . . . You”, pg 36

Eve in Paradise, pg 40

Monstersongs, pg 12

My Allowance, pg 43

Notice Me, Gwyneth, pg 19

7:45pm Tell Me Your Name, pg 16

8pm

INVITED DRESS: THE PORNO, pg 27

room/in/nation, pg 29

The Bards 10th Anniversary Telethon: LIVE, pg 38

8:15pm

VOYNICH, pg 46

8:30pm

The 40-Year-Old Ballerino, pg 36

DROP IN

Let Freedom Ring (2pm–8pm), pg 48

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm), pg 29

6pm

Mon, Sept 14

audiOhm Sound Bath, pg 31

Cold Beer Reading, pg 18

The Performance Lounge, pg 12

6:30pm

Owen Corey and James Ofalt Punch

Each Other in the Dick Until One Submits Again, Again, Again, pg 44

Three Holes Goes to Hollywood, pg 16

VOLTA, pg 46

6:45pm

Creatures of the Deep, pg 39

7pm

Masks Off, pg 23

7:30pm

Bog Man, pg 38

My Allowance, pg 43

8pm

BEHOLD! the angel clown show, pg 38

Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral, pg 17

8:05pm

The Philadelphia Experiment, pg 29

8:45pm

Creatures of the Deep, pg 39

9pm

A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a Bar, pg 43

9:30pm

Brown Sister Twins, pg 18

DROP IN Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Tue, Sept 15

5:30pm

Avalanche of ‘No’, pg 37

6pm

A Map of Traces, pg 23

The Performance Lounge, pg 12

6:30pm

BEHOLD! the angel clown show, pg 38

The Easy Way, pg 39

6:45pm

Creatures of the Deep, pg 39

7pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

Liberty City Arts Presents: My Place of Clear Water, pg 32

Redeeming Time, pg 35 Wherever You Are, pg 33

Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral, pg 17

7:15pm

Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, pg 39

7:30pm

BAD CLAY, pg 48

The Holy Fool, pg 41

8pm

1A Clown’s Way: A Clown’s Guide to Falling in Line, pg 36 audiOhm Sound Bath, pg 31

Three Holes Goes to Hollywood, pg 16

8:05pm

The Philadelphia Experiment, pg 29

8:30pm Clowncuterie 2026, pg 15

8:45pm Creatures of the Deep, pg 39

The Suppliants, pg 45

DROP IN Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Wed, Sept 16

3:45pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

4pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

4:15pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

5:15pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

5:30pm Echoes of Dammām, pg 48 Señor Babyhead, pg 44

5:45pm Amor/Libertad - Part 1, pg 37

6pm

Cold Beer Reading, pg 18

Fictional Names, pg 40

The Performance Lounge, pg 12

6:30pm I Don’t Dance!, pg 11

6:45pm Creatures of the Deep, pg 39

7pm Forge, pg 40

Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER, pg 11

Redeeming Time, pg 35

The Mixtape / Andy the Acolyte, pg 19

The Untitled Court Show, pg 29

the world’s princess, pg 20

Trauma Queen, pg 45

7:15pm Bully Prep, pg 38

7:30pm

The Enemy at Hand, pg 40 The Holy Fool, pg 41

8pm

COLUMBO’S DAY (The Nonsense Explorer Series, Vol. 1), pg 39

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

What Had Happened Was, pg 12

8:05pm The Philadelphia Experiment, pg 29

8:30pm

Offstage Onstage: Everything You Didn’t See The Greeks Do, pg 44 We Can Always Tell, pg 25

8:45pm Creatures of the Deep, pg 39

The Black Pearl and the Frivolous Prince, pg 38

9pm

LIGEIA by Edgar Allan Poe, pg 42

9:30pm Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral, pg 17

DROP IN

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm), pg 29

Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Thu, Sept 17

1:30pm

I Don’t Dance!, pg 11

3pm

HOME - Snack Break, pg 41

4pm

Bodhi’s Guide to History, pg 38

5pm

Amish Country Queer: A Night of Film, Art & Drag, pg 48 Cicada Stories, pg 21

5:30pm My Carmilla, pg 43

5:45pm Days of Awe, pg 39

6pm Declaration, pg 39

Handle With Care, pg 29

LIGEIA by Edgar Allan Poe, pg 42

Seen & Unseen: A Pylon Experience, pg 29

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

6:30pm I Don’t Dance!, pg 11

Impersonator, pg 11 soft spot, pg 24

6:45pm Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Day by Day

7pm

Amish Country Queer: A Night of Film, Art & Drag, pg 48

Bodhi’s Guide to History, pg 38

COLUMBO’S DAY (The Nonsense Explorer Series, Vol. 1), pg 39

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

Friday Night Rat Catchers, pg 22

Helen Keller Wasn’t Real, pg 41

Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER, pg 11

Liberty City Arts Presents: ‘Beyond’, pg 32

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Oleanna, pg 44

Redeeming Time, pg 35

The Process - Dance Creation Exploration, pg 24

Tongue & Groove: ADULTING, pg 45

Twelve Steps Back, pg 46

7:15pm

Baggage From BaghDAD: Becoming My Father’s Daughter, pg 37

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7:30pm

Custody, pg 39

Fictional Names, pg 40

Prudence Play (Sister Prudence is NOT Gay!), pg 44

RECKON Stage Reading, pg 34

The Holy Fool, pg 41

Your Best Odd Girl Out, pg 46

8pm

Americana Cosplay, pg 37

And Her Name Was Pickles, pg 37

CALL OF THE WILD, pg 38

Houndstooth, pg 22

seven ate nine, pg 24

8:30pm

Mischief Night Masters, pg 16

TUZLUK, pg 45

8:45pm

Bully Prep, pg 38

9pm

Single Woman: Work In Progress, pg 20

DROP IN

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm), pg 29

Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Fri, Sept 18

12pm

Handle with Care, pg 29

1pm

Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean, pg 10

The Great Philadelphia Comedy Magic Walk, pg 28

5:30pm

A Dream Within A Dream, pg 21

GERL GURL GORL!, pg 41

5:45pm

Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, pg 39

6pm

Declaration, pg 39

Fictional Names, pg 40 Heart2Art, pg 48

Jane Eyre Wasn’t a Whore, pg 42

Love Abide With You, The Birthplace Quilts, pg 29

Seen & Unseen: A Pylon Experience, pg 29

seven ate nine, pg 24

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

6:30pm

I Don’t Dance!, pg 11

Murder at the Netherfield Ball: An Interactive Mystery, pg 43

Show Pony, pg 45

6:45pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7pm

Book Club: Plot Twist Pending, pg 18

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

Elements, pg 28

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

Friday Night Rat Catchers, pg 22

If ever, pg 23

JENder BENDER, pg 11

Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER, pg 11

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

My Dog is Dead and You’re the Father, pg 19

Oleanna, pg 44

Opera on Tap Philadelphia Presents: Pagliacci, pg 32

Slowly, Slowly, We Begin Again, pg 24

The Garden of Alla, pg 41

Twelve Steps Back, pg 46

VOYNICH, pg 46

7:15pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Tell Me Your Name, pg 16

7:30pm

Custody, pg 39

Don’t Kill Daisy, pg 39

Eve in Paradise, pg 40

Helen Keller Wasn’t Real, pg 41 returned, iridescent, pg 44

The 40-Year-Old Ballerino, pg 36

The Holy Fool, pg 41

THE HUMAN COMPUTER, pg 29

8pm

Americana Cosplay, pg 37

And Her Name Was Pickles, pg 37

CALL OF THE WILD, pg 38

DOOFY: 2 girls make noise (not like that), pg 18

The Light Between, pg 12

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

8:30pm

Improv Comedy: The N Crowd, pg 19

Raptures From The Godhole, pg 16 Señor Babyhead, pg 44

SHATTERPROOF, pg 45

Soseul Dawon: The Stark Garden of Presence, pg 24

8:45pm Ghost Fetus, pg 41

ZOMBIED, pg 47

9pm

Gut Healthy, pg 32

HONK!, pg 11

Wikipedilove, pg 20

10pm

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!, pg 50

DROP IN

Let Freedom Ring (2pm–8pm), pg 48

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm), pg 29

Sat, Sept 19

10am

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!, pg 50

12pm

Freedom Fest, pg 32

Handle with Care, pg 29

Meat Cute, pg 42

The Madness of Hestia, pg 42

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

12:15pm

A Murder Most Felt; or, It’s Not Easy Bleeding Green, pg 43

12:30pm

The Haus of Wiggles and Giggles Presents: A Drag Clown Cabaret, pg 11

1pm

A(mobile)DRIFT 2026, pg 48 My Carmilla, pg 43

The Great Philadelphia Comedy Magic Walk, pg 28

1:30pm

The Untitled Court Show, pg 29 ZOMBIED, pg 47

2pm

A Map of Traces, pg 23

Heaven by Eugene O’Brien, pg 41 HUMAN / NATURE: HIBERNATION, pg 10

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

Online & Personal, pg 44 returned, iridescent, pg 44

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

2:15pm

Echoes of Tranquility, pg 21

3pm

ADK 2026 Concert, pg 31

Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean, pg 10

GERL GURL GORL!, pg 41

Here Come the Brides, pg 22

Love Abide With You, The Birthplace Quilts, pg 29

Notice Me, Gwyneth, pg 19

Tongue & Groove: ADULTING, pg 45

3:30pm

Cicada Stories, pg 21

LIGEIA by Edgar Allan Poe, pg 42

3:45pm Baggage From BaghDAD: Becoming My Father’s Daughter, pg 37

4pm Classical Open Mic Matinee, pg 31

Conquering the Canon, pg 39 Custody, pg 39 Declaration, pg 39

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

4:30pm Bride To Be, pg 38

The Groundhog, pg 41

5pm

A Dream Within A Dream, pg 21

Ants on a Log Family Concert, pg 10

Gorgeous Gorgus, pg 15

The Countdown, pg 34

5:15pm

The Deer Ones, pg 28

6pm exotopia, pg 28

Heart2Art, pg 48

Illumination, pg 23

Seen & Unseen: A Pylon Experience, pg 29

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

Your Best Odd Girl Out, pg 46

6:30pm BAD CLAY, pg 48

Christmas Carol: The Rap Musical, pg 39 If ever, pg 23

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

Murder at the Netherfield Ball: An Interactive Mystery, pg 43

The 40-Year-Old Ballerino, pg 36 VOYNICH, pg 46

6:45pm Ghost Fetus, pg 41

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7pm

35 Bucks and a Trio of Broads, pg 36

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

Friday Night Rat Catchers, pg 22

Here Come the Brides, pg 22

JENder BENDER, pg 11

Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL

BÄNGER, pg 11

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Day by Day

My Dog is Dead and You’re the Father, pg 19

Prudence Play (Sister Prudence is NOT Gay!), pg 44

Raptures From The Godhole, pg 16

Slowly, Slowly, We Begin Again, pg 24

Twelve Steps Back, pg 46

Who Do You Think You Are?, pg 30

7:15pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7:30pm

archy & mehitabel, pg 37

Bog Man, pg 38

Feed//Swallow, pg 22

Helen Keller Wasn’t Real, pg 41

Love, Sex, and Philadelphia, pg 34

Monstersongs, pg 12

My Allowance, pg 43

returned, iridescent, pg 44

Soseul Dawon: The Stark Garden of Presence, pg 24

The Holy Fool, pg 41

Wikipedilove, pg 20

8pm

An Inexplicable Evening, pg 11

And Her Name Was Pickles, pg 37

CALL OF THE WILD, pg 38

Gut Healthy, pg 32

Illumination, pg 23

INVITED DRESS: THE PORNO, pg 27

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle, pg 29

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones

Marry the Night, pg 16

Señor Babyhead, pg 44

The Light Between, pg 12

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

8:15pm

Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, pg 39

9pm

Ascension Death March, pg 37

Don’t Kill Daisy, pg 39

First in the Hearts, pg 40

Human In The Loop, pg 42

Prudence Play (Sister Prudence is NOT Gay!), pg 44

The Complete (and Abridged) Works of August Wilson, pg 18

9:30pm

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!, pg 50

10pm

An Inexplicable Evening, pg 11

DROP IN

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm), pg 29

Let Freedom Ring (2pm–8pm), pg 48

Sun, Sept 20

12pm

Volpe and Líadan, pg 46

12:15pm

GERL GURL GORL!, pg 41

12:30pm

New Works from Nick Jonczak, pg 43

1pm

An Evening With Joan, pg 40

1:15pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

1:30pm

Christmas Carol: The Rap Musical, pg 39

Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, pg 39 Ideas of Grandeur, pg 42

1:45pm

Betsy Ross Groundhog Day, pg 18

2pm

A Dream Within A Dream, pg 21

ASS2MOUTH, pg 37 Declaration, pg 39

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

Heaven by Eugene O’Brien, pg 41 returned, iridescent, pg 44

2:30pm

Elements, pg 28

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

3pm

Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean, pg 10

Bog Man, pg 38

Ghost Fetus, pg 41

Helen Keller Wasn’t Real, pg 41 Here Come the Brides, pg 22

Opera on Tap Philadelphia Presents: Pagliacci, pg 32

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

Regulator XXL presents: ‘When Pigs Fly’, pg 44

Slowly, Slowly, We Begin Again, pg 24 Who Do You Think You Are?, pg 30

3:15pm

Señor Babyhead, pg 44

3:30pm

Echoes of Dammām, pg 48

Raptures From The Godhole, pg 16

4pm

Bodhi’s Guide to History, pg 38 First in the Hearts, pg 40 Flow State, pg 22 Monstersongs, pg 12

PhotoProv, pg 19

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

4:15pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

4:30pm

Baggage From BaghDAD: Becoming My Father’s Daughter, pg 37 Bride To Be, pg 38

4:45pm

Meat Cute, pg 42

5pm

A Map of Traces, pg 23

All the Worlds a Stage, pg 21

Cicada Stories, pg 21

Soseul Dawon: The Stark Garden of Presence, pg 24

The Countdown, pg 34

6pm

Jane Eyre Wasn’t a Whore, pg 42

The Black Pearl and the Frivolous Prince, pg 38

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

6:15pm

FORIEGNER, pg 40

6:30pm

Murder at the Netherfield Ball: An Interactive Mystery, pg 43

My Friend, Ithamar, pg 43

Philadelphia Butoh Collective, pg 23

We Can Always Tell, pg 25 ZOMBIED, pg 47

6:45pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7pm

35 Bucks and a Trio of Broads, pg 36

Assembling My Parts, pg 37

Bodhi’s Guide to History, pg 38

Cornelius Boots: Bass Shakuhachi Flute & the Deep Nature Blues, pg 31 Earthborn, pg 13

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

Situational Beaver, pg 20

The Mixtape / Andy the Acolyte, pg 19

Twelve Steps Back, pg 46

Wikipedilove, pg 20

7:15pm

Lunar Retreat, pg 29

7:30pm

Bully Prep, pg 38

DOOFY: 2 girls make noise (not like that), pg 18 Monstersongs, pg 12

My Allowance, pg 43

7:45pm TUZLUK, pg 45

8pm Account, pg 34

Americana Cosplay, pg 37

Girls Gotta Eat, pg 11

Houndstooth, pg 22

8:30pm

Ascension Death March, pg 37

9pm

First in the Hearts, pg 40

The Complete (and Abridged) Works of August Wilson, pg 18

DROP IN

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm), pg 29

Let Freedom Ring (2pm–8pm), pg 48

Mon, Sept 21

6pm

audiOhm Sound Bath, pg 31

6:30pm Impersonator, pg 11

7pm

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

Flood Stones Rising, pg 22

Liberty City Arts Presents: ‘Beyond’, pg 32

Phillyhood - short plays about what it means to be Philly!, pg 44

7:30pm

My Allowance, pg 43

RECKON Stage Reading, pg 34

returned, iridescent, pg 44

Wisdom Of The Crowd, pg 30

8:05pm

The Philadelphia Experiment, pg 29

DROP IN

Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Tue, Sept 22

5pm

What She Really Wants, pg 49

5:30pm

Body As an Archive, pg 13

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

Meat Cute, pg 42

5:45pm

A Murder Most Felt; or, It’s Not Easy Bleeding Green, pg 43

6pm Cold Beer Reading, pg 18

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

What She Really Wants, pg 49

7pm Flood Stones Rising, pg 22 Forge, pg 40

FORIEGNER, pg 40

Gilgamesh, pg 41

Liberty City Arts Presents “My Place of Clear Water”, pg 32

Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn

Featuring Bob Weick, pg 42

My Dog is Dead and You’re the Father, pg 19

Online & Personal, pg 44

Phillyhood - short plays about what it means to be Philly!, pg 44

What She Really Wants, pg 49

7:15pm Days of Awe, pg 39

7:30pm Septar Sketch Comedy, pg 20

8pm

audiOhm Sound Bath, pg 31

Day by Day

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

What She Really Wants, pg 49

8:05pm

The Philadelphia Experiment, pg 29

8:30pm

The Haus of Wiggles and Giggles Presents: A Drag Clown Cabaret, pg 11

TUZLUK, pg 45

8:45pm

The Adoption Game, pg 28

9pm

A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a Bar, pg 43

What She Really Wants, pg 49

DROP IN Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Wed, Sept 23

5pm

What She Really Wants, pg 49

5:30pm soft spot, pg 24

6pm

A Poem and A Mistake, pg 44

Ideas of Grandeur, pg 42

Single Woman: Work In Progress, pg 20

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

What She Really Wants, pg 49

6:35pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

7pm Action 开拍, pg 36

Body As an Archive, pg 13

Flood Stones Rising, pg 22 Gilgamesh, pg 41

Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn Featuring Bob Weick, pg 42 the world’s princess, pg 20

Tongue & Groove: ADULTING, pg 45

What She Really Wants, pg 49

7:15pm

The Suppliants, pg 45

7:30pm

My Allowance, pg 43

returned, iridescent, pg 44

8pm ill., pg 42

Situational Beaver, pg 20

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

What She Really Wants, pg 49

8:05pm

The Philadelphia Experiment, pg 29

8:30pm

Good Knight: A Masculinity Journey, pg 15

INVITED DRESS: THE PORNO, pg 27

LOSER LION PARTY BUS, pg 16

My Needy Letters to Keith Urban, pg 19

9pm

ROADKILL, pg 20

What She Really Wants, pg 49

DROP IN

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm), pg 29

Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Thu, Sept 24

5pm

Body As an Archive, pg 13

What She Really Wants, pg 49

5:30pm

Action 开拍, pg 36

Soul Retrieval, pg 50

5:45pm

The Fetus Show, pg 15

6pm

A Poem and A Mistake, pg 44

Ideas of Grandeur, pg 42

Impersonator, pg 11

Seen & Unseen: A Pylon Experience, pg 29

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

Utopian Hotline. A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance, pg 46

What She Really Wants, pg 49

6:30pm

Echoes of Dammām, pg 48

Folk Dance Fun!, pg 22

7pm

A Voice in Motion, pg 24

Don(na) Giovanni, pg 39

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

Good Knight: A Masculinity Journey, pg 15

House of Guns - Gunslinger’s Ball, pg 27

Kennett Square Extension, pg 42

LOSER LION PARTY BUS, pg 16

Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn

Featuring Bob Weick, pg 42

Phillyhood - short plays about what it means to be Philly!, pg 44

The Odyssey, pg 43

Tongue & Groove: ADULTING, pg 45

What She Really Wants, pg 49

7:15pm

Volpe and Líadan, pg 46

7:30pm

Full Spoilers For One Ton Gundrum, pg 41

Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play, pg 41

Monstersongs, pg 12

My Allowance, pg 43

Notice Me, Gwyneth, pg 19 returned, iridescent, pg 44

Soul Retrieval, pg 50

8pm

Eloise Bites the Hand that Holds Her, pg 28

Folk Dance Fun!, pg 22

Fuck it I Love You, pg 22 ill., pg 42

Never Can Say Goodbye - REV’S Graveyard Cabaret, pg 12

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

Utopian Hotline. A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance, pg 46

What She Really Wants, pg 49

8:30pm

DUMPSTER BOYS: straight white dudes doing stand-up at dumpster, pg 18

My Needy Letters to Keith Urban, pg 19

The Groundhog, pg 41

8:45pm

The End is Nigh; a cataclysmic comedy, pg 40

9pm

What She Really Wants, pg 49

DROP IN

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm), pg 29

Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34 (5pm–7pm), pg 48

Fri, Sept 25

5pm

Another Dimension Girl, pg 18

5:15pm

Hrotsvitha Hremixes, pg 42

5:30pm

HUMAN / NATURE: HIBERNATION, pg 10

6pm

A Poem and A Mistake, pg 44

BoyGirl Gymnastics, pg 38

Seen & Unseen: A Pylon Experience, pg 29

Show Pony, pg 45

The Call is Coming From Inside the Home is Where the Heart Is, pg 38

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

Utopian Hotline. A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance, pg 46

7pm

Anamcara and Phoenix - Two One Acts, pg 37

Bombe Fits, pg 31

Book Club: Plot Twist Pending, pg 18

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

Elements, pg 28

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40 Forge, pg 40

House of Guns - Gunslinger’s Ball, pg 27

I THINK NOT, pg 19

If I Die Before the Revolution, pg 23

JENder BENDER, pg 11

Offstage Onstage: Everything You Didn’t See The Greeks Do, pg 44

The Odyssey, pg 43

The Whole F**king Twilight Saga...in 60 Minutes, pg 46

Tongue & Groove: ADULTING, pg 45 Tӕngle, pg 24

7:15pm F***ed Up Fairytales, pg 40

7:30pm

Eve in Paradise, pg 40

Full Spoilers For One Ton Gundrum, pg 41

Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play, pg 41

How does it feel to look at nothing, pg 32

Monstersongs, pg 12

My Allowance, pg 43

returned, iridescent, pg 44

ROOMS/THRENODY - SOKOLOW/ ANTHONY, pg 24

SALOONIVERSE, pg 14

UNHINGED: For Her Pleasure, pg 20

8pm Eloise Bites the Hand that Holds Her, pg 28

Maiden Mother Crone, pg 23

Mingus and TOILET TRAIN YOUR CAT, pg 43

Never Can Say Goodbye - REV’S Graveyard Cabaret, pg 12

Raw Deal, pg 19

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

Soseul Dawon: The Stark Garden of Presence, pg 24

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

Utopian Hotline. A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance, pg 46

8:30pm

Improv Comedy: The N Crowd, pg 19

My Needy Letters to Keith Urban, pg 19

Take Your Shot: A Motivational Seminar with Luigi Mangione, pg 20

The Haus of Wiggles and Giggles Presents: A Drag Clown Cabaret, pg 11

8:45pm Bully Prep, pg 38

9pm HONK!, pg 11

Day by Day

My Friend, Ithamar, pg 43

SALOONIVERSE, pg 14

The Whole F**king Twilight Saga...in 60 Minutes, pg 46

9:30pm

Ascension Death March, pg 37

10pm

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!, pg 50

DROP IN

Let Freedom Ring (2pm–8pm), pg 48

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm), pg 29

Sat, Sept 26

12pm

Action 开拍, pg 36

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

12:15pm

400 Miles from Regular, pg 36

12:30pm

Echoes of Dammām, pg 48

The End is Nigh; a cataclysmic comedy, pg 40

1pm

Bicycle Shorts Film Festival, pg 27

Flood, begin again, pg 22

My Carmilla, pg 43

Utopian Hotline. A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance, pg 46

1:30pm The Groundhog, pg 41

1:45pm

Double the Trouble!, pg 10

2pm

Anamcara and Phoenix - Two One Acts, pg 37

Eloise Bites the Hand that Holds Her, pg 28

Fuck it I Love You, pg 22

Heaven by Eugene O’Brien, pg 41

Jake Strong’s Magic Show, pg 19

Kennett Square Extension, pg 42

returned, iridescent, pg 44

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

Tӕngle, pg 24

WORKINONIT, pg 25

2:15pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

2:30pm

The Fetus Show, pg 15

3pm

Bicycle Shorts Film Festival, pg 27

JENder BENDER, pg 11

Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn

Featuring Bob Weick, pg 42

Notice Me, Gwyneth, pg 19

ROOMS/THRENODY - SOKOLOW/ ANTHONY, pg 24

3:30pm

SHATTERPROOF, pg 45

VOYNICH, pg 46

4pm

Bombe Fits, pg 31

Iolanthe, pg 32

The Deer Ones, pg 28

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

4:30pm

meSSeS: Solo circuS, pg 14

4:45pm

Gorgeous Gorgus, pg 15

5pm

Bicycle Shorts Film Festival, pg 27

Blue Quarantine, pg 34

Gone, But Not Forgotten, pg 22

LOSER LION PARTY BUS, pg 16

SEX & DEATH, pg 29

Utopian Hotline. A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance, pg 46

5:30pm

Days of Awe, pg 39

6pm

exotopia, pg 28

Ideas of Grandeur, pg 42

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

6:15pm

Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play, pg 41

6:30pm

Houndstooth, pg 22

Mingus and TOILET TRAIN YOUR CAT, pg 43

Soseul Dawon: The Stark Garden of Presence, pg 24

Take Your Shot: A Motivational Seminar with Luigi Mangione, pg 20

6:45pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

7pm

Anamcara and Phoenix - Two One Acts, pg 37

Don(na) Giovanni, pg 39

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

F***ed Up Fairytales, pg 40

House of Guns - Gunslinger’s Ball, pg 27

I THINK NOT, pg 19

If I Die Before the Revolution, pg 23

Jake Strong’s Magic Show, pg 19

Love Beyond The Surface, pg 29

meSSeS: Solo circuS, pg 14

Murdered Darlings, pg 12

The Odyssey, pg 43

The Whole F**king Twilight Saga...in 60 Minutes, pg 46

Tӕngle, pg 24

Utopian Hotline. A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance, pg 46

7:30pm

2nd Hand Circus, pg 13

Eve in Paradise, pg 40

Extended Techniques, Abbreviated, pg 32

Full Spoilers For One Ton Gundrum, pg 41

How does it feel to look at nothing, pg 32

Monstersongs, pg 12

My Allowance, pg 43

Phenomenology a music performance, pg 32

returned, iridescent, pg 44

ROOMS/THRENODY - SOKOLOW/ ANTHONY, pg 24

The Love is Afoot! Cabaret, pg 12

UNHINGED: For Her Pleasure, pg 20

William Acker is William Acker and William Acker is Running for the Mayor of Philadelphia, pg 16

7:45pm

Gut Healthy, pg 32

The Pelican and The Whale, pg 23

8pm

Another Dimension Girl, pg 18

Dialogues 8: Kaethe Hostetter, pg 32

Eloise Bites the Hand that Holds Her, pg 28

Maiden Mother Crone, pg 23

Never Can Say Goodbye - REV’S Graveyard Cabaret, pg 12

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle, pg 29

Raw Deal, pg 19

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

SEX & DEATH, pg 29

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

What Had Happened Was, pg 12

8:30pm

Bicycle Shorts Film Festival, pg 27

Hrotsvitha Hremixes, pg 42

9pm

Don’t Kill Daisy, pg 39 Human In The Loop, pg 42 ROADKILL, pg 20

The Whole F**king Twilight Saga...in 60 Minutes, pg 46

10pm

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!, pg 50

DROP IN

Let Freedom Ring (2pm–8pm), pg 48

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm), pg 29

Sun, Sept 27

12pm

Another Dimension Girl, pg 18

Hrotsvitha Hremixes, pg 42

SEX & DEATH, pg 29

12:30pm

SEX & DEATH, pg 29

1pm

Echoes of Renewal, pg 21

Love Beyond The Surface, pg 29

Trauma Queen, pg 45

1:45pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

2pm

400 Miles from Regular, pg 36

Anamcara and Phoenix - Two One Acts, pg 37

Echoes of Tranquility, pg 21

Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

Full Spoilers For One Ton Gundrum, pg 41

Heaven by Eugene O’Brien, pg 41

House of Guns - Gunslinger’s Ball, pg 27

How does it feel to look at nothing, pg 32

Lakota Day, pg 23

Moral Injury, pg 43

returned, iridescent, pg 44

Take Your Shot: A Motivational Seminar with Luigi Mangione, pg 20

The Call is Coming From Inside the Home is Where the Heart Is, pg 38

The Haus of Wiggles and Giggles

Presents: A Drag Clown Cabaret, pg 11

Day by Day

2:30pm

Don(na) Giovanni, pg 39

Elements, pg 28

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

3pm

All the Worlds a Stage, pg 21

Human In The Loop, pg 42

Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn Featuring Bob Weick, pg 42

Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

Shangri-La-La, a musical comedy about Siegfried & Roy, pg 45

The Pelican and The Whale, pg 23

3:30pm

F***ed Up Fairytales, pg 40

Gone, But Not Forgotten, pg 22

Gorgeous Gorgus, pg 15

Lakota Day, pg 23

The Untitled Court Show, pg 29

4pm

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

5pm

Echoes of Renewal, pg 21

Fuck it I Love You, pg 22

The Easy Way, pg 39

THE HUMAN COMPUTER, pg 29

TSTMRKT, pg 45

Volpe and Líadan, pg 46

5:45pm

Lakota Day, pg 23

6pm

An Acoustic Pop Punk Sing-Along at DVAA, pg 31

BoyGirl Gymnastics, pg 38

Shangri-La-La, a musical comedy about Siegfried & Roy, pg 45

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

Three Holes Goes to Hollywood, pg 16

6:15pm

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

6:30pm

The Fetus Show, pg 15 VOYNICH, pg 46

7pm

2nd Hand Circus, pg 13

Assembling My Parts, pg 37

Avalanche of ‘No’, pg 37

Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

Flamencodanza Show, pg 32

Mingus and TOILET TRAIN YOUR CAT, pg 43

The Odyssey, pg 43

7:30pm

BEHOLD! the angel clown show, pg 38

Don’t Kill Daisy, pg 39

My Allowance, pg 43

William Acker is William Acker and William Acker is Running for the Mayor of Philadelphia, pg 16

8pm

Born To Sing The Gospel, pg 38

Eloise Bites the Hand that Holds Her, pg 28

Girls Gotta Eat, pg 11

New Works from Nick Jonczak, pg 43

The End is Nigh; a cataclysmic comedy, pg 40

TSTMRKT, pg 45

What Had Happened Was, pg 12

8:30pm

SHATTERPROOF, pg 45

The 40-Year-Old Ballerino, pg 36

DROP IN

Let Freedom Ring (2pm–8pm), pg 48

Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle (entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm), pg 29

Digital On Demand

Watch online any time Sept 8–27

Heart Song, pg 26

Ink & Melanin: Verse One, pg 27

Smart Art Reggio, pg 26

Center City

62 & Space, 1021 Hamilton St

A Voice in Motion, pg 24

Dancing in Yesterday’s Stage Makeup, pg 21

Maiden Mother Crone, pg 23

Slowly, Slowly, We Begin Again, pg 24

56 CANNONBALL: Asian Arts Initiative

Black Box Theater, 1219 Vine St

1A Clown’s Way: A Clown’s Guide to Falling in Line, pg 36

Artist-led Workshops / Overboard!, pg 50

Action 开拍, pg 36

Amish Country Queer: A Night of Film, Art & Drag, pg 48

Another Dimensional Girl, pg 18

Betsy Ross Groundhog Day, pg 18

Born To Sing The Gospel, pg 38

FORIEGNER, pg 40

GERL GURL GORL!, pg 41

LOSER LION PARTY BUS, pg 16

Meat Cute, pg 42

Offstage Onstage: Everything You Didn’t

See The Greeks Do, pg 44

Señor Babyhead, pg 44

Take Your Shot: A Motivational Seminar with Luigi Mangione, pg 20

The Easy Way, pg 39

The Groundhog, pg 41

The Untitled Court Show, pg 29

TUZLUK, pg 45

VOYNICH, pg 46

Well-Balanced Dads, pg 46

56 CANNONBALL: Asian Arts Initiative Found Spaces, 1219 Vine St Do it for me, pg 39

John Miller Giltner’s A Christmas Carol, pg 19

56 CANNONBALL: Asian Arts Initiative

Project Space, 1219 Vine St

400 Miles from Regular, pg 36

A Map of Traces, pg 23

A Poem and A Mistake, pg 44

Account, pg 34

Alpha, pg 36

ASS2MOUTH, pg 37

BAD CLAY, pg 48

Blue Lightning Ghost Train Inpatient Program 1, pg 31

Double the Trouble!, pg 10

Fictional Names, pg 40

Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play, pg 41

Gorgeous Gorgus, pg 15

Gut Healthy, pg 32

LIGEIA by Edgar Allan Poe, pg 42

My Friend, Ithamar, pg 43

New Works from Nick Jonczak, pg 43 room/in/nation, pg 29

The Enemy at Hand, pg 40

THE HUMAN COMPUTER, pg 29

The Madness of Hestia, pg 42

Your Queen Presents: PETRUS, pg 46

56 CANNONBALL: Asian Arts Initiative

Third Floor, 1219 Vine St

Amor/Libertad - Part 1, pg 37

A Murder Most Felt; or, It’s Not Easy Bleeding Green, pg 43

Baggage From BaghDAD: Becoming My Father’s Daughter, pg 37

Bully Prep, pg 38

Days of Awe, pg 39

Dickie Dickie Dicky Donnie, pg 39

Echoes of Tranquility, pg 21

F***ed Up Fairytales, pg 40

Ghost Fetus, pg 41

Hrotsvitha Hremixes, pg 42

Love for a New Future, pg 29

Not Without Her Stories: Her Service Comes With A Sacrifice Too, pg 43

Pit Fractal, pg 19

Sad Magic Sins, pg 44

Tell Me Your Name, pg 16

The Adoption Game, pg 28

The Black Pearl and the Frivolous Prince, pg 38

The Deer Ones, pg 28

The End is Nigh; a cataclysmic comedy, pg 40

The Fetus Show, pg 15

The Suppliants, pg 45

Volpe and Líadan, pg 46

Explore by Venue

23 Comedy Sportz, 2030 Sansom St

Book Club: Plot Twist Pending, pg 18

Human In The Loop, pg 42

Owen Corey and James Ofalt Punch Each Other in the Dick Until One Submits Again, Again, Again, pg 44

44 Da Vinci Art Alliance, 704 Catharine St

An Acoustic Pop Punk Sing-Along at DVAA, pg 31

18 The Louis Bluver Theatre at the Drake, 302 S Hicks St Don(na) Giovanni, pg 39

Eat My Shorts, pg 40

Helen Keller Wasn’t Real, pg 41 Stoop Bitch, pg 45

18 The Proscenium at The Drake, 302 S. Hicks St returned, iridescent, pg 44

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, pg 15

59 Dream Dialect, 319 N 11th St , 2nd Floor

Seen & Unseen: A Pylon Experience, pg 29

30 Fairmount Water Works, 640 Waterworks Drive Flood, begin again, pg 22

57 Fat Moon Restaurant and Karaoke, 1440 Callowhill St

Girls Gotta Eat, pg 11

13 Fergie’s Pub 1214, Sansom St Heaven by Eugene O’Brien, pg 41

26 First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 2125 Chestnut St

Eve in Paradise, pg 40

Flow State, pg 22

Moral Injury, pg 43

Reckless Abandonment, pg 24

The Space Between, pg 24

Who Do You Think You Are?, pg 30

WORKINONIT, pg 25

14 Franklin Inn Club, 205 S Camac St Redeeming Time, pg 35

28 The Franklin Institute Fels Planetarium, 222 N 20th St Utopian Hotline. A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance, pg 46

15 Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St Opera on Tap Philadelphia Presents: Pagliacci, pg 32 What Had Happened Was, pg 12

59 hall pass, 319 N 11th St DOOFY: 2 girls make noise (not like that), pg 18

Eloise Bites the Hand that Holds Her, pg 28 Love, Sex, and Philadelphia, pg 34 The Countdown, pg 34

Xposure Rd, pg 46

20 Healing Studio, 1518 Walnut St Soul Retrieval, pg 50

25 Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, 2110 Chestnut St Classical Open Mic Matinee, pg 31 Iolanthe, pg 32

45 Mister John’s Music, 904 S. 9th St Raw Deal, pg 19

12 People’s Gallery Project, 1034 Pine St

The Complete (and Abridged) Works of August Wilson, pg 18

29 PMA Perelman Building, 2525 Pennsylvania Ave

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

22 Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square archy & mehitabel, pg 37

Black Voices in American Art Song, pg 31

Cornelius Boots: Bass Shakuhachi Flute & the Deep Nature Blues, pg 31 exotopia, pg 28

21 Plays and Players Main Stage, 1714 Delancey Street

The Odyssey, pg 43

21 THE LEMONADE STAND: Plays and Players Skinner Studio 1714 Delancey St

A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a Bar, pg 43

Bog Man, pg 38

BoyGirl Gymnastics, pg 38

Bride To Be, pg 38

Don’t Kill Daisy, pg 39 HONK!, pg 11

Ideas of Grandeur, pg 42

Jane Eyre Wasn’t a Whore, pg 42

My Carmilla, pg 43

Notice Me, Gwyneth, pg 19 Trauma Queen, pg 45

UNHINGED: For Her Pleasure, pg 20 Your Best Odd Girl Out, pg 46

62 Prism Arts Philadelphia, 1021 Hamilton St Flamencodanza Show, pg 32 Phillyhood - short plays about what it means to be Philly!, pg 44

The Performance Lounge, pg 12 To Root, To Rise, pg 24

27 Schuylkill River Trail WTC Memorial Schuylkill River Park Trail, under the Chestnut Street Bridge, Enter via Locust St

9/11 Memorial - 25th Anniversary, pg 28

23 SideQuest Theater, 2030 Sansom St

An Evening With Joan, pg 40

Jake Strong’s Magic Show, pg 19 Oleanna, pg 44

PhotoProv, pg 19

Septar Sketch Comedy, pg 20 Shangri-La-La, a musical comedy about Siegfried & Roy, pg 45

The Mixtape / Andy the Acolyte, pg 19

The Bards 10th Anniversary Telethon: LIVE, pg 38 Tongue & Groove: ADULTING, pg 45 VOLTA, pg 46

16 Sidewalk Outside of 480 S. Broad St Bodhi’s Guide to History, pg 38

42 Tattooed Mom, 530 South St Jay Can’t Watch “The Holy Mountain”, pg 48

61 Next In Line Comedy, 1025 Hamilton St Wisdom Of The Crowd, pg 30

17 The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts, 736 South Broad St

DESCENDANZE: IN FULL EFFECT!, pg 21

60 The Trestle Inn, 339 N 11th St Good Knight: A Masculinity Journey, pg 15 the world’s princess, pg 20

43 Three Queens Yoga, 410 Monroe St An Inexplicable Evening, pg 11

79 Trinity Memorial Church, 2212 Spruce St Liberty City Arts Presents: My Place of Clear Water, pg 32

24 Urban Movement Arts, 2100 Chestnut St Extended Techniques, Abbreviated, pg 32 Feed//Swallow, pg 22

58 Velvet Whip Speakeasy, 319 N. 11th St The Love is Afoot! Cabaret, pg 12

59 Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th St My Dog is Dead and You’re the Father, pg 19 Situational Beaver, pg 20

19 Yellow Bicycle Theater, 1435 Arch St, Fl. 2 (on 15th St ) Bicycle Shorts Film Festival, pg 27

Christmas Carol: The Rap Musical, pg 39 Conquering the Canon, pg 39 Creatures of the Deep, pg 39

First in the Hearts, pg 40 Impersonator, pg 11 Is This Thing On?, pg 42 Lakota Day, pg 23 My Needy Letters to the Keith Urban, pg 19 Prometheus Bound, pg 27 Show Pony, pg 45

Single Woman: Work In Progress, pg 20 Waiting for Westy, pg 46 ZOMBIED, pg 47

Old City

8 Arch St Meeting House, 320 Arch St Americana Cosplay, pg 37

4 The Arden, Hamilton Family Arts Center, 62 N 2nd St Declaration, pg 39 The Whole F**king Twilight Saga...in 60 Minutes, pg 46

11 The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 219 S 6th St Handle With Care, pg 29

6 Biello Martin Studio, 148 N 3rd St The Light Between, pg 12

2 Cherry St Pier, 121 N. Columbus Blvd Let Freedom Ring, pg 48

10 Christ Church Burial Ground, 340 N. 5th St Never Can Say Goodbye - REV’S Graveyard Cabaret, pg 12

5 Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N American St Nine, pg 23

The Women’s Film Festival 2026, pg 27

3 Elfreth’s Alley Museum, 126 Elfreth’s Alley Murder at the Netherfield Ball: An Interactive Pride and Prejudice Mystery, pg 43

1 FringeArts, 140 N Columbus Blvd. Kramer/Fauci, pg 42 Friday Night Rat Catchers, pg 22 How does it feel to look at nothing, pg 32

78 Intersection of 4th & Ranstead St S, behind the Bourse Building The Great Philadelphia Comedy Magic Walk, pg 28

7 National Mechanics, 22 S 3rd St I THINK NOT, pg 19

9 Old First Reformed Church, 151 N 4th St Armed Hostilities, pg 37 Prudence Play (Sister Prudence is NOT Gay!), pg 44

River Wards

Includes Fishtown, Northern Liberties, East Kensington, Port Richmond

74 AUTOMAT Collective, 1400 N. American St Suite 105 Elements, pg 28

74 CANNONBALL: Box Spring Gallery, 1400 N. American St Goblet of Light, pg 13

Plausible Deniability v 0.1, pg 14 Raptures From The Godhole, pg 16 SEX & DEATH, pg 29 What She Really Wants, pg 49

75 Face Clock Gallery, 1935 N 2nd St Phenomenology of a music performance, pg 32

65 Higher Grounds, 631 N. 3rd St Enough!, pg 15

74 CANNONBALL: Icebox Project Space Gallery, 1400 N American St

A Dream Within A Dream, pg 21

AFRO, pg 13

Agos Y Viento, pg 36

ANARCHY!, pg 13

Avalanche of ‘No’, pg 37

Body As an Archive, pg 13

Cicada Stories, pg 21

Echoes of Dammām, pg 48 Fire Portal, pg 28

Forge, pg 40

Fuck it I Love You, pg 22

Gone, But Not Forgotten, pg 22

Houndstooth, pg 22

HUMAN / NATURE: HIBERNATION, pg 10

If ever, pg 23

International Black and Indigenous Circus Week, pg 14

INVITED DRESS: THE PORNO, pg 27 Palatable, pg 16

SEX & DEATH, pg 29

SHATTERPROOF, pg 45 soft spot, pg 24

Strange Root, or the murder of PT Barnum by Joice Heth, pg 14

The Haus of Wiggles and Giggles Presents: A Drag Clown Cabaret, pg 11

We Can Always Tell, pg 25

64 Indy Hall, 709 N. 2nd St Liberty City Arts Presents: ‘Beyond’, pg 32

Jasper Studios, 2930 Jasper St Terms of Use: The Scroll, pg 45

Kensington Corridor Trust Garden, 3238 Kensington Ave Love Abide With You, The Birthplace Quilts, pg 29

66 Northern Liberties Community Center, 700 N 3rd St HOME - Snack Break, pg 41

The Call is Coming From Inside the Home is Where the Heart Is, pg 38

73 DUMB HUB: Pig Iron Theatre Company, 1417 N. 2nd St A Young Man Dressed As A Gorilla Dressed As An Old Man Sits Rocking In A Rocking Chair For Fifty-Six Minutes And Then Leaves, pg 30 Brown Sister Twins, pg 18 Clowncuterie 2026, pg 15 COLUMBO’S DAY (The Nonsense Explorer Series, Vol. 1), pg 39 KACHONK, pg 15

Maniac, pg 16

Meaghan Robichaud Is The Greatest Show On Earth, pg 16 Mischief Night Masters, pg 16 TRAD, pg 16

We’re All Gonna Die So Stop Caring, pg 20 Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral, pg 17

73 Pig Iron Theatre Company, 1417 N. 2nd St William Acker is William Acker and William Acker is Running for the Mayor of Philadelphia, pg 16

63 The Hairport 444 N 3rd St Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle, pg 29

The Gym at Impact Services, 2953 N Front Street The Holy Fool, pg 41

69 The Latvian Society of Philadelphia, 531 N. 7th St Custody, pg 39

Never Land: Presented by Liberty City Arts, pg 12

76 The Perch (Warehouse), 2321 Emerald St ill., pg 42

JENder BENDER, pg 11 Online & Personal, pg 44 Philadelphia Butoh Collective, pg 23

RECKON Stage Reading, pg 34

Regulator XXL presents: ‘When Pigs Fly’, pg 44

Thunderbird Hall, 2856 Frankford Ave 2nd Hand Circus, pg 13

Explore by Venue

67 Ukie Club on Franklin, 847 N. Franklin St Lunarium, pg 15

South Philly

Art Room Studio 2329 S. 3rd St

Flood Stones Rising, pg 22

55 BOK / Amy Novinksi Ballet, 1901 S Ninth St If I Die Before the Revolution, pg 23

41 Deep End Studios, 1313 S 33rd St

BEHOLD! the angel clown show, pg 38 Encounters with an Electric Mind, pg 40

Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn Featuring Bob Weick, pg 42 Murdered Darlings, pg 12

Three Holes Goes to Hollywood, pg 16 Twelve Steps Back, pg 46

52 Equilibrium Dance Academy, 1802 S Broad St Illumination, pg 23

46 Mascher Space Cooperative, 1170 S Broad St Love Beyond The Surface, pg 29 Saddle Tramp, pg 24

49 Philly PACK, 233 Federal St CALL OF THE WILD, pg 38

Full Spoilers For One Ton Gundrum, pg 41

41 Queen Memorial Building, 1313 South 33rd St

My Allowance, pg 43

51 Sawubona Creativity Project, 1626 E. Passyunk Ave

Improv Comedy: The N Crowd, pg 19

50 The Bottle Shop, 1616 Passyunk Ave Cold Beer Reading, pg 18

48 The Ginkgo Center, 1316 S 9th St Here Come the Brides, pg 22

Tӕngle, pg 24

54 The Magic Gardens Studio, 1002 Watkins St Karen Tenderness in DOPPEL BÄNGER, pg 11

46 The Parlor (Headlong Dance Studio), 1170 S Broad St The Sicilian Dilemma, pg 45

53 The Whole Shebang, 1813 S. 11th St

35 Bucks and a Trio of Broads, pg 36

47 Theatre Exile, 1340-48 S. 13th St Endgame by Samuel Beckett, pg 40

Philadelphia Navy Yard, 4701 Intrepid Ave the Philadelphia Experiment, pg 29

North Philly

Includes Fairmount, Spring Garden, Torresdale

Broken Mirror, 2301 N 9th St Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn Featuring Bob Weick, pg 42

Glen Foerd, 5001 Grant Ave Gilgamesh, pg 41

71 IPaM, 1608 Ridge Ave

BLACK D*CK MATTERS by Kathya Alexander, pg 38

68 PERFORMANCE GARAGE: Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine St

ADK 2026 Concert, pg 31

All the Worlds a Stage, pg 21

And Her Name Was Pickles, pg 37

Assembling My Parts, pg 37

Blue Quarantine, pg 34

Dr. Amore or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Wearing A Mask, pg 34 Echoes of Renewal, pg 21

Godavari: Who Am I?, pg 22

Jade Chloe, pg 23

Not Yet Complete, pg 23

ROOMS/THRENODY - SOKOLOW/ ANTHONY, pg 24

70 Space 1026, 844 N. Broad St Evil Sword, pg 32 Happy Accident, pg 41 House of Guns - Gunslinger’s Ball, pg 27 Taller Puertorriqueno, 2600 N. 5th St

RECKON Stage Reading, pg 34

72 The Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, 800 N 23rd St Folk Dance Fun!, pg 22

Village of Arts and Humanities, 2544 Germantown Ave Freedom Fest, pg 32

Heart2Art, pg 48

North West Philly

Allen Lane Art Center, 601 W Allens Lane

The Shadow Show, pg 45

CIRCUS CAMPUS PRESENTS: Circus Campus, 6452 Greene St Business Doing Pleasure With You, pg 15

Costume Closet, pg 13 Earthborn, pg 13 Freedom for a Night, pg 13

meSSeS: Solo circuS, pg 14

SALOONIVERSE, pg 14

TSTMRKT, pg 45

What Does It Mean To Be Good?, pg 14

COCOON PHILLY, 6452 Green St Anamcara and Phoenix - Two One Acts, pg 37

Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill - Widener Hall, 8855 Germantown Ave Bombe Fits, pg 31

Roxborough Pocket Park, 6170 Ridge Ave Masks Off, pg 23 Wherever You Are, pg 33

Rutabaga at the Falls Center, 3301 Scott’s Lane The Melon’s Cry, pg 43

Summit Presbyterian Church, 6757 Greene St The Pelican and The Whale, pg 23

The Fallser Club, 3721 Midvale Ave Monstersongs, pg 12

West Philly

39 Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 801 S. 48th St Egg and How I Learned to Save Myself, pg 22

“Without Consent”, pg 46

31 Community Education Center (CEC), 3500 Lancaster Ave

“#Me, Too . . . You”, pg 36

38 Dinosaur House, 5122 Springfield Ave The Garden of Alla, pg 41

37 NoMaster Studio, 1314 S 47th St

Private Dick: The Hardest Noir in Town, pg 19

33 Penn Live Arts: Bruce Montgomery Theatre, 3680 Walnut St I Don’t Dance, pg 11

77 Philadelphia Business & Technology Center - The 6th Floor, 5070 Parkside Ave MOVEMENT, pg 34

34 Platt Performing Arts House, 3702 Spruce St

Alternative Theatre Festival 2026, pg 37

40 Radiation Station, 5030 Cedar Ave Red Dye 40 and Diarrhea Jones Marry the Night, pg 16

36 STUDIO 34: Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave Ants on a Log Family Concert, pg 10 Ascension Death March, pg 37 audiOhm Sound Bath, pg 31 Bartram’s Garden Photo Exhibit at Studio 34, pg 48 Dialogues 8: Kaethe Hostetter, pg 32 Mingus and TOILET TRAIN YOUR CAT, pg 43 Philly Clown Slam, pg 16 Philly Puppet Slam!, pg 12 Please!, pg 44 seven ate nine, pg 24

Soseul Dawon: The Stark Garden of Presence, pg 24 The 40-Year-Old Ballerino, pg 36 Wikipedilove, pg 20

32 The Pearlstein Gallery, 3401 Filbert St Lunar Retreat, pg 29

35 The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St The Kenning Place: A Well of Wisdom from the Collective Memory, pg 34

Outside Philly

Kennett Library, 320 East State St Kennett Square Extension, pg 42 Lathem Hall, 1301 Potter St Monstersongs, pg 12

SNAP CITY STUDIO, 2840 Pine Rd Unit E, Huntingdon Valley, PA The Process – Dance Creation Exploration, pg 24

St Road Artists Space, 725 St Road A(mobile)DRIFT 2026, pg 48

Theatre Horizon, 401 Dekalb St Baby Whale and the Plastic Ocean, pg 10

Heart Song, pg 26 Ink & Melanin: Verse One, pg 27 Smart Art Reggio, pg 26

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Remembering Dito

On Monday, June 1, 2026, our community lost Dito van Reigersberg, co-founder of Pig Iron Theatre Company, beloved performer, brilliant risk-taker, and friend.

Dito performed in nearly every one of the 29 Philadelphia Fringe Festivals, starting with Pig Iron’s Cafeteria in the first festival in 1997. Year after year, we’d see him as an actor, a dance artist, as Martha Graham Cracker—Dito’s Amazonian drag alter ego. Twenty-seven years later, Poor Judge was—to the best of our knowledge—the first Fringe piece in the Festival’s nearly-three-decade history to win Best Musical at the Barrymores.

The effect of watching Martha perform was a duo of feelings that don’t logically go together: total awe, and radical belonging. I can’t believe what I’m seeing. These are my people.

Dito’s ability to hold both things at once—on the one hand: virtuosity, experimentalism, danger; on the other: welcoming, pleasure, humor, joy—made him an exemplar of the kind of outrageous, anarchic, beautifully-human approach to performance that has come to define how we do it in Philly.

All of us at Fringe are, in one way or another, living in a world that Dito helped nurture into being. Our grief is mixed with extraordinary gratitude for all he’s given us, and with wonder at the life and art he made.

We asked a few of Dito’s countless friends, collaborators, and audience members to each share a brief memory about him in the Philly Fringe as one small way to honor his legacy.

There are a few things that I know and one of them is that Dito loved the Philadelphia Fringe. He performed in the first Fringe, and at least 20 others. It is fair to say that the Fringe is responsible for Dito (and all of us in Pig Iron) living in Philadelphia and making this his/our personal and creative home for 30 years. That first night, in September 1997, Dito, Suli, and I waited backstage for our show (Cafeteria) to start and were given a notice that we’d be waiting an extra 15 minutes because the line to get in was going around the block. What a welcome! In the days and years after, Dito became part of the fabric of this wild performance scene. He loved the artists and projects that took place in every corner of the city, for audiences of one or a thousand. Dito’s absence will be felt for a long, long time. But his presence lives on in the artists who take risks, bring joy and irreverence to their work, and who show a mirror to our world through the performances they create.

Nichole Canuso

Dito was genuine, generous and wildly inventive. His influence will ripple infinitely. To be in his presence as an audience member, friend, or collaborator was the greatest of gifts. Experiencing him perform in anything (especially as Martha) was always electrifying and healing. A Fringe Festival memory I cherish is performing together in TAKES (2010). It was a tender duet that unfolded inside a translucent cube, while cameras projected large black and white images of our actions onto the exterior surfaces. Audiences were on the outside and could meander closer or farther to change perspective. We took our time, spending a couple of years slowly creating this performance installation. We built a little cocoon of care: literally within the set and figuratively within the process. In one section, Dito performed a solo, partnering with his own projected images while Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” played on vinyl from a record player in the corner. I watched him perform that section countless times, and each rendition was new, nuanced and fully felt. Whenever I hear that song I can see him tilting his cheekbones up into the light, gazing soulfully into the camera, and extending a hand to touch something just beyond reach.

Victor Fiorillo

I first encountered Dito van Reigersberg in 1997 when a then-fledgling Pig Iron Theatre Company made its Philadelphia Fringe Festival debut with the wordless tragicomedy Cafeteria, and I remember walking away positively mesmerized, a little bit puzzled, and thinking to myself that I had never seen anything quite like that before. Two years later, Pig Iron member James Sugg, my bandmate in the party-funk band the Brothers Suggarillo, told me that Dito had a great voice and invited him to sing with us at Silk City, with Dito performing in drag. He continued to do so, sometimes as a character he called Martha Graham Cracker, and sometimes as Martha’s German evil twin sister Polly Vonna Cracker. Obviously, it was Martha that stuck, and Philadelphia would never be the same, nor would my life. We performed at FringeArts many times, sometimes with a choir, sometimes with band kids joining us, sometimes with a string quartet, always with an audience that had absolutely no idea what they were about to witness. I remain positively mesmerized, a little bit puzzled, and knowing full well that I will never see or be a part of anything quite like that again. It’s devastating.

Shelley Green

I fell in love with Dito over 25 years ago, after seeing some of his astonishing, brilliant early work with Pig Iron, including Gentlemen Volunteers, Poet in NY, Shut Eye, and Cafeteria, each performance unique and much of it performed at Fringe. (I struggled a bit the first time I saw Hell Meets Henry because I hated watching Dito suffer, even when he was playing a role.) Later, I became besotted by Dito’s creation, Martha Graham Cracker, a pure, joyous expression of the Life Force as she raced around the vertiginous Fringe theater. In every manifestation, including as a civilian, Dito was relentlessly kind, funny, thoughtful, generous. Michael and I miss him now and always.

Rose Jarboe

Dito was a genre of performance, a drag house, unto himself. He sparkled on all stages: theater, nightlife, dance, opera. His was an art of being present: no matter how high his voice soared into the stratosphere, he was always there in the room with us dangling precariously from a pole or sitting on one or more of our laps. While he had no official drag mother, he did have plenty of family. He was my sister in song and drag tomfoolery. I remember running up and down the FringeArts’ stairs in matching purple tracksuits (made by Max Brown) while singing “Under Pressure.” I remember Dito asking audiences to take a mint and breathe into each others’ mouths (pre-covid). I remember when he said ‘yes’ to playing my fairy godmother in the first Bearded Ladies’ show without knowing who I was.

He made the whole city brighter just by choosing to be here. We can never truly fill his high heels. But we can look into each others’ eyes, read poetry, take walks, flirt with our baristas, say ‘yes’ to a younger artist, and, in his words: when it’s pouring rain we can “dance when it hits the ground.”

Jenn Kidwell

I got to perform with Dito in a far out Pig Iron/ FringeArts premiere called Superterranean But, this isn’t really about that, it’s just that’s what I think we were working on when this other thing happened. Dito was giving me a ride—maybe from FringeArts to somewhere— and we got stuck in traffic on Walnut. We weren’t moving at all. So, in his infinite joy and wisdom, we sat there in his car and played the theme song to the TV sitcom “Amen” over and over and sang full throatedly. And, we just got happier with each repeat.

Shavon Norris

During the 2012 Fringe Festival, I performed in Pig Iron’s Zero Cost House. I was a dancer and a mover. I understood my relationship with the stage. And then I was cast in this play and had to relearn how to be on stage. For the play, we traveled to Japan and rehearsed in Beppu. Speaking and acting was new to me. I had no idea how to translate the text into my body. I was in a new country, being a picky eater, and sucking at being in a play. Dito would hang out with me in my hotel room. His long tall body laid half on the bed and half off the bed. He was a big Alice in Wonderland in my small room. We talked about the play and about life. He offered me strategies for understanding the process. He helped quiet my insecurities and nurtured my confidence. He softly supported my humanity and spirit. This was the start of our friendship. I became his rabbit wife and he became my Deets. When we performed in the Fringe, I didn’t suck anymore. I had learned some new things about art and gained some lifelong friendships. I am forever grateful.

Dan Rothenberg

In 1997, at the first Philadelphia Fringe, Dito, Quinn and Suli played 15 roles in the danceclown-theater piece CAFETERIA. Dito’s first appearance was as Charlotte, the cafeteria lady with a heart of gold – definitely inspired by the TV shows we grew up with in the ‘70s: The Facts of Life, or Alice. Dito built the character from a pair of heavy glasses and a hat-thathe-used-as-a-wig – a one-of-a-kind piece that evoked hair in rollers but was somehow otherworldly. I still remember vividly how Charlotte did battle with that vicious middle school boy determined to throw mashed potatoes everywhere, blocking his thrown trays like a soccer goalie in a lunchlady’s uniform.

One of the rules of that play is: no words. It’s all actions and events. But after 50 wordless minutes, Dito breaks the rules: He arrives at the old folks’ cafeteria as Charon, Death’s boatman. He sings an aria to the old man who is leaving this world, and the audience is shocked to hear a human voice after all that silence. So this is how I remember Dito – bearer of the unexpected; always delightful and disarming; wow, what a voice; and the person who could transport us to another world.

Nick Stuccio

Looking back on 26 years as Dito and the amazing Pig Iron’s presenter, his beautiful presence and enormous creativity are everywhere I look. Brilliant moments from 20+ shows Dito gave us are such a pleasure to remember; from Welcome to Uba City—Dito as a lost cyclist arguing, gesturing in faux Italian, his stark, vulnerable physicality in Love Unpunished, his absolute gem of a performance in Poet In New York, his astonishing voice in 12th Night, the wonderfully zany Ah-Ni in I Promised Myself to Live Faster and of course his tender and soulful performance in Poor Judge among SOOO many other moments captivating and delighting thousands of people. How did we get so lucky to have him?

I never EVER missed a Martha show. First because, wow, what a way she had with a song, any song, but also to marvel at her adventures into the audience (multiple times!) during her show which were a masterclass in improvisation and in just plain human connection—so brave, such exquisite comic timing, such care. What a rare and special gift Dito was and what a truly rare and special talent he possessed and it was genius to watch. Martha climbed the steep steps wearing impossibly shaky heels, fully aware of the tension she was building, spotted her very anxious improv partner, locked eyes, and in that look there was an understanding— you, my good looking friend, are now in my show, you are my straight man, I am a huge, hairy, drag queen and yes I am going to sit on your lap, caress you, make everyone around us hysterical, and it’s going to be alright.

What Dito gave us is timeless—spectacular artmaking and his warm, lovely spirit connected us, gave us meaning and understanding—a limitless and lasting mark on anyone he touched.

So inexplicably lucky, so deeply, deeply grateful. An Evening Celebrating

Dito