5pm

SPRUCE STREET is an exploration of longing, grief, nostalgia, and consequently, love, but it also serves as a warning: that being human comes with spiritual and emotional costs. Created and performed by Allison Kelly, SPRUCE STREET is a convergence of media and memory; a ghost story told intimately between performer and snapshots of a forgotten life.

6:15pm

This Justice System is insensitive...it is care-less and biased! Courtrooms are overcrowded with stories of mis-represented and misunderstood cases. It's one big circus the way this administration juggles the lives of the poor and underserved.

Awoke the Musical brings attention to how mass incarceration has become a business and the pipeline from public schools to prisons.

8:30pm

In I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond, artists and audiences alike board a metaphysical flight, traveling together to a visionary place of collective imagining. A Professor and a Facilitator -both on the precipice of revelation - attempt, in their own ways, to explain the world around them, only to realize what they are trying to communicate is nearly impossible for others to comprehend. But as the bodies of the passengers are thrown into acrobatic flight, a certain truth is revealed: either we will put aside our differences and save each other, or we will fall.

10pm

Driven by the radical criminalization of abortion handed down by the Supreme Court, this movement installation seeks to fully immerse audience members inside of a ritual led by witches of the resistance invoking powerful women from the past and looking ahead to a feminist utopia of our own making.

Land of dystopia

Religious myopia

I mourn for thee

6pm

The Squid and The Octopus, created and performed by Jim Julien, is a very intimate cephalopod adventure, a shadow puppet show (with knives!) This show uses a variety of puppetry styles and multimedia to weave a tale of multi-tentacled danger, contemporary restaurant culture and undersea lifestyles. The Squid and The Octopus will delight, amaze and amuse with puppetry spectacle. Before you order the calamari for the whole table, see this show!

8pm

The Squid and The Octopus, created and performed by Jim Julien, is a very intimate cephalopod adventure, a shadow puppet show (with knives!) This show uses a variety of puppetry styles and multimedia to weave a tale of multi-tentacled danger, contemporary restaurant culture and undersea lifestyles. The Squid and The Octopus will delight, amaze and amuse with puppetry spectacle. Before you order the calamari for the whole table, see this show!

7pm

...the applicant was becoming a well adjusted performer as they had to tell several stories to the audience of one (the officer), and also make sure that they are assuming the right personality for their "character".

...the applicant was never a good actor, or a theater enthusiast to begin with. They in fact would suffer from stage fright every time they were tasked with something as minimal as announcing a short statement to a group of people... But this, this was giving them quite a thrill.

10pm

Located in the beautiful Maas Garden Bar, the OVERBOARD! Cabaret is Cannonball's FREE nightly offering of music, circus, comedy, storytelling, strange anthems to pirate lords and ecstatic participatory rituals that are sure to be the perfect end to your night at the Fringe.

THURSDAY BENEFIT NIGHTS- Each week, the cabaret will highlight a different Community Partner. Donations will be collected for organizations doing imperative work for Philadelphia's communities on Thursday nights. We will be uplifting:

Sept 8th GALAEI, galaeiqtbipoc.org

5:30pm

During the pandemic, Linnea found out she had some tumors.

That really sucked. When one major surgery failed, she had to have her chest sawed open and her brain radiated to get them out.

That also very much sucked.

And then she kinda almost died from an infection.

Which, too, hella sucked. And then she had a real hard breakup. Really painful. Like 10 out of 10 pain. A whole lot of cumulative sucking.

Ever wanted to know what it feels like to have your heart ripped out...twice?

7pm

Oedipus in Seattle is a show about destiny, and the uncertainty of living a life without one. From ancient Greece tragedies to modern romantic comedies, humans have always created stories about destiny, and characters who will end up winning or losing no matter how hard they try to escape their fate. Meanwhile, the actors in this piece will function more like we all do in real life- without a script, stumbling from one task to the next, trying and mostly failing to understand what it all means.

8:30pm

VEHEMENT is an evocative dance show that is a love letter to all our former selves. A troupe of 7 dancers clad in stiletto heels will perform 12 new works that document how we process trauma and accept all parts of ourselves, even the ugly ones.

Dark, sexual and passionate. Come on a journey that will capture the facets of growing up- fighting personal demons, breaking generational cycles, and navigating relationships with lovers, others, and yourself. Featuring raw and introspective works that chronicle the quest to finding who you are.

10pm

The non-binary son of God tries to convince their dad to use their pronouns.

Which God? They aren't sure. He was an absent father.

Heads up: this show uses rock and roll music and power points to blow your mind.