And Now, Your 2012 Philly Fringe Lineup Has Been Announced
Coming up this fall, the 16th annual Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe Festival will be celebrating 16 years with 16 days of events, covering nearly everything you can imagine. Dance, music, theater, art, improv, comedy, film, and things that fall into neither or all of those categories will be on display from September 7th to the 22nd.
Tickets are available over here, the whole festival guide is available here, and when you check out that guide you can expect to see listings for comedy from Philly Improv Theater, ComedySportz, The Waitstaff, and more; music performances from The Divine Hand Ensemble, São Paolo Underground, and the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Composers Forum; films Dostoyevsky Man (shot entirely on iPhone) and Film Fringe Tour; and dance and theater and everything else. For a full list of what is going on, check after the jump or at Philly Fringe’s website.
COMEDY + IMPROV
3 Mad Rituals – King Friday / Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Angry People Building Things – Angry People Building Things
Awesome Alliteration: The Magical Musical – BetaMale Productions
Bye Bye Liver: The Philadelphia Drinking Play – The Pub Theater Company
Cambridge Footlights – Cambridge Footlights/ Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
ComedySportz Presents: The Archdiocese of Laughter – Mark Leopold / ComedySportz
ComedySportz Presents: Beatbox Philly – ComedySportz Presents
ComedySportz Presents: Cecily and Gwendolyn – Cecily and Gwendolyn
ComedySportz Presents: CStar Warz – ComedySportz Presents
ComedySportz Presents: Dangerous Fools – Dangerous Fools
Comic Energy Sketch Comedy Show – Comic Energy Productions
Davenger – Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Fibber – Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Hot Dish presents “Backstory” – Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Myths & Monsters – Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
PHIT Sketch House Team – Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
PRO-MANIA 2K12 – Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Real Housewives of South Philly Play Match Game – The Waitstaff
The Grimacchio Variety Hour – Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
Weird People Problems – Camp Woods / Philly Improv Theater (PHIT)
DANCE
Colony – Kelly Bond and Melissa Adrienne Krodman
CONVERSATIONS, A Dialog in Movement – MM2 Modern Dance Company
Counter Rotation – SomaticMovers
Dancefusion Two Views – Dancefusion
Day For A Dream – Call Me Crazy Dancers
dEvolution – Synthesis
Dynamic Surroundings – Heather Bourgeois and Jess Dixon
EINSTEIN/TAGORE: SEASHORE OF ENDLESS WORLDS – Bidisha Dasgupta
For Members Only – Lesya Popil and Eleanor Goudie-Averill
Go Together – Ellie Goudie-Averill and Pamela Vail
Hoist – Leah Stein Dance Company
modern dance explained – rebekah rickards
Navigating the Hallway – KDNY
Nichole Canuso Dance Company at the APS Museum – Nichole Canuso Dance Company and the APS Museum
RUB – Gunnar Montana & Jasmine Zieroff
S.O.A.R. – Kelli Moshen
Solos from Gdansk, Burdag and Warszawa – Polish Exchange Artists
Sticks & Stones – Rachel Oliver & Kate Speer
Tickle Me Gray – Infatuation Dance Company
Timelines – Lauren Mandilian
HAPPENINGS
Kabbalah Salon – Rabbi Rayzel Raphael
Monsters: A Workshop and Happening – Museum
Bullseye – SHADOW Company
No Rest For The Wicked: A Graveyard Cabaret – REV Theatre Company
INTERDISCIPLINARY
Change/Chance – COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Daniel Barrow presents The Thief of Mirrors and Looking for Love in the Hall of Mirrors – Daniel Barrow
EvictionProof Peepshow – Vashti Dubois
Experiencing people as really kind of huge – BodyFields Performance Collective and Son Step
Le Mirage / Dead City Philly – DysFUNctional Theater
Scout – Fur Collective
Secret Order of the Libertines – The Sensual Life
The Last Mummer – zacherle
The Legend of Nahia. A healing story. – Duende Musical
The Lemurian Solution: Your Interactive Evolution – Mr. and Mrs. Magoo’s Traveling Trash Puppet Circus
Tourettes: A Dancing Disorder – Band of Artists
WAMB – SnakeEatTail
You Don’t Say — Tangle
MUSIC
Crossing Imaginary Lines: a musical yoga journey – Michal Waldfogel
Falstaff – Poor Richard’s Opera
Happy Birthday Pierrot Lunaire – University of Delaware Faculty members
Iron Composer: An Evening of Speed-Composing – American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter
Jawbone Junction: Live at the Twisted Tail – Jawbone Junction
Music for the Hearing Eye: Concert Atop the Crypts – The Divine Hand Ensemble
Philly Song Shuffle – Extreme Folk Scene
ROCK OPERA: An Improvised Musical Event – Ladies and Gentlemen
Sao Paolo Underground at Crossroads Music – Sao Paolo Underground
The Birth of a Diva (How I found my voice) – Julia Chalfin, Soprano
The Most Exciting Woman in the World: Eartha Kitt – Danielle Herbert
THEATER
3 Women with an Attitude – Kathy Steel
Alternative Theatre Festival – iNtuitons Experimental Theatre
Antony & Cleopatra: Infinite Lives – The Porch Room / The Underground Shakespeare Company
Ballroom Dancing Ain’t For Sissies – Donald Drake and Kate Slovich
BARBIE BLENDED: A Pop Rockin’ Musical – Theatre Underground
Brat RockPile: Popsicle’s Departure, 1989 & Eternal Glamnation – Brat Productions
Chomsky vs. Buckley, 1969 – Bruce Walsh
City Boy – Armando Batista
ComedySportz Presents: Tongue & Groove – Tongue & Groove
Crave – Theatre Drapeau Rose
Creditors – Philadelphia Artists’ Collective
Devotedly, Sincerely Yours: The Story of the USO – The Pearlman Sisters
Edges – A&B Productions and Parallax Theatre Company
Electric Jungle – Found Theatre Company
FRINGE WRAITHS: Digital Dramatic Reverb – Iron Age Theatre
Ghost Sonata – Homunculus, Inc.
Hackles – The Groundswell Players
Hair – eXposed Theatre Company
I Hate Monologues +and+ The Alphabet Plays – The MacKnight Foundation
Iminami – PuppeTyranny
Ivona, Princess of Burgundia by Witold Gombrowitz – The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
Jeff Coon and Ben Dibble Must Die – Los Jarochos
Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used To It) – Round Table Theatre Company
Lysistrata – Theater Cooperative & Naked Feet Productions
MONUMENT – Drexel Players
Napoleon Princess Groupie Newspaper – Amy Frear and Chelsea Sanz
Of Plastic Things and Butterfly Wings – Little Fish Theatre
Orpheus & Eurydice – Green Elephant Theatre Co.
Othello, Desdemona, & Iago Walk Into A Bar – [ad hoc theatre project]
Paint the American Eagle – One Shot Productions
Raw Stitch – Jacqueline Goldfinger
See You In Paris – Randi Hickey & Jenna Lam
Seek and Hide – Dragon’s Eye Theatre
Sephro: The Vengeance – Fantasy Weavers
Silken Veils – Leila Ghaznavi and Pantea Productions
Some Other Mettle – Applied Mechanics
Stop Kiss – Kristin Heckler
The Apocalypse of John – Serious Theatre Collective
The Artists’ Women – YeuxVeuxBelle Collective
The Bucket Cure – Little Sundance Productions
The Cabinet of Curiosities- A Most Unusual Magic Show – Jeff Carson
The Consul- American Opera by Gian Carlo Menotti – The Philadelphia Opera Collective
The Edge of Our Bodies – Theatre Exile
The End of Hope, The End of Desire – Tiny Dynamite / Extreme Measures
The Funeral of Enerio Lopez – Lori Felipe-Barkin
The Has Beens – ETC Theater
The Hoarder’s Child – Blue Scarf Collective
The Maids – Kicking Mule Theatre Company
The Straw Girl: A Fairytale – Odd Act Theatre Group
The Walls – Ira Brind School of Theatre Arts, University of the Arts
Tomorrow I Will Start a New Life. Oblomov Revised – Aleksandra Berczynski
Wawapalooza 6: The Great Almost – IdRatherBeHere
VISUAL ART + FILM
Dostoyevsky Man – Larry Loebell and Seth Reichgott
Film Fringe Tour – Film Fringe Tour
The Big Nude Pinhole Shoot at The Rotunda – RA Friedman/Tsirkus Fotografika
What Nurtures Us – Linda Dubin Garfield/ Susan Dipronio
