The Church of Loneliness. A vintage cyberpunk cafe. Government-mandated sex talks with your dad. Each week, award-winning Philly playwrights present short, fresh plays that explore faraway places and radical themes about humanity’s future.
VISIONS is a three-week work-in-progress series showcasing 10 playwrights. Each week a different group of writers present brand new performance pieces inspired by outer space, technology, religion, the future, and more. Come back the next night or the next week to see a new Vision!
Church of Loneliness by Carl(os) Roa
Matthew Armstead performed Founder
Pirate Queen: A 10-minute Verse Play in Queer by Nick Jonczak
Matthew Armstead performed Slip the Groundskeeper
Cannonball is an independently run satellite festival that takes place September 9th through October 2nd, concurrent with the Philadelphia Fringe. The festival highlights over 150 events spanning theater, dance, circus, and film, including our 30+ mainstage shows, nightly cabarets, pop-up events, workshops, artist talkbacks. Cannonball celebrates forward-thinking, adventurous artists who take risks, rethink the present, and imagine a better future.
Philly Fringe is a 4-week long, city-wide celebration of innovation and creativity in contemporary performance. Each September, the Festival explodes into every nook and cranny of Philadelphia with more than 1,000 artistically daring performances, including national and international performances curated by FringeArts, and works that are produced by independent artists and promoted by FringeArts.