Presented by Shakespeare in Clark Park as part of 2025 Philly Theatre Week! While haunted by visions of her ill-fated mother, enigmatic, “African” Queen Cleopatra becomes entangled in sexual and political brinkmanship that puts more than Ptolemaic Egypt at stake. Caught in a web between the Roman Empire, Mark Antony, and a crocodile, Cleopatra must...
This event is FREE and tickets are not required, but RSVP for a chance to win 4 tickets to Franklin's Key. -- Join us in a celebration of Philadelphia’s young inventors, as students of SLA Beeber share an exposition of their inventions and the alternate worlds/histories surrounding them. Blending real world engineering and science with creative...
Dancer/Choreographer KAYLIANI SOOD has been invited to curate an evening of dance for PDP's DANCE UP CLOSE '25. She will present a duet "Jumper Cables" created with dancer ALLISON SMITH, accompanied by drummer STEVE PERRY. "Jumper Cables" is a dance of energetic extremes. The dancers weave a narrative of resilience through the mouthpiece of postmodern, house and breaking. Unornamented athleticism characterizes...
A Performance of Monologues, Dances, Stories, Songs, Poems, Sketches, and more in celebration of International Women's Day. Profits will be donated to the Women's Law Project, a nonprofit public interest legal organization working to defend and advance the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQ+ people in Pennsylvania and beyond.
In this deeply personal, funny, and moving solo performance, Palestinian artist Ashtar Muallem illustrates her life’s journey and relationships with her countries, body, and spirituality. Her physical contortions mirror her dual existence between Palestine and France, navigating cultural intersections with humor and poignancy. Inspired by Jerusalem and cherished memories of her grandmother, she searches for...
From one of our educators at Christ Church: Have you ever felt ugly? Like you’re cursed by the critical gaze of humanity? Well, what if a sexy voice spoke to you from behind a big door promising your wildest dream.. your most desperate fantasy of validation… a chance to finally belong. You just might decide...
Written by the infamous sex icon of stage and screen, Mae West’s The Drag, once hailed as outrageous and morally offensive, explores sexual and moral taboos to reveal both the pleasures and the cost of living a secret life. Closeted socialite, Rolly Kingsbury, navigates his suspicious wife, her therapist father who specializes in gay conversion,...
This summer, Christ Church Neighborhood House pulls back the curtain on a lesser known history in the City of Brotherly Love. Christ Church has been conducting research to discover the lives and everyday acts of resilience and survival by Black people, both free and enslaved in Colonial Philadelphia. Many were buried on the grounds of...
Philadelphia Dance Project's mid-week series DANCE UP CLOSE presents LILY KIND In "I've got a tape I wanna play", Lily Kind has created a surreal celebration of music and its slippery role in daily life. Together with dancers Chelsea Murphy, Chloe Marie, Elizabeth Weinstein, and Dylan Smythe, Kind performs a climactic concert, bringing together house,...
JOE GONZÁLEZ & JO MÉ DANCE THEATRE premiere "Unbroken" a suite of works that showcases an unbroken drive to keep moving forward, and stronger- dances that delve into emotions to overcome grief and a social injustice.
AMALIA COLÓN-NAVA’s "We could plant fruit trees/ Podríamos plantar arboles frutales" integrates storytelling and interviews from her travels to Mexico with dance, diary entries and field recordings. CAITLIN GREEN will perform and screen "FURY," an excerpt from the in-progress experimental dance film Eros: As Fragile as it is Free.
Enjoy an evening of soulful and moving singing, illuminated by the gentle glow of candlelight. Join us in the Gardens at Christ Church (Neighborhood House Theater - new location due to weather) for our third season of Candlelight Cabarets. Inspired by the “rooftop sings” that were once held at the Neighborhood House in the 1920s,...
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