
Heyo, the Festival Guides are here! For a fancy-pants virtual guide, hit up our website, and "turn" the "pages" to browse what's on offer at the 2010 Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe.
Need a print guide? Watch for us on First Friday in August, when we're running around passing 'em out.
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Emma Gibson, the Philadelphian-by-way-of-Britain producer of Abi Morgan's Tiny Dynamite at this year's Philly Fringe, sends us this recipe:
Because of the British connection I thought it might be pertinent to include a very British meal, Toad in the Hole. Not, I should add, what it sounds.
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We'll be down the street enjoying the live local music, moon bounce, venders, and, oh yeah, four beer gardens at the NoLibs 2nd Street Festival. Stop by our table and say hi!
--Ellen Freeman
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Release: Vijay Iyer Live
Vijay Iyer and Bill Morrisson
Live Arts co-presents a concert by jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer at Eastern State Penitentiary, where he will play within the art installation Release, for which Iyer created the music and Bill Morrison created the film from found footage of Al Capone's release.
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¡EL CONQUISTADOR!
Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental
An ingenious mash of live theater and film,
¡El Conquistador! follows the telenovela (soap opera) adventures of a doorman and the crazy and exotic residents who ensnare him into their devious plots.
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Cankerblossom - A Dark Fairytale for Kids Aged 9 to 90
Pig Iron Theatre Company
Pig Iron explores the world of fairytales with equal shades humor, darkness, and wonder. Parents must save their cardboard baby by entering Flatworld, where the inhabitants are as flat as cardboard. In fact, they are cardboard. Features West Philly's pioneering puppeteer Beth Nixon.
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The Sun Also Rises - Based on the Novel by Ernest Hemingway
Elevator Repair Service
In this world premiere staging from acclaimed New York ensemble Elevator Repair Service, Hemingway's novel comes to life on a stage littered with liquor bottles, cafe chairs, and a table that become a snarling, matador-charging bull.
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