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“A vibrant, creative home for the arts… Perfectly designed to accommodate diverse productions.”
-Mare Rozelle, Google Reviews
“Built with state-of-the-art technology and old-world theatrical craft.”
–Bill Wadhams, Google Reviews
“A performance-space gem in our city.”
-Brenda Hillegas, Rowhome Magazine
Coming This September
SEPTEMBER 8-27, 2026
Fringe @ the Bike
Yellow Bicycle Theater’s lineup for this year’s Philly Fringe Festival features ten wildly diverse guest productions, ranging from a hip-hop retelling of A Christmas Carol and deep-sea black-light puppetry to a lifelong Elvis impersonator’s solo show and a gothic supernatural thriller. In-house productions include the fourth annual Bicycle Shorts Film Festival, a Fringe encore of a critically acclaimed new play, an inside look at a sci-fi film in progress, and a family-friendly celebration of Lakota Sioux heritage. Check the listings below and see you at the Bike! #fringeatthebike
Coming September 11th to Film Noir Cinema in Brooklyn
Black Box
“a moving, gripping and relatable story of people in pain, confused and looking to make connection in any way they can.”
-Jim Catapano, Arts Independent
Join us at Film Noir Cinema for the New York premiere of Black Box on the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
- When: Friday, September 11, 2026 at 7:30 pm
- Where: Film Noir Cinema, 122 Meserole Ave., Greenpoint, NY 11222
- Starring: Alec Stephens III, Veronika Vozniak, Stephanie Roseman, Richard Roddy, Thoeger Hansen, and Tim Palmer
Returning September 8, 9 & 13
Waiting for Westy
A play by Joshua Crone
September 8, 9 & 13 [TICKETS]
The night before their memorial is unveiled, Vietnam veterans from South Philly learn that retired General Westmoreland plans to visit their post. The third play in a trilogy about war and its aftermath that began with Ashes, Ashes (shortlisted for The Bridge Award, premiered at the 2023 Philly Fringe Festival) and continued with A Marine Walks Up to the Pearly Gates (winner of the Lieutenant William Broyles Award, preimered at the 2025 Philly Fringe Festival), Waiting for Westy follows three Vietnam veterans as they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the war and its leaders.
A new play by Joshua Crone, featuring Thoeger Hansen, Richard Roddy, Joshua Crone, Lenny Ramos, and Bob Bowersox. Assistant directed by Giacomo Badalamenti II. Based on a true story.
Critics say:
“Truly an epic play”
-Thom Nickels, PhillyDaily
“Anyone who lived through those times will be enthralled”
-Frank Burd, BurdReviews
“a creative team is able turn limited space, seemingly a disadvantage, into a virtue.”
-Richard Lord,PerformanceFont
“This production is amazing! Well written, directed and produced!”
-Barrymore Awards Nominator
Coming September 13th
Prometheus: Bound
Yellow Bicycle Company & Prometheus Bound LLC
Film, Readings & Works-in-Progress, Interactive Experience
Tickets: Pay What You Can (min $5)
Date: Sept 13 at 6pm
Quarantined in a floating sphere and torn between ethical imprinting and corporate interests, the world’s first Artificial General Intelligence confronts the sons of its late creator—a psychologist seeking closure and a tech mogul bent on building a digital god. A groundbreaking indie film merging live performances with AI-generated worlds. Staged reading, sizzle reel, and audience talkback: a first look for sci-fi fans and backers.
Saturday, September 26
Bicycle Shorts Film Festival
Yellow Bicycle Company
Tickets: Pay What You Can (suggested $15, min. $5) [TICKETS]
Dates: Sept 26 at 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 8:30pm [SCHEDULE]
A Fringie Award frontrunner at last year’s festival, BSFF rolls on with three 90-minute blocks of bike-themed films from across the globe, plus a rescreening of the award winners for Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, Animation, Student, and Audience Choice. This year’s lineup includes powerful documentaries on urban advocacy, resilience and inclusion, immersive mountain journeys through Demark and Idaho, poetic BMX meditations, and whimsical shorts ranging from an Amazonian bike on a journey of self-discovery to a functional frame carved out of ice.
Sunday, September 27
Lakota Day
Native American dance & storytelling plus a documentary screening
Sunday, September 27 at 2:00 pm, 3:30 pm and 5:45 pm [TICKETS]
A family-friendly celebration of Lakota Sioux heritage featuring world-renowned dancer and singer Delwin Elk Bear Fiddler, Jr. The program includes two dance and storytelling performances and an award-winning documentary, each followed by Q&A and photo-ops.
White Buffalo (2:00 PM, Dance + Storytelling, $20): The story of the Lakota told through traditional dances and songs. White Buffalo retells the prophecies, sacred rites and traditions of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) passed down through generations of Dakota, Lakota and Nakota. The show runs 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A and photo-op with Delwin.
Without Arrows (3:30 PM, Documentary, dir. Jonathan Olshefski & Elizabeth Day, $15): After 11 years living in Philadelphia, Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer, embraces indigenous culture by returning to his ancestral home on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Leaving his big city life behind, Delwin aims to protect his centuries-old Lakota heritage and heal from family tragedy, through his passion for dance.
Wacipi (5:45 PM, Dance + Storytelling, $20): A journey through native dances and songs that connect the audience to the heartbeat of Mother Earth. The show lasts 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A and photo-op with Delwin.
In the News
What Can the Vietnam War Teach Us?
In her 1968 essay, “Trip to Hanoi,’ Susan Sontag wrote that being in Hanoi was for her “very least a duty.” She continued: “What I’m not yet reconciled to is that it’s also a piece of political theatre. They [the North Vietnamese] are playing their roles, we (I) must play ours (mine). The heaviness of it all comes from the fact that the script is written entirely by them; and they’re directing the play, too. Though this is how it has to be — it’s their country, their life-and-death struggle, while we are volunteers, extras, figurants who retain the option of getting off the stage and sitting safely in the audience.” [FULL REVIEW]
Yellow Bicycle founder and former Marine scout swimmer Joshua Crone and award-winning author and former Marine Recon sniper .
The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce Joshua Crone of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Brennan Morton of Havertown, Pennsylvania as recipients of the Foundation’s 2026 Annual Awards. They will be honored at the Annual Awards Dinner on April 25 at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia. Crone received The Lieutenant William Broyles Award for his play A Marine Walks Up to the Pearly Gates, which examines the human cost of war from the American Revolution to Iwo Jima to Afghanistan through the voices and journeys of fallen Marines. [FULL ARTICLE]
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