Coming This September
Philly Fringe @ the Bike
Yellow Bicycle Theater’s lineup for this year’s Philly Fringe Festival features 10 guest productions from across the country, the third annual Bicycle Shorts Film Festival, and a YBC production in honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps in Philadelphia. Check the listings below and see you at the Bike! #phillyfringeatthebike
SEPTEMBER 4-28, 2025
Yellow Bicycle Productions
Bicycle Shorts Film Festival
Yellow Bicycle Company
Film
Run Time: 90 mins
Ticket Price: Pay What You Can (min. $5)
Dates: September 6 – 28, 2025
BSFF 2025 is bigger than ever, with 3 blocks of bike-themed films from across the globe. Highlights include a Spanish documentary about a paralympic cyclist, a stop-motion romance between bikes, and a gritty drama set in Philly’s BMX wheelie culture. For a full schedule visit yellowbicycle.com/bsff.
A Marine Walks Up to the Pearly Gates
Live Theater, Run Time: 80 mins
Ticket Price: $25
Dates: September 11 – 27, 2025
From the American Revolution to Afghanistan, casualties of war arrive at the Pearly Gates, each one a ghostly witness to the 250-year history of the U.S. Marine Corps. Will these brave but troubled souls find their way into Heaven, or are they doomed to haunt the perimeter forever? A new play by Joshua Crone, featuring Michael-Eoin Stanney, Giacomo Badalamenti II, Joseph Croft, Lenny Ramos, Najee Duwon, Alec Stephens III, Patrick Thomas Kasey, Anna Kurtz and Thoeger Hansen.
Guest Productions
Buen Camino
Susan Edsall / Soaring Solo Studios
Solo Show, Theater
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $20 (PWYC options)
Dates: September 4 – September 10, 2025
Alone on stage, Susan Edsall becomes 23 characters to take the audience on her solitary walk through 540 miles of rain, resentment, and redemption. Buen Camino is a moving story about grief leading to surrender, and ultimately to freedom.
A Cat in a Box
Tom Nemec
Solo Show, Spoken Word & Storytelling, Theater
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $10
Dates: September 20, 2025
One man. One family. A lifetime of unpacking. In his raw and riveting solo show A Cat in a Box, Tom Nemec explores growing up in a chaotic, alcoholic home—with biting humor, deep vulnerability! In a story that lingers long after the curtain closes.
Dr Glas
Daniel Gerroll
Solo Show, Theater
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $20
Dates: September 24 – 28, 2025
Adapted from the novel that scandalized Swedish society in 1905, DR GLAS is performed as a solo piece by Daniel Gerroll who takes on the stories multiple roles including that of the ‘good’ doctor, Helga Gregorius, the woman he is infatuated with as well as her husband, Pastor Gregorius. A thriller.
Family Law Comedy Special
Jana Marie Rose / Rose Wellness Services
Theater
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $20
Dates: September 6 – 7, 2025
Family Law Comedy Special (Or, White People Problems) showcases one custody hearing in a court where anything goes. A divorced mother seeks to get custody of her daughter, but the judge is hungry, attorneys want to talk about pilates, and food blogs are very controversial.
Fatherland
Lights, Theatre, Action!
Theater
Run Time: 80 mins
Ticket Price: $25
Dates: September 12 – 14, 2025
It’s Springtime, 1940. And you are a German-American. The Burger family, Frank, Trudi and their daughter, Kristin of Jersey City, New Jersey are living a life of quiet desperation. Loyal to America, the homeland, but quietly proud of the economic revival in Germany, the Fatherland.
I Am Going To Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes)
LibLab Productions
Theater
Run Time: 45 mins
Ticket Price: $15
Dates: September 18 – 21, 2025
Welcome to the Deathday Party!! We’ve all gathered here to honor the death (and life) of… someone who REALLY likes cupcakes. This highly interactive and improvisational experience encourages you to assist The Figure as they unpack the many mysteries of life, identity, and what it means to die.
Mother Boswick: The Best Show You Never Knew You Needed To See
Boswick Enterprises
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $20
Dates: September 4 – 11, 2025
Mother Boswick:The Best Show You Never Knew You Needed To See, serves up twisted tales, unsolicited advice, and vintage vengeance from Squinch Hollow. There will be stories. There may be guidance. There will definitely be judgement.
Rhymes With Orange
Rhymes With Orange
Comedy & Improv, Theater
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $15 (PWYC Options $5+)
Dates: September 20 – 21, 2025
We broke all our bones after all the animals we made up fell on us, then our smells floated away. We invented a machine to get them back, but it made glasses that point down so we can’t see where they went. Did you know you could break your bones’ heart? By not using your bones to see Rhymes With Orange.
Shade
Khadijah Davis
Solo Show, Spoken Word & Storytelling, Theater
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $40
Dates: September 27 – 28, 2025
SHADE follows Kissandra, a Jamaican Afro-American girl torn between ambition and conformity. As the world tries to box her in, she must decide whether to shrink to fit in or embrace her bold, multifaceted self and discover what life offers when you stand out.
This is a Message for Ted Campbell
Oona Higgins
Comedy & Improv, Solo Show, Theater
Run Time: 30 mins
Ticket Price: Free
Dates: September 20, 2025
Oona got her first cell phone at eleven. She received some odd voicemails: an expired car warranty, a dentist, an attorney… all meant for a man named Ted Campbell: the man who used to have her phone number. Oona goes on a journey to learn who he was, but discovers more about herself on the way.