Coming This September

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 

Yellow Bicycle Productions

Bicycle Shorts Film Festival

Yellow Bicycle Company
Film
Run Time: 1h 30m
Tickets: Pay What You Can (suggested $15, min. $5)
Dates: Sept 26 at 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 8:30pm

Lakota Day

Delwin Fiddler, Jr. & Yellow Bicycle Company
Dance, Storytelling & Spoken Word, Kids & Family
Run Time: 1h – 1h 30m
Tickets: $20
Dates: Sept 27 at 2pm, 3:30pm, 5:45pm

A celebration of Lakota Sioux heritage featuring world-renowned dancer and singer Delwin Elk Bear Fiddler, Jr. Program includes two dance and storytelling performances, White Buffalo (2pm) and Wacipi (5:45), and the award-winning documentary Without Arrows (3:30), each followed by Q&A and photo-ops.

Prometheus: Bound

Yellow Bicycle Studio
Film, Readings & Works-in-Progress, Interactive Experience
Run Time: 1h 30m
Tickets: Pay What You Can (suggested $10, min $5)
Dates: Sept 27 at 2pm, 3:30pm, 5:45pm

In a race to defeat a cataclysmic computer virus, a psychologist interrogates a quarantined AGI built by his estranged father. 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.

Waiting for Westy

Yellow Bicycle Collective
Theater, Immersive, Interactive Experience
Run Time: 2h
Tickets: $25
Dates: Sept 9, 10 at 8:30pm, Sept 13 at 3pm

Hailed by critics as “fascinating” (BurdReviews) “powerful” (PerformanceFont) “epic” (PhillyDaily) this new play by the winner of the 2026 Lieutenant Broyles Award reexamines the Vietnam Era through the eyes of three vets at the VFW bar in South Philly circa ’87. Based on a true story.

Guest Productions

Christmas Carol: The Rap Musical

Michael Radzwilla
Theater, Music
Run Time: 1 hr
Tickets: $20
Dates: Sept 8, 12, 19 at 6:30pm, Sept 11 at 9pm, Sept 20 at 1:30pm

Witness the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge, told through an original hip hop musical. Christmas’ most famous ghost story comes back to life.

Conquering the Canon

C.A.G.E. Theatre Company
Theater, Solo Show, Storytelling & Spoken Word
Run Time: 1h
Tickets: $25
Dates: Sept 12 at 9pm, Sept 13 at 1pm, Sept 19 at 4pm

Michael Hagins may be the only African-American artist to ever take part in every play of William Shakespeare’s complete Canon. He tells the story about all of the completed works, but he learns along the way that with every great achievement and life changing moment, comes a great and sad loss.

Creatures of the Deep

Dark Star Theatre
Art for Young Audiences, Puppetry, Theater
Run Time: 45m
Regular Tickets: Sept 11, 14, 15, 16 at 6:45pm ($25)
Pay What You Can Tickets: Sept 14, 15, 16 at 8:45pm (suggested $25, min. $10)

Dive into the deep ocean with black light puppetry! Meet the notorious anglerfish, marvel at whale vs. giant squid, wonder about siphonophore colonies, and more as they all come to glowing life in the dark. Appropriate for children and families, beautiful and fascinating for any age.

First in the Hearts

Lights, Theatre, Action!
Theater
Run Time: 1h 15m
Tickets: Pay What You Can (suggested $10)
Dates: Sept 19, 20 at 9pm, Sept 20 at 4pm

If Grover’s Corners is OUR TOWN, then what’s the village of Grover’s Notch? After all, the “Notch” is known for being first with their midnight vote during the New Hampshire presidential primary. So, two losing campaigns send cute volunteers to the “Notch” to seduce folks and rock the midnight vote.

Impersonator

Spencer Boyce
Cabaret & Variety, Solo Show, Comedy
Run Time: 1h 10m
Ticket Price: $15
Dates: Sept 12 at 1:30pm, Sept 17, 21 at 6:30pm, Sept 24 at 6pm

Can you find yourself by being someone else? Spencer Boyce has been an Elvis Tribute Artist since he was six years old. But now, he’s not sure if his time spent with the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll has been a blessing, or a curse. You won’t want to miss this one of a kind solo show!

Is This Thing On?

Adam Bradley
Music, Solo Show, Theater
Run Time: 1h
Ticket Price: $25
Dates: Sept 8 at 8:45pm, Sept 9, 10 at 6:30pm

Hilarious, soulful, and deeply human, this multimedia solo show blends live music, storytelling, and visual imagery to trace one man’s journey from Yale singing fame to Wall Street, fatherhood, grief, and creative rebirth.

My Needy Letters to Keith Urban

Cute and Powerful
Comedy, Solo Show, Storytelling & Spoken Word
Run Time: 1h
Ticket Price: Pay What You Can (min. $10, suggested $20)
Dates: Sept 23, 24, 25 at 8:30pm

A lonely dad who buys Keith Urban’s 30 Songs in 30 Days DVD collection through an infomercial opens up to what is going on his life to his new friend. Michael Dermansky reads his letters, reliving embarrassing events as a stay at home dad who desperately needs a friend.

Show Pony

Irene Molloy
Theater, Solo Show, Music
Run Time: 1h 20m
Ticket Price: Pay What You Can (suggested $15, min. $5)
Dates: Sept 18 at 6:30pm, Sept 24 at 6pm

Show Pony is told by a woman standing on the other side of the story. As a mother, she reflects on ambition and the courage it takes to step out of a role you learned too young how to play.

Single Woman: Work In Progress

Tess L
Comedy, Storytelling & Spoken Word, Solo Show
Run Time: 1h 15m
Ticket Price: $12
Dates: Sept 12 at 4pm, Sept 17 at 9pm, Sept 23 at 6pm

Eligible single woman, 35, seeks AMWWTHFAPSGFYOS (audience members who want to hear funny and profound stories gathered from years of singlehood). Not actually a work in progress; the single woman IS the work in progress, y’know? Comedy and catharsis and singles event…for Tess.

ZOMBIED

Hudson Wolfe
Theater, Readings & Works-In-Progress, Performance Art
Run Time: 1h/1h 30 mins
Ticket Price: Pay What You Can (suggested $16, min. $10)
Dates: Sept 18 at 8:45pm (1h 30m), Sept 19 at 1:30pm (1h), Sept 20 at 6:30pm (1h)

What happens when your body falls apart? And when those parts follow you, waiting for–something? Do you listen to their grievances? Or scream until they leave? Do they ever leave? ZOMBIED is a gothic supernatural thriller about the fight to defend one thing we all think we deserve: our own bodies.