Coming November 14-16

Encores at the Bike

The 2025 Philly Fringe Festival was a rousing success, but now artists are asking: “Where do we go from here?” And audiences are wondering: “Where can I see that show I missed?” The answer to both questions is the first annual Philly Fringe Encores at Yellow Bicycle Theater. This year’s lineup includes an immersive experience in the form of an old-fashioned slideshow, a laugh-out-loud solo show about learning to drive in Florida, an absurdist road-trip comedy from New York’s Rhymes with Orange and a film documenting a Yellow Bicycle Collective production at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C. Check out the listings and see you at the Bike! #encoresatthebike

Guest Productions

SLIDESHOW

Josh McIlvain and Automatic Arts

Immersive & Interactive Experience, Run Time: 85 mins, Tickets: $20 ($10 live stream)
Fri Nov 14 at 7 pm, and Sat Nov 15 at 7 pm, Sun Nov 16 at 2 pm
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From the 1950s through the 1980s, the slideshow was a staple of the American household. SLIDESHOW drops audiences back into the time of Kodachrome colors, weaving a fictional family history around strangers’ real slides of long ago vacations. A funny, disturbing, and deeply felt work about the disconnection between the lives of children and those of their parents, SLIDESHOW recreates a lost ritual and delves into the aspirations of 20th-century American life.

Critics say: “The performance is a brilliant exercise in connecting dots that lead McIlvain’s unnamed character on an epic journey with several loves.“ -Broad Street Review.  “The punchy-colored slides and humorous yet heartfelt prose McIlvain recites is as uncanny and nostalgic as some of our own family scrapbooks.” -City Paper. “Ingenious travel down memory lane!” -Stage Magazine

How I Learned (Not) to Drive

Jesse Bradley-Amore

Spoken word & storytelling, Run Time: 60 mins, Tickets: $20 ($10 live stream)
Fri Nov 14 at 8:45 pm and Sat Nov 15 at 2 pm
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How I Learned (NOT) To Drive, directed by Indie Theatre Hall of Fame director Padraic Lillis, deals with the very true story of a 40-year-old Florida man overcoming his lifelong fear of the open road and getting his driver’s license in a desperate attempt to save his marriage. It’s like a live-action version of the Fast & Furious, but funnier, more anxious, and only 60 minutes.

A Fringie Award Frontrunner Pick at the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. “…a fabulous piece of live theater. Jesse’s expressions and delivery are outstanding, bringing vulnerability, humor, and energy to the story. It is an immensely relatable story of trauma, loneliness, love, and overcoming fear, and his performance makes it impossible to not become completely invested in the story.” -Andrea Stephenson, Broadway World.

Infinite Gs

Rhymes with Orange

Comedy & Improv, Run Time: 60 mins, Tickets: $20 ($10 live stream)
Sat Nov 15 at 9:30 pm and Sun Nov 16 at 7 pm
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A dumb hero’s journey with projections, musical numbers, and homemade props & costumes. A salesman and a poet take a bus that has its own idea of where it wants to let them off. Trying to find their way back to their lives, they interact with strange objects and creatures and learn about each other and themselves.

Dom & Matt are from Rhymes With Orange, an outlet for a group of friends in New York that has transformed over the past 5 years from an immersive multimedia project to an experimental comedy group to a devised theater company. Check us out at http://www.rmo.news/. Photo credit: Asia Mieleszko.

Yellow Bicycle Collective

A Marine Goes to Washington

Documentary, Run Time: 120 mins, Ticket price: Free
World Premiere November 16, 2025 at 4 pm

On the eve of the 250th Marine Corps Birthday, a scrappy Philly theater company led by a former jarhead brings a free show to Washington in the throes of a government shutdown. The film includes a full performance of “A Marine Walks Up to the Pearly Gates” at the historic Atlas Performing Arts Center in D.C.

Full Metal Jacket meets Vanya on 42nd Street in this hybrid documentary by  Joshua Crone, featuring Michael-Eoin Stanney, Giacomo Badalamenti II, Lenny Ramos, Najee Duwon, Alec Stephens III, John Crann, Jonathan Power, Anna Kurtz and Thoeger Hansen. Premiering as part of the first annual Philly Fringe Encores.

Critical praise for A Marine Walks Up to the Pearly Gates: “a stunning play” -Thom Nickels, Philly Daily. “an immersive and profoundly moving theatrical experience.” -Kelsey Sizemore, ShowTones. “haunting and hopeful and wholly original.” -Erica Moody, ArtiumOmni. A Fringie Award Frontrunner Pick at the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.