Wed., April 25, 8:30-10 p.m.
24th St. between Ben Franklin Pkwy. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Free
Billed as a first-of-its-kind event in the U.S., this flashlight mob aims to show the Iroquois sculpture near the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in a new light. In the dark of night and sans any usual illumination, flashlight-mobbers will create their own lighting effects using their own or provided flashlights. The event will be captured by videographers.
Wed.-Sun., April 25-29, 8 p.m. (3 p.m. show on Sunday)
$18 (Wed. is pay what you can)
If you're into mythological heroines of ancient Greece, you cannot miss this remounted, powerful one-woman show presented by 2010 Barrymore winning B. Someday Productions and
Naked Feet Productions. Naked Feet artistic director Hannah Tsapatoris MacLeod stars in murderous, vengeful and incestuous turns as Medea, Clytemnestra and Phaedra, among others. The show is directed by local Greek poet and actress Lili Bita.
Fri., April 27 9 p.m.-midnight and Sat., April 28, 3-6 p.m.
$10 general admission, $5 for artists (two-day general admission)
This international festival of live, performance-based works that are transmitted via internet and projected in real time at venues across the planet employs a cyber-jungle theme with video games, tarot, photo booths, food, beer and yes, monkeys. Starring Philadelphia's Britney Leigh Hines and Marcel W. Foster (
marcelwfoster.org) and Tanzania's Dunstan Matungwa, this version of Low Lives is "hosted" by Jane Goodall (Foster) and Donna Haraway (Hines) and features a live performance at 11 p.m. that leaps across the Atlantic Ocean to join Matungwa.
PHOTOS
Low Lives 4
Women of Fire and Blood (AustinArt Photography)
Iroquois sculpture