Adam Kerbel News

Almanac Projects will present an intimate double bill pairing two powerful solo works examining Jewish identity, family memory, and the path toward justice.

Almanac Dance Circus Theatre,  Philly's favorite contemporary circus company/festival producer is set to take their signature, award-winning work of acrobatic storytelling around the Northeast this summer. 

After an incredibly successful and massive month-long run during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Cannonball Festival is returning with its small and mighty off-shoot Miniball. Miniball is a 10-day smaller version of Cannonball. Running December 8-18 at Christ Church Neighborhood House, this eclectic performance festival will feature returning audience favorites from this year's Cannonball Festival alongside brand-new performances and touring works.

Communitas, the founding production of the award winning Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, returns to Philadelphia for the first time since its premiere -- reimagined and re-envisioned for changed bodies and a changed world. In Communitas, wordless acrobatic encounters tell the story of the founding of society in which all members are equals. Communitas: Five Years Later will run for 10 performances at Funicular Station (416 West Coulter Street) in Germantown from May 16-May 25, with a special encore presentation on May 26th in Penn Treaty Park. Tickets available at almanac.ticketleap.com/communitas-5yl.

Almanac Dance Circus Theatre is excited to kick off summer with Fit Fest. Fit Fest comes to Penn Treaty Park in Fishtown on Sunday May 26th for a day-long event of participatory fitness workshops including circus arts, dance, movement, yoga, and more. Fit Fest celebrates the freedom to move creatively; to experience fitness through the arts; and the use our public spaces in the city. Generously funded by the Penn Treaty Special Services District, the festival will culminate in world-class contemporary circus and dance performances overlooking the Delaware River, including a special 5-year Anniversary performance of Almanac's breathtaking acrobatic dance, Communitas: 5 Years Later.

Theatre Philadelphia, the region's marketing and leadership organization for theatre, proudly announces the 2018 nominees for the Barrymore Award for Excellence in Theatre. Celebrating the rich, diverse professional theatre scene in the Greater Philadelphia region, the Barrymore Ceremony will be held on Monday, November 5th at 7pm at the Bok Building at 1901 S. 9th Street in South Philadelphia. Guests will continue the festivities with an after-party Celebration at the same location. Tickets for artists, supporters, and the general public are now on sale at www.theatrephiladelphia.org.

Called "The little dance theatre troupe that could" by Philadelphia's City Paper, Almanac was founded in 2013 by Nick Gillette and Ben Grinberg, graduates of the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training, with Adam Kerbel, a graduate of the Headlong Performance Institute. The company pursues present performance at the edge of what is possible, through playful honesty.

In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which will mark the Wilma's 11th production of a work by Tom Stoppard, minor characters take center stage as they journey on a boat taking Prince Hamlet to England with players from the royal court. As these characters unknowingly sail to a fate Shakespeare has already scripted for them, arguments of free will and determinism abound, all set to the constant travel game of flipping coins. In this battle of wits, Stoppard's characteristic wordplay and case of mistaken identities create a spectacle that's philosophical, clownish, and complete with a pirate-ambush.

Concert meets immersive performance where every audience member has a backstage pass. Inspired by Russian feminist group Pussy Riot, Applied Mechanics is engaging its signature choose-your-own-adventure style to create a piece about feminism, protest art, and activism in our contemporary world.

Concert meets immersive performance where every audience member has a backstage pass. Inspired by Russian feminist group Pussy Riot, Applied Mechanics is engaging its signature choose-your-own-adventure style to create a piece about feminism, protest art, and activism in our contemporary world.

This June, Hybridge Arts Collective will present On the Rocks, the newest solo work of emerging dance artist, Stuart Meyers (in collaboration with Adam Kerbel.) This production will mark the 3rd installment of Blueprint Breakout Series, a 3-month partnership that culminates in a World Premiere performance at Broad Street Ministry. On the Rocks is an evening-length solo that electrifies and transforms the performance space of this Center City community arts hub.

This June, Hybridge Arts Collective will present On the Rocks, the newest solo work of emerging dance artist, Stuart Meyers (in collaboration with Adam Kerbel.) This production will mark the 3rd installment of Blueprint Breakout Series, a 3-month partnership that culminates in a World Premiere performance at Broad Street Ministry. On the Rocks is an evening-length solo that electrifies and transforms the performance space of this Center City community arts hub.

William Shakespeare's witty, playful and totally magical As You Like It is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden.

William Shakespeare's witty, playful and totally magical As You Like It is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden.

William Shakespeare's witty, playful and totally magical As You Like It is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden.