CANNONBALL FESTIVAL

by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 03, 2025

Original devised performance company mimebaby theater is premiering a new work, Donner and Blitzen Holiday Edition, at The Proscenium at the Drake, running for 10 performances. ...

by A.A. Cristi - September 10, 2025

Clown and comedian Sara Kantner makes her Philadelphia Fringe debut with The Final Badge, an absurd, interactive solo clown show running September 25–27 as part of the Cannonball Festival at the Asian Arts Initiative Storefront (1219 Vine St., Philadelphia). ...

by A.A. Cristi - September 10, 2025

Philadelphia audiences can earn a few laughs—and a shiver or two—when comedian and clown Sara Kantner brings her award-winning solo comedy The Final Badge to the Cannonball Festival, part of Philly Fringe....

by Emmy Rice - September 06, 2025

Xora Odelle re-mounts an updated version of the intimate and gripping “Of Mice and Women” for the Cannonball stage, bringing new life and difficult social questions to larger audiences this Fringe....

by Stephi Wild - September 02, 2025

Gabi Shiner will bring her musical comedy solo show PLEASE to Philadelphia Fringe for a two-performance limited engagement at the Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater....

by Emmy Rice - August 30, 2025

Anna Snapp will perform her autobiographical solo show, I Found That the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow, as part of the Cannonball Festival. The show is directed by J. Paul Nicholas and runs September 13 through September 27. ...

by Stephi Wild - August 25, 2025

Local performance artist and contemporary clown Francesca Montanile Lyons is bringing her solo show VILE back home to Philadelphia after a successful national tour last summer....

by Emmy Rice - August 12, 2025

5 Stagehands Fall Out of a Closet (the goose crisis) will premiere at The Trestle Inn September 3rd as part of the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Tickets are on sale now....

by A.A. Cristi - August 05, 2025

Celebrated Philadelphia performer Severin Blake will debut their first solo work, Labyrinth of the Other (LOTO), this September as part of the Cannonball Festival. ...

by A.A. Cristi - July 30, 2025

Philadelphia's Cannonball Festival will present the premiere production of revelations from the first and last ever rehearsal of THEY SAY I DID SOMETHING BAD: an unauthorized taylor swift parody musical about the life of the unabomber ted kaczynski presented by the bridgebrook college drama club....