Weekly Cheap and Free

The Charm City Fringe Festival and award-winning NYC theater artist Amanda Erin Miller present The Jew in the Ashram, a funny, poignant and lightly interactive solo show about a young woman who travels to an ashram in India after college seeking spiritual enlightenment and unexpectedly reconnects to her Jewish roots. Studying yoga provokes reflection on prayer, summer camp, and the role of Judaism in the lives of her late father, David, and his biological mother, Esther, Holocaust survivor he never met. At select moments, the audience is invited to move, chant, and reflect on their own spiritual journeys and identities—the ones we inherit and the ones we make for ourselves.

Physical and fun, Beauty and the Beat is about presumptions that go way off course.  You wonder about the guy who lives next door. Inspired by Tom Waits' song “What’s He Building in There,” nosy neighbors jump to big conclusions.  As neighbors, some know each other, others not so much. See what ignites when a neighbor’s odd behavior is evaluated by gross assumptions all because of branches of a tree that hang over a fence. The beauty of the moment has a life of its own like a disaster waiting to happen should a tree fall over!

A terror stirs in the night, apocalypse looms, and on an island somewhere in the middle of the Pacific, the great priest Cthulhu opens his eyes. Join the Phenomenal Animals for this immersive encounter with Lovecraft’s tale of eldritch horror.

The Phenomenal Animals perform original adaptations of classical works of horror, fantasy, and the occult. Their performances immerse audiences in an interactive experience that allows the audience to shape and interact with the story without ever having to leave their seats. The Animals are currently in residence at Chesapeake College on Maryland's Eastern Shore. 

Fleabag meets A Room of One’s Own in Modern Witches, the story of 30-year-old actor Kate Marie. Tasked with delivering a perfect performance of Virginia Woolf for a self-tape audition, Kate must also navigate through a recently uprooted life following her decision to break off a wedding engagement. Thanks to her retail job at a mystic shop, Kate has access to various magical items, which she uses with surprising results.