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One Less
Four choreographers imagine a world without [fill in the blank].
by Deni Kasrel
TIDE is inspired by Cario and Bazell's interest in eco-psychology, the study of how humans' well-being is directly tied to the Earth — and vice versa.

Range Life
Pig Iron cowboys up in Yuba City.
by A.D. Amorosi
The characters have names and identities, but Yuba's toying with archetypes — the cowboy-philosopher, the vagrant, the alien-seeker, the fussing fighting couple — all seemingly in a tug-of-war with no battle ever won or lost.

All Atwitter
Artists set their sites on a virtual audience.
by Shaun Brady
The unprecedented balance of intimacy and anonymity has captivated local artists to such an extent that no fewer than four of the shows in this year's Live Arts/Fringe are wrestling with social media in some way.

Bike Part Art Show
Ongoing (closing party/auction Sept. 18, 7 p.m.), free, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave.
by Kyle Press
For the seventh year in a row, Neighborhood Bike Works invited local artists to rummage through their scrap pile and see what treasures they could create.

<i>Everyman</i>
Sept. 4-6 and 13, 8 p.m.; Sept. 11-12, 10 p.m.; $15, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St.
by Lauren F. Friedman
For this updated adaptation of Everyman, audiences should come prepared to follow actors throughout the First Unitarian Church.

Green Up Your Act
Fringe vet Thaddeus Phillips goes Off the Grid.
by K. Ross Hoffman
Inspired by the venue-rotation system of the Edinburgh Fringe, OFF THE GRID features four very different shows and functions like a microcosm of the larger festival.

Best of the Fest
Live Arts/Fringe picks from <i>City Paper</i> staff
7(X1) Samurai | Activity Book | The Brothers Flanagan | The Chairs | Cirque-ular | Citizen Paine | Clean Sheets | DaDaDa | Desert of Hallways | Dumb Show | Fefu and Her Friends | Fractured FairyTales | Happy Hour | How Theater Failed America/The Last Cargo Cult | InFlux | Insomnaeria | Like, So Totally '80s | MEELEY, or The Fun of It | Monsters of Podcasting/The Sound of Young America LIVE! | Muralmorphosis | Nuda Veritas | Operetta | Phuk What Ya Heard! | Postcards from the Woods | Rare Bird Show | Realm of the Unreal: the Vivian Requiem | Something with Wings | Teenager: Anne Frank | Tongue & Groove | Trade the Remount | Urban Scuba | The Waitstaff Sells Out | Wake Up Philadelphia! | Wawapalooza 3: The Dark Roast | Zombie! The Musical


Charlotte's Web
Pig Iron's newest collaborator fits right in.
by A.D. Amorosi
"Right now, I'm playing Priscilla, a legally blind cowgirl; Ronnie, a cashier with a mean streak and an underbite; and Sharon, a shit-kicking, mulleted divorcée doomed to an eternal lovers' spat."