Watch this looping performance as you might view a painting from outside the garden, or enter, and make an offering in exchange for a story and a song.

A multi-sensory meditation-comedy on the nature of nothing, performed for extraordinary audiences in ordinary bedrooms.

Part haunted house, part poly-sensory psychodrama, the Hall of Haunts took groups through New Jersey’s historic Rutherfurd Hall the weekend before Halloween.

Witness one woman spacewalk through a sea of red Netflix sleeves and iron oxide dust.

Bartram's Robot asks us to consider, "what is the natural world? And am I, being a robot, unnatural?"

Starting out with a story about employees at a natural history museum, the human plot fades into the background as the animals take over.

An award-winning science fiction author’s world is turned upside down by a surprise visit from her biggest fan: an agender being from another galaxy.

A temporary installation on a vacant lot in South Philly which served as a platform to catalyze local knowledge in a rapidly evolving and fractured neighborhood.

Part fairytale, part nature documentary, and part Brechtian interrogation of the stories we tell about animals.

A site-specific journey through intimate moments of erosion set amidst The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ historic building and collection.

A clown show of two adult boys struggling to escape the powerful fiction about what it takes to be a man.

An impossible comedy about a family of fortune-tellers, time-wrinklers, spiritualists, or mediums, who live an eccentric life in the tumultuous 1930s.

A TED talk gone wild on the scientific and spiritual dimensions of consciousness.

A tough, no-nonsense teenager, finds her way through the riddles of the underworld to see if anything besides silence lies beyond death.

An eccentric preacher, a star-gazing lawyer, a mysterious servant girl, and some wayward wildlife are the stars of The Sea of Tranquility, a play set across many centuries of New Jersey’s folkloric history and performed for the grand rooms of Rutherfurd Hall.

“Do you have a? Would you like a?” and “Proto Lear” were both part of an evening of work created by HPI’s 2011 class.