See Philadelphia Fringe Festival

A bus ride away.

fringearts.com, through October 4.

Among dozens of socially distant productions, highlights include Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s American Chameleon: The Living Installments, a flexible digital commons and archive that includes a reading group for Kosoko’s “Syllabus for Peace” (through September 30); David Gordon’s ambitious video-dance collage with more than 30 artists,

The Philadelphia Matter—1972/2020 (through October 4); and the sci-fi sequel to Geoff Sobelle, Trey Lyford, and Steve Cuiffo’s hilarious magic show gone wrong, Elephant Room: Dust From the Stars (September 23 to 26).