Your Week: September 2nd-4th

What to do in Philly, September 2nd-4th

By Victor Fiorillo

Tuesday
A few $25 tickets remain for Sebastienne Mundheim's fantastic Live Arts puppet show, Sea of Birds (pictured), at ICE BOX Project Space. On the decidedly non-fringe end of things, the Walnut Street Theatre kicks off its 200th anniversary season with a production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical State Fair, featuring lots of good ol' Midwestern family values and gigantic choruses.

Wednesday
The absurdist Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium presents its silly, burlesquey Fringe show A Streetcar Named Durang at L'Etage. At the Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Broad Street, Karen Getz and a host of other local talents pay tribute to 1978 and the Glitterballed Age of the Hustle with Disco Descending, a polyesther-clad followup to her 2006 Live Arts hit, Suburban Love Songs. And at Penn's Rose Recital Hall, local avant garde jazz promoter Ars Nova brings us the frenetic, improv happy Japanese outfit Satoko Fujii Ma-Do.

Thursday
Leave the kids at home for To The Wall's take on the bizarre off-Broadway tale Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Toby Zinman didn't much care for Pig Iron Theatre Company's latest, Sweet By-And-By, but I say give it a shot. Or for something a little (more) different, IDRATHERBETHERE gives a nod to our favorite convenience store in Wawapalooza 2: Get Shorti.

Check back on Friday for weekend picks.