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Friday-Sunday Up to you Alan Ayckbourn's 1984 comedy Intimate Exchanges, about a couple's troubled marriage, has one beginning scene and a number of possible endings. Where the two actors go is determined by the audience. The intrepid 1812 Productions presents the work, with Jen

Aaron Cromie stars in "The Body Lautrec" at University of the Arts. Plate3 Photography
Aaron Cromie stars in "The Body Lautrec" at University of the Arts. Plate3 PhotographyRead more

Friday-Sunday

Up to you

Alan Ayckbourn's 1984 comedy Intimate Exchanges, about a couple's troubled marriage, has one beginning scene and a number of possible endings. Where the two actors go is determined by the audience. The intrepid 1812 Productions presents the work, with Jennifer Childs and Tony Lawton, as part of the Neighborhood Fringe, at the Arden Theatre's Arcadia Stage, 40 N. Second St. Times: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $34 to $40. Information: 215-413-1318 or FringeArts.com.

Saturday

Autumn welcome

That bit of crispness in the air, the color creeping into the leaves - autumn's just about here. Say hello with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Fall Festival, featuring competitions for giant vegetables and flower arrangements; a marketplace with plants, tools, garden accessories, home decor, crafts, and Philadelphia Flower Show keepsakes; a harvest market with fresh produce from local gardens; the curated (and pretty cool) Franklin Flea; a beer garden; and children's games. It's all at the Navy Yard parade grounds, 4747 S. Broad St. Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Information: 215-988-8800 or www.phsonline.org.

Friday-Sunday

How it looks

Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen's puppet drama The Body Lautrec is a meditation on the life of French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and his theory of the vulgar and the sublime. The Neighborhood Fringe show goes on at the University of the Arts' Caplan Recital Hall, 16th floor, 211 S. Broad St. Time: 8 p.m. Friday, noon and 8 p.m. Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $25. Information: 215-413-1318 or FringeArts.com.

Saturday

Stars of tomorrow

See them now: Young dancers from Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States perform a compilation of terpsichorean vignettes in the program International Dance Stars as part of the Neighborhood Fringe at the Rock School for Dance Education, 1101 S Broad St. Time: 2 p.m. Tickets are $10. Information: 215-413-1318 or FringeArts.com.

Saturday-Sunday

Artist and model

Andrea Kuchlewska & Harmony Stempel's drama Human Fruit Bowl looks at the life and mysterious death of Renee Monchaty, the model and muse of postimpressionist painter Pierre Bonnard. The Neighborhood Fringe show goes on at the Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St. Times: 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets: $20. Information: 215-413-1318 or FringeArts.com.