After its debut in 2025, VARIETY PACK is back and leveling up. Philadelphia’s festival dedicated to the chaotic, theatrical, unclassifiable corners of alt-comedy returns January 22 – 31, 2026 with two weekends of shows, twenty acts, and even more gloriously unhinged performances.

What started as a one-time experiment has now officially become its own producing entity: Variety Pack, an independent festival committed to giving Philly’s strangest comedic minds a home…

7:00 PM, Lady! Lady! Lady!
Lady is a small town girl in the big city with even bigger dreams, and she’ll do anything to achieve them. Anything. No, really, anything. Described as, “Pearl meets Shirley Temple”, “crowd work king”, and “virtuosic”, Lady is a girl played by a clown played by a boy hailing from the West Philly Clown Slam, and Lady! is a show about taking risks and seizing girlhood by the balls.

8:30 PM, The Whole F*ckin Spider-Man Trilogy in 60 Minutes (Encore)
Missed it the first time or just need another hit of web-slinging chaos. The madness returns.

10:00 PM, Private Dick: The Hardest Noir in Town
PRIVATE DICK: Lonesome Town’s premiere Private Investigator by day, alcoholic by….well also by day– the classic noir man. But is the red string enough to solve the case of his missing wife? Or does he need help from a very special MEMBER of the force on his HARDEST case yet? Private Dick is on the case in this gender performance cabaret and this time the investigation is INTERNAL.