The Guided Tour. Read the misleading description of the group Kaibutsu's The Guided Tour, and you think you're in for a zany circuit through the city, on a tour bus. The tour-bus part is right, but not the zany.
The Guided Tour is Bruce Walsh's dark story of a Philly tour-bus guide with no heart in his job, a real heart in medical jeopardy, and a heartless bore of a boss.
Prior expectations aside, it's a good tale told in four parts, in which the tour guide - a solid portrayal by Brian T. Delaney - ends up having an epiphany in Point Breeze. The hour-long story uses locations along a nine-mile route that begins and ends at Third and Arch Streets. It bogs down on the return to Center City, when yet another desperate character enters the tale.
What keeps it moving, aside from the actual tour-bus driver, is the city itself: Sirens blare, horns honk, and people go about their business. (Some are startled by a tourist bus on their neighborhood streets.) All this everyday life balances the main character's brooding insecurity. Expect nice performances from supporting players Ryder Thornton and Alexis Brie Wildau. Dan Scholnick's sound design is on the mark.
-Howard Shapiro, Philadelphia Inquirer

$15. 1 and 3 p.m. today, Saturday, Sunday, and Sept. 18. Meet at 239 Arch St.