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Every month, we remix current events to imagine what a slightly altered world could look like. Five brand-new radio plays, written with inspiration from the news, featuring a rotating cast and creative team, exploring alternate presents. The results range from the absurdly wacky to the poignantly reflective, from apocalyptic to aspirational—but they’re always clever, fun, and inspired. It's the news—only better.
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The show continues every Tuesday at 9:30 PM EST!At The Open Mic at FRIGID New York the focus is the stage! Sign-ups get 7 minutes to try anything in one of the most supportive rooms in New York City. Whether it’s a performance art piece, comedy, music, storytelling, dance, or something entirely off the top of your head, you'll find a home in the attentive welcoming community. Open Mic FAQs
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On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations wraps big ideas in focused stories about Ella’s pets, offering glimpses of her human family and life in her place of birth, Transylvania, Romania. With her dark humor and heart, Ella takes audiences from her childhood under communist rule, to her present quirky experiences in East Harlem, using her dog and cat as reference points. Content Warning: This show contains dark humor. This show is not recommended for children. The cast will feature Ella Veres and her companion dog, Pandele, who said she's in it not for fame, but to pay her vet bills. Rosamunda, her cat, was asked to perform but declined. She’d rather lounge under the sofa than be in the limelight. “Being from Transylvania, is expected of me to be creepy, so I oblige, from time to time, albeit not in Hollywood style,” said Ella Veres, lead performer and director of On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations. “The war in Ukraine riled my memories up, and urged me to point out how much there is to lose.” The performance will run approximately one hour. Each show is a different iteration. Ella Veres is an independent performer and writer who has been active in the New York City cultural community since 2001. Her work has been presented at the Immigrant Theater Festival, Galapagos Art Space, Manhattan Theater Source, IWAS,The Field, Theater for the New City, The Moth, Stage Left, Bowery Poetry Club, Chashama, and her present incubator, Fountain House Gallery. For several years she focused on her visual art, but in 2022, serendipity made her act in Stories From My Mother at the Theater for the New City, and thus reminded her how lovely it is to be in front of a live audience. Her current solo storytelling show, On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations, was shaped during her 2023 Fountain House Gallery summer residency on Governors Island and in Adam Wade’s Magnet Theater Solo Workshop, and premiered successfully at the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival.
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Based on Anton Chekov's "On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", this darkly comic one man show builds on the theme of addiction and domestic misery. The piece draws on Chekhov’s original play but reimagines it in the world of recovery meetings and urban survival, where humor and despair blur into each other. Equal parts satire and tragedy, the play asks whether we can ever laugh at our own ruin.
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Fire Wheel is a show that celebrates long form improvisational comedy. Each performance consists of a host introducing three teams, that perform regularly in New York City. These teams perform all new material created on the spot.
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The name of the show is Something to Say. Is that because I just have something to say? Lots of people, maybe everyone has something to say. So why in the world would anyone have any interest in one more asshole with one more something to say, when it should be pretty obvious that with all the somethings to say being said, not much of it is making any damn difference. Blah blah yada yada blah blah blah. Well, maybe that’s not so obvious. And maybe that’s what we’re after here. To see what might get said that actually moves the meter, not just the episodic circumstantial meter of what’s right in front of us, but the meter that tracks the beat beat beat of the heart that pumps in the belly of the beast. That’s the something to say that this Something to Say is here for. Yeah I know, good fucking luck. And you’re welcome. Watch the promo video
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Doors open at 7:30 for drinks and mingling, curtain at 8:00pm. Welcome to Mildred Springs! A quaint city in the vague Northeastern United States. A city not unlike other cities. Join us while the bold and the beautiful citizens of Mildred Springs live the days of their lives. Some might be young and restless. Some might be doctors working at Sacred Corpuscle Memorial, a general hospital. But they've all got one life to live. Join us as their world turns. Join us as their guiding light leads them on their constant search for tomorrow. Join us as they hang on to the edge of night and you will be transported to another world. The world of It's Getting Tired Mildred. But make sure you join us for their continuing stories. Set in the 1980’s, known for riding the line between camp and loving homage to the soap opera genre, and featuring a dynamic cast of the indie theatre pros, IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED hooks audience members to come back month after month to see what happens next. Each episode of IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED is performed only once! Formerly a late-night hit... Now daytime moves from late-night to primetime! Now at Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place.
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Welcome to Virgin, Minnesota—a town so stuck in its ways that even the cows might be celibate. Mayor Frankie is determined to save the town from economic doom by bringing in a new factory, run by the brilliant but no-nonsense Dr. Corazon De La Fuente. But here's the twist: the factory manufactures sexual enhancement pills, and it doesn't take long before things start to get… steamy. Just as the townsfolk are warming up to the idea of jobs, an accident sends a mysterious cloud of sex-enhancing mist floating through Virgin. Now, the once-uptight residents are overcome with desire, and all their repressed urges start bubbling up like a Midwestern hot dish left on high. Under the watchful (and hilariously judgmental) eye of Old Lady Warner, the whole town is turned upside down as everyone deals with newfound lust, confusion, and a whole lot of awkward conversations. Full price includes a glass of wine
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Spanglish Affair Open Mic If you want to perform, please fill out this form and attach a screenshot of your ticket purchase: Click here Now the Spanglish Affair is happening monthly! We are introducing themes to spark your creativity Oct 13th: “Drop Dead Gorgeous” Nov 17th: "Friendsgiving from Abroad / Gracias, Amigues" Dec 15th: "Something from Abroad" Holiday Party and Fundraiser We are excited to provide a safe space for artists to explore and share their art in front of a live audience. If there's something you've always wanted to do, this is a space for you to do it! While our company focuses on Spanish and Spanglish content, this is not a requirement for your piece—if you're someone with art to share, this space is for you. Here are some ideas for types of performers we're looking for: singers, dancers, comedians, performance art, burlesque, actors, visual artists, clowning, spoken word, poetry. THE SKY IS THE LIMIT! We have 8 available spots which will be filled first-come first-
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Adam Wade, the 20-time Moth Story Slam winner, creator of the #1 Best Selling Audible Original 'You Ought To Know Adam Wade' and from TV’s 'Inside Amy Schumer' and 'Girls' returns to Under Saint Marks Theater! This monthly storytelling show will feature three to four different stories from Adam’s extensive catalog. No two shows will be the same. Come and see this New York Times, Time Out New York, and CBS critics’ pick LIVE on stage in New York! A different special guest storyteller will begin each show. “Mr. Wade is an enchanting storyteller.” – The New York Times “Wade is expressing not just our inner misfit but our inner small-town kid.” – The New Yorker “He’s completely vulnerable. When he goes on stage he brings only himself. People instantly fall in love with him.” – George Dawes Green, the founder of The Moth “Adam’s nuanced observations, openness, and wit transform his coming-of-age tales into funny, impactful, and universal stories of joy and hope.” – Audible
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"All Abard!" is an original meta tragicomedy play about two comedians in the 1960s who move to New York to chase their dreams of living lives they won't regret living, but when love gets in the way, what will they choose? This show is an absurd and off-beat ode to the history of comedy and classic rom-com. Written and performed by Brooklyn comedians Bianca (Dot) Mangravite and Brandon Kral Featuring New York City comedian Josh Nasser Directed by Ron Mangravite
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The opening of the DAYS OF THE DEAD FESTIVAL! JOIN US! The Witching Hour is back and ready to brew up a batch of all new bite-sized horror stories. The evening of short horror plays will strike fear into your hearts, and maybe a bit of laughter into your souls. This time around we've got some spooky short plays for you featuring ghoulish guests, cursed containers, worried witches, and more. So when the night comes, gather around our (figurative, not literal) cauldron and get ready to stir up some spooky tales. Featuring: Brothers of the Box by Nick Luis When Death came to dinner by Laurel Mora Vardo by Nicole LeBlanc A Haunting of 48th St by Gwyn McAllister Bridge Crossings by Kento Morita
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To commemorate the 175th anniversary year of Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 1849, Stephen Smith performs four of the American author’s most spine-chilling classics, back-to-back and unabridged: The Tell-Tale Heart; The Pit and the Pendulum; and The Raven. Poe’s archaic language paired with Smith’s award-winning tour-de-force performance offers gothic horror fans and classical literature lovers an atmospheric evening rich with imaginative storytelling, making this truly a marathon of the macabre. The perfect theatrical treat for Halloween season: One Man Poe arrives at after a sold-out 21-show run at the 2024 and 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it also won the 2024 Spookies Award for "Best Horror Solo Show", and the 2025 Derek Award for "Best Overall Show of Edinburgh Fringe". “Powerfully moving… This show quite literally took my breath away… Unmissable!” ★★★★★ Everything Theatre “A compelling and repelling experience” ★★★★★ MyTheatreMates “Edgar Allan Poe himself would love this powerful performance” ★★★★★ The Derek Awards “Awe-inspiring… An incredibly gripping and enthralling evening” ★★★★★ North West End “The definitive Fringe interpretation of these already much-loved works” ★★★★★ The Wee Review “A captivating night of terror, guilt, grief and murder most foul… A must-see” ★★★★★ Broadway Baby Age Suitability: for 12+ Show length: 80 minutes, no intermission
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After four years, Hottie Bop is coming to… AN END! That’s right folks. On October 17th, come to Under St Marks to experience THE DEATH OF HOTTIE BOP. This is the LAST Hottie Bop show… ever. There will be death. There will be destruction. There will be tears. And there will be joy. For together, we will create the most un-sad funeral service the world has ever seen — for the world’s most unhinged variety show (with music comedy and dance). Who has Hottie Bop named as beneficiaries in its last will and testament? Which Hottie Bop fan favorites will return for one final act? and of course, will Jake Snyder FINALLY be inducted as a true Hottie Bop Hottie™️? Find out on October 17th! ONE NIGHT ONLY! If you miss this show, you will take your fomo to the ~grave~. Stay for a party after!!!
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This production is a celebration of the Mexican Holiday Day of the Dead and would bring together traditions, poetry, stories, and music in a variety show form. The stage will feature a traditional ofrenda or altar to the loved ones who have passed away. The audience will become part of the experience, they will be able to participate with the artists on the ofrenda enjoying some of the offerings to the dead such as Mexican hot chocolate and pan de muerto. The performances will consist of a group of artists dedicating their art form to a loved one that has passed away. Each artist will share a little information about their loved one and will add their photo and an object that represents something they loved to the ofrenda.
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Miriam Wasmund’s "Your Faithful Reader" is a slice-of-life tapestry that highlights the uniqueness of personal stories and the universality of human experience. The performances explore themes of identity, family, love, loss, and a full spectrum of emotion. Miriam, an Alvin Ailey-trained dancer, choreographer, writer, and producer, living and creating in NYC since 2001. In 2019, she founded Your Faithful Reader, an experiential dance theatre company that merges the worlds of acting and dance with real letters submitted by the community, transforming them into a powerful one- or two-act journey through the human experience. The concept emerged from Miriam’s personal journey with grief and self-discovery after losing her brother and mother. Missing the exchange of letters with her family, she began writing and invited others to do the same. The overwhelming response led to the creation of "Your Faithful Reader", demonstrating the power of shared experiences through the innovative integration of dance, theatre and authentic personal narratives. The company solicits letters from everyday individuals—addressed to anyone or anything—based on prompts. These letters, ranging from romantic and funny to brutally honest, form the core of each performance. A team of actors, dancers, and creatives then brings them to life, creating immersive and emotionally resonant experiences that foster connection and celebrates storytelling. For the Frigid NYC Days of the Dead Festival, we’d plan to use new and archived letters inspired by the depth of understanding of loss, the celebration of life in both small and communal ways, and the ways we - who are still earth side - go on as champions of our ancestors and passed loved ones. Performances on: October 19th at 2pm and October October 25th at 3:30pm
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The horror movie classic gets twisted into Shakespeare, as Laurie Strode must keep herself and her friends safe from the evil murderer Michael Myers, all while Doctor Loomis rushes to protect her.
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Spooky Town is a dark comedy about a town haunted not by ghosts, but by laughter. When laughter rates suddenly skyrocket in a small, eerie town, X and Z think little of it—until people start dying. Not from fear or violence, but from laughing too hard. As mysterious blood puddles appear, power flickers, and odd new student Y becomes increasingly unsettling, the friends find themselves at the heart of something deeply wrong. They uncover that laughter is no longer harmless—it’s deadly. But the more they try to resist it, the more contagious it becomes. Spooky Town blends comedy and horror through a surreal, often absurd lens. Part paranormal mystery, part existential panic, the play explores how we cope when the line between joy and destruction disappears. With sharp dialogue, queer romance, and escalating tension, it’s a love story about fear and a theatrical ghost story without any ghosts. Just try not to laugh.
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In the chilling aftermath of “ONE-MAN WHODUNNIT: The Tale of Francis Grey and the Case of His Dead Boyfriend,” the shadows of Mistyfield Hospital for the Criminally Insane loom ominously. Rebecca, ensnared within its cold, echoing walls for her sinister attempt to end Jimmy’s life, leaves Francis with a sense of fleeting respite. His peace is shattered by the haunting realization of Rebecca’s decades-long scheme to unravel his existence. As Francis steps into the hospital’s dimly lit corridors, he encounters not just the twisted remnants of his former friend, but a malevolent entity—a centuries-old demon, its eyes gleaming with a promise of eternal torment. Desperate to save his life and soul from this dark force, Francis must confront the demon that now inhabits Rebecca, questioning his own sanity as he whispers, “What would Buffy do?”
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When Tom Galván takes his own life, his family and friends and most importantly, his ex-boyfriend, gather to say their goodbyes on a day that happens once every four years. Realizing none of them are prepared for the funeral, they band together to get through this tragedy. With humor, tears, anger, and cake, they learn how to hold onto the love they have always had, while moving forward in a world that seems so cruel for no reason. Oh, and maybe the ghost of Tom Galván shows up to haunt them in a way only he knows how.
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BURIED ALIVE! a matchbox theatre, is a frightfully funny exploration of our age-old fear of being buried alive, and the curious phenomenon of 19th Century “waiting mortuaries.” Tiny and interactive, it is full of dreadful discoveries for a mature audience of 25-30. BURIED ALIVE! is based on historical and medical facts and urban myths. Performed on a tabletop, and constructed entirely in and of matchboxes, it takes advantage of the unique qualities of these tiny stages. Images and characters slide out, slide through, pop up, and drop out of the matchboxes. The puppeteer embodies the tiny characters to magnify the action. BURIED ALIVE! is creatively anachronistic and plays with scale. For ages 12 and up. “...depicted with comic deadpan perversity...a wink and raised eyebrow of an entertainment.” -- womanaroundtown.com Performances on Oct 20th at 8:45pm and Oct 26th at 5:30pm
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Side-Coached is an improv show in which performers improvise live based on an audience prompt, all along being side-coached by our experienced improv teacher Ian Herrin. In this first season, we aim to experiment: at times one large team, at times two smaller teams, will perform in the first part of the show, then we will jam with audience members who put their names in the hat. Our show is an offshoot of East Village Performance/Practice Group that started in Spring 2025. Our gratitude goes to Under St. Marks Theater that fostered our group. Ian Herrin is an actor, improviser, and teacher with over a decade of long-form experience who has performed at PIT, Magnet, UCB, and festivals all over the East Coast. Ian is the host of the long-running improv show The Ian Herrin Improv Hour (IHIH) which has featured Special Guests from Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Comedy Central, Logo TV, E! Network, TLC, VH1, IFC, truTV, et al.
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Dark comedy or however you want to call it, about a very in love couple- they both want to kill themselves, but there is only one gun with one bullet, who deserves to die more? And what happens when a demon and the devil himself gives a hand in that decision?
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A night of experimental comedy with New York's Funniest Stand-Up 2022 winner Daniel Simonsen. Come watch the Norwegian build material as he works both scripted and completely unscripted. As seen on Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “One to watch” Time Out “Brilliantly offbeat” Guardian “Exceptionally funny” Village Voice **** Times **** Time Out **** Skinny **** Fest
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One part The Crucible, one part Monty Python. When it comes to the witch hunts, this 60-minute fast-paced comedy asks the very important question: “If we really were witches, wouldn’t we just cast a spell to get away?” What if real witches dropped in on the witch hunts? “Witches” follows the troubles of Obediently Snead, a townswoman in the 1600s who is just trying to stay alive. The head witch hunter, John Thomas, has different ideas. Fortunately, the ghost of Obediently’s ancestor is looking out for her and summons the real witches to the rescue. Antics ensue.
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In one hour of drag, clown, and desperation, Señor Babyhead presents his Día de Muertos Especial. It’s a journey across the Sonoran Desert in which Babyhead encounters artifacts, mirages, and spirits. Who is Señor Babyhead? Only Mexico’s most (washed up) famous sitcom star, desperate to stay relevant and avoid becoming an artifact, himself. It’s an hour of crooning, crawling, and implicating the audience in a dangerous game. Analisa Raya-Flores is a writer, performer, and papier-mâché artist. Her fiction can be found in Glimmer Train and MonkeyBicycle, and her face can be seen in My Beloved (Eleanor Monahan), Interesting Ball (DANIELS), and live venues all over LA and NYC. Her plays have been produced at the Annenberg Beach House and the Elysian Theater. In 2023, her screenplay Farewell Chica was a semifinalist at the Austin Film Festival Competition. As a queer Chicana, she creates work that celebrates and interrogates the Mexican-American experience, from the grief of diaspora and to the awkward hassle of Otherness. Analisa is autistic, which gives her a perspective neurotypicals often call “unique”— which she decodes to mean “unintentionally weird.” She lives, worries, and walks her dogs at the foot of the Sierras.
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Santiago is your average guy going through a mid-20s crisis. He’s massively overworked, massively underpaid, and nursing a massive crush on his supposedly straight roommate (who just so happens to also be his childhood best friend and first boyfriend from before Santiago transitioned). Santiago also talks to dead people. Following a near death experience in his teens, Santiago works as a Record Keeper documenting memories of the recently deceased so they can pass on to the afterlife. However, his frequent communions with the dead strain his ability to connect with the living, especially his roommate Isaiah. “What Remains” is a 90 minute dramedy that investigates how the lives we think we should lead have the power to ruin the ones we actually have. Content warnings: allusions to suicide, death, allusions to homophobia.
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CLOSER focuses on the intimate relationship between two sisters who find themselves trapped in a painting. By day, they sit peacefully around a pond, minds seemingly full of meaningless pleasantries. But with nightfall comes the demands of their captor. In order to keep the art fresh, and in-turn keep themselves alive, the sisters must feed the painting human lives. As their deadline approaches, the sisters find themselves at odds, debating between morality and immortality. This thrilling horror challenges how deep a sister's bond goes and asks what people won't sacrifice to be young forever.
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Bright White Light is an earnest exploration of life and its most important moment: death. Centered around a conversation between an amicable Grim Reaper and a fiery Ornithologist, the play dares to ask, "Is rage the appropriate response to the dying of the light?" Bright White Light was originally written and performed for the NYC Fringe Festival 2025 and won an Extension Award with Frigid's Days of the Dead Festival
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Psychic medium and stand up comedian Nelly Reznik will be performing Comediumship, an experimental combination of stand up comedy and audience readings. Readings may consist of connecting with loved ones who have passed, and receiving life guidance for audience members, all in a lighthearted way. Not everyone will receive a reading, but all in attendance should be open to it. Due to the intimate nature of the event, doors will close at curtain time and latecomers will not be given a seat. In addition, this is an alcohol-free event. Opener: Grace Lobo
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Come catch the best short films of the month with the EAST VILLAGE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Please note that this show will not be streaming and can only be seen in person. East Village Film Festival is an independent project and not produced by FRIGID New York. For more information, please visit their website at eastvillagefilmfestival.com.
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As You Mic It: An Open Shakespeare Slam - Join us for a one-of-a-kind slam where you can compete to be crowned Best of the Bards! If you are slamming, come prepared to perform up to two of any Shakespeare monologue or sonnet of your choice (within 3 and a half minutes, memorization not required but encouraged). If you are don't want to slam, come join us for some merriment, libations, and maybe even become a judge (no experience necessary)! All full price ticket purchases come with a free glass of wine! SLAM MECHANICS - First 15 to sign-up at the door will be guaranteed entry to the slam as a participant. Up to 3 people can be wait-listed depending on time-constraints. 3 Judges will be selected at random from the crowd. Each participant will have 3 and a half minutes to perform their chosen monologue, after which the judges will secretly give them a score out of 10.0. Scores will be tallied in secret and the top 3 will enter the "callback" round where they will perform a second monologue and once again be graded. The overall winner of the "callback" round will be crowned Best of the Bards and receive a prize.
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Paper Kraine was created in 2016 to bring together works in development, artists, and audiences in support of nonprofits. Monthly, the PK team curates a new works sample platter around a theme and donates all proceeds to a selected nonprofit. Try something new, delicious and strange. Come for the art. Stay for the community. We encourage risk-taking, question-asking, and the development of a supportive community of artists seeing, encouraging, and challenging each other’s work with the ultimate goal of enriching the artistic community through cross-pollination and meeting new people. Learn more at www.paperkraine.com.. Due to limited capacity, latecomers are not guaranteed seats. This applies to both walk ups and reserved tickets.
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Step into the darkly comic world of Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad Musical—winner of Best New Musical at the NYC Fringe Festival, Broadway World’s Best Book of a Musical, and more. For one night only, NYC’s folk-noir powerhouse Brokeneck Girls perform the haunting, foot-stomping score live in concert, with scenes from the brand-new video projected between songs. Rooted in the tradition of violence against women in folk music, this sharp-witted social commentary blends true crime, outrageous humor, and hidden history with an unflinching take on violence in entertainment. Don’t miss this rare chance to experience the award-winning sensation in a thrilling mix of live music and theatrical storytelling.
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Step into a world of Music, Dance, Comedy, Burlesque. The cool. wild and wonderful. Dress Up, dress Downtown or come as you are for a slice of NYC nightlife like no other. Co-Hosted by dazzling Dara Jemmott (crowned Winner, NJ Statewide Funniest Fest) and gregarious Gregory Levine (Travel Channel & Emcee - Guilty Pleasures) since June 2023.
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You’re invited to Trinity’s Necromancy Party! She found a dead body in her backyard, and now she’s invited all her friends and others to resurrect the mystery man. Together they’ll celebrate the summer, play jump rope with the line between life and death, and try not the start the zombie apocalypse in Jersey City in this new play from playwright Leo Layla Díaz and director Hannah Marie Pederson.
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FRIGID Nightcap: The Mandatory Cabaret What happens when culture itself is compulsory? When joy, weirdness, and performance are no longer choices, but mandates? At FRIGID Nightcap, we say: if it’s mandatory, then we’re making it fabulous. The Mandatory Cabaret is a satirical, unhinged late-night variety show that flips authoritarian creep on its head. Expect a kaleidoscope of comedy, drag, burlesque, clowning, music, and mayhem—all celebrating radical queer joy, political resistance, and the glorious chaos of noncompliance. From compliance checks gone rogue to fabulous anthems of defiance, this is obedience reimagined as resistance. The state demands conformity. We demand sequins. Friday, September 26th, 2025 10:30 PM Under St. Marks Theatre – East Village Tickets are just $15 and include a complimentary glass of wine. Not in NYC? Snag a $10 livestream ticket and join the rebellion from your couch. Attendance is encouraged. Weirdness is mandatory.
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Madrugada En Manhattan (Manhattan's Midnights): In the heart of Loisaida (Lower East Side), Toro, a Nuyorican musician, is haunted by the spirit of Luna. But she's more than a spirit, she is a memory; she's a messenger of forgotten love, a cosmic destiny, a love from a past life. Toro must awaken to who he truly is- BORICUA. If he fails, humanity never know true love and the stars will vanish from the night sky. Blending Puerto Rican folklore, Latino rhythms, and poetic magical realism, Madrugada en Manhattan (Manhattan's Midnights) is more than a love story, it is an epic bilingual drama, a revolution, and a tribute to culture’s power to outshine even the darkest night. Written and Directed by, international artistic diplomat, Reyna de Jesús Music arranged and produced by, Grammy nominee, Adan Perez Madrugada en Manhattan (Manhattan's Midnights): En el corazón de Loisaida, Toro, un músico neoyorquino, se encuentra con el espíritu de Luna. Pero Luna es más que un espíritu: es un recuerdo, una mensajera de un amor olvidado, un destino cósmico, un amor de una vida pasada. Toro tiene que despertar a quien realmente es: BORICUA. Si no, la humanidad jamás conocerá el amor verdadero y las estrellas desaparecerán del cielo nocturno. Combinando el folclor puertorriqueño, los ritmos latinos y el realismo mágico poético, Madrugada en Manhattan (Manhattan's Midnights) es más que una historia de amor: es un drama bilingüe épico, una revolución y un homenaje al poder de la cultura para brillar en la inmensa oscuridad. Escrita y dirigida por Reyna de Jesús Arreglo y producción músical por, Adán Pérez.
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At Burlesque Buffet, necromancers aren’t the only ones raising spirits. Blood Lust is a sultry, spooky burlesque cabaret where bump-and-grind meets the macabre. Our cast of dazzling ghouls and glamorous monsters will haunt the stage with acts that are equal parts fright and delight. Expect slinky vampires, seductive slashers, and mischievous witches conjuring up chills, thrills, and a few devilish laughs. With hauntingly beautiful costumes, spine-tingling music, and just the right amount of camp, Blood Lust is a celebration of all things wicked and wonderful. Join us for a night of glitter, giggles, and ghoulish glamour—you’ll leave howling for more.
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Vintage chanteuse and composer Artemisia LeFay, great-granddaughter of Mexican traveling troubador and composer Longinos Guerrero, will conjure up rare cabaret gems dug up from the graveyards of early 20th century Europe and Mexico to a historically inspired cabaret show, PHANTOMS OF THE CABARET. As an homage to her Mexican roots in celebration of Día de los Muertos, accompanied by her mother, renowned classical pianist Renée Guerrero, Artemisia will perform songs written by her great-grandfather Guerrero, the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce, haunting folk songs, as well as LeFay's dark cabaret compositions. PHANTOMS OF THE CABARET is sure to be an unusually delightful diversion from the trappings of the world of the living.
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Comedian Gabe Mollica (This American Life, "Solo" Off-Broadway) is panicked about the trajectory of his life. No house, no kids, and he hasn't been on a third date in 5 years. (He'll explain!) But as it stands, he's freaked out! Has he fallen behind? Is it too late? Instead of future tripping, Gabe attempts to zoom out, look back, and hopefully find...The Big Picture.
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True stories about the most gloriously awkward times in our lives - our teenage years! Awkward Teenage Years was born at the 2020 FRIGID Festival just before the pandemic began. We’re bringing you the best storytellers in NYC to relive their joys and traumas for your entertainment - let’s laugh and reminisce together!Streaming option available.
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After the pandemic, Brad and his wife decide to venture out into the world with a trip to Paris, This is a gift to themselves for the 13th wedding anniversary and (in Brad's mind) for how well they handled the global catastrophe of Covid 19. The only problem being that when Brad is forced to confront the actual definition of global and he has a total melt down in the most beautiful city in the world. Turns out, he's not the only one to do that. They have a name for the phenomenon, it's called Paris Syndrome.
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Food is so meaningful in our lives. Food is love; food is culture; food is family; food is comfort. We celebrate with food, and we mourn with food. We go to great lengths to find, buy, and create the very best food experiences for ourselves and our loved ones. And food brings us so many stories. Joins us as some of NYC’s best storytellers weave seamlessly through their fantastic tales of food.
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There's nothing like experiencing music live. Attending a concert is exhausting, enchanting, and exciting. Each show is a moment in time that cannot be captured again Some of NYC's best Storytellers will delight you with stories about their first concerts, their best concerts, and their worst concerts.
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Created and Performed by Mike Daisey “The master storyteller” (The New York Times) returns with a story that must be told. As he did a decade ago in The Trump Card, which predicted the world we live in now, Daisey tells a searing story of resistance: political, personal, and spiritual. With dark humor he digs deeply into who we are becoming, in both fear and hope, within this unbearable moment. What price will we pay to survive, and what will it mean to live through this if we do?
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Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat gathers monologue-stories, some soulful, some naughty. They are stand alone golden nuggets from the many writings accrued by Vermillion along her graphomaniac years. You'll hear the voices of real Transylvanian people and their rich history they entrusted to Vermillion to tell. You'll also hear of sticky situations that Vermillion and her friends have been through and the spunky solutions they came up with. Repeat attendance is advised since the performances will present two different clusters of stories. These pieces are presented publicly in the hopes of her gaining the momentum necessary to finalize her books one by one since alas they are only ⅔ shaped and ⅓ still unformed, similar to a peacock with its tail feathers trailing all over the garden, or a porcupine with unsightly grown quills in need of heavy trimming. We're excited by her effort. It's an honor and a responsibility to have you as an audience. Vermillion is an independent performer, writer, and artist born in Transylvania who has been active in the New York City cultural community since 2001. Her work has been presented at the Immigrant Theater Festival, Galapagos Art Space, Manhattan Theater Source, IWAS, The Field, Theater for the New City, The Moth, Stage Left, Bowery Poetry Club, and Chashama. For several years she focused on her visual art, exhibiting work at the Outsider Art Fair, showing in galleries, publicly buried herself in bottles during her residency on Governors Island, curating internationally The Mushroom Show in 2023 and the 2026 upcoming Coming Out Of Isolation in NYC and London. Her return to the theater has been a serendipitous process, with her current solo storytelling show, On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations, successfully premiered at the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival. Its various iterations are monthly performed at Under St Marks Theater. As part of Under St Marks Theater revival of the vibrant improvisation programming that existed before Covid, Vermillion and her Lovely Shoes improv team host the monthly Side-Coached show on third Tuesdays. During the first part of her residency, she will develop an evening of inventive monologues, some soulful, some naughty, under the working title Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat. Vermillion is honored to be the new resident of this OBIE award-winning theater, and she will give her all "boot camp" style and hopefully manifest another OBIE!
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Ivan Dalia, pianist and entertainer, sets the stage on alight with his show “Culture is an infinite receptacle with no borders”. An ironic ethno-historical journey through Italian melody. Humans need to express themselves, through tradition, ritual and art. The artist weaves a colorful tapestry of Italian music through anecdotes and stories.
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Michele Carlo and Rhonda Hansome take you on an hour-long ride telling truths, exposing lies, and sharing scenes from well-lived lives. Plus, it's funny!
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David Lawson’s one-man show about corporate welfare, “sportswashing,” eminent domain, racist team names, and all the other things that get in the way of a community-oriented, cheer-filled, barrier-breaking good night out at the game.
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The NY Neo-Futurists bring their signature storytelling chaos to the Gotham Storytelling Festival with The Infinite Wrench! Two weekends only, we’re taking our weekly late-night experiment and blowing it wide open. The Infinite Wrench is our theatrical mechanism for unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of two-minute plays. Each play offers something different—funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or even a song. Together, they create a kaleidoscope of stories that all tackle the here-and-now, drawn directly from the lived experiences of the performers. In just sixty minutes, the ensemble races to share thirty original plays, colliding comedy with honesty, playfulness with sincerity, and spectacle with truth. It’s the NY Neos ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance, now part of New York’s biggest celebration of live storytelling.
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After a sold out run at NYC Fringe in April, EMOJI is back! Part love letter, part stand-up set, and part iPhone commercial (jk), EMOJI takes us on a road trip through space and time to explore whether emoji are a uniquely universal form of communication—or a crutch in a fractured society clinging to digital crumbs of human connection. It’ll have you like :D but also like :`( In this hilarious, ADHD-friendly, and "unexpectedly moving" show, Aarushi Agni—known for her work across comedy, storytelling, and music—blends her passions to share a philosophical and emotional understanding of the world, love, friendship, community, and the supermoon through a chaotic TED Talk-meets-cabaret format.
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Michael Hagins may be the only African-American artist to ever take part in every play of William Shakespeare’s complete Canon. He tells the story of his work, going through the plays and the people that changed his life and guided him to this amazing feat; but as he recounts it all, he learns that with every great achievement and life changing moment, comes a great loss. Come and listen as Michael proceeds to tell his story... Shakespeare style!
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"Sins & Stardust Burlesque" is a spellbinding series from producers Stiletto Sinclair and Jackie Galaxy, featuring a rotating cast of dazzling burlesque stars, high-energy go-go dancing, and unforgettable headliners. From classic striptease to genre-bending surprises, no two nights are ever the same, just unforgettable performances and a whole lot of glitter-fueled mischief. Note: This series a 21+ event. August 25th Performance: Get ready to tease your hair and your heartstrings! Sins and Stardust Burlesque is throwing it back to the totally tubular 80s for a night of big glam, bigger drama, and burlesque that pops like a power ballad. Returning to the stage are Dorienne Dreadful, Sapphic Fire, Lady Mabuhay, and Persé Fanny, with Sunshyne lighting up the floor on gogo. Making their dazzling Sins and Stardust debuts are Rain Supreme and Lily Lavalocks, joining producers Stiletto Sinclair and Jackie Galaxy for an electric evening where the only thing louder than the music is the sparkle.
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Fresh off its sold out debut at The Second City in Chicago, Ballet Flats for Dinner is an autobiographical solo comedy show written and performed by Bridget McGuire. A mix of stand-up and storytelling, Ballet Flats tells the story of McGuire's life growing up with intrusive thoughts with harm, a form of OCD. From thinking she was pregnant at age 11, to wondering if she killed her friend's boyfriend at 25, to finally getting help at the ripe old age of 38, Ballet Flats will have you laughing the entire time and perhaps you'll walk away wondering, "Do I have OCD too?" (Don't worry, you probably don't.) Sizzle Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKylGQaos5Q Bio: Bridget McGuire is a storyteller and stand-up comedian based in New York. Her self-deprecating and conversational humor revolves around her life: anxiety, family, and dating - all said in her hot Midwest accent. In addition to being a co-producer of All That Good Stuff, a stand-up comedy show, she works in advertising and has written for Women's Health and Prevention about her life with OCD.
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On the eve of marriage—an institution Jamie resisted for 30 years—he replays his sex life, which gives new meaning to the term parks and recreation. “Pearl Necklace is funny, sharp, and a hysterical romp” through Jamie’s amorous adventures in bathrooms, beaches, bookstores, and appallingly decorated apartments “delivered with a bawdy panache and a naughty sense of the comic.” Called “a natural raconteur” by the Washington Post, this 6-time Moth champion’s darkly comic stories of his sybaritic journey reveal his struggle to shed shame and guilt and reach self-acceptance before finally tying the knot. Award-winning writer and storyteller Jamie Brickhouse has recorded voices on Beavis and Butthead, appeared on PBS-TV’s Stories from the Stage and The Moth Podcast, and his daily #storiesinheels TikTok videos have over 6 million views, one million likes, and 75 thousand followers. He’s the creator of the memoirs and solo shows Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother, I Favor My Daddy: A Tale of Two Sissies, and The Brothers Orphan. “Pearl Necklace is funny, sharp, and camp. . .hugely enjoyable and hysterical romp. . .delivered with a bawdy panache and a naughty sense of the comic. . .Brickhouse brings each character to life and makes each encounter real and immediate, with a wild sense of wordplay, as he navigates the lure of getting laid and the longing to be in love.” —London Theatre's LouReviews
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How do we write an ending to a story that isn’t finished? Through fractured fairy tales and crafted personal stories, Vianna Isbister’s show, Leaking, explores how trauma leaks into our interactions, perceptions, and futures. Topics in this solo show include generational trauma, sexual assault (non-graphic), and things your therapist might say that you shouldn’t listen to. This show is 18+
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In this critically acclaimed solo-show, monologist, writer, and English teacher Becky Bondurant threads her coming-of-age narrative through a Freudian needle, weaving from eating disorders and female orgasms to circumcision and breastfeeding against a backdrop of political crisis. Penis Envy is the culmination of more than three years of study under New York City’s master monologist Mike Daisey who has described Becky as "a cross between Sylvia Plath and Mary Katherine Gallagher." Informed by her experiences as a parent, a teacher, a queer, a student of literature, and a former Catholic, Becky’s stories unravel extemporaneously to undress taboo topics like sex, age, weight, othering, power, ritual, and death in a style that is raunchy, irreverent, and sharply philosophical. The 46 paintings that appear as the backdrop of Penis Envy were created in a collaboration between Becky and her two children, ages 7 and 9, over the course of three weeks leading up to the show’s premiere at the Capital Fringe Festival 2024 in Washington, D.C. The show was named "Best of Fringe" by DC Theater Arts in 2024 and praised by critics such as Chris Klimek who wrote in The Washington Post, “I loved ‘Penis Envy,’” and described the show as “vulnerable and true to her, funny and inviting.” Penis Envy ran as part of the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival and was described in The Broad Street Review as “the best kind of monologue show: finely crafted and intimately inhabited... funny, bold, poignant, sad, and transformative.”
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GIMME A SIGN! is an autobiographical comedy written and performed by Bailey Swilley, based on a family tragedy and the strange but funny antics that ensued after. The solo show combines standup and storytelling and explores the stages of grief and the search for signs from above. Come for the ghost tour with anecdotes about haunted tampons and annoying boyfriends, stay for the life lessons on self-acceptance and growing up.
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Ever wanted to sit in on someone’s therapy session? This unafraid one-woman musical starts as a hilarious, all-too-relatable plunge into the horrors of modern dating. But when our protagonist finally dares to ask, “What’s wrong with me?!” she’s forced to navigate messy situationships, brutal screenshots, and unfiltered vulnerability—with the audience as her therapist and raw laughter as her lifeline.
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No hokey gimmicks. No dumb themes – For the past 12 years, TALE brings you the best in NYC’s storytelling! Past storytellers include Roy Wood Jr (Daily Show), Jena Friedman (Borat), and Anthony Haden-Guest (Vanity Fair), as well as writers/performers for Conan, The Daily Show, HBO, Last Week Tonight – and beyond! Hosted by Harmon Leon (This American Life, 99 % Invisible, Edinburgh Festival)
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with Pedro Carmo Your life is a story. How do you want to tell it? Storytelling is both ritual and play - an art as old as humanity itself. In this three-hour Master Class, actor and theatre artist Pedro Carmo leads a creative journey to awaken imagination and explore the rhythms, gestures, and images that shape your unique way of telling a story. This is not about chasing perfection. It’s about opening a space to tell your story, your way - and rediscovering storytelling as a living, communal ritual.
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After a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Chloe Radcliffe brings her gutsy, divisive solo show to NYC for one night only. The show is about Chloe's history of cheating, the guilty secret that most would keep forever. (FYI: Coming to the show doesn’t make you a cheater… actually, avoiding it seems way more suspicious…) Chloe has written on and starred in Command Z from Steven Soderbergh, has been seen on Comedy Central, and was a writer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
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A twisted storyteling musical dark comedy featuring the music of Gram Parsons - the godfather of alt-rock country - and one of the most gloriously messed-up, debauched rock ‘n roll stories of all-time. A stolen corpse, cosmic country music, and one seriously botched cremation. In 1973, Gram Parsons made a pact with his tour manager, Phil Kaufman- whoever dies first, the other would cremate their body at Joshua Tree. Gram died first. Phil stole his body. It all didn't turn out as planned… Gram Parsons: Tim HasslerPhil Kaufman: Harmon LeonMusic: Max Newland Written/Directed: Harmon Leon (This American Life)
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16,000 Pounds By Owen Prum with Jade Manns Doors: 7pm Show 7:30pm
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Remember how you felt reading Edger Allen Poe’s classic short story The Telltale Heart? Now, playwright Omen Kaine channels Poe, re-imagining the story for our times, and setting it in Boston during the Pandemic. In this edgy adaptation, neighbors of a beloved old-school musician hear screams. Detectives come across a gruesome scene. Domestic Violence at its worst. But it’s not a married couple, rather a young man taking care of the older one. The caregiver admits to killing the musician and is in custody. Yet something seems off... Omen Kaine’s new play, the second in a trilogy, is accompanied by an album of original music from the Los Angeles Art district based band, the Clandestine Circle Quintet. Experimenting with Hip Hop, Rock and Jazz, the music is interwoven into the storyline, building tension and suspense.. The production opens in the fall of 2025, with an October run in Los Angeles, followed by a November run in New York, and then moves overseas to Belgium. It is the second installation of Kaine’s Through the Altered Lens Trilogy. Don't miss out on the opportunity to experience this bold new story in its first full dramatic productions.
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WORLD PREMIERE: Falling Out-A New Musical In a downtown New York music bar the ballads of lost loves and missed opportunities float on the air. Worlds collide when a melancholic transplant meets a musician with a past. Together they create a discordant harmony that will uncover the truths they both need to face to reshape their lives. This experiential production marks the WORLD PREMIERE of acclaimed musician and songwriter Josee Klein’s musical of heartbreak and redemption.
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Every month, we remix current events to imagine what a slightly altered world could look like. Five brand-new radio plays, written with inspiration from the news, featuring a rotating cast and creative team, exploring alternate presents. The results range from the absurdly wacky to the poignantly reflective, from apocalyptic to aspirational—but they’re always clever, fun, and inspired. It's the news—only better.
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The show continues every Tuesday at 9:30 PM EST!At The Open Mic at FRIGID New York the focus is the stage! Sign-ups get 7 minutes to try anything in one of the most supportive rooms in New York City. Whether it’s a performance art piece, comedy, music, storytelling, dance, or something entirely off the top of your head, you'll find a home in the attentive welcoming community. Open Mic FAQs
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On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations wraps big ideas in focused stories about Ella’s pets, offering glimpses of her human family and life in her place of birth, Transylvania, Romania. With her dark humor and heart, Ella takes audiences from her childhood under communist rule, to her present quirky experiences in East Harlem, using her dog and cat as reference points. Content Warning: This show contains dark humor. This show is not recommended for children. The cast will feature Ella Veres and her companion dog, Pandele, who said she's in it not for fame, but to pay her vet bills. Rosamunda, her cat, was asked to perform but declined. She’d rather lounge under the sofa than be in the limelight. “Being from Transylvania, is expected of me to be creepy, so I oblige, from time to time, albeit not in Hollywood style,” said Ella Veres, lead performer and director of On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations. “The war in Ukraine riled my memories up, and urged me to point out how much there is to lose.” The performance will run approximately one hour. Each show is a different iteration. Ella Veres is an independent performer and writer who has been active in the New York City cultural community since 2001. Her work has been presented at the Immigrant Theater Festival, Galapagos Art Space, Manhattan Theater Source, IWAS,The Field, Theater for the New City, The Moth, Stage Left, Bowery Poetry Club, Chashama, and her present incubator, Fountain House Gallery. For several years she focused on her visual art, but in 2022, serendipity made her act in Stories From My Mother at the Theater for the New City, and thus reminded her how lovely it is to be in front of a live audience. Her current solo storytelling show, On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations, was shaped during her 2023 Fountain House Gallery summer residency on Governors Island and in Adam Wade’s Magnet Theater Solo Workshop, and premiered successfully at the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival.
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Based on Anton Chekov's "On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", this darkly comic one man show builds on the theme of addiction and domestic misery. The piece draws on Chekhov’s original play but reimagines it in the world of recovery meetings and urban survival, where humor and despair blur into each other. Equal parts satire and tragedy, the play asks whether we can ever laugh at our own ruin.
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Fire Wheel is a show that celebrates long form improvisational comedy. Each performance consists of a host introducing three teams, that perform regularly in New York City. These teams perform all new material created on the spot.
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The name of the show is Something to Say. Is that because I just have something to say? Lots of people, maybe everyone has something to say. So why in the world would anyone have any interest in one more asshole with one more something to say, when it should be pretty obvious that with all the somethings to say being said, not much of it is making any damn difference. Blah blah yada yada blah blah blah. Well, maybe that’s not so obvious. And maybe that’s what we’re after here. To see what might get said that actually moves the meter, not just the episodic circumstantial meter of what’s right in front of us, but the meter that tracks the beat beat beat of the heart that pumps in the belly of the beast. That’s the something to say that this Something to Say is here for. Yeah I know, good fucking luck. And you’re welcome. Watch the promo video
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Doors open at 7:30 for drinks and mingling, curtain at 8:00pm. Welcome to Mildred Springs! A quaint city in the vague Northeastern United States. A city not unlike other cities. Join us while the bold and the beautiful citizens of Mildred Springs live the days of their lives. Some might be young and restless. Some might be doctors working at Sacred Corpuscle Memorial, a general hospital. But they've all got one life to live. Join us as their world turns. Join us as their guiding light leads them on their constant search for tomorrow. Join us as they hang on to the edge of night and you will be transported to another world. The world of It's Getting Tired Mildred. But make sure you join us for their continuing stories. Set in the 1980’s, known for riding the line between camp and loving homage to the soap opera genre, and featuring a dynamic cast of the indie theatre pros, IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED hooks audience members to come back month after month to see what happens next. Each episode of IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED is performed only once! Formerly a late-night hit... Now daytime moves from late-night to primetime! Now at Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place.
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Welcome to Virgin, Minnesota—a town so stuck in its ways that even the cows might be celibate. Mayor Frankie is determined to save the town from economic doom by bringing in a new factory, run by the brilliant but no-nonsense Dr. Corazon De La Fuente. But here's the twist: the factory manufactures sexual enhancement pills, and it doesn't take long before things start to get… steamy. Just as the townsfolk are warming up to the idea of jobs, an accident sends a mysterious cloud of sex-enhancing mist floating through Virgin. Now, the once-uptight residents are overcome with desire, and all their repressed urges start bubbling up like a Midwestern hot dish left on high. Under the watchful (and hilariously judgmental) eye of Old Lady Warner, the whole town is turned upside down as everyone deals with newfound lust, confusion, and a whole lot of awkward conversations. Full price includes a glass of wine
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Spanglish Affair Open Mic If you want to perform, please fill out this form and attach a screenshot of your ticket purchase: Click here Now the Spanglish Affair is happening monthly! We are introducing themes to spark your creativity Oct 13th: “Drop Dead Gorgeous” Nov 17th: "Friendsgiving from Abroad / Gracias, Amigues" Dec 15th: "Something from Abroad" Holiday Party and Fundraiser We are excited to provide a safe space for artists to explore and share their art in front of a live audience. If there's something you've always wanted to do, this is a space for you to do it! While our company focuses on Spanish and Spanglish content, this is not a requirement for your piece—if you're someone with art to share, this space is for you. Here are some ideas for types of performers we're looking for: singers, dancers, comedians, performance art, burlesque, actors, visual artists, clowning, spoken word, poetry. THE SKY IS THE LIMIT! We have 8 available spots which will be filled first-come first-
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Adam Wade, the 20-time Moth Story Slam winner, creator of the #1 Best Selling Audible Original 'You Ought To Know Adam Wade' and from TV’s 'Inside Amy Schumer' and 'Girls' returns to Under Saint Marks Theater! This monthly storytelling show will feature three to four different stories from Adam’s extensive catalog. No two shows will be the same. Come and see this New York Times, Time Out New York, and CBS critics’ pick LIVE on stage in New York! A different special guest storyteller will begin each show. “Mr. Wade is an enchanting storyteller.” – The New York Times “Wade is expressing not just our inner misfit but our inner small-town kid.” – The New Yorker “He’s completely vulnerable. When he goes on stage he brings only himself. People instantly fall in love with him.” – George Dawes Green, the founder of The Moth “Adam’s nuanced observations, openness, and wit transform his coming-of-age tales into funny, impactful, and universal stories of joy and hope.” – Audible
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"All Abard!" is an original meta tragicomedy play about two comedians in the 1960s who move to New York to chase their dreams of living lives they won't regret living, but when love gets in the way, what will they choose? This show is an absurd and off-beat ode to the history of comedy and classic rom-com. Written and performed by Brooklyn comedians Bianca (Dot) Mangravite and Brandon Kral Featuring New York City comedian Josh Nasser Directed by Ron Mangravite
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The opening of the DAYS OF THE DEAD FESTIVAL! JOIN US! The Witching Hour is back and ready to brew up a batch of all new bite-sized horror stories. The evening of short horror plays will strike fear into your hearts, and maybe a bit of laughter into your souls. This time around we've got some spooky short plays for you featuring ghoulish guests, cursed containers, worried witches, and more. So when the night comes, gather around our (figurative, not literal) cauldron and get ready to stir up some spooky tales. Featuring: Brothers of the Box by Nick Luis When Death came to dinner by Laurel Mora Vardo by Nicole LeBlanc A Haunting of 48th St by Gwyn McAllister Bridge Crossings by Kento Morita
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To commemorate the 175th anniversary year of Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 1849, Stephen Smith performs four of the American author’s most spine-chilling classics, back-to-back and unabridged: The Tell-Tale Heart; The Pit and the Pendulum; and The Raven. Poe’s archaic language paired with Smith’s award-winning tour-de-force performance offers gothic horror fans and classical literature lovers an atmospheric evening rich with imaginative storytelling, making this truly a marathon of the macabre. The perfect theatrical treat for Halloween season: One Man Poe arrives at after a sold-out 21-show run at the 2024 and 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it also won the 2024 Spookies Award for "Best Horror Solo Show", and the 2025 Derek Award for "Best Overall Show of Edinburgh Fringe". “Powerfully moving… This show quite literally took my breath away… Unmissable!” ★★★★★ Everything Theatre “A compelling and repelling experience” ★★★★★ MyTheatreMates “Edgar Allan Poe himself would love this powerful performance” ★★★★★ The Derek Awards “Awe-inspiring… An incredibly gripping and enthralling evening” ★★★★★ North West End “The definitive Fringe interpretation of these already much-loved works” ★★★★★ The Wee Review “A captivating night of terror, guilt, grief and murder most foul… A must-see” ★★★★★ Broadway Baby Age Suitability: for 12+ Show length: 80 minutes, no intermission
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After four years, Hottie Bop is coming to… AN END! That’s right folks. On October 17th, come to Under St Marks to experience THE DEATH OF HOTTIE BOP. This is the LAST Hottie Bop show… ever. There will be death. There will be destruction. There will be tears. And there will be joy. For together, we will create the most un-sad funeral service the world has ever seen — for the world’s most unhinged variety show (with music comedy and dance). Who has Hottie Bop named as beneficiaries in its last will and testament? Which Hottie Bop fan favorites will return for one final act? and of course, will Jake Snyder FINALLY be inducted as a true Hottie Bop Hottie™️? Find out on October 17th! ONE NIGHT ONLY! If you miss this show, you will take your fomo to the ~grave~. Stay for a party after!!!
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This production is a celebration of the Mexican Holiday Day of the Dead and would bring together traditions, poetry, stories, and music in a variety show form. The stage will feature a traditional ofrenda or altar to the loved ones who have passed away. The audience will become part of the experience, they will be able to participate with the artists on the ofrenda enjoying some of the offerings to the dead such as Mexican hot chocolate and pan de muerto. The performances will consist of a group of artists dedicating their art form to a loved one that has passed away. Each artist will share a little information about their loved one and will add their photo and an object that represents something they loved to the ofrenda.
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Miriam Wasmund’s "Your Faithful Reader" is a slice-of-life tapestry that highlights the uniqueness of personal stories and the universality of human experience. The performances explore themes of identity, family, love, loss, and a full spectrum of emotion. Miriam, an Alvin Ailey-trained dancer, choreographer, writer, and producer, living and creating in NYC since 2001. In 2019, she founded Your Faithful Reader, an experiential dance theatre company that merges the worlds of acting and dance with real letters submitted by the community, transforming them into a powerful one- or two-act journey through the human experience. The concept emerged from Miriam’s personal journey with grief and self-discovery after losing her brother and mother. Missing the exchange of letters with her family, she began writing and invited others to do the same. The overwhelming response led to the creation of "Your Faithful Reader", demonstrating the power of shared experiences through the innovative integration of dance, theatre and authentic personal narratives. The company solicits letters from everyday individuals—addressed to anyone or anything—based on prompts. These letters, ranging from romantic and funny to brutally honest, form the core of each performance. A team of actors, dancers, and creatives then brings them to life, creating immersive and emotionally resonant experiences that foster connection and celebrates storytelling. For the Frigid NYC Days of the Dead Festival, we’d plan to use new and archived letters inspired by the depth of understanding of loss, the celebration of life in both small and communal ways, and the ways we - who are still earth side - go on as champions of our ancestors and passed loved ones. Performances on: October 19th at 2pm and October October 25th at 3:30pm
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The horror movie classic gets twisted into Shakespeare, as Laurie Strode must keep herself and her friends safe from the evil murderer Michael Myers, all while Doctor Loomis rushes to protect her.
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Spooky Town is a dark comedy about a town haunted not by ghosts, but by laughter. When laughter rates suddenly skyrocket in a small, eerie town, X and Z think little of it—until people start dying. Not from fear or violence, but from laughing too hard. As mysterious blood puddles appear, power flickers, and odd new student Y becomes increasingly unsettling, the friends find themselves at the heart of something deeply wrong. They uncover that laughter is no longer harmless—it’s deadly. But the more they try to resist it, the more contagious it becomes. Spooky Town blends comedy and horror through a surreal, often absurd lens. Part paranormal mystery, part existential panic, the play explores how we cope when the line between joy and destruction disappears. With sharp dialogue, queer romance, and escalating tension, it’s a love story about fear and a theatrical ghost story without any ghosts. Just try not to laugh.
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In the chilling aftermath of “ONE-MAN WHODUNNIT: The Tale of Francis Grey and the Case of His Dead Boyfriend,” the shadows of Mistyfield Hospital for the Criminally Insane loom ominously. Rebecca, ensnared within its cold, echoing walls for her sinister attempt to end Jimmy’s life, leaves Francis with a sense of fleeting respite. His peace is shattered by the haunting realization of Rebecca’s decades-long scheme to unravel his existence. As Francis steps into the hospital’s dimly lit corridors, he encounters not just the twisted remnants of his former friend, but a malevolent entity—a centuries-old demon, its eyes gleaming with a promise of eternal torment. Desperate to save his life and soul from this dark force, Francis must confront the demon that now inhabits Rebecca, questioning his own sanity as he whispers, “What would Buffy do?”
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When Tom Galván takes his own life, his family and friends and most importantly, his ex-boyfriend, gather to say their goodbyes on a day that happens once every four years. Realizing none of them are prepared for the funeral, they band together to get through this tragedy. With humor, tears, anger, and cake, they learn how to hold onto the love they have always had, while moving forward in a world that seems so cruel for no reason. Oh, and maybe the ghost of Tom Galván shows up to haunt them in a way only he knows how.
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BURIED ALIVE! a matchbox theatre, is a frightfully funny exploration of our age-old fear of being buried alive, and the curious phenomenon of 19th Century “waiting mortuaries.” Tiny and interactive, it is full of dreadful discoveries for a mature audience of 25-30. BURIED ALIVE! is based on historical and medical facts and urban myths. Performed on a tabletop, and constructed entirely in and of matchboxes, it takes advantage of the unique qualities of these tiny stages. Images and characters slide out, slide through, pop up, and drop out of the matchboxes. The puppeteer embodies the tiny characters to magnify the action. BURIED ALIVE! is creatively anachronistic and plays with scale. For ages 12 and up. “...depicted with comic deadpan perversity...a wink and raised eyebrow of an entertainment.” -- womanaroundtown.com Performances on Oct 20th at 8:45pm and Oct 26th at 5:30pm
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Side-Coached is an improv show in which performers improvise live based on an audience prompt, all along being side-coached by our experienced improv teacher Ian Herrin. In this first season, we aim to experiment: at times one large team, at times two smaller teams, will perform in the first part of the show, then we will jam with audience members who put their names in the hat. Our show is an offshoot of East Village Performance/Practice Group that started in Spring 2025. Our gratitude goes to Under St. Marks Theater that fostered our group. Ian Herrin is an actor, improviser, and teacher with over a decade of long-form experience who has performed at PIT, Magnet, UCB, and festivals all over the East Coast. Ian is the host of the long-running improv show The Ian Herrin Improv Hour (IHIH) which has featured Special Guests from Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Comedy Central, Logo TV, E! Network, TLC, VH1, IFC, truTV, et al.
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Dark comedy or however you want to call it, about a very in love couple- they both want to kill themselves, but there is only one gun with one bullet, who deserves to die more? And what happens when a demon and the devil himself gives a hand in that decision?
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A night of experimental comedy with New York's Funniest Stand-Up 2022 winner Daniel Simonsen. Come watch the Norwegian build material as he works both scripted and completely unscripted. As seen on Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “One to watch” Time Out “Brilliantly offbeat” Guardian “Exceptionally funny” Village Voice **** Times **** Time Out **** Skinny **** Fest
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One part The Crucible, one part Monty Python. When it comes to the witch hunts, this 60-minute fast-paced comedy asks the very important question: “If we really were witches, wouldn’t we just cast a spell to get away?” What if real witches dropped in on the witch hunts? “Witches” follows the troubles of Obediently Snead, a townswoman in the 1600s who is just trying to stay alive. The head witch hunter, John Thomas, has different ideas. Fortunately, the ghost of Obediently’s ancestor is looking out for her and summons the real witches to the rescue. Antics ensue.
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In one hour of drag, clown, and desperation, Señor Babyhead presents his Día de Muertos Especial. It’s a journey across the Sonoran Desert in which Babyhead encounters artifacts, mirages, and spirits. Who is Señor Babyhead? Only Mexico’s most (washed up) famous sitcom star, desperate to stay relevant and avoid becoming an artifact, himself. It’s an hour of crooning, crawling, and implicating the audience in a dangerous game. Analisa Raya-Flores is a writer, performer, and papier-mâché artist. Her fiction can be found in Glimmer Train and MonkeyBicycle, and her face can be seen in My Beloved (Eleanor Monahan), Interesting Ball (DANIELS), and live venues all over LA and NYC. Her plays have been produced at the Annenberg Beach House and the Elysian Theater. In 2023, her screenplay Farewell Chica was a semifinalist at the Austin Film Festival Competition. As a queer Chicana, she creates work that celebrates and interrogates the Mexican-American experience, from the grief of diaspora and to the awkward hassle of Otherness. Analisa is autistic, which gives her a perspective neurotypicals often call “unique”— which she decodes to mean “unintentionally weird.” She lives, worries, and walks her dogs at the foot of the Sierras.
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Santiago is your average guy going through a mid-20s crisis. He’s massively overworked, massively underpaid, and nursing a massive crush on his supposedly straight roommate (who just so happens to also be his childhood best friend and first boyfriend from before Santiago transitioned). Santiago also talks to dead people. Following a near death experience in his teens, Santiago works as a Record Keeper documenting memories of the recently deceased so they can pass on to the afterlife. However, his frequent communions with the dead strain his ability to connect with the living, especially his roommate Isaiah. “What Remains” is a 90 minute dramedy that investigates how the lives we think we should lead have the power to ruin the ones we actually have. Content warnings: allusions to suicide, death, allusions to homophobia.
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CLOSER focuses on the intimate relationship between two sisters who find themselves trapped in a painting. By day, they sit peacefully around a pond, minds seemingly full of meaningless pleasantries. But with nightfall comes the demands of their captor. In order to keep the art fresh, and in-turn keep themselves alive, the sisters must feed the painting human lives. As their deadline approaches, the sisters find themselves at odds, debating between morality and immortality. This thrilling horror challenges how deep a sister's bond goes and asks what people won't sacrifice to be young forever.
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Bright White Light is an earnest exploration of life and its most important moment: death. Centered around a conversation between an amicable Grim Reaper and a fiery Ornithologist, the play dares to ask, "Is rage the appropriate response to the dying of the light?" Bright White Light was originally written and performed for the NYC Fringe Festival 2025 and won an Extension Award with Frigid's Days of the Dead Festival
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Psychic medium and stand up comedian Nelly Reznik will be performing Comediumship, an experimental combination of stand up comedy and audience readings. Readings may consist of connecting with loved ones who have passed, and receiving life guidance for audience members, all in a lighthearted way. Not everyone will receive a reading, but all in attendance should be open to it. Due to the intimate nature of the event, doors will close at curtain time and latecomers will not be given a seat. In addition, this is an alcohol-free event. Opener: Grace Lobo
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Come catch the best short films of the month with the EAST VILLAGE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Please note that this show will not be streaming and can only be seen in person. East Village Film Festival is an independent project and not produced by FRIGID New York. For more information, please visit their website at eastvillagefilmfestival.com.
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As You Mic It: An Open Shakespeare Slam - Join us for a one-of-a-kind slam where you can compete to be crowned Best of the Bards! If you are slamming, come prepared to perform up to two of any Shakespeare monologue or sonnet of your choice (within 3 and a half minutes, memorization not required but encouraged). If you are don't want to slam, come join us for some merriment, libations, and maybe even become a judge (no experience necessary)! All full price ticket purchases come with a free glass of wine! SLAM MECHANICS - First 15 to sign-up at the door will be guaranteed entry to the slam as a participant. Up to 3 people can be wait-listed depending on time-constraints. 3 Judges will be selected at random from the crowd. Each participant will have 3 and a half minutes to perform their chosen monologue, after which the judges will secretly give them a score out of 10.0. Scores will be tallied in secret and the top 3 will enter the "callback" round where they will perform a second monologue and once again be graded. The overall winner of the "callback" round will be crowned Best of the Bards and receive a prize.
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Paper Kraine was created in 2016 to bring together works in development, artists, and audiences in support of nonprofits. Monthly, the PK team curates a new works sample platter around a theme and donates all proceeds to a selected nonprofit. Try something new, delicious and strange. Come for the art. Stay for the community. We encourage risk-taking, question-asking, and the development of a supportive community of artists seeing, encouraging, and challenging each other’s work with the ultimate goal of enriching the artistic community through cross-pollination and meeting new people. Learn more at www.paperkraine.com.. Due to limited capacity, latecomers are not guaranteed seats. This applies to both walk ups and reserved tickets.
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Step into the darkly comic world of Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad Musical—winner of Best New Musical at the NYC Fringe Festival, Broadway World’s Best Book of a Musical, and more. For one night only, NYC’s folk-noir powerhouse Brokeneck Girls perform the haunting, foot-stomping score live in concert, with scenes from the brand-new video projected between songs. Rooted in the tradition of violence against women in folk music, this sharp-witted social commentary blends true crime, outrageous humor, and hidden history with an unflinching take on violence in entertainment. Don’t miss this rare chance to experience the award-winning sensation in a thrilling mix of live music and theatrical storytelling.
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Step into a world of Music, Dance, Comedy, Burlesque. The cool. wild and wonderful. Dress Up, dress Downtown or come as you are for a slice of NYC nightlife like no other. Co-Hosted by dazzling Dara Jemmott (crowned Winner, NJ Statewide Funniest Fest) and gregarious Gregory Levine (Travel Channel & Emcee - Guilty Pleasures) since June 2023.
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You’re invited to Trinity’s Necromancy Party! She found a dead body in her backyard, and now she’s invited all her friends and others to resurrect the mystery man. Together they’ll celebrate the summer, play jump rope with the line between life and death, and try not the start the zombie apocalypse in Jersey City in this new play from playwright Leo Layla Díaz and director Hannah Marie Pederson.
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FRIGID Nightcap: The Mandatory Cabaret What happens when culture itself is compulsory? When joy, weirdness, and performance are no longer choices, but mandates? At FRIGID Nightcap, we say: if it’s mandatory, then we’re making it fabulous. The Mandatory Cabaret is a satirical, unhinged late-night variety show that flips authoritarian creep on its head. Expect a kaleidoscope of comedy, drag, burlesque, clowning, music, and mayhem—all celebrating radical queer joy, political resistance, and the glorious chaos of noncompliance. From compliance checks gone rogue to fabulous anthems of defiance, this is obedience reimagined as resistance. The state demands conformity. We demand sequins. Friday, September 26th, 2025 10:30 PM Under St. Marks Theatre – East Village Tickets are just $15 and include a complimentary glass of wine. Not in NYC? Snag a $10 livestream ticket and join the rebellion from your couch. Attendance is encouraged. Weirdness is mandatory.
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Madrugada En Manhattan (Manhattan's Midnights): In the heart of Loisaida (Lower East Side), Toro, a Nuyorican musician, is haunted by the spirit of Luna. But she's more than a spirit, she is a memory; she's a messenger of forgotten love, a cosmic destiny, a love from a past life. Toro must awaken to who he truly is- BORICUA. If he fails, humanity never know true love and the stars will vanish from the night sky. Blending Puerto Rican folklore, Latino rhythms, and poetic magical realism, Madrugada en Manhattan (Manhattan's Midnights) is more than a love story, it is an epic bilingual drama, a revolution, and a tribute to culture’s power to outshine even the darkest night. Written and Directed by, international artistic diplomat, Reyna de Jesús Music arranged and produced by, Grammy nominee, Adan Perez Madrugada en Manhattan (Manhattan's Midnights): En el corazón de Loisaida, Toro, un músico neoyorquino, se encuentra con el espíritu de Luna. Pero Luna es más que un espíritu: es un recuerdo, una mensajera de un amor olvidado, un destino cósmico, un amor de una vida pasada. Toro tiene que despertar a quien realmente es: BORICUA. Si no, la humanidad jamás conocerá el amor verdadero y las estrellas desaparecerán del cielo nocturno. Combinando el folclor puertorriqueño, los ritmos latinos y el realismo mágico poético, Madrugada en Manhattan (Manhattan's Midnights) es más que una historia de amor: es un drama bilingüe épico, una revolución y un homenaje al poder de la cultura para brillar en la inmensa oscuridad. Escrita y dirigida por Reyna de Jesús Arreglo y producción músical por, Adán Pérez.
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At Burlesque Buffet, necromancers aren’t the only ones raising spirits. Blood Lust is a sultry, spooky burlesque cabaret where bump-and-grind meets the macabre. Our cast of dazzling ghouls and glamorous monsters will haunt the stage with acts that are equal parts fright and delight. Expect slinky vampires, seductive slashers, and mischievous witches conjuring up chills, thrills, and a few devilish laughs. With hauntingly beautiful costumes, spine-tingling music, and just the right amount of camp, Blood Lust is a celebration of all things wicked and wonderful. Join us for a night of glitter, giggles, and ghoulish glamour—you’ll leave howling for more.
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Vintage chanteuse and composer Artemisia LeFay, great-granddaughter of Mexican traveling troubador and composer Longinos Guerrero, will conjure up rare cabaret gems dug up from the graveyards of early 20th century Europe and Mexico to a historically inspired cabaret show, PHANTOMS OF THE CABARET. As an homage to her Mexican roots in celebration of Día de los Muertos, accompanied by her mother, renowned classical pianist Renée Guerrero, Artemisia will perform songs written by her great-grandfather Guerrero, the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce, haunting folk songs, as well as LeFay's dark cabaret compositions. PHANTOMS OF THE CABARET is sure to be an unusually delightful diversion from the trappings of the world of the living.
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Comedian Gabe Mollica (This American Life, "Solo" Off-Broadway) is panicked about the trajectory of his life. No house, no kids, and he hasn't been on a third date in 5 years. (He'll explain!) But as it stands, he's freaked out! Has he fallen behind? Is it too late? Instead of future tripping, Gabe attempts to zoom out, look back, and hopefully find...The Big Picture.
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True stories about the most gloriously awkward times in our lives - our teenage years! Awkward Teenage Years was born at the 2020 FRIGID Festival just before the pandemic began. We’re bringing you the best storytellers in NYC to relive their joys and traumas for your entertainment - let’s laugh and reminisce together!Streaming option available.
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After the pandemic, Brad and his wife decide to venture out into the world with a trip to Paris, This is a gift to themselves for the 13th wedding anniversary and (in Brad's mind) for how well they handled the global catastrophe of Covid 19. The only problem being that when Brad is forced to confront the actual definition of global and he has a total melt down in the most beautiful city in the world. Turns out, he's not the only one to do that. They have a name for the phenomenon, it's called Paris Syndrome.
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Food is so meaningful in our lives. Food is love; food is culture; food is family; food is comfort. We celebrate with food, and we mourn with food. We go to great lengths to find, buy, and create the very best food experiences for ourselves and our loved ones. And food brings us so many stories. Joins us as some of NYC’s best storytellers weave seamlessly through their fantastic tales of food.
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There's nothing like experiencing music live. Attending a concert is exhausting, enchanting, and exciting. Each show is a moment in time that cannot be captured again Some of NYC's best Storytellers will delight you with stories about their first concerts, their best concerts, and their worst concerts.
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Created and Performed by Mike Daisey “The master storyteller” (The New York Times) returns with a story that must be told. As he did a decade ago in The Trump Card, which predicted the world we live in now, Daisey tells a searing story of resistance: political, personal, and spiritual. With dark humor he digs deeply into who we are becoming, in both fear and hope, within this unbearable moment. What price will we pay to survive, and what will it mean to live through this if we do?
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Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat gathers monologue-stories, some soulful, some naughty. They are stand alone golden nuggets from the many writings accrued by Vermillion along her graphomaniac years. You'll hear the voices of real Transylvanian people and their rich history they entrusted to Vermillion to tell. You'll also hear of sticky situations that Vermillion and her friends have been through and the spunky solutions they came up with. Repeat attendance is advised since the performances will present two different clusters of stories. These pieces are presented publicly in the hopes of her gaining the momentum necessary to finalize her books one by one since alas they are only ⅔ shaped and ⅓ still unformed, similar to a peacock with its tail feathers trailing all over the garden, or a porcupine with unsightly grown quills in need of heavy trimming. We're excited by her effort. It's an honor and a responsibility to have you as an audience. Vermillion is an independent performer, writer, and artist born in Transylvania who has been active in the New York City cultural community since 2001. Her work has been presented at the Immigrant Theater Festival, Galapagos Art Space, Manhattan Theater Source, IWAS, The Field, Theater for the New City, The Moth, Stage Left, Bowery Poetry Club, and Chashama. For several years she focused on her visual art, exhibiting work at the Outsider Art Fair, showing in galleries, publicly buried herself in bottles during her residency on Governors Island, curating internationally The Mushroom Show in 2023 and the 2026 upcoming Coming Out Of Isolation in NYC and London. Her return to the theater has been a serendipitous process, with her current solo storytelling show, On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations, successfully premiered at the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival. Its various iterations are monthly performed at Under St Marks Theater. As part of Under St Marks Theater revival of the vibrant improvisation programming that existed before Covid, Vermillion and her Lovely Shoes improv team host the monthly Side-Coached show on third Tuesdays. During the first part of her residency, she will develop an evening of inventive monologues, some soulful, some naughty, under the working title Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat. Vermillion is honored to be the new resident of this OBIE award-winning theater, and she will give her all "boot camp" style and hopefully manifest another OBIE!
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Ivan Dalia, pianist and entertainer, sets the stage on alight with his show “Culture is an infinite receptacle with no borders”. An ironic ethno-historical journey through Italian melody. Humans need to express themselves, through tradition, ritual and art. The artist weaves a colorful tapestry of Italian music through anecdotes and stories.
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Michele Carlo and Rhonda Hansome take you on an hour-long ride telling truths, exposing lies, and sharing scenes from well-lived lives. Plus, it's funny!
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David Lawson’s one-man show about corporate welfare, “sportswashing,” eminent domain, racist team names, and all the other things that get in the way of a community-oriented, cheer-filled, barrier-breaking good night out at the game.
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The NY Neo-Futurists bring their signature storytelling chaos to the Gotham Storytelling Festival with The Infinite Wrench! Two weekends only, we’re taking our weekly late-night experiment and blowing it wide open. The Infinite Wrench is our theatrical mechanism for unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of two-minute plays. Each play offers something different—funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or even a song. Together, they create a kaleidoscope of stories that all tackle the here-and-now, drawn directly from the lived experiences of the performers. In just sixty minutes, the ensemble races to share thirty original plays, colliding comedy with honesty, playfulness with sincerity, and spectacle with truth. It’s the NY Neos ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance, now part of New York’s biggest celebration of live storytelling.
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After a sold out run at NYC Fringe in April, EMOJI is back! Part love letter, part stand-up set, and part iPhone commercial (jk), EMOJI takes us on a road trip through space and time to explore whether emoji are a uniquely universal form of communication—or a crutch in a fractured society clinging to digital crumbs of human connection. It’ll have you like :D but also like :`( In this hilarious, ADHD-friendly, and "unexpectedly moving" show, Aarushi Agni—known for her work across comedy, storytelling, and music—blends her passions to share a philosophical and emotional understanding of the world, love, friendship, community, and the supermoon through a chaotic TED Talk-meets-cabaret format.
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Michael Hagins may be the only African-American artist to ever take part in every play of William Shakespeare’s complete Canon. He tells the story of his work, going through the plays and the people that changed his life and guided him to this amazing feat; but as he recounts it all, he learns that with every great achievement and life changing moment, comes a great loss. Come and listen as Michael proceeds to tell his story... Shakespeare style!
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"Sins & Stardust Burlesque" is a spellbinding series from producers Stiletto Sinclair and Jackie Galaxy, featuring a rotating cast of dazzling burlesque stars, high-energy go-go dancing, and unforgettable headliners. From classic striptease to genre-bending surprises, no two nights are ever the same, just unforgettable performances and a whole lot of glitter-fueled mischief. Note: This series a 21+ event. August 25th Performance: Get ready to tease your hair and your heartstrings! Sins and Stardust Burlesque is throwing it back to the totally tubular 80s for a night of big glam, bigger drama, and burlesque that pops like a power ballad. Returning to the stage are Dorienne Dreadful, Sapphic Fire, Lady Mabuhay, and Persé Fanny, with Sunshyne lighting up the floor on gogo. Making their dazzling Sins and Stardust debuts are Rain Supreme and Lily Lavalocks, joining producers Stiletto Sinclair and Jackie Galaxy for an electric evening where the only thing louder than the music is the sparkle.
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Fresh off its sold out debut at The Second City in Chicago, Ballet Flats for Dinner is an autobiographical solo comedy show written and performed by Bridget McGuire. A mix of stand-up and storytelling, Ballet Flats tells the story of McGuire's life growing up with intrusive thoughts with harm, a form of OCD. From thinking she was pregnant at age 11, to wondering if she killed her friend's boyfriend at 25, to finally getting help at the ripe old age of 38, Ballet Flats will have you laughing the entire time and perhaps you'll walk away wondering, "Do I have OCD too?" (Don't worry, you probably don't.) Sizzle Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKylGQaos5Q Bio: Bridget McGuire is a storyteller and stand-up comedian based in New York. Her self-deprecating and conversational humor revolves around her life: anxiety, family, and dating - all said in her hot Midwest accent. In addition to being a co-producer of All That Good Stuff, a stand-up comedy show, she works in advertising and has written for Women's Health and Prevention about her life with OCD.
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On the eve of marriage—an institution Jamie resisted for 30 years—he replays his sex life, which gives new meaning to the term parks and recreation. “Pearl Necklace is funny, sharp, and a hysterical romp” through Jamie’s amorous adventures in bathrooms, beaches, bookstores, and appallingly decorated apartments “delivered with a bawdy panache and a naughty sense of the comic.” Called “a natural raconteur” by the Washington Post, this 6-time Moth champion’s darkly comic stories of his sybaritic journey reveal his struggle to shed shame and guilt and reach self-acceptance before finally tying the knot. Award-winning writer and storyteller Jamie Brickhouse has recorded voices on Beavis and Butthead, appeared on PBS-TV’s Stories from the Stage and The Moth Podcast, and his daily #storiesinheels TikTok videos have over 6 million views, one million likes, and 75 thousand followers. He’s the creator of the memoirs and solo shows Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother, I Favor My Daddy: A Tale of Two Sissies, and The Brothers Orphan. “Pearl Necklace is funny, sharp, and camp. . .hugely enjoyable and hysterical romp. . .delivered with a bawdy panache and a naughty sense of the comic. . .Brickhouse brings each character to life and makes each encounter real and immediate, with a wild sense of wordplay, as he navigates the lure of getting laid and the longing to be in love.” —London Theatre's LouReviews
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How do we write an ending to a story that isn’t finished? Through fractured fairy tales and crafted personal stories, Vianna Isbister’s show, Leaking, explores how trauma leaks into our interactions, perceptions, and futures. Topics in this solo show include generational trauma, sexual assault (non-graphic), and things your therapist might say that you shouldn’t listen to. This show is 18+
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In this critically acclaimed solo-show, monologist, writer, and English teacher Becky Bondurant threads her coming-of-age narrative through a Freudian needle, weaving from eating disorders and female orgasms to circumcision and breastfeeding against a backdrop of political crisis. Penis Envy is the culmination of more than three years of study under New York City’s master monologist Mike Daisey who has described Becky as "a cross between Sylvia Plath and Mary Katherine Gallagher." Informed by her experiences as a parent, a teacher, a queer, a student of literature, and a former Catholic, Becky’s stories unravel extemporaneously to undress taboo topics like sex, age, weight, othering, power, ritual, and death in a style that is raunchy, irreverent, and sharply philosophical. The 46 paintings that appear as the backdrop of Penis Envy were created in a collaboration between Becky and her two children, ages 7 and 9, over the course of three weeks leading up to the show’s premiere at the Capital Fringe Festival 2024 in Washington, D.C. The show was named "Best of Fringe" by DC Theater Arts in 2024 and praised by critics such as Chris Klimek who wrote in The Washington Post, “I loved ‘Penis Envy,’” and described the show as “vulnerable and true to her, funny and inviting.” Penis Envy ran as part of the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival and was described in The Broad Street Review as “the best kind of monologue show: finely crafted and intimately inhabited... funny, bold, poignant, sad, and transformative.”
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GIMME A SIGN! is an autobiographical comedy written and performed by Bailey Swilley, based on a family tragedy and the strange but funny antics that ensued after. The solo show combines standup and storytelling and explores the stages of grief and the search for signs from above. Come for the ghost tour with anecdotes about haunted tampons and annoying boyfriends, stay for the life lessons on self-acceptance and growing up.
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Ever wanted to sit in on someone’s therapy session? This unafraid one-woman musical starts as a hilarious, all-too-relatable plunge into the horrors of modern dating. But when our protagonist finally dares to ask, “What’s wrong with me?!” she’s forced to navigate messy situationships, brutal screenshots, and unfiltered vulnerability—with the audience as her therapist and raw laughter as her lifeline.
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No hokey gimmicks. No dumb themes – For the past 12 years, TALE brings you the best in NYC’s storytelling! Past storytellers include Roy Wood Jr (Daily Show), Jena Friedman (Borat), and Anthony Haden-Guest (Vanity Fair), as well as writers/performers for Conan, The Daily Show, HBO, Last Week Tonight – and beyond! Hosted by Harmon Leon (This American Life, 99 % Invisible, Edinburgh Festival)
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with Pedro Carmo Your life is a story. How do you want to tell it? Storytelling is both ritual and play - an art as old as humanity itself. In this three-hour Master Class, actor and theatre artist Pedro Carmo leads a creative journey to awaken imagination and explore the rhythms, gestures, and images that shape your unique way of telling a story. This is not about chasing perfection. It’s about opening a space to tell your story, your way - and rediscovering storytelling as a living, communal ritual.
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After a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Chloe Radcliffe brings her gutsy, divisive solo show to NYC for one night only. The show is about Chloe's history of cheating, the guilty secret that most would keep forever. (FYI: Coming to the show doesn’t make you a cheater… actually, avoiding it seems way more suspicious…) Chloe has written on and starred in Command Z from Steven Soderbergh, has been seen on Comedy Central, and was a writer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
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A twisted storyteling musical dark comedy featuring the music of Gram Parsons - the godfather of alt-rock country - and one of the most gloriously messed-up, debauched rock ‘n roll stories of all-time. A stolen corpse, cosmic country music, and one seriously botched cremation. In 1973, Gram Parsons made a pact with his tour manager, Phil Kaufman- whoever dies first, the other would cremate their body at Joshua Tree. Gram died first. Phil stole his body. It all didn't turn out as planned… Gram Parsons: Tim HasslerPhil Kaufman: Harmon LeonMusic: Max Newland Written/Directed: Harmon Leon (This American Life)
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16,000 Pounds By Owen Prum with Jade Manns Doors: 7pm Show 7:30pm
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Remember how you felt reading Edger Allen Poe’s classic short story The Telltale Heart? Now, playwright Omen Kaine channels Poe, re-imagining the story for our times, and setting it in Boston during the Pandemic. In this edgy adaptation, neighbors of a beloved old-school musician hear screams. Detectives come across a gruesome scene. Domestic Violence at its worst. But it’s not a married couple, rather a young man taking care of the older one. The caregiver admits to killing the musician and is in custody. Yet something seems off... Omen Kaine’s new play, the second in a trilogy, is accompanied by an album of original music from the Los Angeles Art district based band, the Clandestine Circle Quintet. Experimenting with Hip Hop, Rock and Jazz, the music is interwoven into the storyline, building tension and suspense.. The production opens in the fall of 2025, with an October run in Los Angeles, followed by a November run in New York, and then moves overseas to Belgium. It is the second installation of Kaine’s Through the Altered Lens Trilogy. Don't miss out on the opportunity to experience this bold new story in its first full dramatic productions.
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WORLD PREMIERE: Falling Out-A New Musical In a downtown New York music bar the ballads of lost loves and missed opportunities float on the air. Worlds collide when a melancholic transplant meets a musician with a past. Together they create a discordant harmony that will uncover the truths they both need to face to reshape their lives. This experiential production marks the WORLD PREMIERE of acclaimed musician and songwriter Josee Klein’s musical of heartbreak and redemption.
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