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9/14 CASTrebecca warlick as oliviaalma pannier as lyriclangi tuifua as riveranna la roche as vivian tom mcgahern as eddie cristian uriostegui as tonyhayden hard as isaac keyian vafai as gabe 9/15 CASTrebecca warlick as olivia alma pannier as lyriccrosby lloyd as gabe allison brainard as haley eric gorski as ben justin kamp as jasper maxwell cosmo kramer as daniel langi tuifua as tony written/directed by peter bd image by rebecca warlick
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FRIGID Nightcap September 16th: BOTTOMS UP! This September, FRIGID Nightcap turns the whole thing upside down. In a moment when wealth, power, surveillance, and decision-making keep concentrating at the top, we’re raising a glass to power built from below: workers, artists, neighbors, tenants, communities, coalitions, and all the gloriously contradictory people who keep society functioning. Because solidarity doesn’t require sameness, and it isn’t charity. It’s collective self-defense. So we’re exploring all of that through bottoms, booze, bodies, labor, sex, money, power dynamics, rock bottom, rising up, turning things over, and whatever else our artists decide to do with the phrase. Expect a wild late-night collision of comedy, drag, burlesque, music, theatre, performance art, movement, and beautiful nonsense: political, personal, filthy, absurd, celebratory, or simply upside down. The bottoms of our society are power bottoms... they are the ones holding everything up. So let's turn the whole thing upside-down. BOTTOMS UP! Raise your glass. Raise your ass. Raise some hell. -- Join us for NYC’s weirdest and wildest late-night variety show — where politics meets chaos, performance meets party, and the basement becomes a portal to whatever comes next.
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A double feature with two shows created by Michael Hagins First off...The Vengeance Room 5 strangers stricken with amnesia find themselves trapped in a claustrophobic room with 4 weapons sitting on a table: a baseball bat, a sword, a knife and a pistol. Each person discovers this horrific sight, and now must interact with each other and their own fears, as the realization of the Vengeance Room comes into sight: 5 people, 4 weapons…only one way out. Who will survive the Vengeance Room? And who is the mastermind? Content Awareness: Violence, Death, Gunshot sound, Weapons Then...THE ROOM of Falsehood! It truly is the love story of the ages, as Don Johnny, a businessman of San Francisco, cares for his betrothed Lissa and his faithful ward Denvolio. However, betrayal hurts all, as his best friend Mark...Antony girds the loins of Lissa, and Johnny must deal with all of the emotions of losing his betrothed. Plus his soon-to-be mother-in-law has a disease afflicting her bosom, his ward dealing with drug addiction, and his obsession with football. Can Don Johnny hold himself together as his friends and acquaintances fight for him, or will he be torn apart? A Shakespeare version of Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic The Room!
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My New Hampshire Diner is a heartfelt coming-of-age play set during the summer of 1991 inside a beloved neighborhood diner in Manchester, New Hampshire. As a socially awkward teenage busboy searches for where he belongs, a once-celebrated hometown sports hero wrestles with an uncertain future, and a young waitress dreams of a life beyond the diner. Filled with humor, warmth, and memorable characters, My New Hampshire Diner explores first jobs, first loves, family, friendship, and the choices that shape our lives. Inspired by Adam Wade's own experiences growing up in New Hampshire, the play is a love letter to hometowns, the people who raise us, and the places that never really leave us. About Adam Wade: Adam Wade is an award-winning storyteller, playwright, and performer based in New York City. A 20-time Moth StorySLAM champion, he has appeared on The Moth Radio Hour and The Moth Podcast, HBO's Girls, Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer, and PBS's Stories from the Stage. His Audible Original, You Ought to Know Adam Wade, became the #1 Audible bestseller in the U.S. and Canada. His debut storytelling/comedy album, Adam Wade: The Human Comedy, was enthusiastically praised in Sarah Larson's profile of Adam in The New Yorker, while his second album, Adam Wade Live at the Magnet Theater, reached #2 on the Billboard Comedy Albums chart. My New Hampshire Diner is his first full-length play. Before the curtain rises... Read the story behind the creation of My New Hampshire Diner in Adam's Substack essay, How It Began:https://adamwadestoryteller.substack.com/p/how-it-began
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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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Grab your goggles and glitter, Science Night is back! Sins and Stardust Burlesque dives once again into the wild world of science, where curiosity meets cabaret and things get a little sexy, strange, and spectacular. From biology and chemistry to physics, nature, technology, and beyond, our performers are turning the wonders of the universe into burlesque with plenty of glamour, humor, and beautiful weirdness. Returning to the Sins and Stardust stage are Dorienne Dreadful, Désirée de Sade, Lady Mabuhay, Saida Exit, Queerly Femmetastic, and Michael Becker, with Abby Fantastic making her Sins and Stardust debut. Beloved regular Sunshyne keeps the party going on gogo and vocals. Produced by Stiletto Sinclair and Jackie Galaxy, this is one experiment you won't want to miss. Note: This series is a 21+ event. Physical ID required. Note: This series is a 21+ event.
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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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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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As part of Under St Marks Theater revival of the vibrant improvisation programming that existed before Covid, Vermillion and her Lovely Shoes improv team will host the monthly Lovely Shoes and Friends variety show. We are building upon last season’s Side-Coached Improv Show in which we had various improv teams creating long form improv shows. But improvisation being evanescent, we wanted to have the ideas that came out of improvisation committed to page and then scripted performances, so this season we present a variety show in which we combine improv, storytelling, and sketch comedy that primarily was born during our improv sets. 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. Vermillion is honored to be a resident of this OBIE award winning theater! Instagram: @lovelyshoesimprov
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This is more than an improv show; this is a musical. Based on a suggestion provided by you, the audience, Hell Yeah!'s team of professional actors and musicians will create an entire musical from scratch, right in front of your very eyes. Every line, lyric, move, and melody will be made up live on stage. It will bring you laughs and tears and awws and wows. WARNING: You WILL fall in love with the characters we create and they’ll NEVER be seen again. We recommend you bring a friend so you may bond in this joy and heartbreak together. Hell Yeah! includes: Annie Raczko Bebe Tabickman Ben Hirsch Maria Nally Mark Melton Shaina Lubliner Xiaoxiao Sun Max Feldman, music director and pianist PJ Nally, director and drummer
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Step into a night of myths, magic, mystery, and Latin American folklore! Leyendas is a vibrant cabaret-style showcase presented by Muy Muy Productions, bringing 12 unique acts to the stage, each inspired by a legendary story from across Latin America. From the haunting tale of La Llorona and the tragic romance of El Callejón del Beso, to El Chupacabras, El Dorado, El Silbón, La Sayona, Curupira, La Ciguapa, and more, these legends come alive through music, dance, monologues, spoken word, and theatrical performance. Some stories may make you laugh. Others may give you chills. Some may remind you of something your abuela once told you. And some you may be hearing for the very first time. Created in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month and spooky season, Leyendas is a night to gather, celebrate the incredible diversity of Latin American storytelling, and keep the stories that have been passed down through generations alive. Come hear the legends. Come celebrate the culture. Come get a little scared.
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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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Stories from Vermillion's early New York days filled with odd jobs and characters: The Bathroom Matron * Hatchlings From A Devil's Nest * Vampire In Training * Fifty Sons And Daughters* Experimenting With American Faucets * Bewigged Temptation 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, created and curated internationally The Mushroom Show in 2023 and the 2026 Unfurling: Coming Out Of Isolation in NYC and London. Her return to the theater has been a serendipitous process, with her 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. Right now on grief hiatus for her dearly departed cat Rosamunda. During her residency, she develops evenings of inventive monologues, some soulful, some naughty, under the working title Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat. This year’s volume being Fanging My Way Thru America encompassing her early New York days filled with odd jobs and odder characters. As part of Under St Marks Theater revival of the vibrant improvisation programming that existed before Covid, Vermillion and her Lovely Shoes improv team will host the monthly Lovely Shoes and Friends variety show. Vermillion is honored to be a resident of this OBIE award winning theater! Instagram: @vermilion.nyc
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A PowerPoint presentation from a little girl who grappling with the question of living life.
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A demon burlesque artist. A medium who will grant a wish. A vampire stripper. A pair of bloodthirsty Karens. A ritual that will make heads roll. This off-the-wall queer, hot, sexy, spooky clown show will make you laugh even as you squirm uncomfortably in your seat. Are you ready for Hex Appeal? Content Awareness: Nudity, Sexual themes
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This production is a celebration of the Mexican Día de los Muertos, bringing 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. Content Awareness: Themes of Death
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I'm That Witch is a spooky original musical about Clara, a young woman searching for where she belongs. When the Hecate summon her into a magical world where a coven of witches is trapped inside an evil circus ruled by a tyrannical White Rabbit, Clara—guided by a mischievous Black Cat— discovers she's the key to their freedom. As the witches reclaim their voices and break free from the forces controlling them, they forge an unbreakable chosen family built on resilience, belonging, and collective strength. With an original score and a boldly female-driven story, I'm That Witch reclaims the word "witch" as a symbol of feminine power, autonomy, and community, leaving audiences feeling empowered, connected, and thoroughly entertained. This musical is a 65-minute fully produced show with original music by Sturkey and Studabaker and directed and choreographed by Andrea Palesh and Melissa Buriak of GPC Entertainment. The team heavily utilizes dance, music, costumes, and props to tell the story. Pulling inspiration from their cabaret background, the show creators embrace venue and technical limitations to tailor the show to the environment. It’s Hocus Pocus, meets Alice in Wonderland, meets The Nutcracker.
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Pigs and wolf, a classic tale. We know what happens…but do we really? These 4 clowns reimagine the tale in a new manner, merging the styles of Bouffon and vaudeville with a playful creepiness. Come see them lean into the natural physicality of these beasts, blending the world of human and four legged creatures. 3 pigs reunite in somewhat of a family dinner-type setting. An old friend comes to visit. What could go wrong? Follow these pigs on a journey through the past, present, future, and what remains after everything dissipates. Get ready for musical accompaniment; more animals jamming out with the pigglywiggilys!
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When she got the call the day before Valentine’s Day, she wasn’t surprised to learn of her Dad’s death. What she didn’t see coming was 19 more calls, texts & Facebook messages with the news of the deaths of loved ones of all ages. Through 20 objects aka “Martifacts”, legacy artist Martie McNabb shares her relationships with the 20 souls who left their bodies since the start of 2020 and how she keeps the memories of their lives in hers today through the Things they left behind. In this interactive show, she invites her audience to explore the real legacy that our loved ones leave behind and the reason Things matter. Content Awareness: Dying, Death & Grief.
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July lies to her parents so she can stay home alone and throw a Halloween party instead of attending the anniversary Mass for her late Aunt Margareth. But when Margareth’s ghost unexpectedly returns, she has plans of her own for the house where Día de la Canción Criolla and Peruvian traditions have always been at the heart of the family. What follows is a chaotic and hilarious night of pizza, music, magic, a goofy and bumbling pizza delivery driver caught in the middle of it all, and an unexpected family reunion that no one saw coming. A bilingual musical comedy about family, tradition, identity, and the ghosts we never quite leave behind. Content Awareness: Themes of death and grief, ghosts, spooky/Halloween themes, thunder and loud sound effects, and flashing lights.
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The Witching Hour returns this spooky season with a horror-fiction triple-feature. 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 three spooky short plays for you featuring heartstopping housekeepers, supernatural superstores, and worrisome wallpaper. So when the night comes, gather around this tri-an-ghoul, try not to scream, and prepare for a trifecta of treats. BLEACHA married couple struggling to conceive have their relationship put to the test by their self-assured housecleaner. Content Awareness: Gun use, sexual content. THE SORCERY AISLEA wizard and two witches walk into a big box store. What happens next is a comedic bubbling concoction of the everyday relatable and mythical enchantment with just a dash of NYC. THE YELLOW WALLPAPERThe Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written in 1892, which follows a character tortured by the images of woman lurking behind her walls. In this physical theater adaptation, the wallpaper comes to life as a haunting dancer drawing the main character into madness–or perhaps saving her from it. Choreographed by Maren Westgard, the piece utilizes acting, dance, poetry, and music to revive this eerie short story for the 21st century. Content Awareness: Flashing Lights
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A sudden apocalypse sends two friends into an unlikely living situation with a stranger. As time passes, they build a new existence within those four walls. But what's happening to the world outside? Content Awareness: loud noises.
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At a Halloween after-party that refuses to end, Ana, a young Portuguese woman living in New York, becomes obsessed with finding a missing guest. As the night unfolds through music, desire, inebriation, and fleeting encounters, she finds herself increasingly trapped between reality, memory, and dream. The guests who drift through her apartment become reflections of her past, her fears, and her longing for connection, transforming the search into a surreal confrontation with grief, family, and the ghosts she thought she had left behind. Part ghost story, part house party, and part dreamscape, The Guests follows Ana through a world where the past refuses to stay buried and the boundaries between the living and the dead begin to dissolve. Rituals slip into hallucinations, and the familiar gradually gives way to the uncanny. Moving between contemporary drama and dark comedy, the play explores displacement, belonging, and what it means to live far from home while carrying loss across oceans. At its heart, The Guests asks how memory reshapes identity, how the dead continue to inhabit the lives of the living, and how love endures beyond absence. Content Awareness: Loud music, flickering lights, strong language, alcohol use, and themes of death and grief.
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"THE CLARENCE SHOW” is a one-man show set inside a late-night psychic call-in program where the jokes hit hard and the truth cuts deep. Clarence sees ALL— if you're brave enough to show up or call. WARNING: You are not just reading this. You are being read. Think you found this show by accident? THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS. Clarence is expecting you. See you soon!" Content Awareness: Gunshot - Sound effect.
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Sins and 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 is a 21+ event.
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A story about love, life, and death, No Roses follows two young men - one alive, one dead - as they discover what it means to exchange affection between worlds. Bailey Jones-Wolfe and Calixte Maćon fight fate in this thrilling, romantic tale that forces you to consider what it means to truly be alive. Content Awareness: Death, near-death experiences, violence, flashing lights.
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It’s a typical day at the NYC 311 Call Center: negligent landlords, broken streetlights, bosses that refuse to recognize the humanity of their employees. Standard chaos. Operators Isola, Frankie, and Gray are doing the best they can to connect New Yorkers to the resources they need. And then - the calls begin reflecting a strange turn in the world around them. Escalators are swallowing people, walls are becoming transparent, and most terrifying of all, the subway starts to smell … amazing. They soon discover the reason for this new form of chaos sweeping the city. It’s a gigantic swirling Black Hole consuming everything in its path. As the characters try to understand their new reality, their relationships with each other begin unraveling. Turns out, an impending apocalypse has the power to melt their professional armor and reveal their messy human selves. Y'all, it’s complicated. But the Black Hole is on its way. And it’s really, really hungry.
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1990s life was exciting, no cell phones or internet. Moving blindly and figuring it out on the fly. Compton house party, spirits and demons in Santa Fe, reading tarot cards for a psychic hotline life these are stories that need to be set free. What Have I Done? probing a life of poor choices, performed by marsha. Content Awareness: Adult topics will be covered.
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Three camping trips, three foreign countries of the self. At ten, Dipti arrives at Girl Scout camp with the wrong bunkmate. At sixteen, she fakes her way through a week in the Adirondacks. At twenty-seven, she squats behind a church in East Sussex…into a patch of stinging nettles. In each case, the wilderness has the last word. Some of us are never meant to sleep on the ground, and yet we try.
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Did My Grandfather? is a tale of the Asian Diaspora Experience. Cody investigates his mother's immigration from Vietnam, where she was adopted by an American soldier, and raised deep in the mountains of rural West Virginia. Challenged by his identity, Cody embarks on a journey to uncover his heritage, and to answer the question "What does it mean to be Asian American?" However, the answer he finds isn't what he was expecting; and his identity is challenged by a real nightmare that haunts Cody to this day. Broadway World reviewed the show as "masterful storytelling" and a "compelling autobiographical story." Content Awareness: Sounds of war (gunfire and explosions), flashing lights, images of war.
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Part stand-up, part cultural exorcism, Killing Janet follows a first-generation Nigerian-American woman who tries to "kill" her missionary-given name and everything it represents. Content Awareness: References to suicide; explicit sexual imagery; strong language.
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November 7: “It Came TO New York”Many people come to New York City to fulfill their dreams, live their authentic lives, to work, to play—some of them even stay! In "It Came TO New York," you'll hear stories from four people who left their place of birth and made NYC their home—along with one "token" NYC native who left... and came back. November 10: “It Came BACK to New York”In "It Came BACK TO New York," four native New Yorkers (and one "token" transplant) share their stories of leaving the Big Apple... and why they came home.
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Following critical acclaim at Edinburgh Fringe and New York City Fringe, winning multiple awards, including Audience Choice and Staff Choice, five-star reviews, and selling out theaters in Edinburgh, Los Angeles, and New York City, Kona Morris (The Moth, PBS’s Stories From the Stage, RISK!) tells the true story of falling in love with a member of the Gwich’in tribe of Alaska and moving to a remote village north of the Arctic Circle, where she lived off the road system without running water or electric heating. Exhilarating, hilarious, heart-warming storytelling that will transport you to the top of the world! Grizzly bears, whirlpools, northern lights, and the transformation that happens when you take chances and embrace the unknown. And yes, you will learn all the tips needed for using an outhouse in subzero weather. You might just learn a few other things, too... "Morris achieves levels of total immersion storytelling." —Get Your Coats On (Edinburgh Fringe, 2026) "Transplendent! A mesmerizing feast of adventure, community, wonder, and laughs!" — Cara Lopez Lee, Award-winning Author, Journalist, and Storyteller (Los Angeles, 2026) "We are in the palm of her hands from the moment she opens her mouth. I had a smile on my face the entire time." —TonyLovesTheFringe (Edinburgh Fringe, 2026) “In a piece filled with extremes, of temperature, distance, and life-altering decisions, Morris finds balance between humor and heart.” — Theatre Beyond Broadway (New York City Fringe, 2026) "It is like listening to an audiobook of an Alaskan explorer. Extremely heart-warming!" —Entertainment Now (Edinburgh Fringe, 2026) "The outhouse is really the gateway to a much bigger story about love, adventure, growing up, community, and finding your place in an environment where almost everything familiar has been stripped away." —Edinburgh Fringe Radio (Edinburgh Fringe, 2026) Content Awareness: Brief discussion of reproductive rights and teen pregnancy.
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Join us for 2 shows in 1 performance! Un Canario in New York A brief comedic story of my journey from the Canary Islands around the world till I landed in New York. How I literally had to learn about flying before I could be allowed to make jokes on the theater stages of NY. Serpent Woman After her recent divorce, a woman suffers a panic attack and feels something strange inside her… a serpent she manages to expel into the toilet. What follows is a fierce struggle that reopens old wounds and sends her on a journey through madness, memory, and transformation. Content Awareness: depictions of panic attacks and mental distress, references to abortion and postpartum distress, alcohol use, knife violence, and references to self-harm/suicidal ideation.
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How do you connect with your parents when they don't speak English and you're not fluent in their Chinese languages? For Annie, through a family secret. When Annie learns she's related to Vincent Chin, a man whose 1982 Detroit murder started an Asian American movement, she seeks out the story, wanting to make something of her family’s legacy. Just as Annie is building the life of teaching and activism she wants, her parents threaten never to talk to her again. In this storytelling show based on a memoir-in-progress, Annie Tan (NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, PBS’ Stories From The Stage, RISK!) explores what it really means to communicate– maybe in English, Spanish, Mandarin, or Annie’s home languages of Cantonese and Toisan– and make change.
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Spoken word collides with storytelling in this unflinching, funny, and fearless one-woman show. Faith Alpher takes the stage to tell the story of leaving New Jersey and remaking herself in California with more than a few stops along the way. Inspired by her book The Voice You Forgot You Had, available now, this show pulls the audience through every exit and every reinvention: hair, hips, menopause, politics, and the slow, hard-won return to her own voice as a woman of color navigating two wildly different worlds. Equal parts thrilling and tender, Jersey Girl. Strange World. is a night of theater you won't want to miss. Alpher currently serves as the Poet Laureate of Livermore, California, the first person of color to hold the position. Her debut spoken word collection, 'The Voice You Forgot You Had', is available now. Come be a stranger with her for a night. You'll leave feeling like you belong.
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Join us for 2 shows in 1 performance! Eat, Pray, ClownIn the height of monsoon season in Sri Lanka, a clown steps off a plane, and an adventure begins. Landing in a new and very foreign country, award-winning clown Ania Upstill realized that they knew very little about the place they had arrived. They were there to teach and perform, but what would they learn? Not surprisingly .... a lot. Through travel, cultural exchange, and asking important questions like "what is that and can I eat it?", and "Why is Fur Elise Playing?", Ania came to a deep appreciation and deep(er) understanding of Sri Lankan history and culture. Now they are back to share what they learned, in this clown's take on a classic teacher-turns-student, West-meets-East traveler's narrative. Combining narrative storytelling and comedic physical performance, Ania takes their audience along on a journey of delights, delays and discoveries as they eat, pray and, yes, clown their way around Sri Lanka. Serpent WomanAfter her recent divorce, a woman suffers a panic attack and feels something strange inside her… a serpent she manages to expel into the toilet. What follows is a fierce struggle that reopens old wounds and sends her on a journey through madness, memory, and transformation. Content Awareness: depictions of panic attacks and mental distress, references to abortion and postpartum distress, alcohol use, knife violence, and references to self-harm/suicidal ideation.
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"Welcome to Midday: History Repeating" is a storytelling show about how after growing up in Mississippi, Sharon Spell landed a job as a Victorian house museum docent in Pittsburgh. As she led tours through each of the public and private rooms where a Gilded Age robber baron and his family once lived, Sharon recognized this compartmentalization in her own life. She had made a series of mistakes and to publicly save face couldn’t let on how miserable she was in private. Folks heard her southern accent at work and asked, "How did you get here?" Someway, somehow, she would have to confront the reasons "how" in order to change the course of her own life's tour. No matter where we go, history will repeat until we learn from our past. Directed by Julia Whitehouse This show is for mature audiences.
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Where did you go? A solo musical of tapes & tangents. Written & performed by Florencia Iriondo. Four cities and one old tupperware doing its best to keep it all together. There will be songs. And stories. And lots of tangents. Some of them will even be relevant. Tupper is absurd and nostalgic: what happens when a teen radio host from 90s Buenos Aires grows up, makes her way through New Zealand, Dublin and New York, and somehow keeps all the tapes—and the questionable decisions. An earlier version of Tupper (formerly known as Song Society) ran twice at the Edinburgh Fringe’s Underbelly and was shortlisted for Best Show by the West End Wilma Awards, with development support from Prospect Musicals, Pipeline Arts and Drama Club Camp, and performances at Matchbook Fest. A show for travelers, overthinkers, and sentimental fools. Because sometimes a song is just a song. And sometimes it becomes a 20-minute story about Dublin. Florencia Iriondo is an Argentina-born, New York-based writer, actor, and producer with a career spanning theater, television, and digital media—from MTV and Off-Broadway to the Edinburgh Fringe and LinkedIn Studios, which she founded and led as Showrunner & Executive Producer of its original video and podcast series.
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From a young age, Queer kids are sold the idea, “It gets better.” But what happens when you're in college and are still gay, miserable, and annoying? “Yet You're A Virgin (And So Am I)” is a two-person comedy following co-dependent best friends, Kaden and Madeline, who have yet to get laid– contrary to the fantastical notion of gay adulthood Tumblr had promised them. Entrenched in internet culture and unwaveringly sex positive (at least in theory…), “Yet You're A Virgin (And So Am I)” is a love letter to gay/lesbian solidarity and the found family that comes with it. View our Website: https://www.yetyoureavirgin.comFollow us on Instagram: @YetYoureAVirgin
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9/14 CASTrebecca warlick as oliviaalma pannier as lyriclangi tuifua as riveranna la roche as vivian tom mcgahern as eddie cristian uriostegui as tonyhayden hard as isaac keyian vafai as gabe 9/15 CASTrebecca warlick as olivia alma pannier as lyriccrosby lloyd as gabe allison brainard as haley eric gorski as ben justin kamp as jasper maxwell cosmo kramer as daniel langi tuifua as tony written/directed by peter bd image by rebecca warlick
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FRIGID Nightcap September 16th: BOTTOMS UP! This September, FRIGID Nightcap turns the whole thing upside down. In a moment when wealth, power, surveillance, and decision-making keep concentrating at the top, we’re raising a glass to power built from below: workers, artists, neighbors, tenants, communities, coalitions, and all the gloriously contradictory people who keep society functioning. Because solidarity doesn’t require sameness, and it isn’t charity. It’s collective self-defense. So we’re exploring all of that through bottoms, booze, bodies, labor, sex, money, power dynamics, rock bottom, rising up, turning things over, and whatever else our artists decide to do with the phrase. Expect a wild late-night collision of comedy, drag, burlesque, music, theatre, performance art, movement, and beautiful nonsense: political, personal, filthy, absurd, celebratory, or simply upside down. The bottoms of our society are power bottoms... they are the ones holding everything up. So let's turn the whole thing upside-down. BOTTOMS UP! Raise your glass. Raise your ass. Raise some hell. -- Join us for NYC’s weirdest and wildest late-night variety show — where politics meets chaos, performance meets party, and the basement becomes a portal to whatever comes next.
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A double feature with two shows created by Michael Hagins First off...The Vengeance Room 5 strangers stricken with amnesia find themselves trapped in a claustrophobic room with 4 weapons sitting on a table: a baseball bat, a sword, a knife and a pistol. Each person discovers this horrific sight, and now must interact with each other and their own fears, as the realization of the Vengeance Room comes into sight: 5 people, 4 weapons…only one way out. Who will survive the Vengeance Room? And who is the mastermind? Content Awareness: Violence, Death, Gunshot sound, Weapons Then...THE ROOM of Falsehood! It truly is the love story of the ages, as Don Johnny, a businessman of San Francisco, cares for his betrothed Lissa and his faithful ward Denvolio. However, betrayal hurts all, as his best friend Mark...Antony girds the loins of Lissa, and Johnny must deal with all of the emotions of losing his betrothed. Plus his soon-to-be mother-in-law has a disease afflicting her bosom, his ward dealing with drug addiction, and his obsession with football. Can Don Johnny hold himself together as his friends and acquaintances fight for him, or will he be torn apart? A Shakespeare version of Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic The Room!
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My New Hampshire Diner is a heartfelt coming-of-age play set during the summer of 1991 inside a beloved neighborhood diner in Manchester, New Hampshire. As a socially awkward teenage busboy searches for where he belongs, a once-celebrated hometown sports hero wrestles with an uncertain future, and a young waitress dreams of a life beyond the diner. Filled with humor, warmth, and memorable characters, My New Hampshire Diner explores first jobs, first loves, family, friendship, and the choices that shape our lives. Inspired by Adam Wade's own experiences growing up in New Hampshire, the play is a love letter to hometowns, the people who raise us, and the places that never really leave us. About Adam Wade: Adam Wade is an award-winning storyteller, playwright, and performer based in New York City. A 20-time Moth StorySLAM champion, he has appeared on The Moth Radio Hour and The Moth Podcast, HBO's Girls, Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer, and PBS's Stories from the Stage. His Audible Original, You Ought to Know Adam Wade, became the #1 Audible bestseller in the U.S. and Canada. His debut storytelling/comedy album, Adam Wade: The Human Comedy, was enthusiastically praised in Sarah Larson's profile of Adam in The New Yorker, while his second album, Adam Wade Live at the Magnet Theater, reached #2 on the Billboard Comedy Albums chart. My New Hampshire Diner is his first full-length play. Before the curtain rises... Read the story behind the creation of My New Hampshire Diner in Adam's Substack essay, How It Began:https://adamwadestoryteller.substack.com/p/how-it-began
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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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Grab your goggles and glitter, Science Night is back! Sins and Stardust Burlesque dives once again into the wild world of science, where curiosity meets cabaret and things get a little sexy, strange, and spectacular. From biology and chemistry to physics, nature, technology, and beyond, our performers are turning the wonders of the universe into burlesque with plenty of glamour, humor, and beautiful weirdness. Returning to the Sins and Stardust stage are Dorienne Dreadful, Désirée de Sade, Lady Mabuhay, Saida Exit, Queerly Femmetastic, and Michael Becker, with Abby Fantastic making her Sins and Stardust debut. Beloved regular Sunshyne keeps the party going on gogo and vocals. Produced by Stiletto Sinclair and Jackie Galaxy, this is one experiment you won't want to miss. Note: This series is a 21+ event. Physical ID required. Note: This series is a 21+ event.
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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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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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As part of Under St Marks Theater revival of the vibrant improvisation programming that existed before Covid, Vermillion and her Lovely Shoes improv team will host the monthly Lovely Shoes and Friends variety show. We are building upon last season’s Side-Coached Improv Show in which we had various improv teams creating long form improv shows. But improvisation being evanescent, we wanted to have the ideas that came out of improvisation committed to page and then scripted performances, so this season we present a variety show in which we combine improv, storytelling, and sketch comedy that primarily was born during our improv sets. 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. Vermillion is honored to be a resident of this OBIE award winning theater! Instagram: @lovelyshoesimprov
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This is more than an improv show; this is a musical. Based on a suggestion provided by you, the audience, Hell Yeah!'s team of professional actors and musicians will create an entire musical from scratch, right in front of your very eyes. Every line, lyric, move, and melody will be made up live on stage. It will bring you laughs and tears and awws and wows. WARNING: You WILL fall in love with the characters we create and they’ll NEVER be seen again. We recommend you bring a friend so you may bond in this joy and heartbreak together. Hell Yeah! includes: Annie Raczko Bebe Tabickman Ben Hirsch Maria Nally Mark Melton Shaina Lubliner Xiaoxiao Sun Max Feldman, music director and pianist PJ Nally, director and drummer
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Step into a night of myths, magic, mystery, and Latin American folklore! Leyendas is a vibrant cabaret-style showcase presented by Muy Muy Productions, bringing 12 unique acts to the stage, each inspired by a legendary story from across Latin America. From the haunting tale of La Llorona and the tragic romance of El Callejón del Beso, to El Chupacabras, El Dorado, El Silbón, La Sayona, Curupira, La Ciguapa, and more, these legends come alive through music, dance, monologues, spoken word, and theatrical performance. Some stories may make you laugh. Others may give you chills. Some may remind you of something your abuela once told you. And some you may be hearing for the very first time. Created in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month and spooky season, Leyendas is a night to gather, celebrate the incredible diversity of Latin American storytelling, and keep the stories that have been passed down through generations alive. Come hear the legends. Come celebrate the culture. Come get a little scared.
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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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Stories from Vermillion's early New York days filled with odd jobs and characters: The Bathroom Matron * Hatchlings From A Devil's Nest * Vampire In Training * Fifty Sons And Daughters* Experimenting With American Faucets * Bewigged Temptation 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, created and curated internationally The Mushroom Show in 2023 and the 2026 Unfurling: Coming Out Of Isolation in NYC and London. Her return to the theater has been a serendipitous process, with her 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. Right now on grief hiatus for her dearly departed cat Rosamunda. During her residency, she develops evenings of inventive monologues, some soulful, some naughty, under the working title Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat. This year’s volume being Fanging My Way Thru America encompassing her early New York days filled with odd jobs and odder characters. As part of Under St Marks Theater revival of the vibrant improvisation programming that existed before Covid, Vermillion and her Lovely Shoes improv team will host the monthly Lovely Shoes and Friends variety show. Vermillion is honored to be a resident of this OBIE award winning theater! Instagram: @vermilion.nyc
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A PowerPoint presentation from a little girl who grappling with the question of living life.
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A demon burlesque artist. A medium who will grant a wish. A vampire stripper. A pair of bloodthirsty Karens. A ritual that will make heads roll. This off-the-wall queer, hot, sexy, spooky clown show will make you laugh even as you squirm uncomfortably in your seat. Are you ready for Hex Appeal? Content Awareness: Nudity, Sexual themes
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This production is a celebration of the Mexican Día de los Muertos, bringing 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. Content Awareness: Themes of Death
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I'm That Witch is a spooky original musical about Clara, a young woman searching for where she belongs. When the Hecate summon her into a magical world where a coven of witches is trapped inside an evil circus ruled by a tyrannical White Rabbit, Clara—guided by a mischievous Black Cat— discovers she's the key to their freedom. As the witches reclaim their voices and break free from the forces controlling them, they forge an unbreakable chosen family built on resilience, belonging, and collective strength. With an original score and a boldly female-driven story, I'm That Witch reclaims the word "witch" as a symbol of feminine power, autonomy, and community, leaving audiences feeling empowered, connected, and thoroughly entertained. This musical is a 65-minute fully produced show with original music by Sturkey and Studabaker and directed and choreographed by Andrea Palesh and Melissa Buriak of GPC Entertainment. The team heavily utilizes dance, music, costumes, and props to tell the story. Pulling inspiration from their cabaret background, the show creators embrace venue and technical limitations to tailor the show to the environment. It’s Hocus Pocus, meets Alice in Wonderland, meets The Nutcracker.
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Pigs and wolf, a classic tale. We know what happens…but do we really? These 4 clowns reimagine the tale in a new manner, merging the styles of Bouffon and vaudeville with a playful creepiness. Come see them lean into the natural physicality of these beasts, blending the world of human and four legged creatures. 3 pigs reunite in somewhat of a family dinner-type setting. An old friend comes to visit. What could go wrong? Follow these pigs on a journey through the past, present, future, and what remains after everything dissipates. Get ready for musical accompaniment; more animals jamming out with the pigglywiggilys!
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When she got the call the day before Valentine’s Day, she wasn’t surprised to learn of her Dad’s death. What she didn’t see coming was 19 more calls, texts & Facebook messages with the news of the deaths of loved ones of all ages. Through 20 objects aka “Martifacts”, legacy artist Martie McNabb shares her relationships with the 20 souls who left their bodies since the start of 2020 and how she keeps the memories of their lives in hers today through the Things they left behind. In this interactive show, she invites her audience to explore the real legacy that our loved ones leave behind and the reason Things matter. Content Awareness: Dying, Death & Grief.
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July lies to her parents so she can stay home alone and throw a Halloween party instead of attending the anniversary Mass for her late Aunt Margareth. But when Margareth’s ghost unexpectedly returns, she has plans of her own for the house where Día de la Canción Criolla and Peruvian traditions have always been at the heart of the family. What follows is a chaotic and hilarious night of pizza, music, magic, a goofy and bumbling pizza delivery driver caught in the middle of it all, and an unexpected family reunion that no one saw coming. A bilingual musical comedy about family, tradition, identity, and the ghosts we never quite leave behind. Content Awareness: Themes of death and grief, ghosts, spooky/Halloween themes, thunder and loud sound effects, and flashing lights.
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The Witching Hour returns this spooky season with a horror-fiction triple-feature. 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 three spooky short plays for you featuring heartstopping housekeepers, supernatural superstores, and worrisome wallpaper. So when the night comes, gather around this tri-an-ghoul, try not to scream, and prepare for a trifecta of treats. BLEACHA married couple struggling to conceive have their relationship put to the test by their self-assured housecleaner. Content Awareness: Gun use, sexual content. THE SORCERY AISLEA wizard and two witches walk into a big box store. What happens next is a comedic bubbling concoction of the everyday relatable and mythical enchantment with just a dash of NYC. THE YELLOW WALLPAPERThe Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written in 1892, which follows a character tortured by the images of woman lurking behind her walls. In this physical theater adaptation, the wallpaper comes to life as a haunting dancer drawing the main character into madness–or perhaps saving her from it. Choreographed by Maren Westgard, the piece utilizes acting, dance, poetry, and music to revive this eerie short story for the 21st century. Content Awareness: Flashing Lights
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A sudden apocalypse sends two friends into an unlikely living situation with a stranger. As time passes, they build a new existence within those four walls. But what's happening to the world outside? Content Awareness: loud noises.
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At a Halloween after-party that refuses to end, Ana, a young Portuguese woman living in New York, becomes obsessed with finding a missing guest. As the night unfolds through music, desire, inebriation, and fleeting encounters, she finds herself increasingly trapped between reality, memory, and dream. The guests who drift through her apartment become reflections of her past, her fears, and her longing for connection, transforming the search into a surreal confrontation with grief, family, and the ghosts she thought she had left behind. Part ghost story, part house party, and part dreamscape, The Guests follows Ana through a world where the past refuses to stay buried and the boundaries between the living and the dead begin to dissolve. Rituals slip into hallucinations, and the familiar gradually gives way to the uncanny. Moving between contemporary drama and dark comedy, the play explores displacement, belonging, and what it means to live far from home while carrying loss across oceans. At its heart, The Guests asks how memory reshapes identity, how the dead continue to inhabit the lives of the living, and how love endures beyond absence. Content Awareness: Loud music, flickering lights, strong language, alcohol use, and themes of death and grief.
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"THE CLARENCE SHOW” is a one-man show set inside a late-night psychic call-in program where the jokes hit hard and the truth cuts deep. Clarence sees ALL— if you're brave enough to show up or call. WARNING: You are not just reading this. You are being read. Think you found this show by accident? THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS. Clarence is expecting you. See you soon!" Content Awareness: Gunshot - Sound effect.
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Sins and 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 is a 21+ event.
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A story about love, life, and death, No Roses follows two young men - one alive, one dead - as they discover what it means to exchange affection between worlds. Bailey Jones-Wolfe and Calixte Maćon fight fate in this thrilling, romantic tale that forces you to consider what it means to truly be alive. Content Awareness: Death, near-death experiences, violence, flashing lights.
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It’s a typical day at the NYC 311 Call Center: negligent landlords, broken streetlights, bosses that refuse to recognize the humanity of their employees. Standard chaos. Operators Isola, Frankie, and Gray are doing the best they can to connect New Yorkers to the resources they need. And then - the calls begin reflecting a strange turn in the world around them. Escalators are swallowing people, walls are becoming transparent, and most terrifying of all, the subway starts to smell … amazing. They soon discover the reason for this new form of chaos sweeping the city. It’s a gigantic swirling Black Hole consuming everything in its path. As the characters try to understand their new reality, their relationships with each other begin unraveling. Turns out, an impending apocalypse has the power to melt their professional armor and reveal their messy human selves. Y'all, it’s complicated. But the Black Hole is on its way. And it’s really, really hungry.
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1990s life was exciting, no cell phones or internet. Moving blindly and figuring it out on the fly. Compton house party, spirits and demons in Santa Fe, reading tarot cards for a psychic hotline life these are stories that need to be set free. What Have I Done? probing a life of poor choices, performed by marsha. Content Awareness: Adult topics will be covered.
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Three camping trips, three foreign countries of the self. At ten, Dipti arrives at Girl Scout camp with the wrong bunkmate. At sixteen, she fakes her way through a week in the Adirondacks. At twenty-seven, she squats behind a church in East Sussex…into a patch of stinging nettles. In each case, the wilderness has the last word. Some of us are never meant to sleep on the ground, and yet we try.
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Did My Grandfather? is a tale of the Asian Diaspora Experience. Cody investigates his mother's immigration from Vietnam, where she was adopted by an American soldier, and raised deep in the mountains of rural West Virginia. Challenged by his identity, Cody embarks on a journey to uncover his heritage, and to answer the question "What does it mean to be Asian American?" However, the answer he finds isn't what he was expecting; and his identity is challenged by a real nightmare that haunts Cody to this day. Broadway World reviewed the show as "masterful storytelling" and a "compelling autobiographical story." Content Awareness: Sounds of war (gunfire and explosions), flashing lights, images of war.
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Part stand-up, part cultural exorcism, Killing Janet follows a first-generation Nigerian-American woman who tries to "kill" her missionary-given name and everything it represents. Content Awareness: References to suicide; explicit sexual imagery; strong language.
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November 7: “It Came TO New York”Many people come to New York City to fulfill their dreams, live their authentic lives, to work, to play—some of them even stay! In "It Came TO New York," you'll hear stories from four people who left their place of birth and made NYC their home—along with one "token" NYC native who left... and came back. November 10: “It Came BACK to New York”In "It Came BACK TO New York," four native New Yorkers (and one "token" transplant) share their stories of leaving the Big Apple... and why they came home.
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Following critical acclaim at Edinburgh Fringe and New York City Fringe, winning multiple awards, including Audience Choice and Staff Choice, five-star reviews, and selling out theaters in Edinburgh, Los Angeles, and New York City, Kona Morris (The Moth, PBS’s Stories From the Stage, RISK!) tells the true story of falling in love with a member of the Gwich’in tribe of Alaska and moving to a remote village north of the Arctic Circle, where she lived off the road system without running water or electric heating. Exhilarating, hilarious, heart-warming storytelling that will transport you to the top of the world! Grizzly bears, whirlpools, northern lights, and the transformation that happens when you take chances and embrace the unknown. And yes, you will learn all the tips needed for using an outhouse in subzero weather. You might just learn a few other things, too... "Morris achieves levels of total immersion storytelling." —Get Your Coats On (Edinburgh Fringe, 2026) "Transplendent! A mesmerizing feast of adventure, community, wonder, and laughs!" — Cara Lopez Lee, Award-winning Author, Journalist, and Storyteller (Los Angeles, 2026) "We are in the palm of her hands from the moment she opens her mouth. I had a smile on my face the entire time." —TonyLovesTheFringe (Edinburgh Fringe, 2026) “In a piece filled with extremes, of temperature, distance, and life-altering decisions, Morris finds balance between humor and heart.” — Theatre Beyond Broadway (New York City Fringe, 2026) "It is like listening to an audiobook of an Alaskan explorer. Extremely heart-warming!" —Entertainment Now (Edinburgh Fringe, 2026) "The outhouse is really the gateway to a much bigger story about love, adventure, growing up, community, and finding your place in an environment where almost everything familiar has been stripped away." —Edinburgh Fringe Radio (Edinburgh Fringe, 2026) Content Awareness: Brief discussion of reproductive rights and teen pregnancy.
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Join us for 2 shows in 1 performance! Un Canario in New York A brief comedic story of my journey from the Canary Islands around the world till I landed in New York. How I literally had to learn about flying before I could be allowed to make jokes on the theater stages of NY. Serpent Woman After her recent divorce, a woman suffers a panic attack and feels something strange inside her… a serpent she manages to expel into the toilet. What follows is a fierce struggle that reopens old wounds and sends her on a journey through madness, memory, and transformation. Content Awareness: depictions of panic attacks and mental distress, references to abortion and postpartum distress, alcohol use, knife violence, and references to self-harm/suicidal ideation.
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How do you connect with your parents when they don't speak English and you're not fluent in their Chinese languages? For Annie, through a family secret. When Annie learns she's related to Vincent Chin, a man whose 1982 Detroit murder started an Asian American movement, she seeks out the story, wanting to make something of her family’s legacy. Just as Annie is building the life of teaching and activism she wants, her parents threaten never to talk to her again. In this storytelling show based on a memoir-in-progress, Annie Tan (NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, PBS’ Stories From The Stage, RISK!) explores what it really means to communicate– maybe in English, Spanish, Mandarin, or Annie’s home languages of Cantonese and Toisan– and make change.
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Spoken word collides with storytelling in this unflinching, funny, and fearless one-woman show. Faith Alpher takes the stage to tell the story of leaving New Jersey and remaking herself in California with more than a few stops along the way. Inspired by her book The Voice You Forgot You Had, available now, this show pulls the audience through every exit and every reinvention: hair, hips, menopause, politics, and the slow, hard-won return to her own voice as a woman of color navigating two wildly different worlds. Equal parts thrilling and tender, Jersey Girl. Strange World. is a night of theater you won't want to miss. Alpher currently serves as the Poet Laureate of Livermore, California, the first person of color to hold the position. Her debut spoken word collection, 'The Voice You Forgot You Had', is available now. Come be a stranger with her for a night. You'll leave feeling like you belong.
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Join us for 2 shows in 1 performance! Eat, Pray, ClownIn the height of monsoon season in Sri Lanka, a clown steps off a plane, and an adventure begins. Landing in a new and very foreign country, award-winning clown Ania Upstill realized that they knew very little about the place they had arrived. They were there to teach and perform, but what would they learn? Not surprisingly .... a lot. Through travel, cultural exchange, and asking important questions like "what is that and can I eat it?", and "Why is Fur Elise Playing?", Ania came to a deep appreciation and deep(er) understanding of Sri Lankan history and culture. Now they are back to share what they learned, in this clown's take on a classic teacher-turns-student, West-meets-East traveler's narrative. Combining narrative storytelling and comedic physical performance, Ania takes their audience along on a journey of delights, delays and discoveries as they eat, pray and, yes, clown their way around Sri Lanka. Serpent WomanAfter her recent divorce, a woman suffers a panic attack and feels something strange inside her… a serpent she manages to expel into the toilet. What follows is a fierce struggle that reopens old wounds and sends her on a journey through madness, memory, and transformation. Content Awareness: depictions of panic attacks and mental distress, references to abortion and postpartum distress, alcohol use, knife violence, and references to self-harm/suicidal ideation.
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"Welcome to Midday: History Repeating" is a storytelling show about how after growing up in Mississippi, Sharon Spell landed a job as a Victorian house museum docent in Pittsburgh. As she led tours through each of the public and private rooms where a Gilded Age robber baron and his family once lived, Sharon recognized this compartmentalization in her own life. She had made a series of mistakes and to publicly save face couldn’t let on how miserable she was in private. Folks heard her southern accent at work and asked, "How did you get here?" Someway, somehow, she would have to confront the reasons "how" in order to change the course of her own life's tour. No matter where we go, history will repeat until we learn from our past. Directed by Julia Whitehouse This show is for mature audiences.
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Where did you go? A solo musical of tapes & tangents. Written & performed by Florencia Iriondo. Four cities and one old tupperware doing its best to keep it all together. There will be songs. And stories. And lots of tangents. Some of them will even be relevant. Tupper is absurd and nostalgic: what happens when a teen radio host from 90s Buenos Aires grows up, makes her way through New Zealand, Dublin and New York, and somehow keeps all the tapes—and the questionable decisions. An earlier version of Tupper (formerly known as Song Society) ran twice at the Edinburgh Fringe’s Underbelly and was shortlisted for Best Show by the West End Wilma Awards, with development support from Prospect Musicals, Pipeline Arts and Drama Club Camp, and performances at Matchbook Fest. A show for travelers, overthinkers, and sentimental fools. Because sometimes a song is just a song. And sometimes it becomes a 20-minute story about Dublin. Florencia Iriondo is an Argentina-born, New York-based writer, actor, and producer with a career spanning theater, television, and digital media—from MTV and Off-Broadway to the Edinburgh Fringe and LinkedIn Studios, which she founded and led as Showrunner & Executive Producer of its original video and podcast series.
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From a young age, Queer kids are sold the idea, “It gets better.” But what happens when you're in college and are still gay, miserable, and annoying? “Yet You're A Virgin (And So Am I)” is a two-person comedy following co-dependent best friends, Kaden and Madeline, who have yet to get laid– contrary to the fantastical notion of gay adulthood Tumblr had promised them. Entrenched in internet culture and unwaveringly sex positive (at least in theory…), “Yet You're A Virgin (And So Am I)” is a love letter to gay/lesbian solidarity and the found family that comes with it. View our Website: https://www.yetyoureavirgin.comFollow us on Instagram: @YetYoureAVirgin
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