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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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Italian Abroad: Culture in Translation is a solo performance about openness, curiosity, and the art of cultural exchange. It invites the audience to experience culture not as something fixed or nostalgic, but as a living, flexible language—one that changes as it travels. Through stories, personal anecdotes, and songs drawn from the rich diversity of Italian life, the show explores what happens when traditions are translated rather than preserved, adapted rather than protected. Humor, music, and reflection come together to reveal how identity evolves when viewed through a different cultural lens—turning heritage into a creative tool for connection rather than a boundary. Special guests to every show.
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JANUARY 30 PERFORMANCE: AGE OF EMPIRE? What does it mean to live in a moment when empire no longer hides? This January, FRIGID Nightcap presents Age of Empire?—a late-night variety show responding to the unraveling of the so-called rules-based international order and the return of imperial power exercised openly, unapologetically, and without restraint. As war, extraction, and regime change are framed as “stability,” the question is no longer whether empire exists—but whether we accept it. Through diverse acts ranging from burlesque, comedy, and music to experimental art and more, Age of Empire? brings artists together to confront power, violence, absurdity, and resistance in real time. Some acts may be furious. Some may be devastatingly funny. Some may mourn what’s been lost—or imagine what could still be built. This is not a lecture, and it’s not a protest rally. It’s what FRIGID Nightcap does best: a smart, unruly, artist-driven night where joy and rage coexist, where laughter sharpens the blade, and where art becomes a way of thinking together. Come for the performances. Stay for the reckoning. Leave asking better questions. --- Tickets: $15 (includes a complimentary glass of wine) | $10 livestream
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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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After a tragic “accident” leaves her estranged trans sister Tarantula dead on the concrete, Lip brings Tarantula’s body home, steals her unborn baby, and starts making a dinner she believes will bring Tarantula back to life along with the 26 trans children they raised together years before.
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“Pet” by Angelina Hoffman is an episode in the life of a pet and her two owners. Incorporating experimental dance & theater, it explores haunted domesticity in all its glory: from reality to fantasy and back again, interrupted only by a short musical interlude of wolves howling in the night. Featuring Pei Pei Barth Wu, Anya Bernstein, and Angelina Hoffman. Musical Score by Jack Whitescarver
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Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about science.
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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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On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations wraps big ideas in focused stories about Vermillion’s pets, offering glimpses of her human family and life in her place of birth, Transylvania, Romania. With her dark humor and heart, Vermillion takes audiences from her childhood under communist rule, to her present quirky experiences in East Harlem, using her dog and cat as reference points. The cast will feature Vermillion 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 Vermillion, 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. Vermillion 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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A dark comedy about a couple- they both want to kill themselves but there is only one gun with one bullet. Who deserves to die the most? And what happens when the devil gets involved?
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Directed by Jackie Collier, they will bring you a night of heartwarming and raw theatre! You don’t want to miss it. A play about acceptance, and emerging on the other side to find healing!Through the use of fairytales, and stories Lindsay takes the audience on a journey through her story. You will laugh and heart will break as we search for the questions of forgiveness and can I overcome the perceptions of me?
Under St Marks
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.
Under St Marks
Italian Abroad: Culture in Translation is a solo performance about openness, curiosity, and the art of cultural exchange. It invites the audience to experience culture not as something fixed or nostalgic, but as a living, flexible language—one that changes as it travels. Through stories, personal anecdotes, and songs drawn from the rich diversity of Italian life, the show explores what happens when traditions are translated rather than preserved, adapted rather than protected. Humor, music, and reflection come together to reveal how identity evolves when viewed through a different cultural lens—turning heritage into a creative tool for connection rather than a boundary. Special guests to every show.
Under St Marks
JANUARY 30 PERFORMANCE: AGE OF EMPIRE? What does it mean to live in a moment when empire no longer hides? This January, FRIGID Nightcap presents Age of Empire?—a late-night variety show responding to the unraveling of the so-called rules-based international order and the return of imperial power exercised openly, unapologetically, and without restraint. As war, extraction, and regime change are framed as “stability,” the question is no longer whether empire exists—but whether we accept it. Through diverse acts ranging from burlesque, comedy, and music to experimental art and more, Age of Empire? brings artists together to confront power, violence, absurdity, and resistance in real time. Some acts may be furious. Some may be devastatingly funny. Some may mourn what’s been lost—or imagine what could still be built. This is not a lecture, and it’s not a protest rally. It’s what FRIGID Nightcap does best: a smart, unruly, artist-driven night where joy and rage coexist, where laughter sharpens the blade, and where art becomes a way of thinking together. Come for the performances. Stay for the reckoning. Leave asking better questions. --- Tickets: $15 (includes a complimentary glass of wine) | $10 livestream
Under St Marks
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.
Under St Marks
After a tragic “accident” leaves her estranged trans sister Tarantula dead on the concrete, Lip brings Tarantula’s body home, steals her unborn baby, and starts making a dinner she believes will bring Tarantula back to life along with the 26 trans children they raised together years before.
Under St Marks
“Pet” by Angelina Hoffman is an episode in the life of a pet and her two owners. Incorporating experimental dance & theater, it explores haunted domesticity in all its glory: from reality to fantasy and back again, interrupted only by a short musical interlude of wolves howling in the night. Featuring Pei Pei Barth Wu, Anya Bernstein, and Angelina Hoffman. Musical Score by Jack Whitescarver
Under St Marks
Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about science.
Under St Marks
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.
Under St Marks
On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations wraps big ideas in focused stories about Vermillion’s pets, offering glimpses of her human family and life in her place of birth, Transylvania, Romania. With her dark humor and heart, Vermillion takes audiences from her childhood under communist rule, to her present quirky experiences in East Harlem, using her dog and cat as reference points. The cast will feature Vermillion 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 Vermillion, 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. Vermillion 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.
Under St Marks
A dark comedy about a couple- they both want to kill themselves but there is only one gun with one bullet. Who deserves to die the most? And what happens when the devil gets involved?
Under St Marks
Directed by Jackie Collier, they will bring you a night of heartwarming and raw theatre! You don’t want to miss it. A play about acceptance, and emerging on the other side to find healing!Through the use of fairytales, and stories Lindsay takes the audience on a journey through her story. You will laugh and heart will break as we search for the questions of forgiveness and can I overcome the perceptions of me?
Under St Marks
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