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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.
Under St Marks
I'm thrilled to announce my next edition of Italian Abroad: Culture in Translation, my monthly residency at Under St. Mark's Theatre. This month, I'll be joined by a truly special guest Extra Polo: one of Italy's pioneering rappers and a founding member of La Famiglia, the legendary underground rap collective that emerged in the late 1990s. I’m happy to play with him and enjoy this performance with you. —— 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
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. "With Bated Breath" is a laugh-out-loud romp about how one small town gets a big dose of hormones and learns to loosen up—ready or not! Content Awareness: sex, religion, and death
Under St Marks
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?...that could change every different show based on your votes! Content Awareness: Violence, Death, Gunshot sound, Weapons
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
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
A Human Rapper takes on a Machine-Learning A.I. in a comedy roast battle of…TOMORROW! THIS MONTH: Dex McBean vs A.I. Stoner Abe Lincoln The comedy show where all elements are created by A.I. -Dancing Robots: A. & I. (Shubh Panda) -Celebrity Judges! (Obi O’Brien, Chris O’Neil, Armando) Hosted by Harmon Leon (This American Life, The Howard Stern Show) WHO IS FUNNIER: HUMAN OR A.I.? “A novel showdown of wit and wires – the future of comedy might just be synthetic.” – The New York Times As seen at The (pre-creepy) Kennedy Center, The Ice House in L.A., Santa Cruz Comedy Festival, Pop Tech, NFT.NYC, The McCain Institute, and in the NY Times!
Under St Marks
starring: chris straker as thomas jeffersonmarvin gonzalez as young lin-manuel mirandanicolette as simoneashley guzman as tericrosby lloyd as alexander hamiltonalice gonzalez as carmen written/directed/music by peter bd additional lyric & composition by jamie ellington and crosby lloyd set design by elise wunderlich
Under St Marks
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.
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
When five teens are sentenced to a fate worse than death (AKA Friday night detention), they discover that the adults working at their school are not who they appear to be. With the "Friday the 13th Halloween Blood Moon" fast approaching, the students must fight to survive the night while their bloodthirsty principal plots their doom. "It's Alive: ON STAGE!" is a hysterical and raunchy original comedy musical channeling the spirit of your favorite John Hughes films set to a rocking score. Book by Jack Doyle & Nina Groll Music & Lyrics by Josh Moore Content Awareness: Violence, Profanity, & Strobing Lights
Under St Marks
Story Collider presents Realignment. Join us for an evening of stories about making adjustments - be it pivoting to a whole new phase of life, changing careers, or changing a mindset! Spend the evening with 5 stories about science at Under Saint Marks in New York City! Hosted by Gastor Almonte and Brad Lawrence at Under Saint Marks. Doors at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm. In person and livestreamed. With storytellers Kenice Mobley, Janice Sullivan, David Drake, Lauren Hope Krass, and Walt Egbert. Content Awareness: Body image issues, Medical crises
Under St Marks
Ask peculiar questions, get peculiar answers. Join us for our first show, featuring five talks - tales from history of renewal, renaissance, revivals, re-emergences, and resurgences!
Parkside Lounge
APRIL 24TH PERFORMANCE: STARS & STRIPS Undressing the American Myth This month, NYC’s weirdest late-night variety show is peeling back the red, white, and blue fantasy. STARS & STRIPS is a sexy, subversive night of comedy, drag, burlesque, music, dance, performance art, and downtown spectacle that takes aim at the American myth: the stories this country tells about freedom, power, innocence, and itself. But this isn’t just a teardown. It’s also a dare to imagine something better. At a time when so much of the political mainstream is still obsessed with restoring the old normal,STARS & STRIPS asks: what if the old normal was never enough? What if the point isn’t to go back, but to dream forward? Join FRIGID Nightcap for a glittering, unruly cabaret of myth-busting, stripteasing, satire, seduction, and future-making. From laugh-out-loud comedy to jaw-dropping performance, this is a true variety show for night owls, weirdos, and anyone ready to undress the national fantasy and imagine a better nation underneath it. --- Tickets: $15 (includes a complimentary glass of wine) | $10 livestream
Under St Marks
Clay Mommy follows Violet, a young trans woman who quits sex work to return to her estranged Orthodox Jewish mother. Violet becomes the mother of a family friend who is beginning to transition. Seeking guidance, Violet forces her grandmother to come to life as a golem to teach her how to be a mother. Content Awareness: Transphobia, sexual harassment
Under St Marks
What happens to your Imaginary Friend after you grow up? Do they stop existing? Do they grow up too? Or do they just get left behind along with all your other forgotten childhood keepsakes. Imaginary follows Tristan who is not taking the break up with their long term girlfriend, Dakota, very well. Wallowing in their apartment isolated from everyone, Tristan starts being visited by their ex’s childhood Imaginary Friend, Sunny. Together, Sunny and Tristan learn what life looks like without the person they loved so much. Helping each other cope with the same person out growing them both.
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
I'm thrilled to announce my next edition of Italian Abroad: Culture in Translation, my monthly residency at Under St. Mark's Theatre. This month, I'll be joined by a truly special guest Extra Polo: one of Italy's pioneering rappers and a founding member of La Famiglia, the legendary underground rap collective that emerged in the late 1990s. I’m happy to play with him and enjoy this performance with you. —— 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
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. "With Bated Breath" is a laugh-out-loud romp about how one small town gets a big dose of hormones and learns to loosen up—ready or not! Content Awareness: sex, religion, and death
Under St Marks
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?...that could change every different show based on your votes! Content Awareness: Violence, Death, Gunshot sound, Weapons
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
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
A Human Rapper takes on a Machine-Learning A.I. in a comedy roast battle of…TOMORROW! THIS MONTH: Dex McBean vs A.I. Stoner Abe Lincoln The comedy show where all elements are created by A.I. -Dancing Robots: A. & I. (Shubh Panda) -Celebrity Judges! (Obi O’Brien, Chris O’Neil, Armando) Hosted by Harmon Leon (This American Life, The Howard Stern Show) WHO IS FUNNIER: HUMAN OR A.I.? “A novel showdown of wit and wires – the future of comedy might just be synthetic.” – The New York Times As seen at The (pre-creepy) Kennedy Center, The Ice House in L.A., Santa Cruz Comedy Festival, Pop Tech, NFT.NYC, The McCain Institute, and in the NY Times!
Under St Marks
starring: chris straker as thomas jeffersonmarvin gonzalez as young lin-manuel mirandanicolette as simoneashley guzman as tericrosby lloyd as alexander hamiltonalice gonzalez as carmen written/directed/music by peter bd additional lyric & composition by jamie ellington and crosby lloyd set design by elise wunderlich
Under St Marks
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.
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
When five teens are sentenced to a fate worse than death (AKA Friday night detention), they discover that the adults working at their school are not who they appear to be. With the "Friday the 13th Halloween Blood Moon" fast approaching, the students must fight to survive the night while their bloodthirsty principal plots their doom. "It's Alive: ON STAGE!" is a hysterical and raunchy original comedy musical channeling the spirit of your favorite John Hughes films set to a rocking score. Book by Jack Doyle & Nina Groll Music & Lyrics by Josh Moore Content Awareness: Violence, Profanity, & Strobing Lights
Under St Marks
Story Collider presents Realignment. Join us for an evening of stories about making adjustments - be it pivoting to a whole new phase of life, changing careers, or changing a mindset! Spend the evening with 5 stories about science at Under Saint Marks in New York City! Hosted by Gastor Almonte and Brad Lawrence at Under Saint Marks. Doors at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm. In person and livestreamed. With storytellers Kenice Mobley, Janice Sullivan, David Drake, Lauren Hope Krass, and Walt Egbert. Content Awareness: Body image issues, Medical crises
Under St Marks
Ask peculiar questions, get peculiar answers. Join us for our first show, featuring five talks - tales from history of renewal, renaissance, revivals, re-emergences, and resurgences!
Parkside Lounge
APRIL 24TH PERFORMANCE: STARS & STRIPS Undressing the American Myth This month, NYC’s weirdest late-night variety show is peeling back the red, white, and blue fantasy. STARS & STRIPS is a sexy, subversive night of comedy, drag, burlesque, music, dance, performance art, and downtown spectacle that takes aim at the American myth: the stories this country tells about freedom, power, innocence, and itself. But this isn’t just a teardown. It’s also a dare to imagine something better. At a time when so much of the political mainstream is still obsessed with restoring the old normal,STARS & STRIPS asks: what if the old normal was never enough? What if the point isn’t to go back, but to dream forward? Join FRIGID Nightcap for a glittering, unruly cabaret of myth-busting, stripteasing, satire, seduction, and future-making. From laugh-out-loud comedy to jaw-dropping performance, this is a true variety show for night owls, weirdos, and anyone ready to undress the national fantasy and imagine a better nation underneath it. --- Tickets: $15 (includes a complimentary glass of wine) | $10 livestream
Under St Marks
Clay Mommy follows Violet, a young trans woman who quits sex work to return to her estranged Orthodox Jewish mother. Violet becomes the mother of a family friend who is beginning to transition. Seeking guidance, Violet forces her grandmother to come to life as a golem to teach her how to be a mother. Content Awareness: Transphobia, sexual harassment
Under St Marks
What happens to your Imaginary Friend after you grow up? Do they stop existing? Do they grow up too? Or do they just get left behind along with all your other forgotten childhood keepsakes. Imaginary follows Tristan who is not taking the break up with their long term girlfriend, Dakota, very well. Wallowing in their apartment isolated from everyone, Tristan starts being visited by their ex’s childhood Imaginary Friend, Sunny. Together, Sunny and Tristan learn what life looks like without the person they loved so much. Helping each other cope with the same person out growing them both.
Under St Marks
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