"Show Up" returns to NYC after a triumphant, critically acclaimed, sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe. In "Show Up," award-winning solo show performer, producer and SOLOCOM creator Peter Michael Marino ("Desperately Seeking the Exit," "Late with Lance!") uses his decades of solo performance expertise to turn the often vilified clichés of the genre on their clichéd heads. Marino exploits an arsenal of Post-it® Notes to compile and transform the challenging and enlightening real-life audience experiences into a single vibrant life-story that is daring and unique each time. Chance elements are increased as audience members are engaged to cue lights, design the set, and direct. "Show Up" provides a wild, unpredictable ride for the audience as Marino navigates this high wire, simultaneously commenting on social anxiety, depression and performance challenges. And there's a party! www.showuptheshow.com
★★★★★ "A performer of great intelligence, wit and energy." - Bunbury Magazine
★★★★★ "Hilarious!" - Front Row Center
★★★★ "Hilarious!" - Broadway Baby
★★★★ "Well worth showing up to!" - Fringe Guru
★★★★ "Hilarious! - The Wee Review
"A whirlwind hour!" - The Scotsman
"Rare and special work. Highly recommended!" - The Fringe Review
"Hilarious!" - TimeOut New York
"A keen and witty mind" - Edinburgh Reporter
"An unforgettable experience!" - The Sick of the Fringe
The lives of four young Syrians are changed forever after anti-government protests transpire in the city of Daraa. Throughout the next six years, each of them is forced to undergo a unique and heroic journey, while the turmoil in their country erupts into a full-fledged civil war. From the Middle East to the streets of New Orleans, Lost and Guided is a universal story of love, friendship, and the struggle for happiness. Based on transcripts from writer-director Irene Kapustina’s interviews with Syrian refugees living in the US.
About the Company: The Angle Project
THE ANGLE PROJECT is a NYC based theatrical production company and a performance art initiative that helps imagine, embody, and materialize possibilities for displaced and multicultural communities.
Toronto comedian Nicky Nasrallah (Panacea, Songbuster) brings his hit solo show of complex characters and melodies to the 2017 Frigid Festival. Watch one man created a brand new musical every night with only the help of a musical director and your suggestions. Featuring James Rushin, Austin Nuckols & Caleb Collins on keys. Directed by Second City's Carly Heffernan.
Written and performed by Kate Robards
Run time: Approximately 60 min.
ABOUT Ain’t That Rich
Kate grew up “poor.” She thinks her husband is “rich.” His family says that’s not a nice word. As Kate straddles two different extreme ways of life, she realizes what money can and cannot buy, including the possible salvation for a loved one.
Show Information
Where: UNDER St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place, New York, NY, 10009
When: Wednesday, February 15th 10:30 PM, Saturday, February 18th 8:50 PM, Monday, February 20th 10:30 PM, Saturday, February 25th 12:30 PM, Saturday March 4th 3:50 PM.
Tickets/Passes: $8 at www.horseTRADE.info (on sale 1/15)
Exploring the power and importance of storytelling, Snow (a new play written by pop culture phenomenon Forever Deadward creator Ashley Griffin) follows three disparate storylines that all revolve around the fairy tale Snow White. Utilizing a structure similar to Cloud Atlas and The Hours, six actors playing multiple roles tell the stories of the Grimm Brothers (who originally collected and published the classic fairy tales), the Campbells (a Victorian theatrical family whose lives begin to mirror Snow White), and modern day Astrid (a young woman who, after her abusive mother puts her in a coma, must decide whether or not to wake up). Incorporating aspects of American Gods, and classic storytelling techniques a la Peter and the Starcatcher, Snow is a dark and moving play that mines our storytelling traditions both in style and subject matter.
This work contains adult subject matter, including the death of a child, sexual content and drug use. It is not recommended for small children. Parental discretion advised.
Featuring Gracie Beardsley, Ryan Clardy*, Maria Deasy*, Ashley Griffin*, Mark A. Keeton*, and Ian Way*
*appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association
As one assembles an IKEA chair, another determines the meaning of their existence. Devised from journals, emails, and drunken iPhone notes, Help me out here is written and performed by Michael Joel and Kaitlin Overton. Bring a screwdriver…and a Xanax.Thursday, February 18, 5:30pm
Sunday, February 21, 5:10pm
Wednesday, February 24, 7:10pm
Saturday, February 27, 10:30pm
Saturday, March 5, 12:30pm
Tickets are $18 and $13 for students.
www.horseTRADE.info
UNDER St. Marks
94 St Marks Pl.
New York, NY 10009
For more information, please visit www.nodominiontheatre.org.
About the Company: No Dominion Theatre Co.
No Dominion Theatre Co. was founded in March 2015 by Michael Joel, Kaitlin Overton and is based in the greater New York City area. The company’s inaugural production, One. Four. (Zero)., was written and directed by Michael Joel and premiered at Solitude House in High Bridge, NJ in April 2015. The company’s second production, Departure, an original devised theatre piece based off various found texts, was conceived and directed by Kaitlin Overton, and also premiered at Solitude House in November 2015. No Dominion Theatre Co. is dedicated to eradicating the notion of limits within theatre artistry utilizing a versatile ensemble that aims to reflect the immediate truth. Whatever that means. For more information, please visit www.nodominiontheatre.org.
HAMLET: A Strong WomanIs equality a state of mind or state of affairs? Can gender ever be freed from the masculine/feminine paradigm? The patriarchal state may seem a thing of the past but what if the struggle for power and survival make it our future. Inspired by the “He For She†Campaign, a first of its kind, which acknowledges the need for men in the women’s movement, A.N.O.N. Productions is proud to present a new take on HAMLET, set in the near future. In a militarized surveillance state, can a woman be in charge? This gender-bending equality driven take on HAMLET will premiere under St. Mark’s (94 St. Mark’s Place) November 12th -14th at 2 and 7pm, and at The Kraine (85 East 4th Street) November 15th – 17th.
“If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are—we can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom.â€
- Emma Watson, Ambassador, “HeForShe Campaignâ€
Directed by Ashley Griffin and featuring: Michael Bauer*, Annabel Capper*, Jennifer-Elizabeth Cooper, Nevin Edmundson, Ashley Griffin*, Kari Grunberg*, James Luse*, Brian McCormack*, Danielle Sacks* and Ian Way*, Casting by Daryl Eisenberg Casting; Our Hamlet is a woman raised to be a man and ruthless leader. Our Ophelia is a man, bullied for being too gentle. All sexes being equal, who has the power?
For tickets please visit: http://horsetrade.info/
On the Internet everyone can hear you scream.
What happens when it's your job to be friends with someone? When do you compromise artistic integrity for cash? Two Internet personalities skyrocket to stardom with a new “Let’s Play” video game show. But when a female gamer joins them, things get ugly. And then even uglier.
Let’s Play Play by Ben Ferber is about selling out, and how we use Internet personalities as replacements for real friends. It also embodies the infamously horrifying vitriol of YouTube comments and gamergate.
About the Company: PowerOut
PowerOut was formed when ten theatre artists met during a blackout. We set out to create adventurous new theatre.
We began working together in Portland Maine in 2011. Today, many of our original members have reunited in New York, after working at companies such as the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the California Shakespeare Theatre, and Portland Stage Company. Our intention remains to create new theatre.
Founding Members: Todd Brian Backus, Nora Sørena Casey, Ben Ferber, Jenna Grossman, Emily Mahaffey, Liz Petley, Julie Shelton, Shannon Stockwell, Emily White, and Ella Wrenn.
In this hilarious and borderline-terrifying reflection, Lucas looks back on his many close encounters of the sexually transmissible kind. Through his naked (yet carefully wrapped) adventures, he struggles with his ability to remain sex-positive in an HIV-negative society.
Cootie Catcher plays:
Thursday, Feb 19, 8:50
Monday, Feb 23, 5:30
Friday, Feb 27, 10:30
Saturday, Feb 28, 3:50
Friday, March 6, 5:30
At UNDER St Marks
94 St Marks Place
Basement level of building (no elevator or wheelchair access)
New York, NY 10009
Tickets:
General - $15
Available on www.FRIGIDnewyork.info
“Your call may be monitored.” When Cynthia’s blender breaks she calls up customer service where Simon answers, eager to help; however, when Cynthia explains that much like the blender her entire life is broken, full of brutal, bitter, un-blend-able baggage Simon realizes that he really can’t help her. Which doesn’t stop Cynthia from calling him back, again and again….and again... A dark comedy about robots, sick mice, failed relationships and finding simple companionship in the strangest of places.
A comic look at conspiracy theories and the people who believe in them, in light of 20th Century events like the Cuban Sandwich Crisis. Do you have what it takes to be a would-be revolutionary? Señor Óscar Tango-Bravo runs the world his way.
About the Company: Temerity Theatre
We are theatrical artists committed to examining our world through comedy, satire, language abuse and action.
FRIGID NYC 2014 and Sparking Fuse are pleased to present:
My High-Heeled Life: Or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Love My Stilettos
A New Solo Play About Women, Shoes and Making it Through the 21st Century
Created and Performed by Katharine McLeod/Directed by Rod Ceballos
Have you ever had an accidental orgasm in the shoe department? Or wondered when Uggs and flip-flops became acceptable dinner attire? In this witty, seductive confessional, McLeod asks how to navigate the obsession with finding True Happiness. Perhaps it begins one pair of impossibly high stilettos at a time…
I-DJ is a story of Warren Peace aka Amado Guerrero Paz, a gay Mexican American youth who finds his calling as a DJ. He spins the soundtrack of his life on the dance floor by night and by day in a gay send-up of Shakesqueer's Ham-a-lot set to a dub-step beat of ecstasy, tainted love, Rollerena and Herb Alpert. When a younger DJ challenges him to a musical standoff, their stories and their music collide. Only one will emerge triumphant.