Past Events

CANDIDE

12/14/2019

CANDIDE
By BREAD Arts Collective

A comedy concerning ship travel, floggings, rape, justifiable homicide, earthquakes, tempests, Bulgar soldiers, Grand Inquisitors, Christians, Jesuits, Jews, mass murder, death, desire, artistic critique, fallen kings, storytelling, public execution and the general joy and suffering one finds within this: the best of all possible worlds.

A brand new, highly physical, and only slightly musical adaptation of the Voltaire classic from the creators of 'Rise and Fall.'

BREAD is a multi-disciplinary arts collective dedicated to adapting and devising new work that challenges the typical and stretches the possible. This production of Candide is the first in a series of developmental productions.

Saturday-Monday, December 14th-16th. 8pm.

RICKY LAGOON: HE CROONS!

11/16/2019

RICKY LAGOON: HE CROONS!
Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Michael Bublé. What do these popular crooners have in common? They’re all dead. But not Ricky Lagoon! Summoned from the 60s, crooner Lagoon and his band hit New York City for a comedy-concert spectacular. That’s right, jokes and laughs. Music, song, singing, and even tunes.

Join comedian Kate McCarthy and ten of New York's best young musicians, led by Tredici Bacci’s Simon Hanes, as they perform both lampoon and love letter to a bygone era. A celebration of lush big band music and those familiar standards that get you swinging. A satirization of masculinity. A spectacle of comedy, character and classic sounds that you won’t want to miss.

Hosted by Nick Naney. Featuring Dylan Adler and Rachel Sennott.

Saturday, November 16th. 8pm.

THE UNREPENTANT NECROPHILE

10/29/2019

THE UNREPENTANT NECROPHILE
A mortician falls in love with a man as she prepares his corpse for burial. She has three days until the funeral... but three days just isn't enough.

A punk rock opera about a mortician and her body, inspired by true events.

Created and performed by
Katie Hartman, Nick Ryan and Nate Gebhard
In collaboration with Mark Benzel

"The Unrepentant Necrophile" is a three-person, minimalist musical created with drums, electric bass and electric guitar. A blend of physical theater, music and horror, it explores sexuality, consent and gender politics through the anarchistic lens of punk rock. It premiered at the 2015 Twin Cities Horror Festival in Minneapolis, and has toured to the Cincinnati Fringe Festival and the Orlando International Fringe Festival. In Orlando it received the "Patron's Pick" and "Fringe of the Fringe" awards.

"As unapologetic a piece of theater as I've ever seen. It takes a true story and tells it in an amazingly unique way, without commenting on its admittedly difficult subject matter."
-Cincinnati City Beat

"The gleeful crassness of the whole proceeding is hard to resist. The musical staging is endlessly inventive, Katie Hartman's voice is a remarkable instrument"
-Minnesota Playlist

"Hartman's volcanic performance makes this uncomfortable material compelling... Explodes with all the anarchistic passion you could ask for... "
-Orlando Weekly

"It's almost too weird for Fringe"
-American Underground

Tuesday October 29-Thursday October 31st. 8pm.
Costume party on Halloween after the show!

BANKRUKT + WALLDOGS

10/25/2019

BANKRUKT + WALLDOGS
comedy + music

Saturday October 25th. 8pm. $5. Tickets

A NIGHT OF COMEDY FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

10/19/2019

A NIGHT OF COMEDY FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
Come see an awesome line-up of comedy (Ana Fabrega! Aparna Nancherla! Emmy Blotnick! and more!) and browse some art by local artists while you’re at it, all in the name of Women’s Reproductive Rights! 100% of proceeds from this show will go to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is a non-profit that “uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.”

Starring Ana Fabrega, Aparna Nancherla, Emmy Blotnick, Jess Salomon, Maddy Smith, Rachel McCartney, and more!

Saturday, October 19th. Doors at 6:30, show at 7:30.

WELL-LIKED: AN EVENING OF COMEDY WITH AFFABLE PEOPLE

10/18/2019

WELL-LIKED: AN EVENING OF COMEDY WITH AFFABLE PEOPLE
Join host Joe Schiappa (IFC, MTV) as he invites a gaggle of NYC stand-ups and comic performers in an evening of laughter and good cheer. You have already decided to come and check out. You’ve done it. Now, get yourself there. You have to. It’s what you really want. Featuring Adira Amram, Ethan Berlin, Jeff and Buttons, Marcus Levar, Natasha Vaynblat, Richie Moriarty and Maria Wojciechoswki.

Friday, October 18th. 8pm

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRIES: 7th BIRTHDAY!

9/28/2019

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRIES: 7th BIRTHDAY!
Join us for a variety show/birthday party featuring new and developing work from artists of all disciplines, centering artists lacking traditional support (artists of color, women, and queer and trans artists). The evening will feature a mix of live theater, stand up, music, solo performance, drag, and maybe a short film. And cake! And a dance party!

With Adin Lenahan, Baby Chemist, Barbara Begley, Emily McNally, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, Magenta, Rebecca Vineyard, Sammie James, Sheree Campbell, and Yilong Liu.

Saturday, September 28th. Doors at 7, Show at 8.

HIGH NOTES WITH TESSA SKARA

9/27/2019

HIGH NOTES WITH TESSA SKARA
Pack your vibrators and roll your joints because Tessa's moving to LA for 3 and a half months starting October 1st!

High Notes is a monthly high-energy, queer AF, and rock-n-roll-as-hell live musical comedy show hosted by the self proclaimed Rock Goddess of Comedy: Tessa Skara. Featuring a backing band of basement rockstars, High Notes is a show that brings together a revolving roster of stand up comedians, cabaret performers and musicians to belt out numbers on the meaning of life, love, and how kombucha tastes like salad dressing (which is why it's perfect!). If you’re looking for a night of live music, jokes jokes jokes, and moody acoustic ruminations on how selfish it is of your therapist to go on maternity leave then High Notes is the show for you.

This will be the last High Notes in NYC until February 2020, so please, so come party with us because the next time you see Tessa, she could either be famous, broke, or some combination of all of the above!

Hosted by Tessa Skara & the High Notes Band
Featuring Maya Deshmukh, Derek Smith, Jessica Henderson, Alex Song, & more TBA!

Friday, September 27. 8pm. $10.

THE COMMEDIA COMPANY: ONE NIGHT ONLY!

9/13/2019

THE COMMEDIA COMPANY: ONE NIGHT ONLY

The Commedia Company is back in action for an extremely limited engagement! It's an ALL NEW show of devised work AND improvisation in a seat-of-the-pants explosion of comedy, politics, and 17th century English Country Dancing*. Watch as the most dangerously talented, bravest and funniest actors working today use the masks and archetypes of the Commedia dell 'Arte to take on the world we live in now.

There will be moments of ecstatic hilarity and moments of deep collective soul-searching. We’ve got old members, new members, and erstwhile globetrotting members emeritus sitting in for the evening, so you don't want to miss it! Get your tickets ASAP, kiddies, cuz seating is extremely limited and we don’t fuck around with fire codes! Friday the 13th! Put it in your Google Calendar or Trapper Keeper or whatever! Do it right now!

*Could be - anything is possible.

**Not so appropriate for children, by which we mean, not at all...

featuring
Brandt Adams • Jarrod Bates • Will Clark • Nick Mayfield • Ralf Jean-Pierre • Jeff Seal
with music by John Coyne

Come at 7pm to hang out with the cast before the show. There will be music and the meeting of old friends and the making of new ones!

Friday, September 13th. Doors at 7, show at 8.