 BARNFEST 6
Oh yes, oh yes! We're bringing the Barn to Brooklyn for the sixth annual celebration of work developed through residencies at Barn Arts in Maine - it's BarnFest! There's a new lineup of awesome works in progress every day of the festival - featuring artists making theater, dance, film, music, and everything in between! With performances by Ariel Mahler, Calvin Woodruff, Easton Carter Angle, Laura Galindo, The New Collectives, Animal Engine, Little Did Productions, Cecelia Raker, Minhui Lee, Shara Feit, Wesley Zurick, Taylor Jane Cooper, Magic Forest Theatre Company, Jaime Sunwoo, Matt Chilton, Quentin Madia, Lauren Pelaia, Alex Knezevic, The Coldharts, Conrad Kluck, Ben Moniz, Matt Bovee, Calvin Kasulke, Sam Schnorr, Andrew Simon, Maki Borden, and more. Friday, February 7, 7pm. Saturday, February 8, 7pm.  THE COMMEDIA COMPANY: HERE WE GO AGAIN
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*. The most dangerously talented, bravest and funniest actors working today will use the masks and archetypes of the Commedia dell 'Arte to take on the world we live in now - no bags of gold, arranged marriages or Renaissance-y bullshit! Watch as they transform themselves, space, and time at lightning speed. There will be moments of ecstatic hilarity and moments of deep collective soul-searching. And fart jokes (probably). So if an evening-length comedy orgasm is something you’re, like, into, then come on down to CLOUD CITY JANUARY 25, 26, AND 27. The party starts at 7 each night and the show lifts off at 8. It’s a New Year! You’re a New You! Come get your groove back at a New Commedia Show! With Brandt Adams, Will Clark, Julian Hernandez, Nick Mayfield, Carly Moses, Cyndi Perczek, Ralf Jean-Pierre, Jeff Seal, Christopher Tramantana, and music by John Coyne featuring Avery Nelson. * Could be - anything is possible. Saturday-Monday, January 25-27th. 7pm.  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!
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
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
comedy + music Saturday October 25th. 8pm. $5. Tickets  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
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!
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
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. |