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The following shows were produced in 2003:
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The Dilemma of Drugs
October 24 - December 25 at Pyramid Club Theater
Based on the 1971 drug education filmstrip series of the same name, The Dilemma of Drugs explores the dank, squalid world of drug use... complete with slide show and folk songs! Featuring Avenue Q's Jeff Whitty, drag king Murray Hill, & Strangers With Candy's Jack Ferver, Next Magazine calls the piece "a new, insightful (and hilarious) theatrical event...way more fun than passing out in a pool of your own sick."
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Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid
3 Weeks Only! December 5 - 21
For the second consecutive season, Axis Company, the acclaimed Off-Broadway theater group, will present its winter show for children, Seven In One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid, beginning December 5th. Adapted from the classic fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm, this interactive play with music is conceived by the Axis Company and directed by Randy Sharp featuring Axis’ signature blend of advanced technology and live performance. Children in the audience will be encouraged to participate in many of the Kid's challenges with singing and organized "shout outs." Appropriate for ages 4 and up.
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Jackie Beat Blew Christmas
4 Shows Only! Dec 17-21 at Fez
Somewhere between Scrooge, the Grinch and a post-holiday hangover is JACKIE BEAT, everyone's favorite big and bawdy, bold and ballsy, in-your-face funny "lady". On December 17, Jackie returns to Fez with the ol' one-two (heavy on the two!) premiering her 6th annual holiday show, Blew Christmas. Fez is located at 380 Lafayette Street (@ Great Jones Street).
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Hard Candy Christmas: Crashing Through The Snow
December 7 - 21 at Fez
Direct from an extended, sold out run of their hit show Ravaged by Romance at LaMama, a collective of downtown artists present the holiday extravaganza, Hard Candy Christmas: Crashing Through The Snow. Created by and starring Chris Tanner and Brandon Olson featuring an all-star line up of downtown’s most acclaimed and unusual performers, performances begin December 7th at Fez.
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God Bless Americana: The Retro Holiday Slide Show
December 9 - 25 at Pyramid Club Theater
Celebrate the holidays like you never have before: with other people’s amazing old Kodachrome slides of their best New Year's Eves, Halloweens, Thanksgivings, and of course, Christmas. Such is the premise of Charles Phoenix’s God Bless Americana: The Retro Holiday Slide Show which begins performances December 9th at the Pyramid Club Theater. The run is scheduled to end with two performances on Christmas Day.
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Intimacy in Transition
December 11 - 21 at P.S. 122
P.S. 122 presents the World Premiere of Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater’s Intimacy in Transition, a full evening of six "dance-situations." Featuring a company of ten dancers and original music by renowned composers Jesse Manno, Andy Teirstein (appearing live, via a grant from Meet The Composer), and Mike Vargas, performances begin December 11.
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Lisa Jackson's Country Christmas Show
One Night Only! Sunday, December 7 at Fez
On Sunday, December 7th at Fez, newest rockin’ trannie on the block Lisa Jackson presents her first holiday-themed concert: Lisa Jackson’s Country Christmas Show. The set list for this raucous night of country, bluegrass, rock and classical holiday fare includes "Titties for Christmas," "Merry Christmas From The Family," and many others. Featuring Jackson on upright bass, Steve Gibb on banjo and Van Zeiler on guitar, this show is guaranteed to put the "cunt" in "country!"
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A Very Brini Christmas
One Night Only! Sunday, December 14th at Fez
Cable TV show hostess and drag celebrity Brini Maxwell will present her first full-length live holiday show, A Very Brini Christmas, for one night only, Sunday, December 14th at 8:00pm. The most wonderful time of the year gets even more wonderful with A Very Brini Christmas. This evening of music, banter and helpful holiday planning tips from Brini Maxwell will include a variety of standards including Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and The Christmas Song, as well as a live P.S.A. for her favorite charity, Toys for Tots.
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The Nitpicker
Thursday, December 4 @7:30pm at Sin-E, 150 Attorney Street
On Thursday, December 4 at Sin-e, actors Edward Norton and James Urbaniak join some of New York’s hottest bands, singer-songwriters and performers -- including Nada Surf, The Silos, Laura Cantrell, Sex Mob, Crookston, King of France, Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think, Baby), Sam Bisbee, Amy Miles, Aaron Maxwell, Laurena Allan, Nina Hellman, Jeremy Shamos and Carolyn Baeumler for a benefit performance of songs from The Nitpicker, a new musical by Mary McBride
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Epic Family Epic, or The Hell Family Supper
Nov. 19-29 at Dance Theater Workshop
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Dance Theatre Workshop presents Epic Family Epic, or the Hell Family Supper, an evening of bizarre humor and surreal food by Obie Award winning writer/director Ain Gordon. The production, created in collaboration with Hands On, is performed by hearing, hard of hearing and Deaf performers using spoken English and American Sign language. All performances are equally accessible to hearing, Deaf, and hard of hearing audiences.
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FTM
November 16 - December 14 at Pyramid Club Theater
In FTM, Timothy is going through the first year of his gender-change. His transformation is juxtaposed with that of his mother, Jean, who (in another time period) is experiencing changes in her body and female identity as a result of having breast cancer. Their stories--moving, funny and poignant--are told through dreams, anecdotes and remembrances.
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Powder Keg
November 7 - December 1 at The Flea
Horizon Theatre Rep presents the official US Premiere of POWDER KEG by Macedonian playwright Dejan Dukovski. Performances of this translation by Philip Philipovich begin November 7th at The Flea Theatre with opening night set for November 10th. The production marks the directoral debut of acclaimed scenic designer Michelle Malavet (Where's My Money?, The Glory of Living ). POWDER KEG was adapted into an award-winning 1998 film titled Cabaret Balkan (distributed by Paramount Classics).
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Apparition
November 7 - 23 at Chashama
Chashama presents the World Premiere of Anne Washburn's Apparition: an uneasy tale of the underknown beginning November 7th. Directed by Linsay Firman, the production stars downtown favorites Steven Rattazzi (2003 Obie Award for Painted Snake on a Painted Chair) and T. Ryder Smith (Underneath the Lintel, Richard Foreman's January 2004 production). Apparition was developed in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and had a Workshop Production with Soho Rep in February of 2003.
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Grandmotherfucker
Until December 4 at Pyramid Club Theater
Internationally acclaimed comedienne and performer Pat Candaras, a.k.a. Grandmotherfucker will host a new weekly night of alternative comedy and on-the-edge performance at the newly renovated Pyramid Club Theater. The weekly event will feature Candaras and a rotating roster of 4 or 5 stand up comics and alternative performers nightly.
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U.S.S. Frankenstein
September 25 - November 15 at Axis Theatre
In July 1945, a United States cruiser class battleship sailed to the South Pacific to deliver key components of the bomb that later detonated over Japan on August 6th. The ship also carried numerous high ranking military personnel, one of whom may have been the man responsible for the creation of the bomb itself, R. J. Oppenheimer. On the voyage back to the States, the ship was destroyed... Axis Company boldly blends fact and fantasy as it examines a mysterious and little-known military incident.
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Make Love
Extended through November 16 at Fez
Despite posting final extension notices, unprecedented demand among college students has prompted yet another extension of Karen Finley's Make Love, at Fez though November 16th. This cabaret-driven, lounge-style act that co-stars drag performer and artist Chris Tanner, pianist Lance Cruce, and a rotating roster of Liza Minnelli impersonators, has now become required viewing in Performance Studies classes at both NYU and Columbia University!
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Anita O'Day
October 19 - November 1 at Fez
Anita O’Day, one of the most enduring legends in jazz music, returns to New York’s Fez nightclub to celebrate her 84th birthday, the release of a new CD, and her recent relocation to New York City. After briefly singing with Benny Goodman’s band, she became the vocalist for Gene Krupa, singing such signature swing hits (and chart-toppers) as "Let Me Off Uptown" and "Boogie Blues." She was named "New Star of the Year" in 1941 by Down Beat Magazine and as one of the top five band singers in the country in 1942.
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Tatjana in Color
Previews Begin October 25 at The Culture Project
The Culture Project presents the New York Premiere of Julia Jordan¹s Tatjana in Color, a controversial drama about art and budding sexuality. Loosely based on the true story of Egon Schiele and his muze, the story is told through the eyes of a twelve year old girl.
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Ravaged by Romance
Extended through October 18th at LaMama
A dying writer struggles to stay alive through the obsessive creation of imaginary worlds. The phantoms of his mind assist him on his journey to the other side, but not without plenty of drug-induced orgies and tap dance numbers. Written and created by Chris Tanner and Brandon Olson and featuring an all-star line up of downtown's most acclaimed and unusual performers
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Baby Steps
EXTENDED! Now through Nov. 1 at The Lion Theater
Baby Steps centers around the turmoil of Baby Degginhart, a plus-sized young woman living in rural Illinois. After being forced to care for her rebellious younger brother for seven years, Baby's life is thrown into further chaos by a suspicious suitor and the reappearance of her alcoholic mother.
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Gone Missing
Oct 9 - Nov 2 at The Belt Theatre
The Civilians, one of Downtown's most acclaimed new theater companies, adds a new wrinkle to the reality show concept with their latest creation, Gone Missing. Created by the company based on interviews with real people, the piece is both documentary and musical cabaret, using real life to take a close look at what¹s not there anymore.
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The Dilemma of Drugs
Two added performances October 5 & 12 at Fez
Based on the 1971 drug education filmstrip series of the same name, The Dilemma of Drugs explores the dank, squalid world of drug use... complete with slide show and folk songs! Featuring Avenue Q's Jeff Whitty, drag king Murray Hill, & Strangers With Candy's Jack Ferver, Next Magazine calls the piece "a new, insightful (and hilarious) theatrical event...way more fun than passing out in a pool of your own sick."
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Psychotherapy Live!
Performances run September 5 - 27 at Fez
Self-proclaimed psychotherapist Lisa Levy returns to Fez with her wildly popular performance experience. In this evening of psychotherapy as performance art, Levy combines common sense, semi-searing perception and her trademark dry wit to perform psychotherapy on willing audience volunteers.
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Which wolf is which: an after after school special
September 4 - 28 at HERE
Directed by Robert O'Hara, the play centers on a pair of high school couples going through the drama of their relationship against the backdrop of an increasingly savage and militarized New York City. The play is a hard-hitting depiction of typical New York youth in an atypical political climate, where we find urban innocence in trouble, and ambitions thwarted in a previously unimaginable way.
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How to Act Around Cops
September 5-19 at The Kraine
Two awards for Overall Excellence from the festival, Singularity extends of their acclaimed FringeNYC production. When a routine traffic stop goes awry, a police officer makes a split-second decision that puts him on the wrong side of the law. As a gunpowder trail of consequences ignites, will he emerge as a vigilante or a fugitive fleeting from justice?
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Shequida's Opera for Dummies
September 8 - 13 at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Shequida, America¹s only Juilliard-trained drag opera diva, brings her vocal prowess and razor-sharp wit to Philadelphia with the PA premiere of her Off-Braodway smash show. This hour long lesson on the history of opera begins in 1600 and ends with a crowd-pleasing battle between the three reigning divas of the last century: Maria Callas, Kathleen Battle, and Jessye Norman. Terrance McNally probably never envisioned a Master Class this funny!
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St. Scarlet
June 17 - July 12 at The Ontological Theater
WET (Women's Expressive Theater) presents the World Premiere of Julia Jordan's dark comedy under the direction of Crish Messina. The story centers around three siblings trapped by the snow of a Minnesota winter and their maddening familial expectations. On the night that their mother dies, a stranger from Brooklyn breaks into their home and proceeds to unravel their pasts and redirect their futures.
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A Glance at New York
May 29 - July 19 at Axis Theatre
Axis Company presents the first Off-Broadway revival of Benjamin A. Baker's 1848 melodrama since the end of the Civil War. Set during a particularly dangerous and raw period in New York City history, the play is an unmitigated conglomeration of vulgarity and illiteracy following a burly firefighter named Big Mose. Known as the toughest man in the nation's toughest city, Mose spends much of his time beating whomever is in his path before rushing off to rescue a screaming innocent from a burning tenement.
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Wipe & Go!
Next Magazine called it "highly absorbent and hilarious".
Performances run June 15 - July 6 at Fez
PJ Mehaffey (Bravo's "The It Factor" NYC, The Donkey Show) presents a high-energy hybrid of story and song that follows the roundabout rise to sub-lebrity of paper-pushing pop sensation Teen Tawny. Aided by his lone back-up dancer Blade, Tawny shares the story of his rise to semi-super stardom as he follows his dream of becoming an All-American pop idol, all the while pushing products from toilet paper to moist towelettes baring his likeness.
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Pride For All Ages
June 18th at Carnegie Hall
New York City Gay Men's Chorus caps off its 23rd season with its annual Gay Pride concert. Accompanying the Chorus for part of the program will be guest star Greg Louganis, NYC's premiere gay and lesbian marching and symphonic band The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps, and the eagerly anticipated debut of the Youth Pride Chorus, comprised of 42 LGBT youth and their allies ages 14 to 21. (Greg Louganis pictured)
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Home * Land * Securities
Circus Amok's FREE outdoor performances
June 5 - June 22
Obie and Bessie Award Winning Circus Amok returns for its 12th season of annual outdoor urban circuses. This extravaganza promises to redefine "shock and awe" as the Circus Amok crew juggles political satire, New York history, and traditional circus slapstick. It is completely free and open to the public -- perfect for adults and children of all ages.
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Door Wide Open
May 17 - June 22 at Bowery Poetry Club
Rip Torn's Sanctuary Theater Workshop presents the World Premiere of this new play based on the love letters of novelist Joyce Johnson and infamous "King of the Beat generation" Jack Kerouac (portrayed by "The Sopranos" star John Ventimiglia.) Directed by Tony Torn, the piece features a musical score written and performed live by legendary composer David Amram.
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Exposing the Heart
June 5 - 8 at Danspace Project's DANCE:Access
Artichoke Dance Company presents an evening of revealing and sensational dances. The program includes two premieres and two revivals: Thread, a dance for six in which gravity and force are tested, tried, and amplified; Flight Vision, a woman in the subway sheds her rigid corporate identity in pursuit of a freer lifestyle; Unsolid Ground, an explosively physical duet employing risky partnering and a ten-foot stepladder; and Bobbing for Piranhas (2001, a quintet paying tribute to 1970's rock-n-roll.
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The Great American Cowboy In Concert
May 30 at Carnegie Hall
Cowboys from across the country gather to perform a record-breaking, one-night event featuring Prairie Rose Wranglers, Sons of the San Joaquin, Roy Rogers, Jr., Joni Harms, Johnny Western, Mickey Dawes & more. Produced by Prairie Rose Productions of Wichita, Kansas, the concert will set a record as the largest group of Cowboys to ever perform at the legendary venue (the 2nd largest gathering was in 1951). (Joni Harms/Photo by Tony Baker)
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Jackie Beat is "Pretty Nasty"
May 23 - 25 (Memorial Day Weekend!)
In this all-new evening of scathing song parodies and scatological observations of drag super-star JACKIE BEAT, "Beautiful" Jackie reveals the "Pitiful" truth about dirrty pop tart Christina Aguilera, coughs up a little ditty about SARS, and reveals how she keeps her romantic life strong in the Captain & Tennille-inspired "Drugs Will Keep Us Together!" Other highlights of Pretty Nasty include "Jackie Went Down To Georgia," in which the very Devilish Ms. Beat moseys on down to Lady Bunny's (red)neck of woods to put a two-bit, lackluster, lip syncin' drag mess in her place.
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Notes from Underground
May 1 - 25 at P.S. 122
Eric Bogosian directs Jonathan Ames in this seventy minute solo play based on Bogosian's 1993 novella. The story centers around "The Diarist", an unnamed urban recluse desperate to be normal but slowly sinking into madness and delusion. Told through a series of increasingly hallucinatory journal entries, Notes from Underground is an entertaining, darkly humorous and disturbing journey through the imagination of a man coming undone.
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Chicks with Dicks
April 4 - May 24 at The Kraine
This long-running cult hit in both Seattle and Phoenix (recently extended until May 24 in NYC) makes its East Coast Premiere. Bad girls on bikes do bad things in this fun and frisky spoof of trashy 1960's B-Movies. The show features plenty of go-go dancing, mud wrestling, hair pulling, and kung-fu fighting as good girls gone bad get even worse!
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High Tide
May 1 - 18 at Dance Theater Workshop
Dance Theater Workshop presents the latest from Obie and Bessie Award winning choreographer Sarah East Johnson's LAVA. This acclaimed all-girl troupe delivers a new evening of daring acrobatics mixed with flowing choreography that examines love, velocity, abstract art, and the importance of conflict resolution. The six strong women of LAVA fly through the air into each others' arms and gracefully fall apart. Inspired by Niagara Falls, it features intimate partnering, theatrical vignettes, singing, and dancing, all live on stage.
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Funny Gay Males
Sunday, May 11 & 18
The acclaimed comic trio Funny Gay Males invades Fez for two performances only. This wildly inventive comedy menage a trois features the talents of Jaffe Cohen, Danny McWilliams, and Eddie Sarfaty. In 60 minutes, the trio offers three very different and uproarious takes on modern gay life. "An evening filled with non-stop yuks!" Variety
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Eclipse
April 15 - May 11 at the Abingdon Theater
Sexual politics overshadow the end of the world in the premiere of Andrea Lepcio's Eclipse. After pedestrian rage destroys New York City, the only survivors--two corporate consultants--begin to realize each can get what they most desire... or can they? She's a lesbian. He's not. And their troubles are just beginning.
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Eric & Nelson: Men of Magic
April 9 - May 11 at The Abingdon Theatre
Performed by actor/magicians Eric Walton and Nelson Lugo, Eric & Nelson: Men of Magic takes traditional enchantment to a new level. The resulting incantation is a sexy, sophisticated and irreverent deconstruction that gives new meaning to magic.
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Potty Mouth
April 4 - May 9 at The Marquee
Spoken word performer turned comic monologuist Andy Horwitz presents his first full-length evening of hilarious and provocative stories. Described as a "Dirty Gay Roseanne," Horwitz examines his own sexual obsessions with a hilarious and critical eye, following his nose (and other parts) into all kinds of homo hijinx. "High octante, raucous comedy!" -- HX.
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Stage '03 Festival
April 21 - May 3 at Manhattan Theatre Source
Called "one of the city's fastest-rising and most promising collectives" by Time Out New York, Singularity presents Stage '03 Festival--an annual showcase of (primarily) new work by hot up-and-comers. With 14 works in 6 different programs, this festival includes Magnetic North, Robert Patrick, Ken Urban, John S. Hall, Logan Brown, Karin Bowersock and many more.
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American Ma(u)l
April 12 - May 4 at The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
At the opening of American Ma(u)l, the country is on the brink of economic collapse and being run by an idiot. To reduce the federal deficit, the President and Congress have declared that the 14th Amendment is null and void and slavery will be reinstituted. This incident provides the catalyst for a story about race and family in America.
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Girls Gone Wild
Sunday, May 4 at Fez
Trannie punk legend Jayne County teams up with the hottest rockin' trannie on the block Lisa Jackson to premiere Girls Gone Wild. Completely live and uncensored, these two gals deliver an eclectic and outrageous evening of rock, jive, pop and circumstance.
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Poon
April 25 & 26 at P.S. 122
Choreographer Jordana Che Toback, the dynamic svengali/choreographer behind the art-pop sensation Fischerspooner, presents the World Premiere of Poon, her latest investigation into the art of spectacle. The performance is a post-modern imagining of a pre-war erotic cabaret. This primal celebration of sensuality synthesizes traditional Indian dance, rompish burlesque, high pop culture, and the precise architecture of modern dance.
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Feed the Hole
April 10-27 at Altered Stages
Michael Stock, winner of the 2001 New York International Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Award for Playwrighting for Hustle presents his new play Feed the Hole. The story centers around a torid affair that sparks heated and frank conversations in bars, apartments and in bed from a group of closely knitted friends. Ultimately, the play is a fresh and funny look at the all-too-common problem of how we fill the void in our lives when we feel unsatisfied.
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Shadowmann ** Part 2 at P.S. 122 **
Performances run April 9 - 27
Bessie Award Winning choreographer Sarah Michelson presents the second half of her two-part anti-epic Shadowmann. Following the presentation of the monolithic Part 1 at the Kitchen, Michelson desconstructs it with Part 2. Performed in the intimate downstairs space at P.S. 122, the work offers an exciting geographical change, revelatory through subtle and delicate motions.
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Cowboy Void
April 3 - 27 at The Common Basis Theatre
A shy young landlord confronts his perspective client and former teacher about her part in his disillusioned dreams. The showdown escalates with the arrival of a bitter Jesus freak, but none are prepared for the gun-toting entrance of a lost soul who seeks redemption from his haunted past by taking them hostage. Blasphemous secrets abound as desperation fills the emptiness, and the only way to uncover the truth is through a randy game of role-playing.
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Three Ring
April 3 - 26 at Walkerspace
Set in an insane asylum for performers, five lost souls try to discover who they are and where they come from when their caregiver unexpectantly dies. Both hilarious and disturbing, Three Ring dissects sexuality, morality and humanity with circus acts and pyro-theatrics.
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The Rivals
April 3 - 27 at the Abingdon Theatre
Using a recently unearthed prompt script from a popular production in the 1880s, Sheridan's classic restoration comedy gets further contemporary treatment in a story of love, disguise, disinheritance, duels, and deception.
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Shayna Steele's Funk & Soul
Three Added Performances! March 10, April 13 & 27 at Fez
After two sold-out performances--one canceled due to the February blizzard--Shayna Steele returns to Fez with three additional performances of Shayna Steele's Funk & Soul. With a voice that's part Erykah Badu, part Jennifer Holliday and all Shayna, Steele--currently one of The Dynamites in the Broadway sensation Hairspray -- escapes the Great White Way to let loose her own brand of Funk, R&B and Soul.
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Men Without Shadows
March 26 - April 19 at The Flea
This is the first major revival of Jean-Paul Sartre's rarely-produced existential classic, last seen in New York City in 1948. Under the direction of Simon Hammerstein, Men Without Shadows depicts the effects of war on people's individual humanity and how the decisions they make under pressure define who they are.
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Hospital
March 7 - April 12
In this all-new Hospital series, the audience once again comes face-to-face with the Traveling Personality of a man in a deep, terminal coma. In past years he has arrived in this state through varied means: an illness, a house fire, drowning in a swimming pool and freezing, lost in the snow. This year he is murdered in error by people in the wrong apartment. The audience travels along with him in his coma as he lives out his last few days roaming the vast, dark interiors of his own brain.
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How His Bride Came to Abraham
March 20 - April 12 at The Looking Glass Theatre
How His Bride Came to Abraham is set in the occupied territory of Lebanon near the Israeli border. Here an Israeli Defense Forces lieutenent and a young Palestinian woman are forced to spend a night together. Their fears collide with an unexpected desire for warmth and love. Without taking sides, the play demonstrates that our instinct for life can transcend hate.
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Paris Commune
April 3 - 6 at The Mazer Theater
The Civilians presents a workshop production of their new documentary theater piece Paris Commune, using cabaret form and actual songs from the period to stage the 1871 revolution of Paris... the first socialist revolution in Europe. Time Out New York called The Civilians "The Best Alternative to Reality TV" and named them one of 25 up-and-comers of New York City theater.
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The Flotilla DeBarge Minstrel Show
Two Performances! March 22 and April 6 at Fez
With The Flotilla DeBarge Minstrel Show, Flotilla DeBarge proves she's as wacko as Jacko and as whack as Whitney's crack. This lady not only sings the blues, she dances to her "signiggature" songs, delivers off-colored stand-up and joyfully complains and entertains. Whether she's channeling Diana Ross from Mahogany, Oprah Winfrey from The Color Purple or one of the many smack-addicted transvestites she's played on film and TV, this Nubian Empress proves she is the reigning queen of Fez.
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GET OUT!: Lisa Jackson & The Justin Tranter Band
Sunday, March 30 at Fez
Trannie rocker Lisa Jackson and The Justin Tranter Band both headline GET OUT!, the new performance series at Fez for openly LGBT musicians. Hosted by Zecca, this evening queer music at its rockin' finest features special guest David Clement.
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People Are Wrong!
March 20 - 30, 2003
Based on a true story, People Are Wrong! centers around Xanthus, an off-kilter but charismatic cult leader who works as a landscape artist. When Xanthus is hired to design a wedding garden for a yuppie couple upstate, his delusions begin to get the upper hand. Naturally, all hell breaks loose, threatening to rock the very foundations of planet Earth.
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Patty Red Pants
February 20 - March 22 at The Red Room
Patty Red Pants combines the classic fairy tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" with the real story of a murdered teen. This psychosexual black comedy centers around the discovery of a dead girl and the lasting ramifications it has on two teen girls. In the midst of their sexual awakening, the girls discover "wolves" amongst men as they navigate through the subconscious fears and desires spawned by the incident.
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Nekeva
March 20-23 at W.A.X
Based on choreographer Rotem Tashach’s own experiences growing up as an outsider in Israeli army bases, Nekeva blends post-modern "Pina-Bausch-esque" dance theater scenes with political art videos. Scenes of childhood and pubescence deal with the way a nation (specifically Israel) rears its offspring through songs, slogans and propaganda. This is juxtaposed with videos of transsexual Gila Goldstein, an extreme example of someone forced to to rebel against conformity in order to find a place within a non-accepting society. Ultimately, Nekeva explores the often painful psychological need for self-definition and identity-- national, ethnic, sexual and gender-based.
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Booty Candy
February 19 - March 14
In addition to the titular "Booty Candy," other short plays in the evening include: "Dreamin' In Church," in which a minister comes out the closet to his congregation; "Scenework," a comic look at two white grad school actors rehearsing a scene from A Raisin in the Sun; "Dirt," about a college student who takes a commencement day speaker hostage; "Cluck," a satiric look at a court battle over slavery reparations; and "The Beauty In Queens, Jackson Heights," in which a black family living in the ghetto await a call from Broadway.
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Bitter Bierce or, The Friction We Call Grief
February 6 - March 9 at P.S. 122
Taken directly from Bierce's own words, the piece includes both autobiographical writings ("What I Saw Of Shiloh") and completely fictional stories ("An Imperfect Conflagration," "Oil Of Dog"). Weaving in stories about Bierce's failed marriage and the deaths of his children, the piece highlights the parallel nature of the tragedy in Bierce's life and work.
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Penny Arcade in Working My Way Down
February 23 - March 16, Sundays at 8:00pm
Working My Way Down is a 65 minute solo show that promises hilarious and unexpected insights from the highly opinionated Queen of Underground Performance. Nothing is sacred in Penny's sights as she dissects everything from bourgeois bohemia to Jenny from the Block.
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Wrestling Ladies
Two Weeks Only! March 6 - 16
Through a visual style inspired by contemporary underground comics, Wrestling Ladies depicts women as combatants, superheroes and saints, who all struggle to transcend their given and created identities. The characters include Stealth Factor, an abandoned loner from Alaska; La Gringita, a Cuban-American furious at her own cultural confusion; Queen B, a fighter/failed hip-hop artist; and La Culebra, a ruthless commercialized champion.
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Mae West's The Pleasure Man
Monday March 17, 2003 @ 8pm
Hourglass Group presents the first NYC revival performance of Mae West’s legendary 1928 play The Pleasure Man in a staged reading to benefit the company’s fourth season of provocative new plays and The Actors’ Fund’s Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative. Produced by the same company behind the acclaimed revival of Mae West's SEX, the reading stars Charles Busch as "The Bird of Paradise." Featured in the cast of 40 are David Drake, Cynthia Darlow, Alice Playten and Peter Jacobson. The benefit committee includes: Michael Cerveris, Hugh Hayes,Terry Kinney , John Cameron Mitchell, Cynthia Nixon, Edward Norton and James Urbaniak.
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The Carmen Suites (And Other Treats)
March 13 - 16, Thursday - Saturday at 8:30, Sunday at 7:30pm
The company of four dancers and four musicians will perform works including: The Carmen Suites, the company’s signature work in which three dancers and two musicians trade roles to a comic effect; Bride, a new solo piece for Stenn featuring Jay Weissman on toy piano; the World Premiere of Left of Fall, a rock re-interpretation of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and InRage, a piece Stenn created on ten dancers from Barnard College.
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New York City Gay Men’s Chorus Says Viva La Diva
March 10 at Avery Fisher Hall
Viva la Diva is an incomparable tribute to New York City Gay Men’s Chorus’ favorite leading ladies and their signature shows and operas. This fabulous night of singing includes special guests Jenifer Lewis (Off-Broadway’s The Diva is Dismissed, Jackie’s Back! and Strong Medicine on Lifetime TV), Jimmy James (drag performer and vocal impersonator famous for doing divas like Bette Davis, Cher, Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland), Denise Lennon (opera diva), Indra Thomas (the young African-American vocalist who is being hailed as the next great Verdi soprano) and Terri White (Tony nominee for Barnum and winner of two MAC Awards and an Obie).
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Sentence
Thu-Sun, Feb 13-16 & Wed-Sun, Feb 19-Mar 2 @ 8:30pm with Sundays at 5:00pm
Partly inspired by the writings of Donald Barthelme, Sentence is a multi-disciplinary dance piece that explores the border between the verbal and the physical, with a humorous and woeful understanding that this may not be possible. Body and mind collide--as they often do--in what at times is a comparison, a grudge match, and a collaboration between text and movement, writing and choreography, thought and action.
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The Quiet Bastard
Performances Begin March 6 at P.S. 122
The Quiet Bastard is part satire, part dreamscape, part Samuel Beckett, and part "The Simpsons". The piece features the audio and visual creations of Anne Seagrave, winner of the Experimental Video Section of this year's Kerry Film Festival.
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Shayna Steele's Funk & Soul
February 17 - POSTPONED, CHECK BACK HERE FOR DETAILS!
Currently one of The Dynamites in the Broadway sensation Hairspray - escapes the Great White Way to let loose her own brand of Funk, R&B and Soul two performances only at Fez. Beginning Monday, February 10th, the evening features a mix of covers, standards and original music by Steele and N'Sync keyboardist and David Cook, who serves as pianist and musical director. Steele will be joined by a six-piece band for the performances.
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Ellen Cleghorne & Friends
Two Performances Only! February 2 & 16 at Fez
Ellen Cleghorne & Friends delivers an uproarious spin on Black History Month from the woman behind such unforgettable characters as Zoraida, the in-your-face NBC page ("What makes you think I won't cut you Kirstie Alley!?"), Shaniqua, the Areocentric critic and dead-on impersonations of Anita Hill, Whoopi Goldberg, and singer Natalie Cole.
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Trick Saddle
Jan 24 - Feb 9, Weds - Sat at P.S. 122
Armed with grit and unerring wit, Trick Saddle turns the cowboy legend inside out and upside down through music, song, dance, dialogue, video, and of course, trick saddle routines. This fractured Western with a gender twist is Busby Berkeley-meets-classic cowboy flick and the Wild West-meets-Esther Williams.
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PSYCHOTHERAPY LIVE!
Saturdays, Jan 4 - Feb 1
Armed with a couch, a doctored "Master of Clinical Psychology" degree, and a pair of microphones, Lisa Levy performs Psychotherapy Live! In only thirteen minutes Levy sets out to solve the problems of her "patients" (willing, angst-ridden audience volunteers), aided by a well-worn copy of Psychology Made Easy.
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The Plank Project
January 13 - 31 at The Kraine
A broad satirical poke at "documentary theater", mimicking the earnest presentational style of works like The Laramie Project and The Exonerated. Six zealous actors travel to rural Plank, Washington to explore the tragic life of Abby Storch, a reclusive 1,100-pound transvestite who fell down a well, causing an international sensation.
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ART, LIFE, & SHOW-BIZ, A NON-FICTION PLAY
Limited Engagement! Jan. 3 - 26 at P.S. 122
Conceived as an evening length tribute to a life in the theater and the theater in liferdon himself as master of ceremonies and provider of a respectfully cynical eye. It draws on true stories, myths, and outright lies of the famous, the infamous, the forgotten and the unknown.
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Shequida
Sunday, January 26 at Fez
This Caribbean-born beauty with an astonishing five-octave vocal range was the recipient of a Back Stage Bistro Award for her long-running cabaret show Notes From Shequida. Her recurring role as bartender Wendi Mercury on One Life to Live earned Shequida the distinction of being the first drag artist on a national soap opera. |
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MIGHTY NICE
Limited Engagement! January 3 - 12 at P.S. 122
Told in Zaloom's signature hyper low-tech style, MIGHTY NICE employs intense and bizarre found object manipulation for three separate mini-shows: The Punch and Jimmy Show, Don't!, and 2222.
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Cashetta's Magical Christmas
December 8th - 29th at Fez
A night of glitz & glamour and Cashetta turning Christmas tricks as never before. Infused with her usual bag of charms, the show is more than silk poinsettias and fistfuls of fake snow, though she promises plenty of both.
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Unity Fest 2002
December 3rd - 29th at The Bank Street Theater
This year's festival features 15 plays in three programs running in rotating repertory throughout the month of December. As in previous festivals, Unity Fest 2002 includes an assortment of comedy and drama, a range of production and performance styles, and a multicultural roster of participants addressing many issues of importance to the LGBT community.
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Nellie's Nasty Noel
November 29th - December 1st at Fez
Best known as pre-Midol meanie Nellie Oleson from "Little House on the Prairie", Alison Arngrim presents an uproarious evening of storytelling and stand-up to let us know what Christmas on the prairie was really like.
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The Glamazons
4 Performances! September 8 - 29
The Glamazons are: Miss Maribou, a saucy Scandinavian milkmaid from the mountains of Minnesota, sweet as the milk she grew up on; Trixie Trueheart, a truck driving mama found at a rest stop in Baton Rouge, drinking whiskey and crooning for the locals (she hasn't stopped since); the platinum bombshell The World Famous *BOB*, with enough curves to derail a locomotive of men; the muy picante Veronica hailing from Texas where "Everything's Big"; and Ladyfinger, who can only be described as the narcoleptic prom queen: upon waking the next day, she can’t remember how many dates she had!
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