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The following shows were produced in 2007:
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A VERY MARY CHRISTMAS
December 19 - 30
Emerging drag star MIMI IMFURST will present a newly updated version of her controversial (and sold out) 2006 show A VERY MARY CHRISTMAS. Conceived and delivered by writer/performer Mimi Imfurst and composer/lyricist/arranger Mike Pettry (winner of the 2007 Jonathan Larson and Fredrick Loewe Awards), performances begin December 19th at Don't Tell Mama.
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SEVEN IN ONE BLOW, OR THE BRAVE LITTLE KID
3 Weeks Only! December 7 - 22
Set just before the holidays on a snowy winter day, SEVEN IN ONE BLOW, OR THE BRAVE LITTLE KID tells the story of a child living in the city who kills seven flies with a single swat and makes a belt emblazoned with "SEVEN IN ONE BLOW" to commemorate the event. The Kid travels about through the snow meeting numerous colorful characters including the Scarlet Pimpernel, a Pea, December, a Witch, an Ogre and a Princess. Most people think this belt refers to seven people and assign the Kid all kinds of difficult tasks based on this faulty presumption. Along the way a few invaluable lessons are learned: an Ogre finds that you don't always have to show how strong you are to be strong; a girl realizes that when you tease someone you may be hurting a person who is just like you; and a scary monster understands that because she is loved, she may not be so scary after all. In the end, after a surprise twist, the Kid ultimately discovers that a parent's love and care has no limits.
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DICK CHENEY'S HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR: THE LAST HUZZAH!
Two Shows--One Night Only!--December 16th, 7 & 9pm
It's the Bush crew's last holiday season in the White House, and they're bringing an all new meaning to the phrase "Christmas loot." Come on down to Cheney's lavish bunker, and join the sparkling and irrepressible Billionaire Follies for one last year-end toast to plutocracy. Packed with Dick's favorite carols, this twisted holiday review features Toys for the World (Are Made by Kids), The Halliburton Chorus, and a visit to the island of misfit Republicans. Celebrate with the Billionaires at their fabulous holiday party, and you may even leave with a little White House loot of your own!
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EDIE in CIAO, MANHATTAN!
One Night Only! December 13 at The Zipper Factory Theater
New York drag sensation EDIE has just been cast as the Mistress of Seduction -- the role originated by legendary drag performer Joey Arias -- in Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Before she packs her bags, she says farewell and happy holidays to her fans with EDIE in CIAO, MANHATTAN! This one night only performance will be held Thursday, December 13 at 7pm at The Zipper Factory Theater
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MISS RICHFIELD 1981 in FALL ON YOUR KNEES
One Night Only! December 20 at The Zipper Factory Theater
FALL ON YOUR KNEES is a holiday-themed evening of homespun warmth, comedy and music from the inimitable MISS RICHFIELD 1981. Some of the highlights include an unforgettable rendition of "Silent Night" played on the saw, a divine Christmas craft project with the audience, and a truly unique version of "Proud Mary" (that would be the Virgin Mary) to celebrate the birth of baby Jesus.
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JACKIE BEAT in GIVE 'TIL IT HURTS
December 14 - 16 at The Cutting Room
It all started so innocently in 1998 with Jesus Christ, It's Your Birthday!, a delightful non-denominational holiday tribute featuring such seasonal fare as "Sleigh Ride in Leather With You" and "Black Christmas." When the show was prominently featured in The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Right's 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism, an annual holiday tradition was born.
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BINGO WITH THE INDIANS
October 25 - December 22 at The Flea
In BINGO WITH THE INDIANS, a disgruntled East Village theater company descends upon a small New England town with a plan to pay for their next production - heist the local bingo game. Flea Artistic Director Jim Simpson says, "We are delighted to welcome back to the Flea this valued contemporary playwright to direct the Bats in a play that couldn't be done anywhere else." Playwright and director Rapp agrees, "It's a play about a hungry young downtown company being done by a hungry young downtown company -- that's perfect."
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THINGS ARE GOING TO CHANGE, I CAN FEEL IT.
November 2 - December 2 at The Tank
An absurdist tale of a Midwestern stewardess who becomes President. During her years of leadership, under the Party of the Loosened Corset, she is confronted with an invasion by Britain, an extended war, economic distress and her own failures and triumphs as a political leader. The piece is a timely examination of the continued threats to our civil liberties, the war in Iraq and on terrorism, and collective anxiety over the current leadership of our nation. With the very real possibility of our first female president, this bold new work playfully examines war, terrorism, airplane crashes, wire tapping, ineffectual presidencies, and "reality" pop culture.
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A GLANCE OF NEW YORK
October 12 - November 17 at Axis Theatre
After a workshop production in 2003 and a 2007 hit in Edinburgh, Axis Company will present an Off-Broadway revival of Benjamin A. Baker's 1848 melodrama A GLANCE AT NEW YORK. The original production of this vaudeville play following the adventures of Mose The Fireman became the biggest theatrical sensation of 1848 and played to packed houses for years. Known as the toughest man in the nation's toughest city, Baker's Mose was a brave trailblazer for a new kind of American theatre populated by recognizable characters that spoke to the common man. The Axis production is an experimental event carefully adapted by the Company for a contemporary audience. A GLANCE AT NEW YORK is directed by Randy Sharp and will be produced under an Equity Off-Broadway contract. Previews begin October 12 with opening scheduled for Friday, October 19th.
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KAREN FINLEY in WAKE UP
Previews begin October 7 at The Green Room
"WAKE UP" is an evening of two thematically related companion pieces. The first half is The Dreams of Laura Bush, an illustrated dream journal of America's First Lady. Mrs. Bush's dreams alternate between the profound and the mundane and feature a cast of international celebs and politicians. Drawings (also by Finley) are projected as a backdrop as the dreams unfold. Ultimately, the politics of the feminine passive power are uncovered with a blend humor and unleashed desire in this surreal piece.
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THE BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES
Previews begin September 27 at The Fourth Street Theatre
Set in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village, THE BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES celebrates the era when "the love that dares not speak its name" began breaking the old rules. Fueled by booze and furtive sex, the play follows the lives and loves of Laura, Beth and Beebo as they navigate uncharted territories of desire. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, went separate ways after graduation: Beth married and had children, Laura moved to New York. Both pine for each other, but before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in the web of Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the bars with a soft spot for young lesbians fresh off the bus.
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KINDERSPIEL
Previews begin October 4 at Under St. Marks
In the seedy and seditious demimonde of Weimar Berlin, five lost souls find each other (and sold-out audiences) when they create a scandalous club where adults play like children... and customers pay to watch. KINDERSPIEL tells the story of how a burnt-out expressionistic dancer, a jaded Jew, a trendsetting lesbian journalist, a conservative widow and a utopian communist turn a curious fetish into a revolutionary theater movement.
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GIRL GANG
Previews begin September 22 at The Atlantic Stage 2
Girl meets Gang, Girl looses Gang, Girl gets GIRL GANG! Follow DiDi, a clean teen looking to escape her sordid home life, down a path of infamy and eventual redemption in a reform school with other girls gone wild. See our big city's delinquent daughters headed for the juvenile justice system's underworld, singing and swinging their way through hell! Parents may be shocked, but youth will understand.
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JACKIE BEAT: FEAR OF INTIMACY
October 20 & 21 at The Cutting Room
People have often called Jackie Beat "fearless." But its not true. In JACKIE BEAT: FEAR OF INTIMACY, she finally divulges the awful truth about the one phobia she can't beat: intimacy. It is a fear that dooms her relationship with legions of adoring fans as well as a plethora of hopeful lovers. In this intimate new show, this classic love-hate relationship manifests itself in some delightfully crass new ditties, with ample stops along the way to sing about her favorite subjects. Warning: look, but don't touch.
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FringeNYC Encore Series Announces 2007 Lineup
August 30 - September 16
In 16 days even the most intrepid theatergoer can only sample a small fraction of the nearly 200 offerings at the New York International Fringe Festival. Now in its second year, the FringeNYC Encore Series gives theatre lovers a second chance at seeing some of the Festival's favorite shows. Beginning August 30, the 2nd annual FringeNYC Encore Series will present a dozen works in rotating repertory at two downtown venues: Soho Playhouse and The Bleecker Street Theater.
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4F: The New Class
September 13 - October 25 at The Laurie Beechman Theater
4F: THE NEW CLASS takes audiences on an emotional journey back to the glorious days of book reports and bus rides, hall passes and history, puberty and, of course, P.E. Watch as the kids of Halliburton Middle School face all the trials and tribulations of middle class bourgeois life and the struggle to achieve the American Dream of today's youth. These all-too familiar faces rush through their day to the patriotic rhythm of their blue-blooded hearts as they confront issues of racism, sexism, draft-dodging, pro-life rallies, homophobia and more. It's kind of like a Saved By The Bell episode gone horribly awry.
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THE SHEIK
September 8 - 22 at The Medicine Show Theater
At the beginning of THE SHEIK, a wicked advertising executive has seduced his innocent young secretary and gotten her pregnant. The problem: he's already married. The excellent solution: he hires a gay employee to have a documented affair with his wife in anticipation of a quickie divorce. The gay employee decides to accomplish his task by impersonating an oil-rich sheik. But won't the wife see through his charade?
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SEATING ARRANGEMENTS
October 10 - 27 at The Flea Theater
SEATING ARRANGEMENTS takes place around a table, which in turn becomes an elaborate banquet, a forum for political debate, and a platform for personal discovery. Playing themselves, the Bats share their own stories: They rap about their difficulties with religion, they toast to gay rights, they make a stand on the war on drugs and the lack of public health insurance, all accompanied by an electric violin. It is a theatrical experiment about the wondrous and horrendous exchanges that take place around a table.
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TRUE GENIUS
September 23 - October 7 at Altered Stages
TRUE GENIUS tells the unfolding story of a boy genius named Scooter who also happens to be a pathological liar. As Scooter falls in love with another pathological liar, an eccentric psychologist pries into his past. Soon Scooter's bizarre family history begins to unravel and he starts to question everything he believes is real. Is Scooter crazy? Or is his love life causing a breakthrough to his sanity? Is the girlfriend curing him? Or worse, is she not even there?
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NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL - LAUNCH PARTY
Sunday, August 5. 8pm - 11pm
New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, runs August 10 - 26, 2007. The Festival will present programming by 190 of the world's best emerging theater troupes and dance companies representing 9 countries (including Sweden, Japan, Australia, France, Ireland, England and Romania) and 17 US states (including Iowa, Utah, Minnesota, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, Florida and Illinois). FringeNYC offers performances covering a wide range of disciplines, including theater, performance art, dance, children's theater, spoken word, puppetry, and multimedia. Join this kick-off Launch Party at Home with complimentary vodka drinks 8-9pm. 21 and over only.
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FITZ AND WALLOUGHS
June 3 - July 8 at Ace of Clubs
You are cordially invited to the farewell performance of legendary duo FITZ & WALLOUGHS. Revel as vocalist (and unabashed narcissist) Fyodr Fitz and composer Constantine Walloughs perform their greatest hits one last time. Taking a cue from VH1's "Behind The Music" (and perhaps taking the name a little too literally), they finally discuss the untimely, horrifying murders of Fitz's many gay lovers -- tragedies that became the inspiration for their many hits. After all, pain can become pleasure if it births a catchy song!
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I GOOGLE MYSELF
June 14 - July 7 at Under St. Marks
I GOOGLE MYSELF is the unusual story of three very different men with the same name. One is a gay porn star with a dirty little secret. One is a stoner mechanic who blogs poetry and has anger management issues. And another is a wily stalker with a balloon fetish, desperate to make a connection. Their worlds collide when one man Googles his own name to find others who share his moniker. What he discovers leads to an unforgettable, ripped-from-the tabloids chain of events that will leave you asking yourself: what would I do to become a top search term on Google?
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THE FACTS OF LIFE: THE LOST EPISODE
Begins March 28 at The Kraine Theater
After sold-out runs at Ars Nova and Ace of Clubs last spring and Provincetown in 2005, the wildly popular THE FACTS OF LIFE: The Lost Episode will return for an open-ended engagement beginning Wednesday, March 28 at The Kraine Theater. Written by Jamie Morris, creator of the LA Weekly Theatre Award-winning comedy "Mommie Queerest," FACTS features an all-male cast as the girls from Eastland (including Edie, last seen on Broadway in Threepenny Opera opposite Cyndi Lauper and Alan Cumming). As the sitcom's popular theme song proclaimed, "You take the good, you take the bad." These girls take it all.
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THE SUBLET EXPERIMENT
Open-Ended Run begins November 16
THE SUBLET EXPERIMENT, a new romantic comedy by Ethan Youngerman, will begin an open-ended run on November 16th. Instead of using a conventional theater, The Sublet Experiment, which is set entirely in a New York City apartment, will be presented in a different apartment each weekend. Directed by Michelle Tattenbaum, the production will travel from neighborhood to neighborhood across the five boroughs and be performed for an audience of twelve at a time.
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CONFESSIONS OF A PRAIRIE BITCH
June 21 & 22 at The Cutting Room
Comic, former child star, outspoken activist, and TV Land Award winner ALISON ARNGRIM makes her annual return to New York with CONFESSIONS OF A PRAIRIE BITCH for two performances only, June 21 & 22 at The Cutting Room. Best known as acid-tongued, pre-Midol meanie Nellie Oleson from "Little House on the Prairie", Alison Arngrim presents an uproarious evening of storytelling and stand-up about life as everyone's favorite toxic pre-teen brat, complete with petticoats and ringlets. Never afraid to dish the dirt on TV land, she let all the secrets loose of "Little House on the Prairie", Hollywood and much more. Recalling her life and career as bitchy Nellie Oleson, Arngrim startles audiences internationally with off-color jokes about child stars and TV icons of the 1970's and 80s.
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THE EATEN HEART
May 24 - June 9 at The Ontological Theater
On a hot summer evening the characters of THE EATEN HEART escape the monotony of their own lives by visting the strange world of a remote motel. Entering into a lucid dream of hilarious, erotic and occasionally gory twists, they engage in steamy roadside intrigue before disppearing back onto the lonely highways.
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JUMP/ROPE
June 9 - 24 at Urban Stages
At the opening of JUMP/ROPE, the long relationship between Martin and Alex has begun to sour as a mysterious third party enters their lives. What ensues is both a hilarious puzzle and a murderous game as these three men compete for power and love. It is a bizarre triangle rooted in attraction, violence, and the fear of being alone.
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JACKIE BEAT in REHAB!
May 25 - 27 at The Cutting Room
Not to be outdone by Britney or Lindsay, everyone's favorite drag superstar JACKIE BEAT is going to finally face her demons and attempt to conquer her addictions to booze, drugs, sex, food, gambling, shopping and the N word. Tragic? Yes. Boring? NEVER! Join Jackie in REHAB! as she sings her way through recovery with lots of new material (including the juicy new song, "Beaver!" and her own take on the intoxicating Amy Winehouse ditty "Rehab") plus a few gems from her sordid past. Bring a friend -- hell, make it an intervention! And remember: the bar is open throughout the performance.
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REALISM AND JUMP!
April 15 - May 20 at The Kirk Theater
Downtown theater stalwart Jean Cocteau Repertory has shed its longtime home at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre, expanded its mission, and has been rechristened THE EXCHANGE. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Ari Edelson, Board Chairman Peter Finn, and Managing Director Jennifer Sanders, this newly formed company will make its debut this spring at The Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row. The company will present two new works that were recent hits in the UK: REALISM by Anthony Neilson and JUMP!! by Lisa McGee. Both shows will be directed by Ari Edelson (The Attic).
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EXPOSED: EXPERIMENTS IN LOVE, SEX, DEATH & ART
Limited Engagement runs April 26 - May 12
After a nine year absence, porn star-turned-performance artist and sex scholar Annie Sprinkle makes her long-awaited return to Off-Broadway. Sprinkle, in collaboration with Elizabeth Stephens will present the East Coast Premiere of EXPOSED: EXPERIMENTS IN LOVE, SEX, DEATH & ART. This new multimedia performance event is directed by Neon Weiss with media design/soundscape by Sheila Malone. It begins a limited engagement Off-Broadway run beginning April 26 at Collective: Unconscious in Tribeca. Opening night is set for Saturday, April 28 at 8pm.
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BFF
Limited Engagement begins February 17 at the DR2
BFF tells the story of Lauren and her "best friend forever" Eliza. Lauren is a New Yorker, who is split in two by time, living in the past and present simultaneously. Haunted by her adolescent past, she is desperate to catch up with her present and explore a new romance. But when Lauren accidentally tells a lie, she is forced to complete a story that, until now, has remained cruelly unfinished.
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WORK & SHOW FESTIVAL
March 14 - 31 at Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Tribeca Performing Arts Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College presents its annual WORK & SHOW FESTIVAL beginning March 14th. This outgrowth of their ten year old Artist-in-Residence program will feature new work by eight artists representing dance, theater and music.
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THE DIRECTOR
February 21 - March 31 at The Flea
One woman who was taken advantage of by THE DIRECTOR begins a journey to regain her sense of self by interviewing other victims. "I had met a guy a while back who was really into pursuing women, a lot of women. He was a film director," she explains. "He would go up to chicks on the street, telling them he was interested in them, that they just had something about them, and that he was making such and such a film, and he would like to talk to them about working in his film. This is the way I met him. It almost sounds too cliche even to believe right?" Have you met THE DIRECTOR?
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LOS ANGELES
February 14 - March 17
The Flea Theater presents the New York premiere of LOS ANGELES by Drama Desk Award nominee Julian Sheppard (Buicks) beginning February 14th. It will be directed by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Adam Rapp. Opening night is slated for February 22nd. Sex. Drugs. Swimming Pools. Traffic. Smog. Carjackings. The search for next big thing. This is LOS ANGELES, where one damaged young woman needs more than a map to find her way through the pitfalls of Tinseltown.
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OSCAR PARTY
Sunday, February 25 at The Cutting Room
Celebrate the glitziest night in Hollywood with drag sensation SHEQUIDA at THE 10th ANNUAL SPIN CYCLE OSCAR PARTY on Sunday, February 25 at The Cutting Room. Festivities begin at 7:00pm with red carpet arrivals. The evening continues with the complete Oscar telecast shown on giant screens in both the lounge and the main performance space at The Cutting Room, impromptu performances, drinking games, movie trivia games and lots of movie memorabilia prizes. Win the Oscar Prediction Ballot for an amazing Grand Prize! The evening will also include appearances by AMBER MARTIN and a very special surprise guest. -- this nationally acclaimed actor/writer/comic will be making his Cutting Room debut!
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NELSON
February 7 - March 3 at The Lion Theater
NELSON is the story of a young man caught between two worlds. By day, he works as a low-level assistant to a film talent agent. By night, Nelson is the camera man for an underground, gang-related videotape series. As the videos become increasingly dangerous and popular, Nelson develops an overwhelming obsession with a C-List actress. Eventually, Nelson's two worlds collide with disturbing, unsettling results. The play is a darkly comic look at the guilt dream of a man trying to find something authentic in a world of two very different kinds of film
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THE POD PROJECT
Begins January 31, 2007 at 20 Greene
In THE POD PROJECT, thirteen audience members gather together in a lounge. Individual audience members are personally ushered into a landscape of large, glowing, cylindrical pods. He or she is assigned a pod to enter and become part of a private one-on-one performance. Crossing the threshold, you may pop into: a dentist's office, a mountaintop ski-lift, a cocoon, a peep-show, a snow globe, or a bathroom with a woman in the shower. The scene content ranges from highly interactive to resolvedly voyeuristic.
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DIRTY GIRL
January 4 - 27 at The Kraine Theater
Meet Dori Richter, a nice Jewish girl from Long Island whose life changes when she answers an ad in the newspaper seeking a "writer/editor who must be comfortable with male nudity." DIRTY GIRL takes audiences on a wild, comedic ride from the offices of the fictional Loverboy magazine to steamy photo shoot locales as it tells the story of Dori's quest to find a woman who is actually turned on by the images in her magazine.
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THE RAPTURE PROJECT
January 4 - 21 at HERE
Alternately ridiculous and terrifying, THE RAPTURE PROJECT brings together tabloid newspaper stories, popular literature about Armageddon, and fundamentalist iconography to create an epic spectacle following an unlikely cast of characters from the USA to The Middle East and beyond. See the Creationist tour of the Grand Canyon and learn the history of the world through Bible-based science. Enter the world of Muslim squatter punks in Buffalo where young believers try to redefine Islam for the 21st century.
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