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ANGEL OF THE POOR, a comedy by Austrian
playwright Clemens Berger, produced by OneHeart Productions Come enjoy this witty and insightful new comedy that has garnered accolades in Austria. Masterfully translated by Damion Searls, and performed by the most nationally and ethnically diverse cast ever seen in an Austrian play! Directed by award-winning German director Andreas Robertz Featuring: Mario Golden, Vlad Komanovsky, Daphne Lopez, Debbie Rakotomalala,
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THE OY OF SEX: (a "romantic" comedy)
by Alicia Dattner
"Her story of love and sex addiction from a woman's perspective is so refreshing. Her raw vulnerability was powerful. And, God it was so funny!" -S. R. "Part Richard Pryor, part Ellen Degeneres, all good." -R. P.
Solo performer Alicia Dattner, creator of the hit show, Eat, Pray, Laugh! arose from the trenches of a decade in standup comedy, performing with such talents as Bill Santiago, Arj Barker, Maria Bamford, & Moshe Kasher. at Cobb's Comedy Club, The Punch Line, The Improv, The Knitting Factory, Gotham Comedy Club & Ha, in New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Hollywood, London, Bombay, & Chennai. Directed by Katie Rubin. "Best Local Comedian" - East Bay Express, 2011 |
Blowing Whistles by Matthew Todd directed by Rooben Morgan. Presented by Indistage. Tickets and information available at www.indistage.com |
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I Heart Hamas:And Other Things I'm Afraid
to Tell You, Written & Performed by Jennifer Jajeh, Directed by
W. Kamau Bell FINAL BAY AREA PERFORMANCES With the current ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, the threat of global terrorism, and the never-ending negotiations and hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians, it's hard not to feel overwhelmed by all of the bad international news. That's exactly how Jennifer feels. And to make matters worse, Jennifer is Palestinian. Well, Palestinian American. Or more precisely: a single, Christian, first generation, Palestinian American woman who chooses to return to her parents' hometown of Ramallah at the start of the Second Intifada. Join her on American and Palestinian soil on auditions, bad dates, and across military checkpoints as she navigates the thorny terrain around Palestinian identity. Weaving together humour, storytelling, multimedia, live theatre and pop culture references, Jajeh explores how she becomes Palestinian-ized, then politicized and eventually radicalized in this fresh, often funny, searingly honest solo show. "I Heart Hamas is an exceptional success...funny, engaging, complex, challenging and poignant. Well worth seeing." -- LA Theatre Review |
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TENDERLOIN World Premiere, Cutting Ball Commission Directed by Annie EliasWritten by Annie Elias with Tristan Cunningham, Siobhan Doherty, Rebecca Frank, Michael Kelly, Leigh Shaw, David Sinaiko and David Westley Skillman EXTENDED TO JUNE 3 EXIT on Taylor April 27 - May 27, 2012, Press Opening Night: May 3, Gala Opening Night: May 4 CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Annie Elias brings a decade of experience in documentary theater to Cutting Ball with the World Premiere of Tenderloin, an unforgettable piece about the people and places in Cutting Ball Theater's neighborhood. Using transcripts of interviews conducted by seven San Francisco actors, Tenderloin takes theater out into the neighborhood and brings the neighborhood into the theater. From these living sketches, a portrait of the Tenderloin itself emerges. A powerful theatrical experience, Tenderloin honors the diversity of the people who live and work in this gritty and fascinating downtown San Francisco district. |
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MAGIC OF THE HANDS : MAGIC OF THE MIND EXIT Theatre 8pm FRI/SAT JUNE 1 - 2 Tickets available at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) Magic of the Hands : Magic of the Mind is San Francisco's only double feature of modern sleight-of-hand and mind-reading. Ryan Horsfall, 2012 San Francisco Magic Champion, and David Gerard, mind-reader, each bring their unique disciplines to the Exit Theatre stage. 2012 San Francisco Magic Champion, Ryan Horsfall represents a younger, fresher breed of comedy magician. Ryan has been entertaining and astonishing adult audiences for the past 10 years at corporate events, private parties and comedy clubs. He'll display some of his best original material this June at EXIT Theatre. David Gerard is a mind-reader and mentalist based out of San Francisco, CA. Originally from the East Coast, David has most recently completed a run of shows in Palo Alto and is eager to move his show into the city. His demonstrations mix psychology, body language and influence to create memories that linger long after the theater curtains close. |
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Le chemin des passes dangereuses, Une pièce de Michel Marc Bouchard. Presented in French by Platypus Theatre Quelques heures avant le mariage du cadet, trois frères se retrouvent isolés à la suite d'un accident de la route alors qu'ils se rendaient au camp de pêche familial. En attendant les secours et contraints à un huis clos imprévisible au tournant du Chemin des Passes-Dangereuses, Carl, Ambroise et Victor plongent dans leurs souvenirs d'enfance et leurs mensonges d'adultes, jusqu'à atteindre le secret qui les hante. Cette cérémonie des aveux, a lieu alors que rôde autour d'eux la mémoire de leur père, mort au même endroit quinze ans auparavant. Fifteen years to the day after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened: an old fishing spot on the river down Dangerous Passes Road. Each sibling is facing a crucial rite of passage: Carl, the youngest, is to be married later in the day, and it is this occasion that has brought the three of them together. Ambrose is losing his lover to AIDS. Victor, the eldest, has just left his second failed marriage. They have never really spoken with each other because they all have their own individual secrets to hide, and because they share an ambivalence about the death of their father. Could they have prevented it? |
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Le dieu du carnage. Une pièce de Yasmina Reza La politesse, la paix, la générosité ne sont-elles
The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza Presented in French by Platypus Theatre What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums, and tears before bedtime? |
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FEEL THE POWER OF THE DORKSIDE by Pete Ludovice EXIT Theatre 8pm FRI/SAT JUNE 8-9 Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) A laugh-a-minute roller coaster ride through the World of science math and technology. A one-man show written and performed by Dr. Pete Ludovice, engineering professor by day and stand-up comedian by night, its like your H.S. science class on nitrous oxide. When not being heckled by his engineering students at Georgia Tech, Pete hosts a weekly radio show on WREK-Atlanta on science and technology whose motto is Science, only funnier. Voted most likely to appear in a mug-shot wearing a pocket protector while a graduate student at MIT, Pete is out to prove that nerds can be funny and not just funny-looking. Its comedy that will make you think, and perhaps write down an equation or two. |
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three weeks of theatre, dance, burlesque, music, visual art & crafts, empowerment workshops, lectures, demonstrations, and symposiums inspired by women a celebration of female creativity and power May 9 - May 27, 2012 |
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DOWN TO THIS by Adam Chanzit, directed Tore
Ingersoll - Thorp and starring Kendra Lee Oberhauser, Derek Fischer, Tonya
Narvaez, Jomar Tagatac*, & Shane Rhoades, produced by Sleepwalker's
Theatre. Blending terror and absurd hilarity, Down to This packs a pulpy punch: Maria's .38 special and a game of chance will decide who lives and dies one sunny morning in a quiet mountain town. As more characters unexpectedly stumble in, a series of increasingly intense reversals unfold until an explosive and wild ending. Or rather, endings. Pushing the theme of gambling with fate to the extreme, Down to This uses an actual of moment chance to determine which of two drastically different endings will be performed live on any given night. How will it end for you? Presented by Sleepwalkers Theatre, Directed by Tore Ingersoll - Thorp, and starring Kendra Lee Oberhauser, Derek Fischer, Tonya Narvaez, Jomar Tagatac*, & Shane Rhoades. (*Member of Actors Equity Association, an Equity Approved Project) |
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Chicken Scratch Presents: Vote for Chicken
In addition to sketches each night will feature an array of fast-paced and hilarious improv comedy all fueled by audience suggestions. |
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Le Projet Migration Benefit Christine Germain and Dancers would like to invite you to join us for an evening of performance on April 28th. Local members of the circus and dance communities will be presenting new and exciting work as a donation to our cause: getting "Le Projet Migration" to the Montreal Fringe Festival. Come celebrate with us at our benefit at the EXIT Theatre in San Francisco, home to the SF Fringe Festival and just a short walk from the Powell street BART And you can help by joining our KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN! |
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IT IS WHAT IT IS by Diane Karagienakos and THE WATCH TOWER by Christopher Barranti EXIT Theatre APR 13 - 29, 2012 Tickets Available at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006). Local writers Diane Karagienakos and Christopher Barranti met in a writing group several years ago, helping each other with feedback on their work. Now the two are collaborating at the Exit Theater April 13 - 29 with a three-week run of two short plays sharing one stage. The two works, both directed by Kathryn Wood and presented with a short intermission, complement and contrast each other with female/male perspectives on love, death, relationships and sexting. "It Is What It Is" by Ms. Karagienakos is a multi-layered multimedia meditation on what it really means to connect in today's hyper-connected world. Estranged siblings brought together around their father's deathbed struggle with buried issues and simmering conflict. As their father's condition worsens and spoken dialogue becomes explosive, the audience is given a more complete, and often hysterically funny, perspective thanks to their texts, IMs and emails. In a classic San Francisco bar room set piece, "The Watch Tower" by Mr. Barranti focuses on the passing revelations and deep insights found among a group of strangers at the bottom of a shot glass on a rainy afternoon. Emotionally starved characters experience an unexpected awakening as their facades are swept under the bar mat. Absurdly humorous, combative and revealing, this new play will be instantly familiar to local audiences |
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THE COLLECTION by Christian Cagigal. Theatrical magician Cagigal to unleash more of his special brand of creepiness for 13 straight days and the audience is sworn to secrecy. EXIT Stage Left APR 1 - 13 Shows 8pm (except 7pm Sundays
April 1 and April 8 ) Tickets: $25 April 1 and April 13 (with
post-show party) Tickets $20 April 2 to April 12. Tickets available at BrownPaperTickets.com
(1-800-838-3006) April Fools Day to Friday the Thirteenth 13 PERFORMANCES ONLY of Cagigal's special brand of magic, storytelling, and creepiness. In a most daring approach to publicity, the theatre is not releasing any details about The Collection. Moreover Cagigal will require the audience and the press NOT TO REVEAL A SINGLE THING THAT HAPPENS! |
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SONGWRITER SATURDAYS brings live music to
EXIT Theatre's Cafe Stage. EXIT Cafe Every Saturday (except the 1st Saturday of the month) 8:30-10:30pm No charge, Artist tips appreciated. CLICK FOR COMPLETE SCHEDULE AND ARTIST BIOS
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MERCHANTS by Susan Sobeloff Long-running San Francisco indy theater troupe, No Nude Men Productions, brings you the debut work of exciting new playwright Susan Sobeloff. "Merchants" tells the story of a performance artist (Maura Halloran) and her finance consultant sister (Ariane Owens), two young women trying to find the modern Holy Grails of financial stability and career satisfaction. As the economy collapses around them one finds herself unemployed and pregnant while the other is suddenly the center of a quickly growing business venture that soon proves to be as unsustainable as it is lucrative. Also staring Tony Cirimele and Trish Tillman, this intimate, intense show is the perfect storm of the problems facing so many Americans today. Directed by Stuart Bousel, with a design team including Linda Huang, Cody Rishell, Wil Turner IV Opening Night Party March 3rd! |
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World Premiere, Cutting Ball Commission This original ensemble-based piece weaves evocative a capella harmonies and visceral movement into a multidisciplinary retelling of an ancient Estonian tale. Lona endures her cruel stepmother until she unexpectedly discovers a new friend in the mysterious, forbidden Tontlawald the ghost forest. Associate Artistic Director Paige Rogers was inspired by the work of Polands famed Teatr ZAR to create a performance in which the body and song tell Lonas story. Rogers has teamed up with co-director Annie Paladino, choreographer Laura Arrington and Cutting Balls resident playwright Eugenie Chan to create a world premiere performance that stretches our definitions of theater, dance, and choral music. Produced and commissioned by Cutting Ball Theater, a theater-in-residence at EXIT Theatre |
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Young Sully: Stories from an Irish-American
Youth In his debut one-man show, Patrick O'Sullivan gives a comedic and heartfelt reflection of his experiences growing up in the Irish immigrant culture of the San Francisco Bay Area, featuring remarkable and outlandish tales of everyone from his father (former Premier League soccer player Paddy Sullivan) to local folk hero Johnny Foley (namesake of the downtown pub). NOTE: It is advised you buy a drink at the bar before the show and bring it to your seat, as we will be toasting these characters in this trip down memory lane! Patrick is the creator of the hit shows All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken and All About Jack (Nicholson). In 2012, you can see him as Gary Busey in Point Break Live and in the upcoming horror film Smiley. Patrick also performs stand-up all over the country, writes and performs for internet channel Totally Sketch, and produced a new documentary on Lenny Bruce. A former rock vocalist, radio/roller rink DJ, and scoreboard operator for the S.F. Giants and 49ers, he is really just a big kid from the wrong side of the tracks with a story to tell. past reviews: "an act of absurd genius." - L.A. Times "O'Sullivan - in that Jim Carrey way, in alternating fits of sardonic genius and footstomping hambone." - Martini Republic "O'Sullivan stands out." - Comedy LA |
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Olivia's Kitchen: A Twelfth Night of Resilience
and Revival Through Olivia's Kitchen, GenerationTheatre (http://generationtheatre.com) fulfills its triple mission: bringing new texts to life and new life to existing texts, offering exciting theater to the San Francisco Bay Area community, and appealing to a multi-generational audience. Now in its fifth year of existence, GenerationTheatre, is an ensemble of players that grew out of a group of Berkeley Rep theater students. It is now a non-profit theater company. The troupe's original productions tackle subjects and styles as diverse as a father's introspective search for love (4Soldiers); the magical revisiting of relationships (DiTCH), the fictional prolongation of Kafka's life (BooKKeepers), or the mother-daughter-sister bond (Sea Turtles). Olivia's Kitchen, a play after Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, remixed and directed by R. David Valayre, incidental music by David H. Rosenfeld, interpreted by Andrea Satin, Andrew Page, Dascha Inciarte, Erica Andracchio, Joanne Grimm, Ket Watters, Nadine Defranoux, Nathan Putnam, R.D. Valayre, Terry Stokes, and Topher Clark. |
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COUNTING ON L0VE, AND OTHER STORIES OF THE HEART. Treat Street Theatre Project, in partnership with The Playwrights Center of San Francisco, present six new plays by Rod McFadden and Don Samson. It's an evening of laughter, heartbreak, compassion, compromise, and human connection -- the perfect Valentine's Day gift. EXIT Studio 8pm FEB 10 - 18 Tickets available at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) "LOVE BIRDS IS A CHARMING ROMANCE" COUNTING ON LOVE "Where does love start? In the
head, or in the heart?" SUNDAY AT BUCKLEY'S "Marriage interruptus. You
can run, but you can't hide." LOVE BIRDS "Fate and chance can only take us so
far..." SALLY "In love and war, all's well that ends well." ON THE NOSE "Sometimes in matters of love, words
are not enough." A SUDDEN PAST "What should we hold on to, when
the world around us changes?" These award-winning plays are funny, sad, insightful and inspiring.
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AWKWARD DINNER PARTY: An Improvised Play In this fully improvised show, a couple invites another couple over for dinner; only one of them shows up. As the improvised play unfolds, the couple and their guest reveal uncomfortable truths. The awkward moments lead to unrelated scenes and songs. Dave Dennison & Lisa Rowland Additional information may be found on the Awkward Dinner Party website. |
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WORKING FOR THE MOUSE by Trevor Allen presented by Black Box Theatre. Careful what you wish upon a star for. Produced by Black Box Theatre Company. EXIT Theatre 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT NOV 3 - DEC 17 (no performances Thanksgiving weekend) TICKETS: $20 advanced; $22 at door; advance tickets available at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) Ever wonder what really goes on at the Happiest Place on Earth? Chronicling the life of a costumed character at Disneyland, WORKING FOR THE MOUSE, called "very funny an uplifting comic tale well told" by the San Francisco Chronicle, and "Hilarious touching perfectly wonderful Even Walt would have laughed" by the Bay Area News Group, answers this and other burning questions like, "Is it hot in there?", "Where do you see out of?" and "What kind of underwear does Mickey wear under there?" Playwright and performer Trevor Allen spent a several years in Southern California portraying Pluto, Mr. Smee, the Mad Hatter and other characters in his height range on his quest for voice clearance and his dream of becoming Peter Pan. He recounts his tales of backstage debauchery, sex, drugs, kicks to the crotch, militant managers, and quirky coworkers in this unique coming-of-age tale that blows pixie dust in your eyes while offering a glimpse behind the ears of the Magic Kingdom. |
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LADIES IN WAITING, three plays about distressed damsels, written by Hilde Susan Jaegtnes, Alison Luterman and Claire Rice, directed by Stuart Bousel, Sara Judge, Claire Rice, produced by Non Nude Men Productions starring: Kirsten Broadbear, Nick Dickson, Maro Guevara, John Lennon Harrison, Charles Lewis III, Theresa Miller, Tonya Narvaez, Karen Offereins, Leer Relleum, Aaron Tworek EXIT Stage Left 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT DEC 1 - 17, 2011 Tickets $20 at BrownPaperTickets.com No Nude Men finishes off an amazing year with an evening of three one acts by local playwrighting superstars Alison Luterman and Claire Rice, and former Bay Area resident, Norwegian transplant Hilde Susan Jaegtnes. Each of these three fantasies is a supernatural tale exploring the varied feminine archetypes that form the foundation of our society's gender stereotypes and biases. Luterman's piece, Night in Jail, depicts a midnight confrontation between a prison guard (Charles Lewis III), a drunk-driving debutante (Tonya Narvaez), and the ghost of Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Broadbear). Rice's Woman Come Down weaves the stories of Little Red Riding Hood (Kirsten Broadbear) and Rapunzal (Theresa Miller) into a contemplative comedy of manners as Red considers a marriage to the handsome but bland Henry (Leer Relleum) and avoids the machinations of a cross-dressing werewolf (Maro Guevara). Jaegtnes spins a farce about a haunted oil rigg where the manly staff (Nick Dickson, John Lennon Harrison, Aaron Tworek) are thrown into havoc by the manifestation of three needy virgins (Theresa Miller, Tony Narvaez, Karen Offereins). Directed by Sara Judge, Stuart Bousel and Claire Rice, respectively, the evening is a satisfying taste of new work by each of these unique, cutting edge voices of the modern theater. Contact Stuart Bousel at endymion82@aol.com for press comps, information, etc. |
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WHO KILLED SMILE TIME? with Harmon Leon, Colin Mahan, & Yayne Abeba. Three of SF's most innovative comedy performers join forces comedic triple bill. EXIT Studio 8pm FRI/SAT DEC 16-17 Tickets on BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006)
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PELLEAS AND MELISANDE by Maurice Maeterlink
translated and directed by Rob Melrose Pelleas & Melisande has all the ingredients for a fairy tale: a princess in distress, a handsome prince, and a beautiful castle. Yet this seminal avant-garde play by French symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck, in a new translation by Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose, reveals that it is easy to hide secrets in the shadows of the familiar. After Melisande's royal wedding, her growing feelings for the prince's brother Pelleas threaten to jeopardize her happily ever after. The story of their tragic love affair has inspired music from Claude Debussy's opera to orchestral works by Gabriel Faure, and Jean Sibelius. Director Rob Melrose's production will feature a musical score by composer Cliff Caruthers, choreography by Laura Arrington, and video installation by Wesley Cabral. Featuring Derek Fischer, Bennett Fisher, Paul Gerrior, Caitlyn Louchard, Brittany Kilcoyne McGregor, Paula Carli, Gwyneth Richards, Jessica Jade Rudholm, and Joshua Schell. Assistant Director Annie Paladino, Choreography by Laura Arrington, Sound Design/Original Composition by Cliff Caruthers, Scenic Design by Michael Locher, Video Design by Wesley Cabral, Lighting Design by York Kennedy, Costume Design by Raquel Barreto Rob Melrose's translation is available in a new book published by EXIT Press: Woyzeck, Pelleas and Melisande, Ubu Roi -- Three Translations From The Cutting Ball Theater |
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The Burroughs and Kookie Show: Late Night in the Interzone by Christopher Kukenbaker presented as part of EXIT Theatre's Artist-In-Residence Series. EXIT Stage Left 8pm FRI/SAT NOV 4 - NOV 12 Tickets: $15 (I Need a Discount Ticket), $20 (General Admission Ticket), $25 (I Support the Arts Ticket) available at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) Welcome to INTERZONE'S favorite late night talk show. Hosted by the
God-Father of Punk, William S. Burroughs. Join Christopher Kuckenbaker
as he assumes the role of William S. Burroughs and takes the audience on
a journey through the twisted, irreverent, and darkly comedic world of
William S. Burroughs. Ripe Theater and Secret Theater conspire together
to bring this Ripe/Secret to the stage. Ripe Theater received "Best
of Fringe" in 2002 and "Best Ensemble" in 2006. |
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EXIT Stage Left 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT 2pm SUN OCT 27 - OCT 30 Tickets Adults: $15, Under 12: $10 at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) KINDA BOO! is a fresh, magical musical Halloween comedy filled with tricks and treats for spirits of all ages. CAUTION: KINDA BOO! is a mutant mashup of rockin' original Halloween tunes, madcap misdirection, double-crosses, torch songs, stage effects, giant zombie puppets, and the unexpected . . . KINDA BOO! premiers in San Francisco in October 2011. Be one of the first to see this magical, musical Halloween comedy. It's a Halloween Thing. |
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BEST FRIENDS FOREVER A night celebrating
the complicated terrain of female friendships Singer-songwriter LAUREN PEHOSKI (one of her songs will include, "My Best Friend") and an original scene, Girl Play written by VICTORIA DOGGETT and performed by ROSALIE KENWARD (age 10) and LEA JURCENOKS (age 12), also directed by Mark Kenward |
| THE SAN FRANCISCO OLYMPIANS FESTIVAL:
Like a Pandora's box of plays, leaving all who attend with hope for independent
theatre.
October 13: Uranus by Evelyn Jean Pine, directed by Rik
Lopes October 20: Gemini by Tom Darter, directed by Karen Hogan October 27: Selene by Nirmala Nataraj, directed by Amy
Clare Tasker The phenomenal acting company includes: Teresa Attridge, Maggie Ballard, Timothy Beagley, Jerry Blair, Tonyanna Borkovi, Sara Briendel, Megan Briggs, Xanadu Bruggers, Nick Brunner, Kirsten Broadbear, Kat Bushnell, Sarah Rose Butler, Brianna Calabrese, Tony Cirimele, Megan Cohen, Benji Cooper, Robert Cooper, Kevin Copps, Lisa Darter, Tom Darter, Elijah Diamond, Nicholas Dickson, Siobhan Doherty, Juliana Egley, Alisha Ehrlich, Maria Fe Picar, Rachel Ferensowicz, Jeff Fisher, Jennie Gebhardt, Jan Gilbert, Kelley B. Greer, Maro Guevera, Matt Gunnison, Anne Hallinan, Eric Hannan, John Lennon Harrison, Neil Higgins, Dashiell Hillman, Travis Howse, Michelle Jasso, Dan Kurtz, Stewart Kramer, Charles Lewis III, Carl Lucania, Jennifer Lucas, Jan Marsh, Brian Martin, Gabrielle Motarjemi, Kai Morrison, Tonya Narvaez, Meg O'Connor, Karen Offereins, Allison Page, Sunil Patel, Allison Payne, Jason Pienkowski, Keshuv Prasad, Shane Rhodes, Cynthia Roberts, Paul Rodrigues, Stacy Sanders, Sarah Savage, Lauren Spencer, Analisa Svehaug, Brian Thomen, Leota Tisdel Rhodes, Nicholas Trengove, Vahishta Vafadari, Richard Wenzel, Lily Yang |
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WHO KILLED SMILE TIME? Harmon Leon, Colin Mahan, & Kazumi Kusano. Two weekends only! Three of SF's most innovative comedy performers join forces in a comedic triple bill. EXIT Theatre 8pm FRI/SAT OCT 14th - OCT 22rd, 2011 Harmon Leon in Ironic/NOT Ironic. Award-winning San Francisco comedic performer Harmon Leon brings you his show about all things ironic and all things NOT ironic. Direct from this year's Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, take Harmon's hand as he examines all things ironic: ironic music, ironic T-shirts, ironic romances, ironic breakups, ironic chimps wearing people clothes. Ironic/NOT Ironic features: Breakdancing Abe Lincoln! Factual proof that Benny Hill was a creepy rapist!! Ex-girlfriends of the past 5 years animated and singing! In the end, you'll look at the entire world and contemplate whether it's ironic or NOT ironic. Harmon Leon is the author of 6 books, including National Lampoon's Roadtrip USA. His writing can be found in the Huffington Post, Esquire, Playboy, and Salon. He has appeared on the Howard Stern Show, Last Call with Carson Daly, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, and Spike TV's 1000 Ways to Die. He's performed at the Montreal, Edinburgh, Vancouver, and Melbourne Comedy Festivals. "Leon constantly tweaks us onto how amazingly anything or anything is ironic, or not ironic and manages to keep his audience in stitches of laughter" *****DB Magazine/Australia "One funny motherf*cker!" -Jimmy Kimmel "Hilarious!" -Howard Stern "A comedy force to be reckoned with" -- *****Edinburgh List Colin Mahan is Triforce Maiden in Too Many Wurdz: A Crock Opera in 1D. A world beyond imagination. An adventure beyond logic. A black comedy rock musical beyond comprehension. The evil Sky Computer has enslaved mankind with promises that everyone can make $225/hr from the comfort of their own homes, no training necessary. It's up to Triforce Maiden (1982's Ex-Antihero of the Year) to lead a ragtag band of celebrity impressions on a karaoke odyssey to defeat the Sky Computer in this comedy + rock = crock opera. *Too Many Wordz is the title of the show, not how you'll describe the show to co-workers the next day. Kazumi Kusano. Born and raised in Japan, Kazumi was inspired as a child by Japanese comedians, The Drifters. In 1995, she began performing improvisational comedy in Tokyo. After she moved to the U.S., she created the sketch comedy duo, The Kazumi and Jane Comedy Hour, which performed in the Bay Area including a run of shows at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Kazumi has appeared in such projects as Ten Red Hen's Clown Bible, as well as commercials for the Japanese Consulate, Cache Creek Casino Resorts and YMCA. She performs stand-up comedy all over San Francisco, and you can catch her at venues such as Castagnola's and the Marsh in Berkeley. |
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TUTOR: Enter the Exclave by
Martin Schwartz, presented by Dark Porch Theatre, an EXIT Theatre theater-in-residence Inspired by an 18th Century German drama, Tutor updates the story
and style with electronic score, video projection, and a puppet. Blood,
water, puppets, video, toenails, mounting lyrical tirades
what else
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Girl In, but not of, the 'Hood,
Genievieve Jessee She's not in Kansas anymore, or . . . she never was. After finishing college, a young Black woman reluctantly returns to her family's home in a gritty Oakland, CA neighborhood. 7pm FRIDAY SEPT 30 EXIT Stage Left 156 Eddy St San Francisco Tickets: $20 at BrownPaperTickets.com or reserve at 415-673-3847 |
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Lorraine Olsen is FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING Actress Lorraine Olsen unveils the work of a professional art model in the vibrant world of Bay Area studios, salons and educational institutions. 9pm FRIDAY SEPT 30 EXIT Theatre 156 Eddy St San Francisco Tickets: $20 at BrownPaperTickets.com or reserve at 415-673-3847 |
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Afield by Linda Ayres Frederick With Miriam's arrival in a desolate field of land mines, farmhand Samuel becomes hungry enough to barbeque the Pig who could save his life. Who will survive their battle and the flood that comes to end their world? 7pm SATURDAY OCT 1 EXIT Theatre 156 Eddy St San Francisco Tickets: $20 at BrownPaperTickets.com or reserve at 415-673-3847 |
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Steve Seabrook: Better Than You
by Kurt Bodden Veteran comedian Kurt Bodden assumes the role of master motivator Steve Seabrook, who takes the audience to a safe, nurturing place of empowerment where they can look inside their hearts to examine why they aren't all that successful. 9pm SATURDAY OCT 1 EXIT Theatre 156 Eddy St San Francisco Tickets: $20 at BrownPaperTickets.com or reserve at 415-673-3847 |
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LEFT-HANDED DARLING by Nikita Schoen,
produced by Foul Play Productions Tickets are $20-30 sliding scale with discounts available to students
and starving artists; OPENING NIGHT GALA: THUR JUL 14 $25. Available at
BrownPaperTickets.com.
More information at http://www.FoulPlaySF.com/lefthanded
and foulplaysf@gmail.com Foul Play Productions announces the culmination of their inaugural launch of the New Writers' Program the world premiere of Nikita Schoen's LEFT-HANDED DARLING. Following a year of workshops and development, LEFT-HANDED DARLING centers on the unusual upbringing of Calliope Darling, and her unique definition of beauty. Set in the Dustbowl era, LEFT-HANDED DARLING captures the sights and sounds of the sideshow and the dilapidated grandeur of the Vaudeville aesthetic,while probing the complex psychologies of both the reviled, the rarified and the rejected. This mesmerizing tale of murder and make-believe is an astonishing debut for first-time playwright Nikita Schoen, and a must-see theatrical endeavor from the minds who brought you Attack of the Killer B-Movies and Stale Magnolias. Nikita Schoen, a future student at the California College of the Arts and an artist of many sorts (including choreography, painting, acting and poetry), takes her first steps into playwriting under the mentorship of Foul Play's New Writers' Program. Inspired in part by Tod Browning's film Freaks, an immersion into the world of sideshow history and her own ardent attachment to the conjoined, the limbless and the hirsute, Schoen has crafted LEFT-HANDED DARLING, a play populated with delightful deviations from normalcy. Michelle Talgarow, director, heads an impressive team of artists to bring Calliope's (and Schoen's) world to life and create FP's most lavish production to date. LEFT-HANDED DARLING was written by Nikita Schoen; directed by Michelle Talgarow; produced by Foul Play (Sean Owens and Cameron Eng); designed by Peter Parish, Richard Board and Kathryn Wood with an original score from Don Seaver; and features Mikka Bonel, Kimberly MacLean, Mikl-em, Amanda Ortmayer, Sean Owens, and Don Wood. |
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LOST IN CIRCULATION: A COMEDY ABOUT GETTING
YOUR MONEY BACK presented by Uphill Both Ways featuring the comic writing
and acting talents of seasoned sketch comedy vets Colin Benoit and Dave
McKew Nationally acclaimed comedy team Uphill Both Ways is back with a mind-blowing new two-man play. LOST IN CIRCULATION: A COMEDY ABOUT GETTING YOUR MONEY BACK follows the story of a rare, misprinted dollar bill from the 1930's that accidentally enters circulation in 2011. When everyman Marvin (Dave McKew) inherits the mysterious, priceless dollar (depicting George Washington Carver instead of George Washington) from his dying father (Colin Benoit), he is curious about learning more about who created it, and why. Â But before he can learn the dollar's secret origin, he accidentally loses it. Will eccentric collector of curiosities Buck Huntington III (Dave McKew) find it before Marvin can locate his family's heirloom? Follow the dollar's journey across all four continental U.S. time zones, as it changes hands over and over again. Antics ensue as the dollar-hunting Marvin and Huntington encounter a god-fearing churchgoer (Colin Benoit) who donates the dollar, a precocious girl scout (Colin Benoit) who earns the dollar at her lemonade stand, a flamboyant magician (Colin Benoit) who's ready to burn the dollar as part of his biggest show ever...and many others. Uphill Both Ways has been Voted "Best Comedy Act" in SF Weekly's "Best of San Francisco" Readers' Poll. NYC's Uproar Magazine calls Uphill Both Ways "obscenely witty." SF Downtown Magazine says "...reminiscent of such cult troupes as The Kids in the Hall and The Upright Citizens Brigade and such classics as Jackie Gleason and Ralph Kramden as best friends in the Honeymooners TV series...an endearing, energetic, and downright ridiculous pair who emit a decidedly charismatic aura." The Bay Guardian calls them "funny guys with tremendous energy." Since 2002, Uphill Both Ways has performed in over a dozen Bay Area venues and at numerous international comedy festivals in NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, Dallas, Atlanta, Vancouver and Toronto. Â Their short films have appeared on TV on Comedy Central and The Hotel Networks and at various short film festivals around the U.S. and Canada. |
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COUNTRY CLUB CATASTROPHE an American Farce by Jeff Bedillion presented by Back Alley Theater EXIT Theatre 8pm July 28 July 28, 29, 30, August 4,
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SALTY TOWERS written by Dana C. Constance,
Bryce Allemann, and Kathy Hicks, directed by Christopher P. Kelly, produced
by the Thunderbird Theatre Company Dimwitted Poseidon, the most under-appreciated God of Mount Olympus and proprietor of a 2-star hotel at the bottom of the sea, is hoping for respect and redemption by vying to host the first Olympics. Can he, his venomous wife Medusa and a bumbling staff of sea creatures pass muster? Or will the clever goddess Athena outfox the short-fused Poseidon once again? The guest list includes a litany of insatiable gods behaving badly, a mounted singing toy fish and the optimistic one-hit wonder Bobby McFerrin . It's just another farcical day under the sea at Salty Towers. |
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Harmon Leon & Colin Mahan: Solo Show Double Feature Two of San Francisco's most innovative comedic performers join forces for one weekend only EXIT Studio 8pm FRI/SAT JULY 15/16 Tickets $15 available at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006). Harmon Leon in Ironic/NOT Ironic Featuring:
Harmon Leon has appeared on the Howard Stern Show, Last Call with Carson Daly, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, and Spike TV's 1000 Ways to Die. He's performed at the Montreal, Edinburgh, Vancouver, and Melbourne Comedy Festivals. You can read his writing on the Huffington Post, SF Gate, and Penthouse. "One funny motherf*cker!" -Jimmy Kimmel "Leon constantly tweaks us onto how amazingly anything or anything is ironic, or not ironic and managing to keep his audience in stitches of laughter" *****DB Magazine/Australia Colin Mahan in Too Many Wordz: A Crock Opera in 1D* The Pitch: *Too Many Wordz is the title of the show, not how you'll describe the show to co-workers the next day. |
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The Edenites A new play about San Franciscoby
Stuart Bousel. EXIT Stage Left 8 PM, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, June 2-25, 2011. Tickets range from $12-25 depending on the performance (earlier in the run = cheaper), with all tickets bought at the door being $20.00. Tickets available at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) [REVIEWS] A meditative mix of funny and sad, EDENITES captures San Francisco at the close of the 2000's in all its promiscuous, hyperbolic and bittersweet glory. The story, such as it is, follows a week in the lives of an over-sexed trust fund baby (Kai Morrison), his sci-fi geek boyfriend (Brian Martin), a bi-sexual debutante (Kirsten Broadbear), a famous writer (Xanadu Bruggers) and her small-business owning, small-town dwelling ex (Ryan Hebert). Add to the mix an East Bay couple (Megan Briggs and Ben Kruer) trying to get through their first year as new parents, one man skipping out on his boyfriend (John Caldon) and another looking to score one (Christopher Struett) and the world's wisest roommate (Kira Shaw). The result is a sleek ninety-minute comedy sort of like a soap opera mixed with a Chekhov play, mixed with your actual life. Written and directed by Stuart Bousel, this stylish piece of theatrical fluff is pretty much an exercise in drama as therapy, in which actual experiences are being thrown up on stage by the writer in a flagrant attempt to make sense of his own life. Somewhere between the snark and the scandal, however, lies a hopeful and heartfelt love-letter to the city and people who have housed him for the last ten years. Assistant directed by Chris Quintos Cathcart, designed by Edna Barron, Daunielle Rasmussen, Jim Lively, Cody Rishell, Wil Turner IV. Press comps and questions may be addressed to Stuart at sfolympians@gmail.com |
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RISK IS THIS ... New Experimental Plays Festival May 13 June 25, 2011 Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm at EXIT on Taylor.All performances are FREE and open to the public. Seats are reserved by $20 donation; or donate $50 for a five-play reserved seating festival pass. CLICK HERE FOR ADVANCE RESERVATIONS SEASON MEMBERS and FESTIVAL PASS HOLDERS: email boxoffice@cuttingball.com to reserve your seats. Risk is This The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival is one of the only play festivals in America solely dedicated to experimental works for the stage. This years festival features five staged readings of new plays that push the boundaries of what theater can be. TONTLAWALD by Eugenie Chan 8pm May 13 & 14 KRISPY KRITTERS IN THE SCARLETT NIGHT by Andrew Saito 8pm May 20 &
21 MADAME HO by Eugenie Chan 8pm May 27 & 28 OZMA OF OZ adapted from L. Frank Baum by Rob Melrose (book and lyrics)
Z.O.N.K. (music) 8pm June 10 & 11 TENDER LOIN by Annie Elias 8pm June 24 & 25 Cutting Ball Theater is a theater in residence at EXIT Theatre. Risk is This The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival is part of The Cutting Ball Theaters New Experimental Plays Initiative, which is generously supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. |
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Sujit Saraf's 8 GHANTE, Life condensed into 8 hours, An innovative satire in Hindi with English supertitles Directed by Harish Sunderam Agastya, Produced by Siva Kollipara EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street San Francisco SAT JUNE 25 (2:00pm & 5:00pm) SUN JUNE 26 (5:00pm). To purchase tickets: Buy online: http://www.naatak.com/ or email tickets@naatak.com or call Ashok at 408 905 6831 Two typists in Connaught Place, Delhi, grow old together while typing addresses on postcards. Faced with the most mundane and meaningless job in the world, they type away with gusto for thirty years, along the way trying their hand at poetry, re-enacting the Mahabharat, staging a play of their own and pontificating on political matters. The play describes an eight-hour working day in their lives which magically coincides with the passage of thirty years. Inspired by Murray Schisgal's THE TYPISTS, 8 GHANTE was written by Naatak co-founder Sujit Saraf and was first performed in 1997 - by Naatak. Since then, this witty, fast-paced satire has been successfully staged all over the US, at the National School of Drama in Delhi and in almost every major city in northern India. Approximate Running Time: 90 minutes Created in the BAY AREA, Staged all over INDIA & USA Guwahati, 2007 " Two hours of perfect, passionate stagecraft " -- The Telegraph Review New Delhi, 2007 " 8 Ghante a MUST for theatre-goers " -- The Hindu Review Saratoga, CA, 1997 "
8 Ghante takes sardonic, bittersweet
look at life
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Theatre du Coin presents Boeing Boeing (in French) EXIT Theatre Vendredi 3 Juin a 20:00h, Samedi 4 Juin a 20:00h, Dimanche 5 Juin a 19:00h Tickets: $15 at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) Bernard a trois maîtresses. Toutes trois sont hôtesses de l'air et travaillent pour des compagnies différentes. Au prix d'une gestion sourcilleuse de son emploi du temps, Bernard parvient à les faire défiler dans son appartement sans qu'elles ne se rencontrent jamais. Un jour, pourtant, son ingénieux système se grippe. Les trois demoiselles débarquent en même temps. L'heure des révélations et des portes qui claquent a sonné...du pur vaudeville. Un monument de théâtre français. Boeing Boeing est la comédie française la plus jouée du monde. La pièce de Marc Camoletti a atteint un succès record avec plus de 10 000 représentations en France. |
Ron Jones as Mabel and Larry Jay Tish as Esther Photo by Eric Wells |
The Black-Jew Dialogues by Ron Jones and Larry Jay Tish. EXIT Studio 8pm SAT JUNE 4, 2011 Tickets:
$20. To reserve tickets please email larry@thebjd.com. The hilarious, award-winning, and critically-acclaimed social-justice comedy was written and performed by Emmy award-winner Ron Jones and veteran performer Larry Jay Tish. This two-actor play deals with diversity and the history and nature of prejudice and racism, and has been praised for its ability to "get to the heart of what divides people." -Boston Globe The Black-Jew Dialogues combines fast-paced sketches, improvisation, puppetry, multi-media, a game show and a post-show discussion. The duo was profiled by CNN in 2010 and featured in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Boston Globe as well as being recognized in 2010 and 2011 by Campus Activities Magazine as one of America's best diversity artists. "We use humor to make the difficult conversation about race, diversity, and prejudice easier to begin." said Mr. Jones. "The show really resonates with people - young, old, black, Jewish, Latino, Asian, midgets," added Tish. For the past four years The Black-Jew Dialogues has been on the vanguard of what Ron and Larry refer to as "a new and vital conversation about race and culture; not just for African Americans and Jews, but for all Americans." Given the complex role that race and culture continues to play in America, as well as the divisive tone of political rhetoric, the shows audiences have overwhelmingly responded to the clear and open message of tolerance and understanding these seasoned performers promote. The hilarious show is always followed by a thoughtful and heartfelt discussion. For addition information on The Black-Jew Dialogues go to http://www.theblackjewdialogues.com. "Funny!" Washington Post, "Howled and Cracked Up!" Philadelphia Inquirer, "Entertaining and Enlightening!" Advocate, "Matzah and Motown meet Avenue Q!" Courant |
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EXIT Theatre, San Francisco's downtown home for new and alternative indie performance, announces its 2011 DIVAfest, featuring the work of established and emerging women writers, directors, and performers. The 10th Annual DIVAfest runs Thursdays through Saturdays, May 5 through May 28, 2011 with select Sunday matinees on May 15 and May 22. Featured at this year's DIVAfest are two plays, A Most Notorious
Woman and Eleanor, about strong, commanding women
whose stories are less known than they might be, if history hadn't been
written for so long a time by men. In addition, the festival presents Lucky
Girl, the true story of a woman piecing together the shards of
a life shattered by rape. San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima
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Grace "Grania" O'Malley, the hussy who hath indeed impudently stepped o'er the bounds of womanhood", is the center character in playwright Maggie Cronin's story of the Irish pirate queen. Set against a backdrop of an Ireland soon to be lost forever, an Ireland on the cusp of history, this solo piece performed by Christina Augello, follows Grace from a young defiant girl to her historic meeting with England's Queen Elizabeth in 1593 at the age of 63. Driven by a fervent love of the sea and a fierce loyalty to the Gaelic way of life, Grace became a "cut throat, cut purse sailor woman", a symbol of national defiance, "a nursemaid to every rebellion in Connaught". Hard-nosed businesswoman barbarian woman in love romantic heroine all are revealed in this "absorbing and multi-layered portrait of a most bewitching and infuriating historical figure." This will be the third historical solo show for Ms. Augello who has created the roles of Baroness Elsa, the "Mama of Dada" and Boxcar Bertha, a 1920's labor heroine, in her two previous shows. Augello has toured both of these plays on the international Fringe Festival circuit and plans to take "Grania" on tour in 2012. A Most Notorious Woman by Maggie Cronin previews May 6, 8:00 pm, Preview Tickets $10. Opens Saturday, May 7 at 7 PM . Runs Thurs-Fri-Sat May 12-28 8pm, 2011 (Matinee SUN May 22 3pm)- Tickets $15 (I Need a Discount Ticket) $20 (General Admission Ticket) $25 (I Support the Arts Ticket). Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) EXIT Stage Left, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco
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Eleanor a new play by Margery Fairchild Previews May 5-6 at 8pm. Tickets $10 Opens Saturday, May 7 at 9 PM Runs Thurs-Fri-Sat, 12-28, 2011 8pm (matinees 3pm Sundays May 15 & May 22) Tickets $15 (I Need a Discount Ticket) $20 (General Admission Ticket) $25 (I Support the Arts Ticket). Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) EXIT Theatre Eleanor is a new dramatization of the exploits of the French queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. A strong female sovereign alongside both of her husbands, as well as in her own right, Eleanor established the notion of courtship and romantic love in a way that forever transformed the role of women in the west. As a central figure in the chivalric code of courtly love, Eleanor, a true "lioness in winter", showed that women were more than a piece of property sold by a marriage contract and expected to turn into well-behaved bearers of male children. With her influence a woman's attention became something to fight for and earn. For centuries Eleanor has been condemned by writers and only now is her true contribution coming to light. Fairchild's Eleanor imaginatively furthers this new insight into a true diva of history. Written, Directed, and Choreographed by Margery Fairchild, Featuring:
Alice Moore*, Nathan Tucker, Mikka Bonel, Christopher P. Kelly, Scott Ragle,
Brandon Wiley, Matthew Von MeeZee, Martin Schwartz, Sarah Moss, Jenni Gebhardt,
Natalie Koski-Karell, Meg Hurtado, and Ryan Beebe. *Appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association. An Equity approved project. Co-produced with Dark Porch Theatre, in residence at the EXIT. |
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Lucky Girl by Frances Driscoll and Tom Juarez previews May 5 at 8:00, tickets $10. Opens Saturday, May 7 at 5:00 PM and runs Thur-Fri-Sat, 8:00 PM May 12- 28, 2011 (Matinee SUN MAY 15 3pm) . Tickets $15 (I Need a Discount Ticket) $20 (General Admission Ticket) $25 (I Support the Arts Ticket) BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) EXIT Studio. SPECIAL READING BY FRANCES DRISCOLL from her book The Rape Poems at 6pm Saturday May 21 before the show. Lucky Girl is the true story of a woman piecing together the shards of a life shattered by rape. This collection of poems from Frances Driscoll's book, The Rape Poems, embraces the denial, the acceptance, the suicidal thoughts and the humor experienced in the aftermath of a rape. It's about the messiness of our reactions to the events that happen to us, responses that are often contradictory. It's about learning to live with and accept that messiness as part of life. Ms. Driscoll's text distills a universe of emotion. In this new solo show performed by Cheryl Smith, we can see and hear the universe behind her words. Often painful, Lucky Girl, is also beautiful, heartbreaking, quirky and funny. The Rape Poems has become a primary source for understanding
the experience of rape and living with post-traumatic stress disorder.
The book has been used in training programs by police departments, the
US Air Force, medical schools, college athletic departments and at rape
crisis centers around the world. The Rape Poems is used as a text
in college classes ranging from creative writing and literature to medical
ethics. Praise for The Rape Poems from prominent poets includes: Nikki Giovanni: "Powerful. Sad. Touching. Inspiring. What a gift she has." Ralph Angel: " tender and private and hugely humane, these unsettling poems arrive like dispatches from the very source of our wounds." Cheryl Smith recently appeared in A Perfect Ganesh at New Conservatory Theatre Center and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune at the EXIT. Cheryl performed in Ambit Theatre Company's adaptation of The Rape Poems at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe and received the Dean Goodman Choice award for her performance in Kilt at NCTC. Directed by Kathryn Wood, Stage Manager Theresa Hernandez, Light Design Tyler Null |
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Diane di Prima, "What's New?" Poetry reading by Beat icon and current San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima. In her 7th annual solo appearance for EXIT Theatre's DIVAfest, she will read several of her poems, unpublished and "slightly published," over the past five years. Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 3:00 pm. Admission: $5 donation suggested at the door. Advance Tickets $5 at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006). EXIT Theatre |
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You Can't Play Guitar When You're Dead - An Ironic Optimist's Guide to the Universe! by Carrie Baum Love, Singer Songwriter, Saturday May 21st, 2011. @ 10 PM Tickets $10 at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) Carrie Baum Love, is back at the EXIT after her award winning 2008 Fringe show, Exit Sign: A Rock Opera. While Exit Sign was a musical exploration of grief and loss, Ms. Love's latest musings on mortality take the form of a new song cycle entitled You Can't Play Guitar When You're Dead - An Ironic Optimist's Guide to the Universe! This work focuses on the unlikely and often unnoticed (let alone sung about) experiences that make life worth living. You can expect to be entertained in the intimate setting of the Exit Theater Cafe where Carrie will take you on a tour of our universe that you aren't likely to forget! |
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Melissa Lyn, Singer Songwriter, Saturday May 14th, 2011 @ 10PM Tickets $10 at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) Melissa Lyn, born and raised in the Twin Cities, classifies her music as "alternative folk." Her set list includes "Good to You," an inspirational song written for her younger brother, "Next Time," a would-be love song, and "Time Spent Trying," an ode to a worry-wart. Melissa now calls the Bay Area her home and is a member of the band, The Bandishere. She is working on her first solo album. |
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Sea Turtles: Three generations of women
cross the Mediterranean Sea Turtles is about three generations of women migrating between Tunis and Paris, says author-director David Valayre. My own family is a Parisian mix of Berber and Sephardic Jews from Tunisia, so you could say its close to home. The play is about finding ones home, and about being a mother, a daughter, a sister, or a grandmother. Its a story of love given and love denied. Like GenerationTheatres previous San Francisco productions (4Soldiers in 2008, DiTCH and BooKKeepers in 2009), Sea Turtles challenges the notions of chronology and distance. Seven actresses interpret four characters at different ages; Tunis, Paris, a beach, a garret, a train and a road are evoked simultaneously on a single stage. Paris 1942 talks to Paris 1968. A grandmother sees the younger woman she once was. This is realistic theater because thats exactly what happens in reality. The Paris of 1942 is present in the Paris of 2011anyone who tells you otherwise never lived in Paris. And we all live with our younger selvesanyone who tells you otherwise was never young. This doesnt mean your past should devour you, but you cant stop it from nibbling at your present, now and again, says Valayre. The women of Sea Turtles are looking for a beach they lost or never knew just as we 18-year olds were looking for a beach under the cobblestones of chaotic 1968 Paris, says Valayre. Shuttled by history between Tunis and Paris, they are searching for their own identity. Call your brothers by their French names, says one of the characters, David, Salomon, those are your fathers choices. Were in France now, we dont want to stand out. From now on, its Clovis and Charlemagne. Written and directed by Roland David Valayre, interpreted by Erica Andracchio, Lisa Drostova, L. Margarita Galindo, Joanne Grimm, Dascha Inciarte, Raymonde McCoy and Andrea Satin. |
Christian Cagigal's Obscura: The Gambler and the Stranger VIDEO BY H.P. Mendoza
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EXIT Theatre Presents Christian Cagigal's
Obscura: A Magic Show an intimate evening of dark fables and
strange happenings. Best Magician 2010 SF Bay Guardian
"Best of the Bay Reader's Poll
Cagigal's shows include The 13 Steps, The Pandora Experiment (a resident favorite that played to full houses in 2007 and 2008), and his most recent critically acclaimed performance, Now and at the Hour. With his new magic show, Obscura, Cagigal returns to his roots as an up-close and personal magician and entertainer, peppering some of his favorite short stories with witty, eccentric demonstrations. Obscura is the live component of Cagigal's new Web series of the same name, directed and co-produced by local independent filmmaker H.P. Mendoza (Colma The Musical, Fruitfly). For more information and to see clips from the Web series, visit www.christiancagigal.com Asked who the show is geared for, Cagigal replies, "It's for believers, skeptics, those who hate magic shows, and those who hate theatre. There is nothing inappropriate for children at all but this will not be a 'kids'' magic show." "Best Magician" 2010 SF Bay Guardian Readers' Poll |
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7 SINS...One More Time! by James Judd #1 in Bay Area Theatre 2008 - Bay Area Reporter Special reserved seating available - front of the house tables perfect for dates and groups of friends. Visit the Exit Cafe in the lobby for full bar and limited food service. Show beings PROMPTLY at 8pm. Tickets are rarely available at the door. Order now to avoid waiting list. Comedian James Judd's hilarious true stories about trying to win his 5th Grade book report competition with My Search for Patty Hearst, his careers as a forgotten employee of AT&T, a dot.com journalist (leading to an insane night in a Chinese bordello), and as an under-prepared criminal defense attorney. 7 Sins is not poignant! It 's not inspirational! It's just 60 minutes of FUNNY! Special guests at some performances. Call 415.206.1651 for theater directions, news and information. "Who is this guy and why am I laughing so hard?" Will Harper, SF Weekly "Engaging and hilarious... packed houses" Richard Dodds, Bay Area Reporter "He's Oscar Wilde in the land of Starbucks" D.C. Theatre Scene "Like seeing Garland play the Palladium" Chortle, the UK Comedy Guide "Judd is Paul Lynde for the new millennium. His show is off-the-wall and out-of-the-ballpark entertaining. To miss it would be the eighth and deadliest sin of all." - Toronto Star "He's David Sedaris on a pot of coffee." - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle "Judd's jokes are hyper-funny, making the show a witty, sophisticated breeze." - Vancouver's Georgia Straight Note: Food and beverages available at the Exit Theatre cafe. Drinks are allowed in the theater. Open seating. |
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Lady Grey (in ever lower light) and other plays by Will Eno, directed by Rob Melrose EXIT on Taylor March 11 - April 10, 2011. Tickets $15 - $50 on BrownPaperTickets.com Cutting Ball Theater presents three short plays by acclaimed contemporary playwright Will Eno, hailed by The New York Times as "a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart Generation." An intimate, hilarious, and ultimately searing confrontation of actor and audience, LADY GREY is the perfect follow-up to Cutting Ball's 2009 hit production of Eno's THOM PAIN. In INTERMISSION, the fourth wall is broken as the audience watches another audience during the intermission of another play in this meta-theatrical wonder. Finally, in his brief time on the world's stage, Mr. Theatre lives out the seven ages of man in a playful manner that echoes Shakespeare as much as it does Beckett in MR. THEATRE COMES HOME DIFFERENT. [MEDIA & REVIEWS]
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HERMES: A Play Join No Nude Men Productions and director Tore Ingersoll-Thorp for the world premiere of Bennett Fisher's new play about four derivative traders seeking to benefit from the Greek financial meltdown. Their acts of greed and deceit bring unforeseeable consequences and an unexpected visitor Hermes, god of commerce and thieves, the physical manifestation of fraud, who goads the group into bolder action through slippery logic, tantalizing visions of immense wealth, and the occasional punch in the balls. Inspired in part by the Lehman Brothers' role in the current Greek economic collapse, HERMES paints an impishly comic and glorifying portrait of equivocation, exploitation, disinformation, misappropriation, deregulation, ruination, large corporations, financial machinations, and the age of globalization exploring man's godlike ability to profit off what is truly worthless. More information at www.sfolympians.com Written by Bennett Fisher, directed by Tore Ingersoll-Thorp, starring Juliana Egley, Geoffrey Nolan, Carl Lucania, Brian Markley, Lauren Spencer and Brian Tryborn. |
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HOBO GRUNT CYCLE by Kevin Augustine [REVIEWS & MEDIA] Hobo Grunt Cycle is performed predominantly in silence (a first for Augustine as a playwright) in keeping with the tramp clown's pantomime tradition, as well as further links between dogs and soldiers: both essentially being silent characters primarily doing what they are told. One soldier character finally breaks this rule, in keeping historically with the "Winter Soldier" testimonies of the Vietnam War (the "American War" to the Vietnamese); this being the first time veterans spoke out about their war experiences. Hobo Grunt Cycle was developed by Lone Wolf Tribe, a New York based puppet theatre ensemble creating challenging multidisciplinary work for over ten years. Early versions of Hobo Grunt Cycle toured to theatre festivals in Holland and Brazil in summer 2009. LWT's last show, BRIDE, sold out its run at PS122, won a prestigious UNIMA Award for Excellence in Puppet Theatre and was named a Top 10 Show of 2008 by Time Out New York.
A war and peace epic colliding connections between wounded soldiers, illegal dog fighting, and the hierarchies of circus performers and military personnel. Kevin Augustine (Writer/Director, Puppet Maker, Actor)
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| Valentines at the EXIT - Sean Owens returns as waitress Cora Values in "Under the Crust: Romance at the Gas & Gulp" EXIT Cafe 8:30pm FRI/SAT FEB 11 - FEB 19 Tickets $15 (I Need a Discount Ticket, $20 (General Admission Ticket), $25 (I Support the Arts Ticket) available at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) or leave a reservation at 415-673-3847 and pay cash at the door. Cora Values is back. The proprietress of Texas' most noted diner (Michelin 4-tires) dishes on love and longing a la mode. Sean Owens' prescient and precious alter ego returns with more recipes for scoring on - and rebounding from - the dating scene. Owens, EXIT Theatre's writer/performer-in residence, holds forth as Cora Values, that beloved proprietress of the Gas & Gulp out on I-19. The EXIT's holiday hostess once more straddles Valentine's Day--Week One (Feb. 11 & 12) she addresses LOVE & LONGING as it occurs in her home town, Rectal, Texas. Week Two (Feb. 18 & 19) gives us BREAK-UPS & SHAKE-UPS. Both weeks feature the steamiest excerpts from the writings of Gas & Gulp regular and published romance novelist, Rowena Tiffley. Jim Fourniadis reprises his role as Cora's banjo-strumming ex-husband and short-order cook, Zeke Plummet. |
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BONE TO PICK & DIADEM By Eugenie Chan,
Directed by Rob Melrose A reimagining of the myth of Ariadne, Theseus and the Minotaur in a postmodern
exploration, Bone to Pick received its world premiere at Cutting
Ball in 2008. The San Francisco Chronicle called Paige Rogers' performance
"riveting." For this restaging, Rogers will reprise her tour-de-force
role of Ariadne as a waitress in a diner, 3000 years after she was first
left on the island of Naxos, now a deserted U.S. Army base. |
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AUDITION, a play by Roland David Valayre EXIT Theatre JAN 20 - FEB 13 (8pm THUR, 8pm SAT, 3pm SUN ) Tickets: $25 - $36 at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) Audition tries to occupy that space between real life and theater, the domain of the unreal-and-yet-true. The two characters, Eli and Albert, are neither here, nor therewhich I regard as a good thing. These two can only exist in the ambiguity that emerges when a play flirts with the audience's suspension of disbelief. The play house in which Eli and Albert evolve is an empty but haunted space where, little by little, their existence melts in a succession of unresolved auditions. Their journey is a bittersweet one, without a destination, from the trivial to the grandiloquent, and from the pathetic to the absurd. Audition is about the theater and it is about trying outbut then, so is life. |
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ART by Yasmina Reza presented by Platypus
Theatre (performed in French) Set in Paris, the story revolves around three friendsSerge, Marc and Yvanwho find their previously solid 15-year friendship on shaky ground when Serge buys an expensive painting. The canvas is white, with a few white lines. Serge is proud of his 200,000 franc acquisition fully expecting the approval of his friends. Marc scornfully describes it as "a piece of white shit," but is it the painting that offends him, or the uncharacteristic independence-of-thought that the purchase reveals in Serge? For the insecure Yvan, burdened by the problems of his impending wedding and his dissatisfaction at his job as a stationery salesman, their friendship is his sanctuary...but his attempts at peace-making backfire. Eager to please he laughs about the painting with Marc but tells Serge he likes it. Pulled into the disagreement, his vacillations fuel the blazing row. Lines are drawn and they square off over the canvas, using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter one another over various failures. As their arguments become less theoretical and more personal, they border on destroying their friendship. THE PLAY WILL BE PERFORMED IN FRENCH |
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The Oddman Family Christwanzaakuh Spectacular! presented by Guerrilla Rep and Beards, Beards Beards EXIT Stage Left 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT DEC 2 - 18. Tickets: $20 at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) A new twisted holiday farce with music, is hilariously dark and bizarrely comic. Follow Jonny and Laree Oddman as they shoot for the top of Hollywoods A-list with their groundbreaking holiday variety show, featuring new songs for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Winter Solstice. But why has the Oddman Family adopted 50 kids? And just how did they lose all those limbs? Mother and Father Oddman are an all American rags to riches story. Having pulled themselves up by the bootstraps, theyre prepared to go all the way. With help from the song stylings of their oldest adoptees, Jonny and Laree Oddman, theyre ready to rock Hollywood with their unconventional take on the holidays. But when a case of mistaken identity lands an unsuspecting civil servant in the middle of a comically dangerous love triangle, all bets are off. Can crisis be averted when the Oddman family secret bubbles to the surface? |
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The Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco Presents
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THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare, directed
by Rob Melrose, presented by Cutting Ball Theater Cutting Ball Theater opens its 11th season with THE TEMPEST, one of Shakespeare's most magical and romantic plays. The exiled Duke of Milan uses sorcery to cause a shipwreck to take his treacherous brother to an enchanted isle. But magic works both ways in this tale when the creatures of the island turn against him and his daughter falls in love with his enemy's son. In the tradition of Cutting Ball's uniquely San Franciscan Taming of the Shrew and expressionistic Macbeth, this three-person chamber version of THE TEMPEST promises to give an up close and personal look at the monsters lurking inside all of us. Cutting Ball is an EXIT Theatre-in-Residence. |
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Cora Values' Christmas Corral EXIT's holiday hostess Cora Values is back, direct from the Gas 'N' Gulp out on I-19! And she's unearthed a 'forgotten literary classic,' Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Sadly, Cora has several pages and a few cast members missing-- and possibly a few marbles. But at "Cora Values' Christmas Corral," there's no Ghost she can't wrangle, and no audience member she won't rope into the action! Join a merry band of truck stop regulars for a deep-fried retelling of this beloved holiday story, featuring brand-new original songs from the songwriting team of Don Seaver and Sean Owens. All that's missing is the perfect stooge-- er, Scrooge. Here's what the SF Bay Guardian's Nicole Gluckstern says about Cora:
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BOOZE, BOYS AND BROWNIES: A MUSICAL JOURNEY. Written and Performed by Veronica Mannion, Directed by Katie Cruz EXIT Theatre 8pm DEC 3, 4 and DEC 9, 10, 11. Tickets $9 presale at BrownPaperTickets.com ($12 @ the door) Why aren't we good to ourselves? That's just one question explored in the one woman show about a struggling young actress who moved from San Francisco to Tinseltown searching for stardom. On this hilarious and touching journey she must battle bleached-blonde skinnies, ridiculous auditions, and her own personal addictions (including Booze, Boys and Brownies). With classic standards and live original music driving this 13 character play, you'll discover that the only thing stopping you from success is you. |
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COMEDY BALLET Written and Directed by Martin
Schwartz, presented by Dark Porch Theatre. Inspired By Court Entertainments
of the Sun King, Best of Fringe Winner Martin Schwartz Directs 'Outrageously
Newfangled' Artistic Feast of Drama, Dance, Music, and Painting The latest from DPT (Cockroach, The In Betweens, Under the Bed), Comedy Ballet follows KC (Brandon Wiley), a hapless wine clerk, as he is pursued by a homeless actor-painter (Best of Fringe Acting Awardwinner Nathan Tucker) who may or may not be sleeping in the stacks; an inscrutable beauty (Molly Benson) who may or may not want to take him home; and a trio of feverishly grieving gangsters who may or may not want to ritually sacrifice him. Punctuated by Fairchilds daring modern choreography and set to Derek Phillips dazzling original elecroacoustic score, the play unfolds under the aegis of two 4 x 8 paintings created by Russian-American artist Mikhail Poloskin, an exhibition of whose works will be on display during the run. [REVIEWS] Guided by Eric Bentleys exhortation to create plays that are at once shockingly old-fashioned and outrageously new-fangled, writer-director Schwartz says, Margery and I were inspired by the partnership of Molière with Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis XIVs dancing and music master, and we hit upon the notion of producing a contemporary comédie-ballet: a carefully constructed comic script married to dance interludes that further, interpret, and estrange the dramatic action. DPT being the experimental company it is, I couldnt resist further enriching actor/audience roles by including an onstage audience of performers at rest and intermittent interview sequences, in which the performer-characters are interrogated about their roles. Add in some diapers, human sacrifice, humping, and lots of wine, and theres the basis of our show.
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Susie Butler sings Sarah Vaughan: the Glamorous Years EXIT Cafe Saturdays 8:30pm OCT 16 - NOV 20 Tickets: $15 at BrownPaperTickets.com in advance or $20 at the door. Susie Butler will be performing songs from the Sarah Vaughan Songbook during her glamorous years during the 1950's and 60's. Some of the songs are Misty, The Shadow of your Smile, Day In, Day Out and many more. Please join her and her special guests weekly on Saturday evenings from October 16, 2010 thru November 20, 2010 |
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Ken Ruta revives Award-Winning Performance in Yasmina Reza's ironic comedy, THE UNEXPECTED MAN, with Veteran Bay Area actress Susan Maeder EXIT Theatre October 29 - November 14, 2010, Fridays
and Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 3 pm Tickets: $25 general,
$18 student/ senior at www.Brownpapertickets.com
or 800-838-3006 Ruta, perhaps best known for his many roles at ACT, is a huge fan of playwright Yasmina Reza. "I saw Art three times. Her writing is amazing. This [The Unexpected Man] is a play you have to listen to. And it's about a man who is getting old. Perfect for me!" Both plays were translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, whose deft touch serves the playwright well. Hampton, himself a playwright, penned the recent Broadway hit, The Philanthropist. Susan Maeder settled in Mendocino in 1981, after living abroad for several years. She has been cast in dozens of leading roles at the Mendocino Theatre Company and Warehouse Rep, and has written and performed two one-woman shoes, Black Tulips (1994 & 1996) and Singing Back (2008). Her volume of poetry "White Song" was published by the Pot Shard Press in 1998. She recently performed in Spare Stage's production of The Breath of Life by David Hare. Produced by Spare Stage Join us for complex ideas on a spare stage. [REVIEWS] |
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FUNNY BUT MEAN presents FUNNY BUT MEAN'S NEXT SHOW (cruel and unusual sketch comedy) EXIT Theatre 8pm November 1, 8, 15 (see www.funnybutmean.com for details) |
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David Auburn's PROOF Proof is a play about relationships: Parent-child. Sisters. Lovers.
A tender, witty, compassionate, and melancholy story, Proof follows Catherine,
a troubled young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant, but
unstable father, Robert. Released from her self induced obligations, she
must now deal with the real world. Enter Hal, a former student and great
admirer of her famous mathematician father. Enter Claire, her long absent
sister who masks her own self doubts and worries with nagging good intentions.
The character of insanity haunts and strains their relationships. A work
of apparent importance is found in the pages of a notebook which raises
the questions: Presented by Belljar Theatre with permission by Dramatists Play Service. Directed by Suzanne Birrell |
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'LOVE SONG' EXIT Theatre 8PM THURS & FRI, 3PM & 8PM SAT OCT 8 - 23 Tickets $20 - lovesong.eventbrite.com - Discounts available for students, military, and members of Theatre Bay Area 'Beane's apartment has been burglarized, and Joan is baffled to find her reclusive brother blissfully happy in the aftermath! She tries to unravel the story behind his mysterious new love, Molly. Funny, enchanting, and wonderfully touching, John Kolvenbach's offbeat comedy is a rhapsody to the power of love in all its forms.' Directed by Bay Area veteran Loretta Janca, and a cast featuring Joshua Marc, Sabrina De Mio, Erin Hoffman, Jeff Newton, and Justin Netterville. |
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SNEAK PEEK AT THE FRINGE hosted by Mark
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Christian Cagigal's Obscura: The Inquisition VIDEO BY H.P. Mendoza
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EXIT Theatre Presents Christian Cagigal's
Obscura: A Magic Show an intimate evening of dark fables and
strange happenings. Best Magician 2010 SF Bay Guardian
"Best of the Bay Reader's Poll Cagigal's shows include The 13 Steps, The Pandora Experiment (a resident favorite that played to full houses in 2007 and 2008?), and his most recent critically acclaimed performance, Now and at the Hour. With his new magic show, Obscura, Cagigal returns to his roots as an up-close and personal magician and entertainer, peppering some of his favorite short stories with witty, eccentric demonstrations. Obscura is the live component of Cagigal's new Web series of the same name, directed and co-produced by local independent filmmaker H.P. Mendoza (Colma The Musical, Fruitfly). For more information and to see clips from the Web series, visit www.christiancagigal.com Asked who the show is geared for, Cagigal replies, "It's for believers, skeptics, those who hate magic shows, and those who hate theatre. There is nothing inappropriate for children at all but this will not be a 'kids'' magic show." "Best Magician" 2010 SF Bay Guardian Readers' Poll |
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THURSDAY NIGHT COMBOS hosted by Mark Romyn. Thursday 8:30pm JULY 22 $5 donation requested. No reservations required. |
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What could be worse that having an overbearing father who just doesn't understand you? How about an overbearing father who just doesn't understand you...and who also happens to be Conan the Barbarian! Worried that their plain, bookish daughter lacks what it takes to be a true barbarian, Agnes' parents force her to go on a quest to prove her worth as a warrior. Meanwhile, a treacherous plot is underway to steal Conan's throne and destroy the kingdom of Aquilonia. Now in its twelfth year, The Thunderbird Theatre Company presents "Agnes the Barbarian" written by Jason Harding, author of the pirate comedy "Lusty Booty" "Agnes" is an original play that is part homage/part lampoon of the sword & sorcery genre. A story of comedic high adventure, in the same vein as past productions such as "Aaron Trotter and the incident at Bikini Beach", "Pride and Succubus" and "Aaah! Rosebud. " Directed by veteran Thunderbird actor Shay Casey and a cast featuring: Mary Bishop, Jeremy Cole, Jaime Lee Currier, Dana Goldberg, Jason Harding, Tavis Kammet, Cary Klataske, Dan Kurtz, Jennifer Lucas and Jason Pienkowski. |
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VANGUARDIA A showcase of experimental scenes
by local and national Latino & Latina playwrights presented by Cutting
Ball Theater. EXIT on Taylor Saturday, August 7, 2010, 8pm (but the festivities
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The San Francisco Olympians Festival, readings of twelve new full-length plays written by fourteen local writers, each one focusing on one of the twelve Olympian gods of Ancient Greece. Produced by No Nude Men Productions. www.sfolympians.com EXIT Stage Left, 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT JULY 8 - 31 DIONYSUS by Nathan Tucker, July 8th APOLLO by Garret Groenveld, July 9th POSEIDON by Bryce Allemann, Dana Constance and Kathy Hicks, July
10 HERMES by Ben Fisher, July 15 ARTEMIS by M.R. Fall, July 16 ZEUS by Helen Noakes, July 17 DEMETER by Claire Ann Rice, July 22 APHRODITE by Nirmala Nataraj, July 23 ARES by Sean Kelly, July 24 ATHENA by Ashley Cowan, July 29 HERA by Stuart Bousel, July 30 HEPHAESTUS by Evelyn Jean Pine, July 31 |
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LEFT-HANDED DARLING by Nikita Schoen, produced
by Foul Play Productions Wrestling with flashbacks and reality, sedation and sanity, Calliope
has never known a life that doesn't resemble the sideshow. From a childhood
of dimly lit strangeness to the cyclops-eye of the spotlight, the canvas
flaps of Calliope's world are thrown wide, revealing a gracefully demented
identity cobbled together out of fairy tales, freak shows and family tragedy.
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KRAPP'S LAST TAPE by Samuel Beckett This funny and poignant one-person play tells the story of an older man listening to recordings he made when he was young and in love. It is an intimate look at the choices we make in our lives and the unexpected consequences that come from them. Our production will feature two actors from our critically acclaimed production of Endgame which was nominated by the Bay Area Critics Circle for Best Production of 2008. Paul Gerrior will play Krapp and David Sinaiko will play Krapps recorded voice from thirty years ago. Gerrior also won the Dean Goodman award for his work in Cutting Balls 2002 production of Roberto Zucco. To watch Gerriors quietly mesmerizing performance is a revelation. -Jean Schiffman, The Examiner |
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Beards Beards Beards presents: Gutenberg! The Musical! Written by Scott Brown and Anthony King EXIT Stage Left 8pm JUNE 10 - 26 Tickets
$20 at BrownPaperTickets.com Doug Simon and Bud Davenport are two men with a dream: to write a hit Broadway musical. And with Gutenberg! The Musical! they've done just that. Come on down and watch as Doug and Bud perform all the roles and sing all the songs of their musical documenting the life and work of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press. And if you've got any big Broadway producer friends, bring them along too! Bud and Doug LOVE your big Broadway producer friends! It promises to be, like, probably the best musical about two guys who have written a musical about Johann Gutenberg that you will ever see. |
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"69 Stories: One Pervert's Tale" (v3.0), written & performed by Mollena Williams, a "Cynthia Slater Memorial Team" AIDS Walk fundraiser EXIT Theatre 8pm WEDNESDAY JUNE 23 Tickets $25 in advance; $35 at the door (if not sold out) Tickets on sale now at: BrownPaperTickets.com You think it's easy to find someone to respect you after you lick their boots? Neither does Crowded Fire Resident Artist and recently 'vested' International Ms. Leather, Mollena Williams. Her hilarious, erotic and poignant "69 Stories: One Pervert's Tale" first enticed audiences in 2001, down a road-less-traveled to the San Francisco BDSM community. The show played to sold-out crowds and surprised audiences with its daring and hilarity. Last month, this irrepressible submissive diva revived her legendary performance, again playing to sold-out houses in a special four-night run to benefit the Crowded Fire Theater. If you haven't seen it this year, you're missing a lot of new material! And now ~ on Wednesday, June 23rd ~ Mollena Williams brings her tale back to the stage for a special *one-night only* encore to benefit AIDS Walk, via the "Cynthia Slater Memorial" team, sponsored by the Society of Janus. Mollena Williams is a San Francisco-based, NYC-born-and-raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator and Executive Pervert. Active in BDSM since 1996, she speaks at BDSM events across the US, was Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009, and now holds the title of International Ms Leather 2010. A founding member of Crowded Fire Theater Company, she blogs on mollena.com Last seen in Crowded Fire's DRIP, the talented solo artist Mollena Williams takes the art of storytelling to a whole new level in her self-authored shows. "Ms. Williams is a fascinating performer! To enter this world," exclaimed Chad Jones in his Oakland Tribune review, "you couldn't ask for a better guide." With unrelenting wit, humor and sexiness, Ms. Williams spares neither herself nor her former partners as she treats audiences to a closer look at the wild side of love, partnership and good sex. All net show proceeds from this show will go towards the teamâs AIDS Walk contribution at the 24th Annual AIDS Walk in Golden Gate Park on Sunday, July 18, 2010. Advance purchase recommended -- likely to sell out. |
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GIANT BONES - World Premiere San Francisco
Run. A new play by Stuart Bousel, based on Peter S. Beagle's "Innkeeper's
World" Stories. http://www.giantbonesplay.com No one but American fantasy icon Peter S. Beagle could have created
his "Innkeeper's World," with its extraordinary tales of dangerous
magic, absurd bravery, misdirected love, ardent deception, and secret truth.
Now, with Giant Bones, acclaimed Bay Area playwright Stuart Bousel has
brilliantly woven four of these stories together into a wonderful night
of new dramatic theater. To celebrate this premiere event, everyone who
attends will also receive a free signed "Gold Sigil" edition
of the book that inspired the play. (This edition will not be for sale,
and will be strictly limited to those who come see the show.) Written and Directed by Stuart Bousel |
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Bareed Mista3jil a staged reading of true
stories by queer Arab women Whether it's learning and claiming the word Lesbian in defining your desires, coming out to accepting, incredulous, or disparaging parents, or the hilarious trials of finding a girlfriend in Beirut, these true stories will have your attention from start to finish. The lesbian, bisexual, queer, questioning and transgender writers in Bareed Mista3jil (pronounced Mista-a-jil) remain anonymous, and dedicate the book to 'all of you with stories that are yet to be told.' This anonymity emphasizes similarity in tone and topic to our stories internationally and audiences may catch a glimpse of themselves in this Beirut landscape. From reclaiming the word 'shazz', which literally means 'deviant', to claiming the right to wear a hijab or the right to an atheistic belief, this book, recently published in Lebanon by a collective (www.bareedmista3jil.com) is daring and bold. The performance of these stories brings that daring and boldness to life. (Artistic director: Happy/L.A. Hyder) |
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THURSDAY NIGHT COMBOS hosted by Mark Romyn. Thursday 8:30pm JUNE 3 |
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COMPANY FAT presented by Pumpjam Productions.West Coast premiere of by local playwright and actor Bill Levesque, most recently known for his indie feature, Weekend King. K.S. Haddock (2-time Best of San Francisco Fringe Festival winner) directs. EXIT Stage Left 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT MAY 6 - MAY 29 Tickets: $25, available at BrownPaperTickets.com or call 415 816-9661 Set in depression-era North Carolina, this darkly comic period piece presents a timely tale of corporate corruption, twisted southern hospitality and cosmic destiny. Matt, an inexperienced Baltimore salesman, travels to a Raleigh, North Carolina, motel to negotiate a large contract with enigmatic bigwig, Mr. Lipps. Caught between his need for a sale and his rigid moral code, Matt struggles between feeding his family and betraying his own integrity. Enter a femme fatale and her roughneck bootlegging husband. Will Matt choose money over mores, lust over family, violence over reason? Starring Michael Cappelli, Keith Jefferds, Linnea George, and Bill Levesque Written by Bill Levesque Directed by K.S. Haddock Company Fat isnt far off from the kind of thing a young Tennessee Williams might craft. The Raleigh Spectator |
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Lady of the 'Loin. Songwriting team
Don Seaver and Sean Owens join forces with chanteuse Shannon Day.
RETURNING FOR FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY. A sizzling tribute to San Francisco's raciest, raunchiest, most unrepentant neighborhood: the Tenderloin. A dozen stories-in-song, about good girls gone wrong, wronged girls getting the goods, and low-lifes living the high life. A dozen stories-in-song including "It's Always A Dame", "A Cut Above", "So Far From Civilized", "The Strut On The Street", "Homicide's A Gift", "Out Here On The Edge", "Save Me From Myself", and "Eat At Joe's." Singer SHANNON DAY is a rare talent who has performed at the Plush Room, the Marsh, EXIT Theatre and San Miguel De Allende, Mexico. Composer DON SEAVER has gone from songwriting with a country/western band in Dallas to composing a ballet score for the Paul Taylor Dance Company, to numerous theatrical scores and sound designs winning several Bay Area Critics' Circle Awards along the way. SEAN OWENS is the author of over 30 plays, has been produced both locally and internationally, and was voted "Best Comic Playwright" by the SF Weekly. Part of DIVAfest 2010. |
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THE WIND AND RAIN Two sisters in a small mill town on the brink of extinction, a mysterious stranger with a fiddle made of bones, a river that runs dangerously high.. Based on the ballad "The Wind and Rain," come see this age old tale about sisters, love, jealousy, revenge and the consequence of change. Created in collaboration with acclaimed physical performers Brynna Jourdan (Hammer Heads, Cussing at the Moon) and Jenna Bean Veatch (The Tumbleweed Bandits), live music and original compositions from renowned concert violinist Rebecca Jackson (Völs String Quartet, San Francisco Opera), visual delights from esteemed illustrator, painter and whimsical engineer Molly Millar (Phantom Galleries L.A.'s Emergence Enchanted, 2009 TED Conference), and award winning playwright Claytie Mason (The Secret Ruths of Island House). This tragic tale comes to life with the humor, whimsy, magic, and terror only live theatre is capable of. Produced by EXIT Theatre, cutting the edge for almost 30 years and still slicing so much tasty theatre on the fringe berry pie. *Performed by Rebecca Jackson, Brynna Jourdan and Jenna Bean Veatch Part of DIVAfest 2010, a festival dedicated to creating new work by women writers. |
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BUDDHIST RUMINATIONS: POETRY AND SPIRIT
by Diane di Prima Beat icon and current San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima has
been a practicing Buddhist since 1962, first in the Zen tradition, and later
in the Tibetan Vajrayana system. As a younger woman she also studied Hinduism,
and has been a practitioner of Western magick throughout her life. Many
of her finest poems reflect these studies and practices. In her 6th annual
solo appearance for DIVAfest, she will read poems inspired by these traditions,
and talk about the place of spiritual practice in her life as a poet. |
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GRACE.
A reading by Lee Kiszonas of her latest play. Kiszonas? take on Grace O'Malley is a swashbuckling tale of the Irish pirate queen who battles through Spanish galleons, political intrigue, and personal betrayal to save her golden boy from the clutches of the indomitable queen of England. Playwright Kiszonas is the author of last year's DIVAfest hit, An Affair of Honor. Christina Augello will read the part of Grace O'Malley. |
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A TAPESTRY OF TRAVEL
TALES by Erika Atkinson A reading by Erika Atkinson from her travel. journals, or as Erika says
-- Ladies and Gentlemen, hold on to your armrests and turn on your headlights.
Permit me to take you on a few unplanned adventures to places far away and
exotic, and on a few unexpected trips to places more familiar. It is my
hope these stories will incite your own alliances between savories in the
air or sounds in the barrio, from ancient worlds to the more modern. It
is my feeling the episodes will speak to various equations of the Diva in
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SOPHIE KADOW - DIVAfest Visual Artist
Kadow's work will appear in the EXIT Cafe throughout DIVAfest. When she?s not drawing derelicts, Sophie is taking point-and-shoot candid
photos or writing casual essays; both of which can be found on her website,
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The DIVAfest MULTI-SHOW PASS Also featured at this year's DIVAfest is the new DIVAfest Multi-Show
Pass, which allows DIVA-goers to enjoy more shows for less. Passes allow
admission to two shows for $25. Passes are sold in advance and all seats
must be reserved by calling (415) 673-3847. |
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...AND JESUS MOONWALKS THE MISSISSIPPI.
A New Play by Marcus Gardley. Directed by Amy Mueller
Set on the banks of the Mississippi during the final days of the Civil War, and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi is a poetic journey of forgiveness and redemption inspired by the myth of Demeter and Persephone. This thought-provoking play combines traditional storytelling, gospel music, and a wicked sense of humor to create a rich, imaginative world that allows trees to preach, rivers to waltz, and Jesus to moonwalk. [MEDIA & REVIEWS] Cutting Ball Theater in residence at EXIT on Taylor. www.cuttingball.com |
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Now and at the Hour by Christian Cagigal.
A journey through Time and Reflection. What does a boy do when he grows up with a father afflicted with mental illness after Vietnam? He retreats into a world of magic. Not a mere series of tricks, Now and at the Hour brings you into a subtle realm of darkness and imagination as Cagigal weaves storytelling and illusion into an intimate, interactive and altogether unnerving magical experience." Christian Cagigal is among a new crop of illusionists and theatre artists that dares to go beyond the usual bag of tricks and bring you into a world of darkness, mystery and imagination. His work doesn't attempt to "Blow your brain" or "Freak your mind", but slowly seep into your subconscious until you have to ask the question, "This isn't real is it ?" Comments on previous shows by Christian Cagigal: "His antics bespeak a certain creepiness albeit the kind that
sends alternating shivers of delight and anxiety through the crowd." "Style, dignity, and true artistry. Now, and at the Hour is a
unique and genuine theatrical experience that should not be missed." |
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Thunderbird Theatre presents Death Play. Written by Sang S. Kim and directed by Bryce Allemann. EXIT Theatre 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT March 11 March
27, 2010 [REVIEWS AND MEDIA] Since when did dying on stage become a crime? Can a Shakespearean monologue win against a mime pretending he's trapped in box? Why is the fate of live theater in the hands of a clown? It's act or die, or die trying? Now in its twelfth year, The Thunderbird Theatre Company presents "Death Play". The third installment in critically acclaimed sketch comedy series, "Serve By Expiration" written by Sang S. Kim. "Death Play" is a full length ninety (90) minute sketch. As a full length sketch, "Death Play" possesses all the wit and satire of sketch comedy reluctantly married to an actual attempt at plot development. Directed by Thunderbird co-founder, Bryce Allemann, "Death Play" reveals the often rumored but never seen underground world of performance arts competitions to the death. Featuring the talented and deadly Sarah Rose Butler, Shay Casey, Jaime Lee Currier, Matt Gunnison, Jacquie Duckworth, Tavis Kammet, Christopher P. Kelly, Annie Kim, Theresa Miller, Randy Nakagawa, Sunil Patel. Finally, "Death Play" fulfills the love-hate-confusion relationship for anyone who has experienced independent theater, even accidentally. Press & Promotional Photos by Dana Constance. Information at 415-289-6766 and at http://www.thunderbirdtheatre.com/ |
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STALLION presents CELESTIAL SCIENCE EXIT Theatre 8pm WED/THUR/FRI/SAT March 3, 4, 5, 6 Tickets $15 (General Admission Ticket) & $25 (I Support the Arts Ticket) available at BrownPaperTickets.com (1-800-838-3006) World-class magician and entertainer extraordinaire Stallion has formally announced plans to bring the stars to San Francisco in his latest life-affirming, magical creation, CELESTIAL SCIENCE, in March 2010.
"I've transformed thousands of lives with my unique brand of interpersonal
magic," explained Stallion, "but let's face it -- these are hard
times, and hard times call for hard answers. For the past
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CLICK ON PICTURE FOR HIGH RES IMAGE Sean Owens as Cora Values PHOTO: Geof Teague |
CORA'S RECIPE FOR LOVE Cora Values, beloved hash- and bull-slinger from the Gas "N"
Gulp out on I-19, returns to dish out a heapin' helpin' of love and laughter.
The EXIT's resident holiday hostess is straddling Valentine's Day -- Week
One (Feb. 12 & 13) she addresses LOVE & LONGING through the eyes
of Gas 'N' Gulp regulars, Week Two (Feb. 19 & 20) gives us BREAK-UPS
& SHAKE-UPS, stories of the disastrous aftermath of the love epidemic
that hit the citizens of her hometown, Rectal, Texas. Zeke Plummett (Jim
Fourniadis), her executive chef and ex-husband and Emmett Corkpike (Don
Seaver), the master of tinkling on the ivories, will join Cora (Sean Owens)
to spark buried passions and soothe broken hearts with original songs and
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Akin: It's in the Blood by Noah Kelly and Sarah McKereghan, A two-act dark thriller which delves into the choice John makes to reveal or conceal his extramarital affair with his wife's identical twin sister. With both women pregnant by him, both choices affect the lives of an entire family over 32 years. Two acts present the story as a set of parallel universes, twisting and turning to reveal what might lie beneath the surface of one person's actions. RIPE Theatre, EXIT Theatre's theater-in residence, celebrates its tenth year by bringing back one of their most intriguing and thought-provoking plays. EXIT Stage Left 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT, JAN 21- FEB 6, 2010.
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EXIT Theatre 8pm FRI/SAT FEB 5/6 and 7:30pm SUN FEB 7 Tickets $25 FRI/SAT and $20 SUN available at BrownPaperTickets.com Some discount tickets available at Goldstar.com and TIX Bay Area 7 SINS Productions presents Va Va Voom! starring L.A.'s reigning
Queen of Stand-Up Comedy and Atlantis Events diva Shawn Pelofsky. With her
are two of the finest, most beloved comedic performers in the country -
New York's Underground Superstar Audrey Rapoport reprising the comedic masterpiece
"A Rat's Ass" that made her a star, and Keira McDonald, Seattle's
premier solo performer in her ten-minute, one-woman musical about the crazy
lady astronaut who drove across country in diapers to pepper spray her love
rival. It's BLASTRONAUGHTY and it is BRILLIANT! These three ladies are the
best in the business and this is the first time they've ever shared one
stage. For more information contact James Judd at 415-206-1651 or go to http://vavavoom2010.intuitwebsites.com/ |
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Le Theatre du Coin presents Les Reverends by Slawomir Mrozeck EXIT Theatre 8pm THUR/FRI/SAT JAN 28, 29, 30 Tickets: $15, Reservations www.theatreducoin.com In the 1990's Slawomir Mrozeck wrote "The Reverends", a humorous analysis of religious hypocrisy. Mrozeck's plays provide an image of the last decade of the 20th century, of war, disintegration of values, of a system based on genocide, showing the simplest situations, human behaviors matching the scheme. He uncovers them in their comicality and their absurdity.The Reverends becomes a sitcom in a twisted mirror as Mrozek recognizes the contemporary reality through laughter. Directed by Pascale Couderc with Colette Beraut, Nolwenn Le Bras, Janette Didier, Francois Granade, Jean-Marc Parmentier, Rebecca Scholl, Pierre-Xavier Thomas, Jerome Thomere, and Valerie Zeller. Lights by Joseph Amic-Angelo, Decor by Kenneth Constant Presented in French. |
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THURSDAY NIGHT COMBOS hosted by Mark Romyn. Thursday 8:30pm JAN 28
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THE BALD SOPRANO by Eugéne Ionesco
in a new translation by Rob Melrose. Directed by Rob Melrose This is the play that breaks all the rules! Quiet London suburbanites Mr. and Mrs. Smith, invite the younger Mr. and Mrs. Martin over for a cheerful dinner. Plans for a sedate evening soon give way to hilarious chaos as polite conversation turns to confusion and the two couples engage in an escalating battle of banalities and linguistic acrobatics. Known all over the world as one of the quintessential absurdist masterpieces, this hilarious play is the perfect follow up to last seasons hit production of Ionescos Victims of Duty, which garnered a Bay Area Critics Circle award for Best Production The Cutting Ball Theater is in residence at EXIT on Taylor, 277 Taylor Street, San Francisco For more information, please visit www.cuttingball.com or call (415) 419-3584. |
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