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Puppets, singing and artist interviews! Be immersed in a magical world with this NEW interactive live kids show. Based on the Youtube series Maestro's Magical Music Box. Meet Maestro and Prima Ballerina in person, as they take you on a DYNAMIC adventure. Encounter new friends, sing and dance with us, and interview a different live artist each week. Topics include musical dynamics, conservation, ocean animals, and resolving conflicts. This 40-minute interactive musical for the family, followed by a meet and greet with Maestro and Prima Ballerina, will have you and your kiddos ready for more! Previews are May 6th and 13th and have discounted tickets! ASL interpretation will be on May 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th. *PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Contact us to schedule a special discounted weekday performance for your group or school.
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Doors open at 7:30 for drinks and mingling, curtain at 8:00pm. Welcome to Mildred Springs! A quaint city in the vague Northeastern United States. A city not unlike other cities. Join us while the bold and the beautiful citizens of Mildred Springs live the days of their lives. Some might be young and restless. Some might be doctors working at Sacred Corpuscle Memorial, a general hospital. But they've all got one life to live. Join us as their world turns. Join us as their guiding light leads them on their constant search for tomorrow. Join us as they hang on to the edge of night and you will be transported to another world. The world of It's Getting Tired Mildred. But make sure you join us for their continuing stories. Set in the 1980’s, known for riding the line between camp and loving homage to the soap opera genre, and featuring a dynamic cast of the indie theatre pros, IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED hooks audience members to come back month after month to see what happens next. Each episode of IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED is performed only once! Formerly a late-night hit... Now daytime moves from late-night to primetime!
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birdie & dusty is a group of fragile improvisers with swollen egos. Fresh off of their seven time winning streak at Cagematch, they are forced to ask the important questions. Can we entertain an audience for a full hour? Come for the improv, stay for the research. birdie & dusty is: Alex Cheng, Amanda Breen, Betsy Helmer, Ford Phillips, Howard Hendrix Powell, Jenny Arimoto, Josh Tobin, Michael Brantl, and Zach Young.
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Block Party is an opportunity for you to perform. Put your name in a digital hat and we will call you to do an improv set with other folks in the improv community. Get down to the jam!!
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Join us for six stories of thrilling wonders and breathtaking beauty, stunning shows and sensational stunts, eccentric inventions and astonishing art, join us for Odd Salon NYC: SPECTACULAR! Curated by Odd Salon NYC Fellow and Co-Producer Greg Taubman Speakers and Stories TBA Kraine Theater Doors at 6:30 Show at 7:00 June 14 Odd Salon curates cocktail hour lectures highlighting strange-but-true stories from history, science, art, and adventure, live on stage, over cocktails. We bring experts and enthusiastic amateurs together to explore history’s overlooked and under-told stories, from legends of lost cities to masters of art forgery, engineering failures to murderous sideshow performers, daring heists, questionable taxidermy, and tales of epic revenge. Sometimes with stick figures. Founded in San Francisco, in 2014 by Annetta Black, Tre Balchowsky, and Rachel James, Odd Salon is inspired by the salonnières of the Enlightenment, the illustrated lectures of the Victorian period, and a strong desire to tell weird stories in good company. After several years of hosting salons in San Francisco, in 2018 we expanded to add a new chapter in New York City. We are a community project, centered around a Fellowship of speakers and an extended family of Members, and we have partnered with amazing organizations including the California Historical Society, the Long Now Foundation, the California Academy of Sciences, the tall ships of the Grey’s Harbor Historical Seaport, and the Exploratorium science museum. As a community-focused and mission-driven organization dedicated to the diffusion of unusual knowledge, we are proud to be a membership supported, fiscally sponsored project of the InterCulture Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization.
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Come join your favorite hosts, Shelly and Flaco (Savannah Snow and Wilfredo Diaz) at the "live taping" of their hit morning talk show, "It's Morning, New York!"- complete with sketch, improv, musical comedy, dancing, stand up and so much more!
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With his 10-year relationship at an end and his career going down the toilet, loser British playwright Chris Thompson heads to New York City where he embarks on a journey of sexual liberation and self discovery. But as he searches for connection, he faces up to the harsh realities of city life and the limitations of his own desires. An unflinching and hilarious account of starting your life again when you’re a bottom who has hit rock bottom. Award winning playwright and screenwriter, Chris Thompson, brings his five star hit podcast to theatrical life in this laugh out loud, life affirming show. “Chris Thompson can write moments so raw and tender, they make the audience gasp.” The Sunday Times Praise on iTunes for Two Foreskins Walk into a Bar Podcast:***** “This is storytelling at its best.”***** “Hilarious and poignant, relatable and outlandish.”***** “Fearless writing, completely compulsive.”***** “Beautifully written, searingly honest, and utterly hilarious.”***** “Exciting, titillating, heart-pounding in the hottest way possible.”***** “This is the gay Fleabag! I laugh out loud every episode. The rawness and honesty took my breath away.”***** “Honest, raw, hilarious. Essential listening.”***** “Haunting, beautifully written and very, very funny.”***** “The delight! The horror! Squirm and laugh your way down the rabbit hole.”***** “A must-listen and a true joy. Thompson’s stories of post heartbreak NYC will have you begging for more.”***** “An important addition to the queer canon. Funny, sad and sexy.” Note: running time includes one ten minute intermission. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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Austin Nation shares his entertaining and humorous autobiography of his own life story, “From Crack to PhD: A Drag Queen’s Story.” A life that changed dramatically once he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1986. At the mere age of 26, it was the beginning of the end. In 1987, a medication called AZT came out and he had to take it every 4 hours around the clock. It was toxic! In 1994, within a 6-month period, Austin lost all of my closest friends. He thought, if he was going to die, then he was going party his way out! Drugs and alcohol became his best friend. Playing around in drag was part of his experience while getting high. Fast forward, he turned 40 years old and was still alive. What the hell! What was God up to? He was sad to have outlived all of his dearest friends, not being able to grow old with them. So he thought that there must be something else for him to do. Austin beat my demons and today, he has 19 years clean and sober. He was able to obtain a PhD from UCSF, one of the best universities in the country. After being on disability for 20 years, He started thinking I might be well enough to go back work. Today he’s an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton in the School of Nursing and Nursing Supervisor at USC Keck Medical Center. Someone suggested the name A’Freeka Nature, sort of a play of Africa Nature as a drag name. Austin has auditioned for RuPaul’s Drag Race twice, entered a couple of drag search competitions – placing in the top 5, and won the title of Mx Caring Heart 2020 with Orange County Shanti. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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After their three year relationship has failed, a couple accidentally gets locked in a basement during a party. Assuming they have left together, their friends leave them behind. Having neither food nor water, the couple is forced to relive the worst moments of their trauma-bonded relationship. As the situation becomes more dire, a weed pen is the only relief they can reach for, although it further blurs the line between love and contempt between the former lovers.
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Hottie Bop is a kick-ass variety show with comedy, music and dance. At Under St Marks. Hosted by Lina Zikas, Featuring Duane Stanford. See you there, hotties!
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Transhumance takes a surreal journey across the landscape of gender, as NYC-based clown Ania Upstill playfully explores what it means to be a trans human. Winner of a Best Weekly Award for Circus and Physical Theatre at Adelaide Fringe in 2020, and 4-star reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2022. Reviewers call it 'A work of joy and playfulness - whimsical, witty and replete with wonder' (TheatreView.org.nz); 'Manages to be both a deeply personal story of self-identification and a universal experience of gender paradigms' (TheatreScenes.co.nz); 'Clever, funny and specific! [A] new talent who can captivate the room and leave you wanting more!' 10/10 (Upstage Downstage Podcast). Recommended for ages 8 and up. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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Did you know that the New York City drag community comprises not just an amazing array of drag artists, but also many performers who also compose music? Presented by Sam Bam Thankyoumaam, The Drag Album will be a cabaret of drag artists such as Senerio, Samara Slaughter, and Daddy Dallan performing their own work. Come see both Queerly alums and new faces as this celebration of both original drag and original music. The Drag Album will feature...Daddy DallanLena HornéSamara SlaughterSenerioand The Space Station Tickets on a sliding scale
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Winner of the Doric Wilson Award in Dublin Ireland, Winner of The Cincy Fringe Encore (Producer’s Pick). This show tells the story of William Dorsey Swann, the former slave who became the Queen of Drag in Washington DC in the late 1800’s. She was also the first queer activist on record. Come and hear the tail of a person who was way ahead of their time Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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Designer Baby LLC presents a comedy extravaganza, featuring improv from the hottest teams in New York City.
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Spend Pride & Father's Day with your Chosen Family! Featuring all queer acts, we will fulfill all your traditional family roles and needs in a fabulous variety show. Daddy wouldn't want you to miss this one!
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"Love Chicken" by Maddox Pennington, A Reading Love Chicken explores interpersonal questions of belonging, choice, friendship, and love. Longtime friends Yan and Lolo are planning a weekend getaway for their queer chosen family to reconnect, following Lolo's gender transition and Yan's estranged relationship with staid husband Dave. Lolo and Yan unearth buried feelings, building to a confrontation where they have to choose which relationships are worth fighting for and which have run out of road. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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What began as a way to work with her friends has exploded on the comedy scene. When Carole (a veteran of the stand up scene for over 40 years) started, you would never see two female comics on the same show. Fast forward to today’s comedy scene and nothing has changed, even though there are way more women in comedy. Carole decided to do something about it. Her first Showtime special made history as the only comedy special to feature 6 female comics over the age of 50. In fact it was the network's highest rated comedy special of 2019. Two more have followed with more in the works for 2022! June's cast includesJulia ScottiCat YezbakDonna LewisNancy ParkerCaitlin Reese Streaming option available.
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As a teenager, Martin was the first openly trans gymnast to make the U.S. Men’s Artistic Gymnastics team. Now, he’s a broke 25-year-old with no prospects, about to be evicted from his apartment. Torn between the examples of two friends – En, a fellow trans gymnast who’s carved out a second career in sports writing, and Jenna, a high school teacher who never left her hometown — Martin must pick a new direction in life after arriving at the end of the only road he ever knew. walkOver asks the question; where do you go next once you’ve completed the first line of your obituary? Written and produced by Elena Freck, directed by Jake Tolentino, and starring Kyr Siegel, Miller Koppang, and Linda Shewokis, with associate producer Ryan Benson Smith and stage manager Paige Mercy. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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A woman ahead of her time; Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star. For all her talent, wit, and charm, she’s spent her life searching for a place to belong. She was discriminated against by American society for her race, and demeaned by her family for her dreams. It seemed the only place where she was beyond her circumstances was in the magical world of film and acting, if only Hollywood could’ve seen her beyond racist stereotypes and caricatures. From rumored sapphic romances to traveling different countries to lifelong friendships with fellow legendary artists, Anna will defy all the odds as she devotes herself to her craft. Only one question remains: will there ever be a place where she can be seen as human? Note: Masks will be required at this performance Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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“Affirm THIS!” A Fundraiser for Trans Liberation is a night of comedy, drag, music, and more presented by The Queerly Festival and What Will the Neighbors Say? Theatre Company. This one night only event will showcase trans and non-binary talent while raising funds for The Trans Formations Project nationally and The Audre Lorde Project here in New York City. After a terrifying year of anti-trans legislation, it is crucial that we come together in joyful resistance to raise funds to fight against these dangerous policies, build awareness of what the trans, non-binary, and wider LGBTQAI+ (as well as the drag!) communities are going through, and to reaffirm our strength and commitment to one another. “Affirm THIS!” will feature a yet to be announced line up of fabulous trans and non-binary performers as well as amazing raffle prizes and a DJ’d after party to keep the celebrations going! Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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We're back for a sixth season of new works in development! The Paper Kraine was created in 2016 to bring together works in their earliest stages, audiences, and nonprofits. Monthly, the PK team curates a new works sampler platter around a theme related to a nonprofit. This month, all PK ticket proceeds and a passed hat go to support the work of the Ali Forney Center, which offers LGBT+ Youth Shelter and Services This season is dedicated with unending gratitude towards the team of FRIGID NY. We all know artists making great work: all they need is a space, and FRIGID's dedication to making that accessible for artists is a vital part of the New York arts ecosystem. Try something new, delicious and strange. Come for the art. Stay for the community. Paper Kraine was created on the principle that we all know writers, directors, actors, and creators who make wonderful work. All they need is a space. The Paper Kraine is committed to creating a venue for early-career artists to show humor-focused work in the spirit of adventurous discovery. We encourage risk-taking, question-asking, and the development of a supportive community of artists seeing, encouraging, and challenging each other’s work with the ultimate goal of enriching the artistic community through cross-pollination and meeting new people. Streaming option available.
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Muffins In The Window June PRIDE Edition Join us for our LAST SHOW OF SEASON 16 FEATURING: Jackson Sturkey & Maria Konner, Temple Grande, Andrea Alton, Una Osato, Jillian Thomas, Video of the Month & Secret Song Contest! HOSTED BY DRAG LEGEND Katrina Slipperyslide. Tickets can be bought at the door for $20 OR online on a sliding scale. Tipping Performers is encouraged so buying your tickets online helps you free up your $$$ for tipping and THE BAR *Can’t Join Us in Person? Streaming option available
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Sometimes we're looking for an explanation, tacking on afterthought, enriching what is already complete with a pair of rounded brackets. The Parentheses is a a window into the lives of two characters, Natasha and Talia, as they reconnect over the course of a single evening. It is a 60 minute piece that explores relationships, timing, and closure. Already wholly complete and complex on their own, they look to explain, to explore, and to experience one evening together in an attempt to understand what they really mean to themselves and to each other. All the things that could have been, and all the things that could maybe be, the timing that shapes our stories, all can be found in the parentheses. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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True stories about the most gloriously awkward times in our lives - our teenage years! Awkward Teenage Years was born at the 2020 FRIGID Festival just before the pandemic began. We’re bringing you the best storytellers in NYC to relive their joys and traumas for your entertainment - let’s laugh and reminisce together!Streaming option available.
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Poster Child is a 90 minute stage play that brings a voice to the nonbinary transmasculine person, focusing on Finn and his personal journey transitioning, how that transition affects those around him, which in turn, cyclically affects him and his decisions, and so on, and so on, with themes involving friendship, loss, love, self-acceptance, and above all else — transitioning to a new phase in life.
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And you thought YOUR parents were up in everyone’s business. As the child of small-town gynecologists, comedy writer Claire Ayoub (Empire Waist, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls) experienced an untraditional and often mortifying adolescence destined to end in therapy—and comedy. Join her for a delightfully cringeworthy walk down memory lane and learn what being a GynoKid is all about. After an award-winning run at the 2023 FRIGID Fringe (Best Solo Comedy, Top Grossing-The Kraine Theater, EstroGenius Award), The GynoKid is BACK as a monthly show at the Kraine Theater thru December 2023. Come for the cringe and stay after the show for a Laugh + Learn Q&A with health experts on different health topics each month. June Topic: Gender-Affirming Healthcare Runtime: 2 hours (with Q&A) Written, directed and performed by Claire Ayoub. Produced by Lizzy Bryce, Crystal Collins, and Jack Hobbs. June Q&A Consultant: Holly McDowell
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In this monthly competition show hosted by vision-treprenur Marina di Marzo, three comedians go head-to-head navigating challenges in fashion and makeup. Armed with expertise, fierce looks, and the need to raise eyebrows, the resident fashion expert Maeve and a special guest judge will award one winner with a grand prize. They only have one photo in their hand… and it’s of a fart.Streaming option available.
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See "Pretending to Fly" at its NYC premiere before it heads to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August! Summer 2020, NYC. Roommates Kaitlyn and Frances, months into the COVID lockdown, escape onto their rooftop, trying to hold the pieces of their friendship – and their sanity – together. Finding escapism in the tales of Carla Horowitz, a Women Airforce Service Pilot in WWII, and the main subject of Kaitlyn’s thesis, what present day truths will the women uncover through immersion in the past? Based on actual interviews with Carla and residents of NYC during the pandemic, “Pretending to Fly” weaves fiction and non-fiction into a re-imagined documentary narrative that explores the unspoken sides of history.
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We Are Actors presents “A Night Of Scenes” in partnership with Frigid NYC at the Kraine Theater. Join us to see some of the best up and coming actors in NY performing scenes live on stage. We are pleased to do our part in providing opportunities for artists to work on their craft. Come on out, have a drink and watch some incredible artists perform. Streaming option available.
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Declared “a powerful parallel to our current cultural moment” (Culture Catch), Mariah Freda delivers a captivating physical performance to unearth the life, work, and words of 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Inspired by every proclamation of me too, Artemisia's Intent paints a startling portrait of a woman caught at the intersection of gender, power, and art. Winner of “Best Solo Drama” (FRIGID Festival 2018). Content warning: some contents of this performance involve describing acts of sexual violence and its aftermath. Recommended for ages Ages 18 and up.
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FROM THIS MOMENT YOU ARE CURSED Created and Performed by Mike DaiseyIn a searing evening Mike Daisey is the first theater artist in America to address the war in the Ukraine, starting from the indelible image of a Ukranian woman telling a Russian soldier to fill his pockets with sunflower seeds, so when he dies plants will bloom on his corpse. A night of stories of dark winds through the forests, terrifying Eastern European babcias, the return of the Cold War, and the price we pay for the monsters we fail to stake through the heart.Mike Daisey, who has been called “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by The New York Times, is the preeminent monologist in the American theater today.Praise for Mike Daisey at the Kraine:"He is outstanding. These were startling and stirring words, the kind that hogtie your attention. They are worth having Daisey, and live theater, back for."The New York Times"I felt home again—listening to a talented storyteller spin a version of a year not entirely unlike the one I had just spent, felt really, really good."The Washington Post"Amid all the laughs, there’s a lucid lesson—Mike Daisey singlehandedly redefines the concept of mansplaining. He strips the practice of its condescension and defensiveness and turns it into a conscientious and humble discipline of self-examination as a man."DC Metro Arts
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Indecent! Illegal! Immoral! It’s 1883 and an ordinance prohibiting women from wearing pants has been passed in Tucson. With a creative and producing team of women, non-binary and transgender artists, The Anthropologists’ subversive comedy dares to calculate the costs of gender-oppression today. Hailed "a potent, tremendously entertaining mixture" (Thinking Theater NYC).Learn more: www.theanthropologists.org/nopants This recording also includes a post-show discussion and picture in picture ASL interpretation. Recommended for ages 16 and up. During the show you will hear gunshot and explosion sound effects in one scene. Content warning: The play deals with themes of misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and the patriarchy. Warning: could induce righteous rage.
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EstroGenius 2022 launched with the Syfy Sistas!Can You Hear Me Now?: Black Women Reclaiming Our Creative Voices From comics to podcasting, from movies to Lt. Uhura. Let the SyFy Sistas lead you in a discussion on how Black women are reclaiming their past, current and future roles in creative spaces
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An outrageous comedic evening of standup, dance, music, and clowning to benefit the people of Ukraine via the Ukranian Congress Committee of America (UCCA).Hosted by Carole Montgomery - Creator of the hit comedy show, “Funny Women Of A Certain Age.” All three specials streaming on Showtime.Produced by Peter Michael Marino ("Planet of the Grapes," "Show Up, Kids!").Performers include:- Paul Valenti ("Bring the Funny" Finalist-NBC)- Linette Palladino (HBO)- Mariko Iwasa (Ringling Brothers Circus)- Calvin Cato (Vice Media & Netflix)- AJ Silver "A Cowboy From The Bronx"- Jim Mendrinos (Amazon Prime)- Tyler West (Bindlestiff Family Circus, Slipper Room)- More to come!Enjoy this 90-minute laugh-fest!
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A Mayflower Descendant spills the beans in a dark but often comic mix of history and memoir (familial fails and the fate of the First Nations) presented on the 400th anniversary of the "First Thanksgiving." Writer/performer Trav S.D. has been making downtown theatre in NYC for over 30 years. His shows have been performed at Joe's Pub, La Mama, the Duplex, Theater for the New City, HERE, Dixon Place, The Brick, and of course Horse Trade! He is known as one of America's premiere vaudeville revivalists. His most recent production, "Horse Play" was presented at the Ellen Stewart Theatre with Everett Quinton, Molly Pope, and Tim Cusack, who also produced. This is his sixth solo show.
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Puppets, singing and artist interviews! Be immersed in a magical world with this NEW interactive live kids show. Based on the Youtube series Maestro's Magical Music Box. Meet Maestro and Prima Ballerina in person, as they take you on a DYNAMIC adventure. Encounter new friends, sing and dance with us, and interview a different live artist each week. Topics include musical dynamics, conservation, ocean animals, and resolving conflicts. This 40-minute interactive musical for the family, followed by a meet and greet with Maestro and Prima Ballerina, will have you and your kiddos ready for more! Previews are May 6th and 13th and have discounted tickets! ASL interpretation will be on May 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th. *PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Contact us to schedule a special discounted weekday performance for your group or school.
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Doors open at 7:30 for drinks and mingling, curtain at 8:00pm. Welcome to Mildred Springs! A quaint city in the vague Northeastern United States. A city not unlike other cities. Join us while the bold and the beautiful citizens of Mildred Springs live the days of their lives. Some might be young and restless. Some might be doctors working at Sacred Corpuscle Memorial, a general hospital. But they've all got one life to live. Join us as their world turns. Join us as their guiding light leads them on their constant search for tomorrow. Join us as they hang on to the edge of night and you will be transported to another world. The world of It's Getting Tired Mildred. But make sure you join us for their continuing stories. Set in the 1980’s, known for riding the line between camp and loving homage to the soap opera genre, and featuring a dynamic cast of the indie theatre pros, IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED hooks audience members to come back month after month to see what happens next. Each episode of IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED is performed only once! Formerly a late-night hit... Now daytime moves from late-night to primetime!
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birdie & dusty is a group of fragile improvisers with swollen egos. Fresh off of their seven time winning streak at Cagematch, they are forced to ask the important questions. Can we entertain an audience for a full hour? Come for the improv, stay for the research. birdie & dusty is: Alex Cheng, Amanda Breen, Betsy Helmer, Ford Phillips, Howard Hendrix Powell, Jenny Arimoto, Josh Tobin, Michael Brantl, and Zach Young.
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Block Party is an opportunity for you to perform. Put your name in a digital hat and we will call you to do an improv set with other folks in the improv community. Get down to the jam!!
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Join us for six stories of thrilling wonders and breathtaking beauty, stunning shows and sensational stunts, eccentric inventions and astonishing art, join us for Odd Salon NYC: SPECTACULAR! Curated by Odd Salon NYC Fellow and Co-Producer Greg Taubman Speakers and Stories TBA Kraine Theater Doors at 6:30 Show at 7:00 June 14 Odd Salon curates cocktail hour lectures highlighting strange-but-true stories from history, science, art, and adventure, live on stage, over cocktails. We bring experts and enthusiastic amateurs together to explore history’s overlooked and under-told stories, from legends of lost cities to masters of art forgery, engineering failures to murderous sideshow performers, daring heists, questionable taxidermy, and tales of epic revenge. Sometimes with stick figures. Founded in San Francisco, in 2014 by Annetta Black, Tre Balchowsky, and Rachel James, Odd Salon is inspired by the salonnières of the Enlightenment, the illustrated lectures of the Victorian period, and a strong desire to tell weird stories in good company. After several years of hosting salons in San Francisco, in 2018 we expanded to add a new chapter in New York City. We are a community project, centered around a Fellowship of speakers and an extended family of Members, and we have partnered with amazing organizations including the California Historical Society, the Long Now Foundation, the California Academy of Sciences, the tall ships of the Grey’s Harbor Historical Seaport, and the Exploratorium science museum. As a community-focused and mission-driven organization dedicated to the diffusion of unusual knowledge, we are proud to be a membership supported, fiscally sponsored project of the InterCulture Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization.
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Come join your favorite hosts, Shelly and Flaco (Savannah Snow and Wilfredo Diaz) at the "live taping" of their hit morning talk show, "It's Morning, New York!"- complete with sketch, improv, musical comedy, dancing, stand up and so much more!
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With his 10-year relationship at an end and his career going down the toilet, loser British playwright Chris Thompson heads to New York City where he embarks on a journey of sexual liberation and self discovery. But as he searches for connection, he faces up to the harsh realities of city life and the limitations of his own desires. An unflinching and hilarious account of starting your life again when you’re a bottom who has hit rock bottom. Award winning playwright and screenwriter, Chris Thompson, brings his five star hit podcast to theatrical life in this laugh out loud, life affirming show. “Chris Thompson can write moments so raw and tender, they make the audience gasp.” The Sunday Times Praise on iTunes for Two Foreskins Walk into a Bar Podcast:***** “This is storytelling at its best.”***** “Hilarious and poignant, relatable and outlandish.”***** “Fearless writing, completely compulsive.”***** “Beautifully written, searingly honest, and utterly hilarious.”***** “Exciting, titillating, heart-pounding in the hottest way possible.”***** “This is the gay Fleabag! I laugh out loud every episode. The rawness and honesty took my breath away.”***** “Honest, raw, hilarious. Essential listening.”***** “Haunting, beautifully written and very, very funny.”***** “The delight! The horror! Squirm and laugh your way down the rabbit hole.”***** “A must-listen and a true joy. Thompson’s stories of post heartbreak NYC will have you begging for more.”***** “An important addition to the queer canon. Funny, sad and sexy.” Note: running time includes one ten minute intermission. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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Austin Nation shares his entertaining and humorous autobiography of his own life story, “From Crack to PhD: A Drag Queen’s Story.” A life that changed dramatically once he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1986. At the mere age of 26, it was the beginning of the end. In 1987, a medication called AZT came out and he had to take it every 4 hours around the clock. It was toxic! In 1994, within a 6-month period, Austin lost all of my closest friends. He thought, if he was going to die, then he was going party his way out! Drugs and alcohol became his best friend. Playing around in drag was part of his experience while getting high. Fast forward, he turned 40 years old and was still alive. What the hell! What was God up to? He was sad to have outlived all of his dearest friends, not being able to grow old with them. So he thought that there must be something else for him to do. Austin beat my demons and today, he has 19 years clean and sober. He was able to obtain a PhD from UCSF, one of the best universities in the country. After being on disability for 20 years, He started thinking I might be well enough to go back work. Today he’s an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton in the School of Nursing and Nursing Supervisor at USC Keck Medical Center. Someone suggested the name A’Freeka Nature, sort of a play of Africa Nature as a drag name. Austin has auditioned for RuPaul’s Drag Race twice, entered a couple of drag search competitions – placing in the top 5, and won the title of Mx Caring Heart 2020 with Orange County Shanti. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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After their three year relationship has failed, a couple accidentally gets locked in a basement during a party. Assuming they have left together, their friends leave them behind. Having neither food nor water, the couple is forced to relive the worst moments of their trauma-bonded relationship. As the situation becomes more dire, a weed pen is the only relief they can reach for, although it further blurs the line between love and contempt between the former lovers.
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Hottie Bop is a kick-ass variety show with comedy, music and dance. At Under St Marks. Hosted by Lina Zikas, Featuring Duane Stanford. See you there, hotties!
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Transhumance takes a surreal journey across the landscape of gender, as NYC-based clown Ania Upstill playfully explores what it means to be a trans human. Winner of a Best Weekly Award for Circus and Physical Theatre at Adelaide Fringe in 2020, and 4-star reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2022. Reviewers call it 'A work of joy and playfulness - whimsical, witty and replete with wonder' (TheatreView.org.nz); 'Manages to be both a deeply personal story of self-identification and a universal experience of gender paradigms' (TheatreScenes.co.nz); 'Clever, funny and specific! [A] new talent who can captivate the room and leave you wanting more!' 10/10 (Upstage Downstage Podcast). Recommended for ages 8 and up. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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Did you know that the New York City drag community comprises not just an amazing array of drag artists, but also many performers who also compose music? Presented by Sam Bam Thankyoumaam, The Drag Album will be a cabaret of drag artists such as Senerio, Samara Slaughter, and Daddy Dallan performing their own work. Come see both Queerly alums and new faces as this celebration of both original drag and original music. The Drag Album will feature...Daddy DallanLena HornéSamara SlaughterSenerioand The Space Station Tickets on a sliding scale
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Winner of the Doric Wilson Award in Dublin Ireland, Winner of The Cincy Fringe Encore (Producer’s Pick). This show tells the story of William Dorsey Swann, the former slave who became the Queen of Drag in Washington DC in the late 1800’s. She was also the first queer activist on record. Come and hear the tail of a person who was way ahead of their time Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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Designer Baby LLC presents a comedy extravaganza, featuring improv from the hottest teams in New York City.
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Spend Pride & Father's Day with your Chosen Family! Featuring all queer acts, we will fulfill all your traditional family roles and needs in a fabulous variety show. Daddy wouldn't want you to miss this one!
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"Love Chicken" by Maddox Pennington, A Reading Love Chicken explores interpersonal questions of belonging, choice, friendship, and love. Longtime friends Yan and Lolo are planning a weekend getaway for their queer chosen family to reconnect, following Lolo's gender transition and Yan's estranged relationship with staid husband Dave. Lolo and Yan unearth buried feelings, building to a confrontation where they have to choose which relationships are worth fighting for and which have run out of road. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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What began as a way to work with her friends has exploded on the comedy scene. When Carole (a veteran of the stand up scene for over 40 years) started, you would never see two female comics on the same show. Fast forward to today’s comedy scene and nothing has changed, even though there are way more women in comedy. Carole decided to do something about it. Her first Showtime special made history as the only comedy special to feature 6 female comics over the age of 50. In fact it was the network's highest rated comedy special of 2019. Two more have followed with more in the works for 2022! June's cast includesJulia ScottiCat YezbakDonna LewisNancy ParkerCaitlin Reese Streaming option available.
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As a teenager, Martin was the first openly trans gymnast to make the U.S. Men’s Artistic Gymnastics team. Now, he’s a broke 25-year-old with no prospects, about to be evicted from his apartment. Torn between the examples of two friends – En, a fellow trans gymnast who’s carved out a second career in sports writing, and Jenna, a high school teacher who never left her hometown — Martin must pick a new direction in life after arriving at the end of the only road he ever knew. walkOver asks the question; where do you go next once you’ve completed the first line of your obituary? Written and produced by Elena Freck, directed by Jake Tolentino, and starring Kyr Siegel, Miller Koppang, and Linda Shewokis, with associate producer Ryan Benson Smith and stage manager Paige Mercy. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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A woman ahead of her time; Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star. For all her talent, wit, and charm, she’s spent her life searching for a place to belong. She was discriminated against by American society for her race, and demeaned by her family for her dreams. It seemed the only place where she was beyond her circumstances was in the magical world of film and acting, if only Hollywood could’ve seen her beyond racist stereotypes and caricatures. From rumored sapphic romances to traveling different countries to lifelong friendships with fellow legendary artists, Anna will defy all the odds as she devotes herself to her craft. Only one question remains: will there ever be a place where she can be seen as human? Note: Masks will be required at this performance Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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“Affirm THIS!” A Fundraiser for Trans Liberation is a night of comedy, drag, music, and more presented by The Queerly Festival and What Will the Neighbors Say? Theatre Company. This one night only event will showcase trans and non-binary talent while raising funds for The Trans Formations Project nationally and The Audre Lorde Project here in New York City. After a terrifying year of anti-trans legislation, it is crucial that we come together in joyful resistance to raise funds to fight against these dangerous policies, build awareness of what the trans, non-binary, and wider LGBTQAI+ (as well as the drag!) communities are going through, and to reaffirm our strength and commitment to one another. “Affirm THIS!” will feature a yet to be announced line up of fabulous trans and non-binary performers as well as amazing raffle prizes and a DJ’d after party to keep the celebrations going! Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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We're back for a sixth season of new works in development! The Paper Kraine was created in 2016 to bring together works in their earliest stages, audiences, and nonprofits. Monthly, the PK team curates a new works sampler platter around a theme related to a nonprofit. This month, all PK ticket proceeds and a passed hat go to support the work of the Ali Forney Center, which offers LGBT+ Youth Shelter and Services This season is dedicated with unending gratitude towards the team of FRIGID NY. We all know artists making great work: all they need is a space, and FRIGID's dedication to making that accessible for artists is a vital part of the New York arts ecosystem. Try something new, delicious and strange. Come for the art. Stay for the community. Paper Kraine was created on the principle that we all know writers, directors, actors, and creators who make wonderful work. All they need is a space. The Paper Kraine is committed to creating a venue for early-career artists to show humor-focused work in the spirit of adventurous discovery. We encourage risk-taking, question-asking, and the development of a supportive community of artists seeing, encouraging, and challenging each other’s work with the ultimate goal of enriching the artistic community through cross-pollination and meeting new people. Streaming option available.
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Muffins In The Window June PRIDE Edition Join us for our LAST SHOW OF SEASON 16 FEATURING: Jackson Sturkey & Maria Konner, Temple Grande, Andrea Alton, Una Osato, Jillian Thomas, Video of the Month & Secret Song Contest! HOSTED BY DRAG LEGEND Katrina Slipperyslide. Tickets can be bought at the door for $20 OR online on a sliding scale. Tipping Performers is encouraged so buying your tickets online helps you free up your $$$ for tipping and THE BAR *Can’t Join Us in Person? Streaming option available
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Sometimes we're looking for an explanation, tacking on afterthought, enriching what is already complete with a pair of rounded brackets. The Parentheses is a a window into the lives of two characters, Natasha and Talia, as they reconnect over the course of a single evening. It is a 60 minute piece that explores relationships, timing, and closure. Already wholly complete and complex on their own, they look to explain, to explore, and to experience one evening together in an attempt to understand what they really mean to themselves and to each other. All the things that could have been, and all the things that could maybe be, the timing that shapes our stories, all can be found in the parentheses. Tickets on a sliding scaleStreaming option available
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True stories about the most gloriously awkward times in our lives - our teenage years! Awkward Teenage Years was born at the 2020 FRIGID Festival just before the pandemic began. We’re bringing you the best storytellers in NYC to relive their joys and traumas for your entertainment - let’s laugh and reminisce together!Streaming option available.
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Poster Child is a 90 minute stage play that brings a voice to the nonbinary transmasculine person, focusing on Finn and his personal journey transitioning, how that transition affects those around him, which in turn, cyclically affects him and his decisions, and so on, and so on, with themes involving friendship, loss, love, self-acceptance, and above all else — transitioning to a new phase in life.
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And you thought YOUR parents were up in everyone’s business. As the child of small-town gynecologists, comedy writer Claire Ayoub (Empire Waist, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls) experienced an untraditional and often mortifying adolescence destined to end in therapy—and comedy. Join her for a delightfully cringeworthy walk down memory lane and learn what being a GynoKid is all about. After an award-winning run at the 2023 FRIGID Fringe (Best Solo Comedy, Top Grossing-The Kraine Theater, EstroGenius Award), The GynoKid is BACK as a monthly show at the Kraine Theater thru December 2023. Come for the cringe and stay after the show for a Laugh + Learn Q&A with health experts on different health topics each month. June Topic: Gender-Affirming Healthcare Runtime: 2 hours (with Q&A) Written, directed and performed by Claire Ayoub. Produced by Lizzy Bryce, Crystal Collins, and Jack Hobbs. June Q&A Consultant: Holly McDowell
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In this monthly competition show hosted by vision-treprenur Marina di Marzo, three comedians go head-to-head navigating challenges in fashion and makeup. Armed with expertise, fierce looks, and the need to raise eyebrows, the resident fashion expert Maeve and a special guest judge will award one winner with a grand prize. They only have one photo in their hand… and it’s of a fart.Streaming option available.
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See "Pretending to Fly" at its NYC premiere before it heads to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August! Summer 2020, NYC. Roommates Kaitlyn and Frances, months into the COVID lockdown, escape onto their rooftop, trying to hold the pieces of their friendship – and their sanity – together. Finding escapism in the tales of Carla Horowitz, a Women Airforce Service Pilot in WWII, and the main subject of Kaitlyn’s thesis, what present day truths will the women uncover through immersion in the past? Based on actual interviews with Carla and residents of NYC during the pandemic, “Pretending to Fly” weaves fiction and non-fiction into a re-imagined documentary narrative that explores the unspoken sides of history.
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We Are Actors presents “A Night Of Scenes” in partnership with Frigid NYC at the Kraine Theater. Join us to see some of the best up and coming actors in NY performing scenes live on stage. We are pleased to do our part in providing opportunities for artists to work on their craft. Come on out, have a drink and watch some incredible artists perform. Streaming option available.
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Declared “a powerful parallel to our current cultural moment” (Culture Catch), Mariah Freda delivers a captivating physical performance to unearth the life, work, and words of 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Inspired by every proclamation of me too, Artemisia's Intent paints a startling portrait of a woman caught at the intersection of gender, power, and art. Winner of “Best Solo Drama” (FRIGID Festival 2018). Content warning: some contents of this performance involve describing acts of sexual violence and its aftermath. Recommended for ages Ages 18 and up.
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FROM THIS MOMENT YOU ARE CURSED Created and Performed by Mike DaiseyIn a searing evening Mike Daisey is the first theater artist in America to address the war in the Ukraine, starting from the indelible image of a Ukranian woman telling a Russian soldier to fill his pockets with sunflower seeds, so when he dies plants will bloom on his corpse. A night of stories of dark winds through the forests, terrifying Eastern European babcias, the return of the Cold War, and the price we pay for the monsters we fail to stake through the heart.Mike Daisey, who has been called “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by The New York Times, is the preeminent monologist in the American theater today.Praise for Mike Daisey at the Kraine:"He is outstanding. These were startling and stirring words, the kind that hogtie your attention. They are worth having Daisey, and live theater, back for."The New York Times"I felt home again—listening to a talented storyteller spin a version of a year not entirely unlike the one I had just spent, felt really, really good."The Washington Post"Amid all the laughs, there’s a lucid lesson—Mike Daisey singlehandedly redefines the concept of mansplaining. He strips the practice of its condescension and defensiveness and turns it into a conscientious and humble discipline of self-examination as a man."DC Metro Arts
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Indecent! Illegal! Immoral! It’s 1883 and an ordinance prohibiting women from wearing pants has been passed in Tucson. With a creative and producing team of women, non-binary and transgender artists, The Anthropologists’ subversive comedy dares to calculate the costs of gender-oppression today. Hailed "a potent, tremendously entertaining mixture" (Thinking Theater NYC).Learn more: www.theanthropologists.org/nopants This recording also includes a post-show discussion and picture in picture ASL interpretation. Recommended for ages 16 and up. During the show you will hear gunshot and explosion sound effects in one scene. Content warning: The play deals with themes of misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and the patriarchy. Warning: could induce righteous rage.
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EstroGenius 2022 launched with the Syfy Sistas!Can You Hear Me Now?: Black Women Reclaiming Our Creative Voices From comics to podcasting, from movies to Lt. Uhura. Let the SyFy Sistas lead you in a discussion on how Black women are reclaiming their past, current and future roles in creative spaces
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An outrageous comedic evening of standup, dance, music, and clowning to benefit the people of Ukraine via the Ukranian Congress Committee of America (UCCA).Hosted by Carole Montgomery - Creator of the hit comedy show, “Funny Women Of A Certain Age.” All three specials streaming on Showtime.Produced by Peter Michael Marino ("Planet of the Grapes," "Show Up, Kids!").Performers include:- Paul Valenti ("Bring the Funny" Finalist-NBC)- Linette Palladino (HBO)- Mariko Iwasa (Ringling Brothers Circus)- Calvin Cato (Vice Media & Netflix)- AJ Silver "A Cowboy From The Bronx"- Jim Mendrinos (Amazon Prime)- Tyler West (Bindlestiff Family Circus, Slipper Room)- More to come!Enjoy this 90-minute laugh-fest!
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A Mayflower Descendant spills the beans in a dark but often comic mix of history and memoir (familial fails and the fate of the First Nations) presented on the 400th anniversary of the "First Thanksgiving." Writer/performer Trav S.D. has been making downtown theatre in NYC for over 30 years. His shows have been performed at Joe's Pub, La Mama, the Duplex, Theater for the New City, HERE, Dixon Place, The Brick, and of course Horse Trade! He is known as one of America's premiere vaudeville revivalists. His most recent production, "Horse Play" was presented at the Ellen Stewart Theatre with Everett Quinton, Molly Pope, and Tim Cusack, who also produced. This is his sixth solo show.
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