9mm America Closes This Week

55549mm America

Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Lafayette Street
Wednesday 6/19 at 8:00pm

Click HERE for more info and tix

June 13, New York, NY - On the six month anniversary of Newtown, Nigel Barker (of America’s Next Top Model and The Face) asks every father to help make the world safer for our children by supporting GIRL BE HEARD (girlbeheard.org).

A special Father’s Day performance has just been scheduled for June 18, 3:30pm (with Special Guest Eve Ensler), at the Robert Moss Theatre, 440 Lafayette Street. 9mm America tells the stories of girls living in NYC neighborhoods where gun violence is a daily threat. ONE SHOW ONLY! For tickets to 9mm America, visit girlbeheard.org.

Nigel Barker, who is on the Founder’s Circle of GIRL BE HEARD, will also be attending this empowering, new theatrical work, written and performed by ten girls, ages 14-23. ”The courageous young women at Girl Be Heard make me want to man up,” says Nigel Barker, “and I implore every father to rise to the occasion and see Girl Be Heard’s newest show, 9mm America.”

In honor of Father’s Day, Nigel Barker and the 115 young women at GIRL BE HEARD ask you to support their movement to stop gun violence in schools across the nation by visiting the girls’ crowdsourcing IndieGoGo Campaign at girlbeheard.org.  

 

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The Book of EstroGenius 2011

a celebration of female voices
Authored by various

https://www.createspace.com/4121455

The discount code for 50% off is MN67F758

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ONGOING:

Moons Over My Hammy

Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B. The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side. The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.

9mm America, Book of EstroGenius 2011, Moons Over My Hammy

Capture 3 9mm America

Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Lafayette Street
Wednesday 6/19 at 8:00pm

Click HERE for more info and tix

9mm America explores America’s culture of violence as it affects ten young women. A documentary theatre piece devised from direct experience with gangs on the streets of East New York to the shooting death of a sibling in Boston, 9mm America is a call to action to demand an end to gun violence.

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The Book of EstroGenius 2011

a celebration of female voices
Authored by various

https://www.createspace.com/4121455

The discount code for 50% off is MN67F758

_________________________________________________________________________

ONGOING:

Moons Over My Hammy

Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B. The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side. The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.

Charlie Fersko Performs Stand-Up Tonight, There’s a Light on Yonder Mountain,Yeah Girl, Whatever, Estro 2011 Book, Fiona’s Music Video & Moons Over My Hammy

Charlie006 Fersko performs his STAND-UP
named one of the “Volunteers of the Decade” for Manhattan Theatre Source

See below for more info:
Mon June 3rd 7 PM – right after work!
GOTHAM Comedy Club:
my comedy class showcase
208 west 23rd st PLEASE RESERVE NOW:
(212) 367-9000
$12 cover
2 drink minimum.

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Thursdays – Saturdays

June 1, 6, 7, 8 at 8:00pm

Under St. Marks
94 Saint Marks Place
between 1st & A

There’s a Light on Yonder Mountain follows the
journey of an unlikely group of misfits on a
mysterious mission to change the world. This new play, created by four emerging playwrights and a literary director, is inspired by Joseph Campbell’s work on the Hero’s Journey.

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Capture 3  9mm America

Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Lafayette Street
Tuesday 6/4 at 8:00pm, Friday 6/7/13 at 4:30pm, Sunday 6/9 at 5:00pm, Wednesday 6/19 at 8:00pm

Click HERE for more info and tix

9mm America explores America’s culture of violence as it affects ten young women. A documentary theatre piece devised from direct experience with gangs on the streets of East New York to the shooting death of a sibling in Boston, 9mm America is a call to action to demand an end to gun violence.

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Charlie006 Fersko performs his STAND-UP
named one of the “Volunteers of the Decade” for Manhattan Theatre Source

See below for more info:
Mon June 3rd 7 PM – right after work!
GOTHAM Comedy Club:
my comedy class showcase
208 west 23rd st PLEASE RESERVE NOW:
(212) 367-9000
$12 cover
2 drink minimum.

Fri June 7 9:30 PM
Metropolitan Room -34 west 22nd st.
New Talent Show
I need to bring 10 people in order to perform.
call 212-206-0440
You need to say three things:
1. The Date you are coming to see me(June 7)
2. The Time of the show (930)
3. My Name -Charlie Fersko

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48YEAH GIRL, WHATEVER
Written by Elizabeth Irwin (Origin, Estro 2011)
Directed by Dara Malina

Performances: June 5th-8th, Wednesday- Saturday at 7:30 PM
Featuring Keelie Sheridan, Iman Richardson, and Candice Myers*
Stage Manager: Jessica Carmona

ART NY South Oxford Space -The Great Room
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
C to Lafayette Avenue. 2, 3, 4, 5, M, N, Q, R, B, D or LIRR to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street. G to Fulton Street

Tix are $18. Available now!

Click HERE for Brown Paper Tickets

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The Book of EstroGenius 2011

The Book of EstroGenius 2011

a celebration of female voices
Authored by various

https://www.createspace.com/4121455

The discount code for 50% off is MN67F758

_________________________________________________________________________

ONGOING:

Moons Over My Hammy

Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B. The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side. The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.

Final Week for Gym Shorts & That Play; Fiona Jones Music Video Photo Request; 9MM America & Moons Over My Hammy

556523_414399671974283_1756644137_nGym Shorts: The Show
BY ERIC S. ROBERTSON
These guys have issues they need to work out.
May 10, 2013 through May 26, 2013
Limited Engagement
Off-Broadway Run
6 PERFORMANCES LEFT

Gym Shorts: The Show is made up of 5 hilarious short vignettes, that examine the triumphs and tragedies of life set against the world’s most explosive backdrop: The Gym!

WATCH OUR PROMO YOU TUBE!
READ OUR REVIEW!
CHECK OUT OUR INTERVIEW for International Womens Artist Salon under Part 2

WHERE
777 Theatre
777 8th Avenue

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FIONA JONES & JON EKLUND: MUSIC VIDEO PHOTO REQUEST:

In addition to romantic love, I think this song is also about the love of humanness.
My idea is that this video can be a playful yet sincere invitation to meet some of the 6 billion-plus unique entities that make up our family and in “trying” some of them “on”, finding that we are actually all in this together.

So what I think I need from everyone is:
1. a photo of you being yourself while holding up a sign (be as creative as you like) that says: “Try me on”, and another one that says: “I’m very you”. I’d like for these to be a somewhat “editorial” photo about your life: anything from the mundane, every-day thing that you do, to the most exciting thing you do.

2. THEN, I’d like for you to choose one line from the song, make a title card for it, and interpret it with your unique point of view.

If you find yourself having fun, repeat step 2 as many times as you like.

3. Send me your photos by June 1st, to: jon@dreamoutloudmedia.com

Here are the lyrics:

Try Me On by Deee Lite

What’s the real question in your mind mind mind
I’m inclined to ask you all the time time time
Do unto me as I want to do to you
Try me on, I’m very you
I can’t read your mind
So you got to let me know all the time
How it feels for it to be real
Ooh you got me you got me you got me
Ooh you got me you got me you got me
I don’t know what you do (I don’t know I don’t know)
But I like it I like it
I like what you’re doing to me
The sands of time fade into dark
Feel your pulse it’s groove o’clock
A message to madness
Feel music that’s realness

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Stage Left Studio, 214 W. 30th Street, is celebrating its third Drama Desk nominated show, Tom Gualtieri and Heather Hill’s That Play: A Solo Macbeth,
with added performances May 2, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16 & 25 at 7:30pm.
Nominated this year for “Unique Theatrical Experience” THAT PLAY has enjoyed a long run in New York City and continued rave reviews from both critics and audience.STAGE LEFT STUDIO (and ticketing)
http://www.StageLeftStudio.net
SHOW WEBSITES
http://www.solomacbeth.com
http://www.southerngothicnovel.com
http://emerging.freewebspace.com/Frank_Blocker_Plays/Stabilzed_Not_Controlled.htmPRODUCER Cheryl King, cking3@gmail.com
http://www.CherylKingProductions.com
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June 2013 –Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 
World Premiere of 9mm America
Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Lafayette Street
Saturday 6/1 at 6:30pm, Sunday 6/2 at 6:30pm, Tuesday 6/4 at 8:00pm, Friday 6/7/13 at 4:30pm, Sunday 6/9 at 5:00pm, Wednesday 6/19 at 8:00pm

9mm America explores America’s culture of violence as it affects ten young women. A documentary theatre piece devised from direct experience with gangs on the streets of East New York to the shooting death of a sibling in Boston, 9mm America is a call to action to demand an end to gun violence.

 

Moons Over My Hammy

Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B.  The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side.  The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.

Gym Shorts (with review), Flux (with review), Stage Left, 9MM America, Moons Over My Hammy

556523_414399671974283_1756644137_nGym Shorts: The Show
BY ERIC S. ROBERTSON
These guys have issues they need to work out.
May 10, 2013 through May 26, 2013
Limited Engagement
Off-Broadway Run
1712 PERFORMANCES LEFT

Gym Shorts: The Show is made up of 5 hilarious short vignettes, that examine the triumphs and tragedies of life set against the world’s most explosive backdrop: The Gym!

WATCH OUR PROMO YOU TUBE!
READ OUR REVIEW!
CHECK OUT OUR INTERVIEW for International Womens Artist Salon under Part 2WHERE

777 Theatre

777 8th Avenue

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CLOSING THIS WEEK THRU THE 18TH
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Presents
Two Plays in Rep:
Sans Merci & Honey Fist
READ Martin Denton’s Review on NYTheatre.com
4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery
Subway: F to Lower East Side–Second Ave, 6 to Astor Pl
Visit here to Purchase Tickets at various rates
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Stage Left Studio, 214 W. 30th Street, is celebrating its third Drama Desk nominated show, Tom Gualtieri and Heather Hill’s That Play: A Solo Macbeth,
with added performances May 2, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16 & 25 at 7:30pm.
Nominated this year for “Unique Theatrical Experience” THAT PLAY has enjoyed a long run in New York City and continued rave reviews from both critics and audience.STAGE LEFT STUDIO (and ticketing)
http://www.StageLeftStudio.net
SHOW WEBSITES
http://www.solomacbeth.com
http://www.southerngothicnovel.com
http://emerging.freewebspace.com/Frank_Blocker_Plays/Stabilzed_Not_Controlled.htmPRODUCER Cheryl King, cking3@gmail.com
http://www.CherylKingProductions.com
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June 2013 –Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 
World Premiere of 9mm America
Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Lafayette Street
Saturday 6/1 at 6:30pm, Sunday 6/2 at 6:30pm, Tuesday 6/4 at 8:00pm, Friday 6/7/13 at 4:30pm, Sunday 6/9 at 5:00pm, Wednesday 6/19 at 8:00pm

9mm America explores America’s culture of violence as it affects ten young women. A documentary theatre piece devised from direct experience with gangs on the streets of East New York to the shooting death of a sibling in Boston, 9mm America is a call to action to demand an end to gun violence.

 

Moons Over My Hammy

Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B.  The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side.  The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.

Listen to Your Mother! Stage Left. Flux, Girl Be Heard

Estro’s Laura Pruden stars in Listen To Your Mother
Mother’s Day, Sunday, 5/12 at 5pm
Peter Norton Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street).
Tickets are $25 (advance), $30 (at the door) and can be purchased in advance online. This New York City production features prominent local writers and performers telling their own tales of motherhood in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor. Don’t miss this sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching, always engaging celebration! The NYC show is being directed by Broadway and TV actress, The Huffington Post contributor, and author Amy Wilson and is being produced by Varda Steinhardt and Holly Rosen Fink with Shari Simpson as Assistant Director.  Cast include former Editor in Chief of Redbook Magazine Stacy Morrison (now Editor in Chief of BlogHer.com), comedian Jaime Fernandez, New York City creative writing teacher Susan Buttenwieser, social justice attorney and LGBT activist Nívea Castro and author Tracy Beckerman (whose book Lost in Suburbia: A Momoir comes out in early April). Also featured in the NYC cast are preschool teacher and day camp director Sasha Schreiner, actors Laura Pruden and Elizabeth Robinson, Harlem native DeBorah Gray, novelist Rebecca Land Soodak (Henny on the Couch), and writers Mary Beth CoudalKim Forde, Nicole Goodwin, Marinka, Barb Patrick, Sofia Quintero (who recently won a Women’s Media Center Social Media Award), Sandy Rustin (who wrote the hit Off-Broadway show Rated P for Parenthood) and Virginia Watkins.The NYC production will be donating 10% of proceeds to the non-profit national hunger relief organization Family-to-Family and their Hurricane Sandy relief efforts (each Listen To Your Mother show/city donates 10% of all ticket proceeds to local non-profit causes that support women and families in need).

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Flux Theatre Ensemble
Presents
Two Plays in Rep:
 Sans Merci & Honey Fist
4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery
Subway: F to Lower East Side–Second Ave, 6 to Astor Pl
Visit here to Purchase Tickets at various rates
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Stage Left Studio, 214 W. 30th Street, is celebrating its third Drama Desk nominated show, Tom Gualtieri and Heather Hill’s That Play: A Solo Macbeth,
with added performances May 2, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16 & 25 at 7:30pm.
Nominated this year for “Unique Theatrical Experience” THAT PLAY has enjoyed a long run in New York City and continued rave reviews from both critics and audience.STAGE LEFT STUDIO (and ticketing)
http://www.StageLeftStudio.net
SHOW WEBSITES
http://www.solomacbeth.com
http://www.southerngothicnovel.com
http://emerging.freewebspace.com/Frank_Blocker_Plays/Stabilzed_Not_Controlled.htmPRODUCER Cheryl King, cking3@gmail.com
http://www.CherylKingProductions.com

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June 2013 –Planet Connections Theatre Festivity 
World Premiere of 9mm America
Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Lafayette Street
Saturday 6/1 at 6:30pm, Sunday 6/2 at 6:30pm, Tuesday 6/4 at 8:00pm, Friday 6/7/13 at 4:30pm, Sunday 6/9 at 5:00pm, Wednesday 6/19 at 8:00pm

9mm America explores America’s culture of violence as it affects ten young women. A documentary theatre piece devised from direct experience with gangs on the streets of East New York to the shooting death of a sibling in Boston, 9mm America is a call to action to demand an end to gun violence.

 

Moons Over My Hammy

Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B.  The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side.  The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.

Still Time To See Great Work!

EstroGenius 2013 is in pre-production. So stay tuned for further information. In the meantime, here are what our Estrobabes are working on in the meantime.

Please email me so I can post info about your show!

CaptureFlux Theatre Ensemble

Presents
Two Plays in Rep:
Sans Merci & Honey Fist
4th Street Theatre

83 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery
Subway: F to Lower East Side–Second Ave, 6 to Astor Pl
Visit here to Purchase Tickets at various rates.

left_out_2013b-300April 20 – 30

ONGOING:

Moons Over My Hammy

Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B.  The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side.  The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.

Estro in Effect!

EstroGenius 2013 is in pre-production. So stay tuned for further information. In the meantime, here are what our Estrobabes are working on in the meantime.

CaptureFlux Theatre Ensemble
Presents
Two Plays in Rep:
Sans Merci & Honey Fist
4th Street Theatre

83 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery
Subway: F to Lower East Side–Second Ave, 6 to Astor Pl
Visit here to Purchase Tickets at various rates.

left_out_2013b-300April 20 – 30

 


Cheryl King, Producer
Left Out 2013 Staff

Joe Hutcheson, Associate Producer
Topher Cusumano, Marketing Consultant
William LoCasto, Graphic Design
Ellen Rosenberg, Lighting Design

NAKED IN ALASKA – A True Story of Stripping in The Last Frontier 

Performing ONE NIGHT ONLY @ Dixon Place
April 27th 10 p.m.
TIX $12- $15
Follow the link to purchase!
http://www.valeriehager.com/NakedInAlaska

About:
A young woman on the verge of eviction. A best friend who offers an adventure she can’t refuse. A ten-year career that tests the limits of friendship and the will to survive. Naked In Alaska is the true story of Valerie Hager’s career as an exotic dancer in clubs from Mexico to Alaska to California. Told with live pole dancing and over a dozen characters who danced in and frequented these clubs, Naked In Alaska is a fearless look at the objects we make of ourselves to fit in and the buried truths we must face to have a chance at coming home.
Performed by Valerie Hager
Written by Valerie Hager
Directed by Scott Slavin
Technical Director Alex Chmaj
To follow Valerie check out here website here: www.valeriehager.com

Seating is limited.
Advance tickets $20 (+ $2 service charge) Tickets at the door $22

ONGOING:

Moons Over My Hammy

Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B.  The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side.  The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.

Estro 2013! Estrobabes are on Fire

EstroGenius 2013 is in pre-production. So stay tuned for further information. In the meantime, here are what our Estrobabes are working on in the meantime.

CaptureFlux Theatre Ensemble
Presents
Two Plays in Rep:
Sans Merci & Honey Fist
4th Street Theatre

83 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery
Subway: F to Lower East Side–Second Ave, 6 to Astor Pl
Visit here to Purchase Tickets at various rates.
photo (14)-006Dixon Place
Presents
THE LINGERIE AFFECT
written and performed by Laura Pruden

Wednesday,4/17 at 7:30pm in The Lounge at Dixon Place, admission is free!
A bit about The Lingerie Affect:
Laura’s mother once mused that relationships must be complicated now that people are intimate before marriage. By intimate, she meant sex. And she was right. In the era of birth control, liberation, and overnight dating, sex complicates things, and lingerie complicates sex. Raconteur and NYFA Artist Laura Pruden exposes the delicate period between sex and “I Love You,” when insecurity can drive a sensible woman into lingerie.More on the facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/175832372570713/and at Dixon Place: http://dixonplace.org/html/lounge.html

left_out_2013b-300April 20 – 30

Left Out 2013 Staff

Cheryl King, Producer
Joe Hutcheson, Associate Producer
Topher Cusumano, Marketing Consultant
William LoCasto, Graphic Design
Ellen Rosenberg, Lighting Design

Naked In Alaska - Dixon Place Postcard Oversized v3NAKED IN ALASKA – A True Story of Stripping in The Last Frontier 

Performing ONE NIGHT ONLY @ Dixon Place
April 27th 10 p.m.
TIX $12- $15
Follow the link to purchase!
http://www.valeriehager.com/NakedInAlaska

About:
A young woman on the verge of eviction. A best friend who offers an adventure she can’t refuse. A ten-year career that tests the limits of friendship and the will to survive. Naked In Alaska is the true story of Valerie Hager’s career as an exotic dancer in clubs from Mexico to Alaska to California. Told with live pole dancing and over a dozen characters who danced in and frequented these clubs, Naked In Alaska is a fearless look at the objects we make of ourselves to fit in and the buried truths we must face to have a chance at coming home.
Performed by Valerie Hager
Written by Valerie Hager
Directed by Scott Slavin
Technical Director Alex Chmaj
To follow Valerie check out here website here: www.valeriehager.com

Seating is limited.
Advance tickets $20 (+ $2 service charge) Tickets at the door $22

ONGOING:

Moons Over My Hammy

Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B.  The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side.  The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.

Left Out Festival, Sans Merci & Honey Fist, Moons Over My Hammy, Naked in Alaska

Capture
4th Street Theatre
83 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery
Subway: F to Lower East Side–Second Ave, 6 to Astor Pl
Visit here to Purchase Tickets at various rates
Moons Over My Hammy
Runs every Tuesday from 7-8:30 at Otto’s Shrunken Head, 538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A & B.  The show is FREE and the comics and storytellers change each week. Maribeth Mooney is the producer and host. It is a fun show with super cheap drinks and drink specials in a fun, eclectic tiki bar in Manhattan’s Lower East side.  The show also runs on the first Friday of each month at the same location and the same info as above only the time for those shows is 6-7:30.
No one ever taught Abercorn the word “kidnapped.” No one ever taught him anything, in abercornposter.pngfact. Living in submission for years with his captor, a man named Bull, Abercorn is forced to confront the truth about his relationship with the only person he’s ever known.
The Left Out Festival will premiere Topher Cusumano’s play “You’re a Good Boy, Abercorn” on April 24 and 25, 2013 in NYC.

The play is based on Wineville Chicken Coop Murders in which a man named Gordon Northcott kidnapped and murdered a series of little boys in the 1920’s. Due to the quick wits and perseverance of one of the kidnapped boys, Northcott was captured, and tried, in 1929. It was a spectacle that captured the attention of the public for months. Northcott fired several defense attorneys and proceeded to defend himself. He admitted to abusing young boys because “he loved them”.

Cusumano explores this “love that dare not speak its name” in a two-man play that focuses as much on humanity as it does on evil. It’s a hair-raising story, set in a grotesque landscape of ritual, sexual violence, and survivor’s guilt.

Cusumano’s work has been featured in the Left Out Festival twice before – the solo show Roughhouse in 2009, and another 2-hander, Shame, Simon, Shame, in 2010. He’s a New York native, currently living in Savannah, GA and working on his master’s in dramatic writing at SCAD.

Cusumano stars in this production, along with Broadway’s Josh Lamon (Elf, IntoThe Woods, Hair). http://broadwayworld.com/people/Josh-Lamon/

Performances are at 7:30 pm on April 24 (paired with Ean Kessler’s Brotherly Love) and April 25 (paired with Margaret Morrison’s The Loves of Miss Jimmie LeRoy)

The Sixth Annual Left Out Festival – a celebration of LGBT theatre – will run April 20-30 at Stage Left Studio. This annual festival is a benefit for Bailey House (www.baileyhouse.org) which provides housing and support for people living with HIV and AIDS.

Stage Left Studio is located at 214 W 30th Street, 6th floor, NYC (Between 7th & 8th Aves)  www.stageleftstudio.net

Naked In Alaska - Dixon Place Postcard Oversized v3
NAKED IN ALASKA – A True Story of Stripping in The Last FrontierPerforming ONE NIGHT ONLY @ Dixon Place
April 27th 10 p.m.
TIX $12- $15
Follow the link to purchase!
http://www.valeriehager.com/NakedInAlaskaAbout:
A young woman on the verge of eviction. A best friend who offers an adventure she can’t refuse. A ten-year career that tests the limits of friendship and the will to survive. Naked In Alaska is the true story of Valerie Hager’s career as an exotic dancer in clubs from Mexico to Alaska to California. Told with live pole dancing and over a dozen characters who danced in and frequented these clubs, Naked In Alaska is a fearless look at the objects we make of ourselves to fit in and the buried truths we must face to have a chance at coming home.
Performed by Valerie Hager
Written by Valerie Hager
Directed by Scott Slavin
Technical Director Alex Chmaj
To follow Valerie check out here website here: www.valeriehager.com
No one ever taught Abercorn the word “kidnapped.” No one ever taught him anything, in fact. Living in submission for years with his captor, a man named Bull, Abercorn is forced to confront the truth about his relationship with the only person he’s ever known.
The Left Out Festival will premiere Topher Cusumano’s play “You’re a Good Boy, Abercorn” on April 24 and 25, 2013 in NYC.

The play is based on Wineville Chicken Coop Murders in which a man named Gordon Northcott kidnapped and murdered a series of little boys in the 1920’s. Due to the quick wits and perseverance of one of the kidnapped boys, Northcott was captured, and tried, in 1929. It was a spectacle that captured the attention of the public for months. Northcott fired several defense attorneys and proceeded to defend himself. He admitted to abusing young boys because “he loved them”.

Cusumano explores this “love that dare not speak its name” in a two-man play that focuses as much on humanity as it does on evil. It’s a hair-raising story, set in a grotesque landscape of ritual, sexual violence, and survivor’s guilt.

Cusumano’s work has been featured in the Left Out Festival twice before – the solo show Roughhouse in 2009, and another 2-hander, Shame, Simon, Shame, in 2010. He’s a New York native, currently living in Savannah, GA and working on his master’s in dramatic writing at SCAD.

Cusumano stars in this production, along with Broadway’s Josh Lamon (Elf, IntoThe Woods, Hair). http://broadwayworld.com/people/Josh-Lamon/

Performances are at 7:30 pm on April 24 (paired with Ean Kessler’s Brotherly Love) and April 25 (paired with Margaret Morrison’s The Loves of Miss Jimmie LeRoy)

The Sixth Annual Left Out Festival – a celebration of LGBT theatre – will run April 20-30 at Stage Left Studio. This annual festival is a benefit for Bailey House (www.baileyhouse.org) which provides housing and support for people living with HIV and AIDS.

Stage Left Studio is located at 214 W 30th Street, 6th floor, NYC (Between 7th & 8th Aves)  www.stageleftstudio.net