...and we all wore leather pants
September 6th – 29th Thursdays – Saturdays @ 8pm Sun @ 2pm @ UNDER St. Marks
Its Buried Child meets Def Leppard. It’s 100 Years of Solitude written by Twisted Sister. The ground literally moves beneath the feet of the Sturgess family with the arrival of a strange visitor, some heavy metal-tinged magic in the air and the revelation that one of them may be part of the world’s most notorious rock band. Disgraced Productions brings to the stage all the fun, attitude and absurdity of 80s heavy metal mixed with a working class family trying to keep all that they have, each other, from slipping away.
Presented by Veteran Resident Dysfunctional Theater Company
A little girl from America’s Heartland is commanded by God to rule the world. Well, not God exactly, an angel. Well, maybe not an angel, more of a ghost. But a famous ghost! Struggling to fulfill her destiny she goes to a radical college, has a career, a husband & a baby, toys with a wide variety of hairstyles (and headbands!), becomes a Democrat, a First Lady and a Senator. She’s going to be leader of the world – free or otherwise.
Why?
Because it’s what God wants.
September 17 – September 26th Mon – Wed at 8pm @ UNDER St. Marks
Stand up, sketch and music. Free show, amazing lineup and $4 tallboys. Who could ask for anything more?
Sunday, October 7th @ 7pm.
All Horse Trade patrons and friends are invited to celebrate a full decade of Indie Theater.
Horse Trade is proud to present newFangled theatReR’s extension of Mac Wellman’s Harm’s Wayout of the first-ever FRIGID Festival.
Harm’s Wayis a dark comedy that explores themes of Anger through the footfalls of Santouche, an anti-hero that embarks on a fantastical journey after committing an impulsive act of violence.
October 2 – 30th Tuesdays @ 8pm & Saturdays @ 10:30pm @ UNDER St. Marks
Mr. and Mrs. Matinee themselves, Skip Rayburn and Dottie Haines, host the 1950s television show “Sunrise Cinema” and eagerly present the long-lost thriller, Say Your Prayers, Mug! In between the bubbly hosts’ banter, the 1935 gangster flick comes to life on stage, complete with fist-swingin’ cops and fast-talkin’ mobsters. A parody within a parody, SAY YOUR PRAYERS, MUG! Playfully sends up not one, but two genres of yesteryear.
October 4 – 27 Thursday – Saturday @ 8pm in The Red Room.
Presented by Resident Company The Stolen Chair Theater Co.
October 4 – 27 Thursday – Saturday @ 8pm @ UNDER St. Marks
Alumni Resident Clay McLeod Chapman, "the literary descendent of Edgar Allen Poe... " (Time Out NY), returns with The Pumpkin Pie Show. Rise and rejoice.
Halloween 2007 @ 8pm at UNDER St. Marks
Pumpkin carving party after the show. (BYOP)
FRIGID New York Lottery winners announced at midnight
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Glass Houses
We all live in structures--some we see, some we don't. Some we create, some are created for us. Glass Houses is the story of five people whose hidden structures are revealed as their lives begin to unravel. This explosive new drama explores the intricacy of our structured lives and the delicacy of our relationships.
November 1 - 17 Thursdays – Saturdays @ 8pm @ UNDER St. Marks.
Anita's Underground
New York’s only Drinking Game Show! This monthly production tangles a classic television game show up with a bit of burlesque and a lot of beer drinking. Hosted by New York City-based burlesque performer and producer, Anita Cookie, this show is chock full of fun drinking games, and tasty trivia where every audience member has a chance to play and win!
Horse TRADE presents
A Rising Sun Performance Company
Workshop Production:
Two Minds, Two Worlds, One Subway Platform.
A’spress
By Adam Purvis
Directed by Akia
Featuring the ensemble of Rising Sun Performance Company
How far will someone go to outrun guilt?
How long can the most unlikely of friendships survive in the streets?
This is the story of Jack & Benji, two companions brought together out of tragic circumstances, one with a guilt ridden conscience and dark past, the other with only the present and surviving in his scope.
One Night Only
Robert A. Brader, Sr. died on March 3, 2003.
Everybody loved him, but nobody knew him.
Except his son
Santa himself is back at the top of the naughty list this year as Dysfunctional Theatre Co. continues a new holiday tradition. Following its critically acclaimed, sold out run in 2005, the “comedy that puts the X in Xmas” (Time Out New York) is back for its second year! It’s another chance to see the tragic tale of how sex, alcohol, pedophilia and rampant bestiality threatened the very existence of Christmas.
Veteran Resident company Dysfunctional Theatre Company continues their drunken holiday tradition with
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
by Jeff Goode
November 29 – December 21 in The Red Room
As youth, rebellion and lust give way to
betrayal and obsession, one moment changes them forever and takes them on very separate paths.
How can you let go of the past when it has shaped your entire life? And what if you don't want to?
Februaty 7th thru the 23rd
Thursdays thru Saturdays
8pm
In March of 2007, Horse Trade and San Francisco’s EXIT Theatre broke new ground in the New York theater scene with the debut of FRIGID New York, An open and uncensored theater festival that gives 100% of box office procedes to the artist..
3 THEATERS, 12 DAYS, 30 COMPANIES, 164 PERFORMANCES
With acclaim from American Theatre Magazine, Backstage, Playbill, Broadwayworld.com, The Villiage Voice, United Stages, and full coverage from nytheatre.com, 29 theater companies featuring almost 250 theater artists from all over the world flooded downtown Manhattan for two weeks to peddle their artistic wares for over 2,000 ecstatic audience members!
April 3- 26
Thursday through Saturday
at 8pm
Bound and blindfolded in a war-torn country, two hostages take refuge in music, memory and each other in this new indie-rock musical.
NEW HAMELIN
a new musical workshop
SAT, APRIL 26 @ 2PM & SUN, APRIL 27TH @ 7PM
TICKETS: $12
If your Maker is chasing you and you’re already made, logic would tell us it’s coming to unmake you…
Kalib is bleeding to death and on the run from his Maker, but before he dies a few people want to talk to him. ARMOR OF WILLS is a heart-stopping race through a purgatorial landscape of loved ones and lost ones.
MAY 1 - 17
THURSDAY - SATURDAY @ 8PM
TICKETS: $18 STUDENTS/SENIORS $15
MAY 10-JUNE 3
SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
@ 8pm
TICKETS: $20
STUDENTS/SENIORS $15
There is a legend spoken of in hushed whispers amongst connoisseurs of mystery, adventure, and fine living…
In this provocative comic play by award winning writer, Dan Trujillo, a trio of performers tells the audience the remarkable story of an atheist trying to disprove God’s existence by stealing a baby Jesus from a nativity scene, unleashing a series of miracles that prove the existence of the Christian God he denies. But did any of this really happen? And do the actors even believe the story they're enacting?
June 12-21
Thursday through Saturday at 8pm
Tickets: $18 Students/Seniors $12
A Rising Sun Performance Company
Perceptions
We all view things just a little differently..
An Evening Of One Acts
Rising Sun’s Aspire to Inspire Series
Founding Artistic Director, Akia has selected the work of 3 up and coming playwrights as part of their “Aspire to Inspire” Series, one of RSP’s many programs created to support the work of emerging and established NYC theatre artists. Two of the plays are making their stage debut, and the other scripts have been paired with new directors to allow a fresh perspective on the work. All of the pieces feature the critically acclaimed Rising Sun Ensemble & Guest Artists.
THE ARTISTICAL PROCESS OF MARK AND ANDY is a comedy that explores the journey of two friends who, with moth-like tenacity, attempt to create their dream video project; bravely leaving behind the clichéd artistic notions of attention-span, humility, the desire to learn, and talent.
July 24 - August 9
Thurs-Sat at 8 pm
Tickets: $18 Students/Seniors $15
