MilkMilkLemonade
by Joshua Conkel
directed by Issac Butler

The Management presents MilkMilkLemonade, a play about gay children, a parasitic twin, an antagonistic grandmother, a depressed chicken, and our growing bodies. Bring the kids! (Not appropriate for actual children.)


Tickets $18
$15 Student and Senior

The Dark Heart of Meteorology
by Stephen Aubrey
featuring Richard Lovejoy

Franklin Elijah White is traveling across the country on an increasingly quixotic and personal journey. Aided only by a slide projector and assorted meteorological equipment, he has a simple message: The weather is going to kill us all. Every single one of us.


Tickets $15
$12 Student/Senior

UNDER St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place

An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
With original music by Dan Beeman of Helmet
Directed by Heidi Grumelot in collaboration with Jaq Bessell

Horse Trade Theater Group presents a play about punks (and those who love them) with original music by Dan Beeman of the influential, post-hardcore band HELMET. A cover of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.

The Pumpkin Pie Show: Commencement
by Clay McLeod Chapman
featuring Hanna Cheek

Now entering its second decade of critically acclaimed performances, this season’s edition of The Pumpkin Pie Show explores the bond formed between three women in the wake of a high school tragedy.

Tickets $18
Students/Seniors $15

UNDER St. Marks
94 St. Marks Place

Frankenstein
presented by RADIOTHEATRE

From the critically-acclaimed, award-winning performance group, that brought you KING KONG, WAR OF THE WORLDS, DRACULA, THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE TIME MACHINE and more comes Mary Shelley’s masterpiece adapted for the stage with a great cast of story tellers, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects! All that is required is your imagination!

Tickets $20
Students/Seniors $15

The Kraine Theater
85 E. 4th St

Bail Out The Musical
We put the fun in government funding.

The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

tickets: $20

REMOUNTED IN FEBRUYARY 2010

The 8: Reindeer Monologues
By Jeff Goode

Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

The Red Room

Tickets: Adults $18
Students & Seniors $15

Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues. The end result is a theatre piece of unique eloquence, which will delight audiences of all ages, and draw forth the best efforts of all engaged in its presentation.

Tickets: $18
Students/Seniors $15

After the success of 3-night Brooklyn Burlesque Blitz, The Burlesque Alliance bring their teasing talents to The Big Apple for five nights of winter hotness! Recover from your stressful holiday season with sizzling hot performances by Fisherman’s Burlesque, Bastard Keith, Pinchbottom, Casino O’Fortune Cookie’s burlesque tribute to Patrick Swayze, and a special holiday edition of Revealed!

Tickets $15
(all shows-ticket stub gets $1 off drink at KGB Bar)

PLAYING CRICKET

Written by Andrew Bauer
Directed by Eleonore Dyl 

Playing Cricket is an academic comedy with a twist. Cricket, an aging graduate student (“I have almost not yet turned thirty”) toils away in the departmental library while avoiding graduation. Other characters include the Department Head and his wife, two instructors vying for a promotion, and Cricket’s friend Debra, a sexy undergrad who get her grades any way she can.

Amid the diffusion of the term “post black black,” in American society and art, seven up-and-coming playwrights of African descent including Deborah Asiimwe, Radha Blank, Kelley Girod, Katori Hall, Derek Lee McPhatter, Germono Toussaint, and Pia Wilson have come together to answer these questions. The Fire This Time Festival showcases new short plays as a special Black History Month offering at the Horse Trade Theater. The Festival explores the diverse possibilities of contemporary American drama and challenging new directions for 21st century black theatre.

tickets: $15

EXCLUSIVE NYC THEATRICAL PREMIERE OF A MOST EXCELLENT COMEDIE AND TRAGICAL ROMANCE

One of the most unlikely and extraordinary success stories in modern theater, this is the US premiere of filmmaker Adam Bertocci’s keenly observed parody of Shakespearian archetypes, theatrical convention, modern pop culture, and especially the most beloved work of the Brothers Coen, THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEBOWSKI. Being the misadventures of the beloved rogue known only as The Knave, his explosively assertive cohort, Sir Walter of Poland, and the lady Maude Lebowski, artiste and schemer, whose father Geoffrey “The Big” Lebowski’s declining fortunes trigger a deluge of thievery, kidnapping, violence, mayhem, ninepin, and micturation, all of which lead the normally passive Knave into greater and greater danger, or at least greater and greater confusion. Plus, a pederast named Quince. If it all sounds familiar, it is, or at least it will be until DMT gets a hold of it.

A VOLUMINOUS EVENING OF BREVITY is an evening of short plays both comic and tragic dating to the beginning of the 20th Century. Dysfunctional Theatre Classics’ mission is to produce underperformed scripts from the previous centuries or to give a new take on “classic” plays of past centuries.  All of these works are still considered Dysfunctional; the idea is to encourage the audience to perceive them in a new light and to realize that dysfunction isn’t a product of 21st or even 20th century life; it’s a product of the human condition.

APRIL 8-24
Thursday thru Saturday at 8pm

POPPYCOCK is a contemporary farce about the various ways we lie to people in order to prevent them from discovering how much we've been lying to ourselves. At a remote bed & breakfast in the northeast, the owner, Fred, is frantically trying to avoid losing the house to his rival and former friend, Barney. When an eccentric family accidentally ends up stranded at the house for the night, Fred finds an unlikely ally in Poppy, a troubled but confident 25-year-old who has never left home and is eager to escape her controlling sister Hailey, and Hailey’s suspicious boyfriend Howard, both of whom seem to suddenly want a piece of the bed & breakfast for themselves.

Tickets: $15

THE HAUNTING OF 85 EAST 4th STREET

It all began in 1882 when the original tenement collapsed killing 31 Italian immigrants.  From then on, the ground itself was said to be cursed.  When the current building was erected at the turn of the century, an exorcism was held...it didn't work.  After a night of terror, the priest left the priesthood.  Within a year, the builder's son died falling down the long stair case...and the mother hanged herself in what is now the theater.  The owner succumbed to madness and still haunts the place.  He's only one of the many inhabitants who still reside there...

The Last Supper

Written by Dan Rosen
Directed by Akia

Eat. Drink. Be Buried…
A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering for their political beliefs in the pursuit of changing the world for good.
Would you play God if you could?

The Management present

SONG FOR A FUTURE GENERATION

Written by Joe Tracz
Directed by Meg Sturiano

Clones, robots and teenage time travelers search for connection at a dance party aboard a satellite. So what if its purpose is to celebrate an exploding star? For the kids in this "sci-fi dance party spectacle" this is going to be the BEST NIGHT EVER.

The Drafts Fest:
Pre-Existing Condition

The Drafts Fest is the collaborative effort of seven playwrights, seven directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts and their invited Guests based on this year’s theme, Pre-Existing Condition.

North
American tour of:
Right Back Where We Finished

The Cody Rivers Show creates kinetic and unpredictable comedy theatre that has amazed audiences and defied description for the past five years. Pushing the envelopes of physical theatre, dance, music, and highconcept comedy, The Cody Rivers Show delivers unique shows unlike any other comedy act, past or present. Their latest new piece – ‘Right Back Where We Finished’ – sprints between precocious youths, game theory, pioneerera linguistics, ants and prairie dogs, the confessions of an unruly teen, eccentric old men, baby jockeys, pingpong, and oh so much more. It’s like running a marathon, doing algebra, and eating cake at the same time.

THE SUBJECTIVE THEATRE COMPANY’S PRODUCTION OF

SWALLOW

WRITTEN BY THE SUBJECTIVE THEATRE COMPANY’S COLAB
DIRECTED BY JEFFREY WHITTED

Can love come in a pill?  Is decreased romantic satisfaction a chemical imbalance that can be solved with a prescription, or is it a personal failing?  SWALLOW explores how modern relationships are both hindered and influenced by society’s idea of love and courtship when a pharmaceutical company invents a love drug called Amorex and assembles a panel of experts (a.k.a) “love gurus” to administer the test amongst unassuming couples.

Red Bastard is a Dangerous Seductive Comedy Monster!

After 5-star reviews and sold out shows across North America
and Europe,  America’s premiere bouffon unleashes a
pompous theatrical master class in this critically-acclaimed
Bouffon show.  

His mission:  to charm, disarm, shock and seduce. 
His target: you.  

$18

GRAYCE PRODUCTIONS
PRODUCTION OF

RIGHT CROSS RHAPSODY

WRITTEN BY TODD MICHAEL
DIRECTED BY WALTER HOFFMAN

RIGHT CROSS RHAPSODY is an affectionate parody of 1930’s-style films, which combines elements of Hollywood boxing melodramas such as Golden Boy and City for Conquest while adding a soupcon of backstage musicals.  With riotous jokes, quips, double-entendres this movie parody is bound to please audiences of all ages.

Tickets: $18
$15 Stu/Sen/Mil

Wreckio Ensemble's production of

BASED ON A TRUE STORY:

THE SEX EDITION

WRITTEN BY WRECKO ENSEMBLE & THE AUDIENCE
DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER BAMONTE

BASED ON A TRUE STORY is a performance series created by Wreckio Ensemble solely through letters, journal entries, and emails submitted by our audience. THE SEX EDITION is all about sex! Wreckio is bringing back the one night stand that ends with sandpaper, the tale of a week’s worth of cross-gender sex, the Russian mail-order bride looking for love, and possibly your own dirty little secret.

In celebration of North American independence Horse Trade, under the auspices of NAFTA and AFTRA and AFLAC, has joined forces with the autonomous nation of Canada to create a fun little festival bringing back some of our winter FRIGID favourites.  Opening on Canada Day with a special early evening edition of the FRIGID sensation Canuck Cabaret and closing with the annual Horse Trade 4th of July BBQ this mini festival is crammed with all the patriotism we as North Americans can muster during this special holiday season.