Horse Trade presents
A Horse Trade production of

DONNIE AND THE MONSTERS

WRITTEN BY ROBERT J. GIBBS
DIRECTED BY HEIDI G. GRUMELOT

Donnie isn’t good at gym class, making friends, or avoiding bullies. To cope with pre-teen life changes and loneliness his imagination runs wild with monsters, pirates, and talking toilets. A sock puppet play for adults, Donnie and the Monsters deals with the issues we develop during childhood and then cling to or hide from when we grow up.

Horse Trade presents

The Hyperbolist

The extension

The Hyperbolist is a grandiloquent farce of tiny proportion about one desperate human's search for love in a world that offers mostly rakes to step on. In what the Chicago Tribune called, "an archly conceived puppet show," Joe Mazza uses a gaggle of puppets, film, and interactive live performance to explore our collective definition of love.

The show is Leo Buscaglia meets David Lynch. It's the Brothers Quay-- only live. There's flea circus brutality, a puppet crucifixion, and an assignment at the end to run into the streets to smile at strangers. It's a fun and exhausting introduction into Joe Mazza's phantasmagorically raucous world.

Horse Trade presents
The Fire This Time

THROUGH THE AGES
Our Journey Through Music

A Concert Event

Hosted by Steve Strickland

Featuring the musical talents of
Travis Allen, Kristopher Jean, Chris Marcus, Royale Mosley, P. Murray, LeeAnn NobleFemi Shiri, Jay Stone, Antonio Thompson, Robert Urban, and Christine Yarde

Horse Trade presents
A Fire Bone Theatre Procuction

A Mysterious Way

Written by Dallas Theatre Critic Award winner, and Dallas Observer's Best Local Playwright, A Mysterious Way is a story of two men---a youth minister and a drifter. The men strike up an innocent conversation waiting for the same train. But, the encounter between the strangers becomes increasingly uncomfortable as the true intentions of the wayward vagabond are revealed. This dark, poignant drama takes a hard look at faith, evil, and the classic conflict of Man versus God.

THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW: AMBER ALERT offers five brand new, never performed before short stories “ripped from the headlines” by writer Clay McLeod Chapman – each isolating that moment where innocence curdles into something… much, much darker. High school wrestlers with contagious skin diseases, vaginal hymenoplasty, secret diaries from dead astronauts, chemical castration, and parent-teachers conferences – all within one show.

OCTOBER 14-30
Thursday thru Saturday
@8pm
Seating is Limited

Horse Trade presents

RUDI MACAGGI: THE ACROMEDIAN

 

Rudi Macaggi is a third generation circus acrobat and entertainer from Milan, Italy with passion for his work. He has traveled the globe entertaining since the age of 7, becoming fluent in four languages (Italian, English, French, and Spanish) but now calls New York City home.

Every Wednesday
at 1030 pm
Tickets $15

At The Kraine Theater

HORSE TRADE
IN ASSOICATION WITH
SUMMER SHAPIRO & PETER MUSANTE
PRESENT

LEGS AND ALL

A man in an attic meets a woman in a box. As they lure one another into their worlds, their curiosity unfolds to expose a hilarious, mind-bending, innovative allegory for the classic man-meets-woman story.  Rooted in physical comedy and drenched in imaginative stage illusion, LEGS & ALL is an inventive exploration of human loneliness set to an evocative tango-meets-bluegrass score.

Tickets $25 adults/$20 children & seniors
are available by calling
Smarttix at 212-868-4444

WRITTEN BY KIMBERLEA KRESSAL & WILL LARCHE
DIRECTED BY KIMBERLEA KRESSAL

Set in the late 90s on the Lower East Side of New York City, THE LESBIAN LOVE OCTAGON follows the journey of Sue, a less than butch dyke with a broken heart, as she tries to cope with losing her girlfriend to her ex-girlfriend.  When Sue’s friends (a bevy of ex-girlfriends and ex-girlfriends' ex-girlfriends) come rushing to her aid, they incite a tempest of lust and betrayal as they try to convince Sue that the answer to happiness exists in polyamory, protests and pomade. A riotous look at a righteous time in lesbian history, THE LESBIAN LOVE OCTAGON is a musical for anyone who has ever loved wimmin's bookstores, tofu or cats.

Mimi & Gustav
In Love and PIRATES!

WRITTEN BY DENIS WOYCHUK
DIRECTED BY STEVE BRENNAN

Based on Denis Woychuk's beloved picture books about a hippopotamus, Mimi, and a mouse, Gustav, who get what they wish for: adventure, excitement & each other. Big & little, everyone has a special gift. Denis has adapted his stories for the stage with new lyrics & dialogue, Stephen Brennan directs, original music by Caitlin Rodgers.

Tickets ($20, $15 kids, students, & seniors)
are available by calling Smarttix at
212-868-4444

NO TEA PRODUCTION’S

THE KENTUCKY GOBLIN SIEGE

THE KENTUCKY GOBLIN SIEGE is a sci-fi comedy based on accounts of one of the largest reported alien encounters in U.S. history. It’s August 21, 1955 in the small town of Kelly, Kentucky and the Sutton family is welcoming old family friends in from out of town, and settling in for a night of catching up. But when strange goblin-like creatures begin to appear, all hell breaks loose! THE KENTUCKY GOBLIN SEIGE is a hilarious play about xenophobia and reversed expectations, and will feature the biggest gun battle between human actors and alien puppets to ever grace the stage of The Kraine Theater!

October 20-November 24
Wednesdays at 8pm
At The Kraine Theater

WIDE EYED PRODUCTIONS’

THE PRAIRIE PLAYS

WRITTEN BY BRIAN WATKINS
DIRECTED BY ANTHONY REIMER & KRISTIN SKYE HOFFMAN

Wide Eyed Productions will present an evening of two resonant and eerie fables written by playwright Brian Watkins. THE PRAIRIE PLAYS explore questions of myth, family, heritage, faith and fear in very different ways. These ain’t your typical Westerns!

 

RADIOTHEATRE

H.G. WELLS'
THE TIME MACHINE

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY

DAN BIANCHI

Blast off with the Drama Desk nominated Radiotheatre and their new live stage version of the most influential science fiction story of all time…H.G.Wells’ THE TIME MACHINE! Complete with a great cast of storytellers, an elaborate soundscape, and an original orchestral score!

December 14-19, 21 & 22,
and 28 & 29
at 8pm
with matinee performances
December 12 & 19
at 3pm

at The Red Room

Tickets:
$20/$15 students and seniors

THE MANAGEMENT

LONESOME WINTER

WRITTEN BY JOSHUA CONKEL & MEGAN HILL
DIRECTED BY MEG STURIANO

LONESOME WINTER is a melancholy Christmas comedy about Winter, a lonely hoarder who lives alone with her mean spirited cat, Sparkles. Just when Winter is about to throw in the towel, a mysterious stranger in an adorable skirt suit shows up just in time to teach winter how to shine. A hilarious send-up of Cathy comics, lifetime movies, and Christmas clichés.

December 2-19
8pm
Thursday-Saturday
2pm
Sunday

at Under St. Marks

ANIMALPARTS

a quiet sip of COFFEE

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY
ANTHONY JOHNSTON & NATHAN SCHWARTZ
DIRECTED BY ANITA ROCHON

How many times can you say "pull my finger" before it's ripped off and eaten? A QUIET SIP OF COFFEE is the tale of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf', as told by two men who haven't learned its lesson. This new creation by ANIMALPARTS may contain: lying for attention, wild optimism, jokes about things one should never joke about, needless rescues, and a ravenous wolf-man.

DECEMBER 1-12 @ THE RED ROOM

8PM
PRESS PERFORMANCES
DECEMBER 2 & 3