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| For high resolution press pictures click on image Medea Knows Best:
Alissa Mortenson & Erin Douglas - Photo: Rob Gruhl
Alissa Mortenson - photo Rob Gruhl
Kate Ryan, Erin Douglas, Mok Moser, Annalisa Derr - photo Rob Gruhl
Kate Ryan, Victtoria Micalizzi, Alissa Mortenson, Erin Douglas - photo Rob Gruhl DIVAfest Cabaret:
Libby O'Connell - photo Laurie Gallant |
DIVAfest 2008, the 7th annual EXIT Theatre festival dedicated to creating new work by women writers. Featuring a new play by Claytie Mason and Alissa Mortenson of Nebunele Theatre, a play-in-progress by Pireeni Sundaralingam, poetry by Diane di Prima, the DIVA Cabaret and trashy chic fashions. MEDIA AND REVIEWS Medea Knows Best DIVA Cabaret War Harvest More or Less Love Poems Published and unpublished “love” poems to friends, pets, trees, plants, family, dead poets, painters and alchemists, various lovers of varying genders, astral encounters, my kids, times & places that may never have been, ones I’m sure existed but maybe shouldn’t have — these love poems — are grouchy, happy, sad, ecstatic, erotic, disgusted, silly, bemused, enraged, and of course “hip” (whatever that means) -- as you would expect from someone who’s been keeping on keeping on and loving (or not) whatever comes her way. Puppy love from a 73 year old, and wisdom from an almost-teenager . . . Come and give a listen. Like The Lady sez “No Regrets”. There’ll be plenty of time for Q & A. . . Trashy Chic |
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Rebecca Fisher's THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE
DISASTER On February 27, 1995, wife and mother EMILY FISHER, was murdered in her Midtown Memphis home. Join solo performer REBECCA FISHER for the return of her tour de force one-woman show that explores family, race, southern identity, and THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE DISASTER. "Smart, challenging, disarmingly funny and unmistakably affecting."
"A story both highly individual and culturally resonant."
"The only thing an audience member can do is absorb the 'magnificence'
of it." Tickets $12 CLICK
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THE PANDORA EXPERIMENT by Christian Cagigal FRI/SAT 8pm MAR 14 - APR 12 EXIT Stage Left Tickets: $12 - $20 sliding scale at the door and $20 online. Reservations: 415-673-3847. CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE TICKETS RETURNING FOR 4 MORE WEEKS JULY 25 - AUGUST 16!!! Master Magician & Illusionist Christian Cagigal returns. "The Pandora Experiment" is inexplicable theatrical magic EXIT Theatre brings back acclaimed magician and illusionist Christian
Cagigal to reprise his latest show, The Pandora Experiment, presented by
EXIT Theatre and Zeitgeist Artworks. Cagigal's previous work at the EXIT
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CALL MR ROBESON The monodrama with songs by Tayo Aluko EXIT on Taylor (277 Taylor Street in San Francisco) Thursday 8pm April 10, 2008 Tickets: $20/$15 from Modern Times Bookstore 415-282-9246 Paul Robeson is a great and famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. |
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(clockwise from upper left) Sarah McKereghan, Liz Roddy, Noah Kelly, Deborah Wade, Mark Rachel PHOTO:Peter Q. Parish |
Mimetic, a new comedy by RIPE Theatre. Directed by Peter Q. Parish, written and performed by Noah Kelly, Sarah McKereghan, Mark Rachel, Liz Roddy and Deborah Wade RIPE Theatre is at it again, finding inventive ways to write and create fresh, innovative performances. Like their award winning @six (winner of Best Ensemble in the 2006 SF Fringe Festival) Mimetic’s script is derived from the characters, a mimicry of human reactions, animal behaviors, and the search for reason and meaning – “Why does this always happen to ME?!” Dharma, fate, and free-will come into question in this dark farce where a turtle’s shell is its fort from which it lobs verbal abuse upon the sacrificial kangaroo – where the hero craves conflict with the boy next door – and a whole new meaning is brought to the term, “Wise-Ass.” REVIEWS EXIT Theatre FRI/SAT 8pm MAR 7 - 29 Tickets $12-$20 sliding scale ($20 online) Reservations: 415-673-3847 CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE TICKETS RIPE Theatre is a Theatre-In-Residence at EXIT Theatre. |
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SERVE BY EXPIRATION. Now in its tenth year, The Thunderbird Theatre Company presents "Serve By Expiration." After last year's successful sketch comedy show, SBE returns to show that no job is worth hiding under your desk and crying. It's the little things that make your office job suck. Overbearing bosses…
unrequited office romances… the coffee barista who's trying to start
a Worker's Revolution and then there's that part-man, part-vegetable co-worker
who's threatening your job security. It's the nightmare job told in bite
size portions of comedy. |
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Admission is FREE. No reservations required. EXIT Cafe 8pm MAR 10 Precarious Theatre presents a semi-staged reading of its new play Sierra Serenade, which will premiere at the EXIT in October 2008. Sierra Serenade is an adaptation of a short story found in the pages of Miguel de Cervantes classic "Don Quixote" and involves a quartet of lovers weathering the extremes of romantic emotion. The short story we are adapting for the stage, "The History of Cardenio," is thought to be the source material for a lost Shakespeare play. Above all, Sierra Serenade is a Valentine to interpersonal relationships in their many forms, both celebrating the joy and ecstasy that the emotion of love can bring to the lives of characters, but also the cruelty and desperation that it can engender. The time seems ripe to create a new work centered on a bold, large, emotionally expressive and deeply personal theme that is universal from age to age, from person to person, and from country to country. We are excited to invite the audience to participate in our development process and get a sneak peak at this brand new work-in-progress. |
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Sean Owens & Christina Augello in Her Majesty PHOTO: Laurie Gallant |
NEW YORK CITY: Red Room Theater, 85 East 4th Street,
between 2nd & 3rd Avenues (Bowery)Third Floor, No Wheelchair Access.
Tickets: $15 You are cordially invited by Christina Augello and Sean Owens to revel and play with HER MAJESTY -- A breakneck farce-for-two where queens of every kind collide and quick changes and theatrical follies soon give way to the folly of theater. If you can't follow the plot, no worries -- neither can playwright Sean Owens and his diva, Christina Augello! Question their sanity ... but never HER MAJESTY. A fun-filled flurry of people, places and plots by Sean Owens, named "Best Comic Playwright" by the SF Weekly. playwright Sean Owens; |
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ASHES TO ASHES by Harold Pinter and AFTERPLAY
by Brian Friel EXIT Stage Left FEB 20 - MAR 1 THUR/FRI/SAT 8pm Tickets: $20 (Preview performance WED FEB 20 8pm) Purchase online: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/26095 Purchase by phone: 800-838-3006 One acts plays by two of the British theatre's greatest living writers, Harold Pinter and Brian Friel, explore characters who struggle to understand the past in order to shape their futures. Harold Pinter's ASHES TO ASHES depicts a husband's efforts to unearth information about a mysterious relationship in his wife's past. In Friels's AFTERPLAY, characters from two of Anton Chekhov's major plays, THE THREE SISTERS and UNCLE VANYA, meet twenty years later in a shabby Moscow cafe. Directed by Stephen Drewes. Cast - Mary Samson, Aaron Murphy. Light & Sound Design: Tyler Null |
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FUNNY BUT MEAN presents FUNNY BUT MEAN'S NEXT SHOW (cruel and unusual sketch comedy) EXIT Theatre 8pm Mondays 8pm FEB 11 & 18. (see www.funnybutmean.com for details) Cast: |
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