"Emma" is a harrowing story following a closeted, religious teenage boy, Hudson Pierce. As he navigates his way through learning who he is (with the help of his best friend, Parker) his path toward enlightenment is made into a cruel nightmare when he finds out his girlfriend, Lenny, is pregnant.
FRIGID Nightcap July 31st: FUTURE TENSE is a late-night variety show about the culture war over what comes next. Through comedy, drag, burlesque, music, theatre, performance art, and whatever else refuses to behave, FUTURE TENSE asks what happens when we stop worshipping the past and start fighting for a future that is collective, liberated, unruly, and actually worth living in.
Psychic medium and stand up comedian Nelly Reznik will be performing Comediumship, an experimental combination of stand up comedy and audience readings. Readings may consist of connecting with loved ones who have passed, and receiving life guidance for audience members, all in a lighthearted way.
With just the title given by the audience the players of As You Will bring a Shakespearean comedy to life complete with Shakspeare's themes, language, poetic verse, and some scholarly footnotes thrown in for good measure. This production is a part of Frigid NY’s Little Shakespeare Festival.
Barefoot Shakespeare Company's UNREHEARSED! is one part live theatre, one part spectator sport, and entirely unpredictable. Each performer arrives onstage having built their character, gathered their props, and made their boldest choices entirely in isolation to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Comedian and writer Alise Morales reimagines Shakespeare’s classic comedy in a chaotic, irreverent new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that blends the Bard’s original text with sharp modern punch-ups. Featuring a diverse, gender-bent cast of some of NYC’s funniest character performers, the show lovingly satirizes the original while keeping its heart intact.
In A Man Called Paris we get to follow Paris, a 40 year old gay man and professor of classical literature, who is being forced to marry the ruthless Capulet's teenage daughter Juliet, or they will out him to the world and destroy his life and reputation. Stylistically A Man Called Paris draws inspiration from rom-coms and classical farce.
A paean to the Mystical in the theater, with echoes of Hamlet’s ghost. 'Ghostcreator' is the newest theatrical work developed by Studio Child, a NYC-based theater laboratory engaged in long-term performance research and development.
In this solo performance, OPHELIA: A PRISM focuses on Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the ingénue Ophelia- or rather, three aspects of herself. These contrasting Sister Selves (Green, Brass, and Orange) take control of the original narrative to tell their own story of Black Femme joy, oppression, and resilience.
Barefoot Shakespeare Company's UNREHEARSED! is one part live theatre, one part spectator sport, and entirely unpredictable. Each performer arrives onstage having built their character, gathered their props, and made their boldest choices entirely in isolation to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream.
“The Hex Pistols!” is a rock opera starring the witches of Macbeth as the titular punk band. This alternative perspective of the Shakespearean tragedy follows the witches as they taunt the other characters and mock their misfortunes through song and spooky hijinks.
What if he’s the shrew, and he enjoys the taming? Find out in this heart-felt, kinky adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew – come for the handcuffs, stay for the healing.
Verily! Tis the revisionist murder spree every wench hath dreamt of: Shakespeare's two-timing, slut-shaming men finally get their comeuppance from the women they slandered, scorned, and dishonor'd. But don't worry, as with all Shakespeare's comedies, there's a wedding at the end: a Sapphic one!
Sisterhood is powerful, but it isn’t always pretty in this triple bill of savage comedies inspired by Shakespeare. Meet Cleopatra’s asps; vengeful cross-dressing twins Violenta and Vendetta; and the three weird daughters of a witch who tempted Macbeth.
Join Model Majority and friends for a night of Shakespeare-inspired sketch comedy, music and more. Think SNL meets Shakespeare (you have never seen before) performed by a diverse cast.
Following the events of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Olivia and Viola find themselves unhappy in their marriage arrangements, despite what you have been made to think. In this queer and trans only piece, follow Liv and Vi as they navigate what their relationship means now that they are both married to twinks.
Brave Sons of England is a new musical with a classic sound. It follows the story of Shakespeare's Henriad plays, Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth parts One and Two, and Henry the Fifth, telling the story of a series of rebellions and trying to answer the age old question of what gives a man the right to rule.
King Lear is a puppet. His daughter his fool. They each have nothing but each other.
With just the title given by the audience the players of As You Will bring a Shakespearean comedy to life complete with Shakspeare's themes, language, poetic verse, and some scholarly footnotes thrown in for good measure. This production is a part of Frigid NY’s Little Shakespeare Festival.
Come catch the best short films of the month with the EAST VILLAGE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL! June 28th FILMS MONOLITH by Brennan Tomas Haley RESET by Michael Mullen THE SOLDIER'S SHAMAN by Grace Ha NO FACE MAN by Theodore White BOTTLE KNOCKERS by Julia Bloom CRITIC by Zachary Smolder THE MOTHER, THE SONS AND THE HOLY RIVER by Natasha Javed & Nirmal Bano TINY DOLL HOUSE by Jake Schick.
A two-person comedy following co-dependent best friends, Kaden and Madeline, who have yet to get laid– contrary to the fantastical notion of gay adulthood Tumblr had promised them. Entrenched in internet culture and unwaveringly sex positive (at least in theory…), it is a love letter to gay/lesbian solidarity and the found family that comes with it.
"Emma" is a harrowing story following a closeted, religious teenage boy, Hudson Pierce. As he navigates his way through learning who he is (with the help of his best friend, Parker) his path toward enlightenment is made into a cruel nightmare when he finds out his girlfriend, Lenny, is pregnant.
FRIGID Nightcap July 31st: FUTURE TENSE is a late-night variety show about the culture war over what comes next. Through comedy, drag, burlesque, music, theatre, performance art, and whatever else refuses to behave, FUTURE TENSE asks what happens when we stop worshipping the past and start fighting for a future that is collective, liberated, unruly, and actually worth living in.
Psychic medium and stand up comedian Nelly Reznik will be performing Comediumship, an experimental combination of stand up comedy and audience readings. Readings may consist of connecting with loved ones who have passed, and receiving life guidance for audience members, all in a lighthearted way.
With just the title given by the audience the players of As You Will bring a Shakespearean comedy to life complete with Shakspeare's themes, language, poetic verse, and some scholarly footnotes thrown in for good measure. This production is a part of Frigid NY’s Little Shakespeare Festival.
Barefoot Shakespeare Company's UNREHEARSED! is one part live theatre, one part spectator sport, and entirely unpredictable. Each performer arrives onstage having built their character, gathered their props, and made their boldest choices entirely in isolation to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Comedian and writer Alise Morales reimagines Shakespeare’s classic comedy in a chaotic, irreverent new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that blends the Bard’s original text with sharp modern punch-ups. Featuring a diverse, gender-bent cast of some of NYC’s funniest character performers, the show lovingly satirizes the original while keeping its heart intact.
In A Man Called Paris we get to follow Paris, a 40 year old gay man and professor of classical literature, who is being forced to marry the ruthless Capulet's teenage daughter Juliet, or they will out him to the world and destroy his life and reputation. Stylistically A Man Called Paris draws inspiration from rom-coms and classical farce.
A paean to the Mystical in the theater, with echoes of Hamlet’s ghost. 'Ghostcreator' is the newest theatrical work developed by Studio Child, a NYC-based theater laboratory engaged in long-term performance research and development.
In this solo performance, OPHELIA: A PRISM focuses on Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the ingénue Ophelia- or rather, three aspects of herself. These contrasting Sister Selves (Green, Brass, and Orange) take control of the original narrative to tell their own story of Black Femme joy, oppression, and resilience.
Barefoot Shakespeare Company's UNREHEARSED! is one part live theatre, one part spectator sport, and entirely unpredictable. Each performer arrives onstage having built their character, gathered their props, and made their boldest choices entirely in isolation to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream.