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This "documentary for the stage" explores two dark moments in Russian history: the stories of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A collaboration between Gemini CollisionWorks and The Brick Theater, A Little Piece of the Sun uses a collage of found texts to reveal the institutional corruption underlying these tales of mass death. Learn more...

Gemini CollisionWorks and The Brick Theater bring iconoclastic German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder's satiric 1971 play to the stage. Blood, also sometimes known as Marilyn Monroe vs. The Vampires, follows a beautiful blonde space alien as she attempts to learn about human beings at a cocktail party. When talking proves unsuccessful, she resorts to vampirism. Learn more...

Originating as an improvisational performance duet, Sacrificial Offerings centers on a drawing room séance among the upper class of many decades past. The centerpiece of this short play -- a collaboration between The Brick Theater and Gemini CollisionWorks -- is a video artwork that represents the spirits of the departed. Learn more...

Utilizing World of Warcraft, Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto 4, Machinima Theater auteur Eddie Kim presents four classical theater texts, as performed by online video game characters manipulated by gamers live on stage. They will perform the stories of Niobe and the Japanese poet, Ono no Komachi as never before. Learn more...

The Brick Theater's Antidepressant Festival continues with a science-fiction-themed play presented in the style of a 1950s radio drama. Samuel and Alasdair centers on two brothers whose love is split wide open as an unsettling hum gives way to full scale invasion. The play includes live music and foley sound effects. Learn more...

Part of The Brick's Antidepressant Festival, Exit, Pursued by Bears focuses on Leon, the vice president of Chicago's leading sanitation union who leads a double life as Tickle Bear, the leader of an online anonymous furry sex community. A union strike, an STD, and bizarre nightmares about travel brochures compel his fellow furries to ensure he stays in the clan. Learn more...

From the company that created the award-winning Bouffon Glass Menajoree comes this surreal, dark, comic look at one Minnesota couple's struggle to find companionship, sympathy and the L-word. ...and the fear cracked open incorporates film, puppetry, mask-work, animation, physical comedy and musical score. Learn more...

Part of The Brick Theater's Antidepressant Festival, The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot's Caucasian Mother and Her Other Children of a Lesser Marriage Chalk Circle is a new comedy masquerading as a recently uncovered "classic" from 1900 that was somehow both hugely influential and little known. The play deals with corruption in a Belle Epoque Parisian pharmaceutical factory. Learn more...

In this fantastical romp through pre-civilized Europe, and the medieval art and science of nosemaking, a young orphan is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, and becomes one of the finest surgeons in Vienna. But when they are unable to help a mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet literally over the fire. Learn more...

The Colonists tells the story of an earthworm who dreams of flying, a rabbit with a penchant for pie making and the fascinating mechanics of the pollen collecting-industrial complex. With electrified puppets, explosions and lasers, The Colonists: A Puppet Show was developed through a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation. Learn more...

The Brick Theater presents The Granduncle Quadrilogy, a holiday special for a made-up holiday. Listen to Granduncle, ancient storyteller and veteran of an endless war, as he and his fellow citizens mix folktales, fictional ethnology and war stories to conjure a mordant yet moving portrait of an imaginary icebound world that curiously mirrors our own. Learn more...

In the alternate world of Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution Live!, George Washington has died at the Battle of Brooklyn and things have gone downhill ever since. Lord Oxford and his troupe perform to lift the spirits of the those living in difficult times with skits and songs accompanied by a live onstage band. Learn more...

Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival, The Russian Office is a live installation created and performed by Denni Dennis. You'll stand face-to-face with Lenin, stacks of registration papers, export documents and magazines featuring a selection of hot girls as you wait for the stamp in your registration papers. Welcome to Russia. Learn more...

The New York Clown Theatre Festival presents Boston's Daniel Forlano in A Glass of Wine. Forlano has been called "The Steven Wright of physical comedy"; he's known for his inventive and precise work. In this show, he attempts to relax with a glass of wine, with outlandishly complicated results. Learn more...

Using precise physical movement, lyrical clowning and music reminiscent of the Universe's First Delta, The Big Bang dives into the richness of the world that awes and frightens us. From the creation of the universe to love and heartbreak to the quest for chocolate caramels, the Mitchel Evans Mime Project presents the large and small of life through the charming, provocative soul of the clown. Learn more...

The Brick Theater's New York Clown Theatre Festival presents The Birdmann. The Australian performer delivers a unique performance influenced by classic vaudeville, featuring plastic bag juggling, knife-throwing, nostril tea-drinking, and much more. His enthusiasm is infectious, and has led to acclaim in his home country and the 15 nations where he's performed. Learn more...

The New York Clown Theatre Festival presents a double bill of acts which push the boundaries of clowning. Big and Little, featuring members of Minneapolis' Live Action Set, tells the tale of two fools' friendship; David Engel plays the title role in El Magnifico!, a comical magician. Learn more...

The New York Clown Theater Festival presents Manifesto!, a show by Washington, DC's Happenstance Theater. This absurdist comedy draws its text from actual manifestos throughout history to create a surreal, hilarious show. It was a huge hit at the recent Capital Fringe Festival. Learn more...

The Brick Theater presents Ten West. The acclaimed comedy duo from Los Angeles incorporates clowning, mime and vaudeville into their inspired physical comedy. They recently performed with the LA Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. This show is part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival. Learn more...

Brick Theatre presents C'est La Nuit Qu'il Faut Attraper La Lumiere. Part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival, this whimsical and poignant show show from France's Companie Accès-Soir presents the remarkable world of Miss Oberniche. This charming chow is presented in English. Learn more...

The Brick Theater presents Harry in Love: A Manic Vaudeville. Written by playwright Richard Foreman, critics often view it as a transitional play between his earlier, conventional work and the abstract spectacles he later became known for. The plot concerns a neurotic New Yorker who, convinced his wife is unfaithful, contrives to keep her unconscious until her paramour leaves. Learn more...

The Brick Theater presents Everything Must Go, a play which melds dance with business jargon to tell the story of a day in the life of eleven workers at an advertising agency. Meetings, coffee breaks, and petty office backstabbing are interspersed with musical-theater sequences representing the characters' inner lives. Learn more...

The Brick Theater presents the world premiere of Spell, a new drama by Ian W. Hill. It's the story of a woman being questioned for a horrific political crime. As the woman struggles to make sense of her surroundings and recent events, she questions her sanity and the morality of her actions. Learn more...

Born out of improvisation, The Stubborn Illusion of Time tells the story of a living man who stumbles into an old casket factory and emerges, his head bursting with what he has seen: ghosts frozen in a photograph. Learn more...

Mr. and Mrs. Child (T. Ryder Smith & Mike Daisey) live in perpetual enmity with their only mistake: Horrible Child (Paul Willis). Mother and father have a dream: that one day The Exterminator will arrive to cap H.C. and set them free. This is a visually minimal, sonically lush, perversely comic talk-opera catalog of human dysfunction from Lawrence Krauser and Larissa Tokmakova. Learn more...

Q&A, the hilarious and engaging new comedy from the creators of Suspicious Package and This is the New American Theater, presents a scathing critique of Hollywood politics told via a mock question-and-answer session for a new indie film, The Perception of Dawn. As the Q&A progresses, the truth behind the process of filmmaking comes out, revealing the relationships and vulnerability behind the Hollywood facade. Learn more...

Puppets, shadows, and sounds remind audiences what it is to encounter the strangeness of death for the first time, and show us why the woods beyond the funeral home can be the perfect place to play hide and seek. The Village Voice calls it "striking...creepy, yet also endearing and surprisingly expressive." Learn more...

Dawn sees promise in the grandiose fantasies of her friend Daniel, who dreams of one day building a theater on a cliff. She also knows scant time remains before she's lost him to the loose and cocksure girls of the Cabaret Magnifique. But will Dawn's confidence avail her? Or will she find herself in a struggle for which she's not yet prepared? Learn more...

In the stage play Death at Film Forum, four hip, overweening cinephiles compete in the cruelest of cruelties: an Indie Film-off with one auteur left standing. Naturally, the story ends in murder. Learn more...

A Paranoid's Guide to History is documentary theatre that combines spoken word, music and video. From Tom Paine to Tom Cruise, from James Bond to global warming, this show examines the broader implications of seemingly incidental events and practices from a deeply suspicious perspective. Learn more...

It's You Bet Your Life--live! This film trivia edition is Lisa Levy's hilarious updated tribute to Groucho Marx's classic 1950s TV game show, You Bet Your Life, with Lisa taking on Groucho's role (but without a mustache). Contestants will be chosen from the audience. Learn more...

The Magnificent Ambersons is an exact theatrical re-creation of the butchered Orson Welles film adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel, as Welles had intended it to be seen. Reconstructed from the documents and photos that still exist, this stage production is as close to Welles' movie as anyone is likely to see. Learn more...

Kill Me Like You Mean It is a restaging of Kiran Rikhye's "clever whodunit" (Backstage). When a nightclub singer is shot dead on stage, private detective Ben Farrell is on the case. This timely, absurdist film noir creates comic chaos out of the possibility that American life might be pointless. Learn more...

Experience the fall of ancient civilization in an intimate Brooklyn performance space as a cast of dozens re-create the Temple of Ishtar, priestesses, prostitutes, prophets, plutocrats, undercover lovers, displaced Jews, seekers of bloody vengeance, invading Persians and a lion. Learn more...

Inspired by the adventure-filled dime novels of the 19th and early 20th century, Penny Dreadful is an innovative epic for the stage. The year is 1909 and the discovery of a bloodless body has San Francisco abuzz. It will be up to a second-rate showman and an oddball detective of the supernatural to put together the clues. Learn more...

Descend into the squalid, candlelit dwelling of Dostoevsky's Underground Man. Sit on his broken furniture and battered books. Experience his wretched loneliness. Feel his penetrating anguish. Fear his outbursts of manic rage. Notes from Underground is a five-part dramatic oratorio exploring the Underground Man's desperate masochism. This dark, environmental production returns for a limited time after a critically acclaimed run in the 1999 Fringe Festival. Learn more...