Wily West's Premier Production of PCSFs
Sheherezade XII: 2012
Produced by Laylah Muran
Directed by Ann Thomas and Kat Kneisel
Lead Designer and Producing Director Quinn Whitaker
Costumes by Rhonda Carson
May 11 – 26 Thu/Fri/Sat
(8 performances opening on Friday 5/11)
Featuring:
Diana Brown, Wesley Cayabyab, Abigail Edber, Philip Goleman, Edward Kimak, Melissa Keith, Ben Ortega, Linsay Rousseau Burnett, and Lila Tavelli
performing as an ensemble cast in:
Mission: Irrisistible, by Patricia Milton
Of Machines and Men, by Rod McFadden
The Disadvantaged, by Candice Benge
Traveling Music, by Gaetana Caldwell-Smith
An American Traitor, by Jordan Puckett
Her Special Day, by Rachel Bublitz
One Last Night Stand, by Bridgette Duta Portman
Space Junk, by Kristin Anundsen
Space garbage is falling from the sky and the Mayan's might have something to do with it, but a Russian / American space program might solve all our problems at home. Matt's at the bar and even the end of the world can't get him laid, but at least his mom isn't trying to steal his wedding day focus like Caroline's is. When Dr. Turing thought of thinking machines more than half a century ago, we doubt he had a jealous Prius in mind. Stress can lead a rich man to be ridiculous on the front lines of a revolution at home and a young doctor to tragedy in a war torn nation half a world away. It all happens in around and because of 2012, don't miss it!
The Starving Artists Shakespeare Company presents William Shakespeare's best-known comedy at Stage Werx Theatre this summer, featuring several students and alumni of San Francisco State University. All sets, props, and costumes constructed at TechShop (www.TechShop.ws)
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays July 12-28, 8pm
$12-$15
Contact Scottland83@hotmail.com for more information
CIRCUS FINELLI
~~ Over the Waves ~~
A maritime clown adventure, the legend of four inept sailors who set out across the open ocean toward certain disaster. Over the Waves is a dreamy vaudevillian version of classic sea stories, told through cartoonish physical comedy, circus, and live music on accordion and ukulele
June 25, 26, 27, 8 pm
Aftermath
By Jesslca Blank and Erik Jensen
Directed by Lennon Smith
Thurs/Fri/Sat from June 7-30, 2012
March 20, 2003. A date that the people of Iraq will never forget:
the day the Americans arrived in their homeland.
Creators Blank and Jensen traveled to the Middle East in June 2008 to find out firsthand what happened to the Iraqi civilians as a result of events that began on that fateful day.
They interviewed some 35 people - a cross-section of lives interrupted - who fled the chaos and violence that befell Iraqi society.
This is their unforgettable story.
Tickets: $25
Leslie Beam, star of the 2006 hit comedy solo show miss-matches.com, presents and performs with three other hilarious, insightful and sometimes scary female comics including Aundre the Wonderwoman, Karinda Dobbins and Shanti Charan. M.C. will be Casey Grim. Come on out to the hip Mission Stage Werx to LYAO (cuz Thursday's the new Friday and you can Tivo 30 Rock!)
Thursday May 31, 8pm
Naked Girls Reading
Featuring: Dante, Dorian Faust, Mimi DeMure
Tuesday, June 13 $20 in advance Two for $35 8pm
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Edwin Li & Samson Koletkar blast away at various stereotypes that portray the minorities as goofballs in the mainstream media and entertainment. They take shots at the absurdities that they experience in America as they try to voice the opinions and views of the minorities through humor while not shying away from highlighting the absurdities of their own cultures.
A monthly improv cage-match competition where two teamsenter, one team leaves - your vote decides who getsto return as the Headliner for next month's tournament!
Appearing the first Wednesady of every month
Next show:
Wednesday May 30, 2012
The Picklewater Clown Cabaret
MONDAY May 7, 7pm and 9pm
The Picklewater Clown Cabaret at the Stage Werx Theatre is back from hiatus and the best it's ever been!
Hosted by the San Francisco's own Pi the Physical Comedy Troupe,the Picklewater Clown Cabaret is performed by a broad spectrum of local and international professional circus artists, young circus students, comedians, clowns and merry makers of all stripes.
The Clown Picklewater Cabaret is produced by Picklewater Indiustries and the Clown Conservatory at San Francisco Circus Center, the Picklewater Clown Cabaret brings the world of circus to the San Francisco's Union Square neighborhood every month through the end of the year.
Appearing one Monday of every month (usually the first Monday)
Tickets are $10 in advance on-line and $15 at the door
When's the last time a new music series opened in San Francisco? How about one performed in a theater? And devoted to popular music. Also rock. And World music and classical music, individuals, ensembles, acoustic, electric--though mostly acoustic cause it's a 49 seat theater.
Count on line-ups that are eclectic. It's within the realm of possibility that the artistic director might program one of San Francisco's brightest new singer/songwriter's and let's say, Tuvan Throat singers. No that's too mainstream. A Balkan Brass Band. Not much buzz about Balkan music. Just so happens that's exactly the line-up for show #1 (not the Throat singers, the Balkan Band.) Upcoming shows will feature opera, Afro-jazz and Indie rock.
Tom Sway is Underground Sound's Artistic Director. He is a singer/songwriter who was recently awarded a Shenson Performing Arts Fellowship. Tom has performed, sometimes solo, sometimes with a band at the Red Poppy Art House, Bottom of the Hill, and Cafe du Nord. Tom also played a part in Meklit Hadera's recent success, having served as the vocal coach and musical mentor. Bruce Pachtman and Ty McKenzie comprise the veteran producing team responsible for the monthly solo performance series Solo Sundays, which presents the best solo performers in the Bay Area and is nearing it's second birthday. They also produce the storytelling series Previously Secret Information which celebrated it's first anniversary the same week that it was designated a BEST of 2011 by the SF Weekly. Stage Werx Theatre possesses an iconoclastic history, presenting everything from rock operas to scary movies to improv comedy to staged readings to circus acts. Most importantly it's underground. Like the title of the series. Stage Werx is also arguably the best black box theater in the Bay Area.
Upcoming Shows:
Sunday, June 10, 7pm
Cello Street
Five Cent Coffee
Sunday, July 8, 7pm
Freddi Price
Pamela Rose
Sunday, August 12, 7pm
LA Ben
Josh Housh
Sunday, September 9, 7pm
Todd Brown
Mehgan Dibble
Maria Affinito
Eating Pasta Off the Kitchen Floor
S O L O S U N D A Y S
Hilarious, Heartbreaking & Provocative Solo Performances
Solo Sundays, S.F.'s premier monthly showcase, presents select samplings of veteran virtuosos and top emerging talent in the intimate StageWerx theater near Union Square. Beyond stand-up and storytelling, solo theater creates casts of thousands - plus special effects - all bursting from a single performer. The results are hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and provocative, ablaze with personal visions.
W. Kamau Bell is the co-founded and facilitated of the
Solo Performance Workshop. You may be familiar with his name. His solo show, “The W. Kamau Bell Curve” was a critical and popular success this past year in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and most recently at the Comedy Central Stage in LA. He was honored by the SF Weekly as the 2008 Comedian of the Year. Which is likely the reason that the plays created in SPW deliver a very funny and personal perspective on stories that often contain serous outcomes.
SOLO SUNDAYS is being programmed by Bruce Pachtman,
the co-founder of the Solo Performance Workshop as well
as the writer/actor of “don’t make me look too psychotic”,
the acclaimed solo show that ran for a combined100 weeks in
San Francisco, Philadelphia and LA.
We’re thrilled to announce that SOLO SUNDAYS is being produced at one of San Francisco’s finest venues for solo performance, StageWerx, an intimate 50 seat theater directed by Ty and Cory McKenzie, a theater iconoclast with a history of presenting anything from rock operas to scary movies to improv comedy to staged readings to circus arts.
Please join us for what we’re certain will be one of the best shows in town.
Fourth Sunday of each month
(except when holidays force us to choose another weekend)
Upcoming Shows:
Sunday, June 24, 7pm $12
Nancy Margulies
Brian Rosen
Sunday July 22, 7pm $12
Lisa Marie Rollins
Vanessa Alabarces
Sunday, August 26, 7pm $12
Rebecca Fisher
Enzo Lombard
Sunday, September 23, 7pm $12
Martha Rynberg Class Special
Sunday, October 28, 7pm $12
Vanessa Alabarces
Vanessa Lee Segale Khaleel
Lineup:
Paul Myers
Josh Healy
Joe Klocek
Tickets $15
Website for Previously Secret Information
Upcoming show
Sunday June 17, 2012
Sunday July 15, 2012
Tickets $15
Coming April 2012!
QComedy
SF's favorite place for Queer and Queer-friendly comedy.
For over 12 years, the Monday Night Qcomedy Showcase has presented the best and freshest of San Francisco's LGBTQ comedy scene, plus special guests from all around the world. As much a community event as a comedy show, Qcomedy showcases all the comedy forms featuring stand up, sketch, music, improv, drag queens, poets, clowns and performance
artists. We're straight-friendly, everybody is welcome!
May 21 Lisa Geduldig, Bob Macintyre, Pippi Lovestocking, Dana Cory, Natasha Muse , Matina Bevis
June 18 Ray Pifferrer, Julia Jackson, Scott Backman, Enzo Lombard, The House of Glitter, Justin Simpson, Karen Ripley
8pm $8-20 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)
www.QComedy.com
Partial proceeds from Qcomedy benefit the SF Ducal Court Monarch's Charity Fund.
www.sfducal.org
Join us for a yummy evening of performance! Discover a rising star or rediscover a favorite performer. You may laugh, you may cry, you will always be intrigued!
Tuesday May 8, 7.30pm $12
Tonight's show features Claudia Kraehe in her debut as Laura Grundlich, Office Manager. For 15 years, Laura has diligently passed around Hallmark cards, tried to maintain a hazard-free zone in the refrigerator, dealt with HR issues, and ordered the company furniture. Then, the Fuller Brush man inspires her to pursue a higher calling. She will surprise you with what that calling is.
Our April show also stars Lynn Ruth Miller. She became a professional writer the year she won a silver dollar for her thumbnail biography of newspaper columnist, Dorothy Thompson, the Blue-Eyed Tornado of journalism in the forties and fifties. From that moment forward, Miller determined to be even more blunt, outspoken and outrageous than her role model. At age 78, she has accomplished her goal. She will tell us stories from her one woman show FAREWELL TO THE TOOTH FAIRY to make you laugh, cry and give you the courage to do wonderful something with your own life.
Upcoming Show:
Tuesday June 12, 7.30pm $12
Tonight we celebrate the Merry Month of May with May Revels: Bawdy Women Telling Tales!
Short enchanting, funny, poignant pieces celebrating sex, love, and life -- from a women's point of view.
Sherri Rose, Cosi Fabian, Nancy Totten, Terri Sarappo, and Sally Carter will take the stage. Join us for a yummy evening of solo theater!
