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The Exponential Festival Presents: Being Up in Here and All the Other Businesses that Don’t Concern You OR When You See a Buncha Black People Running, What Do You Do?

January 5 - January 13
Marissa Joyce Stamps

Being Up in Here… follows best friends Aaliyah and Eli who get magical running sneakers and run On Their Way, as far as space as near as Brownsville's GnM bodega, to reach The Final Destination where they're to meet Mama She. But, what happens when they make the unfamiliar familiar and run off course?

Brittain Ashford & Alec Spiegelman play songs for you (together)

January 18
Brittain Ashford & Alec Spiegelman

Brittain Ashford & Alec Spiegelman play songs for you (together) with special guests

How to Be in Front of People: Mastering the Art of Live Performance – 5 Week Intensive

January 23 - February 20
River L. Ramirez

This 5 week intensive will cover the basics of performance for performers and non performers alike. Open to Comedians, performance artists, teachers, doctors, all are welcome.

The Exponential Festival Presents: Más que un Pétalo

January 23 - January 27
Salomé Egas

Más que un Pétalo (More than a Petal) is a multidisciplinary theatrical experience deconstructing the Ecuadorian immigrant experience in the United States. Using dance, theater, textile arts, music and stop-motion video, the performance invites audiences to see the immigration journey of a taxo flower, “Tauzhu Sisa”, an Ecuadorian native plant.

The Exponential Festival Presents: Admin Reveal: An Evening With Miss Lady Salad

January 25 - January 27
Shawn Escarciga (Miss Lady Salad) [Shawn Escarciga]

The veil between URL and IRL thins once more for ADMIN REVEAL. Darling internet pest and real life gayguy Miss Lady Salad welcomes f-slurs far and wide to journey through their valley of memes, celebrating three years of a meme-a-day (or 3) with a little talking, a little sharing, a little durational performance, 15mg of generic Lexapro, and a dream.

The Exponential Festival SalON!: inside/outside

January 29

It's Exponential Festival's (semi-)annual array of sights and delights featuring CATFOX, SB Tennent, Cameron Stuart, Matthew Antoci, Ann Marie Dorr, John-Philip Faienza, William Sydney, Nic Adams, Hillary Gao, Sophia Metcalf, Andy Boyd and Syd Island, Joey Merlo, Kate McGee, Peter Mills Weiss

How to be in Front of People LIVE SHOW + Open Mic

January 30
River L. Ramirez

This is a final class show for How to Be in Front of People taught by River L. Ramirez. Come to watch the final performances (music, comedy, and performance art) from the 4 week intensive students, and sign up for your chance to try out the open mic after the show, limited spot available, 3 minute slots.

The Exponential Festival Presents: ten dreams of metamorphoses or me talk dirty someday

January 31 - February 3
Yuki Kawahisa

You are invited to Yuki’s world! Follow her on a wild solo ride across dreams, memories and *stories*. As you find that precious connection, deep intimacy we all seek from theatre, you might suddenly wonder “Can I actually trust this silly narrator?”, well, can you?

The Saga of the Shining Emblem: Chapter XII

January 31
Matthew Schott

A one-of-a-kind comedy show where YOU are the hero of your very own epic adventure!

The Exponential Festival Presents: NERO – Rough Cut Screening

February 1
Kyoung’s Pacific Beat

NERO is a hybrid event that includes both a work-in-progress screening of this theatrical production followed by a panel discussion on arts journalism regarding pandemic art. The panel discussion will be a conversation between NERO artists and critics to be announced.

BARABALL – Closing Party

February 3
Eureka!

A festival of Art and Performance | Curated by Sam Liebert and Joey Merlo Assistant curated by Mothh Tai. Closing Party features a live performance from Gentle Mothh and Josephine Network.

On Set with Theda Bara

February 6 - March 9
Joey Merlo

In this hallucination of a one-person show, a genderqueer teen who goes missing and their gay detective father come face-to-face with the supernatural and consciousness-devouring Theda Bara, the real-life vamp and silent film star of the 1920s. ON SET WITH THEDA BARA is part gothic coming-of-age story and part campy melodrama about identity consumption and the horror of not knowing who you are.

Stories to Get Us Through the Night

February 16 - February 25
Isabelle Smith

What kinds of stories do you want to hear at the end of the world? Stories to Get Us Through the Night, is a play about storytelling and the end of the world in which the audience members use candlelight to determine which of four distinct endings is enacted on the characters.

DeliaDelia! The Flat Chested Witch!

March 1 - March 2
Amando Houser

The NYC born and based clown Amando Houser is “particularly funny” (Vulture, NY MAG) and “not normal at all” (Philippe Gaulier) They are DeliaDelia! The Flat Chested Witch! She isn’t female but she does use she/her pronouns. She will defy all expectations and will go to ridiculous lengths to try to fit in— even if it kills her. This debut solo show is directed by Kedian Keohan, and is set to premiere at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024.

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The Brick Theater is a not-for-profit dedicated to developing and presenting the work of pioneering emerging artists and career experimenters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We are the artistic home for work that pushes boundaries and spans the ever-evolving spectrum of performing arts, theatre, dance, video, virtual reality, and visual arts. By nurturing emerging artists, sustaining ongoing relationships with frequent collaborators, and removing financial barriers for artists to create work, we create a diverse, accessible, and inclusive artistic community for the city’s most daring artists. We welcome adventurous audiences with low-cost and sliding-scale ticket prices to make performances accessible to all.

Founded in 2002, The Brick has established itself as an essential experimental venue for the production of compelling, new, high-quality work. As a vital part of the New York artistic community, we present 250-300 live performances per year at our two spaces, The Brick and Brick Aux, and welcome over 10,000 audience members each year.

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