The Brick presents Old 2 Begin: A Variety Open Mic for Writers & Performers Over Age 35 Hosted by Aston Hollins with Joe Miles & Chet Siegel 2 Thursdays per month, July through October 2024 7/11, 7/25, 8/15, 8/29, 9/12, 9/26, 10/10, 10/24 Sign up at 7PM | Mic 7:30-9:30PM at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave Free! Old 2 Begin is a supportive platform for our seasoned performers to try out new material in: stand-up, music, poetry, character,…
The Brick presents Lucky Breaks By Yevgenia Belorusets Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky Adapted by Jaclyn Biskup & Sara Farrington Live Performances October 11-27, 2024 Livestream Oct 20 at 5PM at The Brick – 579 Metropolitan Adapted by Jaclyn Biskup & Sara Farrington Directed by Jaclyn Biskup Production Stage Manager Sam Kersnick Scenic Design by Nora Smith Marlow Costume Design by Kristy Hall Lighting Design by Jackie Fox Sound Design by James Worth Bennett Additional Choreography by Oksana Horban Featuring Katie Broad, Hanna…
The Brick presents The Sea at Brick Aux Gallery – 628 Metropolitan Ave October 12 – November 2, 2024 A multimedia gallery show by Helen Oliver Adelson & Alex Wolkowicz Please join us for an Opening Reception on Saturday, October 12, 6-8PM “This exhibition is, for me, an ode to the Sea. Its Beauty, Its Mystery, Its Power, To the Joy and the Terror that it can inspire.” –Helen Oliver Adelson Oliver’s gestural line and the deeply felt presence of the sitter…
The Brick presents SalOn!: FRUIT ON THE BOTTOM October 12, 2024 at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm FREE (sliding scale donations happily accepted) *** Hatched at Silent Barn in August 2014, this long-running affair brings together artists, comedians, chefs, scientists, theologians – anyone with something to share in a DIY, low-stakes setting – in one delightfully unpredictable night. Once a season (or so) we gather at Brick Aux to fill the pockets of your mind.…
BrickFlix Presents MALA MALA Directed by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles Monday, October 28, 2024 Doors at 7PM | Screening at 7:30PM at The Brick Theater – 579 Metropolitan In a celebration of the trans community of Puerto Rico, MALA MALA captures the triumphant highs and devastating lows in the fight for personal and community acceptance in the oldest colony in the world. Told through intimate moments, performances, friendships, and the activism of trans-identifying people, drag queens, and others who defy…
The Brick presents Fright Night Featuring Nadia Pinder & Alyse Lamb October 30 at 8PM at The Brick – 579 Metropolitan Fright Night featuring Nadia Pinder's A High School Murder Mystery and Alyse Lamb's Psychoplasm Fix : AKA Body Mess. Witness a bone-chilling live musical performance followed by a spine-tingling interactive murder mystery show! A High School Murder Mystery It's time for the annual talent show but uh oh, there's been a terrible accident. A student has been found dead minutes before…
The Brick presents The Sea at Brick Aux Gallery – 628 Metropolitan Ave October 12 – November 2, 2024 A multimedia gallery show by Helen Oliver Adelson & Alex Wolkowicz Please join us for a Closing Reception on Saturday, November 2, 6-8PM “This exhibition is, for me, an ode to the Sea. Its Beauty, Its Mystery, Its Power, To the Joy and the Terror that it can inspire.” –Helen Oliver Adelson Oliver’s gestural line and the deeply felt presence of the sitter…
The Brick presents Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World Written by William Johnson, Directed by Handan Ozbilgin November 7-9, 2024 Running time: 75 minutes at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave What is the value of art in a world that's collapsing? In this play, a group of Istanbul theater artists struggle to regain their footing in the aftermath of the 2023 earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria. Alternating between gallows humor and grief, Stories Will Not Mend This…
The Brick presents Methods in Madness By Corey Allen November 8-20, 2024 at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave Tickets $25-50 Also by Corey Allen! Check out: Polly: a dumbshow for smart people desperate to survive the fallout Nov 15-23 When an artist sets out to investigate the line between art and madness, he finds himself in a dangerous dance with existential questions: Why create art? Does it heal or harm us? Must artists suffer? What’s the price of…
The Brick presents Opening Reception: Episodes By Nora Chellew November 14, 6-8PM at Brick Aux Gallery – 628 Metropolitan Ave Episodes highlights the passive performance of preservation through hanging egg sculptures, orange and clove pomander sculptures, and photos of a sand casting. Somewhere between a study of simple machines and kitchen magic, Episodes explores the prolongation of biodegradable objects and their tension in space. The egg sculptures will be flocked with charcoal on one side and hung against walls from long…
The Brick presents Polly: a dumbshow for smart people desperate to survive the fallout By Corey Allen November 15-23, 2024 at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave Tickets $25-50 Also by Corey Allen! Check out: Methods in Madness Nov 8-20 Featuring interactive media, surprise guest respondents and select excerpts of Corey Allen’s play Polly, a dumbshow for smart people desperate to survive the fallout, the experience invites audiences to interrogate the challenges of navigating an absurd world while considering their…
The Brick presents Closing Reception: Episodes By Nora Chellew December 15, 12-5PM at The Brick – 579 Metropolitan Episodes highlights the passive performance of preservation through hanging egg sculptures, orange and clove pomander sculptures, and photos of a sand casting. Somewhere between a study of simple machines and kitchen magic, Episodes explores the prolongation of biodegradable objects and their tension in space. The egg sculptures will be flocked with charcoal on one side and hung against walls from long ribbons. There,…
BrickFlix Presents: V.S. A film by Romke Hoogwaerts Monday, December 30, 2024 Doors + Food at 7PM | Screening at 7:30PM at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave Year after year, hooligans in Holland came together to build a bigger bonfire than their rivals — their neighbors and the world. A New Year's tradition of burning Christmas trees evolved, over many years, into record-breaking stacks of pallets. This notorious event, with gabber techno blasting throughout its process, almost burned down…