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January 2024
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?
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?
Find out more »BARABALL – Opening Reception
Theda Bara & Her Many Forms - Curator Sam Liebert moderates a panel between David Greenspan, Joey Merlo and Wayne Koestenbaum. The three will talk about their work in relationship to Theda Bara and beyond.
Find out more »Brittain Ashford & Alec Spiegelman play songs for you (together)
Brittain Ashford & Alec Spiegelman play songs for you (together) with special guests
Find out more »DOLLNXTDOOR invites you for AN INCALL
A spatial portal into the realm and mind of Tivali Thomas AKA Dollnxtdoor with collaborations and installations. The night will feature performance, poetry, and experimental and sensory beats.
Find out more »The Exponential Festival Presents: Más que un Pétalo
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.
Find out more »The Exponential Festival Presents: Admin Reveal: An Evening With Miss Lady Salad
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.
Find out more »The Exponential Festival SalON!: inside/outside
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
Find out more »The Exponential Festival Presents: ten dreams of metamorphoses or me talk dirty someday
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?
Find out more »The Saga of the Shining Emblem: Chapter XII
A one-of-a-kind comedy show where YOU are the hero of your very own epic adventure!
Find out more »February 2024
The Exponential Festival Presents: NERO – Rough Cut Screening
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.
Find out more »BARABALL – Closing Party
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.
Find out more »On Set with Theda Bara
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.
Find out more »David Kinder: A Life in Oil – Opening Reception
A month-long exhibit showcasing the life’s work of David Kinder (1950-2019) featuring 12 original oil paintings and a selection of gorgeous prints. Mr. Kinder’s work is being shown in New York for the first time.
Find out more »One Night Only: Nick Cassenbaum and Friends
Street Performer, Theatre Maker, Writer and native Londoner Nick Cassenbaum is here for one night only. He will be presenting sections from some of his works, workshopped through a new lens with NY collaborators Zoë Geltman, Alex Tatarsky, and Peter Mills Weiss. After the presentation, he will lead a discussion.
Find out more »Stories to Get Us Through the Night
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.
Find out more »The Saga of the Shining Emblem: Chapter XIII
A one-of-a-kind comedy show where YOU are the hero of your very own epic adventure!
Find out more »DeliaDelia! The Flat Chested Witch!
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.
Find out more »March 2024
David Kinder: A Life in Oil – Closing Party
A month-long exhibit showcasing the life’s work of David Kinder (1950-2019) featuring 12 original oil paintings and a selection of gorgeous prints. Mr. Kinder’s work is being shown in New York for the first time.
Find out more »Give Us A Hand – A Fundraiser Party for Das Ersatz & Disaster Theatre
Give Us A Hand with Travis Amiel, Cosimo Port, Skye Fort and Mike Steele March 11 - 7PM-10:30PM Doors at 7PM, Performances at 7:30PM at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave Give Us a Hand is a fundraiser for Das Ersatz and Disaster Theatre, two experimental theatre shows that will premiere at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg Summer 2024. Disaster Theatre by Mike Steele and Skye Fort is a multimedia performance collage which repurposes pop culture disaster tropes to confront…
Find out more »The Circus is Coming to Town
The Circus is Coming to Town is an overwhelmingly interactive, respectably, aggressively engaging event full of surprises and prizes.
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