This week in ARL we are looking at the ever relevant family drama by BJJ, Appropriate. As always we will read the play together and then discuss, we might even get parts of the play on its feet if we are so inclined!

An unbelievable adventure story where YOU are the hero!

Peek Pique Peak presents glimpses into the artistry and minds of truly unique artists creating in mixed mediums, ranging from dance to music to looping to theater to comedy to vocal experimentation to philosophical examination. It features people at the top of one or more forms and it is not to be missed.

This week ARL will be reading a play by the Brick's very own Cameron Stuart! If you like new plays, supporting the Brick and free snacks then come check out the Aux Reading League on September 10th!

Only the desperate turn to stand-up, and Bent is no exception. Watch this former downtown experimental New York theatre scene (RIP) mainstay— that Time Out New York once described as “immensely likeable”—step into and “stand up” inside a new medium. Bent, who now lives an anonymous life in an American province, knows first-hand that comedy is tragedy plus time.

Looming Dogs is a comedic solo piece that ponders the slippery nature of grief.

Paintings and drawings made during the last year exploring the topics of friendship, honesty, rage, race, identity politics, silence and complicity. Also... jokes!

Seattle cellist and composer Lori Goldston presents an original live score with films by Harry Smith in honor of his birth centenary year.

Gestating Baby is a semi-regular series of split bill performances curated by Theresa Buchheister and Ryan William Downey that presents new and unpredictable works across the spectrum of theatrical performing arts. Volume 5 features new pieces from Mia Martelli and Justin Maxwell

It's a play. It's dark. It's ugly. It's quote DIY end quote. It's a box. It's what happens in the box. It's what happens outside the box. It's having a heart. It's wanting things. It's the traditional outlets of male excess have receded substantially. It's a play about music. With music. It's in the Greek style, that is, chorus-agon-chorus-agon-chorus-bridge-catharsis. It's a play about music with music. It's missing you.

Join us for the book launch of Baltimore-based queer author, multi-disciplinary performer, and witch Jacob Budenz, whose debut collection of short stories, Tea Leaves, explore the intersection of contemporary queer life and the unseen world--the queer "other" and the otherworldly.

Join ARL as we read Title:Point's show: Never Odd or Even, a phantasmagorical delve Into the interiors Of The M I N d. As always, snacks will be provided!

This is The Saga of the Shining Emblem, the greatest story ever told! Each performance, one lucky audience member is chosen to be the hero of their own grand adventure. One actor plays both narrator and every character encountered on their quest.

Kinderkrankenhaus explores neurodiversity, the pathologizing of difference, and the complexity of labels in a world where the unspeaking are seen as unthinking.

Brick Aux presents Sound to Style: an exploratory voice workshop by The Music Co-Lab September 30, 2023 10am-1pm - $45 - $75 sliding scale at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave Singing is a skill honed through exploration of sound fundamentals. This workshop will journey through these fundamentals, integrating movement, breath, and sounds to illustrate the basic principles that constitute the art of singing. Participants will then use these principles of sound to explore adjustments that allow for efficient and stylistic…

Southeast Kansas. Rural Queerness. Self-discovery transforms into a time capsule of pain.