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December 2024
Pomander + Ritual: Nora Chellew and Grace Patterson
The Brick presents Pomander + Ritual: Nora Chellew and Grace Patterson Sunday, Dec 15, 2024 5-6:30PM at Brick Aux Gallery – 628 Metropolitan Ave in the exhibition The Salt That You Bring to the Table Sliding Scale $10 - $40 Nora Chellew and Grace Patterson present an evening of pomander crafting and ritual making under the full moon. The event, which will take place in Chellew’s exhibit The Salt That You Bring to the Table, will be actively framed by the…
Find out more »How to Be in Front of People: Mastering the Art of Live Performance with River L. Ramirez
The Brick presentsHow to Be in Front of People: Mastering the Art of Live Performancewith River L. Ramirez4 Sessions – Nov 26, Dec 3, Dec 10, & Dec 17, 20246-8pm at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave$200 for 4 classes (recommended)$50 per sessionOpen to All LevelsIn this class we will focus on finding balance within one’s self and bringing that to the stage. How do we become comfortable showing our selves to others? First, we figure out how to be comfortable…
Find out more »Gestating Baby Volume 9: Rawya El Chab & Adin Lenahan
The Brick presents Gestating Baby Volume 9: Rawya El Chab & Adin Lenahan December 18-21, 2024 at 8PM Running Time: 80 Minutes at The Brick – 579 Metropolitan Note: All tickets sales for the Wednesday, Dec 18 performance will be donated to the Hunna Arts & Culture Center. Gestating Baby is a semi-regular series of split bill performances that presents new and unpredictable works across the spectrum of theatrical performing arts. It began in 2013 at The Silent Barn and is now revived…
Find out more »The Saga of the Shining Emblem: Chapter XXII
The Saga of the Shining Emblem: Chapter XXII Created and performed by Matthew Schott Music and Props by Sam Kessler Marketing by Ana McCasland December 28, 2024 8pm at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $12 Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand! Men fill with fright and abandon all reason, as December ushers in the SPOOKY SEASON! This is the Saga of the Shining Emblem, the greatest story ever told! Each performance, one lucky audience…
Find out more »January 2025
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present: “PRISONCORE!”
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present PRISONCORE! by kanishk pandey at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 2-4, 2025 PRISONCORE! is a multimedia show that places the audience within a panopticon to examine the impact of an always-watching eye. Lucky is starting his job as the night shift guard in the guard tower of a new panopticon prison claiming to focus on reform. Lucky introduces the inmates to Rain, a popular VTuber dealer who streams for an online…
Find out more »Monologues for Nobody
The Brick presents Monologues for Nobody By Jerrod Jordahl and mind dream theater January 7, 2025 Running time: 60 minutes at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave Doors 7PM Presentation 7:30-8:30PM Party 8:30-10PM Welcome to a mind dream theater presentation of Jerrod Jordahl's Monologues for Nobody: An Album Release and Listening Party! What to expect? Definitely food, drinks, listening, art, and very fun vibes. A collection of nine audio monologues delivered by characters searching for belonging, often finding it in moments…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival and The Brick present: “CASSANDRA”
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present CASSANDRA by Susannah Yugler at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 9-11, 2025 The cursed Cassandra, a true prophet that no one believes, desperately tries to save what's left of her home from self-obsessed siblings, a depressive mother and the machinations of the gods. Wavering between 12th century B.C. and 2024 A.D., CASSANDRA reimagines Euripides' The Trojan Women as a phantasmagoria of comic selfishness and horror. Using a pre-recorded script and a…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival and The Brick present: “ORACLE”
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present ORACLE by Ring Yuqi Yang & Casey Woodall at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 12, 2025 Doors at 1:45PM, Screening at 2:22PM on the dot Screening Runtime: 15 minutes After party to follow! Soothsayer livestreams to the first world. In the dim light of a cluttered bedroom, Dusty Soothsayer reigns as an unlikely online celebrity. This reclusive prophet, trapped within the confines of their own fears and passion, has become a…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival and The Brick present: “Cool Zone: The Lost Episode”
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Cool Zone: The Lost Episode by Excess Materials, Sir Cum Sized, & Vape Kid Jr at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 16-18, 2025 Doors at 6PM, Show at 7PM Hey kids! Do you remember “Vape Kid’s Cool Zone?” A fascist brainwashing program disguised as a public access children’s TV. It’s PeeWee Herman meets RoboCop! Follow America’s Darling- a 5-foot sentient puppet named Courtney as he learns what it means to serve…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival and The Brick present: “Sapphire”
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Sapphire by Ella Lee Davidson at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 15-18, 2025 Running Time: 90 Minutes Self-identified real-ass bitch and Angry Black Woman, Peola is unlucky in love and constantly asking herself the age-old question: "When is it my turn to be happy?" After a near-death experience, she decides to make a change in her life and undergoes an experimental surgical procedure to get a BBI (Be Better Implant). Peola…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival and The Brick present: “Happy Birthday, Curiosity Rover!”
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Happy Birthday, Curiosity Rover! by Laura Galindo at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 23-25, 2025 Running Time: 60 Minutes A robot on a mission and a wandering alien find each other on Mars. A play with music about getting your solitude punctured, about the strange in stranger, about loving what will always go away. Text and Music by Laura Galindo Directed by Karma Masselli Produced by Declan Zhang Find them: @thelauragalindo…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival and The Brick present | We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club FAREWELL B!NGO + VIEWING PARTY
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club FAREWELL B!NGO + VIEWING PARTY by Leonie Bell + LOCAL GRANDMA at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 27, 2025 Running Time: 60 Minutes Welcome back for a last hurrah! We’re throwing a viewing party to bid adieu to the world of We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club Hosted by Leonie Bell + LOCAL GRANDMA 7 PM Bingo + prizes + highlights…
Find out more »Closing Reception: The Salt That You Bring to the Table
The Brick presents Closing Reception: The Salt That You Bring to the Table By Nora Chellew January 29, 6-8PM at Brick Aux Gallery – 628 Metropolitan Ave ABOUT THE SHOW The Salt That You Bring to the Table contrasts preservation and action through material interventions. The exhibition implies a kitchen-space that balances experimentation with traditional craft. Brick Aux Gallery hours are 12-6PM on weekends, varied hours on weekdays, and by appointment: lydia@bricktheater.com Read the press release here. Learn more about…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival, The Brick, and LOCAL GRANDMA present | Let it Flow: A Clowning Workshop with Hannah Mitchell
The Exponential Festival, The Brick, and LOCAL GRANDMA present Let it Flow: A Clowning Workshop with Hannah Mitchell at Brick Aux Studio - 628 Metropolitan Ave January 28-29, 2025 Hop into your body and out of your head; welcome to the world of the ha-ha-ha! Filled to the brim with beautiful chaos and hilarious failures, in this class, we will play games that get you in touch with your innate sense of play and spontaneity & bring you into the…
Find out more »The Exponential Festival and The Brick present | SalOn! “DOUBLE GROOVE”
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present SalOn! DOUBLE GROOVE at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 30, 2025 Doors at 6:30PM, Show at 7PM Come for the smorgasbord of micro-acts, stay for the end-of-festival party! Co-Curated by Jillian Jetton & Matthew Antoci SalOn! Artistic Director Jillian Jetton SalOn! Founding Artistic Director Theresa Buchheister Image by Mark Toneff Find them: @thebricktheater @jillianjetton @antociantoci, @buchheistertheresa Hatched at Silent Barn in 2014, this quarterly affair brings together artists, performers, comedians, chefs,…
Find out more »February 2025
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present: “u are the dream”
The Exponential Festival and The Brick present u are the dream by Allyson Dwyer at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 24 – February 2, 2025 Running Time: 75 Minutes a two-hander internet triptych - a love story between the internet and homo sapiens <3 Didi and Dada are two early humans excited for the future, unaware of the progress and technology that is to come long after they stare at the moon. 30,000 years later, Fuu and Goten…
Find out more »The Van Gogh Shogh
The Brick presents The Van Gogh Shogh Written and performed by Donna Oblongata Directed by Francesca Montanile-Lyons at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave February 6-9, 2025 at 8PM Running Time: 75 minutes Free show! Bring cash! One part deranged "Sip 'n Paint", one part karaoke night and one part Sotheby's. "Engaging, lovable and extremely funny...inspired lunacy" —Talkin' Broadway "A visionary with a knack for creating experiences that transcend the norm." —Geekadelphia In The Van Gogh Shogh, solo performer and…
Find out more »BrickFlix Presents: HREAM (dir. Geoffrey Hug) & Space Lady (dir. Sophia Feuer)
The Brick & BrickFlix Present: HREAM (dir. Geoffrey Hug) & Space Lady (dir. Sophia Feuer) Featuring a performance by Mary Neufeld at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave February 10, 2025 Doors 7PM, Screenings 7:30PM Running Time: 2 hours Join us for the first BrickFlix of 2025! We'll be exploring the lives of underground musicians Doug Hream Blunt and Susan Dietrich (aka 'The Space Lady'). The evening will feature a performance by Mary Neufeld! Mary is a downtown performer going…
Find out more »THE ALL-FATHER / HYPNAGOGIA
The Brick presents THE ALL-FATHER / HYPNAGOGIA by Paul Pinto and Nick Brooke at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave February 12, 2025, at 8PM Running Time: 75 Minutes with a short intermission Sampled and sourced from Wagner’s herculean oeuvre, THE ALL-FATHER - Side One: Rheingold (part one) is the opening eighth of Paul Pinto’s ambitious new theatre ritual, a radical reimagining of The Ring Cycle where masculinity and fatherhood is gesungen by a chorus of beefy Wotans. Sung in…
Find out more »My First Vagina
The Brick presents My First Vagina Written and Directed by Laura Jacoves at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave February 13-16, 2025 Running Time: 60 Minutes After the sudden death of Laura Jacoves, the Understudy has to go on and perform the acclaimed one woman show about Laura's vaginoplasty. Written and Directed by Laura Jacoves Starring Agnes Walsh Video by Ian Faria Guest starring Pierce Campion, Brian Fiddyment, Nick Naney, Spike Einbinder, and Ben Wasserman Find them: @laurajacoves, @girlfriendmuseum Image…
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