Brick Aux presents Birthday Fundraiser Bash for Sarah, Tristan & Joey's Exponential Festival Premieres & Sarah & Joey's Birthdays & Tristan's Not Quite but Kind of Half Birthday by Sarah Finn, Joey Merlo, Tristan Allen December 15, 2022 at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave No BYOB 7pm Live music! DJ & dancing! Themed Refreshments! Birthday Cake! Raffle Prizes & more! Come support Sarah, Joey and Tristan's shows AND celebrate the dance party dreamfest that is the quarter life crisis.…

Arrow of Time Screening January 9 - 7pm doors, 8pm screening @ Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Avenue FREE Arrow of Time, a new audio play by Allyson Dwyer, to premiere as part of Exponential Festival’s 2023 digital programming. Arrow of Time is a brand new 90-minute audio play that will premiere January 9, 2023, at 8PM Eastern on Exponential Festival’s YouTube channel as part of their slate of digital programming. Accompanying the audio performance will be a video component…

Let's Talk About Death.
Let's Sing the Song of Decomposition and Dance the Dance of Shuffling Bones.
Let's Parley With A Fungal Network.
Let's Turn Into A Flower.

Let's Talk About Death.
Let's Sing the Song of Decomposition and Dance the Dance of Shuffling Bones.
Let's Parley With A Fungal Network.
Let's Turn Into A Flower.

Let's Talk About Death.
Let's Sing the Song of Decomposition and Dance the Dance of Shuffling Bones.
Let's Parley With A Fungal Network.
Let's Turn Into A Flower.

Let's Talk About Death.
Let's Sing the Song of Decomposition and Dance the Dance of Shuffling Bones.
Let's Parley With A Fungal Network.
Let's Turn Into A Flower.

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Circus Trick by Addie Ulrey and Presentation on colonialism by Joey Weiss January 26-29, 2022 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Circus Trick Clown is a professional. They have always taken pride in giving the audience what they came for: a good, old fashioned trick. But in our digital world of ready-made delights, what counts as a trick? What does the circus have to offer that you can’t get fasterbrightercheaper somewhere else?…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Circus Trick by Addie Ulrey and Presentation on colonialism by Joey Weiss January 26-29, 2022 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Circus Trick Clown is a professional. They have always taken pride in giving the audience what they came for: a good, old fashioned trick. But in our digital world of ready-made delights, what counts as a trick? What does the circus have to offer that you can’t get fasterbrightercheaper somewhere else?…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Circus Trick by Addie Ulrey and Presentation on colonialism by Joey Weiss January 26-29, 2022 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Circus Trick Clown is a professional. They have always taken pride in giving the audience what they came for: a good, old fashioned trick. But in our digital world of ready-made delights, what counts as a trick? What does the circus have to offer that you can’t get fasterbrightercheaper somewhere else?…

The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Circus Trick by Addie Ulrey and Presentation on colonialism by Joey Weiss January 26-29, 2022 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Circus Trick Clown is a professional. They have always taken pride in giving the audience what they came for: a good, old fashioned trick. But in our digital world of ready-made delights, what counts as a trick? What does the circus have to offer that you can’t get fasterbrightercheaper somewhere else?…

Brick Aux presents Hi, Nice People A feel-good show about adult problems with Hunter Gardner February 1, 2023 at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave DOORS: 7:30 SHOW: 8:00 Hi, Nice People! is a comedy variety show that's like a PG-13 episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Every show, Hunter Gardner invites you into his living room where he and co-host Meg Pierson tackle adult problems with the help of performers and a subject matter expert. This month's theme is SEX STUFF Tickets…

LIL SWEETUMS An Andy Boyd Book Release Party February 4th -  4:30 doors, 5pm reading @ Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Avenue FREE Join Andy Boyd for the book release party of his new chapbook Lil' Sweetums: Three Short Plays, out now from Bottlecap Press. Actor Danny Erickson will perform the first Sweetum I Sing the Tale, and Andy will perform some songs and show some cartoons from his zine Suitable for Framing: The Collected Cartoons of Andy Boyd, Vol. 1. Copies of Lil' Sweetums and Suitable for…

A One of a kind improvised adventure where YOU are the hero! One actor, one hero, limitless adventure!

Join us Saturday, March 3 from 6pm until we fizzle out for the closing party! Last chance to view and purchase art from this show, have some drinks, snacks and meet the artist!

Brick Aux proudly presents JENNIFER MILLS NEWS: 21 Years, over two decades of one woman’s quest to report the true and mind-numbingly ordinary events of her life.

Brick Aux presents IVORIES by Riley Elton McCarthy March 24-26, 2023 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Riley Elton McCarthy's IVORIES returns to New York City after a smash-hit production at The Tank for PrideFest 2021. IVORIES will then transfer overseas in a coveted spot at Edinburgh Fringe's opening week. SYNOPSIS: Brought back to their childhood home to care for grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, young prodigal playwright Sloane and their botanist husband Gwyn are struggling to…

Brick Aux presents IVORIES by Riley Elton McCarthy March 24-26, 2023 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Riley Elton McCarthy's IVORIES returns to New York City after a smash-hit production at The Tank for PrideFest 2021. IVORIES will then transfer overseas in a coveted spot at Edinburgh Fringe's opening week. SYNOPSIS: Brought back to their childhood home to care for grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, young prodigal playwright Sloane and their botanist husband Gwyn are struggling to…

Brick Aux presents IVORIES by Riley Elton McCarthy March 24-26, 2023 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Riley Elton McCarthy's IVORIES returns to New York City after a smash-hit production at The Tank for PrideFest 2021. IVORIES will then transfer overseas in a coveted spot at Edinburgh Fringe's opening week. SYNOPSIS: Brought back to their childhood home to care for grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, young prodigal playwright Sloane and their botanist husband Gwyn are struggling to…

Brick Aux presents IVORIES by Riley Elton McCarthy March 24-26, 2023 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Riley Elton McCarthy's IVORIES returns to New York City after a smash-hit production at The Tank for PrideFest 2021. IVORIES will then transfer overseas in a coveted spot at Edinburgh Fringe's opening week. SYNOPSIS: Brought back to their childhood home to care for grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, young prodigal playwright Sloane and their botanist husband Gwyn are struggling to…

Brick Aux presents IVORIES by Riley Elton McCarthy March 24-26, 2023 at Brick Aux - 628 Metropolitan Ave Riley Elton McCarthy's IVORIES returns to New York City after a smash-hit production at The Tank for PrideFest 2021. IVORIES will then transfer overseas in a coveted spot at Edinburgh Fringe's opening week. SYNOPSIS: Brought back to their childhood home to care for grandmother who is riddled with severe dementia, young prodigal playwright Sloane and their botanist husband Gwyn are struggling to…

Cool theater people reading cool theater things April 7th –  6-9pm @ Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Avenue FREE *** This session will be Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Please fill out this google form if you are interested in attending! *** ARL is a new program at the Brick Aux dedicated to providing a space for emerging artists to read plays, musicals, essays and other ‘cool theater things’ with other emerging artists. The primary goal of ARL is for members…

It is a period of endless war. People fight endlessly over long lost causes as darkness covers the land. In the midst of this turmoil and bloodshed, a spark of hope is ignited amongst the common people. Its said a hero shall emerge, wielding a brilliant, shining emblem and bring about a new era of peace! That hero...is YOU!

Join us for an evening of two one act plays and the first public reading of Therapy (an excerpt), Written by Téa Wolk and directed by Gabi Carrubba.

Cool theater people reading cool theater things April 27th –  12-3pm @ Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Avenue FREE *** This session will be White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour. Please fill out this google form if you are interested in attending! *** ARL is a new program at the Brick Aux dedicated to providing a space for emerging artists to read plays, musicals, essays and other ‘cool theater things’ with other emerging artists. The primary goal of ARL is for…

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

Brick Aux presents 'Poems Written In The Bathtub While Cumming Out' - Author Reading by David Nazario

A young man, of noble status and great heritage on his father’s side, searches out and learns the story of his mother, a seaweed diver of humble origins, who attempted a superhuman feat for his sake, to ensure his rise.

A young man, of noble status and great heritage on his father’s side, searches out and learns the story of his mother, a seaweed diver of humble origins, who attempted a superhuman feat for his sake, to ensure his rise.

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

Brick Aux presents Help Me Draw Your Feelings by William Burke April 27-May 6 EXTENDED! Performances added May 11, 12, and 13 at 730pm! at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave $20 Help Me Draw Your Feelings! is a performance/art project/self-improvement hour that performs as a Joyously Skeptical ritual that melds personal progress and blocked/unblocked feelings with concreting and fleeting fantastical dreams. Bryn Herdrich. Co-director Carolyn Mraz. design. Megan Lang. design. Lester St. Louis. Composing. Kate Benson. Performer Some of us…

This session will be a free group reading of The Bakelite Masterpiece by Kate Cayley

Featuring Two New Works: Creature by Tanya Marquardt and Pieces of Stories Meet Pieces of Violins at a Gallery by Alessandro Magania

Featuring Two New Works: Creature by Tanya Marquardt and Pieces of Stories Meet Pieces of Violins at a Gallery by Alessandro Magania

Still Fishing is a sonic experience. Created by sound and theatre artist Drew Sensue-Weinstein, the work revolves around Field Recordings taken in two contrasting yet incredibly biodiverse regions of the United States: Southwestern California and the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Welcome back to the stage of history! Destiny has once again brought the wheel of time to a turning point. Darkness threatens to overtake the land and only one brave soul stands at the crossroads of fate, ready to answer the call. That hero....is YOU!

Everything Changes, Nothing is Lost explores the potential for humans to adapt to ocean ecosystems, and the desire for an extraordinary life that acts as a current for each of us.

Everything Changes, Nothing is Lost explores the potential for humans to adapt to ocean ecosystems, and the desire for an extraordinary life that acts as a current for each of us.

Everything Changes, Nothing is Lost explores the potential for humans to adapt to ocean ecosystems, and the desire for an extraordinary life that acts as a current for each of us.

Everything Changes, Nothing is Lost explores the potential for humans to adapt to ocean ecosystems, and the desire for an extraordinary life that acts as a current for each of us.

A Gape is a retelling of the Greek myth Pygmalion, but with a Sapphic twist.

A grand, epic and totally made up adventure where YOU are the hero!

Set between January and September 1692 in a barn on the Marlboro family farm in Salem Village, Massachusetts, sixteen year old Tryphena longs for something more in life than housework and chores.

Staff Picks emerged from several conversations circling around the bowl of going to shows, getting advice on shows, how we talk about shows, where shows are happening, how things have changed, are changing, will continue to change.

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. Their mission: to seek the Shining Emblem, an object of unimaginable power! How they find it, or if they even bother to quest at all is totally up to them! Will you save the world or join with the darkness? The choice is yours! All set to a live score!

Creepy Theatre Double Feature presenting The Spinner by Foreshadow and You are Cordially Invited to Elika Strauss' Birthday Celebration by Hannah Weisz

Creepy Theatre Double Feature presenting The Spinner by Foreshadow and You are Cordially Invited to Elika Strauss' Birthday Celebration by Hannah Weisz

Creepy Theatre Double Feature presenting The Spinner by Foreshadow and You are Cordially Invited to Elika Strauss' Birthday Celebration by Hannah Weisz

On an autumn day in 2004, two teenage boys play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. As they play and roll their dice to see what happens next, their different, possible futures unfold–both in, and outside, the game.

On an autumn day in 2004, two teenage boys play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. As they play and roll their dice to see what happens next, their different, possible futures unfold–both in, and outside, the game.

On an autumn day in 2004, two teenage boys play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. As they play and roll their dice to see what happens next, their different, possible futures unfold–both in, and outside, the game.

On an autumn day in 2004, two teenage boys play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. As they play and roll their dice to see what happens next, their different, possible futures unfold–both in, and outside, the game.

On an autumn day in 2004, two teenage boys play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. As they play and roll their dice to see what happens next, their different, possible futures unfold–both in, and outside, the game.

On an autumn day in 2004, two teenage boys play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. As they play and roll their dice to see what happens next, their different, possible futures unfold–both in, and outside, the game.

On an autumn day in 2004, two teenage boys play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. As they play and roll their dice to see what happens next, their different, possible futures unfold–both in, and outside, the game.

On an autumn day in 2004, two teenage boys play a game of Dungeons and Dragons. As they play and roll their dice to see what happens next, their different, possible futures unfold–both in, and outside, the game.

HYPERLIFE is a night of films and video art exploring the boundaries of video creation. The artists work with a range of form and genre--experimenting with analog and digital methods, disrupting normative methods of the filmic process.

DARKROOM is a new performance installation by Bent Duo that transcribes the structure of a Dark Room into a sonic experience. Experienced on an individual basis by appointment only, the heightened sensorial experience of anonymous Dark Room encounters and their capacity to engender unexpected and liberatory revelations serves as a framework for a new way of experiencing sound and performance. There is power in the dark | Find your power in the dark | Build queer power in the dark.

DARKROOM is a new performance installation by Bent Duo that transcribes the structure of a Dark Room into a sonic experience. Experienced on an individual basis by appointment only, the heightened sensorial experience of anonymous Dark Room encounters and their capacity to engender unexpected and liberatory revelations serves as a framework for a new way of experiencing sound and performance. There is power in the dark | Find your power in the dark | Build queer power in the dark.

ARL is back and better than ever! For our first reading and discussion I thought it would be fun to look at an oldy but a goody, Oscar Wilde's take on the absurd, The Importance of Being Earnest. For those who don't know, ARL is a place to cool theater people to read cool theater things! (also we have snacks!)

This is a workshop production of THE FATE OF THE ONLINE COW - a play about streaming, labor, and the process of being turned into a product.

This is a workshop production of THE FATE OF THE ONLINE COW - a play about streaming, labor, and the process of being turned into a product.

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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.