
November 2023
Slash
Betty and Veronia have tried everything to cure their crippling depression and existential despair. Everything, that is, except acting out homoerotic fanfiction.
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SchmidtSmithSchmidt
SchmidtSmithSchmidt is a matrilineal, dark humor landscape where, amongst other occurrences, a group of witches convene at the last sacred grove in the neighborhood to prepare a death party, a mother-daughter duo seek to find each other again amidst a long-kept secret, and an ancestral forest awaits a return. Choral song + pedestrian movement; performed in German, English, and Denglish.
Find out more »Brick(Flix)End-Of-Year Party!
Preston Sturges on Remember the Night (note- it the last script he wrote before he started directing): "It had quite a lot of schmaltz , a good dose of schmerz and just enough schmutz to make it box office."
Find out more »Totally Plucked: Solstice Edition
This winter solstice, from the icy depths of the shortest day of the year, comes Daniel Shevlin, in "Totally Plucked: Solstice Edition"!
Find out more »Squaring the Circle by Sean W MacNeil – Closing Party
With SQUARING THE CIRCLE, Sean W. MacNeil uses a series of graphite on paper drawings to chart the conscious and unconscious stages of the epileptic seizures that have long plagued him.
Find out more »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 »The Exponential Festival Presents: Natural Studies
thingNY return to the Brick with a rotating series of programs made up of Joseph White's You Against Nature, selections from Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes, and a new collaboratively written piece for six performers.
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: 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 »February 2024
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.
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