Performance Picks: Memes, 4/20 Fun, and More

April 18, 2019 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

THURSDAY

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Internet Explorers
Thursday, April 18 at Caveat, 9 pm: $10 advance, $12 doors

If you don’t have your eye glued constantly to social media, you might’ve missed that Instagram’s meme-makers have started to non-ironically unionize. It’s undeniable memes are a bigger deal than ever, so it only makes sense there’ll be a live comedy show about them tonight at Caveat, as part of Mark Vigeant’s recurring Internet Explorers show. As tonight is all about memes, Vigilant will be hosting online comic artist Branson Reese and a trio of journalists who report on all things internet (The Atlantic’s Taylor Lorenz, who wrote the aforementioned meme article, plus Buzzfeed’s Katie Notoupoulos and The New York Times’s Amanda Hess). There’ll also be a game of “meme Shark Tank,” where a group of comedians will try to out-meme each other. More →

Tags: 420, ahnoni, burlesque, Caveat, Cloud City, comedy, empirical nonsense, Lower East Side, Meatpacking, memes, performance art, The Kitchen, Williamsburg

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Performance Picks: Green New Deal Raps, Comedians Get Serious

February 21, 2019 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

THURSDAY

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SHE Creates 2k19
Now through February 24 at New Ohio Theater, various times: $25

The hills are alive with the sound of performances from female-identifying and genderqueer artists at She Creates, a festival presented by Make/Shift and Akin running through the end of the weekend at the New Ohio Theater. The festival centers around the premiere of The Clark Doll, a play by Liz Morgan about three black women figuring out how to escape a confining situation, but it offers much more than just plays, with night after night of drag, performance art, live music, visual art, and more. More →

Tags: brooklyn comedy collective, Bushwick, Caveat, comedy, green new deal, Lower East Side, new ohio theater, Pine Box Rock Shop, theater, west village

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Performance Picks: Gross Girls, Thirst Traps, and More

February 1, 2019 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

FRIDAY

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The Nobodies Hosting All Stars 4
Friday, February 1 at Brooklyn Bazaar, 7 pm: FREE

The fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars is upon us, and has been for some weeks now. It also happens to be the only season I have ever watched, and every week I am reminded of how much the main challenge of each episode typically resembles something I was once made to do in theater school. If you don’t want to watch alone, sashay to Brooklyn Bazaar, where drag collective (and pro-wrestling aficionados) The Nobodies will be hosting a screening of the latest episode, as they do every week. Obviously when drag performers host a Drag Race screening, you’re not just going to get people sitting and staring at a screen. This is a show in its own right: expect live drag acts, bingo, banter, and even the chance to do your own lip-synch if you so desire.

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Tags: Beyond, brooklyn bazaar, Bushwick, Caveat, comedy, drag, drag race, Greenpoint, house of yes, Lower East Side, The Bell House, the nobodies

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A Jane Jacobs Theater Festival, Machine Learning Comedy, and More Shows To See

December 19, 2018 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

WEDNESDAY

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Internet Explorers
Wednesday, December 19 at Caveat, 9 pm: $10

The internet can be a scary place, so that’s why this show has comedians to help you navigate the tangled mess that is the World Wide Web. If only it was a Mr. World Wide Web, and Pitbull was the sole creator and moderator of the online world. How different things might be… But they aren’t, so come to Caveat and see Mark Vigeant, a custom-made Twitter bot, and a merry band of assorted jokesters (including Botnik Studios, an “entertainment group” that uses machine learning) serve up their best material about artificial intelligence, the force that may one day replace humanity. More →

Tags: brooklyn comedy collective, Caveat, comedy, jane jacobs, Lower East Side, new ohio theater, the brick, The Jane Hotel, theater, west village, Williamsburg

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Performance Picks: Drag Karaoke, Bread and Puppet Theater, and More

December 12, 2018 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

THURSDAY

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Yell Club
Thursday, December 14 at Rockbar NYC, 9 pm: FREE

People seem to like karaoke, and people seem to like drag shows. These two groups don’t necessarily seem to always overlap, but come Thursday night they will unite at Yell Club, where one person sings karaoke while a drag performer lip-synchs that very same song. So, those of you who feel uninterested or afraid of doing drag but like singing songs when weird MIDI tracks and projected lyrics are involved (shoutout to Sun Fly, the weird karaoke backing track brand bug mascot I have taken a liking to), this will be your night to shine while also giving other performers some material.

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Tags: a christmas carol, Caveat, comedy, Craigslist, drag, East Village, east williamsburg, Karaoke, Lower East Side, rockbar nyc, theater, theater for the new city, Vital Joint

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Performance Picks: Talk Hole’s GAPE, A Senior Center Collaboration, and More

December 5, 2018 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

WEDNESDAY

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GAPE: Gift Activating Public Experience
Wednesday, December 5 at The Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center, 7:30 pm: FREE

While government organizations like USPS are taking the day off today to mourn George H.W. Bush and making my packages arrive in the mail a day later than they’re supposed to, which I will continue to be excessively salty about, others are taking to the streets for a little public engagement. Or shall I say, engape-ment? Anyhow, weirdo comedy queers Talk Hole (Stephen Phillips-Horst and Eric Schwartau) are taking over the World Trade Center Oculus for a seasonal evening of jokes, surprises, gifts, and gapes. Maybe not the last two, this is a public space after all, but you never know with these guys. Joining the duo will be Cole Escola, Ayo Edebiri, Lily Marotta, Ruby McCollister, Alex Schmidt, and DJ Physical Therapy. More →

Tags: Caveat, comedy, dance, east williamsburg, Financial District, harris mayersohn, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Lower East Side, new museum, talk hole, the oculus, theater, Vital Joint

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Performance Picks: Perspectives On Slave Galleries, Vengeful Burlesque, and More

November 8, 2018 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

THURSDAY

The ‘SUP Show
Thursday, November 8 at Caveat, 9 pm: $8 advance, $10 doors

Once again, this recurring comedic showcase of women, queer, and gender non-conforming performers comes to Caveat to give you the best bits n’ jokes found at their open mic of the same name, which recently moved to The Footlight Bar in Ridgewood. The whole affair is hosted by Juliet Prather, Maddie Fischer, Fareeha Khan, Jesse Roth, and Stephanie Pace, which I always find to be an impressive amount of hosts. The lineup for this particular shindig is TBD, but the fact that you’re going in not knowing the lineup, but still knowing it’s going to be free of racist white dudes complaining about how everyone is offended makes me feel a lot more confident recommending it. More →

Tags: Beyond, burlesque, Caveat, comedy, east williamsburg, Lower East Side, performance art, readings, st. augustine's, The Corners, theater

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Performance Picks: Beauty School Drag and Climate Change Comedy

November 1, 2018 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

THURSDAY

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prettygirl264264
November 1-3 at Abrons Arts Center, 7:30 pm: $20

It might seem morbid to plan one’s own funeral, but the way Ashley R.T. Yergens seems to do it sounds like fun. His world premiere dance piece doubles as a “premature funeral,” as well as an “extremely loose re-imagination” of the 2011 documentary centering around Chaz Bono’s transition. On top of all that, it’s also an exploration of living as a trans masculine person. Perhaps you’ll leave the theater with a newfound desire to enhance the flexibility and openness of both your body and your mind. More →

Tags: abrons arts center, Caveat, comedy, dance, drag, east williamsburg, Lower East Side, the bronze, Vital Joint

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Performance Picks: Juggalos, Kinky Basement Shows, and Macabre Burlesque

October 4, 2018 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

THURSDAY

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Kink Haüs
Now through October 14 at La Mama, 8 pm (some performances at 10 pm): $30+

It’s common for performances to happen at late-night dance parties, but how often does a performance piece contain its own party? It does at Gunnar Montana’s Kink Haüs, a sexually-exploratory show in La Mama’s literally underground theater that doubles as a “brutal underground nightclub where no f*c ks are given.” Perhaps if you haven’t been to notorious Berlin nightclub Berghain, where there’s dancing upstairs and debauchery downstairs, this will be some kind of version of that. Or not. Only one way to find out. More →

Tags: burlesque, Caveat, comedy, East Village, east williamsburg, eris evolution, la mama, Lower East Side, theater, Vital Joint

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A Dive Into Arts Funding, A Drag Pageant, and More Performances To See

September 12, 2018 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

WEDNESDAY

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Profiled: A Comedy Show About Racial Profiling
Wednesday, September 12 at Caveat, 9 pm: $8 advance, $10 doors

Though Nanette seemed to imply otherwise, making jokes about experiences one has had with hate and bigotry can actually be a productive outlet for one to deal with these experiences and for (hopefully) allowing audiences to see these issues from a new perspective. Profiled, a comedy show hosted by Lauren Clark and Marcela Onyango where performers of color (Ziwe Fumudoh, Milly Tamarez, Rebecca O’Neal, Andrea Coleman, and Ariel Evans) discuss instances of racial profiling they’ve experienced, seeks to do just that. Plus, 40% of ticket proceeds will go to the ACLU. More →

Tags: brooklyn bazaar, Bushwick, Caveat, comedy, drag, la mama, Lower East Side, mad tropical, sponsored by nobody, the nobodies, theater