THURSDAY Stigma Unbound: Pride Thursday, June 21 at Secret Location, 8 pm: $15-30 You probably haven’t forgotten, but it’s Pride month. To sex-worker-centric event series…
More Theater Festivals, Clowns, And Performative Activism
American Realness Now through January 16 at Abrons Arts Center and other venues, various times and prices. If you thought last week’s Performance Picks covered all…
Delicate Balancing Act: A Circus Couple Flies Without a Net
Tonight, the theme of The Party by Ostbahnhof is Berlin underground. The house music is so loud that it punctuates bodies and walls. A heaving…
You Choose Who Lives in New Slasher-Circus-Dance Show Slumber
It’s not every day you see a show where the cast ends up covered in fake blood and has to run to the venue’s backyard…
Performance Picks: A Prince Tribute, a Rent Parody, a ‘Pot Noir’ Comedy and More
WEDNESDAY Ignite At Bizarre Bushwick, 12 Jefferson Street, Bushwick. 10pm. $10 suggested donation. More info here. Fire is normally regarded as a bad thing to…
Bushwick Circus School in Full Swing, Celebrations Are On the Horizon
When we last visited the Muse, the Williamsburg circus school that (along with Death By Audio) became another victim of VICE’s southward expansion, they’d just found…
Mr. Gorgeous Shall Now Be Known as King Gorgeous
The Muse, a circus instruction and training facility in Williamsburg, has a new star student: Mr. Gorgeous was just crowned King of Burlesque at the…