Getting laid, or just laid off? Counting quarters for that big date? Moving in because you can split rent? Finding love during pink slip party happy hours or is debt killing your libido? Is being broke tearing you apart and driving you together? If there are two things New York is obsessed with, it's sex and money. And we want your story about broken hearts, and broken banks. Happy endings not required, but appreciated.
This month, professional gabber and "notorious roué" John DeVore spontaneously interviews an eclectic cast of unrehearsed, every day New Yorkers with a story to share, and a desire to connect with a group of people who've been there, are there, or will be very soon. Completely unique in concept and execution, "Broke with John DeVore" is a live, interactive theater performance that celebrates that most inexpensive of social activities: human interaction. It's just a couple microphones, some cheap beer, an affable host... and you.
This month's special guest: sex writer RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL!
Rachel Kramer Bussel (www.rachelkramerbussel.com) is a writer, editor and blogger. She is Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, a former sex columnist for The Village Voice, and host of In The Flesh Reading Series (www.inthefleshreadingseries.blogspot.com). She's edited over 25 anthologies, most recently The Mile High Club, Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories, Best Sex Writing 2009, and Spanked: Red-Cheeked Erotica, and has written for Cosmopolitan, TheFrisky.com, Huffington Post, Mediabistro, Newsday, Tango, and other publications.
Accepting story requests now! Email: Broke@bricktheater.com
No set ticket price! Pay what you can! $10, $5, a compliment, lip service or just pay us a visit!
Best Cheap Burlesque and Variety Shows: "Broke"
"A notorious roué from Sirius Satellite Radio, Maxim and various theatrical enterprises, John DeVore hosts a monthly variety support group for the unemployed and the soon-to-be-shitcanned."
Time Out New York
February 25, 2009
John DeVore is an internet, radio, and television personality. He currently writes the weekly Mind of Man column for The Frisky and the weekly Right Wing Pinko column for Playboy.com. He is the former co-host of DeVore and Diana and host of The DMZ with John DeVore for Sirius XM. He's written for Maxim Magazine, The New York Sun, Comedy Central, Cracked Magazine, Esquire.com and was a co-creator of the infamous, Bush-era parody site Whitehouse.org. He's been seen on CNN, FOX News, and G4TV. His last play, "Attack of the Soccer Moms" was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland this past summer.
Upcoming performances: The last Saturday night of each month at 10:30pm
Saturday April 25 at 10:30pm
Saturday May 23 at 10:30pm
The Brick Theater is located at 575 Metropolitan Avenue (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the L & G subway lines (L: Lorimer stop; G: Metropolitan stop). For more detailed directions & further information, see www.bricktheater.com.
The Brick and its non-profit company, The Brick Theater, Inc. were founded in September of 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a storage space and a yoga center, this brick- walled garage was completely refurbished into a state-of-the-art theater complex, with a large sprung floor and professional lighting and sound package.
The Brick has been home to numerous critically acclaimed original productions, including three years of the New York Clown Theatre Festival, Richard Foreman's Harry in Love, The Film Festival: A Theater Festival (featuring Death at Film Forum and The Stubborn Illusion of Time), Babylon Babylon, Notes From Underground, Bitch Macbeth, The Debate Society's A Thought About Raya, Secrets History Remembers, The Pretentious Festival (including Every Play Ever Written and Macbeth Without Words), The Present Perfect, Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, The Death of Griffin Hunter, the Havel Festival, Sexadelic Cemetery, Greed: A Musical Love $tory, The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest, The $ellout Festival, Adventures of Caveman Robot, Total Faith in Cosmic Love, The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, The Moral Values Festival (featuring Dear Dubya, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn), Tupperware Orgy, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Who is Wilford Brimley? The Musical, Jenna is nuts, Habitat, In a Strange Room (based on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Fallout Follies, Assurbanipal Babilla's Assyrian Monkey Fantasy and stagings of Chekhov's Three Sisters, O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, Maria Irene Fornes' Abingdon Square and the Brooklyn premiere of legendary Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Pragmatists.
