FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade Sets 2015-16 Season

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade announces their seventeenth season, which will include their annual productions of The Pumpkin Pie Show, The HP Lovecraft Festival, Gotham Storytelling Festival, the Winter Burlesque Blitz, STEM Fest, The Fire This Time Festival, the FRIGID New York Festival, and Queerly, along with productions by resident artists Cave Theatre Co. and Battalion Theatre Company.

The Pumpkin Pie Show: Labor Pains

Stories by Clay McLeod Chapman

Performed by Hanna Cheek & Clay McLeod Chapman

September 24-October 10 @ UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)

True story: Clay's about to become a daddy. There's a baby boy on his way. The due-date? No lie... October 31st. A Halloween baby. And Clay is scared. Really scared. There's nothing more petrifying than one's own impending parenthood, especially with the clock tick-tick-ticking away-so we here at The Pumpkin Pie Show have decided to explore those fatherhood-fears and bring them to the stage. Every story within this year's show focuses on the primal paranoia of parenting, whether it be mammoth diaper discharges, flying the friendly skies with screaming kids, or coming up with compelling ways to convince your children to eat their din-din...

7th Annual HP Lovecraft Festival

Presented by Radiotheatre

October 1-11 @ The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)

The award winning, critically acclaimed Radiotheatre returns to NYC to perform LIVE ON STAGE six terror tales by the Grandmaster of 20th Century Horror...H.P.Lovecraft! Stories include: REANIMATOR; THE HORROR AT RED HOOK; THE CURSE OF YIG; HYPNOS; HE; THE HORROR AT MARTIN'S BEACH...complete with our gifted cast of storytellers, original orchestral score and a plethora of sound FX. Just bring your imagination!

Unhealthy

Presented by Battalion Theatre Company

October 7-24 @ The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)

Celia has always felt unnoticed, especially in the shadow of her roommate Michelle, a successful actress. When a fan of Michelle named Maycomb arrives, his increasing fanaticism begins to scare Celia, pushing the roommates into a darker and perhaps irreparable division. Unhealthy is a play about dependence and what you lose when you become what someone else needs you to be. How far can you go to help someone who is beyond help? Join Battalion Theatre for a thrilling-but limited-run of this haunting play. With the cast of four rotating every night, each performance will truly be a unique exploration of the ways we manipulate ourselves to be what someone else wants.

Row After Row

Presented by Cave Theatre Co.

October 15-24 @ UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)

Civil War Reenactors Cal and Tom, best friends since elementary school, encounter an alluring stranger after their annual reenactment of Picket's Charge. Inside a local bar they discuss their lives and their futures. As the action fluctuates between 1863 and the Present, the lives of their Civil War Counterparts reveal what it means to be truly brave in these modern times.

Trigger Happy

Written & Performed by Dandy Darkly

October 29-31 @ UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)

Dandy Darkly is back with an all-new, all-American selection of satiric, horrific, erotic, patriotic tales of sex and death! Join Dandy for his "utterly unique" take on contentment, guns, hypersensitivity and good 'ole American sodomy.

Politikos Festival

Presented by Israela Margalit

November 5-8 @ The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)

A new political theater festival of drama, comedy, satire, songs, and opinions from left, right, and center, that gives voice to celebrated and emerging playwrights and performers.

3rd Annual Gotham Storytelling Festival

November 4-11 @ UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)

This November, FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade presents our annual Gotham Storytelling Festival. This year's festival promises to bring you stories that are both intensely individual and strikingly universal. This year's lineup of handpicked performers from the vibrant New York storytelling scene, are going to bring it. Don't miss out on six days of stories that will make you want to laugh, cry and hear more.

Insignificant

Presented by IVP

December 3-19 @ The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)

How do you tell the story of a group of pioneering women in the field of astronomy? How do you tell a story that for so long went unheralded simply because the protagonists were women? How do you get an audience to pay attention to tedious work that bore fruitful results but lacked drama? You give them a spectacle.

7th Annual Winter Burlesque Blitz

December 26-28 @ The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)

End your holidays on a sexy note with Horse Trade Theater Group's 7th Annual Winter Burlesque Blitz We've got a 7-year itch coming on, why don't you come and help us scratch it.

2nd Annual STEM Fest

January 5-11, 2016 @ UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)

Come join us for our sophomore year where storytellers, comedians, burlesque performers, playwrights musicians and, yes, even scientists will show us just how entertaining the world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics can be.

7th Annual The Fire This Time Festival

January 18-February 6, 2016 @ The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)

Now in it's seventh season, The Fire This Time Festival will welcome seven new playwrights into the family. These playwrights will present an evening of original ten-minute plays. Special events will include a play reading series, an open mic night, and a panel discussion.

10th Annual FRIGID Festival

February 16-March 6, 2016

The flagship festival of FRIGID New York, is turning 10! This very special open and uncensored theatre festival gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination. In true support of theatre on the fringe, 100% of box office proceeds go directly to the artists. FRIGID is here to chill out the New York independent theatre scene's ideas of what a theatre festival can be!

I Am Not An Allegory (these are people i know)

Presented by Libby Emmons

March 10-26, 2016 @ UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)

I Am Not an Allegory (these are people I know), confronts sex, faith, and race among the overeducated underachievers that exist in all of our lives, and is told through the prism of six women who all take the same dance class.

2nd Annual Queerly Festival

June 23-July 3, 2016

Following an amazing first year, Queerly, a festival seen through lavender-colored glasses, is coming back for another round. We take the everyday experiences, jokes and stories of being alive on this planet and view them through the lens of queer identity. A celebration of this diverse, strong, sharing-minded community told through stories, songs, poetry and plays.