Medicine Show's Cabin Fever Festival To Run Thru February

The Vagabond Theatre Ensemble will be presenting the Cabin Fever Festival throughout the month of February at the Medicine Show Theater (549 West 52nd Street) with their main stage production of THE WENDIGO as the centerpiece. The Cabin Fever Festival was established as an opportunity to create a dialogue among the new voices in our theatrical community. The festival will include a variety of new artistic works from both young emerging artists and seasoned professionals in all artistic fields. Writers, actors, singers and artists in every form have come together in this month long celebration of the arts at a time when theatrical opportunity has become a limited occasion. We are proud to have created a safe environment for new work to thrive.

Lost in the wilderness, four hunters venture deep into a world they were never meant to see...

Vagabond's mainstage production of THE WENDIGO will run February 5-28, Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday matinees February 8 & 22 at 3pm with special performances Monday, February 9 & Wednesday, February 25 at 8pm.

Tickets are only $10 and are available by calling SmartTix at 212-868-4444 or online at www.SmartTix.com
February 6 at 10pm: Please join the Vagabond Theatre Ensemble in celebration of the opening of THE WENDIGO, and the beginning of the Cabin Fever Festival. Free food and drink with admission!

February 7, 14, 21 & 28 at 10pm, $7: The Wizard of Oz, Lord, I'm Coming Home, a new piece created by Jeremy Bloom (director of The Wendy Complex). Dorothy from Kansas lives a drab and colorless life, but is swept up in a frenzied tornado and thrust into a world of vibrant Technicolor. She can only think of one thing, going home, for as the great spirituals say, "I'm getting ready, Lord, comin' for to carry me home; Lord I'm going home." There is no place like home.

February 10 at 8pm, $5: A Night of One Acts featuring: Bump: An Urban Poem by Justin Swain

Have you ever found your mind wandering into your past or your future on the subway? BUMP is the dream that happens in between stops on the L train. Six characters, one story. A BUMP can change your life ... or end it. Everyone is looking for a connection. & Experimental Corn Field by Matthew E. Lee. A poor, young college student and a divorced older gentleman meet by chance at a remote bar off the interstate in the dead middle of the Missouri cornfields. Alienated and desperately trying to find redemption, they make a deal to help each other out, only to find their chance meeting wasn't so chance at all.

February 11 at 8pm, $5: Odds and Ends: An Evening of Shorts featuring Dry by Emily Chadick Weiss, Hush Little Baby by Montserrat Mendez, A Great War by James Christy, Comedian's Nightmare by Megan Sass, Drunk by Bekah Brunstetter, a new play by Nathan Henninger, and General Theory of Logic Behind My Decisions by Benjamin Guhin.

February 12 at 10pm, $5: A reading of Twenty Something, a new play by Scott Vogelfanger.
February 13 at 10pm, $15: An after show talk back with playwright Eric Sanders, Director Matt Hancock, and writers Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allan Poe, and HP Lovecraft. Followed by a Masquerave Ball to celebrate the miraculous resurrections.

February 16 at 8pm, $5: Vagabond Theatre Ensemble and Whirled Peas Productions bring you a special one-night presentation of the FringeNYC hit play, Thoroughly Stupid Things by Montserrat Mendez. Winner of an "Excellence in Playwrighting Award" at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, Thoroughly Stupid Things is a sexy, hysterical sequel to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Gwendolen and Cecily have a problem! They believe their husbands Jack and Algernon are having a scandalous affair with a French lounge singer named Bibi LaFlam. At Ms. Prisms suggestion and Lady Bracknell's insistence the women drag up. Taking the names of "Ernest and Ernest" they join their husband's club, spying for any threats from this French Harlot. But a French Inspector's unexpected arrival threatens the girls with exposure and when the two Ernests' are invited back to their homes to meet themselves... all hell breaks loose.

February 16 at 10pm, $5: Cabaret by Alex Michaels.

February 17 at 8pm, $5: A reading of Sallow Lands, a new play by Zachary Finkelstein.

February 19 at 10pm, $5: Alter-Ego: A night of new Songwriters featuring Lydia Benecke as "Blue Kid" and Wi-Moto Nyoka as "Dusky Diana".

February 20 at 10pm, $10: A Night with Renee and Natalie featuring Renee Dunaway of Jetsetter and Natalie Ferraro and the You Don't Love Me's.

February 23 at 8pm, $5: A reading of the new play, Animalia by Michael Mosley

February 24 at 8:30pm, $5: Your Water is Boiling, A night of monologues and short scenes by Megan Sass written specifically for members of the Vagabond Theatre Ensemble.

February 26 at 10pm, $10: At the Movies with Ryan & Misha
Singer/Songwriters Ryan Bogner and Mishaela Faucher are joined by a few of their talented friends in a concert of songs from their hit show Hey You Know What Movie Would Make a Good Musical? The show famously satirizes the current Broadway trend of musicalizing hollywood blockbusters by doing just that...turning popular films into musicals.

February 27 at 10pm, $18: Broadway's Spring Awakening: A Concert With Members of the Cast
One Night Only! Hear members of the final cast of Broadway's Spring Awakening sing all the songs you want to hear! Some new, some old, let's end February with a Spring Awakening.

The Vagabond Theatre Ensemble A vagabond is a wanderer, an individual who leads an unsettled and carefree life, lacking a permanent home. Players from all eras have supported themselves by wandering, seeking an audience wherever it may be found. We too are wandering through our careers, proudly wearing the title of artist. We intend to experience the world to its fullest and honor it in our creations, moving as gypsies through our careers and our lives. And so we gather as a troupe of vagabonds to create an ever-growing, ever-changing home of our own, wherever that home may find us. Our mission is to establish a community of artists and storytellers in order to stretch our artistic boundaries and imaginations. We encourage unique and daring explorations of our humanity and are committed to producing work that traverses the theatrical spectrum, theatre that is limitless in artistic scope and possibility. We strive to create topical and inspiring pieces to establish a dialogue between ourselves and our audience.

Vagabond was founded in September 2007. Since then they have produced The Wendy Complex (Access Gallery, April 2008 & The 9th Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival), Speaking Boheme (associate producer, May 2008), and Endoftheworld Lovesong (associate producer with The Flea Theater, September 2008).