The Brick Theatre In Brooklyn Hosts The Shantytown Ball 5/2

The Brick Theater, Inc. presents "The Brick's Shantytown Ball" May 2, 8pm to 3am! A Costume Party Where Hoity-Toity meets Down 'n' Doity at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. A fundraiser for The Brick Theater - Williamsburg's Primary Destination for Audacious Theatrical Experiences! FREE BEER! from Global Brewer's Guild and 2-For-1 Drink Specials! Only until 10p.m.!!

Great Raffles!! - One free raffle ticket with every admission!

FREE EATS!

Including caramel corn, chocolate cookies, cucumber sandwiches, gourmet Rice Krispies treats and pigs in a blanket! Hosted by Richard P. Scatman and Graspy McTakeItAll (Ten Directions) with their Dirty Old Medicine Show Dance to Hopkins Hawkes Quartet featuring Queen Esther Rock out to Supermajor!

DJ blackkorea keeps you dancing 'til the wee hours! Special attractions including: Fortunes Told by Pelligrina Leoni and Madama Amore! Lunatic Fireside Chats with Boxcar F.D.R.! Fish-for-a-Bum Competitions! Float a paper boat down Raggamuffin River! And more! 

Come visit Hobohemia, where the Flappers get goofy with the bums! Doll up and party down! Or dress down and party up! We want to see your best Little Tramp fashion and It Girl-Chic! We're Equal Opportunity! Hoboettes and Dapper Dans will not be turned away!

Raffle prizes galore! Tickets from Playwrights Horizons, an actual Depression-Era Cast Iron Skillet from The Brooklyn Kitchen, a Surprise-For-Two from Surprise Industries, silkscreen prints from Desert Island Comic Book Store, gift certificates from The Drama Book Shop, Hudson River Massage, Solo Italian Restaurant, Music Lessons from Sarah Engelke, Yoga Instruction from Jenny Schmermund and more! Not to mention the chance to walk away with half the clams in the raffle monies pot!

HOBOHEMIA TICKETS: $30

EARLY-BIRD SPECIAL: $20 (by using the ticket code EARLYBIRD)

All tickets available through bricktheater.com (or through Theatermania at 212-352-3101)

Galapagos Art Space is located at 16 Main Street at the corner of Water Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn.

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.