The New Dixon Place Announces Upcoming Show Schedule

THE NEW DIXON PLACE PROUDLY PRESENTS WINTER THEATER EVENTS The New Dixon Place is located at 161A Chrystie Street (b/w Rivington & Delancey)

New York, NY 10002, 212-219-0736, www.dixonplace.org

Check individual shows for times and ticket prices. Door opens a half hour before showtime. Cash, check and cards accepted. For tickets and more info call 212-219-0736 or visit our website at www.dixonplace.org.

Mondays, January 4, 18, February 1, 15, March 1, 15 at 8pm, $20, $15

MONEY TALKS with CITIZEN RENO

RENO, long bullish (in the sense of "...in a China Shop"), has Wall Street in her bullseye lately,

bringing a Finance Professional onstage with her each night, just to make sure. In past shows, Reno has hosted several Nobel Economists as well as a former Chief Financial Officer of the world's second largest bank.

RENO is a comedic provocateur who started performing in the mid '80's at various dives in New York City's East Village. She has performed "Reno: Rebel Without A Pause", her critically acclaimed ("Insightful and Very, Very Funny." NEW YORKER; "The woman is consistently, energetically, loudly funny." NY TIMES), Drama Desk Award nominated (Elaine Stritch won) personal/political rant show about the events of September 11th that opened October 4th, 2001 at LaMaMa ETC, over 700 times both in the US and abroad.

Mondays, January 11, Feb 8, March 8 at 8pm, $15, $12

LITTLE THEATRE

The OBIE-award winning multi-disciplinary series features an extraordinary lineup of new work by Siobhan Antonielli, Brian DeWan and Iris Rose. Curated by Mike Taylor & JEFFREY M. Jones.

Saturdays, January 16 & 23 & Thursdays, February 11 & 18 at 9pm, $12, $10

THE BULL DYKE CHRONICLES

SHELLY MARS & Dixon Place's mascot, KIRBY, offers a night of bull-dyke bullshit, artistry & edgy performances. Come join a motley crew of performers, poets & musicians for thought provoking entertainment & to dance your asses off.

SHELLY MARS is an established solo performance artist based in Manhattan who has entertained and shocked audiences around the world for over than 20 years. Amy Taubin of The Village Voice described her as "an after-hours Lily Tomlin." Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham said, "For me, there is Sappho, Gertrude Stein, and Shelly Mars." As one of the first "drag kings" to emerge in the late 1980s, Mars' work has been featured in an HBO special, Drag Kings, and the independent film, Venus Boyz.

Friday & Saturday, January 22 & 23 at 8pm, $15, $12

Staying Afloat by LENORA CHAMPAGNE

Staying Afloat is a play for two women and a polar bear who find themselves trapped on a melting ice floe sometime in the near future. With songs, movement sections, and fragmented bits that reflect the characters consciousness and perceptions of inner lives, one another, and the larger world. Co-director MELISSA KIEVMAN, Design by Liz Prince. W/ VALDA SETTERFIELD & Tricia Rodley. Written by LENORA CHAMPAGNE.

LENORA CHAMPAGNE, a New Yorker, by way of her native Louisiana creates performances, which she writes, directs, and often performs in. In 2006 she received support from the NYSCA Individual Artists Program for TRACES/fades, her performance work about Alzheimer's and our national inability to remember history, as well as a residency at Yaddo Artists Colony to work on the project. [www.lenorachampagne.com]

Monday, January 25 at 8pm, $10

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THE SOMNAMBULIST presents a spectrum of reactions to a confining reality as each character attempts to understand their place and purpose. Written & directed by MEGAN MURTHA. Set design/costumes by KAITLYN MULLIGAN.

MEGAN MURTHA was credited as both writer and director of A Scheme For Two presented at Theater For the New City in the LES. Raised in Buffalo, NY, she lives in Brooklyn as a professor of writing (Brooklyn College), playwright and collagist. [lacqueredbemusement.blogspot.com]

Friday & Saturday, January 29 & 30 at 8pm, $15, $12

Poor Baby Bree in I Am Going to Run Away

The wandering waif brings her pathetic plight to the stage in an original playlet featuring forgotten Vaudeville Era songs and recitations. Written & performed by BREE BENTON. Musical Director FRANKLIN BRUNO.

BREE BENTON has been performing as "Poor Baby Bree" since 2005. Her first one-woman show, Weary River, earned her a place on Time Out New York critic Adam Feldman's Top Ten list for 2008. She has shared bills with Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, Julie Halston and Lypsinka.

FRANKLIN BRUNO has recorded and toured extensively as a solo artist and with the bands Nothing Painted Blue and the Human Hearts. Called a "true Tin Pan Alley scion" by the LA Times, his original songs combine punk rock and musical theater traditions. He is a frequent collaborator with the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle.

Wednesday, February 3 & March 3 at 7:30pm, Free

7 AT 7

Come at 7PM for bingo & booze. Perform at 7:30PM for 7 minutes. No stand-up. Yes, clothing.

Sponsored by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

Thursday, February 4 at 8pm, $15, $12

AIN'T THAT GOOD NEWS by THE BENGSONS

A raucous vaudevillian cabaret, full of roaring music and impassioned characters. The Bengson duo evoke the quintessentially American stories of the immigrant and the outcast and play at the heart of the political struggles of our age through a melding of the musical forms of Tin Pan Alley, the Old South, German Weimar and rock and roll.

Fridays & Saturdays February 5 & 6, March 5 & 6 at 8pm, $12

PUPPET BLOK

Innovative Storytelling featuring new work by PAPERMOON PUPPET THEATRE, LONE WOLF TRIBE, DAVID MICHAEL FRIEND, ORA FRUCHTER, DRAMA OF WORKS and more! Curated by LESLIE STRONGWATER.

Join us after the show for Fireside Puppet Chats hosted and curated by KATE BREHM. Check www.puppetblok.dixonplace.org for more info.

Wednesday, February 10 at 7pm, $10

VANISHING CITY

Join us as we pay tribute to our disappearing neighborhoods, cultures and characters. Curated by TIM RANNEY.

Fridays & Saturdays, February 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 & 27 at 10PM, $15, $12

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: JONNY CIGAR

JONNY CIGAR, the Poet of the Gutter, presents an evening of complacent distractions: whiskey, desire, love, and someone's gettin' on that plane in Kammerspiel! (a parenthetical drama for the American alcoholic).

W/ JONNY CIGAR, ABRAHAM DANZ, MAX OGLESBEE, PHOEBE OGLESBEE, BILL CHAMBERS & NICK BENNETT.

For over 115 years, JONNY CIGAR has set the standards for innovation, quality and traditional craftsmanship. Whether it's classic, legendary, or casual, Jonny Cigar's old-world dedication is time-honored and true to its founding principles. Available in the organic section.

Fridays & Saturdays, February 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 & 27 at 7:30PM, $15, $12

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN

Julian Eltinge: the first female impersonator to bring drag to the masses. Vaudeville raised him. Broadway embraced him. Now it's time to remember him... Book written by CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN,

Music written & performed by THE VENN DIAGRAMS. Directed by ISAAC BUTLER.

CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN is the creator of the rigorous storytelling session The Pumpkin Pie Show. He is the author of Rest Area, a collection of short stories, and Miss Corpus, a novel - both published by Hyperion books. He teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University.

THE VENN DIAGRAMS (Jeffrey Marsh & Rick Sorkin) is a two-man modern day cabaret, like Sonny & Cher meets Kurt Weill in a late night uncensored format, blending traditional 20th century French and German cabaret, musical theater selections, pop music deconstruction, and comedy.

ISAAC BUTLER has directed many plays by Clay McLeod Chapman including Redbird (45 below), Volume Of Smoke (Kraine Theater, 14th St. Y Theater, Firehouse Theatre Project and Virginia Commonwealth University), and Positive I.D. (Kraine Theater).

Thursday, February 18 at 8pm, $15, $12

HALF STRADDLE presents An Evening of Awesomeness.

TINA SATTER attended the graduate playwriting program at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman. In the past two years, she has shown work at the Ontological-Hysteric (The Knockout Blow & FAMILY), HERE Arts Center (The Knockout Blow), and Dixon Place (Sliding Whores & Corey and Pam), and in CATCH! FAMILY was named a Top 10 show for 2009 by Time Out New York. Tina Learn more at [www.halfstraddle.com.]
Monday, February 22 at 8pm, $10

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JULIA PEARLSTEIN presents Weep Screed, a farce-in-progress about a life in retrograde. When Julia moves back into her family's brownstone, the lines between metaphor and reality began to blur. The backyard starts belching up shards of antique pottery and a small geyser erupts in the basement. This play is 99 and 44/100% true!

TRAVIS STEWART presents Tall Tales (and Counterfeit Codices), a collection of short humor pieces.

Trav S.D.'s. Joycean take on the grand American tradition of preposterous yarn spinning in the Mark Twain/Artemus Ward/ P.T. Barnum mold. The author acts out every role from the podium like Dickens on methamphetamine.

Thursday, February 25 at 8pm, $15, $12

ERIN MARKEY presents a reading of The Dardy Family Home Movies By Stephen Sondheim.

A musical meditation on the bloopers of amateur cinematography and how we remember childhood in the age of technology.

ERIN MARKEY is a Brooklyn-based performing artist, comedienne, actress, and playwright. Her "outlandishly riotous" (Village Voice) work has been featured at Joe's Pub, Ars Nova, Comix, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center Director's Lab, The O'Reilly Factor, and the 2008-09 Sex Workers' Art Show Tour.

Sunday, February 28 at 2pm, $15

Story Pirates FAMILY FIRST

While many children's theater troupes tell stories to children, the story pirates believe that every child has a story to tell. Whether it's a world with flying cats or a rock opera about Tickle Monsters, professional actors and teachers bring children's ideas to life-hilariously.

Tuesday-Thursday, March 2, 3, 4 at 8pm, $15, $12

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: CHANA PORTER

Violins, Gypsies, Marlene Dietrich, the fragility of human memory! It's Bird on a Wire: An Uncertain Retelling of a Young Woman's Life in WWII Europe, as Imagined by a Young Woman in Contemporary America, a new play by CHANA PORTER, based on the life of the poet Gertrude Halstead.

CHANA PORTER is a playwright and screenwriter, living in Brooklyn. She recently received a Masters degree from the University of Exeter, UK, in playwriting and script development. Her play Ruby Red debuted at Dixon Place in 2008. Touch Me, a Comedy about Loneliness, was a finalist in the ISP Competition (UK) 2008.

Friday & Saturday, March 12 & 13 at 9pm, $12, $12

COU-COU BIJOUX: POUR VOUS

In her new two-act cabaret chanteuse Cou-Cou Bijoux ignites the torch of song as she stops, drops and rolls into love and other misfortunes. Written and Performed by RAQUEL CION, Musical Direction by BROOKS HARTELL, Directed by LUKE HARLAN.

RAQUEL CION has performed extensively in NYC, the Bay Area, as well as in Paris and Russia. The New York Times described her as " [a] small sturdy creature...half witch and half cabaret performer". She has performed at undergroundzero Festival at PS 122, 3LD, Emerging Artist Theatre's One Woman Standing 2008, Hourglass Solo Lab's Real Live Women 2007, manhattantheatresource, Sola Voce: Estrogenia Festival 2005 and more.

Tuesday-Thursday, March 16, 17 & 18 at 8pm, $15, $12

5 STORY WALK UP: SEVEN CARD DRAW

An evening of dark tales about risk and reward, featuring never-before-produced short plays and monologues by Neil LaBute, John Guare, CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN, QUINCY LONG, LAURA SHAINE, DANIEL LEVIN & DANIEL GALLANT. Directed by DANIEL GALLANT.

DANIEL GALLANT is currently the Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, teaches classes and curates events at 92Y Tribeca. As a producer, director and curator, he has worked with celebrated authors including Tony Kushner, Warren Leight, David Henry Hwang, Mark O'Donnell, Paula Vogel and many others.
Friday & Saturday, March 19 & 20 at 10pm, $15, $12

DOPPELGANGERS: A LOVE STORY

MICHAEL CROSS BURKE and KRYS FOX embark on perilous and subversive journey in their first collaborative performance work. Topics to be explored include sex, identity, love, death, drugs, drag, pornography, prostitution, and secret histories. Original video by acclaimed director TODD VEROW.

Created & performed by MICHAEL CROSS BURKE & KRYS FOX.

MICHAEL CROSS BURKE is the Director of the Trinity/La MaMa Performing Arts Program, and has been a professor at Trinity College since 2001. He is a dance curator for Dixon Place and a resident artist at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The New Britain Museum of Art and SUNY Purchase.

Monday, March 29 at 8pm, $10

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The Rules of Sleepaway Camp involves dodging flying peppermints, deformed Noxema jars, aggressive squirrels, not to mention the ever-present threat of swine flu. Three students doggedly pursue their respective goals until the unexpected happens, at the second weekend Saturday night costume dance.

Written by VALERIE WORK. Directed by MEGHAN FINN.

VALERIE WORK holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College. Her work has been featured at The Bushwick Starr, Estrogenius Festival, Classic Stage Company and as part of the 3rd Annual Bring a Weasel Festival.

Wednesday, March 31 at 8pm, $15, $12

HALF STRADDLE

HALF STRADDLE presents FOOTBALL, a theatrical meditation on team sports, the American Dream, and lots of girls.