OBERON Announces December - January Programming Featuring Sound Society, I.D. Festival, and More
By: BWW News Desk Dec. 02, 2016
OBERON, the American Repertory Theater's (A.R.T.) Second Stage and club theater venue on the fringe of Harvard Square, announces events to be presented at OBERON during December and January - including OBERON Presents, Visiting Artists, and Usual Suspects.
In support of the A.R.T.'s mission to expand the boundaries of theater, OBERON is committed to expansive programming and innovative works. Through non-traditional performances and cutting-edge artists, OBERON is an incubator for artistic expression. GLOWBERON, returning to OBERON from its 2015/16 season debut, I.D. Festival, presented in conversation with A.R.T.'s production of Trans Scripts, and Sound Society, premiering this 2016/17 season, enhance OBERON's dedication to fostering local and national artistry and aim to connect audiences with inventive, contemporary arts experiences.
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THE DONKEY SHOW NEW YEAR'S EVE 2017
Saturday, December 31 at 9PM
Early Bird Ticket Pricing: $45 - $75
After 12/15 Ticket Pricing: $55 - $95
Named "Boston's Best Dance Party" by Boston Magazine. The ultimate disco experience - a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens. The Donkey Show tells the story of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream through the great 70s anthems. The enchanted forest of Shakespeare's classic comedy becomes the glittered world of retro disco as the lovers escape from their real lives to experience a night of dream, abandon, and fantasy. The Donkey Show is once again opening its doors for a special late night New Year's Eve celebration.
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ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR DECEMBER AND JANUARY:
SOMETHING STRANGE: A MUSIC AND BURLESQUE TRIBUTE TO
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Thursday, December 1 and Friday, December 2 at 8PM
Tickets $10 - $20
Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange? Walter's the one hiding under your bed, teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red. Army of Toys hiding under your stairs, fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair. In this town, don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise. A live music and burlesque tribute to The Nightmare Before Christmas by Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys.
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SIDE PROJECT: FEATURING MEMBERS OF LAKE STREET DIVE
OBERON Presents: Sound Society
Sunday, December 4 at 8PM
Tickets from $25
Three of the four members of the celebrated band Lake Street Dive, break from touring their recent release, Side Pony, to share their individual projects and new musical pursuits - for one night only at OBERON. The evening features Mike Calabrese and Lyle Brewer as Baby Uncle, Bridget Kearney and Robin MacMillan, and Rachel Price and Vilray.
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INTO THE WOODS
Thursday, December 8 at 7:30PM and Friday, December 9 at 4PM & 9PM
Tickets from $10 - $25
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Jake Stepansky
Music Directed by Brian Ge
Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, an undergraduate organization for student theater at Harvard College, presents Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. This production follows an ingeniously conjured cast of fractured fairy-tale characters as they journey deep into the darkness and light of their lush, intricate, mysterious woods. Uniquely staged in the immersive OBERON, this retelling of the classic Grimm's fairy tales is heavily ensemble-driven with an unusual take on these famous fairy tale figures.
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CLUB DROSSELMEYER
Sunday, December 11 and Friday, December 16 at 7:30PM
Tickets $45 - $80
It's 1939 and you're on the list for the hottest night club in town, Club Drosselmeyer! Dress to impress and hobnob with friends and swells, drink martinis, dance to the Silver Slipper Swing band and watch the impressive floor show with dancers from around the world! But it's 1939 and there are stories everywhere. Spend a delightful evening in an elegant world of music and dance or... if you choose, find clues, solve puzzles and riddles and go down the rabbit hole of multiple intrigues happening beneath your nose. Your choices will change how the evening unfolds. You never know what the evening holds at Club Drosselmeyer!
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THE BUTTCRACKER
Monday, December 12 at 8PM
Tickets $20
Johnny Blazes and Madge of Honor will have you bent over with laughter for the whole night, delivering enough booty-shaking and butt puns to get your cheeks rosy. An array of all-stars features drag, circus, burlesque, spoken word, and games.
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THE SWEETBACK SISTERS COUNTRY CHRISTMAS SINGALONG
OBERON Presents: Sound Society
Thursday, December 15 at 8PM
Tickets from $25
For eight years running, The Sweetback Sisters have been selling out theaters across the Northeast with their signature take on the holiday sing-along: The Sweetback Sisters' Country Christmas Singalong Spectacular. This wildly popular show requires a bit of audience participation and a love for all genres of holiday music (Fear not! Songbooks are provided). Add in a healthy dose of trivia, prizes, and matching outfits and we think it's safe to say you've got yourself a bona fide spectacular!
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A VERY MARY CHRISTMAS!
Monday, December 19 at 8PM
Tickets $20
Eighty-six year old Mary Dolan, that batsh*t ol broad with a heart of gold, is back for ONE NIGHT ONLY with a special Christmas show this holiday season. Hold onto your knickers and your tickers - Dig Boston deems this show "heroic defiance of good taste" and we couldn't agree more! Welcome her home with your cold, frigid arms, Boston. Mary needs you. With holiday music, elderly showboating, chats with old friends, nice hats, and a good time no matter what! Guitaring by BrenDan Burns.
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Usual Suspect
Tuesday, December 20 at 8PM
Tuesday, January 31 at 8PM
Tickets coming soon!
The Moth StorySLAMs are steadily spreading all over the map, gathering people and stories from all over the country. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston have multiple shows each month. The Moth is open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night's posted theme. The brave of heart, or those with stories they're aching to tell, prepare personal, true tales. When the doors open, storyteller hopefuls put their names in The Moth Hat. A half hour later, names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage. Each person has just five minutes! The ten featured sotires are scored by teams of judges selected from the audience. Each StorySLAM generates a StorySLAM winner. After ten SLAMs, the winners face off in our GrandSLAM Championships. Come sign up to tell a story, or just enjoy the show!
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SAILOR MOON SHOUJO SPECTACULAR
Thursday, December 29 at 8PM
Tickets $10 - $15
For the fourth sugoi year, the Sailor Moon Shoujo Spectacular returns to OBERON to celebrate everyone's favorite magical girl anime, Sailor Moon! Join host Queen Beryl as we pay tribute to the Sailor Scouts through music, dance, circus arts, and burlesque by some of the finest artists from Boston and beyond! Dress to impress the mistress Queen Beryl and you could win the costume contest and walk away with shoujo swag.
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SHAMELESS: NEW YEAR'S EVE EVE
Friday, December 30 at 9PM
Tickets $15 - $35
Shameless is the most fun, most welcoming dance party in the world. All the Michelin-starred Top 40 guilty pleasures you absolutely love AND MORE! And Ring Pops. Don't forget the Ring Pops! New Year's Eve EVE is everything you love about NYE... just 24 hours early! This event is 21+.
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Monday, January 9 at 8PM
Tickets $10
Lush, murder, booze, and blood... William Shakespeare did NOT write plays for the faint of heart! Students from the A.R.T. Institute present BardCore, a sexypants cabaret that brings to life all of the most twisted scenes that Shakespeare ever conceived, in styles ranging from hip-hop to vaudeville to grindhouse gore fest! Featuring excerpts from favorites like Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, live music, custom cocktails, and a raucous punk rock aesthetic, BardCore is Shakespeare as you've never seen him before!
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JOHNNY BLAZES AND Brian King
OBERON Presents: GLOWBERON
Friday, January 13 at 8PM
Tickets $25
What's 10 years between queers? Born exactly 10 years apart, Johnny Blazes and Brian King are twin queens of song and glitter that share everything... except most of their cultural references. Identities blur as the pair explores intersections and spaces between their versions of queerdom, interlacing story, song, and video to expose the gaps imposed not only in generation, but by geography, gender, and shoe size.
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OBERON Presents: I.D. Festival
Sunday, January 22 at 8PM
Tickets $20
Can individuals who identify as LGBT find a home in country music? Is Nashville ready for a transgender country music star? Alison Young wants to find out. She performs a mix of original country-inspired songs, as well as covering popular songs from the current wave of country music stars such as Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert. She enjoys altering some of the lyrics of these top ten hits so that they better reflect her LGBT sensibility. This event is part of the I.D. Festival, presented in conversation with A.R.T.'s 2016/17 production of Trans Scripts, celebrating the diverse experiences of the trans community, explores issues of gender identity. Get $10 off a ticket to Trans Scripts and $5 off an additional I.D Festival show with the purchase of this event.
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OBERON Presents: I.D. Festival
Monday, January 23 at 7:30PM
Tickets $25
Transactivist performer and downtown New York Theater star Becca Blackwell's They, Themselves and Schmerm is a fiercely vulnerable solo piece that details the tragic-comic transitions in life, family, sex, and gender. This event is part of the I.D. Festival, presented in conversation with A.R.T.'s 2016/17 production of Trans Scripts, celebrating the diverse experiences of the trans community, explores issues of gender identity. Get $10 off a ticket to Trans Scripts and $5 off an additional I.D Festival show with the purchase of this event.
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OBERON Presents: I.D. Festival
Friday, January 27 at 7:30PM
Tickets $25
Embark on an exploration through the documentary-musical My Prairie Home, in which indie singer Rae Spoon takes us on a playful, meditative, and at times, melancholic journey. Set against majestic images of the infinite expanses of the Canadian prairies - interviews, performances, and music sequences reveal Spoon's inspiring process of building a life of their own, as a trans person and as a musician. This event is part of the I.D. Festival, presented in conversation with A.R.T.'s 2016/17 production of Trans Scripts, celebrating the diverse experiences of the trans community, explores issues of gender identity. Get $10 off a ticket to Trans Scripts and $5 off an additional I.D Festival show with the purchase of this event.
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OBERON Presents: I.D. Festival
Saturday, January 28 at 7:30PM
Tickets $25
Hot on the heels of writing on the Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning TV show Transparent, Our Lady J comes to OBERON to paint the church pink with Gospel for the Godless, an exhilarating celebration of well-known pop songs, reimagined through the gospel lens. Inspired by conventional Gospel music, this show is anything BUT traditional, promising to deliver you from your woes, sans the usual dogmatic baggage. This event is part of the I.D. Festival, presented in conversation with A.R.T.'s 2016/17 production of Trans Scripts, celebrating the diverse experiences of the trans community, explores issues of gender identity. Get $10 off a ticket to Trans Scripts and $5 off an additional I.D Festival show with the purchase of this event.
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THE DONKEY SHOW
The Long-Running Hit
Presented by A.R.T.
Every Saturday night at 10:30PM
Tickets from $25
Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus' celebrated smash hit continues its 8th Season at OBERON every Saturday night, bringing you the ultimate disco experience - a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The party rages on the dance floor to all the best 70s hits as the show unfolds around the audience. After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own disco fever fantasy!
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OBERON is located at 2 Arrow Street at the corner of Mass Ave. in Harvard Square, Cambridge. For more info and tickets visit cluboberon.com.
OBERON is the American Repertory Theater's Second Stage, a destination for theater and nightlife on the fringe of Harvard Square. In addition to offering work from the A.R.T's main season, OBERON is also a thriving incubator for emerging artists to imagine new projects that could only exist in this exciting club-theater environment. Thousands of artists and performance groups bring work to the space each year. OBERON regularly features local performers including aerialists, beat poets, food artists, tap dancers, gender-bending sketch troupes, comedians, hula-hooping burlesquers, and pop-and-lock human statues to name a few.
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