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For more than a decade, the East Village's iconic Obscura Antiques & Oddities shop has been New York City's foremost destination for one-of-a-kind, bizarre-and often shocking-artifacts. Since becoming the focus of SCIENCE's hit series, ODDITIES, the Big Apple's epicenter of the eccentric has become pop culture's Mecca of the macabre.

This season of ODDITIES turns up the volume for eleven ridiculously entertaining episodes that redefine the notion of "freak chic." The merchandise has never been more memorable, with notable highlights including a two-headed pig, a mummified "member," an occupied coffin, a prostate warmer, and a preserved heart full of bullet holes. However, at Obscura, the people are even more eccentric than the products.



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Players Club of Swarthmore's SPAMALOT Opens Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 23, 2015

For an irreverent reminder to 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,' look no further than the Holy Grail of musical comedies that is Monty Python's Spamalot. The Players Club of Swarthmore presents Spamalot tonight, Oct. 23 to Nov. 7 for ten performances at The Players Club of Swarthmore, 614 Fai...


Ripley's Believe It or Not! Eye-Popping Oddities! is Released
by Christina Mancuso - September 08, 2015

Readers beware: Ripley's Believe It or Not! Eye-Popping Oddities! is now on sale. The book has been known to induce actual eye-popping, jaw-dropping and head-spinning in people who stare at its pages for too long!...


BWW Review: Think Big with THE BIG BROADCAST ON EAST 53rd at the TBG Theatre
by Kristen Morale - February 05, 2017

In association with Playalinda Productions, playwright Dick Brukenfeld and Director Charles Maryan come together to present the World Premiere of The Big Broadcast on East 53rd, now in performances at the TBG Theatre (actually off of 36th Street), What I can only describe as one whirlwind of a show ...


Review Roundup: Deanna Dunagan Goes from Stage to Scare in THE VISIT
by Tess Reynolds - September 11, 2015

M. Night Shyamalan's horror film THE VISIT opens today, Sept. 11, 2015. The film stars award-winning stage actress Deanna Dunagan as well as Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn, and Celia Keenan-Bolger....


Warrington to Welcome Comedian Tom Stade
by Tyler Peterson - February 04, 2016

The UK's favourite Canadian, Tom Stade, is taking his brand new show 'You're Welcome' to Warrington's Pyramid arts centre and he's bringing his candid and alluring stand-up with him....


Comedian Kevin McGahern Celebrates St. Patrick's Day on Premiere of Travel Channel's WEIRD AMERICA, Today
by BWW News Desk - March 18, 2017

In WEIRD AMERICA premiering the day after St. Patrick's Day today, March 18 at 2:00 p.m. ET/PT, McGahern is finally getting his big chance to discover all the gloriously unique things about this nation....


BWW Review: NEW YORK CITY BALLET's 'New Combinations' Isn't as Innovative as the Program Title Suggests
by Wesley Doucette - February 18, 2016

Justin Peck's 'Most Incredible Thing' headlines this program of new works....


BWW Review: THE OTHER MOZART at SHEA'S 710 THEATRE
by Michael Rabice - May 05, 2017

HIGH ART RETURNS IN 'THE OTHER MOZART' Child prodigies may be rare, but not necessarily that rare if you grew up in the Mozart family of Salzburg. The unknown and until now mostly untold story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's older sister, Maria Anna (Nannerl), is equally as fascinating as that of ...


WQXR and Met Opera Star Anthony Roth Costanzojoin Presents THE OPERA PARTY
by Christina Mancuso - March 29, 2017

This spring in The Greene Space, WQXR and Met Opera star Anthony Roth Costanzojoin forces to present The Opera Party, a new event series featuring world-class opera performances, engaging banter, unique physical environments, and culinary spectacle by celebrated chefs that will enchant opera aficion...


BPA's 2016/2017 60th Anniversary Season Opens with THE EDGE
by Nora Dominick - August 10, 2016

Bainbridge Performing Arts' 2016 - 2017 60th Anniversary Season opens September 3 with an audience favorite - The EDGE Improv. For more than two laughter-filled decades at Bainbridge Performing Arts, the troupe's riotous antics have inspired rave reviews from people from all walks of life. Sell-out ...


The Adobe Theater Presents YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
by A.A. Cristi - September 19, 2016

Alice Sycamore works for Tony Kirby, Junior. They have fallen in love and want to get married. Simple enough, but there are two problems - their families. The Kirbys are rich, ruthless, overflowing with self-importance, and sure they can always get what they want. The Sycamores are an unusual collec...


East Lynne Theater Company to Present DRACULA
by Tyler Peterson - July 12, 2016

The quiet English countryside changed with the arrival of its newest neighbor, Count Dracula. Even Lucy Seward, the daughter of the psychiatrist in charge of the local sanitorium, is behaving strangely. Her mysterious oddities are noticed by Jonathan Harker, the man who loves her, and her father who...


Dad's Garage Sets BaconFest 2016 Dates
by Tyler Peterson - January 15, 2016

This important news bulletin is brought to you by the letter B. Bacon, beer, booths and other letter B-centric oddities and attractions will once again be able to call Dad's Garage Theatre home. Atlanta's outrageously savory and oft-salacious annual event, BaconFest, is set to return in 2016, but to...


BWW Feature: David Hare's SKYLIGHT Gets Its First-Ever Indian Adaptation
by Zofeen Maqsood - March 09, 2017

The first-ever Indian revival of the critically acclaimed play SKYLIGHT presented in its original tone without any local references is finding an easy connect amongst the new age Indians...


BaconFest 2016 to be Held in Atlanta This Month
by Tyler Peterson - March 08, 2016

This important news bulletin is brought to you by the letter B. Bacon, beer, booths and other letter B-centric oddities and attractions will once again be able to call Dad's Garage Theatre home. Atlanta's outrageously savory and oft-salacious annual event, BaconFest, is set to return in 2016, but to...


House of Independents Hosts Rockabilly Bash for New Year's Tonight
by BWW News Desk - December 31, 2015

House of Independents scorches with a swinging sixteen roaring Rockabilly sock hop to kickstart 2016! Put on your party pants and rebel rock those dancing feet. Ring in the New Year at Asbury Park's ultimate Rockabilly House Party!...


New GPS Audio Tour Entertains Road-Trippers from LA to Vegas
by Tyler Peterson - September 22, 2015

Just Ahead (http://www.justahead.com/), the award-winning smartphone app synonymous with road tripping through national parks, has just added one of the country's most popular open-road drives to its audio-tour map....


Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of DRACULA, Coming to Orlando This October
by BWW News Desk - September 01, 2016

This Halloween, Jeremy Seghers will breathe new... life... into Bram Stoker's Gothic horror classic with Steven Dietz's critically acclaimed adaptation of Dracula. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the stars in character below!...


Chen Dance Center Presents NEWSTEPS This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - January 14, 2016

Chen Dance Center presents newsteps, its semi-annual emerging choreographer's series, this weekend, January 14-16 at 7:30 PM at the Chen Dance Center, 70 Mulberry Street....


BWW Review: NEW YORK CITY BALLET's 'New Combinations' Isn't as Innovative as the Program Title Suggests
by Wesley Doucette - February 18, 2016

Justin Peck's 'Most Incredible Thing' headlines this program of new works....


BWW Review: THE ELEPHANT MAN at UD REP Ensemble
by Greer Firestone - March 07, 2017

In this supercharged political environment, we are buffeted with tweeted grotesqueries daily. We ask ourselves where is the humanity in this?...


BWW Review: Gurney's Quietly Poignant LATER LIFE Opens Portland Stage Season
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - October 03, 2016

Portland Stage opens its 2016-2017 season with a quietly poignant production of A. R. Gurney's Later Life, the 1993 drama which explores the emotional choices and self-assessments that face people in their retirement years. The four-character piece is subdued, even reticent, and it speaks with the k...


Met Opera's Anthony Roth Costanzo to Headline PRIDE WITHOUT PREJUDICE Opera Party
by BWW News Desk - June 07, 2017

On Thursday, June 22 at 7pm, WQXR and Met Opera star Anthony Roth Costanzo will celebrate NYC Pride Month with “Pride Without Prejudice” – a special installment of its event series The Opera Party....


Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Announces Free TAJ Events
by Tyler Peterson - January 21, 2016

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will be inviting audiences to attend companion events during the run of Rajiv Joseph's award-winning Guards at the Taj. These special complimentary offerings include a panel with South Asian artists, a night of performances in partnership with Subcontinental Drift, a p...


THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN Announces First US Tour in 47 Years!
by A.A. Cristi - December 05, 2016

After a highlight performance at Psycho Las Vegas 2016, hugely influential UK heavy psychedelic progressive oddities The Crazy World of Arthur Brown announce their 2017 "ZIM ZAM ZIM" tour - their first run of US shows since 1969....






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