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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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May Events Announced At Green Space Photo May Events Announced At Green Space
by A.A. Cristi - April 15, 2019

Green Space is pleased to announce a diverse roster of artists for its signature programs this May. Take Root will present an evening of work by Edgar Cortes Dance Theater and Dance Visions NY on May 17th and 18th, and Fertile Ground showcases works-in-progress by multiple dance artists on May 19th....


American Music Theatre Project Will Workshop Four New Works In 2018-2019 Season Photo American Music Theatre Project Will Workshop Four New Works In 2018-2019 Season
by A.A. Cristi - September 26, 2018

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University has announced the new season of workshop readings written by award-winning music theater creators, directed by leading regional theater and Broadway directors and performed by students in the Music Theatre program....


BWW Review: Things Get Naughty in WILD PARTY at Theater West End Photo BWW Review: Things Get Naughty in WILD PARTY at Theater West End
by Aaron Wallace - April 08, 2019

WILD PARTY is a showcase of everything I love about Theater West End: gorgeous lighting, creative set design, top-notch casting, and a willingness to stage shows that aren't being done somewhere else fifty times a year  - even if this particular musical, about a 1920s love rectangle that implodes du...


Comedian Don Barnhart Offers More Las Vegas Comedy Workshops Photo Comedian Don Barnhart Offers More Las Vegas Comedy Workshops
by Stephi Wild - August 26, 2018

Comedian, filmmaker and author Don Barnhart will be teaching his 25th standup comedy workshop in Las Vegas. Barnhart is the founder of the Las Vegas Comedy Institute dedicated to helping those interested in pursuing a career in comedy a place to gather, study and pursue their dream....


North Coast Rep Hosts AN EVENING OF LANGUAGE AND LAUGHTER WITH RICHARD LEDERER Photo North Coast Rep Hosts AN EVENING OF LANGUAGE AND LAUGHTER WITH RICHARD LEDERER
by Julie Musbach - February 04, 2019

North Coast Repertory Theatre presents Richard Lederer's An Evening of Language and Laughter....


BWW Review: LADYBONES, VAULT Festival Photo BWW Review: LADYBONES, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - February 24, 2019

Nuala is a junior osteology archaeologist. She also suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Her life takes a turn when she discovers the remains of a young woman in an unmarked grave and the skull disappears....


BWW Review: VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE at Mile Square Theatre Hoboken Photo BWW Review: VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE at Mile Square Theatre Hoboken
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Pert, engaging, hysterical rift on Chekov and life...


The Playwrights Realm to Present World Premiere of HELLO, FROM THE CHILDREN OF PLANET Photo The Playwrights Realm to Present World Premiere of HELLO, FROM THE CHILDREN OF PLANET EARTH
by Danielle Gutierrez - January 23, 2018

The Playwrights Realm will present HELLO, FROM THE CHILDREN OF PLANET EARTH, a World Premiere from Don Nguyen. The show will run February 24 through March 24 at The Duke on 42nd Street....


BWW Interview: Tamara Laflin Talks About What a Spectacular Spectacle BARNUM is at So Photo BWW Interview: Tamara Laflin Talks About What a Spectacular Spectacle BARNUM is at Southgate Community Players!
by Katie Laban - May 01, 2019

Barnum will be closing out Southgate Community Players Main Stage productions for the 2018-2019 season. Opening this weekend on Friday, May 3rd, this spectacular spectacle brings to life the story of P. T. Barnum the stage at the Davidson Auditorium inside Davidson Middle School in Southgate. Belove...


SHAZAMFEST Presents The BLUE MUSHROOM SIRKUS PSYSHOW In Montreal Photo SHAZAMFEST Presents The BLUE MUSHROOM SIRKUS PSYSHOW In Montreal
by Julie Musbach - March 08, 2018

ShazamFest is pleased to present the Blue Mushroom Sirkus Psyshow's darkest production yet, ready to frighten and delight with a vaudevillian vignette of curious clownish antics, supernatural puppetry, pain-defying feats, slapstick escape-artistry, seductive snake charming numbers, sultry dance acts...


VR Theatrical Presents THE LITTLE PRINCE Photo VR Theatrical Presents THE LITTLE PRINCE
by Stephi Wild - October 08, 2018

Antoine de Saint-Exupery's beloved tale of a pilot and a young alien prince has been delighting readers since it was first published in 1943 and has since been translated into more than 250 languages. This makes the book the most translated non-religious book ever written. Even if you know The Litt...


Smithsonian Earth's STRANGE CREATURES Explores Oddest Entities Around the World Photo Smithsonian Earth's STRANGE CREATURES Explores Oddest Entities Around the World
by Caryn Robbins - October 02, 2017

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Adaptation Of Short Story About Immigration, Culture And Self-Discovery Comes to The Photo Adaptation Of Short Story About Immigration, Culture And Self-Discovery Comes to The Etcetera Theatre
by Stephi Wild - December 11, 2017

Adapted from a short story by award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Saaramaria Kuittinen's On Monday Last Week opens at the Etcetera Theatre in January/February 2018. This important new stage adaptation about immigration, culture and self-discovery, brought to life by director Erika Eva and...


Susie Dent To Bring Her Secret Words To Swindon Photo Susie Dent To Bring Her Secret Words To Swindon
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2018

Take a journey into the curious, unexpected, and downright surreal origins of the words we use every day. Queen of Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent will retell the adventures that lie hidden within such words as lasagne (involving a chamber pot) and bugbear (a terrorising monster), and explain such odd...


BWW Review: LOVE NEVER DIES at Starlight Theatre Photo BWW Review: LOVE NEVER DIES at Starlight Theatre
by Alan Portner - August 15, 2018

'Love Never Dies' is absolutely worth seeing.  It is lush.  The voices are beyond exceptional.  Sets, costumes, and effects are haunting. The direction by Australians Simon Phillips and choreography by Graeme Murphy AO completely envelop the space allowed.  The traveling pit orchestra conducted by D...


Review Roundup: Bucks County Playhouse's GUYS AND DOLLS Photo Review Roundup: Bucks County Playhouse's GUYS AND DOLLS
by Alan Henry - August 02, 2017

'Guys and Dolls', the classic Broadway musical, brings a veteran Broadway cast to New Hope, PA at the historic Bucks County Playhouse through August 12, 2017. Executive Producer Robyn Goodman, Producing Director Alexander Fraser and Producers Stephen Kocis and Josh Fiedler are proud that this is the...


Dragon Theatre In Redwood City Debuts a New Play From A Peninsula Playwright This Sep Photo Dragon Theatre In Redwood City Debuts a New Play From A Peninsula Playwright This September
by Rebecca Russo - August 31, 2017

Inspired by Germany's Circus Sarrasani, we enter the big-top of a world-renowned circus in 1936 Berlin. When a peculiar anthropologist visits Cirque Exotique du Monde seeking oddities for his own collection, the equilibrium of this patchwork family of misfits is shaken. But when the circus catches t...


Halloween-Weirdest Creatures Uncovered on Smithsonian Earth's STRANGE CREATURES Photo Halloween-Weirdest Creatures Uncovered on Smithsonian Earth's STRANGE CREATURES
by Caryn Robbins - October 25, 2017

Just in time for the Halloween season, uncover some of the weirdest, wildest and most peculiar organisms known to man with Smithsonian Earth's STRANGE CREATURES....


BBC One Announces THE ELEPHANT MAN, Starring STRANGER THINGS' Charlie Heaton Photo BBC One Announces THE ELEPHANT MAN, Starring STRANGER THINGS' Charlie Heaton
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 22, 2018

BBC One announces The Elephant Man, a two-part drama starring Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) as Joseph Merrick - better known as The Elephant Man....


Village Playwrights Announces Upcoming Events Photo Village Playwrights Announces Upcoming Events
by A.A. Cristi - March 06, 2019

The Village Playwrights meet the second and fourth Thursday of the month from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.  Everyone is welcome. $5 suggested donation....


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by A.A. Cristi - August 11, 2017

Tony nominee, Keala Settle, Hollywood star Hugh Jackman, and the cast of the upcoming motion picture musical, 'The Greatest Showman' are featured in this month's issue of Vogue. The director of the film, Michael Gracey, discussed the making of the film with the publication, discussing the process an...


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by Macon Prickett - March 02, 2018

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by Caryn Robbins - January 11, 2018

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by Sam Abney - October 25, 2018

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