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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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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...


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 ...


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

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....


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...


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...


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...


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!...


Keala Settle, Hugh Jackman, and the Cast of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Featured in This Mon Photo Keala Settle, Hugh Jackman, and the Cast of THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Featured in This Month's Vogue
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...


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?...


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....


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....


LA-Based Experimental Artist Soul Bandit's New Single '3-4-9' Out Now
by Caryn Robbins - June 28, 2017

LA-based experimental artist—SOUL BANDIT (aka Icon Collective graduate, Andi Mattingly)—influenced by the dark and eccentric, releases today (6/27) her third single, “3-4-9.”...


Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of DRACULA, Coming to Orlando This October
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 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!...


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...


Met Opera's Anthony Roth Costanzo to Headline PRIDE WITHOUT PREJUDICE Opera Party
by BWW News Desk - June 22, 2017

On Today, 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....


BrainXcape Escape Rooms Partners With New Thriller Film Winchester Photo BrainXcape Escape Rooms Partners With New Thriller Film Winchester
by Robert Diamond - February 24, 2018

BrainXcape Escape Rooms (https://www.brainxcape.com/), rated one of the best real-life escape the room games in NYC, announces its partnership with WINCHESTER (http://cbsfilms.com/winchester/), a new thriller film by CBS Films starring Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren, who stars as Sarah Winchester...


Top 10 Plays Set In School
by Marianka Swain - September 07, 2016

Education, education, education - it's an inescapable topic in theatre. Recent years have seen Future Conditional (kicking off Matthew Warchus's Old Vic tenure), Matilda the Musical, The Brink, Kin, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, and, of course, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. To celebrate back...


Susie Dent To Bring Her Secret Words To Swindon Photo Susie Dent To Bring Her Secret Words To Swindon
by Stephi Wild - July 09, 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...


IFC Unveils 'Slightly Off' Initiatives, Partnerships and Late-Night Specials Photo IFC Unveils 'Slightly Off' Initiatives, Partnerships and Late-Night Specials
by Tori Hartshorn - March 29, 2018

IFC announced today new 'slightly off' on-air short form programming, digital comedy content and a unique take on the classic game of Bingo. The lineup of unexpected offerings will add to IFC's current roster of original series, including Brockmire, returning for Season 2 on April 25, Stan Against E...


Comedian Kevin McGahern Celebrates St. Patrick's Day on Premiere of Travel Channel's WEIRD AMERICA, 3/18
by Caryn Robbins - March 07, 2017

In WEIRD AMERICA premiering the day after St. Patrick's Day on Saturday, 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....


'Mist and Mirrors' is Released
by Christina Mancuso - March 27, 2017

In Kalishandra, the city of lost travelers, darkness has formed. In the mist that rises from cracks between the cobblestones, it has life. The strange mist drifts along empty streets, welling into deep, choking pools in forgotten courtyards. It breaks in ephemeral waves upon the stark stone walls of...


Children's Show LOOSE ENDS Comes to Fringe Photo Children's Show LOOSE ENDS Comes to Fringe
by Stephi Wild - February 25, 2018

Last year's Fringe Award Nominee is coming back with this wonderful show full of wacky thingamabobs, naughty puppets and madcap clowning....


Backstreet Boy Howie D, Phantom Limb Among New Victory's 2017-18 LabWorks Artists Photo Backstreet Boy Howie D, Phantom Limb Among New Victory's 2017-18 LabWorks Artists
by BroadwayWorld JR - December 07, 2017

The New Victory Theater, a leading presenter of Theater for Young Audiences, announces the 2017-18 New Victory LabWorks Artists, NYC-based artists pursuing the creation of bold and exciting performing arts for family audiences....


BWW Review: PIGMALIONE/PIGMALION at City Opera Not Lover-ly Enough Photo BWW Review: PIGMALIONE/PIGMALION at City Opera Not Lover-ly Enough
by Richard Sasanow - March 27, 2018

There's no 'Enry 'Iggins or 'Liza Doolittle in Donizetti's IL PIGMALIONE or Rameau's PIGMALION--we'll have to wait for Lincoln Center Theatre's MY FAIR LADY revival (based on Shaw's PYGMALION) next month for that. But this pair of oddities, produced by New York City Opera last weekend at the Gerald ...


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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