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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!...


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....


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...


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...


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...


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!...


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!...


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?...


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....


THE CARDBOARD BIBLE is Released
by Christina Mancuso - October 19, 2015

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ YouTube cardboard craft instructor L.A. Nuwame known as The Homemade Game Guru believes cardboard is the greatest crafting and building material available to all people worldwide. He also believes every single human being has latent creative potential...


House of Independents to Host Rockabilly Bash for New Year's
by BWW News Desk - December 23, 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!...


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!...


Sprout Launches First Original Series of 2016, FLOOGALS
by Caryn Robbins - January 27, 2016

Sprout, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment's 24-hour preschool network, is launching FLOOGALS, its newest original series....


Nat Geo Wild Presents FREAKEND This Halloween
by TV News Desk - October 31, 2015

This Halloween, Nat Geo WILD's FREAKEND awakens the spookiest, creepiest and strangest beasts of the animal underworld....


DIY Network to Premiere SALVAGE DAWGS Season 5, 2/28
by Caryn Robbins - February 24, 2016

Salvage Dawgs returns to the DIY Network for a 5th Season premiering two exciting new episodes back-to-back Sunday, February 28 at 9 and 9:30pm EST....


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...


'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...


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....


Flaming Lips to Release 'Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997'
by BWW News Desk - November 27, 2015

The Flaming Lips have announced the release of Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997, on November 27th.  This will be the Deluxe 20th Anniversary Box Set edition of THE LIPS globally influential and essential edition of CLOUDS TASTE METALLIC 1995 classic album...


Lynda Radley's FUTUREPROOF Begins Tonight at Carriageworks Theatre Leeds
by BWW News Desk - September 16, 2015

First envisioned as a response to reality television, Lynda Radley's 2011 playFutureproof, about a down on its luck travelling freak show rolls up to Carriageworks Theatre Leeds, from today 16 - 19 September. The show's motley cast and crew are all members of local company Leeds Art Theatre....


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....






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