FRIGID New York and Something From Abroad to Present 2nd Annual Days of the Dead Festival

FRIGID New York will present the 2nd annual Days of the Dead Festival, a celebration of Día de los Muertos and Halloween, produced by Something From Abroad and curated by FRIGID New York co-Artistic Director, Martha Lorena Preve. The festival will take place at The Kraine Theater (85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003) and UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10009), October 20-November 2. Tickets ($25 in-person; $20 streaming) are available for advance purchase at www.frigid.nyc.  

A celebration of life and death, Days of the Dead is a festival inspired by the Mexican holiday “día de los muertos”. During this time of year the dead return to earth to spend time with their families and enjoy their favorite things. It can be cheerful, sad, nostalgic, ritualistic and mysterious. It's all about the family and the community. The festival will be offering shows that have death and the afterlife as a theme or that celebrate the spooky season. We invite everyone regardless of their cultural background or religious beliefs to celebrate together! 

Cabaret: A Night With the Dead

This production is a celebration of the Mexican Holiday Day of the Dead and would bring together traditions, poetry, stories, and music in a variety show form. The stage will feature a traditional “ofrenda” or “altar”. The performances will consist of a group of artists dedicating their art form to a loved one that has passed away. Each artist will share a little information about their loved one and will add their photo and an object that represents something they loved to the “ofrenda.” Fri 10/20 at 7pm @ The Kraine

Alise Morales: The Girl Who Lived

Written & Performed by Alise Morales
Written and starring comedian Alise Morales (Betches, Tooning Out The News, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, CBS Showcase 2023), The Girl Who Lived is a dynamic new solo show that uses personal storytelling, offbeat characters, and even stop motion animation to delve deep into Morales' love of the wizarding world and the emotional turmoil that has come with its creator's fall from grace. From a devoted, fanfiction-writing member of the fandom to reluctant Harry Potter adult, Morales hilariously chronicles how her love for the series has evolved over the years and unpacks how we react when heroes disappoint us. With a live sorting ceremony (Morales is a professional) to appearances from the wizarding world's most beloved characters (played by some of your NYC comedy favorites) this show is a love letter to millennial cringe in all its forms. And before you ask: yes, she's a Gryffindor. 
Sat 10/21 at 3pm & Wed 10/25 at 9:45pm @ USM 90 minutes Streaming

Here, Between and Beyond: An evening of haunting one acts

Written by Eugene Grygo, Holly Hepp-Galvan, Judd Silverman, Donna Latham, Orlando Rodriguez & Michael Hagins

Presented by Rising Sun Performances Company
An Anthology Evening of 6 Haunting One Act plays, featuring writers, directors and playwrights from the award winning Rising Sun Performance Company. This night of one acts presents 6 new plays all with themes of crossing over or communicating with those who already have. 
Sat 10/21 at 7pm & Mon 10/23 at 9:30pm @ The Kraine 90 minutes Streaming

Mi Ofrenda, mis canciones: Florencia Cuenca y Jaime Lozano in concert.

Jaime is a director, composer, arranger, orchestrator and vocal coach, who Lin-Manuel Miranda calls Broadway’s “Next big thing.” Florencia is a singer, actress and songwriter from Mexico, awarded with the Hot House Jazz Award 2016 for Best new Jazz Artist. She has toured all around Mexico, Latin America and New York City. This Mexican husband and wife duo are the headliners of the festival and will be presenting a magical night of music and song. 
Sun 10/22 at 8pm @ The Kraine 

Mina

Presented by First Flight Theatre Company
Written by Richard Width, adapted from Bram Stoker's Dracula
A lecture hall at a prestigious London Society gathering. A woman carrying a large, well-organized folio filled with papers enters from the rear of the theater. She is Mina and she has a story to tell about someone she knew, the vampire Dracula. Reilly Hacker plays the title character and a few others in this solo play entitled MINA that tells Dracula’s story through Mina's eyes. Adapted by Richard Width and directed by Karen Eterovich.
Mon 10/23 at 6:30pm, Wed 10/25 at 8:15pm & Thu 11/2 at 9:45pm @ USM
60 minutes Streaming

Sins and Stardust Burlesque: Into the Night

Sins and Stardust: Into the Night is a burlesque production blending the allure of moonlit, starry themes with the macabre elements of death and the supernatural. Audiences will encounter a haunting fusion of breathtaking burlesque performances that delve into the shadowy realms of the undead. The show is a compelling intersection of beauty, death, and the mysteries that nighttime holds. Mon 10/23 at 7pm @ The Kraine 60 minutes 

Take it Away, Cheryl

Written by Kait Warner
Presented by Telepathetic Entertainment
Welcome to Cheryl's County Fair Kissing Booth. Cheryl is equipped to deal with just about anything... and good thing, because people have stopped coming for kisses and started coming to tell her about some pretty heavy problems. When Cheryl makes a simple mistake with catastrophic consequences, she must go to hell and back to save those she loves once and for all. Take it Away, Cheryl debuted at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival to rave reviews from The Scotsman, Broadway World Scotland and more: “First-rate hilarity… A pocket-sized wonder.” “A hell of a ride, and well worth taking.” “Well-crafted weird theatre, strange, glittering and curious.” "You can't help but root for Cheryl, and in doing so, you also root for yourself.” Mon 10/23 at 9:45pm @ USM 50 minutes 

Paper Kraine

FRIGID New York resident, Paper Kraine is dedicated to showing the work of emerging artists in various stages of development to both gather feedback about the work and further connections within our artistic community in a conscious, intentional way. The show will feature plays in theme with the festival. 
Wed 10/25 at 7:30pm @ The Kraine

Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad Musical! 

Written by Eve Blackwater
The Murder Ballad Musical is a comedy based on the celebrated violence in folk music and the true crimes that inspired these songs. The social commentary delivers fast-paced, uproarious laughter while addressing issues of race, class, gender, violence and power. Revenge, redemption, free will and the conflict between good and evil unfold unexpectedly in a story focused on three women who bond over music and begin to share increasingly outrageous secrets. Eventually the truth comes out- that the desire to survive has driven all of them to become what they fear most. The score, performed by the folk noir band Brokeneck Girls,  features songs of murder, mayhem and dirty deeds spiced up with juicy gossip and facts about the real people and events in the songs. Loyalty, murder, quick wit, banjo jokes show a hidden side of history and make for a thoroughly entertaining evening.
Thu 10/26 at 7pm, Fri 10/27 at 7pm & Mon 10/30 at 7pm @ The Kraine 100 minutes Streaming

Medium Popcorn: Halloween Edition

Presented by Casa de Collins LLC
Medium Popcorn will host a Halloween-themed live show for their Rotten Tomatoes accredited movie review podcast "Medium Popcorn". They will review a horror-themed film in the same vein of Candyman, The People Under the Stairs or Tales from the Crypt and provide hilarious commentary alongside 1-2 special guests. Past guests on the show include Josh Gondelman, Roy Wood Jr., Ophira Eisenberg and Ashley Ray.
Fri 10/27 at 10:30pm @ USM 90 minutes Streaming

Odyssey and the Flowers of the Sun

Written by Miguel Loyola
Presented by El Centauro Mecánico
Odyssey loses her mother during a war in Ithaca. Tiresias, the blind Prophet, tells him that he has to go to a faraway land to look for some flowers that are the color of the sun. An epic adventure in which Odyssey travels overseas to the Mountains of Mexico, where she learns about the tradition of the Day of the Death and finds out about her future life.
Sat 10/28 at 5pm, Sun 10/29 at 5pm, Wed 11/1 at 8pm & Thu 11/ 2 at 7pm @ The Kraine 50 minutes Streaming

The Vole Sisters Invite You to a Peculiar & Intimate Evening of Mystic Spiritualism

Presented by Double D
In this mostly improvised, partly scripted show, improvisers Double D (Nannette Deasy and Graceann Dorse) portray Fatima and Elsbeth Vole, the 21st century’s most bona fide psychic mediums who can absolutely, without any doubt, talk to ghosts. Using audience suggestions to get the names of the dearly departed, Fatima and Elsbeth communicate with the spirits and answer the audience’s burning questions about the afterlife. But is it all just a hoax? Or will they be visited by some real spirits who have something to say? You don’t have to be psychic to know the answer… no matter what happens, you’ll be laughing to death!
Mon 10/30 at 6:30pm & Tue 10/31 at 7pm @ USM 60 minutes 

Double Bill:

The Great New England Vampire Panic

Written by Zed Hope Simon
A new play about an old story, based on true events, a short and spooky examination of who we call monsters, and what monster hunting may do to us. (Loosely based on the real Mercy Brown, who died of tuberculosis like lots of people in the 19th century, but who was thought to be a vampire, like lots of women in New England in the 19th century.)

A Disaster with a Cut Dad Bod

Written by Stephanie Okun
On a bright, Halloween day, two down-and-out souls are united by a kind stranger to drag themselves out of their own misery and away from the so-called loved ones who haunt their lives. The play explores gaslighting, the impacts of verbal abuse, and finding hope through empathy, friendship, and love. Halloween is the bizarre backdrop, which conveys the Twilight Zone-esque absurdity that epitomizes many toxic relationships.
Mon 10/30 at 8:15pm & Wed 11/1 at 9:45pm @ USM 30 minutes Streaming

Nell's Plague Play

Written by Jodie Lynne McClintock
Nell’s Plague Play takes place on Samhain/La na Marbh/All Souls Day (when the veil between worlds thins) November 1, 1616. This one woman play tells the story of the imagined elderly wardrobe mistress for Shakespeare’s company- The King’s Men- in seclusion during the plague year (and year of Shakespeare’s death), 1616. Told from the sole female perspective in a world ruled by men, the play explores how creatures of the theatre (an inherently shared, communal experience) survive alone in pandemic isolation when they are exiled from the act. In flashback, it also delves into the traditional roles of mothers and fathers, the power plays between men and women, kings and queens- real and imagined- and the unspoken sisterhood between princess and peasant. An Elizabethan/Jacobean Feminist Play-of-Sorts. Using magical realism and ritual, we straddle time and place, memory and current necessity, the quick and the dead, legacy and loss, in a journey to regain faith when it feels like all one loves has been taken away. None too different from the actor’s dilemma in 2020/1 or a woman’s now in 2023!  I wanted to create a language of my own, somewhere between period, heightened text and modern English, from a purely feminine perspective to expand on the legacy of William Shakespeare’s powerful characters and stories, and to explore the parallel plague years of 2020 and 1616. 
Wed 11/1 at 5:30pm @ The Kraine 90 minutes Streaming

FRIGID New York’s mission is to provide both emerging and established artists the opportunity to create and produce original work of varied content, form, and style, and to amplify their diverse voices. We do this by presenting an array of monthly programming, mainstage productions, an artist residency, and eight annual theater festivals that create an environment of collaboration, resourcefulness, and innovation. Founded in 1998, the aim was and is to form a structure, allowing multiple artists to focus on creating and staging new work and providing affordable rental space to scores of independent artists. Now in our third decade we have produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. www.frigid.nyc
 

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