Horse Trade Theater Group Announces Their June Events

Horse Trade Theater Group is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

The Cody Rivers Show: Right Back Where We Finished
Sunday, June 6 @ 8pm $18
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
The Cody Rivers Show creates kinetic and unpredictable comedy theatre that has amazed audiences and defied description for the past five years. Pushing the envelopes of physical theatre, dance, music, and highconcept comedy, The Cody Rivers Show delivers unique shows unlike any other comedy act, past or present. Their latest new piece - ‘Right Back Where We Finished' - sprints between precocious youths, game theory, pioneerera linguistics, ants and prairie dogs, the confessions of an unruly teen, eccentric old men, baby jockeys, pingpong, and oh so much more. It's like running a marathon, doing algebra, and eating cake at the same time.

WEEKLY EVENTS

Penny's Open Mic
Every Tuesday @ 9pm $3
Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.

Rising Sun Performance Company presents
The Last Supper
Every Wednesday @ 8pm (no show June 2) $18
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
Adapted from the 1995 cult movie written by Dan Rosen, the play follows five house-sharing university students who invite a different guest for dinner and discussion every week. After arguing with, and accidentally killing a violent, racist guest, the students decide that this may just be the way to rid the world of undesirable people...

MONTHLY EVENTS

God Tastes Like Chicken
Thursday, June 3 @ 10:30pm FREE
The brainchild of erotic balloon artist John Murdock, God Tastes Like Chicken is comprised of pedophiles, lunatics, felons and degenerate types. Featuring improv, sketch comedy, stand-up, chickens, and heresy.

Sketch Block Sunday
Sunday, June 13 @ 9pm $5
Sketch Comedy meets Block Party. This monthly show features a guest host comedian, three guest sketch troupes and drinking. Come meet, mingle, and perform!

The Adam Wade Show @ 7pm
BTK Band @ 9pm
Monday, June 14 $5
Moth storytelling favorite, Adam Wade, has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories for a special show. He'll also sing a few songs, and play video shorts. No two shows will be the same. A different featured guest will start the evening off. The BTK Band, NYC's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, will follow Adam. Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while music and lyrics are improvised to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos.

Revealed Burlesque
Wednesday, June 16 @ 10pm $20
Revealed is a cutting-edge burlesque show with a sinfully dirty twist. This unique and extra-sultry night features the sexiest, most notorious burlesque performers in New York City, as you've never seen them before! Come experience an evening of salacious striptease and skin, where the climax of each number leaves everything...revealed.

Soul Glo
Thursday, June 17 @ 10:30pm $5
Soul Glo is a variety show starring the all African-American cast of Nobody's Token performing a completely improvised sitcom. The show also features multi-cultural stand-up and sketch comedy by some of the most talented underground comics in New York.

Cognac Live Radio Orchestra
Sunday, June 20 @ 7pm Pay-What-You-Will
"Turn on the radio, Dad, it's Sunday!" Cognac Live Radio Orchestra presents a sweet tirade of radio plays, audio sketches, and character pieces. Experience foley effects, musical acts, and a professional dance crew bringing you a delightful live comedy hour. Free clementines.

TOLD
An evening of themed storytelling
Monday, June 21 @ 7pm Pay-What-You-Will
TOLD is a monthly storytelling show hosted by Seth Lind. Each month New York's best performers take the stage to tell true stories related to a central theme. A special guest provides interludes to glue the evening together into a collective experience.

ONGOING

Radiotheatre presents
The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street
Sunday, June 13 & 27 @ 3pm $20
The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street)
It all began in 1882 when the original tenement collapsed killing 31 Italian immigrants. From then on, the ground itself was said to be cursed. When the current building was erected at the turn of the century, an exorcism was held...it didn't work. After a night of terror, the priest left the priesthood. Within a year, the builder's son died falling down the long stair case...and the mother hanged herself in what is now the theater. The owner succumbed to madness and still haunts the place. He's only one of the many inhabitants who still reside there...

All events are at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st and Ave A) unless otherwise noted. For more information and to purchase tickets in advance visit www.horseTRADE.info

"If it's fun, funky, artsy, absurd and original, chances are it's probably from the folks at Horse Trade Theater Group" The Villager

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