'Pumpkin Pie Show' Returns to NYC at UNDER St. Marks Starting 10/16

Fresh off their hugely successful international summer tour, the award winning THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW returns to New York City to celebrate their 10th anniversary with a hand-selected roster of a decades worth of their favorite stories. A literary fist in the face. Part monologue, part boxing match -- THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW is a rigorous storytelling session packed with enough intensity to feel like a rock concert rather than a bedtime tale. Filled with tales of the bizarre, dark, and perverted, THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW is bedtime stories for adults. Every story is chosen at random each night, so each show is guaranteed to be completely different from the last. This is THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW like you've never seen it before!

Celebrating ten years of performances, THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW has established itself has an all-points artistic hodgepodge of theatre and literature -- picking and choosing the essentials of each genre and channeling their rocking properties into an entertaining and truly original experience. Horse Trade Theater Group discovered THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW 10 years ago, when the New York International Fringe Festival was using one of their venues. Horse Trade loved the show so much that they been producing with playwright Clay McLeod Chapman ever since. Most recently they collaborated on the critically acclaimed Hostage Song, which Charles Isherwood of the New York Times said: "In this season of unlikely musicals, on Broadway and off, Hostage Song may be the oddest of all... The show takes some risky comic flights of fancy but mostly plays it straight, telling a grim story with journalistic detail and understated compassion."

The production, produced by Horse Trade Theater Group will play at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) October 16-November 1. Thursday through Saturday at 8pm. Tickets ($18) are available by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or online at www.horseTRADE.info

Clay McLeod Chapman is part of the downtown super group that created the critically acclaimed Hostage Song and the creator of the rigorous storytelling session THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel, both published by Hyperion books. He teaches writing at The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University.

Hanna Cheek has been a part of THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW since 2001. Most recently she was seen in the critically acclaimed Hostage Song. Hanna is also a member of the drama desk nominated Waterwell Theatre Company.

Horse Trade 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.

www.horseTRADE.info

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