[Marsh bReeds] FWD Kipling Food! Don, Dan, Marilyn, Brian |
GOING FORTH! This week’s discounts: SAN FRANCISCO:
BERKELEY:
|
Returning April 19!
Charlie Varon & Jeri Lynn Cohen’s
FWD: LIFE GONE VIRAL
San Francisco MainStage Theater
$5 off tickets with the password "viral"
FWD: LIFE GONE VIRAL is a comedy that skewers the brave new world of Internet exhibitionism. Cohen and Varon play an oncologist, her patient, their ex-spouses and an expert commentator each. Marriage, divorce, child-rearing, terminal illness, transmogrified flies and beef jerky all find their way into the play. read more
Marilyn Pittman’s
IT’S ALL THE RAGE
Marsh Studio Theater San Francisco
$10 tickets with password “family”
“Edgily Comic, resonant, riveting” SF Chronicle
Marilyn Pittman’s It's All The Rage won Best One-Woman Show at the 2011 United Solo Festival, the world’s largest solo performance festival, in New York City. It is ‘the funniest show you’ll ever see about murder-suicide.’ 28 scenes in 60 minutes; a tour de force of acting, stand-up, and reading from her parents’ love letters and journals. read more
Dan Hoyle's
THE REAL AMERICANS
San Francisco Studio
“should be seen in and outside every liberal bubble in this country”
–Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle
"Mr. Hoyle is both a first-rate reporter and actor.” –New York Times
After traveling the globe for his first play, Circumnavigator, and studying Nigerian oil politics for his third, Tings Dey Happen, this time Hoyle is back in the United States, turning his eye and ear on America’s culture wars. Fleeing the liberal bubble of San Francisco and his hipster friends, Hoyle spent 100 days traveling through small-town America in search of some tough country wisdom and a way to bridge America’s urban/rural divide. Instead, Hoyle found himself immersed in the populist anger of the people whom Sarah Palin famously described as ‘The Real Americans’ and awed at the disconnect between Obama Nation and Palin Country. Portrayed with humor, sympathy, confusion, angst, and song, this vivid performance challenges the audience to move beyond their bafflement and engage with the future of a politically polarized America.read more
EXTENDED!
Brian Copeland’s
THE WAITING PERIOD
San Francisco MainStage
“Astonishingly funny, positively inspirational” – Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle
This show is an unrelenting look at a ten-day period in his life—the mandatory ten-day waiting period before he could lay hands on the newly purchased gun with which he planned to take his own life. Even in the midst of this tragedy, however, his wonderful sense of the comedy of life does not desert him (how much should he spend on the gun?), indeed serves him insidiously well as a buffer against the grim reality of his intention. There is laughter in the darkness.read more
Every Tuesday Through Election Night
No show April 17
Will Durst’s
ELECT TO LAUGH
San Francisco Studio Theater
$10 tickets with the password “vote”
“Will Durst is the natural successor to Mort Sahl” –The New York Post.
“ A great political satirist! One of the funniest guys around! “–Fox News Radio.
“If you’re tired of politics as usual, you’ll love Will Durst.” –WOR Radio.
Elect To Laugh with Will Durst and Friends! is a hysterical hybrid chasing down the presidential election cycle like white on rice with material as up to date as the latest tweet from DC. It will blend monologues and commentary and perhaps the occasional rant. The show’s intent is to blur the traditional boundaries between stand- up comedy and theater. Through innovation, experimentation and a ravenous appetite for accessing the topical via the jugular, Durst and Company are out to prove that jokes are not the enemy. read more
Marga Gomez’s
NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER
The Marsh Berkeley TheaterStage
Hilarious, Gomez at the top of her game. – SF Chronicle
Funny, engaging, wickedly self-effacing. – SF Examiner
Marga Gomez spills the beans in the premiere of her 9th solo show Not Getting Any Younger a comedy about lies, vanity, and the good old days. Marga’s coming of age story begins in a dairy cow’s boudoir in the Bronx and hurtles towards a ‘Forever 21’ department store in downtown San Francisco. Lauded for her honesty as an out gay comedian before it was safe to do so, she has actually been a master of deception in other ways. Now the cagey monologist unburdens herself and brings her riskiest revelation to the stage because Marga Gomez is Not Getting Any Younger.read more
EXTENDED! through May 6!
Don Reed's
THE KIPLING HOTEL:True Misadventures of the Electric Pink '80's
The Marsh Berkeley
The Marsh’s cabaret and bar is now open one hour before Don’s show and during intermission!
Special: $5 off with the password “oatmeal”
"Treasure Trove of Diverse Characters, an Impressive Performance" –Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
Reed's “East 14th” chronicled the ‘70s and now it's his true misadventures through the ‘80s. As the awkward son of a pimp struggling through college, he tries being a stripper and a gigolo but he ends up a live-in waiter at an unforgettable retirement hotel, breakfast-sandwiched between the elderly, employee drifters and drug addicted dreamers. read more
Returning May 5!
Sundays at 11am
The Amazing Bubble Man (aka Louis Pearl)
THE WORLD’S FUNNIEST BUBBLE SHOW
Marsh Berkeley
$8 tickets for parties of 4 or more
The hit of the day. A fringe favorite. - The Guardian, UK
Packed with fun stuff, the show makes a perfect and amazingly inexpensive family outing. All kinds of extraordinary things happen, such as flying saucer bubbles, square bubbles filled with fog, universe bubbles with orbiting planets and bubble chains that look like centipedes. There’s lots of audience participation and some lucky kids will find themselves inside bubbles, while others will get to eat them. Warning: expect lots of excitement and laughter.read more
Marsh Rising Series
One-night-only performances of rising talent at The Marsh San Francisco. Marsh Rising presents works in progress that may be ready for an extended run. read more
Coming May 2
Fred Blanco's
THE STORIES OF CESAR CHAVEZ
The Marsh MainStage
Wednesday, May 2, 7:30 pm
From award winning solo-performer Fred Blanco, comes this dramatic portrayal of the civil rights activist and labor leader Cesar Chavez. Blending fact and fiction, this bilingual piece offers a dramatic look at the California farmworker struggle of the 1960’s. During his fast in 1968 we see Cesar embark on a spiritual journey with La Virgen de Guadalupe to revisit his past. From youthful zootsuiters and peasant farm workers, to racist teamsters and angry radicals the audience gets a glimpse of a man and his struggle for equality through their eyes and a compelling host of others.
Coming May 9
Mick Berry's
KEITH MOON/THE REAL ME
The Marsh MainStage
Wednesday, May 9, 7:30 pm
Mick Berry (Actor, Musician, Author) Cited by the San Francisco Chronicle as a "local phenom”, Mick has written and performed three critically acclaimed one man shows, performed stand-up comedy, worked with SF Shakespeare, Marin Shakespeare, California Shakespeare, California Conservatory Theatre, and SF Mime Troupe. He is also co-author of three books (The most successful, The Drummer’s Bible, selling over 18 thousand copies to date). He resides in San Francisco, and teaches private lessons to over 40 students each week, while drumming in five bands, including Who Too—a tribute to the Who.
MONDAY NIGHT MARSH +
(sometimes tuesdays or wednesdays)
at 7:30pm at The Marsh San Francisco
Anyone yearning to tell a story can become a part of Monday Night Marsh. Many local celebrities, like Marga Gomez and Josh Kornbluth, developed their work there. And so can you!
For information on getting involved with Monday Night Marsh, please contact the program director, Patti Meyer at patti@themarsh.org or telephone her at 415-641-0235.
Check themarsh.org/monday for upcoming Monday Night Marsh performances!
April 16 & May 7: Garen Patterson, Howard Petrick, Annette Roman, Lambeth Sterling
April 23: Daniel Ari, Norm Coleman, Suraya Keating, Gaidi Nkruma
TELL IT ON TUESDAY
The Marsh Berkeley
Music at 7 pm
Stories at 7:30pm
Tickets at the door only: $10-$18 sliding scale
Mention “Last Tuesday of the Month” for discounted tickets!
Next Show, April 24, 2012.
Stories By: Jeff Byers, Ady Abbot, Elaine Magree, Malcolm Grissom
Music By: Freddy and the Freeloaders
PHILOSOPHY TALK
Sunday April 29
12:00pm-Identity and Place in a Global Age with Bharati Mukherjee
3:00pm-Hypocrisy with Lawrence Quill
$7.50 tickets with the password “ptfan”.
PHILOSOPHY TALK is a weekly, one-hour public radio series that originates from San Francisco's KALW 91.7fm, Sunday mornings at 10am. With a down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach, the program brings the richness of philosophic thought to everyday subjects. Topics are lofty (Truth, Beauty, Justice), arresting (Terrorism, Intelligent Design, Suicide), and engaging (Baseball, Love, Happiness). Not a lecture or a college course, its philosophy in action! Philosophy Talk gives its audience the opportunity to explore issues of importance in a thoughtful, friendly fashion, where thinking is encouraged. read more
Persephone Cubana In honor of its 10th anniversary, Marsh Youth Theater recreates its very first production of the classic myth of Persephone—this time with a Cuban flavor. Roberto Borrell, the great Afro-Cuban music and dance specialist, will serve as choreographer and Cuban music and dance consultant on this production, transforming Persephone’s family of Greek gods into Cuban Orishas, each with his or her own music, dance and costume. MYT is excited to join forces with the Community Music Center’s Mission District Young Musician’s Program who will play the music for the performance. The show will rock with the rhythms of Afro-Cuban and modern Cuban dance music! MYT's Summer 2012 |
 |
Opens 30 minutes prior to each show.
Follow The Marsh on Twitter and Facebook!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Marsh Berkeley 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley,
less than a block from the Downtown Berkeley BART stationand UC Berkeley