Blood Brothers: Master of Horror Photo Gallery

Got the production photos for Master of Horror cleaned up and posted on the Nosedive site. Aaron did a fantastic job shooting for us (as always).

Master of Horror is Open

The Blood Brothers present...
The Master of Horror

Endtimes Underground at The Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street (between Bowery & Lafayette)
October 9-11, 16-18, 23-25, 30-31, November 1, 2008
Thursday through Saturday, 7:30pm

Buy tickets here!

Nona
by James Comtois

Quitters, Inc.
by Qui Nguyen

In The Deathroom
by Mac Rogers

and
Paranoid: A Chant and The Last Waltz

adapted from the short stories of Stephen King

Featuring

Rebecca Comtois — Michael Criscuolo — Jeremy Goren
Jessi Gotta — Marc Landers — Marsha Martinez
Christian Toth — Ben Trawick-Smith

directed by Pete Boisvert and Patrick Shearer

stage managed by Stephanie Cox-Williams and Ben VandenBoom

Speed Demons at the Grand Saloon

This weekend , Vampire Cowboys brings back its extremely popular series, THE SATURDAY NIGHT SALOON, a monthly party at THE BATTLE RANCH featuring brand new genre-bending serialized plays by NYC's hottest indie theatre artists. The shows hit every first Saturday night of the month from September to January. It's always free, the all-you-can-drink beer (or until we run out) is always only a mere five dollars, and the shows are always inventive. So why go drink at a bar when you can party at the Saloon?

NEXT SALOON:

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 2008 at 8pm
At THE BATTLE RANCH

405 Johnson Avenue (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

(2.5 blocks from Morgon stop off L train)

For a map, CLICK HERE!

FREE ADMISSION!
THEATRE WITHOUT RERUNS!

Featuring six all-new exciting serialized plays by:

James Comtois

Co-Artistic Director of Nosedive Productions

Author of Pinkie*; Colorful World; The Adventures of Nervous Boy

Megan Mostyn-Brown

Member of LAByrinth Theater Company

Author of The Secret Lives of Losers; Girl; Going After Alice

A Rey Pamatmat

Member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab

Author of Deviant; Beautiful Day; Thunder Above, Deeps Below

Robert Ross Parker

Co-Artistic Director of Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company

Author of Jimmy Starshooter Must Get Laid*

Mac Rogers

Member of Gideon Productions

Author of Universal Robots; Hail Satan; Fleet Week

Webb Wilcoxen

Member of LAByrinth Theater Company & Developing Artists Theatre Company

Author of Patsy Stufflebean Meets The Kentucky Demon*; The Fairy Tale Project; Billy Sleepyhead

MC'd by Jeff Lewonczyk & Hope Cartelli

Co-Artistic Directors of Piper McKenzie Productions & The Brick Theater

Saturday Night Saloon Schedule:

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

New Show and New Site

Two really exciting pieces of news to announce. First off, we have the official green light for our Blood Brothers show. The show is called The Blood Brothers present... The Master of Horror, and it's going to be a real doozy... we've received the rights for our playwrights to adapt a series of Stephen King stories for the stage! We're all very, very excited about this opportunity, of course. Been negotiating for the rights for most of the summer, and we're psyched to finally go public with our plans.

If you want to find out more about The Master of Horror, you can keep an eye for more details... at the all new and improved Nosedive website! Yup, after 8 years we've finally dumped the frames and gone all javascripty on ya. The site has been relaunched as of last night, and I'm pretty tickled with the results. We'll be adding older productions in the coming months, as well as the latest info on The Master of Horror as it becomes available. For now feel free to take a look around, kick the tires and bask in the drop down goodness.

Patrick and I are going back for round two of auditions tonight... Hopefully we'll have the cast list and press release out in a couple of days. It's gonna be an exciting fall...

Review: 2 By Sinner

2 By Sinner
reviewed for nytheatre.com

Good surrealism is hard to pull off. It's all too easy for it to come across as too abstract, too self-conscious, or just plain too weird. It's exciting, then, to catch the polished and well-crafted 2 By Sinner, which achieves a near perfect balance, avoiding these pitfalls.

The title of the evening refers to John Sinner, a surrealist painter and theatre artist from Los Angeles. Sinner pulls triple duty in the evening, writing, directing, and sharing acting duties with Betsy Moore in two short plays.

If you're in the mood for tightly executed surrealism, it would be well worth your time to check out 2 By Sinner. It's certainly a strange evening of theatre, but Moore and Sinner carry the audience through with great skill.

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Review: Too Much Memory

Too Much Memory
reviewed for nytheatre.com

An adaptation of an adaptation, Too Much Memory is a modern retelling of the tale of Antigone. Loosely based on Jean Anouilh's World War II-era take on the Greek myth, co-writers Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson firmly plant the conflict between Antigone and Creon in the present, with reflections on enemy combatants, suicide bombers, and the restriction of civil liberties in a time of war.

On balance, Reddin and Gibson's adaptation is an effective and engaging political thriller. The acting is of truly high caliber, especially the performances by Heisler, Moran, Cancelmi, and Ray Anthony Thomas as the soldier Jones. Gibson directs the play with energy and zeal. Although the play dances right up to the line of political polemic, it avoids triteness through it's emotionally honest portrayal of the characters' humanity. In his opening monologue Moran's Chorus describes an obligation to speak up in an oppressive political environment. Too Much Memory speaks loudly, and knows exactly what it wants to say.

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