| Announcing Winter 2024-2025 at The Brick | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 02:20 pm EST 11/20/24 | |
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| ANNOUNCING WINTER 2024-2025 AT THE BRICK! New shows, installations, experiences, & activations coming to The Brick Theater, Brick Aux Studio, & Brick Aux Gallery this winter Tickets now on sale :) The Brick presents DeliaDelia! The Flat-Chested Witch! By Amando Houser Directed by Kedian Keohan Dec 4-14 Running Time: 60 Minutes at The Brick – 579 Metropolitan Amando Houser who is "particularly funny" (Vulture) and "not normal at all" (Philippe Gaulier) invites you to an unhinged clown hour of self discovery. Inspired by the "witch hunt" on trans rights in the United States, DeliaDelia is a flat-chested witch from the swamps who happens to be as nasty on the eyes as she is on the basketball court. On a quest to become a "real girl" and join a human basketball team, will she finally get her shot at greatness, or will she be cursed forever and turned into a serpent TICKETS + MORE INFO The Brick presents How to Be in Front of People: Mastering the Art of Live Performance with River L. Ramirez 4 Sessions – Nov 26, Dec 3, Dec 10, & Dec 17, 2024 6-8pm at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave $200 for 4 classes (recommended!) $50 per session Open to All Levels Take class at Brick Aux Studio with River L. Ramirez! This class focuses on finding balance within one's self and bringing that to the stage. How do we become comfortable showing our selves to others First, we figure out how to be comfortable with ourselves. What are your values, what are your intentions, what are you wanting to say and express In this course we will dig deep to get closer to the reasons we perform. Through group conversations, writing prompts, movement exercises, and practicing performance in front of trusted peers, we dig deeper into our performance practices to dig out what is hidden and what wants to be seen. SIGN UP The Brick presents The Salt That You Bring to the Table Nora Chellew at Brick Aux Gallery – 628 Metropolitan Ave November 14 — December 15, 2024 The Salt That You Bring to the Table contrasts preservation and action through material interventions. The exhibition implies a kitchen-space that balances experimentation with traditional craft. Join us for a reception celebrating this exhibit on Sunday Dec 15, 12-5PM! Brick Aux Gallery hours are 12-6PM on weekends, varied hours on weekdays, and by appointment. MORE INFO The Brick presents Gestating Baby Volume 9: Rawya El Chab & Adin Lenahan Dec 18-21, 2024 at 8PM Running Time: 80 Minutes at The Brick – 579 Metropolitan Gestating Baby is a semi-regular series of split bill performances that presents new and unpredictable works across the spectrum of theatrical performing arts. It began in 2013 at The Silent Barn and is now revived at The Brick in Brooklyn, NY. Seating is general admission and tickets are now on sale! Discounted tickets with code ERLYBYRD available through Nov 23. Doom Scroll borrows the deliciousness and compulsivity of TikTok to create theatrical brain rot. An endless parade of TikTokers ranging from Disney Adults and viral preachers to true crime enthusiasts and ASMR Reiki practitioners, even Nicole Kidman, all speak in no more than three minute intervals, converging for a tale of extremism, celebrity worship, the perverse, and the stupid. Running time: 40 minutes Written and Performed by Adin Lenahan Directed by Dmitri Barcomi Crossing the Water is a solo performance written and performed by Rawya El Chab that weaves together Lebanon's turbulent history from the 1978 occupation through the 1982 invasion of Beirut. Through interviews with resistance fighters and family members, El Chab reconstructs history from marginalized perspectives, crafting a layered narrative that explores three distinct yet interconnected journeys across water. The performance draws poetic parallels between desperate immigrants crossing seas in search of safety, armies traversing borders to occupy foreign lands, and the mythological crossing of the river Styx into the underworld. By intertwining these narratives, El Chab creates a powerful meditation on displacement, invasion, and mortality, revealing how personal and political histories ripple through generations. The piece challenges audiences to consider the profound implications of crossing boundaries—whether driven by survival, power, or fate. Running time: 30 minutes By Rawya El Chab Directed by Jesse Freedman Set and projection design by Ettie Pin Music Composition & Sound Design by Omar Dewachi Image Credit Carine Zahabi TICKETS + MORE INFO The Exponential Festival and The Brick present PRISONCORE! by kanishk pandey at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 2-4, 2025 PRISONCORE! is a multimedia show that places the audience within a panopticon to examine the impact of an always-watching eye. Lucky is starting his job as the night shift guard in the guard tower of a new panopticon prison claiming to focus on reform. Lucky introduces the inmates to Rain, a popular VTuber dealer who streams for an online casino. Their ideas of freedom are challenged after a moment of indifferent cruelty and we are left questioning who is getting sacrificed for our ‘freedoms'. TICKETS + MORE INFO The Brick presents Monologues for Nobody By Jerrod Jordahl & mind dream theater January 7, 2025 Running time: 60 minutes at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave Doors 7PM Presentation 7:30-8:30PM Party 8:30-10PM Welcome to a mind dream theater presentation of Jerrod Jordahl‘s Monologues for Nobody: An Album Release and Listening Party! What to expect Definitely food, drinks, listening, art, and very fun vibes. A collection of nine audio monologues delivered by characters searching for belonging, often finding it in moments shaped by everyday objects. A bag of trash. A glass of water. A packet of gas pills. These objects are mundane, even absurd, but become sacred as the nine voices share stories about finding hope in unusual places, the comfort of a childhood memory, and the inspiring escape of a cow fleeing the city. Stories that illustrate the tragedy of isolation and connect mythology with contemporary life. A work for audio, Monologues for Nobody invites listeners to be present with the voices, and each other, in time and space. TICKETS + MORE INFO The Exponential Festival and The Brick present CASSANDRA by Susannah Yugler at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 9-11, 2025 The cursed Cassandra, a true prophet that no one believes, desperately tries to save what's left of her home from self-obsessed siblings, a depressive mother and the machinations of the gods. Wavering between 12th century B.C. and 2024 A.D., CASSANDRA reimagines Euripides' The Trojan Women as a phantasmagoria of comic selfishness and horror. Using a pre-recorded script and a cast of dancers, dialogue acts only as a score for the movements, gestures, and tableaux vivants on stage, illustrating multiple parallel narratives: of a women-led talent agency, of ancient war, of corporate America, and of the delusions that sustain them. TICKETS + MORE INFO The Exponential Festival and The Brick present ORACLE by Ring Yuqi Yang & Casey Woodall at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 13, 2025 Doors at 6PM, Screening at 7PM Soothsayer livestreams to the first world. In the dim light of a cluttered bedroom, Dusty Soothsayer reigns as an unlikely online celebrity. This reclusive prophet, trapped within the confines of their own fears, has become a beacon for the digitally connected masses. Their gift A body that maintains perfect equilibrium, a living barometer of cosmic energies. TICKETS + MORE INFO The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Sapphire by Ella Lee Davidson at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 15-18, 2025 Running Time: 90 Minutes Self-identified real-ass bitch and Angry Black Woman, Peola is unlucky in love and constantly asking herself the age-old question: "When is it my turn to be happy" After a near-death experience, she decides to make a change in her life and undergoes an experimental surgical procedure to get a BBI (Be Better Implant). Peola finally has a chance at happiness and embracing her divine feminine, as well as finding a man, but the implant and its creator are not without complications and not as perfect as they seem. Sapphire is a surreal afro-futurist satire about the stereotypes we give ourselves and others, the idea of perfection and the ideal woman, and the concept of change. TICKETS + MORE INFO The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Cool Zone: The Lost Episode by Excess Materials, Sir Cum Sized, & Vape Kid Jr at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 16-18, 2025 Doors at 6PM, Screening at 7PM Hey kids! Do you remember "Vape Kid's Cool Zone" A fascist brainwashing program disguised as a public access children's TV. It's PeeWee Herman meets RoboCop! Follow America's Darling- a 5-foot sentient puppet named Courtney as he learns what it means to serve his country. Join the live studio audience for the lost episode the US government doesn't want you to see! TICKETS + MORE INFO The Exponential Festival and The Brick present Happy Birthday, Curiosity Rover! by Laura Galindo at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 23-25, 2025 Running Time: 75 Minutes A robot on a mission and a wandering alien find each other on Mars. A play with music about getting your solitude punctured, about the strange in stranger, about loving what will always go away. TICKETS + MORE INFO The Exponential Festival and The Brick present u are the dream by Allyson Dwyer at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave January 24 – February 1, 2025 Running Time: 60 Minutes a two-hander internet triptych – a love story between the internet and homo sapiens <3 Didi and Dada are two early humans excited for the future, unaware of the progress and technology that is to come long after they stare at the moon. 30,000 years later, Fuu and Goten meet in an AOL chatroom on the cusp of adulthood. How did it once feel to dream behind our eyes and wait at the screen, anticipating a response Will we ever do this again TICKETS + MORE INFO The Exponential Festival and The Brick present We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club FAREWELL B!NGO + VIEWING PARTY by Leonie Bell + LOCAL GRANDMA at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 27, 2025 Running Time: 60 Minutes Welcome back for a last hurrah! We're throwing a viewing party to bid adieu to the world of We Live to Die: The Grieving Widows Club Hosted by Leonie Bell + LOCAL GRANDMA TICKETS + MORE INFO The Exponential Festival, The Brick, and LOCAL GRANDMA present Let it Flow: A Clowning Workshop with Hannah Mitchell at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 28-29, 2025 Hop into your body and out of your head; welcome to the world of the ha-ha-ha! Filled to the brim with beautiful chaos and hilarious failures, in this class, we will play games that get you in touch with your innate sense of play and spontaneity & bring you into the present moment onstage. SIGN UP The Exponential Festival and The Brick present SalOn! DOUBLE GROOVE at Brick Aux Studio – 628 Metropolitan Ave January 30, 2025 Doors at 7PM, Show at 7:30PM Come for the smorgasbord of micro-acts, stay for the end-of-festival party! RSVP The Brick, RHONDA, & The Omnivores present I'M REPEATING MYSELF A new play by Chad Kaydo Directed by Carsen Joenk February 27-March 15, 2025 at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave A strange summer provokes questions about family, mortality, porn algorithms, and whether or not you're still single because you're "too picky." I'M REPEATING MYSELF wonders how we get over a lifetime of tiny wounds to take care of the people we love…and maybe ourselves too. Playwright Chad Kaydo joins a cast of actors playing his friends and family—as well as multiple versions of Chad himself—across boundaries of age, race, and gender, mixing queer irreverence with earnest, emotional immediacy. TICKETS + MORE INFO To learn more please contact: Lydia Mokdessi, Director of Marketing & Communications lydia@bricktheater.com ABOUT THE BRICK The Brick Theater is a not-for-profit dedicated to developing and presenting the work of pioneering emerging artists and career experimenters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We are the artistic home for work that pushes boundaries and spans the ever-evolving spectrum of performing arts, theatre, dance, video, virtual reality, and visual arts. By nurturing emerging artists, sustaining ongoing relationships with frequent collaborators, and removing financial barriers for artists to create work, we create a diverse, accessible, and inclusive artistic community for the city's most daring artists. We welcome adventurous audiences with low-cost and sliding-scale ticket prices to make performances accessible to all. Founded in 2002, The Brick has established itself as an essential experimental venue for the production of compelling, new, high-quality work. As a vital part of the New York artistic community, we present 250-300 live performances per year at our two spaces, The Brick and Brick Aux, and welcome over 10,000 audience members each year. Programming at The Brick is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the Mental Insight Foundation; IndieSpace; the 67th Obie Awards. The Brick | 579 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY| bricktheater.com |
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