MeFi IRL

I'm seeing the closing night performance of "The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux]" - a theatrical adaptation of work by Stanislaw Lem - because a friend who knows a lot about scifi and about theater praised it highly. Consider coming too! Maybe we can wave hi and chat about it afterward. Shows are selling out so you should probably grab tickets soon if you're going to come.

I have an extra ticket to see Pete Yorn @ Grammercy Theatre this Sunday September 30th @7:30. Are you in? [more inside]

Socialize With The Socialists! Holiday Party and concert featuring dreamwave band Sounds Of Ceres (music video) and decor by yours truly in the legendary (underground but actually above ground ) music venue. 8pm-12. 20$ suggested. Quieter bar area available, brief speeches by local DSA politicians, and lots of merch and camaraderie. Facebook. Pre-Order tickets on Eventbrite

This Halloween, join the revolution! The Hotel Chantelle hosts the Lower Manhattan Chapter of the DSA for a night of red blooded fun! Open Vodka Bar 8-9! Raffles of rare objects! Five thousand silk rose petals! Hosted by me! We have a poster! [more inside]

Parthenogenesis, the play I wrote, will open at FringeNYC on August 15th!< [more inside]

Ask me Another- the NPR trivia quiz show- is having a live summer stage event in Rumsy Playfield SummerStage, Central Park. The guest will be cast members of Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer. Free Entrance.

Fresh off our 3rd anniversary show, Hip Hop Debate is putting on its first show in Astoria, at the brand-new Q.E.D. space! [more inside]

Turns out they're at Irving Plaza's Fillmore tonight. I realise it's short notice, but if any MeFites are attending, this'll likely be the last non-Brooklyn shindig of 2014!

The epic story of an anti-Semitic riot in 1903 told in the form of a Jewish folk tale. A young female mystic and her community of Hasids experience the event through the lens of Yiddish legends and the daily details of Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe. [more inside]

The Tenterhooks, Wharton Tiers Ensemble and Baby Spiders at the Bowery Electric at 8PM. 327 Bowery, New York, NY [more inside]

Happy Karaoke Fun Time is a musical improv group that I DJ for. We're taking a giant step and performing our show Off-Broadway! [more inside]

Lets go see Pagent: The Musical! My high school chum Alex Ringler is in it as Kitty Bob Ames, Miss Texas. It should be a hoot.

The Thrilling Adventure Hour will be doing a show at The Town Hall on Saturday, May 10th at 8pm. Any mefites planning on attending? Anyone interested in congregating somewhere before or after the show? [more inside]

Hello and welcome to any and all Mefi friends in NYC who might like to catch my LAST show in town before I head back to Tokyo. I'll be thumpin' the tubs and singin' songs about how lousy the MetroCard system is. And suchlike. Along with an ace band. All info here at the Roulette website.

I'm co-producing/lighting designing/press release writer for a brand new revue of Stephen Sondheim songs titled The Bluest Ink. We have all new jazz orchestrations played by a band of six and sung by a cast of four. We also have new animations that help tie together the narrative. Tickets are $25. [more inside]

I teach a class at NYU about generative, procedural and conceptual writing. This is the final performance event for the class. It's a poetry reading where computer programs generated all of the poems. More information and poster here. [more inside]

We're celebrating a year of doing crazy nerdcore hip hop freestyle improv with a FREE show! [more inside]

My drunken mumblings at MeFieri 2 revealed that I do burlesque, and I'm working on an act that will be at the Slipper Room. I don't want to reveal much because I leave that for the stage, but I'm hoping it will be fun and amusing. And hey, the Slipper Room does good cocktails. The other acts are a little more deep and interesting than mine, but I'm trying to make them a surprise too. Also, boobies. [more inside]

Back in November, you made your voice heard in the Hip Hop Debate's Presidential election. Now we're back, and it's time to swear in our Madame President. [more inside]

Where will you be when the world ends? Want to be the one who throws the switch? [more inside]

Thanksgiving! A! Pageant! is a pageant (about Thanksgiving). Join such luminaries as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Jesus the Christ as they tell the story of the first meeting between the godly Pilgrims and those wacky Natives (who didn't even speak English!). Featuring songs, Squanto, Dutch punk teenagers, King James I of England, a dream ballet, and more, this is the real story of how America became... America. But you know like AMERICA. One night only, Thursday, November 29th, 8pm at Ars Nova. Here is a thing to click to get tickets, which are $12, and which are totally worth it, I swear. [more inside]

This Sunday, the fate of the nation is in your hands. [more inside]

The one and only hip hop debate, where we argue the pro's and the con's til the break-a break-a dawn. Watch freestylers take your suggestions and debate the relative merits of time travel, zoos, Cats: The Musical, and anything else you can think of. I'll personally be laying down the beats. And you... you can jump up on stage with us and take a shot at the crown! [more inside]

Tired of your local rap battle circuit? Bored with shaming the same fools time and time again? Ready for something higher brow? Step to the Hip Hop Debate. [more inside]

After a successful season in my hometown of Melbourne Australia, I am having a one-night only reading of my play, PAINTING WITH WORDS & FIRE, in New York on August 10 at Primary Stages. [more inside]

It’s the way, far future, AD 2010, and it’s a bad time to be human. Freedom fighter Kate Brick plans a final strike against the Artas, artificial life forms who control humankind through torture, brainwashing, and Foursquare. Can Kate and her sometime-lover Dehnise Compuserve make a difference, or is it already too late? "2010: Our Hideous Future" is a synthpop-infused, queer-friendly musical comedy homage to the great dystopian classics of the 1980s and '90s. It features brilliant riffs on classics like “Blade Runner,” “Max Headroom,” and “The Matrix,” and delightfully twisted tunes like "Near Futuristic Dystopia!" and "Bangor Boogie.” Tickets ($10) are available online or at the door. We have performances both August 3rd & 4th, although this listing is just for the show on the 3rd. [more inside]

A show celebrating the release of our new record, Business on the Lanai (a refresher course). Hear the music at thetwex.com first, then come down to the Village and let us Rock you. Starts at 8:00 sharp so we won't miss our bedtimes. [more inside]

An evening of poetry, performance, and experimental text design from ITP’s Reading and Writing Electronic Text (a class that I teach at NYU). [more inside]

I'm making my debut on the main stage at the Magnet Theater. Affirmative action ftw! [more inside]

My band Nova Social is celebrating the release of our new record with a pretty exciting night at one of our favorite Brooklyn spaces. If you're looking for something fun to do on a Thursday night, check in for more details... [more inside]

Dan Wilbur (previously) is having Jeff Ryan to speak about his book Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America at the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn [more inside]

My yacht rock cover band project, Three Sheets to the Wind, will be performing at the Knitting Factory this Friday. We are headed up from our home in Virginia for a Virginia Tourism Corporation private event in Manhattan on Thursday, and decided to book a show for the public while we're up there. Back home in Richmond, the band was voted Best Band or Best Cover Band, depending on which publication you read in 2011.

"Do you know how to improvise a musical?" "No, but if you hum a few bars..."

We're going to make up some showtunes, on the spot, just for you! [more inside]

Who is Harold Galt? What IS the Harold? Will this show require the audience to have a working knowledge of Scandinavian kings and their dynastic succession? The answer to all these questions and more will be provided at this FREE! (did I mention FREE?!!) show! [more inside]

A ridiculously silly show in the style of your standard elementary school Thanksgiving Pageant, but will all the smallpox and religious intolerance added back in, plus really stupid jokes. Like, I mean, e.g. Miles Standish is never clearly standing or sitting. So. There's that. November 20-23! [more inside]

I (and my classmates) will be doing improv this coming Sunday at UCB East. Please come! [more inside]

It's been an amazing ride, and we have just four performances left! It's always awesome when MeFite's come. It's like family. Since I know some of you by username but not by face, please say hi if you come. I'm the guy at the door, taking the tickets. (And the director.) Shows this week: Thurs 8pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 3pm and 8pm. Tickets. [more inside]

I'm taking part in a free improv show. Guaranteed laughs, or your money back (less processing and handling, and a small restocking fee). [more inside]

"Blood and revenge are hammering in my head!" My play, Shakespeare's TITUS ANDRONICUS, is opening this Friday night! I'd like to invite NYC mefites to come see the show -- and if you do, please say hi afterwards. I'll be there. The tickets are normall $18, but I've created a discount code (MEFI) which will allow metatfilter folks to get in for $15. See you there! [more inside]

Prophecy of Place | photographs, poetry, video, assemblage and performance works
Monday, September 12 | 6–9pm The 9/12 event features Wikswo's photographic, text and video installation and projection works for live performance. With music of VERONIKA KRAUSAS and ISAAC SCHANKLER performed by ANDREW THOLL, NADIA FRANCAVILLA, and ANDREW MILLER. Dance movement by choreographer Alexandra Shilling and her dancers.
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011
RSVP
(Free! But reserving a space is recommended.) [more inside]

Veteran New York City garage punk rockers KiLiFAX will perform live at the legendary Lakeside Lounge in New York City's East Village. If you like crunchy rock with a satirical political bend, you don't want to miss this show. [more inside]

(Last Second Event-Filter) I will be reading from my comic PUPPET MAKERS with artist Molly Crabapple tonight (Tuesday 5th) at 7pm as part of The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series at The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art 138 Sullivan Street (between Houston & Prince St.). Doors open at 6:30. 7$ suggested donation.

Come see the newest class of improv-ers join the Magnet Theater community! We're leveling up! [more inside]

Directed by mefite grumblebee! We're making $15 tickets available to metafilter folks. Use the code MEFI when ordering to get the discount! The show has been a great success so far! Audiences are having a blast, and so are we! [more inside]

This production of Shakespeare's comedy features mefite Evangeline and is directed by another mefite, grumblebee. Every actor has memorized multiple roles. At each performance, the audience chooses which actor plays which part. Tickets are normally $18. We're making $15 tickets available to metafilter members. Use the code word MEFI when reserving seats. Details inside. Six actors have memorized all the roles. YOU choose which part they'll play. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - Tickets $15 with code MEFI "Whether you're familiar with the poetic language of Shakespeare's plays or not, the actors make sure the action is impossible to not follow. They work very well individually, but better still as a group." - talkingbroadway.com [more inside]

This production of Shakespeare's comedy features mefite Evangeline and is directed by another mefite, grumblebee. Every actor has memorized multiple roles. At each performance, the audience chooses which actor plays which part. Tickets are normally $18. We're making $15 tickets available to metafilter members. Use the code word MEFI when reserving seats. Details inside. [more inside]

Anyone in NYC going to the show on the 19th?

92Y Tribeca is holding a NEWSIES sing-along! I already have my ticket (a steal at $10), would any of you like to join me?

My new show, a stage adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, is getting some very nice reviews. Our opening night was mostly filled with a huge group from the Science Fiction Writers of America, which made me think of (Mefi's own) jscalzi, which made me think of posting this to IRL. So come on down to 3LD. We run through December 10.