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News: "Desperately Seeking the Exit Uncut & Online" Adds Additional Live Stream Matinee on March 28
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After selling out the first two live streams of Desperately Seeking the Exit Uncut & Online, Peter Michael Marino will once again share the notorious tale of the making and unmaking of his West End-Blondie-Madonna musical Desperately Seeking Susan - on your computer. This 90-minute live-streaming event will include a reading of the story you may or may not have heard, plus bonus footage from the actual West End and Tokyo productions, plus accompanying scenes from the film and how the film scenes were adapted for the stage.
WHAT:Desperately Seeking the Exit Uncut & Online WHO: Written & Performed by Peter Michael Marino. Original Direction by John Clancy. WHEN: 2:00 p.m. EST, Saturday, March 28 WHERE: Your computer or tablet HOW MUCH: $10
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The Queer Witch Conspiracy Written by Brandon Walker Directed by Erin Cronican Presented by The Seeing Place Theater Live via Zoom June 23 and 24, 2021; and on demand via YouTube through June 27, 2021 The ensemble. Courtesy Kampfire PR. Andrew J. Owens writes in his study Desire After Dark: Contemporary Queer Cultures and Occultly Marvelous Media (Indiana University Press, 2021) that "both queerness and occultism have been united by a historical doubling down of secrecy, empherality, and the evasion of official archival records," but the internet, through platforms such as Tumblr, has "allowed minoritarian communities the ability to articulate senses of both community and self that might otherwise prove difficult, distressing, and even dangerous within normal daily interactions" (141, 140). This dynamic is central to the The Seeing Place Theater's new production, The Queer Witch Conspiracy , written by Brandon Walker, the company's Producing Artistic Dir
Planet of the Grapes Live Created by Peter Michael Marino Directed by Michole Biancosino Presented by Project Y Theatre Company and PM2 Entertainment via YouTube Live April 16-May 15, 2021 Photo credit: Mikiodo Even if you've somehow managed never to see 1968's Planet of the Apes , moments of which remain cultural touchstones more than 50 years later, that won't make Peter Michael Marino's Planet of the Grapes Live any less of a blast. Marino reimagines the sci-fi classic as a live hourlong toy theater production, blending the main beats of the film's story and its unintentional humor with some added comedy (yes, there are some grape puns; and yes, at least one of them made us laugh out loud). The show's website includes some great background on toy theater, as well as on the Apes film and the creation of this miniaturized parody, which viewers should make some time to peruse before or after their live Grapes experience. The plot finds a quartet of astro
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