Thinking Theater NYC

A Cocktail Party Social Experiment, 16 Dec. 2019. Photo courtesy Wil Petre & Team. What: A Cocktail Party Social Experiment (w/ Distance) Conceived, developed, and hosted by Wil Petre When:  Thursday nights: June 11th, 2020 June 18th, 2020 June 25th, 2020 & Thursdays moving forward Where: 8:30pm EST via Zoom Estimated Run time: approximately 75 minutes – and after party Wil Petre , an NYC-based cocktail guru, and a performer best known for his off-Broadway work (including Third Rail Projects’ The Grand Paradise ) invites the audience to join  A Cocktail Party Social Experiment (w/ Distance)  – an unconventional hybrid of story slam, game night, and boozy voyeurism, playing Thursday evenings at 8:30pm EST via Zoom. The suggested ticket price is $18, and reservations can be made here . Is it possible to have a meaningful conversation with a perfect stranger in our socially distanced and anxious world? This question has inspired the theater artist and storyte...

A Cocktail Party Social Experiment Created and Hosted by Wil Petre Assisted by Lane Halperin and Clinton Edward Sponsored by Barking Irons and presented at Chelsea Music Hall 407 W. 15th St., Manhattan, NYC Upcoming dates: February 17, March 16, and April 13, 2020 For notification of future dates, sign up here Photo by Karen May Down a flight of stairs below street level, under the red lights and a languorously rotating disco ball and amid the gentle clink of ice on glass within Chelsea Music Hall, individuals incongruously clad in white lab coats collect volunteers for an experiment. Eventually, those running the experiment gather its subjects and explain their hypothesis and methodology. Shortly after, they take their first cocktail order. A Cocktail Party Social Experiment , created and hosted by Wil Petre and co-hosted by Lane Halperin, aims to have a group of strangers get to know each other in a meaningful way (while the eight strangers who volunteer to particip...