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A Venomous Color, Part Three: The Animals Speak By Cameron Darwin Bossert Presented by Thirdwing at the wild project 195 E 3rd St., Manhattan, NYC August 5-17, 2025 Ginger Kearns, Adam Griffith, Cameron Darwin Bossert, & Cian Genaro. Photo by Hunter Canning The Animals Speak , the final installment in Cameron Darwin Bossert's outstanding Disney-centered trilogy A Venomous Color , which began with The Fairest in 2021, followed by Burbank the next year, is the first play of the trilogy to be set outside the workplace. The Animals Speak , making its world premiere at the wild project, takes place on a 1941 trip to Brazil, Argentina, and Chile sponsored by the U.S. government, which sent Walt Disney, his wife, Lillian, and a group of Disney artists on a goodwill tour intended to counter fascist and Nazi influence. It quickly emerges in Bossert's play, though, that leaving the workplace several thousand miles behind does not mean that Walt (Cameron Darwin Bossert) can leave w...

Photo by Valerie Terranova Thirdwing , a hybrid theater company that has been presenting bold new works both live and streaming under a subscription model (like Hulu or Netflix) since January 2020, will present an encore production of its critically acclaimed Disney unionization drama Burbank , by Cameron Darwin Bossert, beginning March 12 at the wild project (you can read our review of an earlier production here ).   As part of its push for a new and affordable way to engage theatergoers, Thirdwing won’t be selling regular tickets to  Burbank . Instead, Thirdwing members can reserve a complimentary ticket after subscribing to its streaming platform for $4.99, which is the subscription's monthly fee. Membership includes tickets to all live performances and events year-round plus hours of original streaming theatrical and film content. Burban  tells the personal story of a 39-year-old Walt Disney fighting against Art Babbitt, the womanizing genius young animator and creat...

Persé Fanny. Photo by Jason Laboy.   Just in time for Valentine's Day, Hotsy Totsy Burlesque - in its 15th year of paying tribute to favorite movies and TV shows with rhinestones, glitter, and flying underpants, and winner of Broadway World's “Best Burlesque Show of 2023” - will present its fan-favorite annual tribute to the ladies of Disney. Prince Charming (Handsome Brad) and his wife, the Cherry Godmother, are throwing their annual Bride Finding Ball, this time for Tinkerbell, the original Manic Pixie Dream Girl. But is finding a handsome prince really her idea of happily ever after? The show will take place at The Slipper Room (167 Orchard Street, NYC), a 21+ venue, on Thursday, February 8, 2024. The performance will be hosted by Cherry Pitz & Handsome Brad, with special guest host Bimini Cricket; acts by Fortune Cookie, Persé Fanny, Betty Brash, and Rosie Cheeks; gogo by Bitsy Brûlée, and stage kitten duties handled by Dutch Baby. Admission is $25 pre-sold reserved s...

A Venomous Color: Burbank Written by Cameron Darwin Bossert Directed by Thirdwing Presented by Thirdwing at the wild project 195 E. 3rd Street, Manhattan, NYC September 6-18, 2022 L to R: Kelley Lord, Ryan Blackwell, and Cameron Darwin Bossert. Photo by Valerie Terranova Burbank , making its world premiere at the wild project, marks the fourth onstage production from Thirdwing, founded by Artistic Director and Burbank playwright Cameron Darwin Bossert. As a hybrid streaming theater company, Thirdwing creates both streaming and in-person offerings, and Burbank , revised and expanded from an earlier streaming version, is the second full-length in-person play in the series A Venomous Color , which focuses on Walt Disney Studios from 1935 through 1941. The first onstage show in A Venomous Color was the outstanding The Fairest , adapted for streaming as Disney Girls , which examined Disney's "Nunnery," a department made up exclusively of women painters and inkers, as they ...

A Venomous Color: Burbank (Act 2) Written and directed by Cameron Darwin Bossert Presented by Thirdwing via its streaming service The hybrid model at the core of Thirdwing, founded by Artistic Director Cameron Darwin Bossert, embraces both live and streaming theater productions. The first act of Thirdwing's streaming A Venomous Color: Burbank extended the narrative begun by its fantastic in-person show A Venomous Color: The Fairest , which, in its run at  the wild project , explored Disney's "Nunnery," a department made up exclusively of women painters and inkers, as they worked to complete Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  (you can read our  review here ). The four-episode first act of Burbank –written and directed, like The Fairest , by Bossert and functioning as a sequel and companion piece to The Fairest without requiring having seen the earlier play–moves from The Nunnery to the male environs of Walt Disney and his animators as it continues a captivating explo...

A Venomous Color: Burbank (Act 1) Written and directed by Cameron Darwin Bossert Presented by Thirdwing via its streaming service In an in-person run at the wild project earlier this fall, Thirdwing's terrific A Venomous Color: The Fairest explored Disney's "Nunnery," its sex-segregated department of women painters and inkers, as they worked to complete Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (you can read our review here ). Thirdwing is dedicated to a hybrid model that embraces both live and streaming theater productions; and the entire first act of A Venomous Color: Burbank , which functions as sequel and companion piece to The Fairest but does not require having seen the earlier play to be enjoyed, is now available on Thirdwing's streaming service (starting at $4.99 per month or $49 per year, subscriptions include access to the streaming platform and tickets to live shows; see Thirdwing's site for details of available membership packages). Written and directe...

A Venomous Color Part 1: The Fairest Written and directed by Cameron Darwin Bossert Presented by Thirdwing at the wild project 195 E 3rd St., Manhattan, NYC October 19-24, 2021 Sivan Gordon-Buxbaum as Frances. Courtesy Karen Greco PR As entertainment sites across the internet catalog which Disney-owned superhero films slated for release in 2022 and 2023 will now be coming out slightly later in 2022 and 2023, A Venomous Color Part 1: The Fairest , a new play written and directed by theater company Thirdwing's founder and Artistic Director Cameron Darwin Bossert, takes audiences back to a time before Disney dominated the entertainment industry—1937, to be exact—for a richly drawn and thoroughly absorbing look at the women in Disney's ink and paint department as they crunch to finish Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . Thirdwing's innovative focus on both live and streaming theater means that the multi-episode part 2 of A Venomous Color , subtitled Burbank and dealing with the...