Hello Brick Faithful, 

We're on the cusp of yet another jam packed weekend at both The Brick and Brick Aux!

Last night we opened an ambitious new collection of wild new works from CUNY PhD Theatre and Performance department practice+research ensemble featuring over 20 artists over 3 days. The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds is unlike anything else you'll see this year. Get your tickets now.

Over at Brick Aux, a few slots remain for our latest voiceover class from Brick artistic directors Theresa Buchheister and Ryan William Downey - Intro to VO: On Mic and In Practice  Saturday at noon. Whether you are brand new to VO or a grizzled vet who wants to jump back in, this is the class for you. 

On Sunday, the Market of Dreams returns with all manner of tempting delights. This one has everything, from jewelry to homemade clothing, edibles to onsite reiki sessions. The market is growing each month and full of delightful surprises. Scroll down for full details and descriptions for all of our great vendors. 

We are thrilled to announce that Lydia Mokdessi and Jason Bartell will be returning to The Brick next month for the fourth iteration of their mind-bending longform dance-music hybrid DEVOTION DEVOTION IV featuring Syd Island and special guests, including Kate Mohanty.

Happening simultaneously at Brick Aux on September 10, Jaime Wright will be on site to perform Full Moon Astrology Readings. Get balanced and reset before you take on the fall with an intimate one on one session. Sign up for a session here. 

Check out some fresh pics below from The Million Underscores' extraordinarily cosmic sold out performance of The Observatory below, photos by Jose Miranda. TMU are making some of the most visually arresting theater in NYC today. What a treat to host them in the space. 

Be sure to scroll to the bottom for new plays from our friend Caridad Svich , whose Memories of Overdevelopment is running now at The Workshop Theater, and Theaterworks Hartford's latest production, SECONDO, by Jacques Lamarre.

That's all for now. See you real soon. 

The Brick and CUNY PhD Theatre and Performance

department practice+research ensemble Presents

The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds

August 11 & 12 at 7pm

August 13 at 1pm & 6pm

August 14 at 4pm & 7pm

Across four days, overlapping and interrelated individuals and assemblies share ways of knowing and critique bases for “knowledge” through a hybrid devised work/conference Audiences are invited to come and go throughout the weekend, encountering actions, social processes, score-based structures, papers, and other forms of performance.

CUNY PhD Theatre and Performance department practice+research ensemble

(in alphabetical order): Jess Applebaum, Stephen Cedars, Jasmeene Francois, Alyssa Hanley, Ash Marinaccio, Esther Neff, Philip Wiles

The Ivory Tower and the Open World is a hybrid devised work and conference created/curated by PhD students in the Theatre and Performance program at CUNY Graduate Center. Through this project, we seek praxis, that is, thinking-actions and practice-theories that contest, challenge, dismantle, and move across divisions between institutional hegemonies and “othered” and “backgrounded” ways of knowing and seeing. Open to the public across four days, towers are torn down in pursuit of “epistemic justice” and worlds are opened through the sharing and trusting of multiplicit (un)knowings as they are expressed through individual and social bodies.

CUNY PhD Theatre and Performance department practice+research ensemble (in alphabetical order): Jess Applebaum, Stephen Cedars, Jasmeene Francois, Alyssa Hanley, Ash Marinaccio, Esther Neff, Philip Wiles.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12: 

7pm-10pm Jordan Deal

10-11pm: Clean up and Community Gathering

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13: 

1-2pm: Kiera Bono

2:00-4pm: PUBLIC FORUM

6pm: Darlene Litay

7pm:  Rakhi Malhotra

7:45: Milton Loayza

8:45: Michael Reinsch

9:30: Cory Kram

SUNDAY, AUGUST 14: 

4-6pm: Ari Wolff installation

Noah Ortega process work

7pm: Gilian Rappaport

7:30: Rae Goodwin and Emily Bivens culmination

8:15: Noah Ortega culmination

8:45: Diane Dwyer

9:30: Future Death Toll

Tickets Available Here

The Brick presents

Intro to Voice Over – On Mic and In Practice

with Theresa Buchheister and Ryan William Downey

Saturday August 13th 12pm-3pm

In-person @ Brick Aux

628 Metropolitan Ave

Brooklyn, NY

$30-75 sliding scale

Did you start VO as an actorly pivot in pandemic times?

Are you a VO actor who needs practice and critique?

Do you wonder what is missing or what you could do differently when you go out for a VO role?



Theresa Buchheister and Ryan William Downey are excited to get back to teaching in-person and on mic. In this 3 hour workshop, we will do a brief intro into the field (what is the difference between audiobook, cartoon, podcast, video game, commercial?) and then put you through a gauntlet of cold readings in all of these voice over realms.

Each participant will get time on the mic and valuable, personal critique.

Sign Up Here

Brick Aux is proud to present

MARKET OF DREAMS

+

LEO BIRTHDAY LOVE 

+

ROLLING BOURBON COHORT

Join us Sunday, August 14 starting at 2pm.

On offer?

-An excellent array of vendors, serving you treats, fashion and gems.

-A new take on the ol’ Bourbon Cohorts

When and How?

2pm-5pm, 6 incredible vendors will be on hand, ready to send you walking with unexpected treats.

2pm-when the bourbon runs out, Brick Aux will be a place where old and new friends come drink bourbon and chat about anything and everything.

***Followed by a extra special birthday celebration for Zeynep Akca***

Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Avenue 

MARKET OF DREAMS

featuring:

Shawna Tang aka @cookiesmut

Amun’s Edibles

StuyDYED

Oscar Chavez Designs

Susan Strauss via Kate Zibluk

Bobby Malbrough Treats

Night Bloom Hypnosis

See You There!

Shawna Tang aka @CookieSmut

Cookie Smut offers accessories and decor that are colorful, kitschy and yes, sometimes smutty. Find earrings, wall hangings, stickers, pins, and bags as fun as you are

Amun's Edibles

is an AfroIndigenous, trans-owned infused treat business hailing from Crown Heights, Brooklyn in New York. Amun’s THC- infused, gluten-free, vegan treats are a love letter to the trans community—providing healing medicine, good vibes, and safe spaces to the queer and trans community first, and letting the benefits emanate outwards. He offers savory and sweet infused treat orders for delivery in Brooklyn/Queens/Manhattan and at pop-ups, as well as offering infused private dinners by appointment.

IG: @amuns.edibles

StuyDYED

is a Brooklyn Based tie dye company serving BedStuy and the larger NY community for the 5+ years. Providing custom dyes, public & private events & one of a kind pieces, STUYDYED has a little something for everyone. You can fnnd our pieces available and inquire about events & custom commissions at www.stuydyed.com.

IG @stuydyed

OACHAVEZ 

is glamour and clothing handmade in Brooklyn, NY by Oscar A. Chavez.

oachavez.com

Susan Strauss via Kate Zibluk

In 1997, after working for a few years as a social worker in Little Rock, she quite suddenly opened River Market ArtSpace, promoting the work of almost 100 mostly local artists. The gallery was successful, and she sold it in 2002. At that time, she began making jewelry (mostly beading) and started taking some classes. She is self-taught in metal clay. Her goddaughter Kate Zibluk is representing her in presenting her jewelry in NYC.

Bobby Malbrough’s Treats

I’m not a baker, I just play one at this market.

This month’s offerings include: Good-Bad Grocery Store Cookies, Psychedelic Meringue Bites, and S’mores Cupcakes set on fire before your very own eyes.

The Brick Presents

DEVOTION DEVOTION IV

by Lydia Mokdessi and Jason Bartell

September 9th from 730-10pm

September 10th from 3-9pm

September 11th from 3-6pm

DEVOTION DEVOTION IV is a time-based performance for dance, guitar, and voice. Initiated by dancer Lydia Mokdessi and musician Jason Bartell in 2017, the duo have developed shared practices of sonic and physical droning, employing opulent loops and cinematic imagery to create a pleasurable meditative experience within a harsh audiovisual environment. Accompanied by vocalist Syd Island, this fourth iteration of the project allows the score to develop over various durations, intensifying shared intuition, dissolving individual authorship, inviting failure, and troubling the relationship of the body to identity, spectatorship, objectification, service, submission, and control.

Lydia Mokdessi, dancer @lydiamokdessi

Jason Bartell, guitar and synth @jasonbartell

Syd Island, vocalist @syd.island

Charlotte Mokdessi, costume & visual design @charlottemokdessi

***

Audience members are encouraged to enter and exit freely during these durational sets.

Each day’s set will be complemented by performances from multiple guest artists of diverse disciplines and aesthetics.

Special Guest September 10 - Kate Mohanty

Tickets Available Here

The Brick Presents

Full Moon Astrology Readings

with Jaime Wright

September 10

4p-8p at Brick Aux

628 Metropolitan

25 mins / $55

It’s been a tumultuous summer! Come get a 25 minute astro reading for the Full Moon in Pisces to release and re-center for fall. There will be a few slots available for walk-ins, but sign ups in advance are encouraged and can be booked at this link.

Please know your exact date, time, and location of birth.

Jaime Wright is a writer and astrologer. You may know her from moon missives.

Sign Up Here

The Brick Presents

You Are the Proletariat, Baby!

by William Sydney

August 18 & 19 at 8pm

Four little plays. We’re covering all the topics tonight: war, pestilence, parricide, Walter Benjamin. And we’re gonna sing about them, real hard. Don’t miss the revolution, baby!

Written & Directed by William Sydney

Performed by Xander Browne, Carina Goebelbecker, and William Sydney

Tickets Available Here

photos by Jose Miranda IG: @pelenguino

The Brick Presents

Card Tricks

Created and Performed by Alex Offenkrantz

August 20

8pm

A magician tells you the truth by showing you his diary of card tricks, illustrating several impossible things that have happened in his life. He wants you to know how he feels, and card tricks are the only way he knows how to tell you.

A magician’s girlfriend tricks him into believing she is happy. When the illusion crumbles, he becomes obsessed with why she didn’t tell him the truth. As he searches for an answer, it becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems. He makes it his life’s mission to tell the truth about his experience so he will never hurt anyone the way his girlfriend hurt him. His experience is one of feeling deceived, so he figures that the only way he can share how he really feels is through a deceitful medium: card tricks.

He creates a diary of card tricks, documenting the moments in his life where things weren’t the way he thought. And in creating this diary, he finds an answer as to why she didn’t tell him the truth in the first place.

alexoffenkrantz.com

Tickets Available Here

The Brick presents

SALON: Tip Toe Through the Two Lips

August 21 at 8pm

Erupting from Title:Point’s SalOn!, The Brick presents SALON seeks to bring together a delightful and wild mix of people sharing 10 minute presentations to entertain, connect, baffle and enliven.

Hosted by Garlan Jude

Featuring:

Chai Tamayo

Shawna Tang

Gabi Shiner

Lauren Miller

Tristan Allen

David Pym

Glace

Peter Mills Weiss

Art by Mark Toneff

Tickets Available Here

The Brick Presents

Tin Iso and the Dawn

by Tristan Allen

August 23 & 24 at 8pm

Tin Iso and the Dawn is shadow puppet symphony performed alongside an original, full length album. The project shares the origins of an imaginary world created to give age-old magic life through puppetry and music.

Tin Iso and the Dawn is operated by a solo puppeteer, composed and performed to explore the hidden turnings of a world at its genesis. Lights dim to black as a delicate melody slips into abstraction. Iso awakens to a bang as Tin crashes through the sky forming a hole above, light pours through and they meet. Their journey through shadow brings forth a rising sun and the beginning of life. Innovative puppetry, moving light, and symphonic structure collide in examining the universal longing to make sense of loss and what’s beyond.

Tristan Allen : Creator, Composer, Puppeteer

Jim Freeman : Technical Director

Featuring an opening set of music from Alyse Lamb

Tickets Available Here

The Brick and Hammer Beaten Sky presents

Heavy Sleeper – Phase One

by Ryan William Downey and Jeff Tobias

August 26 and 27

8pm

doors 730pm

A pulsing red light on the horizon line phasing in and out left to right lifting and falling the shallow breaths of a sleeping killer. That’s where we begin. Through a series of hypnotic vignettes and musical interludes our precious little characters must reckon with the foreboding forces that surround them and exist within them.

I think you should answer that.

featuring Nadia Pinder and Jesse Heffler

visual design by Chris Georges

lighting design by Theresa Buchheister

Join us for a giggle in the graveyard as we make peace with a vengeful ghost, watch an interrogation unfold, and visit with a children’s puppet come to life. Heavy Sleeper is a phone call you don’t want to answer. And, who knows, our old pal Gary may even show up.

Who is that voice that calls to me in the night? Why am I drawn to them?

After party to follow on August 27 9pm-Midnight at The Brick Theater.

Content Warning: This show features fog, strobing effects, and very loud noises.

Tickets Available Here

The Brick Presents

3.0 — Magazine Cut Out

by Garlan Jude

August 28 and 29

8pm

An unfurling of identifying identity in an unperceivably unidentifiable haze of sex, substance and some more sex. But it’s not at all serious or intellectual; it’s silly and fun with tears and laughter (not to impose upon you how you should react or anything…) Not for the kids, y’all!

Created & Performed by Garlan Jude

Nathan Leigh – Sound Design

Oscar Chavez – Costume Design

Carly Johnson – Tarot Readings

3.0 — Magazine Cut Out is a revamp-spread eagle-evolution of Envy On Fire, first staged by Garlan 3 years ago, later boosted with other stories and voices, and now back to the future as Garlan ruminates with the ghosts. Garlan is stretching their legs, doing their lip trills and warming up their mic as they return to the stage as they’ve never before: to have a commercial SMASH HIT. Come and arrive and have your tarot read by Carly Johnson. Continue coming and arriving and enjoy the terrifically dazical (not a word) ambient sounds of Nathan Leigh. Stay coming and arriving for a performance arty-ish, cabaret adjacent, barely avoiding step-on-a-crack-break-your-mother’s-back leaning memoir solo show wrapped in screaming designs by Oscar Chavez. Becoming, Being and Staying Garlan Jude. There will be costume changes!

Tickets Available Here

The Brick and The Exponential Festival Present

Blue Fire Burns the Hottest

by Marissa Joyce Stamps

theexponentialfestival.org

“This bath ain’t right…”

The mortal fear must be running high in the veins… Two men—two rivals—who, after holding out for years, finally come to a now abandoned boxing ring that their fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, and so on and so forth fought in to fight for their lives and to claim themselves as the “greatest.” In the midst of jabs and hooks, and crosses and uppercuts, they both find themselves, whether consciously or unconsciously, figuring out who they are in relation to higher power.

Blue Fire Burns the Hottest steps into boxing, a sport whose goal is to consciously keep on returning to the ring to inflict pain on another and to constantly study that person all to explore the intersection of hypermasculinity and spirituality, especially for Black men.

Written and Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps

Produced by Rachel Perez Melian

Performed by Danté Charles Crichlow and Ed Ventura

Stage Management: Siena Yusi

Dramaturgy: Dani Joseph

Scenic and Prop Design: Lucas A Degirolamo

Costume Design: Sterling Gates

There will be a talkback after the performance on September 23, 2022.

Ten $10 tickets will be available at the box office for each performance, first come, first served.

Tickets Available Here

The Brick presents

Producing Plays with the Resources You Have

with Theresa Buchheister

      Saturday August 27th 12pm-3pm In-person

@ Brick Aux 628 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY

or Saturday September 24 12-3pm via Zoom

$25-100 sliding scale



Are you wanting to make an art project happen in NY?

Is throwing money at a problem an idea that will never resonate with your artistic and personal realities?

Do you cringe at Capitalistic, Commercial, Careerist art and yet need to consider sustainability, resources, and practicality?

Join Theresa Buchheister for a 3 hour workshop on producing and resource management. We will break it down regarding budgets, spaces, money, people, tech, objects, and more. 

Theresa puts all of their time and energy into finding ways to work within identifiable resources to make art bubble and explode in NYC. They recognize that it is the hardest place to be an artist and simultaneously the best place. 

Sign Up Here

The Brick Presents

Yoga and Contemplative Movement with Marija Krtolica

Thursdays 3:45-5pm @ Brick Aux 628 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY

This class utilizes principles of the vinyasa (continuous movement with the breath) and yin yoga (receptivity through deep stretching) to relax physical and mental tensions and create a space for accessing the joy of unobstructed motion.

Following a short meditation, in a series of improvisational propositions, participants are invited to explore their anatomical structures, different points of initiation, and spatial & temporal relationships with the environment and each other.

Sign Up Here

The Brick presents

Get Your Act(s) Together

a Workshop/Intensive for Playwrights of All Levels with Carl Holder

This workshop will take place over 8 Zoom sessions,

Mondays from October 10-November 20, 6-9pm ET.

Do you have an idea for a play stuck in your head, or an old draft to revise that’s sitting stuck in your drawer? Come write with us! Shake things up with new techniques and fun, inspiring approaches to add to your toolbox.

Classes will be divided between Lecture/Exercise Sessions where we chat, write, and grow together, then Focused Workshop Meetings where your pages are read aloud for feedback and guidance. Dive in to get new perspectives on your longstanding working practices and the breath of fresh air you need to push your work ahead.



Students can write a new play or revise an existing one over the term and will be given the tools, space, and encouragement to do so. Each writer receives a one-one feedback session during the course and full notes on their final draft, delivered after the class ends.

CarlHolder.com

Sign Up Here

Some plays are a quiet revolution about loud things.

Some plays are about the stories we carry in our bones.

This play is a film: a documentary about what people remember about dictatorships where they grew up and how they left and how they survived. An enactment of seven startling, personal interviews, inspired by true stories. A rebellious look at where we’ve been and where we are right now.

2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination.

2022 Semi-Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.

This is a "pay per view" event, $10 per ticket.

Tickets are available for purchase until August 15 at 7pm and can be bought here.

Theaterworks Hartford presents

SECONDO

July 29 - August 28, 2022 in person

August 21 - September 4 on demand

“Lamarre has mined the book for its comedy. With indispensable help from the star, Antoinette LaVecchia, and the director, Rob Ruggiero, he has succeeded in turning Ms. Melucci’s good-humored litany of woe into a delightfully comic evening.”  The New York Times

​“Pretty, charming, funny and warm, Ms. LaVecchia connects instantly with the audience, and she makes Giulia utterly irresistible…” The New York Times

Ten years after saying “I do,” Giulia (Broadway’s Antoinette LaVecchia) is back in the kitchen looking to spice up her marriage. A decade ago, Giulia invited us into her kitchen for a homemade Italian dinner and to share the hilarious highs and lows of her dating life. On the evening of her 10th wedding anniversary, we’re back together to discover how married life has provided unexpected delights and challenges. SECONDO serves up new stories, delicious food and a bellyful of laughs. Don’t miss the sequel to one of Theaterworks Hartford’s greatest hits, I Loved, I lost, I made Spaghetti! 

TICKETS FROM $25!

(P.S. You don’t need to have seen it to enjoy this tasty world premiere)

Tickets Available Here

Support The Brick and look good while doing it

by shopping at our online merch store!

Get yourself a hoodie, a mug, a fanny pack, whatever floats your boat.

You can even get your dog a stylish Brick bandana so the other dogs know

where to see boundary pushing experimental theater.

There are a ton of items to choose from, or do what our

technical director Jack Woods did, and customize your own!

A portion of every sale goes to The Brick, and helps us keep the lights on.

If you get a piece of Brick merch, take a pic and tag us on

instagram (@bricktheater) so we can share it with the world!