Barrington Stage Musical Theatre Lab Hosts Cabaret HELL RAISERS 8/11-13

Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab under the direction of William Finn, Musical Theatre Lab Artistic Producer, Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Willson, Managing Director, presents the cabaret, Hell Raisers: A Night of Songs by Joe Iconis, for four performances - Thursday, August 11 at 8pm, Friday, August 12 at 8pm, and Saturday, August 13 at 8pm and 10pm at BSC Stage 2 (36 Linden Street, Pittsfield).

Directed by John Simpkins (Artistic Director of the Tri-Arts Playhouse in Sharon, CT), Hell Raisers features Molly Hager (NY/Regional: Fat Camp and Factory Girls), Jeremy Morse (Drama Desk nominee for Bloodsong of Love), Lance Rubin (BSC's Songs in 2006 and 2007; Off-Broadway: Bloodsong of Love), and Jason ‘SweetTooth' Williams (Off-Broadway: Bloodsong of Love). Joe Iconis is music director. Seth Eliser is drummer and guitarist. Dylan Uremovich is lighting designer. Allison Smartt is sound designer. Natasha Sinha is associate producer. Christopher Donovan is production stage manager.

Join Joe Iconis and his merry band of musical theater punks for an explosive night of high-octane showtunes. Quirky portraits of normal people, outcasts, vagabonds, suburbanites, weirdos, fat kids and porn stars are set to hummable music that pulses with the energy and excitement of a barroom brawl. Grab a drink, gather round the old piano and sing along to songs with a rock and roll spirit and an old fashioned heart.

Joe Iconis (music/lyrics, music director) is a writer and concert performer. He has been nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, and is the recipient of an Ed Kleban Award, a Jonathan Larson Award and a 1992 Stratford Elementary School Excellence in Music Certificate. He is the author of Bloodsong of Love (NAMT 23rd annual Festival of New Musicals, October 2011), The Black Suits (book co-written with Robert Maddock), ReWrite, Theaterworks USA's The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks and We The People. The original cast recording of Things To Ruin, Joe's theatrical rock concert, is available on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. Joe is greatly inspired by Robert Altman, Dolly Parton, The Muppets and The Family of artists he frequently surrounds himself with. www.MrJoeIconis.com.

Tickets are $15 Thursday/Friday and $20 on Saturday by calling 413-236-8888 at the Barrington Stage box office (30 Union Street), or online at www.barringtonstageco.org. NEW! Food and wine by Mission Bar + Tapas one hour before showtime in our newly renovated Stage 2 Café.

Hell Raisers is a production of Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab, sponsored in part by Elayne Bernstein and Sol Schwartz, and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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