Horse Trade Announces June Events at UNDER St. Marks

Horse Trade has announced the following upcoming events:

Stand Up and Take Your Clothes Off is a fast paced, sexy show, bursting with talent. Each month will feature NYC's funniest female comics and sassiest burlesque acts.

Looking for fun that is exciting, yet natural? Well here's your chance! Bedlam Ensemble's Naturally Delicious improv troupe is here to provide you with a barrel of laughs! Like the whole foods of comedy, this troupe will allow you to have a great time without any of the preservatives or controls of a normal comedy group.

Sketch Comedy meets Block Party. This monthly show features a guest host comedian, three guest sketch troupes and drinking. Come meet, mingle, and perform!

A showcase for independent and established improv teams. For each show, two teams join Thank You, Robot to perform sets of unscripted comedy, never seen before and never to be seen again.

The Skinny is a political comedy talk show with a twist: The host, Peter DeGiglio, is just an average schnook struggling to wrap his head around the events that shape our world. Joining him is a discussion panel of real life experts and a plethora of wacky variety acts.

We're c*ckrocking the NPR crowd with the best underground comedy, storytelling, burlesque and sideshow acts. This whole thing (and all of everything) is about getting together and getting EXCITED - just turn your phones off and shout it out loud.

Moth storytelling favorite, Adam Wade, has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories for a special show. He'll also sing a few songs, and play video shorts. No two shows will be the same. A different featured guest will start the evening off.

Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while The BTK Band, NYC's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, improvises music and lyrics to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos.

If Melanie Hamlett is known for one thing, it's adventure (much to the dismay of her parents). Adventures with Melanie Hamlett brings NYC's top comedians to the theater stage for some epic tales around an intimate make-believe campfire. And just in case you don't believe some of it, Melanie will have pictures. We'll provide the entertainment and trailmix. Just don't forget your Nalogene water bottles and seven bucks

A monthly nude literary salon featuring in-the-buff readings by local burlesque luminaries, professional librarians, authors and other Naked Girls.

Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.

Do you have what it takes to be a cabaret champion? Contestants compete for the chance to star in their own show or cabaret. Come out and join the fun! Whether you are a contestant or in the audience you are guaranteed to have a blast.

The All For One Theater Festival's One For All open mic series is hosted by the current reigning Four-Time National Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, Katie Northlich (The Panic Diaries) and features a guest headliner from the solo performance world each month in addition to the ten 7-minute slots available on a first-come first-served basis. All forms of solo art, from storytelling to puppetry are welcomed.

Six playwrights and directors get a week and a half to write and rehearse a short play based around three conditions, a theme, and a pre-selected cast, and then its go time. Different playwrights and directors featured every month.

A neat, dull family is thrown into chaos when it's discovered local mayor and household head Frank Wyshack is actually the legendary movie producer, Gideon Finn, thirty years dead. What's worse, Finn's ex-wife, an internationally famous film star ala Elizabeth Taylor, wants him back. The Second Life of Gideon Finn is about having it, losing it, accepting it, wanting it back, and the benefits and perils of fiction and reality between family members.

HT PRESENTS is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. The HT Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy.

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