Pigpen Theatre Co. to Perform at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 4/5

Award-winning seven-member indie-folk band/theater troupe PigPen Theatre Co. returns to New York City for a show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 5 as part of their nationwide tour. The tour takes the band to major markets across the U.S., including stops in Austin for SXSW (details to come) and the acclaimed Firefly Music Festival. Please see below for full tour itinerary.

2013 was a busy year for the group. In addition to regular touring and their Schubas residency, PigPen spent the fall performing the Chicago production of their critical and commercial hit Off-Broadway show The Old Man and The Old Moon at Writers Theatre. In the midst of the three-month run, the band also released their latest EP, The Way I'm Running, as the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2012 debut album, Bremen. The guys of PigPen began creating their unique brand of music, film and theater as students at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. As a band they've played residencies at Schubas in Chicago and Joe's Pub in NYC and gigs at venues including New York's Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge, DC's Jammin' Java and Philadelphia's World Cafe Live. Their recordings have garnered praise from the likes ofAmerican Songwriter, Relix and the Huffington Post, among others.

As a theatre company, PigPen bears the distinction of having been the first group to win top honors at the New York International Fringe Festival two years in a row (2010 and 2011), and their first commercial Off-Broadway production The Old Man and The Old Moon received critical raves, running from September 2012-January 2013 at The Gym at Judson (located in the iconic Judson Memorial Church). They've been in residence at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Orchard Project, and in addition to their two acclaimed commercial runs ofThe Old Man and The Old Moon, have performed at New York's famous Barrow Street Theatre, The Irondale Center, the Boston Center for the Arts, and have sold out theaters nationwide with their shows The Nightmare Story and The Mountain Song. Their work has earned them critics' picks from the likes of The New York Times, Time Out New York, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post, with reviewers ranking their productions among the top ten theatrical events of both 2011 and 2012. They are also thrilled to be developing their debut children's novel with Writers House, one of the world's leading young adult literary agencies.