Axis Theatre Company Presents Bad Kid

Axis Theatre Company is set to present David Crabb's Bad Kid, a "dark comic tale of rebellion, sexuality and friendship Feb 17- March 10. 

About the show: "The New York-based David Crabb has won acclaim as a writer, storyteller and actor, including two Moth Slam championships and critical praise for his roles in a variety of downtown Theater Productions. In his one-man show Bad Kid, he plays his adolescent self, an outcast Texas teen in a goth-obsessed, drug-fueled haze. The show, a candid and hilarious examination of what it means to grow up different and alone, will run February 17—March 10 at Axis Theatre."

Preview performances will take place Friday & Saturday, February 17 & 18, at 8:00 P.M.; and Sunday, February 19, at 3:00 P.M. Following an opening night on Monday, February 20 at 8:00 P.M., performances will take place Fridays and Saturdays, February 24—March 10 at 8:00 P.M. Critics are welcome as of the first performance.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.axiscompany.org or calling TheaterMania at 212.352.3101. Preview tickets are $12.00 ($10.00 for students and seniors); and tickets for opening night and beyond are $18.00 ($15.00 for students and seniors). Axis Theatre is located at One Sheridan Square in the West Village (just off 7th Avenue, accessible from the 1/9 train at Christopher Street).

Co-written and directed by Josh Matthews, Bad Kid had a successful limited run at Axis in October/November 2011. 

“As Goth kids, we thought that everything honest was rooted in loneliness, even our sexual urges and our concept of “fun,” says Crabb. “But as I grew up I could sense there was another ‘freak’ beneath the one I contrived as a 15 year-old, who wore dog collars and black nail polish; the lifelong freak, not the temporary one. I wanted to find out who he was.”

Bad Kid is produced by Axis, with lighting design by David Zeffren & Amy Harper and sound design by Steve Fontaine.

David Crabb is an actor, writer and two-time Moth Slam Champion. He is the producer and co-host of the storytelling series Ask Me Stories, and the co-producer of the popular storytelling podcast and live show Risk! A member of the acclaimed Off-Broadway Axis Theatre Company since 2001, David has starred in and developed productions at Axis in NYC and abroad with the company in Paris and Edinburgh. Productions include: Not Yet Diagnosed (Nervous): 1918 (TheaterMania’s Top 10 of 2005); A Glance at New York (NYC and Assembly Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and the long-running, downtown cult sensation, Hospital. Other NYC theatre credits include: And I Love You at HERE; National Prayer Breakfast at Actors’ Playhouse, Field of Schemes with Under the Table Company, Winnebago Del Fuego Live at the UCB and Rififi/Cinema Classics; and Fresh Meat with Catie Lazarus at Ars Nova.

Axis Theatre Company has produced and presented an eclectic repertoire of original and existing plays. Past productions include Buchner's Woyzeck, Beckett's Play, Benjamin Baker's 1848 vaudeville A Glance at New York (Edinburgh Fringe & NYC), Julius Caesar, USS Frankenstein, the U.S. premiere of Sarah Kane’s Crave, starring Deborah Harry, and Down There, Sharp’s play about the torture and murder of 16 Year-Old Sylvia Likens. Axis also produced the premieres of Marc Palmieri's Levittown (directed by George Demas) and Edgar Oliver’s East 10th Street, which was re-mounted at PS 122 to much acclaim last year. Axis’s episodic play Hospital, about the interior life of a man in a coma, is a West Village phenomenon every summer. In 2006, Axis Company produced a feature film, Henry May Long, which won 13 film festival awards in the U.S. and Canada.