Horse Trade Theater Group Announces Their Fall 2011 Programming

Horse Trade Theater Group (Erez Ziv, Managing Director, Heidi Grumelot, Artistic Director) announces their 13th season lineup, which will include shows from new resident theatre companies aMios Productions and Direct Arts, Guest Artist Hard Sparks, the return of The Management, Animal Parts, Dysfunctional Theatre Group, The Pumpkin Pie Show and The 2011 Burlesque Blitz, and two new ongoing monthly serials.

Eightythree Down
Presented by Hard Sparks
September 1-17
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
It's New Year's Eve 1983 and Martin's plan for a quiet night in his parents' basement is thrown into chaos when his old friend Dina and her hooligan roommates arrive with a gun, a bag of stolen books, and a dangerous idea.

Unlicensed
Presented by Dysfunctional Theatre Company
3rd Sunday & Monday of Every Month
First Episode Sunday, September 18 @ 8pm
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
Unlicensed is an ongoing monthly serial that tells the story of a group of artists struggling to produce a play in an America where all theater is strictly government regulated and indie theater companies are outlaws. Come underground and see what real fringe theater is all about!

Tenderpits
Presented by Animal Parts
September 22-October 1
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
Tenderpits tells the part autobiographical, part fictionalized story of a young wizard's immigration from Canada to New York City.

Sinking Hearts
Written by Joshua Conkel
Ongoing Monthly Serial
Presented by The Management
First Episode September 2011
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
Fresh off the HOT! Festival, the Gothic drag soap opera continues right where it left off- with psychic housewife Misty Nagel and her family solving various mysteries on Thomas Hartman Submarine Base.

The Pumpkin Pie Show
Stories by Clay McLeod Chapman
Performed by Clay McLeod Chapman & Hanna Cheek
October 13-29
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
This year The Pumpkin Pie Show will be sharing tales of love, some true to us, others ripped from the hearts (and headlines) of others.

Brew of the Dead 2: Oktoberflesh
Presented by Dysfunctional Theatre Company
November 3-19
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
In 2008, Dysfunctional Theatre Company asked, ‘When the Apocalypse comes, will there be beer?' There was. Unfortunately there wasn't enough. Continuing to lovingly rip off Dawn of the Dead, The Evil Dead and Shaun of the Dead, Brew of the Dead 2: Oktoberflesh asks an even more important question, ‘Can the dead get high?'

Long Shotz
Presented by aMios
December 1-17
UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave and Ave A)
Inspired from a year long project documenting NYC, aMios Theatre Company's newest batch of one-acts continues to chronicle life in the city with six brand new plays, presented as two separate evenings that explore opposite sides of what it means to be a New Yorker.

Big Flower Eater
A workshop production presented by Direct Arts
December 1-19
The Red Room (85 East 4th Street)
A young Taiwanese woman pastes her grandmother's fortunes on her bathroom wall, setting off a host of otherworldly activity in her small Lower East Side apartment.

2011 Burlesque Blitz
December 26-30
The Kraine Thater (85 East 4th Street)
Recover from your stressful holiday season with five nights of sizzling hot performances by some of the best burlesque troupes in New York City.

Tickets to all shows are $18/$15 students & seniors, unless otherwise specified. For more information and to purchase tickets visit www.horseTRADE.info.

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

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