Penny Dreadful Series Continues With Season Two On 1/17

The Brick Theater and Third Lows Productions continue Season Two of their innovative theater series Penny Dreadful on Saturday, January 17 at 11:00 PM and Sunday, January 18 at 2:00 PM with the premiere of Penny Dreadful Episode 10: The Science and the Séance - Two Tales of Love and Horror. Audiences can still join in on the story by either reading the detailed plot summaries or downloading videos of all the past episodes, available on the Third Lows Productions official website (www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful).

Penny Dreadful Episode 10: The Science and the Séance - Two Tales of Love and Horror follows our heroes, the Pinkerton Detective of the Supernatural Leslie Caldwell (Matt Gray) and the would-be magician The Amazing Viernik (Fred Backus), on their separate journeys in May 1910 to prevent the secret society The Alliance of Tomorrow from bringing about the end of the world. "The Science" features Viernik's pursuit of the brilliant scientist Nikola Tesla (Adam Belvo), and the latter's horrific attempts to create the time-travelling machine, The Great Switcheroo. Meanwhile, "The Séance" tells the story of Caldwell's beautiful wife, Etta Place (Dina Rose Rivera), as she visits the ghost of her dead lover, The Sundance Kid (Michael Criscuolo), with the help of Harry Houdini (Patrick Pizzolorusso).

Penny Dreadful co-creators Bryan Enk and Matt Gray direct a cast that also includes Ben VandenBoom, Mary Lovely, Carrie Johnson, Jessica McVea, Bob Laine, Ian W. Hill, Kevin Myers, Robin Reed, Art Wallace, Adam Swiderski, Merlyn Wolf Berg, Audrey Crabtree, J. Malcolm Rymer and Bob Brader.

Inspired by the adventure-filled dime novels of the 19th and early 20th century, Penny Dreadful is an innovative epic for the stage co-created for Williamsburg's Brick Theater by writers/directors/performers Matt Gray and Bryan Enk. Penny Dreadful has been serialized into monthly installments that began in November 2007 with Season One. Audiences can follow the labyrinthine plot twists and re-experience the cliffhanger endings through detailed summaries and video downloads of each episode following their live performance, available on the Third Lows Productions official website (www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful).

Our story begins in 1909 with the discovery of a bloodless body that has San Francisco abuzz. It will be up to a second-rate showman and an oddball detective of the supernatural to put together the clues - a mysterious hearing aid, a missing creature from the darkest corner of the earth, a secret society bent on world domination, a man who can control earthquakes, and the greatest magic trick ever performed. Penny Dreadful is a twelve-part tale of mystery and horror that takes place in the first decade of the twentieth century and guest stars a parade of notable historical figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison as they weave in and out of the suspenseful tale.

Penny Dreadful will continue in February 2009 with Penny Dreadful Episode 11.

Purchase tickets: www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful
Synopses and downloads of previous episodes and full series schedule available at www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful

The Brick and its company, The Brick Theater, Inc., were founded in 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a yoga center, and various storage spaces, this brick-walled garage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was completely refurbished as a state-of-the-art performance space. The Brick has been home to many critically acclaimed premieres, including Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Tupperware Orgy, In a Strange Room (based on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Dear Dubya, Fallout Follies, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn, Who Is Wilford Brimley?, Jenna Is Nuts, Habitat, Absence of Magic, Assyrian Monkey Fantasy (in two movements), and The Pragmatists.