What's Happening At The Brava Theater

Now Playing at the Brava:

Friends
Written by Kobo Abe
Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges
November 5 - November 21

"Love flies out the window when Poverty comes through the door."
A man sits at home perfectly happy. Suddenly there is a knock at his door. A family of eight - bright smiles, well groomed stand at the man's door. "We are here to help", the family declares and thus begins the strange trek into Kobo Abe's 1964 Japanese take on contemporary society and gentrification.

***Inaugurating the Brava 2nd Stage!***
FRIENDS begins the inaugural productions of BRAVA 2nd Stage and our "Shout Out Loud" Series. Friends is filled with humor and terror. Come check out what the writer of Woman in the Dunes knew about a society gone mad for upward mobility and ‘good' rent!

Remaining Performance Dates:
Wednesday, November 19
Thursday, November 20
Friday, November 21 - Closing Night

Sponsors
Patz & Hall Winery
Lagunitas Brewery

Brava Theater Academy presents...
Girltropolis (World Premiere)

Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 3pm
Free
Join the Brava Theater Academy for this one-of-a-kind arts outreach program Newly written works by BTA's Young Women's Acting Ensemble of Glass to Diamonds! This project was formed to empower young women as they combine theater arts & science to create dynamic peer to peer education around reproductive health in our schools and community. Free/Gratis

Schedule:
1pm - Healthy Homegirl 411 (Youth Resource Fair)
3pm - Girltropolis Performance starring the Glass to Diamonds Ensamble and the Brava Theater Academy Acting Studio. Run by the San Francisco Running Crew.
4:30 - Post Performance Reception

Check out this interview from KPOO
Visit the Girltropolis page for more information

Pandora's Trunk & Brava! for Women in the Arts present:

Visual Vaudeville & Built Burlesque
Thursday, December 4th from 6pm-11pm
FREE admission

Storytime Runway Show at 8pm and 10pm
Holiday Clothing Design & Craft Sale
Live Music, Entertainment, and Refreshments

Indie craft and design will be presented by its makers in the historic Brava lobby, while the beautifully restored theater itself will be a house of performance delights, with live music acts opening for an innovative narrative fashion presentation: a story time runway show at 8pm and 10 pm.

Pandora's Trunk is bringing you a fashion show turned on its head, a costumed story time in high style. Drag performers and captured princesses mix with bad banker men and jeweled birds, set to viola and saw music. Check out a fully produced stage show, performed to live music, and meet and greet with the clothing and costume geniuses behind it all. Buy the fashions that you see onstage off the rack, fresh from each designer's hot little hands.

Fashion designers in the floor show will include local design & performance powerhouses Bad Unkl Sista, Miss Velvet Cream, Medium Reality, Ghetto Goldilocks, and many more!!
Visit pandorastrunk.com

Coming Soon to BRAVA!...
poster of good American

Sincerity Forever
Written by Mac Wellman
Directed by Emerging Artist Megan Soto
January 9-19, 2009 at 8:00pm
Tickets $10-$25

Written by Mac Wellman, directed by Megan Soto (BRAVA's 2008-2009 Emerging Artist) Depicting the wonderful world of Hillsbottom, USA where Furballs and Jesus Christ give America a piece of their mind! A classic, defiant and damn funny retort to censorship.

Song for Coretta (West Coast Premiere)
Written by Pearl Cleage
Directed by Victoria Erville
January 19-29, 2009 at 8pm
Tickets $15-35
"...a lovely, image-soaked testament to the civil rights icon...The big news is that Cleage has created a joyful and affectionate tribute to one of the great women of our time" - Wendell Brock, Atlanta Journal
Five African American women from diverse backgrounds discuss the impact Coretta Scott King had on their lives while they patiently wait to view Mrs. Kings body in Atlanta. A mix-media theatrical installation, A Song for Coretta pays homage to one of the many women in American history that sometimes are overlooked because of their relationship to American icons.

Penny Arcade

Penny Arcade's
BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE! (Regional Premiere)
Written and Created by Penny Arcade
February 25 - March 7, 2009 at 8pm
Tickets $20-50

"The show is everything you ever wanted to know about censorship, feminism, counterculture and
joy - without speaking about any of those things." - Rolling Stone Magazine
Penny Arcade was recently featured in the Weimar, NY Series presented at SF MOMA, February 2008. Arcade, aka Susana Ventura, is an internationally respected writer, actress and director, and was a
Warhol Factory superstar at 19 and featured in the Warhol film "Women In Revolt." For the first time, Arcade's world renowned performance piece, "BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE!" comes to
San Francisco!!!

BRAVA! recommends...

Gema Y Pavel with Special Guessts: Los Materos & Fulanos Hand Quartet
From Afro Cuban, Jazz, Folk-Fusion, Flamenco and Bolero to "Neo Filin Progresivo"
Saturday, November 22 8:30pm
Women's Building
3543 18th Street @ Guerrero St
www.myspace.com/gemaypavel
tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/47180

 

 

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