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Thursday, June 9, 2016

The performance artist fighting class shame with drop scones and dead rats by Nell Frizzell

Catherine Hoffmann is a self-confessed survivor of Britain’s ‘feral underclass’ of the 1970s and 80s. As Stench Wench, she is now stripping half naked and scrabbling in squalor to recl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM
Thursday, May 12, 2016

Bristol, Ghana, Jamaica and back: my trip around the Atlantic slave triangle by Nell Frizzell

She’s made hair weaves from family photos and dresses out of cake. Now Selina Thompson has criss-crossed the Atlantic ocean on a freight ship to bash a giant rock of salt to bits – and i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AM
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Why I'm dancing as Bill Cosby by Nell Frizzell

The family dance sequences that opened the Cosby Show are being reenacted as performance art. Season Butler opens up about the black body, sex, allegations – and how it feels to stand in B…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

How fan fiction made improv cool by Nell Frizzell

Hobbit sex fantasies are all very well, but what if Dostoevsky met a dinosaur? Nell Frizzell finds out what fan fiction has done for standup while Josie Long and Nick Gibb release their inn…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic