Four performances added!

Dan Hoyle’s
TINGS DEY HAPPEN
RETURNS for a limited engagement!

Friday, April 25 at 8pm;
($22-35)
Saturday, April 26 at  8:30 pm;
($50 -100 benefit)
Sunday, April 27 at 2pm;
($50-100 benefit)

Marsh Main Stage


"Engrossing, Funny...Tour De Force" -SF Chronicle

“Riveting…Funny and Poignant…In the spirit of theatrical journalism exemplified by Anna Deavere Smith, Mr. Hoyle is both a first-rate reporter and actor.”
--Wilborn Hampton, New York Times

“Entertaining and Eye-Opening...bristles with keen impressions of life and death.”
–Marilyn Stasio, Variety

TINGS DEY HAPPEN is a riveting adventure story, a geopolitical tour de force about the year Dan spent in Nigeria on a Fulbright Scholarship, exploring the West African oil frontier. The Niger Delta, supplier of 10% of America’s oil, has been targeted as the “new Middle East” of oil security and is an extremely dangerous place. Dan’s base was Port Harcourt - the same malarial swamp where disease and attacks from jealous warriors once killed the British and where now a second generation of warlords blow up Chevron pipelines to steal the oil and militants kidnap oil workers. Some oil companies have had to shut down their operations altogether.

Dan traveled alone around the swamps, befriending militants, warlords, diplomats, activists and prostitutes. Even the U.S. ambassador sought him out to find out what was going on. He portrays all these characters in the story.

A native San Franciscan, Dan Hoyle is also the creator of two other hit shows, both performed in his unique form of journalistic theater: “CIRCUMNAVIGATOR” and “FLORIDA 2004: THE BIG BUMMER.” The San Francisco Chronicle says Hoyle has “a gift for mime and vocal mimicry that recalls solo artists John Leguizamo, Sarah Jones, or Lily Tomlin.”

Another round of...
Jeff Greenwald’s
STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS

April 3 - 26, 2008
Thursday thru Saturday at 8pm

Two Added Performances Saturday, May 17 & 24, 5pm


“The last time Jeff Greenwald’s roulette wheel of a one-man show had a run at The Marsh, I went and laughed my head off. The Marsh is a small place, so Greenwald obligingly handed my head back to me.” 
-Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle

"Looking for global intrigue, great laughs, and high drama? Go traveling with Jeff Greenwald and you'll find it all -- on one stage."  -Wes "Scoop" Nisker

STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS is a series of improvised monologues inspired by the vagaries of wanderlust. “I want this show to evoke the thrill of a journey,” says Greenwald. “The unexpected encounters and diversions that make world travel so wild and illuminating.” To achieve this, he asks audience members step onto the stage and spin a huge, colorful Wheel of Fortune. Round and 'round it spins, and where it stops, the story begins.  Greenwald never knows which tales he is going to tell in the course of an evening—and the audience embarks on this expedition with him, from one spin to the next, as partner and traveling companion.

Greenwald draws from 30 years of travels for his stories. He has visited six continents, working as a writer, artist, performer and photographer. He is the author of five best-selling travel books, including “Shopping for Buddhas,” “The Size of the World” and “Scratching the Surface: Impressions of Planet Earth from Hollywood to Shiraz.”

STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS has enjoyed three previous sold out runs at The Marsh since its 2003 premiere.

Sherry Glaser’s
THE BREASTS OF SHERRY GLASER

May 2 - June 14, 2008
Thursday thru Saturday at 8pm
Marsh Main Stage
(No show on May 9 or May 31)


“A free-spirited activist, playwright and performer, Glaser is on a mission to use her activism and her art -- and even her naked torso if need be -- to draw attention onstage and off to how our society has lost its way on the road to equality, dignity and true decency. ‘Our breasts say more than words,’ says Glaser, a writer who knows that words alone can be easily disregarded, but bodies are harder to ignore.” Jessica Werner, SF Chronicle

“The progressive movement has found their comedic muse and she rocks!" Paul Hawken, Activist and Author

“Breast” features a trio of outrageous characters who all challenge the status quo in different ways. Miguel De Cervantes (last seen at The Marsh in 2006 in Glaser’s critically acclaimed run of  OH MY GODDESS!) opens the evening with a call for a shift in the male archetype and paradigm. He is followed by Mother Superior, an evangelical, spiritual leader who has questions for the Lord and a mandate for a mighty prayer. This section includes audience participation. Finally, SAM SLAM (Super Lesbian Activist Mother) brings the power of “Breasts Not Bombs” (Glaser is co-founder of the notorious anti-war group) to sublime life in a passionate plea to SAVE THE WORLD immediately.

Sherry Glaser is the author and star of Off-Broadway's longest running one-woman show “Family Secrets.”

For Glaser, this show is the culmination of over twenty years of theatrical comedy and peace activism. She calls her work “Peace Activist Revolution Theater” or "PART" (as in do your "PART"), and will combine her performances with several ‘peace actions’ around San Francisco. Audience donations will also be sent to the Baghdad Shelter, an Iraqi orphanage.