Ann Randolph’s
SQUEEZE BOX

May 17 - June 29, 2008
Saturday at 5pm
Sunday at 7pm
Marsh Main Stage

With pathos and humor, Randolph skillfully weaves together stories about working in a women's homeless shelter and the pursuit of true love. Her painfully funny portraits of the shelter's residents, and hilarious account of her hiking trip with Harold the accordionist, man of her dreams, are beautifully drawn in this poignant tale about finding dignity and grace in unusual places.

Two Weeks Only!

Wes "Scoop" Niker’s
CRAZY WISDOM SAVES THE WORLD AGAIN

May 16 - May 24, 2008
friday & saturday at 8pm

"His performance...manages to make suffering a knee-slapper. He delivers Zen zingers with Borsht Belt timing." New York Times

Celebrating the publication of his new book, "Friends!Earthlings! Humans! Who are we, why are we here and how did we get into the mess we're in?" Nisker explores the foolish human condition and the joys and sorrows of living in the modern age. He will reveal the secrets of the Big Bang and anti-matter, explore the issues of war, species extinction and global warming, and expose the true heart of the New Age spiritual movement.

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 BrEaST OF SHERRY GLASER

May 2 - June 14, 2008
Thursday thru Saturday at 8pm
Marsh Main Stage
(No show on May 17 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.

DIE WELLE (The Wave)

Thursday, May 22, 2008
at 7pm


Based on a story by Ron Jones
At the San Francisco Jewish Community Center

Straight from its premiere at Sundance Film Festival and Berlin opening, THE MARSH brings to San Francisco audiences an unique opportunity to see the award winning German feature film, DIE WELLE (The Wave). DIE WELLE is based on RON JONES' classroom experiment in fascism that took place in Palo Alto in 1968. The experiment was inspired by Jones’ difficulty in explaining to students how Nazi Germany could have happened and how easily it might happen again.

After the film BARBARA LANE will lead a Q & A discussion with Jones and students from the experiment. Although DIE WELLE has worldwide distribution and is a Random House book (3 million copies, 11 languages), this film will not be distributed in the US. This is the first and perhaps only opportunity for Bay Area audiences to see this important film! DIE WELLE is in German with English subtitles.

A benefit for The Marsh's elevator fund.

Please note it’s at the
San Francisco Jewish Community Center, Kanbar Hall
3200 California St.  San Francisco, CA

Paid Parking: on site

Four Performances Only!
Upstairs Studio Theater

Marga Gomez’s
new work in progress
LONG ISLAND ICED LATINA

Wednesday, May 28 at 8pm
Thursday, May 29 at 8pm
Saturday, May 31 at 5pm & 8pm

Marsh Studio Theater

"Hysterical! Feisty! Adore her!"
Eve Ensler- ’Vagina Monologues’

"Amazing..a Lesbian Lenny Bruce"
Robin Williams

"A Latina Lily Tomlin"
Herbert Siguenza-Culture Clash

"A Lesbian Larry The Cable Guy." Barry Walters -
Village Voice

"One to watch ...a jolt of theatrical electricity."
New York Times

"Hilarious" LA Times

"Gomez beguiles" Time Out NY

Drama Desk nominee and GLAAD Award Winning solo performer Marga Gomez’s work in progress is an intoxicating comedic memoir of her awkward adolescence in Massapequa, Long Island. Gomez mixes equal parts cultural confusion, chronic virginity, mother-daughter instability  and a splash of polyester fashion to paint a sardonic picture of her uprooted life as the new brown girl in a white high school. “Long Island Iced Latina” is being developed for a June 9th presentation in New York at Joe’s Pub.

Samantha Chanse
LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO
(20-minute excerpt)

“Combining bits of video, impromptu stand-up, and panicky introspection, Lydia's Funeral Video follows the plight of a young woman and her sass-talking embryo as they negotiate the politics of a newly invoked 28-day abortion countdown. Spiked with surreal celebrity trash-culture references, sardonic moral relativity, and Chanse's biting wit, LFV celebrates irreverent political incorrectness and the societal gray areas in all of us.” Connie Hwong, Flavorpill

“Asian American Theater and Bindlestiff alumni Samantha Chanse depicts a not so distant future when abortions are legal only within twenty-eight days of conception. Apocalypse-obsessed Lydia Clark-Lin is  doggedly pursuing a career in monetary units when a mysterious being claiming to be an hours-old embryo invades her dreams, announces that Lydia is both pregnant and dying, and commands her to create a video to be screened at her funeral before terminating the pregnancy. Lydia seems to be losing her job and her mind, a deadline fast approaches, the end of the world beckons, and hecklers loom on the San Francisco horizon. A sold-out full production of “Lydia’s Funeral Video” premiered at the Dark Room theater and was directed by Wilma Bonet. This piece is performed live.