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[Marsh bReeds]
Brian, Geoff, Don & Marga |
Dear All,
Starts and returns!
Brian Copeland, the writer (along with David Ford) and performer of the longest- running solo show in San Francisco history (Not a Genuine Black Man), is back with his new redemptive dazzling show, THE WAITING PERIOD.
To get you introduced, the first five to email contest@themarsh.org will get two comps to this weekend’s performances of THE WAITING PERIOD. Please note “Brian Copeland” in the subject line and which performance day you’d like to attend (Friday or Saturday).
THE HOYLES RETURN!
Geoff starts back on Thursday with his mega hit GEEZER and next week Dan Hoyle returns with THE REAL AMERICANS after his long run in Portland to give us another opportunity to see this wonderful incredible performance which seems so, so timely during the Presidential primaries.
Speaking of the primaries, Will Durst got off to a hilarious and great start on Tuesday with his first performance of ELECT TO LAUGH. Awesome was the note I got about it. Can’t wait to see it next week.
Only three weekend’s left to see Marga Gomez’s NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER. Sad, but true, it’s closing on February 25. Catch it now!
We are thrilled to announce that the ever-amazing Don Reed in his hilarious KIPLING HOTEL has been extended in Berkeley through March 25. And if you want to see BUBBLES this week, catch it on Saturday.
On Sunday, February 12, Lehrhaus Judaica is hosting a conference Bridging Past and Future: The Bay Area Community. Not only is it being hosted at The Magnes and The Marsh Berkeley, but Charlie Varon, in addition to all the other conference events, will be performing a comic tale. Click here for more info.
All My Best,
Stephanie Weisman
Artistic Director/Founder
This week’s discounts:
SAN FRANCISCO:
BERLELEY:
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| THE MARSH San Francisco & Berkeley Shows |
Brian Copeland’s
THE WAITING PERIOD
San Francisco MainStage
$10 ticket for Brian Copeland’s THE WAITING PERIOD with the password “hope”
This show is an unrelenting look at a ten-day period in his life—the mandatory ten-day waiting period before he could lay hands on the newly purchased gun with which he planned to take his own life. Even in the midst of this tragedy, however, his wonderful sense of the comedy of life does not desert him (how much should he spend on the gun?), indeed serves him insidiously well as a buffer against the grim reality of his intention. There is laughter in the darkness. read more |
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Every Tuesday Through Election Night
Will Durst’s
ELECT TO LAUGH
San Francisco Studio Theater
“Will Durst is the natural successor to Mort Sahl” –The New York Post.
“ A great political satirist! One of the funniest guys around! “–Fox News Radio.
“If you’re tired of politics as usual, you’ll love Will Durst.” –WOR Radio.
Elect To Laugh with Will Durst and Friends! is a hysterical hybrid chasing down the presidential election cycle like white on rice with material as up to date as the latest tweet from DC. It will blend monologues and commentary and perhaps the occasional rant. The show’s intent is to blur the traditional boundaries between stand- up comedy and theater. Through innovation, experimentation and a ravenous appetite for accessing the topical via the jugular, Durst and Company are out to prove that jokes are not the enemy. read more
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Returning February 9!
Geoff Hoyle’s
GEEZER
San Francisco MainStage
From a hysterical riff on life in a nursing home to The Venerable Bede’s meditations on the meaning of life, from delightful reminisces of his youth in England and young manhood in America to ruminations on ageing and mortality, Hoyle brings his irrepressible sense of comedy and trademark physicality, as well as a certain elegiac wistfulness, to this tour-de-force performance about what it is like to grow old. read more |
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EXTENDED! Now through March 25!
Don Reed's
THE KIPLING HOTEL:True Misadventures of the Electric Pink '80's
The Marsh Berkeley
The Marsh’s cabaret and bar is now open one hour before Don’s show and during intermission!
No show this Sunday, February 5
Special: $5 off with the password “breakfast”
"Treasure Trove of Diverse Characters... An Impressive Performance" –Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
Reed's “East 14th” chronicled the ‘70s and now it's his true misadventures through the ‘80s. As the awkward son of a pimp struggling through college, he tries being a stripper and a gigolo but he ends up a live-in waiter at an unforgettable retirement hotel, breakfast-sandwiched between the elderly, employee drifters and drug addicted dreamers. read more |
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Now! Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 5 & 8:30!
Must End February 25!
Marga Gomez’s
NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER
The Marsh San Francisco Studio Theater
Special: $5 off with password “twist”.
Hilarious...Gomez at the top of her game. – SF Chronicle
Funny…engaging…wickedly self-effacing. – SF Examiner
Marga Gomez spills the beans in the premiere of her 9th solo show Not Getting Any Younger a comedy about lies, vanity, and the good old days. Marga’s coming of age story begins in a dairy cow’s boudoir in the Bronx and hurtles towards a ‘Forever 21’ department store in downtown San Francisco. Lauded for her honesty as an out gay comedian before it was safe to do so, she has actually been a master of deception in other ways. Now the cagey monologist unburdens herself and brings her riskiest revelation to the stage because Marga Gomez is Not Getting Any Younger.read more |
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One Night Only! February 23
Daniel Cainer’s
JEWISH CHRONICLES
The Marsh Berkeley Cabaret
Thursday, February 23, 7:30 pm
"What an incredible show. I had no idea what to expect. Cainer is an extraordinary performer. His songs are at times heartbrakingly poignant, at other times laugh out loud funny. He is utterly charming. Thoroughly recommended."
-- Edinburgh Festival Guide 2010
Daniel Cainer’s ‘Jewish Chronicles’ has enjoyed sell out shows in London, Edinburgh, New York, Melbourne and Sydney. It’s a collection of stories in song performed at the piano by a master-songwriter and performer. Tales of feuding tailors, a cocaine-addicted rabbi, Israel and Palestine, a young Jewish woman who joins a fundamentalist Christian sect in the 1950s and the hilarious adulterous adventures of his own parents. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. What’s not to like?.read more |
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Special Saturday Show February 11!
The Amazing Bubble Man (aka Louis Pearl)
THE WORLD’S FUNNIEST BUBBLE SHOW
Marsh Berkeley
$8 tickets for parties of 4 or more
The hit of the day. A fringe favorite. - The Guardian, UK
Packed with fun stuff, the show makes a perfect and amazingly inexpensive family outing. All kinds of extraordinary things happen, such as flying saucer bubbles, square bubbles filled with fog, universe bubbles with orbiting planets and bubble chains that look like centipedes. There’s lots of audience participation and some lucky kids will find themselves inside bubbles, while others will get to eat them. Warning: expect lots of excitement and laughter.read more |
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Marsh Rising Series
One-night-only performances of rising talent at The Marsh San Francisco. Marsh Rising presents works in progress that may be ready for an extended run. read more |
Coming February 8
Rivera Sun Cook
THE IMAGINE-A-NATION OF LALA CHILD
The Marsh Studio Theater
Wednesday, February 8, 7:30 pm
Welcome to 1890 Lovely, Kansas, a drought-stricken all-negro town, where a Chinese man rides a dust storm into ten-year-old Lala’s home and wins her Mamalou’s heart, spurring the gossipy shock of everybody else. Lala’s lyrical and imaginative child’s eye lends fresh perspective to ages old racial issues, washing us all with the sweet wisdom of an old soul in a small body. Full of humor and lively dancing, adults and children alike enjoy this gem of a performance.read more |
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MONDAY NIGHT MARSH +
(sometimes tuesdays or wednesdays)
at 7:30pm at The Marsh San Francisco
Anyone yearning to tell a story can become a part of Monday Night Marsh. Many local celebrities, like Marga Gomez and Josh Kornbluth, developed their work there. And so can you!
For information on getting involved with Monday Night Marsh, please contact the program director, Patti Meyer at patti@themarsh.org or telephone her at 415-641-0235.
Check themarsh.org/monday for upcoming Monday Night Marsh performances!
February 27: Phyllis Dantzler, Asher Lyons, Nicole Maxali, Allen Miller
February 13 & March 5: Dominika Bednaraska, Joel Blackwell, Jerry Metzker, Mark Johnson |
TELL IT ON TUESDAY
The Marsh Berkeley
Music at 7 pm
Stories at 7:30pm
Tickets at the door only: $10-$18 sliding scale
Mention “Last Tuesday of the Month” for discounted tickets!
Upcoming date: Tuesday,February 28, 2011.
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| UPCOMING Shows |
Returning February 17!
Dan Hoyle’s
THE REAL AMERICANS
San Francisco Studio
“…should be seen in and outside every liberal bubble in this country”
–Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle
"Mr. Hoyle is both a first-rate reporter and actor.” --New York Times
After traveling the globe for his first play, Circumnavigator, and studying Nigerian oil politics for his third, Tings Dey Happen, this time Hoyle is back in the United States, turning his eye and ear on America’s culture wars. Fleeing the liberal bubble of San Francisco and his hipster friends, Hoyle spent 100 days traveling through small-town America in search of some tough country wisdom and a way to bridge America’s urban/rural divide. Instead, Hoyle found himself immersed in the populist anger of the people whom Sarah Palin famously described as ‘The Real Americans’ and awed at the disconnect between Obama Nation and Palin Country. Portrayed with humor, sympathy, confusion, angst, and song, this vivid performance challenges the audience to move beyond their bafflement and engage with the future of a politically polarized America.read more |
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Returning March 8!
Marilyn Pittman’s
IT’S ALL THE RAGE
Marsh Studio Theater San Francisco
Marilyn Pittman’s It's All The Rage won Best One-Woman Show at the 2011 United Solo Festival, the world’s largest solo performance festival, in New York City. It is ‘the funniest show you’ll ever see about murder-suicide.’ 28 scenes in 60 minutes; a tour de force of acting, stand-up, and reading from her parents’ love letters and journals. read more
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MARSH YOUTH THEATER
There are still a few open spaces for Hip Hop and Latin Dance as well as some space available only for boys in our Mainstage performance Ensemble (grades 6-9).
Winter 2012
CLASS SCHEDULE
for info and to register for classes click here
For those of you who saw Siddhartha and are longing to re-experience the experience, or just listen to the music again, DVD’s and CD’s will be available very soon. Click here to download an order form. |
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BOX OFFICE :
Opens 30 minutes prior to each show.
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less than a block from the Downtown Berkeley BART stationand UC Berkeley |
