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Marilyn Pittman’s
IT’S ALL THE RAGE
Marsh Studio Theater San Francisco
$10 tickets with password “family”
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
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
Brian Copeland’s
THE WAITING PERIOD
San Francisco MainStage
$10 ticket with the password “hope”
“Astonishingly funny, positively inspirational” – Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle
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
Every Tuesday Through Election Night
Opening Night March 13
Will Durst’s
ELECT TO LAUGH
San Francisco Studio Theater
$10 tickets with the password “vote”
“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
Geoff Hoyle’s
GEEZER
San Francisco MainStage
Join us for a benefit performance on Saturday, March 17, and support The Marsh with a gift from you and from Geoff.
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
Marga Gomez’s
NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER
The Marsh Berkeley TheaterStage
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
EXTENDED!
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!
Special: $5 off with the password “oatmeal”
"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
Sundays at 11am
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
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 March 14
Seth Lepore
SUPERHAPPYMELANCHOLYEXPIALIDOCIOUS
The Marsh MainStage
Wednesday, March 14, 7:30 pm
SuperHappyMelancholyexpialidocious turns the happiness industry on it's head to unearth the farcical ideology of the positive thinking movement. From Texas megachurches turned motivational hothouses, to the latest testament of selfactualization from Oprah's Book Club, nothing is safe from Lepore's scrutinizing looking glass. Lepore uses his fecund observations of our fascinating hang-ups with happiness to expose the true cost of this ongoing pursuit. He weaves his stranger-than-fiction, all too real characters into the fold using a chameleon-like ability to shape-shift on a dime. Interspersed with autobiographical digests Lepore creates scenes that push the envelope of what solo performance is capable of.
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!
March 12 & 26: Tara Blau, Shelley Campbell, Rebecca Kutlin, Erica
Lann-Clark
March 19: Charlie Varon’s Class Performance
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, March 27, 2012.
Stories by: Tim Ereneta, Michael O’Brien, Genevieve Jessee, Patricia Savitsky
Music by: Laura Wiley Trio
Charlie Varon & Jeri Lynn Cohen’s
FWD: LIFE GONE VIRAL
San Francisco MainStage Theater
FWD: LIFE GONE VIRAL is a comedy that skewers the brave new world of Internet exhibitionism. Cohen and Varon play an oncologist, her patient, their ex-spouses and an expert commentator each. Marriage, divorce, child-rearing, terminal illness, transmogrified flies and beef jerky all find their way into the play. read more
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less than a block from the Downtown Berkeley BART stationand UC Berkeley