Here are some of the groovy events going on at Dixon Place this April:

ARABY

by Chris Rael

Wednesdays-Saturdays, April 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17 & 18 @ 7:30pm $20, $15 Sundays, April 12 & 19 @ 3:00pm $15, $12 

*April 16- Special Araby Event! Composer & Performer talk back with post performance reception $30

LITTLE THEATRE

Monday, April 6, May 4 &  June 1 @ 8pm, $15, $12

Curated by Mike Taylor & Jeffrey M. Jones

Stay tuned for an extraordinary line up of new work by 

Scott Adkins, Normandy Sherwood, Sonya Sobieski and Tom Swofford. 

EXPERIMENTS AND DISORDERS

Thursday, April 2 @ 730pm, $6

Curated by R.A. Villanueva & Brian Kalkbrenner

Featuring emerging and established writers who endeavor to obliterate the boundaries between fiction, poetry, drama, and the extra-textual. Featuring Guest Species in the Conference House & Dan Hoy. 

FELICE SHAYS & JESS DOBKIN

Friday & Saturday, April 3 & 4 @ 8pm, $15, $12

Work that doesn’t get made, calls that can’t be returned, deluded personal ads in The Possibility of Response by FELICE SHAYS and humor and pathos in Everything I’ve Got by JESS DOBKIN.

PUSSY FAGGOT: A CELEBRATION FOR EARL DAX

Monday, April 6 @ THE DELANCEY LOUNGE

Benefiting Dixon Place’s HOT! FESTIVAL

doors open at 8pm!

YOU WILL EXPERIENCE SILENCE

Friday & Saturday, April 10, 11, 17 & 18 @ 10pm, Tuesday & Wednesday, April 21 & 22 @ 8pm, $15/$12

Two bitchy gay teenagers in ancient Jerusalem find themselves entangled in sex, politics and each other in this surreal exploration of citizenship and sexual ethics. 

Directed by Stephen Brackett Written by Dan Fishback Performed by DAN FISHBACK, MAX STEELE, JOSEPH KECKLER & COLE ESCOLA.

CAROUSEL

Thursday, April 30, May 28 @ 8pm, $15, 12 

Hosted by R. SIKORYAK

Cartoon slide shows & other projected pictures presented by a glittering array of artists, performers, graphic novelists, & other characters. DEAN HASPIEL, JOSH NEUFELD, JIM TOROK, KRIOTA WILLBERG & more!

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Maybe that was it!? Maybe that’s what I was doing on Monday, February 2nd?!

One way or another, Little Theatre is always a good time!

Now at the NEW Dixon Place!!! With twice as much betterness!

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Little Theatre, Vol IX, No. 3 – February, 2009

SEXPERT BETSY BIXBY WHEAT

a performance by Kate Valentine

CONGERIES I

music by Matthew Ostrowski

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME

a performance by Heidi Schreck

MGM GRAND

dance

RAMRODS OF THE ROARING NOUGHTS

a play by Gary Winter, directed by Alec Duffy

with Sarah Petersiel, Matthew Lewis, Arthur Aulisi, B. Brian Argotsinger and Loren Fenton

and live music by Dave Malloy

Monday, February 2, 2009 at 8:00 pm

The NEW Dixon Place

161 Chrystie btw. Delancey & Rivington

(F/V 2nd Ave; R/W Prince; 6 Bleecker, JMZ Bowery)

Tickets $15 @ the door or ;online

$12.00 w/ printout of this email

first come, first served, no reservations

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Just in case you think we’re gettin’ a little too artsy fartsy around here, we’re going to plug (heh-heh) the upcoming show Peg-Ass-Us. Never seen it, know nothing about it, but dang ya gotta give these kids credit for pure pervy-ness!

Peg-Ass-Us

Performed and Created by John Leo & Sophie Nimmannit

A Production of Pack of Others

Dates: July 10th, 11th & 12th at 8 PM

Location: HOT! Festival at Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, NYC

Tickets: $15 ($12 student/senior)

(212) 219-0736 or dixonplace.org

Peg–Ass–Us: Queer Sex For Straight People?

Peg–Ass–Us is a theatrical burlesque all about “pegging,” the sexual act where a woman wearing a strap-on dildo penetrates a man’s anus. A charming duo, Sophie and John (portrayed by co-creators and real-life couple Sophie Nimmannit and John Leo) set out to spread the word about the pleasures of prostate stimulation and strap-on sex. Their headlong dive starts with the facts, but once in the deep end, their personal differences play tug-of-war with the lesson plan, pulling sex from silly to serious, between kink and dignity, and wrangling over issues of gender, sexual identity and personal desires. Armed with original songs (accompanied by banjo-uke and glockenspiel), dance, puppetry, drag, physical comedy and audience participation, the two lovers turn their bedroom and hearts inside out for the world to see. And take off their clothes.

The term “pegging” was coined in 2001 when Dan Savage, author of the popular sex advice column “Savage Love,” found that he was receiving a sufficient number of questions on this subject to warrant finding a name for it, and held a reader-based competition. The subject was recently featured in the Village Voice article “Pegging Goes Big: Straight Men Get It In the End” (June 17, 2008.)

Peg–Ass–Us is part of the HOT! Festival, Dixon Place’s 17th Annual Celebration of Queer Culture. The show premiered at the 2008 Montreal Fringe Festival in June and the fringe website buzzed with audience enthusiasm: “Kind of like the sex ed you wish you’d had in high school!” “Hilarious, totally shameless in a good way.” “An awesome exploration of how it feels to prefer sexual activities that are perceived to be outside of the norm.” In September, the show will travel to the San Francisco Fringe Festival, where it will be hosted by the Center for Sex and Culture (directed by Dr. Carol Queen, who starred in the “wildly successful” 1998 film Bend Over Boyfriend.) Pack of Others’ first show FLUID, a personal exploration of “bisexuality,” by founding member Erika Kate MacDonald, toured to Minneapolis, Boulder, NYC, and Portland last year.

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Its June and that means there’s lots of queertastic entertainment coming your way. For instance:

Neil Greenberg’s ” Really Queer Dance with Harps and Quartet with Three Gay Men”

June 11-14, 18-21 at 7:30pm

$25/$15(Discount) at Dance Theater Workshop

http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/greenberg

And also the HOT FEST at Dixon Place! Woo-hoo!!

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