WOW Cafe Theatre: 30 years!

This May, 2010, a month long celebration to commemorate WOW's 30th Birthday!

Pearl: WOW celebrates 30 Years!

Advance tickets at fabnyc.org, including the all-access Pearl Pass!

Hypergender Burlesque Presents: Power To The People!
more info
Saturday, May 1, 2010
doors open 9:30pm, show at 10:00pm
suggested donation $10,
$5 for Burlesque Performers
Advance tickets recommended at fabnyc.org

"Power to the People" will celebrate International Workers Day while stripping capitalism and globalization! From military to Central Park horse buggies - nothing is safe or sacred in this show which may shock you, may excite you but will never leave you indifferent. Take your hard earned money and invest it in our pasties and merkins because underneath it all we are human and humanity is cheap these days. Politics was never this sexy!

HyperGender has been recommended by GO Magazine and Time OUT and featured in Curve Magazine. Come see what all the buzz is about!

Hosts: Award winning duo recently seen at Miss LEZ pageant, NYBF festival and more, N & JZ Bich

Guests:

VELOCITY CHYALDD
Miss Lez 2009 KS STEVENS
ExHOTIC OTHER
DANTE' ANTHONY
ALALA FIREFLY
and the always inspiring video by ANTI-SOCIAL

Pre show Music to get your groove by N
FREE LUBE AND CONDOM GIVEAWAYS courtesy of NYC Condoms!
WARNING: The show is rated NC-17!

Reservations STRONGLY Encouraged call: 917-591-6185


May 1st through May 30th, 2010
	MAY 1st - Hypergender Burlesque
	9:30PM door, 10:00PM show $10 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets “Power to the People” will celebrate International Workers Day while stripping capitalism and globalization! Take your hard earned money & invest it in our pasties and merkins because underneath it all we are human and humanity is cheap these days. Politics was never this sexy!

	MAY 2nd - WOW 30th Anniversary Opening Celebration
	5:00PM - 8:00PM - FREE Join us as we open the festival in style at Sintir (424 East 9th street between 1st Avenue & Avenue A). Meet some of your favorite WOW members, over delicious food & special drinks. With all of these creative people in one place the cypher is sure to be amazing!

	MAY 5th - Comedy Night with Micia Mosely & Friends
	7:30PM door, 8:00PM show $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets An evening of fun and laughter featuring Micia Mosely and some of her favorite artists. We’ll laugh, sing and dance until it hurts. Do you have something funny to share? Come at 7:45 to sign up for the Community Open mic!

	MAY 7th - Rivers Of Honey
	8:00PM door, 9:00PM show $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Rivers of Honey is a cabaret featuring women and trans artists of color the first Friday of every month. $10 suggested, but no one turned away for lack of funds.

	MAY 8th - Reconnecting Through WOW
	6:30PM door, 7:30PM show $10 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Tantra-zawadi and La Lupe present pieces from La Lupe’s novel about Sisters of Color and the USA! Plus La Lupe Shares herstory. La Lupe, an arts educator/writer and WOW member since the 1980’s, has performed throughout the world .Tantra-zawadi is an international performance poet/artist/filmmaker residing in New York City.

	MAY 9th - WOW Storytime
	6:00PM FREE Ask two WOW members a question and you¹ll get three answers. WOW members from the 80¹s and 90¹s gather to tell the story of WOW as they saw it, remember it, fabricate it, crush out on it, love it and hate it. Join us for a raucous evening of reminiscence, rivalry and relativism. Come to laugh. A lot.

	MAY 10th - Crawlspace - Work In Progress - more info or on facebook
	7:30PM door, 8:00PM show $10, show and tasting menu $30 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Down on their luck and piecing it together, Mel & Anna, gay couple camp out in an abandoned office building where they meet a mysterious woman working down the hall. Crawlspace is a southern gothic lesbian love story and thriller with a New York city flavor, a suprising multimedia evocation of ghosts – metaphorical and real, historical and preternatural. Reading followed by a tasting reception and raffle items provided by

	MAY 13th - 348 - more info
	7:30PM door, 8:00PM show $10 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets ‘348′ is a searing examination of the troubled teen industry, forced institutionalization, and madness in America. Cael’s misadventures in the psychiatric industry combine with statistics, stories and stigma for revelations on power, pain, and isolation. You’d be crazy not to come.

	MAY 14th, 15th, 16th - The Giddy Multitude
	May 14 and 15 at 8:00PM, May 16 at 2:00PM. $10 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets The Giddy Multitude Vaudeville, Co. is a monthly cabaret traversing the east river to offer feasts of entertainment in Brooklyn and the East Village. We are reviving vaudeville with storytelling and social commentary in the form of circus arts, burlesque, comedy, and music.

	MAY 15th - Physical Theatre/Clowning Workshop
	3:00PM to 6:00PM. $25 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Drawing its influences from physical theater, drag, object manipulation and dance, Johnny Blazes’ clowning workshop is a celebration of the multifarious characters that exist within each performer. Financial Aid available, send request to johnny@johnnyblazes.com

	MAY 16th - A Poet's Guide to the Stage by Hanifah Walidah
	Apologies - Cancelled.

	MAY 17th - Epigenesis - more info
	7:15PM door, 7:30PM show $12 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Epigenesis: dance before and after looks at the evolution of the work of four lesbian choreographers. Jen Abrams, Janessa Clark, LAVA, and Barbara Mahler will each show current work performed live in conjunction with work on video from early in their careers. A Q&A on their artistic development follows the performance.

	MAY 19th - Back to Mine - more info
	7:30PM door, 8:00PM show $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets An Evening of Dance, Film and Physical Theater curated by Kelly Bartnik Featuring works by Donna Costello, Katie Dean, Kelly Hanson/Human Company, Deborah Lohse, Heather Lundy & Tori Sparks

	MAY 20th - “What The Brain Forgets and the Heart Denies, the Body Remembers...”
	7:30PM door, 8:00PM show $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets This multi-media solo performance piece explores grief and loss refracted through working class Appalachian and Mexican cultural imagery creating a nonlinear world layered with movement, soundscape, video, and storytelling. No one turned away for lack of funds. www.heatheracs.com

	MAY 21st - Ladies In The Light
	7:30PM door, 8:00PM show $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets 3 pieces meet in this one night ...Performance art by Sokhna Heathyre Mabin,“I Transcender: The Gender Expression of Haitian Gods and Goddesses” (c) 2010. Created by MilDred Gerestant aka DRED, and theater performance art and poetic storytelling by Angie Elm.

	MAY 22nd - Hypergender Burlesque - more info
	Diasporic Dreams 8:00PM Show - A night of burlesque, spoken word and more that brings together artists that transgress borders and intertwine cultures. $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Lesbolesque 10:00PM Show - Bringing famed city’s lesbians who bare it all! Never seen before gathering of dyke pasties (or lack there of)! $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Hypergender: Double Feature 8:00PM & 10:00PM - Buy a ticket for both shows and save $10! Diasporic Dreams at 8pm followed by Lesbolesque at 10pm. $20 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets

	MAY 23rd - Ganessa James and Friends
	8:00PM, $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Ganessa James’s songs are an exploration of the people who have touched her life. She is a truth seeker, an explorer, and interpreter: by turns plaintive, seductive, rough, sleek, sweet. Channeling styles from Motown to folk, hers is a sound that will take you over if you let it.

	MAY 24th - Blest Like Me, Pyschopharmacology and Salvation
	7:30PM door, 8:00PM show $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Babs Davy- “Blest Like Me, Psychopharmacology and Salvation” a monologue by Babs Davy one of the founding members of The Five Lesbian Brothers, addresses the alternatively blessed but equally saved among us. Special double bill with Moe Angelos!

	MAY 25th - Of Men and Steamboat Men - more info
	8:00PM show $25 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Fundraiser with wine and hors d’oeuvres by Sharon Jane Smith Directed by Heidi Griffiths Starring: Maureen Angelos, Beverly Bronson, Betsy Crenshaw, Lavinia Co-op, Terry Dame, Babs Davy, Donna Evans, Betsy Farrell, Gabrielle Hamilton, Harriet Hirshorn, Jones Miller and Sharon Jane Smith.

	MAY 26th - Spoken Word Night with Seren Divine
	6:30PM door, 7:00PM show $5 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets An evening of Spoken Word, Curated by Seren Divine, Featuring powerful female voices from the WOW community & beyond. Come at 7 and participate in the Community Open mic - 5 slots only!

	MAY 27th - An Evening Of Short Plays
	7:30PM door, 8:00PM show $15 Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Featuring works by: The Bridesmaid by Esther Zinn Crawlspace by Moira Cutler The Lesbian Love Octagon by Kimberlea Kressal Third Time's a Charm by Ks Stevens with Katie Apicella and Maria Parra

	MAY 30th - WOW Closing BBQ
	1:00PM to 5:00PM $5 (more if, less if) Click Here To Purchase Advance Tickets Join us for an afternoon of food, friends and frolicking. Former and present WOW members and festival participants will come together to celebrate 30-years of WOW Cafe Theatre and 30 days of PEARL. Location: The Delancey, 168 Delancey (btw Clinton & Attorney) Admission includes one meal ticket. Cash bar Please purchase in advance or RSVP to pearlclosingbbq@wowcafe.org Raffle items and prizes provided by

This May, 2010, a month long celebration to commemorate WOW's 30th Birthday!

Pearl: WOW celebrates 30 Years!

Advance tickets at fabnyc.org, including the all-access Pearl Pass!

Raffle items and prizes generously provided by

Rent WOW Theatre!
WOW is available to individuals and organizations for activities that resonate with our mission.
The rate is a very modest $15 per hour.

Additional fee applies if admission is charged to the rental event, and if additional WOW staff are required to be on-site.

Hold your rehearsal, teatime, bat mitzvah, workshop, etc., in our theatre space!
Contact rentalspace@wowcafe.org

The Capital Campaign
Recently, WOW launched its first large-scale fundraising effort, a capital campaign to help us buy and renovate our theater. The City of New York has sold the tenants of 59-61 East 4th Street the building for $1!

The caveat: That we raise the funds to renovate the building, and bring it up to code. WOW’s share of renovation costs is $125,000. As we have survived solely on box-office sales for 25 years, this is more money than we’ve ever had or needed in the past.

When we do succeed in securing these funds, WOW will own its own permanent theater space in a completely renovated building.

One of the most exciting aspects, which we have achieved, is the addition of a functional 24/7 self-service elevator! Yet to come is ADA-compliant bathrooms, which will finally make our theatre fully accessible to people of all abilities.

We have raised more than 3/4 of the total, but are not there yet! In order to make this possible, we urgently need your financial help! No donation is too small or too large, and any amount will help us ensure that theatre by women and by transgender people continues to thrive and be truly accessible.