Fringe NYC Rental
August 12 – 27, 2016

WOW Cafe is renting our space to the friendly neighborhood FringeNYC Festival.

WOW is venue #8 in the Fringe. The many works of interest that will be performed in our theatre:

Bodies of Water Writer: Erin Breznitsky Director: Emerie Snyder It might be the end of the world, and three friends gather to say goodbye: to the island that harbored their childhood summers, the traumatic event that’s defined their lives, and the magical creatures lurking just beneath the water’s surface. 2h Local   Brooklyn, NY Drama   Performance Art           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe FRI 12 @ 9:15  ||  SUN 14 @ 4:15+  ||  WED 17 @ 8:45  ||  SAT 20 @ 4:45  ||  THU 25 @ 2     ChipandGus Fat Knight Theatre Writer: John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen Director: John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen Two oddball acquaintances meet once a month over a ping pong table. But this night is different. This night there is something else in the room. A fast, furious, surprising comedy with balls. 1h 30m   Local   Manhattan, NY Comedy   Drama           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe SUN 14 @ 9:15  ||  TUE 16 @ 2+  ||  SAT 20 @ NOON  ||  TUE 23 @ 7  ||  THU 25 @ 7     DIVA Creative Collaborations Writer: Tiffany Barton Director: Helen Doig June is an eccentric New York opera singer. Once celebrated, she’s down on her luck. Agorophobic and unable to leave her apartment, she turns to her booze, her pills, her dead stuffed cat and her trusty vibrator Mr. Buzzy for solace. 1h International   Perth, WEST AUSTRALIA Drama   Solo Show        More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe WED 17 @ 7+  ||  FRI 19 @ 6  ||  WED 24 @ 5:15  ||  FRI 26 @ 8  ||  SAT 27 @ 3:15     GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS Writer: Jolie London Glickman Director: Shira-Lee Shalit Turns out, high school boys aren’t the only ones trying to get laid. Filthy, funny, and relentlessly honest, GWBG is a coming of age story about best friends navigating their newfound sexuality in the digital age. World Premiere! 1h 30m   Local   Manhattan, NY Drama   Comedy           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe SUN 14 @ NOON+  ||  THU 18 @ 9  ||  SUN 21 @ 2:15  ||  WED 24 @ 7  ||  THU 25 @ 9:15     HONOUR: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan Writer: Dipti Mehta Director: Mark Cirnigliaro Visit India’s red light district and meet the eunuch, priest, pimp, mother and daughter who call it home. A fun and poignant look at the exotic, dangerous life of Mumbai’s real-life brothels and why they exist. 1h 10m   Local   Jersey City, NJ Drama   Solo Show   FringeHIGH           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe TUE 16 @ 4:15*+  ||  FRI 19 @ 7:45  ||  MON 22 @ 7  ||  FRI 26 @ 2  ||  SAT 27 @ 5     Is That Danny DeVito? And Other Questions From West of the Hudson The Box Colony Theatre Writer: Alexander Janosek Doyle Director: Amanda Levie In a new comedy inspired by the absurdist plays of Samuel Beckett, over-educated but under-employed millennials struggle to survive loopy locals and crippling neuroses while waiting for a perpetually delayed bus to their beloved Garden State. 1h 35m   Local   Jersey City, NJ Comedy   Drama           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe SAT 13 @ 2:15+  ||  TUE 16 @ 9:15  ||  SAT 20 @ 2:15  ||  TUE 23 @ 4:30  ||  SAT 27 @ 7     Meet Murasaki Shikibu Followed by Book-Signing, and Other Things Co-produced by Rachel Christiansen and The Brewing Dept. Writer: Julia Izumi Director: Ann Noling She wrote the world’s first novel and it’s, like, kind of a big deal. After 1000 years, she’s finally ready to talk about breaking barriers, traveling through time, and defining her own cultural legacy. Maybe. 1h 30m   Local   Brooklyn, NY Drama   Comedy           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe FRI 12 @ 5+  ||  SUN 14 @ 7  ||  WED 17 @ 4:45  ||  SAT 20 @ 9:45  ||  TUE 23 @ 2:15     MOVIN’ ON UP Jeremy Kehoe Writer: Jeremy Kehoe It’s funny-or-die in the graveyard. This absurdist comedy pits a Watchman with a worthless watch against a chatterboxing, handcuffed man and a know-it-all woman in bandaged hands to see who earns the right to move on up. 1h 10m   National   Los Angeles, CA Comedy   Drama           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe SAT 13 @ 7+  ||  MON 15 @ 2:15  ||  FRI 19 @ 4  ||  MON 22 @ 9  ||  FRI 26 @ 6     Remember Me Scandinavian American Theater Company Writer: Minna Nurmelin Director: Drew O’Kane Helena is trying to move on from her past. Anna is in grave doubt about her own future. Two complete strangers struggling with identity learn to help each other in this unconventional and highly perceptive play from Finland. 1h 15m   Local   Manhattan, NY Drama   Comedy           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe FRI 12 @ 7:15+  ||  SUN 14 @ 2:15  ||  FRI 19 @ 2  ||  WED 24 @ 9:15  ||  FRI 26 @ 4     Shapes Like Things, A Soup Play The Seedlings Writer: Emily Sorensen Director: Alexis Wilcock Danny’s dad was a scholar. Danny couldn’t read. Now Danny’s dad is dead. This puzzle of a play explores a dyslexic boy’s struggle to understand his father when words don’t work. 1h 30m   Local   New York, NY Drama           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe SAT 13 @ NOON+  ||  TUE 16 @ 7  ||  SUN 21 @ 6:30  ||  MON 22 @ 2:45  ||  SAT 27 @ 9:30     STILL NOT Writer: Harrison Bryan Director: Rory Lance One Bench. Two Strangers. STILL NOT is an honest, comedic, skewed-romantic exploration into the traps of waiting for love…and the fear that it may never come. “They are going to throw their hearts and souls into this.” — NY THEATRE GUIDE 1h 15m   Local   New York, NY Comedy   Drama           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe MON 15 @ 7+  ||  THU 18 @ 2:15  ||  FRI 19 @ 9:45  ||  SUN 21 @ 4:30  ||  MON 22 @ 5     The Princemaker MirrorMaker Productions Writer: Robert Gelberg Director: Alessandra Affinito It’s an election year. Leslie Moore, a teenager with an unlimited bank account, finances the Presidential campaign of George Lee, a down-home congressman equally noble and naive. The Princemaker explores the politics of money and the money of politics. 1h 20m   Local   Brooklyn, NY Drama   Comedy           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe SAT 13 @ 4:45+  ||  WED 17 @ 2:30  ||  SAT 20 @ 7:30  ||  TUE 23 @ 9:15  ||  THU 25 @ 4:45     Thread Little y Theatre Company in Association with The Vertical Company Writer: Elena Zucker Director: Elena Zucker From NYC to Palestine, Mimi’s world collapses with the inadvertent like of a long-lost love’s dissident Facebook status. Identities unravel, as do the boundaries between fact and fiction, Jew and Arab, time and space. A psycho-cyber thriller. 1h 15m   Local   Brooklyn, NY Drama   Solo Show           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe MON 15 @ 9  ||  THU 18 @ 7+  ||  SUN 21 @ 12:15  ||  WED 24 @ 3:15  ||  FRI 26 @ 9:45     Thud! BITCRUSHER Writer: Dan Rider Director: Holly Kristina Goldstein An incredibly clumsy hospital clown is hired to entertain an acerbic fifteen year old girl, and finds the only thing that cheers her up is watching him get hurt. A play about other people’s suffering and why it’s hilarious. 1h 55m   Local   Manhattan, NY Comedy   Drama           More details on Show-Score VENUE #8: WOW Cafe SAT 13 @ 9  ||  MON 15 @ 4:15+  ||  THU 18 @ 4:15  ||  SUN 21 @ 8:45  ||  SAT 27 @ 12:30

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