SOME NYC DRAG SHOWS YOU NEED TO SEE!
THEATER TWEED'S A PATCH OF BLUR:
I sobbed watching A Patch Of Blue on TCM the other night night. It doesn't get any better than Sidney Poitier and Shelley WInters. This upcoming Theater Tweed "tribute" looks amazing and Sweetie Nyc will undoubtedly rule in the Shelley Winters role!
One of my favorite drag queens--she's a lady, unlike me! But there really is no other queen quite like Coco Peru! Almost sold out cuz she don't come to the West Coast often!
MISS COCO PERU: SHE'S GOT BALLS!
October 18 - 21:
Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42nd Street.
MAC, Back Stage Bistro & GLAAD Media Award-winning drag legend COCO PERU reflects on her early childhood dreams of being a stripper, why she left her beloved hometown of NYC, and her summers spent on a clothing-optional beach in this brand new comedy. Thursday - Sunday at 7:30pm.Tix are $22 (+ $15 food/drink minimum -- full dinner menu & bar available). Buy tickets at 212-352-3101 or click HERE. NOTE -- Saturday is SOLD out and there are ONLY 20 tix left for Friday!
ALSO: HOT MESS, A WEEKLY DRAG REVUE I HELP ORGANIZE AND PERFORM IN, IS MOVING FROM WEDNESDAYS TO FRIDAYS--STILL AT 9:30PM. After we became the world's most famous drag show after hosting an insanely drunken Tan Mom who had to be escorted off stage, we're carrying on our messy moms series with a guest performance by OCTOMOM!
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31, 2012
Halloween elite team THE JACKIE FACTORY (Jackie 60, Night of 1000 Stevies) reunite with EDITRIX ABBY (Click + Drag, Burning Man) for the second annual GHOSTLIGHT, a gala Halloween ball benefitting the HOWL EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT of THE ACTORS FUND. THE BOWERY ELECTRIC will become an OLDE BOWERY haunt for the evening, with a brilliant show roster of local legends and emerging talent. In three sets, the haunted spectacle stars East Village icon JOEY ARIAS, immortal Queens of Scream DUELLING BANKHEADS (DAVID ILKU and CLARK RENDER), VANGELINE THEATER in their butoh KLAUS NOMI homage, high priestess AMBER MARTIN (as MEAT HOOK MARY), THE RACHEL KLEIN THEATER in THE TRAGEDY OF MARIA MACABRE Ballet, vampire songbird LADY ZOMBIE, BLACKLIPS alumni POISON EVE and glamourpuss KAT MON DIEU.
The evening's shows and decor installations will be heavily influenced by the BOWERY nightlife traditions of the past 150 years, from VAUDEVILLE to NEW WAVE and beyond. This year's celebrated DJS are JOHNNY DYNELL (Jackie 60, Vandam) from 10 PM, XRIS SMACK! (Smack!, The NY Vampire Ball) from 11:30, and MATTY GLITTERATI (Trash!) from 1:30. GHOSTLIGHT producers CHI CHI VALENTI and EDITRIX ABBY are the Mistresses of Ceremonies, with Neue Bowery star HEATHER LITTEER hostessing. With three onstage sets and dancing from 10 PM to 3:30, guests are free to come and go (with their wristband) anytime through the night till 3 AM. Full Performer and DJ schedule will be published by mid-October.
SUGGESTED DRESS: Haunted Bowery Glamour (all eras) or Creative Costuming.
NOVEMBER: VAGINAL DAVIS RETURNS TO NYC FOR A RARE APPEARANCE--it now lives in Berlin.
I sobbed watching A Patch Of Blue on TCM the other night night. It doesn't get any better than Sidney Poitier and Shelley WInters. This upcoming Theater Tweed "tribute" looks amazing and Sweetie Nyc will undoubtedly rule in the Shelley Winters role!
One of my favorite drag queens--she's a lady, unlike me! But there really is no other queen quite like Coco Peru! Almost sold out cuz she don't come to the West Coast often!
MISS COCO PERU: SHE'S GOT BALLS!
October 18 - 21:
Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42nd Street.
MIMI IMFURST: I WOULD HATE ME, TOO
Saturday, November 10:
Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42nd Street.
Laurie Beechman Theatre, 407 West 42nd Street.
The controversial star of RuPaul's Drag Race & RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars returns to New York with a scandalous behind-the-scenes look at her time on reality TV, confidentiality agreements be damned. Find out how getting 8 1/2 minutes of screen time transformed her from one of NYC's favorite gender illusionists to one of America's most hated bearded ladies. Plus, gets lots of juicy dish on all of your favorite Drag Race girls and insider secrets on the new season. One night only. 7:30pm. Tix are $20 (+ $15 food/drink minimum -- full dinner menu & bar available). Buy tickets at 212-352-3101 or click HERE.
FRIDAY 10/5: NIGHT OF 1000 BLONDES AT XL! Performances by Amanda Lepore, Epiphany Get Paid and Corey Craig and I will be djing with a ton of blond go-go boys.
ALSO: HOT MESS, A WEEKLY DRAG REVUE I HELP ORGANIZE AND PERFORM IN, IS MOVING FROM WEDNESDAYS TO FRIDAYS--STILL AT 9:30PM. After we became the world's most famous drag show after hosting an insanely drunken Tan Mom who had to be escorted off stage, we're carrying on our messy moms series with a guest performance by OCTOMOM!
A JACKIE 60 HALLOWE'EN!
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31, 2012
THE JACKIE FACTORY + EDITRIX ABBY PRESENT
GHOSTLIGHT 2: THE HAUNTED EAST VILLAGE
THE BOWERY ELECTRIC
327 BOWERY @ SECOND STREET NYC
10 PM - 4 AM
TICKETS $10 TILL 10/24, $15 AFTER + AT DOOR
GHOSTLIGHT WEBSITE
CLUB BOX OFFICE
AN ACTORS FUND BENEFIT FOR HOWL HELP (THE HOWL EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT)
100% OF DOOR RECEIPTS BENEFIT THE CHARITY
10 PM - 4 AM
TICKETS $10 TILL 10/24, $15 AFTER + AT DOOR
GHOSTLIGHT WEBSITE
CLUB BOX OFFICE
AN ACTORS FUND BENEFIT FOR HOWL HELP (THE HOWL EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT)
100% OF DOOR RECEIPTS BENEFIT THE CHARITY
Halloween elite team THE JACKIE FACTORY (Jackie 60, Night of 1000 Stevies) reunite with EDITRIX ABBY (Click + Drag, Burning Man) for the second annual GHOSTLIGHT, a gala Halloween ball benefitting the HOWL EMERGENCY LIFE PROJECT of THE ACTORS FUND. THE BOWERY ELECTRIC will become an OLDE BOWERY haunt for the evening, with a brilliant show roster of local legends and emerging talent. In three sets, the haunted spectacle stars East Village icon JOEY ARIAS, immortal Queens of Scream DUELLING BANKHEADS (DAVID ILKU and CLARK RENDER), VANGELINE THEATER in their butoh KLAUS NOMI homage, high priestess AMBER MARTIN (as MEAT HOOK MARY), THE RACHEL KLEIN THEATER in THE TRAGEDY OF MARIA MACABRE Ballet, vampire songbird LADY ZOMBIE, BLACKLIPS alumni POISON EVE and glamourpuss KAT MON DIEU.
The evening's shows and decor installations will be heavily influenced by the BOWERY nightlife traditions of the past 150 years, from VAUDEVILLE to NEW WAVE and beyond. This year's celebrated DJS are JOHNNY DYNELL (Jackie 60, Vandam) from 10 PM, XRIS SMACK! (Smack!, The NY Vampire Ball) from 11:30, and MATTY GLITTERATI (Trash!) from 1:30. GHOSTLIGHT producers CHI CHI VALENTI and EDITRIX ABBY are the Mistresses of Ceremonies, with Neue Bowery star HEATHER LITTEER hostessing. With three onstage sets and dancing from 10 PM to 3:30, guests are free to come and go (with their wristband) anytime through the night till 3 AM. Full Performer and DJ schedule will be published by mid-October.
SUGGESTED DRESS: Haunted Bowery Glamour (all eras) or Creative Costuming.
NOVEMBER: VAGINAL DAVIS RETURNS TO NYC FOR A RARE APPEARANCE--it now lives in Berlin.
Vaginal Davis
HAG-small, contemporary, haggard
Nov. 4-Dec. 16, 2012
PARTICIPANT INC. 253 East Houston Street NYC participantinc.org
Opening Reception, Sunday Nov 4th 7-9pm
PARTICIPANT INC. is delighted to welcome Vaginal Davis back to New York City for her first major solo visual art exhibition: HAG-small, contemporary, haggard. The name HAG in part refers to a subset within the Queercore movement of the eighties, which positioned itself by reclaiming the negative connotations associated with the term HAG. The croan, the skank, the slattern, the fag hag and the veritable sea hag: all took on new states of exaltation within this movement. Although HAG had proponents on both coasts, it was more active in Los Angeles, where Ms. Davis was hatched.
This exhibition is in tribute to and inspired by the original HAG Gallery (1982-1989), which Ms. Davis opened at 7850 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, California. The new, botoxed HAG will function as a fractured gallery within the space of Participant, Inc. As Davis puts it, “my medium is the indefinite nature of my own whimsy.” HAG at Participant Inc. will feature new work that Davis has made while living in and being inspired by the Rote Insel section of Berlin: including her signature cosmetics-and-tempera paintings of women trapped in the bodies of women, lesbian domesticity wallpaper collages, and totemic bread sculpture, which Davis describes as Rapa Nui Moai monuments vs. the Venus of Willendorf.
During the run of the original HAG, Davis only featured the work of obsessive figures who didn’t consider themselves artists and who did not go to art school. The gallery was located on the famed Sunset Strip at the Villa Rosa Rock n Roll Apartment Building, which was owned by Iranian Jews with a penchant for freaks. But then, who else would rent an apartment to a loud, unruly messticle like Vaginal Davis? Her next-door neighbor was John Drew Barrymore, the alcoholic and drug addled son of stage and screen star John Barrymore and father of actress Drew Barrymore. Barrymore’s paintings and assemblages marked the opening season of HAG: artworks composed of broken liquor bottles, hypodermic needles and squished cockroaches. Every piece sold but sadly the former actor almost OD’d two weeks after the closing night, as he used his proceeds for one big drug binge, aided and abetted by some tired death rockers.
During the seven years of HAG, guests were often found fornicating among anti-paintings, decomposing sculptures, edible fashion, psychotic/psychotropic performances, vomitorials, alpha bitch slaps, and feral mudslides. Over the years HAG hosted work from Mari Kono, Charles LeDray, Rick Owens, Holly Woodlawn, Gorilla Rose, the late Wagner Vieira-the Brazilian David Wojnarowicz, Alice Bag, The Swing Set, The Cambridge Apostles, Michael Franti’s The BeatNiggs, Tragic Mulatto, Clay Idols, Victor Banana, Tim Donnelly, Dora, Boofy Saint Marie, Nelson Sullivan, DeAundra Peek and the Peak Sisters, Peace Frog, Diane Paillette, Mark Maxwell, Quasi O’Shea, Gomorrah Wednesday, Momma Stud, Section Eight, Iris Parker, Johnny Dark, Janet Klein, Doberman, Colleen Pancake, Sex Red Bed Spread, David Monster, Tom Gallo, Ginger Surfer Valerian of the South Bay, Klaus von Brücker, Martin Nesvig, Glen Meadmore, Psychodrama, Miracle!, Lisa Suckdog & Jean Louis Costes.
Ms. Vaginal Davis, the Los Angeles born and braised doyenne of intersexed outsider art, has been a writer, performer, experimental filmmaker, and visual artist since her early teens. She first came to international attention with her literary tabloidFertile La Toyah Jackson Magazine and its supplement Shrimp, the magazine for licking and sucking bigger and better feet. Both magazines were published from the original HAG gallery address in Hollywood.
Recent exhibitions include the commissioned piece My Pussy is Still in Los Angeles(I Only Live in Berlin): Getty/Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, January 2012;Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Diaphragm: Camp/Anti-Camp -The Queer Guide to Everyday Life, Berlin, 2012; Tenderloin-Der Glock von der Lied: Antony’s Meltdown Festival, London, August 2012; Memory Island: Tate Modern, London 2011; and Dejecta: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, January 2011. Since 2006 she has been living and working in Berlin, Germany, where she curates and hosts the monthly performative film event Rising Stars, Falling Stars, Arsenal Institut für Film- und Videokunst.
posted by Lady Bunny at Friday, October 05, 2012
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