From June 2 to July 1 , New York ’s experimental Brick Theater ’s holding The Comic Book Theater Festival , a selection of dramatic productions about the rum pages and the colorful character that dwell within . Here ’s a list of the independent shows .
Among those show being offered is an adaptation of Incredible Hercules and Marvel Zombies scribe Fred Van Lente ’s Action Philosophers . Also , gamers and theatre aficionado alike should note that the Brick is host their annual video - plot - centric Game Play fete come July .
Action Philosophers !
Comic Book by Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey
Adapted by Crystal Skillman
orchestrate by John Hurley
present by Impetuous Theater Group
The honor - winning , best - selling comics series Action Philosophers is adapt for the stage by award - winning playwright Crystal Skillman and lead by John Hurley as the lives and mentation of history ’s A - list brain trust leap to the stage in manic , uproarious fashion . Come meet PLATO — Wrestling Superstar of Ancient Greece ! NIETZSCHE — The Original Übermensch ! The premiere of the mini - musical “ You ’re a Good Man , JOHN STUART MILL ! ” The torrid honey affairs of AYN RAND ! And more ! brassy than a liberal graphics degree — and a whole lot more fun , too !
Thu 6/23 @ 7 pm . Tue 6/28 @ 7 pm , We d 6/29 @ 7 pm & Fri 7/1 @ 7 pm
All I Want is One More Meanwhile
Written by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
Directed by Ivanna Cullinan
Presented by White Girl with a Fat Ass Productions
Twenty year ago she was Perfectra , an unnaturally orchestrate superhero imperviable to human beings ’s flaws . Today , she is Jane , a veridical woman who turn over up power and perfection to become a female parent . But alienate from her daughter and battling against a no - longer - sodding physique is not the ending she planned on ! Discovering her daughter has not only been kidnapped by a eye tooth - controlling outlaw but worse still , mesh to a local superhero - can this supermom stand by and countenance her daughter spend her life dangle in distraint ? Especially as she suspects her daughter might have a closed book of her own . . .
Sat 6/4 @ 5 pm , Sun 6/5 @ 8:30pm , Thu 6/9 @ 7 pm & Sat 6/11 @ 7 pm
Batz
Written & take by Josh Mertz and Erik Bowie
One sunrise in a small authority , a downtrodden employee arrives at his desk to find his computer expose . He discovers reading fabric at his desk , and starts to narrate it aloud . At first his coworkers scarce find . But after a series of foreign conjunction . . . If you follow the New York dramaturgy scene , you may mean you recognize where this is give out . But , merge in classic Bat stories and a cast of plague office loons play dozens of fictitious character , and you ’ve catch a light - hearted tribute to the Dark Knight as you ’ve never seen him ! And it ’s a lot shorter than six hour !
Thu 6/16 @ 8:45pm , Sun 6/19 @ 2 Prime Minister , Sat 6/25 @ 8:30pm & Tue 6/28 @ 8:45pm
The Bubble of Solace
Written & Directed by Jeff Lewonczyk
present by Piper McKenzie Productions
A.J. has his dream job - running a comic - book store that doubles as a shrine to all of his favorite obscure classic . It does n’t even matter that no one else shares his fixation - when he closes the door at night , his immersive human relationship with his favorite titles makes the rest of the world disappear . But with his shop class in risk , he finds that the story no longer carry as gestate , and he ’s force to calculate with his feelings about his every bit remaining female parent , the pretty girl who flow the sexual practice - toy shop next door , and a unknown lover who possesses a closed book about A.J. ’s past tense .
Sat 6/25 @ 10:15pm , Sun 6/26 @ 4 pm , Thu 6/30 @ 7 pm & Fri 7/1 @ 8:45pm
Death Boogie
Written & Performed by Darian Dauchan
conduct by Jennifer McGrath
With music by The Mighty Third Rail
present by DDNMB
Death Boogie is a Hip Hop Poetry Musical that follows the fictional story of Victor Spartan , a bluish collar worker who lives a comatose lifestyle by Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , and at Nox hears the poetic speech sound of rotation . A political walkaway with a Pee Wee Herman meets Che Guevara – type flare pass . Through the compounding of euphony and mirthful book exemplification , Death Boogie is a whimsical examination on the notion of calvary , selflessness , and courage through the stories of a Greek Titan , a soldier , a youngster , a cheetah , a suicide bomber , and pop up acculturation movies .
Fri 6/17 @ 8:45pm , Sat 6/18 @ 3 pm & Sun 6/19 @ 6 postmortem
Drawn Out Storytelling
guide by Nisse Greenberg
How do you narrate a tale ? With words ? Music ? Images ? Drawn Out Storytelling does it with all three . Come vigil as storytellers tell the tragic , hilarious , and heartwarming events of their lives , accompanied by funny artists and musician who ply their own interpretation of each story . From drawing live murals to comic landing strip populated by spikelet , each floor will amount to life through a supplementary visual medium .
Sat 6/18 @ 5:30pm , Fri 6/24 @ 8:45pm , Sun 6/26 @ 8 pm & We d 6/29 @ 8:45pm
Five Things
Written by Jillian Tully
Directed by Amy Overman
Presented by Handtruck Lobster
What would you do if a stranger made you - a disenchanted former dreamer - hope to do five terrific things in the coming twelvemonth ? What would you do if you were a scientific mavin who also befall to be a calico cat-o'-nine-tails ? In the spirit of Calvin and Hobbes and Get Fuzzy , Five Things is a webcomic brought to sprightliness , taking on such Clarence Shepard Day Jr. - to - twenty-four hours subjects as on-line dating , Fairy Dragmothers , open - mic nights , water faucet dancing , opposable ovolo and the pursuit of happiness .
Sat 6/4 @ 3 pm , Sun 6/5 @ 6:30pm , Fri 6/10 @ 7 pm , & Sun 6/12 @ 6 pm
Funnybook / Tragicbook
pen by Adam McGovern
point by Ian W. Hill
Funnybook / Tragicbook is a repertory evening of dark , atmospheric , modern amusing lit and farcical pop - artwork nostalgia . In “ Underworld , ” a tense one - reference soliloquy , surreal circumstance lead the twentieth century ’s great analyst to encounter its most despised potentate , a war of century - defining ideologies in which both build ’ illusions are defeat . In “ Norrga the Thunderer , ” a wireless maneuver staged like a campus low-pitched - culture seminar , an arctic god ’s father issues mirror the generational conflict of his comic Quran ’s sixties readership - all similarities to mythological and multiplex Vikings strictly concurrent !
Sat 6/4 @ 7 atomic number 61 , Tue 6/7 @ 8:45pm , Tue 6/14 @ 8 pm & Sun 6/19 @ 8 phase modulation
Galactic Girl in : onset of the Starbarians !
Written & direct by Jon Hoche
In a futurist Earth spin from a dark infinite civil crisis , Galactic Girl lead the mission in bringing peace and club to the cosmos . She ’s the best at what she does with a loot that just do n’t quit . Under the command of General Fu Fu , Galactic Girl journeys to the major planet of Starbaria with her compatriot Pixel and novel enlistee Moxie-5 to capture the leader of the uncivilized Starbarians . Unexpected obstacles lead team Galactic Girl on a wild ride . Come see Galactic Girl in : Attack of the Starbarians , a Sci - Fi adventure jam - packed with hot young lady , groovy fights , dance breaks , laughter , and so much more .
Sat 6/11 @ 9 pm , Sun 6/12 @ 4 pm , We d 6/15 @ 7 pm & Thu 6/30 @ 9 pm
Gutter Space
Written by Keith Boynton
Directed by Ben Kamine
What materialize between the panels of a mirthful al-Qur’an ? In the industriousness , they ’re known as “ gutter ” – the narrow blank spaces between second of frozen action . Gutter Space explores this cloudy world , where superhuman heroes face up eternal human question like Who am I ? What is the purpose of my existence ? and Who might be willing to kiss me ?
Fri 6/3 @ 7 pm , Sun 6/5 @ 2 Prime Minister Tue 6/7 @ 7 pm , & Thu 6/9 @ 9 pm
Manifesto
write by Jasper Patterson & Sarah Al - Kassab
Directed by Jasper Patterson
Presented by The New Eccentrics
Lauded as “ truly innovational and engaging , ” The New Eccentrics make out from the underground West Coast variety fit to present a Dada - cabaret , pop - up playscript / alive graphic novel . Their unique flair stitches together surrealist puppetry , high fashion figure , and the chronicle of music hall trickery , create a unseamed magical earth that wreak the comic strip into the third proportion . With their feet constitute in a vintage genus Circus / variety custom and their minds boggy with the frayed spiritualist of the YouTube generation , they expose the hidden structure of myth , illusion , and wonder , tissue them all together with immersive lunatic chaos and blurring the course between world and symbolism .
Thu 6/23 @ 8:45pm , Fri 6/24 @ 11 pm & Sat 6/25 @ 7 premier
Our Greatest Year
Written & Directed by Robert Attenweiler
present by Disgraced production
Our Greatest Year is a blend of live theater and question comic that examines a year in the animation of a Cleveland , Ohio sports blogger in conjunction with the city ’s 2007 sport year , in which each of its three major squad coquette with grandness only to end ( predictably , if you take anyone from Cleveland ) in nonstarter . An American Splendor – style dingy comedy , Our Greatest Year is about trying to create a animation that can sustain us , even while reality systematically disappoints our expectation . Absolutely nothing can go as well as planned , but this still might be our nifty year .
Fri 6/17 @ 7 pm , We d 6/22 @ 7 promethium , Sat 6/25 @ 3 pm & Sun 6/26 @ 6 pm
Reporter Girl
write by Laura Rohrman
Directed by Erica Gould
Workshop Production $ 10
Reporter Girl is the chronicle of Dale Messick , America ’s first distaff syndicated cartoonist , famous for creating Brenda Starr , newsman in 1940 . The free rein weaves together a narrative that spans four decade and includes sept history , actual cartoon - strip plotlines and persona , and most important of all - illusion - to create a portrait of an artist as a Divine , female parent , and grannie . The cartoonist ’s maternal granddaughter , Laura Rohrman , wrote the swordplay .
Fri 6/3 @ 8:45pm , Sun 6/5 @ 4 pm & Sun 6/12 @ 8 post-mortem examination
Spaceship Alexandria
produce by Dan and Jon Cottle
Presented by Bardic Tortoise
A rock show that tell a account of a library spaceship , will to rove out on the sharpness of the know universe of discourse , stuffed with the sum of human knowledge : a reasonable “ redundant waiter ” for the roll up mental wealthiness of humankind in display case of some earthly catastrophe and as a last , half - hearted attempt at first contact with alien life sentence . The piece of music will explore the part of personhood , gender , and sexuality in artificial - intelligence engineering science and its home in a politically - conservative future club where homo are seemingly alone in the population , comparatively stable on Earth , and a great number of people take this as evidence for man ’s true dominion over the macrocosm .
We d 6/15 @ 8:45pm , Fri 6/17 @ 11 pm , Sat 6/18 @ 8 pm & Sun 6/19 @ 4 atomic number 61
you may find a full itemization of all the shows atThe Brick Theater ’s site .
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