Staff Picks No. 24

BrickFlix End-Of-Year Party: The Brick, Brick Flix, & Friends
The Brick Theater
Tuesday, December 19th 2023

I don't know about you, but the end of the year still holds many a performance I am making it out to and I have mentioned them all here! But the other thing I want to do is have fun with friends in a chill way. And that is what this party is. Come hang out, have fun, sneak off to corners and have private little moments, find comfort and kindness and pizza and drinks. xxx

Staffer: Theresa Buchheister

JJJJJerome Ellis
National Sawdust
Thursday, December 14th 2023

In poems and on film and in performance and on recordings, JJJJJerome Ellis mounts a gorgeous, accumulating case for meaning. For deep meaning. That there is no gradient of meaning to meaningless: it is all meaning. The sound, the silence, the ignored, the misunderstanding, the stray mark, the chiseled slab, the glitched billboard, the words erased: all meaning. On Thursday he debuts new work for solo piano. Come through!

Staffer: Joshua Dumas

The Infinite Wrench: The New York Neo-Futurists
The Kraine Theater
December 15th - December 16th 2023

*drags cigarette* I've been going to the Kraine Theatre on 4th Street to see the New York Neo-Futurists for over a decade. Their ever-changing late-night show The Infinite Wrench (FKA Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind) has been a major inspiration to me on so many levels. They are moving to a different theatre next year and so I recommend going this weekend to experience the final performances as they have been for so long: short experimental "plays" about recent news, personal events, strange phenomenon. You will have a fantastic time I promise.

Staffer: Travis Amiel

I will dance with those oak trees as long as: Audrey Rose Dégez, Daria Holovchanska
The Tank
January 13th - January 15th 2024

Sophie's a hot-on-the-rise writer and her play looks like a savvy take at power dynamics and gender, all set in a motel room. See it set in a Greenpoint loft!

Staffer: kanishk pandey

DING DING DING!!!!! FIRST STAFF PICK OF 2024!!!

Quick + Dirty: Calley N. Anderson + Scout Davis / Joey Merlo + Jess Barbagallo / Chad Kaydo + Theresa Buchheister
Brick Aux
Friday, December 15th 2023

Quick + Dirty! One night only (with these specific artists)! This Friday!! I'm sure it's going to be fantastic. The pairings are to die for & there's nowhere I'd rather be. :)

Staffer: hillary gao