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Theater Magazine April 1924 

artwork by Charles Baskerville 

via www.fotolog.com 

Theater magazine. For rabbit heads.

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Great 1940’s street scene: San Franciscans queued up outside Curran Theater where Tallulah Bankhead stars in Foolish Notion. Via SFPL & tenderloingeographicsociety

More great holiday fun on the very small stage of The Dark Room in San Francisco’s Merry Mission district: “Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!” not to be missed! via oftenon:

Hey, uh, do you guys like kid-friendly Christmas plays featuring characters wearing handmade dresses (pink dress by yours truly)? Then come see Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown! playing at the Dark Room Theater at 8pm for the next two weekends.

Note: Lucy’s eyes are luminous on stage, but not in the same way as in this photo.

WPA poster for “Alien Corn by Sidney Howard” at LA’s Mayan Theatre, Federal Theatre Project production in 1938 via mudwerks & paul.malon

Awesome early press for “The Fifth Element: Live!” at The Dark Room which features a bunch of my talented friends. Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm in October in the middle of the Mission, San Francisco. You should see it if you can. Can’t wait to catch it myself. Congrats guys!

(via Fifth Element Gets the Stage Treatment | GeekNation)

Just in case you hadn’t heard The Princess Bride Live, the ridiculously successful small theater show that I’m in in San Francisco right now, added 3 performances. Thursday-Saturday on Labor Day weekend.

All advance tickets are ALREADY sold out for the 3 added performances (as well as this weekend’s 3 shows which were in the original run). But you can queue up like an hour before the show as there will always be a few seats night of. But there’s a lot of people lining up for those. Get there early. No, earlier than that, if you want to get in.

If have tickets sit as close to the stage as you can cuz… it’s more fun there.

Above a vintage Lucky Strike image by an unknown artist via mudwerks & oldcarguy41.

Below image by Cameron Eng for Foul Play Productions.

Princess Bride Live! rehearsals pix from our rehearsal process on Flickr give a glimpse behind the scenes at how we built Princess Bride Live! over the last 2 months. The play opens Thursday, August 2nd at Dark Room Theater in San Francisco’s Mission district and runs through August 25th (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays). Details and tickets at the Dark Room site and on our producer’s website.

Coming to the Dark Room Theater in August. Featuring yours truly and an all-star SF underground theater cast.

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Two on the Aisle by Edward Hopper, 1927 via whataboutbobbed: “This painting was sold at the time for $1,500, enabling Hopper to purchase an automobile, which he used to make field trips to remote areas of New England [wiki]”

Two weeks left to see the latest theatrical awesomeness from The Dark Room Theater! Their encore production of “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” re-stages one of the first films  Jim and team turned into a play years ago.

Only 6 performances to go, including tonight. Thursday-Saturday this week and next. You can get tickets here because I”m sure many of the performances will sell out. I can’t wait to see it, I know it’ll be hilarious.

This show has a powerhouse cast of folks who’ve appeared in Dark Room shows like Beetlejuice, Star Trek, Caddyshack, Breakfast Fight Club, Young Frankenstein, Life of Brian… so many great performers, and all pals of mine.

Dr. Strangelove: LIVE, adapted and directed by Jim Fourniadis. Starring Tim Kay, Andy Wenger, Dan Foley, Peter Illes, Adam Curry, Becky Hirschfeld, Damien Chacona, Craig Souza, Alexia Staniotes and Sean Kelly as the Doctor.

Not to be missed! More details here.

Remember that show that I was in last month turning Attaboy’s book “You Might Be A Monster” into a stage performance? There’s a video of the whole thing online now. An all-star local cast in full effect performing this charming, imaginative, and FUNNY work. Really good stuff.

The opening act (local legend Blinky “the rock god”) runs a little long—the main show starts at 8:30 or so.