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THE MANSHEE CHRONICLES: “Winter’s (Funny) Bone” Improv comedy for the perfectly imperfect, this two-some bring on the dissection of everyday relationships- blurring the lines between love & hate. As some hack writer once said, “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” Does ManShee have a new face for YOU!

Date: Friday, February 25th & Saturday, February 26th Time: 8:00 PM Place: MuCCC , 142 Atlantic Ave Tickets: $10

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Ed Popil’s An Evening with Mrs Davis!staring Kasha Davis (aka Ed Popil). Join the Queen of Suburbia for lessons of life, love and lessons in looking fabulous! Song and story weave a new wig for the awkward little Eddie as he blossoms from a lost boy to a man in a dress.

Date: Friday, March 4 & Saturday, March 5 Time: 8:00 PM Place:MuCCC, 142AtlanticAve Tickets: $10

The Press

Variety Magazine: “Playing like a nifty episode of “The Twilight Zone…”

Denver Post: Think: Halo meets “The Omen”

The Author

Jennifer Haley is a Los Angeles-based playwright whose work has been developed around the country. She was recently awarded a citation for the 2009 American Theatre Critic’s Association (ATCA) Francesca Primus Prize, and 2008 fellowships from the MacDowell and Millay artist colonies.

Performance schedule

Preview Thursday Sept 9 7pm

Preview Friday Sept 10 7pm

Open Saturday Sept 11 7pm

Perf Sunday Sept 12 2pm ***PAY-WHAT-YOU CAN

Perf Thursday Sept 16 7pm

Perf Friday Sept 17 7pm

Perf Saturday Sept 18 7pm

Perf Thursday Sept 23 7pm

Perf Friday Sept 24 7pm

Perf Saturday Sept 25 7pm

METHOD MACHINE, Rochester’s premiere performance and art company, remounts the popular new play by Michael Steck (aka Pandora Boxx). Co-starring Kasha Davis, THE LIPSTICK MASSACRE is directed by David Henderson and features Marcy J. Savastano, Michael Francis O’Connor and Jamal Abdunnasir (“a comic bonanza,” CITY Newspaper). Performances begin May 27th and run through June 12^th in the Nextstage at Geva Theatre Center as part of SpringFest 2010. Tickets are $20 and can be obtained through the Geva Theatre Center box office.

THE LIPSTICK MASSACRE is a new murder mystery play from the twisted mind of Rochester’s Michael Steck. Pandora Boxx stars as Daphne Von Hausenpfeffer, the current ‘it’ girl of local TV commercials, who quickly becomes the center of a murder investigation when her competitors begin to get picked off one by one.  The bumbling detective is on the case but he’ll need the help of his erstwhile protégé and the town’s leading talent agent, Cooki McDoogle.  They work the town of Flushing Hollow and its wacky residents to try and stop the rising body count.  Take a sprinkle of greed, a dash of boozy cougars, a pinch of sexual exploits and a nun, shake it all up and you have all the ingredients you’ll need to crack the case of THE LIPSTICK MASSACRE!

METHOD MACHINE’S production of THE LIPSTICK MASSACRE comes hot off the wheels of Pandora’s stint on RuPauls’s Drag Race. Widely touted as the ‘funny queen,’ Pandora wowed the judges with her witty banter and creative solutions for the show’s campy challenges. Her Carol Channing was an instant viral video and RuPaul called her the Susan Lucci of the competition. “Pandora is the funniest person I know,” says Artistic Director David Henderson. “And so is Michael. We are ecstatic to be working with Geva to bring what Entertainment Weekly calls, ‘a master of comedy’ to this venue.” THE LIPSTICK MASSACRE premiered in November at MuCCC to sold out audiences and rave reviews.

METHOD MACHINE is an artistic playground committed to producing and presenting daring, relevant and illuminating experiments in performance and art. Founded in 2007, METHOD MACHINE has presented such hits as Closer, Edge and The Lipstick Massacre as well as provocative art exhibits like “A Tibetan Pilgrimage” and “Bushwacked!” THE LIPSTICK MASSACRE exemplifies METHOD MACHINE’S desire to develop and foster new plays and playwrights.

METHOD MACHINE SEASON 2010 is an exploration of rare classic American theater and a foray into Irish modern comedy…and gore. Eugene O’Neill’s IN THE ZONE, set in WWI, is all too relevant to our standing war in Iraq. THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE, from the  twisted mind of Martin McDonogh, takes us to Ireland from some bloody good times. In celebration of Tennessee William’s 100 birthday, we will close the season with SOMETHING CLOUDY, SOMETHING CLEAR, a frank biographical play of youthful love, set on the dunes of Cape Cod. Join us at MuCCC for all three shows!

Sep 9 to Sep 26                  2010

NEIGHBORHOOD 3: Requisition of Doom

By Jennifer Haley

Feb 17 to Mar 6                  2011

In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own.

THE LEIUTENANT OF INISHMORE

By Martin McDonagh (pictured)
Directed by David Henderson
with Marcy J. Savastano & Michael Francis O’Connor

As part of an I.R.A. splinter group, Padraic thinks nothing of murdering and mutilating his enemies—but the sudden death of his beloved cat leaves him heartbroken. Amidst the comedy and carnage, McDonagh delivers cutting commentary on the endless cycle of violence that engulfs our world. The Lieutenant of Inishmore employs explosive dialogue and a perfectly oiled plot that is brutal, bloody, yet irresistibly funny. GALLONS of blood.

May 5 to May 22                  2011

SOMETHING CLOUDY, SOMETHING CLEAR
By Tennessee Williams (pictured)
Directed by David Henderson

A young playwright, August is broke and struggling to rewrite his new Broadway play on the dunes of Cape Cod when he is interrupted by Kip, the dancer he quickly falls in love with. Other visitors like Tallulah Bankhead and a randy merchant marine dot the sandy landscape as the past is re-imagined and the present is captured with heart-breaking desperation. SOMETHING CLOUDY, SOMETHING CLEAR is Tennessee’s most autobiographical work and recalls the summer before his breakout hit, The Glass Menagerie.

Marcy Savastano as Sylvia Plath in Paul Alexander's EDGE

METHOD MACHINE, Rochester’s premiere performance and art company remounts an audience favorite with a local performance of Paul Alexander’s EDGE. Marcy J. Savastano’s lauded performance of Sylvia Plath returns in celebration of the first anniversary of MuCCC, Rochester’s newest performance space. EDGE will take the stage on Friday, March 12, 2010 at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $15 for Adults and $10 for Students and Seniors.

EDGE has been hailed as an “outstanding piece of theater” by Gailsez in North Adams, MA. Creative Loafing in St. Pete’s FL called Savastano’s performance, “remarkable. Paul Alexander’s play EDGE is set on the last day of the poet’s life, in her kitchen, and reflects on her childhood, her husband-poet Ted Hughes and her work. The play was the first production to be staged in the new performance space, MuCCC on Friday March 13, 2009. MuCCC was founded by Doug Rice as a turn-key, flexible performance space for local theater groups and performance artsists. METHOD MACHINE presented CLOSER in the round this past December. This production showcased the variety and creative possibilities that Doug Rice’s space inspires.

Related Articles and videos

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/08/13/edge-at-studio620-sylvia-plath-on-the-verge-and-this-pissed-me-off/

http://www.mpnnow.com/entertainment/x679796928/VIDEO-Local-artists-bring-Sylvia-Plath-to-life-in-critically-acclaimed-Edge

http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/entertainment/stage/2009/03/THEATER-REVIEW-Edge/

http://www.gayalliance.org/index.php?option=com_mojo&Itemid=114&p=3189

http://blogs.mpnnow.com/blogs/allison-cooper?page=2

SPRING IT ON: A Broadway Cabaret features members of the cast from the Tony Award-winning Musical SPRING AWAKENING. In a late night cabaret, killer pipes and rocking riffs will raise the roof on MuCCC!

SPRING IT ON: A Broadway Cabaret is Thursday, February 11, 2010 @ 10:30 PM; General Admission is $20  and VIP tickets are $30 each (with priority seating and rockstar benefits!)

Anthony Lee Medina (Otto) and Sarah Hunt (Martha) host a ‘sing what you want’ night with fellow cast members following their spellbinding and electrifying show, SPRING AWAKENING at the Auditorium Theatre. Charged by their wild performances in this smash Broadway hit, you can bet that our standards will be reinvented!
SPRING IT ON: A Broadway Cabaret is a special event fundraiser for METHOD MACHINE and MuCCC! Celebrate MuCCC’s first year with METHOD MACHINE, blow out the candles and sing in the next year with the stars.

General Admission $20

VIP Tickets $30 each with Priority Seating, Signed Cabaret Poster and A Free Drink Ticket!

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THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER
Marriage equality? Adoption rights for gay couples? Hate crime law enforcement? Where do you sit? And which comes first in the civil rights effort: changing the hearts and minds of individuals, or passing laws?

Ten years after the brutal murder of Matthew Sheppard, the cast of the original show returns to the crime scene to get the city’s take on how things have progressed.  Crafted by director Moisés Kaufman and members of his Tectonic Theater Project, who interviewed Wyoming and Colorado residents and wrote and acted in the resulting play, The Laramie Project was first produced by Denver Center Theatre Company in association with Tectonic in early 2000 and then ran Off-Broadway March-September 2000.

For Free Tickets: http://gevatheatre.org/tickets/index.html