Here were the Events Presented in Septermber, 2014 in the Speakeasy
A Special Event |
Sat, Sept 13 at 3:00 pm A film about Americans Living in Long-Term Recovery presented by the Greene County P.A.S. It On Committee Free and Open to the Public |
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Sat, Sept 13 at 7:30 pm A Reading of Quiet Electricity A New Play by Michael Raver $10 |
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Sat, Sept. 20 at 7:00 pm Psychic Sideshow $15, $10 Seniors/Students Colleen the Sideshow Queen and Evil Dan presented their unique blend of MAGIC MIND-READING CARNIVAL CONS SIDESHOW STUNTS and More!!! Fun for the Whole Family |
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Sat, Sept 27 at 7:30 pm Ramblin Jug Stompers $15, $10 Students/Seniors "Funky American String Band Music" Ramblin Jug Stompers play 78 rpm music for the 21st century: they are the premier jug band of New York's Capital Region! |
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Saturday, September 13 at 7:30 pm
A reading of the play
Quiet Electricity
by Michael Raver
with Roger Clark,
Eleanor Handley and Steven Patterson
directed by
Michael Raver
Six months after tragedy has struck them, once happily married husband and wife Ben and Dana Silver now have little to say to one another. When they are notified that the electricity in their Newark apartment will be shut off in the evenings for a few days for rewiring in the building, they end up spending their nights together in the dark. A simple game of confessions unearths truths and hidden feelings, leading Ben and Dana to epiphanies about love, sex and marriage. Inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's short story, "A Temporary Matter."
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MICHAEL RAVER is an actor and playwright.
He’s performed classical theatrical roles at
Lincoln Center, The Pearl Theatre Company and
Tony Randall’s National Actor’s Theatre, as well
as regional theaters across the country.
His plays have been presented and workshopped by
Pace University, New Company Theatre, Sonnet
Repertory Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre,
The Pearl Theatre Company and TheatreLab He was
also a judge for this year’s Ferro-Grumley Award
for LGBT Fiction. He regularly
contributes cultural arts journalism for
Classical TV, as well as having contributed
pieces for Nature’s Post and Coolhunting.com.
His latest play is called Vespertine. More on
Michael at
michaelraver.blogspot.com. |
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ROGER CLARK is a
professional actor and voice over artist. Born
in New Jersey, he grew up on the west coast of
Ireland and trained in the United Kingdom. He
has worked as an actor in 45 different
countries.Theatre credits include Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Theatre for a New Audience) South
Beach Babylon (Florida Studio Theatre) The
Picture of Dorian Gray by Michael Raver (Sonnet
Repertory Theatre) The Unexpected Guest (Mount
Gretna Theatre Company) world tours with The
American Drama Group: Europe of Macbeth, where
he received an accolade from the Singapore Arts
Council for his performance of Macduff, Death of
a Salesman, A Christmas Carol and Frankenstein.
TV: Zero Hour (ABC), The Wild West (BBC), I
Shouldn't Be Alive (Discovery) Roger now lives
in New York City with his beautiful family.
Roger has narrated several books in audiobook
form including ‘The Irish Duchess’ and ‘The
English Heiress’ by Patricia Rice available on Audible.com.
Follow Roger on twitter-@rclark98. |
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ELEANOR HANDLEY. Since graduating with an MFA from The New School for Drama, Eleanor has performed extensively with both the Hudson Valley and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals. Favorite roles include Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', Beatrice in 'Much Ado About Nothing', Cressida in 'Troilus and Cressida', and Regan in 'King Lear'. Last fall she performed off-Broadway in the NYC premiere of 'Jericho' (NY Times Critic's Pick). She has also appeared on the New York Stage opposite Austin Pendleton in 'Limonde Tous les Jours' and Dominic Chianese in 'A Christmas Carol'. Television appearances include As The World Turns (CBS), Royal Pains (USA) and an upcoming appearance on Unforgettable (CBS). |
Saturday, September 20 at 7:00 pm
Psychic Sideshow
WHAT IS PSYCHIC SIDESHOW?
Psychic Sideshow is a
live experience that brings to you the thrill and
excitement of the carnival midway.
You will
experience Sideshow Stunts, Carnival Cons, Magic of the
Midway,
Miracles of the Human Mind and so much more.
Colleen the Sideshow Queen began her entertaining
career at the age of fifteen when she landed her first
gig as "Bingo the Clown" at a local Ground Round
restaurant. There she performed magic,
juggled and
delighted the guests with her face painting skills.
EvilDan began his career at the age of thirteen when his
grandmother began teaching him how to read palms. Later
that year, he found that a magic shop had opened in a
nearby town. The bug was bit and his destiny cast in
stone. Through the years, Colleen and EvilDan advanced
their studies. Colleen quickly became known in the
Albany NY area as the one to hire when they wanted a
clown, juggler, stilt-walker, magician, face painter, or
balloon animal twister. EvilDan formed the group Trinity
with two fellow performers and performed seances and
their special brand of "bizarre" magic up and down the
East Coast.
Colleen and EvilDan met at a magic
convention in 2004. They both took a workshop on
sideshow skills
given by world famous sideshow
performer, Todd Robbins. They immediately formed a
friendship and soon thereafter began performing
together. Their first gig was on the Spooky World stage
at The Ultimate Terrors haunt in Altamont NY.
The friendship grew and in 2008 EvilDan uprooted himself
from New Jersey and moved to upstate NY. The first week
in NY Colleen and EvilDan got a call to appear on The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Since then they've performed
together and separately all over the upstate NY area.
Psychic Sideshow is the creative result of both
Colleen's and EvilDan's performing interests and their
desire to give their audiences an interactive experience
that they will long remember.
More
at
psychicsideshow.com
Saturday,
September 27 at 7:30 pm
Ramblin Jug Stompers
"...a euphoric offering from
some of Albany's most venerable musical veterans."
—Glenn Weiser, Metroland 2010
Ramblin Jug
Stompers' ramblin style nods to the great tradition of
American string band music while winking directly at the
classic jug bands of the 60s folk scene, including The
Jim Kweskin Jug Band, The Even Dozen Jug Band, Dave Van Ronk,
and The Lovin' Spoonful.
The Jug Stompers have
become an established act, appearing at nightclubs,
festivals, colleges, and concert venues, including: The
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Caffè Lena, WAMC's
Performing Arts Studio, Berkshire Harvest Festival,
First Night Saratoga, Albany Tulip Festival, Union
College, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, Club
Helsinki, Albany WinterFest, The Kirkland Arts Center,
The Howland Cultural Center, and The Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art ("MASS MoCA").
Ramblin
Jug Stompers consists of luminaries from New York's
Capital District music scene,
including former and
current members of notable Albany bands past and present
-like Blotto, The Star Spangled Washboard Band,
Rumdummies, Stomplistics, Johnny Rabb's Rockhouse, The
Lustre Kings, The Plague, The Neanderthals, Chefs of the
Future, and the list goes on...
"Next time you're stuck in a
traffic jam or suffering a hard-drive meltdown, consider
soothing yourself via "Hobo Nickel," the sophomore
release from the Capital District's own brazenly
low-tech string band, the Ramblin Jug Stompers. AutoTune?
They don't need no stinkin' AutoTune! The quartet's
exuberantly soulful, all-acoustic throwdown features
odes both classic and obscure, each bristling with
low-down energy that could be mustered only by the
gleefully grizzled. "Hobo Nickel" is a bold throwback,
conjuring a yester-world of hobo jungles, cakewalks, and
grimy pals meetin' round the burn barrel. Regardless of
how difficult times may actually have been for the
protagonists of these tunes, the Stompers make it all
sound really fun. "Band members Cousin Clyde,
Mister Eck (aka Chronogram's Michael Eck), Bowtie, and
Wild Bill come to the table from varying worlds of punk,
jazz, folk, and theater, and the broad range of
experience makes for string band music with a few
curveballs. In addition to acoustic guitar, banjo, jug,
washboard, kazoo, and mandolin, these mischievous
geezers are apt to throw in a manual typewriter and a
resonator ukulele, as on the hilarious 'My Eggs Don't
Taste the Same without You.' While the Stompers do love
to incite folks to pound the floorboards, the foursome
also possess impressive restraint and delicacy, as
evidenced on 'Blue Diamond Mines' and the lovely hobo
requiem 'Frypan Jack Enters Heaven.' The romance of
riding the rails may only be fantasy, but with the
Ramblin Jug Stompers leading the way, few could resist a
stroll to the train yard. -- Robert Burke Warren,
Chronogram
More at
JugStompers.com
