Smart Returns

September 19 – October 24
–
Mondays at 7:30pm

The Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street
between 2nd & 3rd Aves
(accessible from the F train at 2nd Ave).

Tickets: $20 ($15 for students)

SMART centers around Doug, a college student who is writing his dissertation on a pair of high school classmates who brutally murder a college professor and his wife. Posing as students doing research for a school survey, the teens hatch a plan to take the couple by surprise, threaten them into revealing their bank PIN numbers, rob and kill them — all to get money for a trip to Australia. The chilling scenes play out as Doug interviews one of the murders from jail, delving deep into the mind of a cold-blooded killer.

SMART stars Alessandro Colla, Kiersten Armstrong, Kelly Riley, Matthew Glogowski, Anthony Mead and Becky Sterling with costumes by Christopher Johnston, special effects by Leah Dashe and sound design by Stefan Bensaid.

Robert Fieldsteel’s plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. For Crazy Drunk, he received the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Best World Premiere Play and the Backstage West Garland Award for Playwriting. He’s a proud member of L.A.’s Dog Ear Playwrights’ Collective. www.dogear.org. Also an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award-winning actor, he has guest starred frequently on television and acted in films for such directors as John Cassavetes, Sidney Lumet, and Joe Dante.

Russell Dobular is a New York native, born and raised in Flushing, Queens. His plays have been presented in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, including the hits Manson: The Musical, Backseats and Bathroom Stalls, Angel Shit, and Everybody Dies and The Godling (which earned him Best Director at the 2009 San Francisco Fringe Festival). Currently the Artistic Director of EndTimes, Dobular also served as the founding Artistic Director of Horse Trade Theater Group from 1997-2000.

EndTimes Productions is an independent Theater/Film Production Company founded in New York City in 2006. Its mission is to foster emerging artists and provide them with new creative outlets. EndTimes provides its artists with free rehearsal space, staff support, complete coverage of production expenses, and, for young directors, a mentoring program in which they assist more experienced directors on full productions. Past productions include Knuckleball (NYC and Edinburgh), Naked Holiday, Easy Outs, and Dead Lawyers. EndTimes‘ production of The Godling won Best Ensemble, the Sold Out Award, and Best Director at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. They are also the producers of “Vignettes for the Apocalypse“, New York’s longest running sci-fi/horror theater festival where SMART was originally presented.

SMART runs September 19 – October 24, Mondays at 7:30pm. The Kraine Theater is located at 85 East 4th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Aves — accessible from the F train at 2nd Ave). Tickets are $20 ($15 for students), available at 212-352-3101 or www.EndTimesProductions.org

EndTimes Productions will present the World Premiere of SMART, a
true-crime drama based on the notorious Dartmouth Murders of 2001.
Written by Robert Fieldsteel and directed by Russell Dobular, SMART
was originally presented as part of VIGNETTES FOR THE APOCALYPSE, New
York's oldest and largest Sci-fi/Horror-themed theater festival, in
June. This revised, re-worked production will run September 19 -
October 24 at The Kraine Theater.

SMART centers around Doug, a college student who is writing his
dissertation on a pair of high school classmates who brutally murder a
college professor and his wife. Posing as students doing research for
a school survey, the teens hatch a plan to take the couple by
surprise, threaten them into revealing their bank PIN numbers, rob and
kill them -- all to get money for a trip to Australia. The chilling
scenes play out as Doug interviews one of the murders from jail,
delving deep into the mind of a cold-blooded killer.

SMART stars Alessandro Colla, Kiersten Armstrong, Kelly Riley, Matthew
Glogowski, Anthony Mead and Becky Sterling with costumes by
Christopher Johnston, special effects by Leah Dashe and sound design
by Stefan Bensaid.

Robert Fieldsteel’s plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York
and Chicago. For Crazy Drunk, he received the L.A. Drama Critics
Circle Award for Best World Premiere Play and the Backstage West
Garland Award for Playwriting.  He’s a proud member of L.A.’s Dog Ear
Playwrights’ Collective. www.dogear.org. Also an L.A. Drama Critics
Circle Award-winning actor, he has guest starred frequently on
television and acted in films for such directors as John Cassavetes,
Sidney Lumet, and Joe Dante.

Russell Dobular is a New York native, born and raised in Flushing,
Queens. His plays have been presented in New York, Los Angeles and San
Francisco, including the hits Manson: The Musical, Backseats and
Bathroom Stalls, Angel Shit, and Everybody Dies and The Godling (which
earned him Best Director at the 2009 San Francisco Fringe Festival).
Currently the Artistic Director of EndTimes, Dobular also served as
the founding Artistic Director of Horse Trade Theater Group from
1997-2000.

EndTimes Productions is an independent Theater/Film Production Company
founded in New York City in 2006. Its mission is to foster emerging
artists and provide them with new creative outlets. EndTimes provides
its artists with free rehearsal space, staff support, complete
coverage of production expenses, and, for young directors, a mentoring
program in which they assist more experienced directors on full
productions. Past productions include Knuckleball (NYC and Edinburgh),
Naked Holiday, Easy Outs, and Dead Lawyers. EndTimes' production of
The Godling won Best Ensemble, the Sold Out Award, and Best Director
at the San Francisco Fringe Festival. They are also the producers of
"Vignettes for the Apocalypse", New York's longest running
sci-fi/horror theater festival where SMART was originally presented.

SMART runs September 19 - October 24, Mondays at 7:30pm. The Kraine
Theater is located at 85 East 4th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Aves --
accessible from the F train at 2nd Ave). Tickets are $20 ($15 for
students), available at 212-352-3101 or www.EndTimesProductions.org

Game Show Fundraiser

One week from today, two BIG things are happening. It’s the second-to-last day of our Kickstarter campaign, and the night of our huge fantastic Game Show Fundraiser. That means we have 7 days to raise approx $5500!!! YEAH. SERIOUS. BUSINESS.

The Game Show Fundraiser!

Time and Place

Monday, May 2nd
Roy Arias Studios
300 W 43rd St (Corner of 8th Ave), Room 500
The Off Broadway Theatre (seats 130!!!)

7:00pm – 10:00pm
$10 Admission

This space is great! We’re going to set up games on the stage, have seating in the house, and a stocked bar (beer has been lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery) to help you get your party on! All this, and two special main events to make the evening especially memorable! The preview of the Vignettes Horror-Rock Circus, featuring the cult band superstars Witches in Bikinis and (at least) 3 performances of Escape the Bunker, our fantastic tribute to the Hollywood Squares!

Check out what we’ve got in store for you:

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• Chess with Grandmaster Russell

  Bobby Fischer was a punk. Grandmaster Russell promises to take on all challengers, and use his keen, strategerous mind to obliterate the competition.

• Blackjack

  The classic game with absolutely no hidden twists… we promise….

• Trivia

  Warm up for Escape the Bunker with some guided trivia.

• Pictionary

  Form a team, and compete against others in the traditional, shouting, screaming, “You draw like the Frog Boy,” argument-inducing party game.

• Throw Water in the Actor’s Face

  The vintage boardwalk staple re-appropriated for our modern times. Why simply dunk a stranger in water, when you could throw a drink in an obnoxious actor’s face! (I personally promise that star of stage, screen, and post-office bulletin board, Anthony Mead, will be in attendance.)

• “Capture”

  Get a sneak peak at the new, soon to be released, board game invented by EndTimes Resident Playwright Steve Strangio.

And of course…

• Escape the Bunker

  The main event game show, where you’ll get to know the EndTimes performers and a few very special guests. Everyone gets to watch, but only the top ticket earners each hour will be able to play. Prizes will be awarded.

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It’s $10 at the door, which grants you entrance, and 20 tickets to start playing the games. Sets of 20 more tickets can be purchased throughout the night for $5. Games payout in tickets (read: more chances to play) with the main goal being to get a shot at playing Escape the Bunker.

FINAL WEEK of our Kickstarter Campaign

There’s 1 week left to raise the remaining money on our Kickstarter campaign. Click the Kickstarter logo above or click here to visit our campaign site!

Remember folks, this is not a “Save Our Show” drive, this is a “Help Us Make This Awesome!” campaign. The festival will go on one way or another. The question is how many awesome props, and set pieces, and costumes, and lighting effects, etc. can we afford to procure.

If haven’t visited out Kickstarter site yet, and watched our video… Do it! It’s awesome! If you have visited, we’re asking that you take this next week and help us make our final push. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell the world what’s going on and what we do. Send them info about the show, and tell them how important it is we make this show rock !

We want to Kickbutt on Kickstarter.

We’ve already been hailed as one of the best projects in New York to support by the HuffPost. If we actually pull off this fund raising campaign, think of the story!

We can do this. Help Us Make This Awesome!

Vignettes for The Apocalypse V – Kickstarter Campaign

We’ve begun a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for our fifth annual Sci-Fi and Horror festival. Click the image link above to learn more!

Update!

Our campaign has been featured on Huffington Post!

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The Atomic Cafe in February

COME! JOIN US UNDERGROUND!!!!

Wednesday, February 9th

This Month At the Atomic Cafe:

Zombies! Comedy! Magic! Tennessee Williams!

$2 Buds and PBR’s!

Featuring:

• Sababba Rocks Your Face Off, has brutally murdered The Rusty Guns, so they’ll be going first.
• Host Matt Wayne, and his three young wards, Matt Baetz, Brooke Van Poppelen, and Brad
  Steuernagel, get up to all sorts of mischief to side-splitting effect.
• Morgini the Magician makes the rabbit die. Don’t tell PETA.
• An overbearing mother. A frustrated dreamer. A gentleman caller. A zombie. “The Zombie Glass Menagerie” is here!
• Al Colla and Leal Vona team up to bring their particular brand of Italian fascism to the stage, and demand your attention!

“I’m tired of apologizing for The Atomic Cafe.”
-Charlie Sheen

All this AND $2 Buds and PBR’s!!!

Check it out:
Wednesday, February 9th
7:30pm @ The Ace of Clubs(9 Great Jones St. @ Lafayette, under Acme Bar and Grill)

Tickets $10

The Atomic Cafe Returns!

The Atomic Cafe Returns This Wednesday, February 9th!!!

Host Matt Wayne is back along with all your Atomic Cafe faves.  It’s just like Hee Haw, only with more blood and better music!!!

This Month:

• “The Rusty Guns” oil up their cylinders live on stage!
• Comics Greg Stone, Anthony DeVito, and James Harris induce incontinence in a few lucky audience members!
• Introducing Titi, the naughty geriatric clown!
• The triumphant return of Steve Strangio‘s “My Date With A Zombie“, just in time for Valentine’s Day!
• Once again Jamie King‘s TMZ:TV will crank up the dial, and rip it off… along with your arm.
• And to close it all out “Sababba Rocks Your Face Off” makes off with your face!

All that and $2 Buds and PBR’s!!!

“Without The Atomic Cafe, I’d be dead”-Kirstie Alley

Time: Wednesday, 2/9, 7PM
Tickets: $10
Place: Ace of Clubs
9 Great Jones (btwn. Broadway and Lafayette)
New York, NY

MANSON the Musical: Back Again for the Very 3rd Time!

Annoyance Theater’s
MANSON: THE MUSICAL!
EVERY SUNDAY Starting January 23 at The Ace of Clubs

9 Great Jones Street
(between Broadway and Lafayette)
Under ACME Restaurant

Tickets $20/$15 (for students)

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Vignettes for the Apocalypse V

IT’S COMING….

VIGNETTES FOR THE APOCALYPSE V
Starting May 15th

Naked Holidays 2010 – 4th Annual!

EndTimes Productions Presents: The 4^th Annual

NAKED HOLIDAYS

December 10 – 30
at
The Ace of Clubs

9 Great Jones St., New York, NY 10012

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Naked Holidays 2010 – COMING SOON

Naked Holidays NYC – 2010

Opens December 10th

@

The Ace of Clubs

9 Great Jones St.
New York, NY. 10012

Madame Lulu’s Cruelty Free Fayre

Madame Lulu returns with her very own show, “Madame Lulu’s Cruelty Free Fayre”, an evening of singing, dancing, sadistic clowns, live brain surgery, and disembowelment.  The first show whose content has been developed entirely by EndTimes, we’re entirely responsible for any queasiness, or emotional trauma.

Also featuring “Orgy In the Lighthouse”, a classic 19th Century Grand Guignol, about some nice religious folks who live in a lighthouse.  Then the whores drop by.  Madness, death, and orgies ensue.  Fun for the whole family!

For Halloween Eve, 10/30, we’ll be doing a special 10:30 show, and following it up with the return of our kick-ass midnight movie series, featuring the greatest zombie movie ever told, George A. Romero’s original classic, “Dawn of the Dead”.  Come for the guts, stay for the movie!  Popcorn provided by Madame Lulu.

10/28-10/30, 8PM
10/30, 10:30PM
10/30, Midnight, “Dawn of the Dead” screening

Tickets: $20 Full/$15 Student
Midnight Movie (Donation): $5

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