Coming Up

Intimate, funny, playful, loving, sad. 50 index cards in a bowl. Some are confessions, characters, stories, others prompt weird group activities in the room. One card at a time is removed and performed in whatever order the universe dictates. It’s a game. It’s a play. It’s an experience with other people. Originally conceived to be performed in living rooms, we’ll be presenting it in the immersive confines of our Speakeasy lobby space.

The two loneliest men in upstate New York meet once a month in the grungy back room of a rundown Schenectady sports bar, to do the one thing they both love…play ping pong. In this fast-paced, blisteringly brilliant comedy, the most casual of acquaintances discover that their lives intertwine in ways they couldn’t possibly have known. Virtuoso verbal and physical comedy with tons of heart from writer/performers John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen. Presented in collaboration with Fat Knight Theatre.

A Founding Father, a Victorian novelist, and a Russian revolutionary walk into a…stop me if you’ve heard this one. Thomas Jefferson (yeah, that one), Charles Dickens (the very same) and Count Leo Tolstoy (who else?) come together in a blistering battle of wits. From Scott Carter (executive producer of “Real Time with Bill Maher”), this whip-smart comedy examines what happens when three famous thinkers are locked together in Hell.