HOT FESTIVAL EVENTS

Saturday, June 26 at HOT Festival kickoff party! 6:30pm-1am - Lounge

FREE

Hosted by the hottest downtown girlfriend duo, Anti-Diva’s Liz Liguori and Jessie Mann. With their specialty drinks, sexy bartending flair, and famous LGBTQ (and straight!) following, Liz and Jesse have made Anti-Diva the Dixon Place party to be 'scene' at.  The pair always has several surprise performers, smoking DJ's, and a super cool vibe in this regular party that has attracted the arts and performance crowd from all over the city.  The friendly crowd enjoys delicious artisanal cocktails with premium drinks and organic ingredients and there's always the DP special of $3 PBR.  Anti-Diva is the coolest place to end up after the annual Dyke March!

Monday, June 28 & July 26 at 8:30PM

FREE

Broadway Speaks Out presents

TAKE THE MIC with Marti Gould Cummings

The cheeky and always effervescent Marti Cummings hosts this open mic night for music, comedy, poetry, and anything else you can do in 7 minutes (within legal parameters).  But make sure you time it right or you get a blast from the horn to get off the stage! - it's sort of like a very gay Gong Show!   Past guest performers have included some of Broadway's newest and most talented rising stars and some of the talent even end up with a regular gig at Dixon Place.  This could be your big chance!

SPECIAL EVENT!

Tuesday & Wednesday, June 29th & 30th at 8pm.  TWEED FRACTURED CLASSICKS presents PIC-UP - $50/$20

New York's favorite demented theater company presents a sick, (yet reverent!) homage to the classic "PICNIC", the 1950's play and movie about small town life.  Legends Julie Halston, Sweetie, Steve Hayes, David Ilku, Jody Lennon, Bradford Scobie, Clark Beasley, Greg Wallach, and Jay Rogers weave a twisted tale of passion, shame, love, and of course, twisted family values.  Don't miss this rare treat to see all of these beloved stars in one night - the stage may explode from so much talent! $50 tickets include priority seating and two cocktails.

DIXON PLACE BENEFIT

Thursday, July 1 WASHBOARD JUNGLE with LEE FELDMAN - 8:00PM

Pre-reception at 7:00PM – Tickets $25 and $75 ($75 includes priority seating and cocktails)

Credited as the first post-digital jug band, "The Jungle" as they're known to fans, are known to have kickstarted a renewed interest in bands consisting of folk instruments as well as household utensils. Band members include Henry Hample, Stuart Vance, McPaul Smith and Bob Goldberg. This special reunion of the band will be feature a set by Lee Feldman of his short opera Starboy.

Fridays & Saturdays, July 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 & 24 at 7:30 PM

$10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

Queer as a $3 Bill TICKET SPECIAL: $3 to July 2 & 3 shows only! – First come- First served!

VERTititGO

Everyone’s favorite schizophrenic nut ball Dynasty Handbag returns to Dixon Place with sleuthful vengeance as “Detective Bags”, on the hunt for a missing woman--or is it every woman? ...Or could she be the very woman she is looking for?  Find out in this explosion of noir inspired mind melting performance art.

A Dixon Place Mondo Cane Commission!

Written & performed by Dynasty Handbag (AKA Jibz Cameron)

Friday, July 2 at  9:30PM

$10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

AFTER COLLAPSING or ANNA NICOLE SMITH

This performance piece re-creates the mess of Anna Nicole Smith's later years, inter-playing various media to reflect and re-construct her public personality, creating an imposter's loving ritual to an unknowing feminist disaster.

Written and performed by Laura Berlin Stinger

Tuesday, July 6 at 7:30PM

$10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

FRANK DECARO PRESENTS GAY 101: A PRIMER

A hilarious primer on all things homosexual, the former “Daily Show” movie critic and the host of his own eponymous radio show on Sirius XM OutQ sheds some lavender light on the last century of pop culture. From Cher to “Showgirls,” Charles Pierce to Charles Busch, Cole Porter to “The Night Porter,” you’ll be exposed to everything you need to know to be a well-ripened fruit. History has never been this funny. Now get with the program, Mary.

Tuesday, July 6 at  9:30PM

$10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

BLATANT

Super bitch Janis trapped in the web-cast of a medical soap opera, Red Alert carries on Myra Breckinridge's manifesto of transforming testosterone driven machos into glamorous fun loving beauty queens. Low-tech comedy.

Created by Jack Shamblin

Sound by Hugo Paquete

Health Counselor: Eva Mueller

Wednesday, July 7 at 7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

CROSSING BOUNDARIES

Dance event, Curated by Marcia Monroe

Featuring choreography by Emily Berry, Regina Rocke, Kathy Westwater, and Sasha Welsh

Wednesday, July 7 at 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

AUTUMN LINES

Adam Tendler returns to Dixon Place for another genre-bending evening of new music, including the New York premiere of his own five-movement Autumn Lines, a meditation for solo amplified pianist that uniquely incorporates poetry by T'ang Dynasty poet Li Po to tell a tale of love and loss between two men.  

Created and performed by Adam Tendler

Thursday, July 8 at 7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

ATMOSPHERE OF THE MOON

A dream about the obsession with youth culture in America and the show business hell of living and dying past your prime.

Created & performed by Brandon Olson and Robert Appleton

Thursday, July 8 at 9:15PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

ULTRAVIOLET ASTRONOMY (U.V.A) & CD Release Party

U.V.A. brings together classically trained pianist Andrew Ranaudo with artists Jill Auckenthaler and Carl James Ferrero in bucolic electro pop enhanced with video projections. Look for their debut album, U.V.A., to be released on July 6. Performed by Andrew Ranaudo, Jill Auckenthaler & Carl James Ferrero

Projections by Carl James Ferrero

Friday, July 9 at 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

GENDER FABULOUS! – REALNESS World Famous *BOB*, Dave End and Glenn Marla

A ninety-minute hysterical & heartbreaking journey through the minds of three of NYC's most endearing performers. Coming of age stories in sequins & tights.  Songs of best friends and Golden Girls.  A magical tour of how to survive.

Performed by World Famous *BOB*, Dave End and Glenn Marla

Saturday, July 10 at 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

THE FURY OF THE GODS

An exercise in Pop Blasphemy. An ecclesiastical experiment in Heathenism. A sharp biting satire that skewers the sacred.

Written and performed by Susana Cook

Sound design by Julian Mesri

With Performative Interventions by Homo-genius, Kiebpoli Calnek, Zoe Malcolm, Flora Mendoza, Helaine Gawlica, Zena Bibler and Rey Asher Jonah Grosz

Monday, July 12 at 7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

BABYFAT OR SKINNYBABY

When Bobby Palsy’s prostitute boyfriend dumps him, he decides it’s time to find a love that can never leave him: a baby. Aided by Grace/Renee (his laptop computer) and an undercover baby smuggler, Bobby learns what it truly means to love and be loved in return: it hurts.

Written by James Ryan Caldwell

Directed by Stephen Brackett

Monday, July 12 at 8PM $5 (Lounge)

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ON PARTNERING

Jeep Ries has gained wisdom from her many failed relationships. She freely shares her failings, observations and advice in this 30-minute semi-seminar. Using the PowerPoint skills she learned on the road as a motivational speaker, trainer, and workshop leader, Jeep reviews her past romantic relations to delights us with her candor and wry humor.

Written and performed by Jeep Ries

Monday, July 12 at 9:15PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

SINKING HEARTS

Playwright Joshua Conkel (MilkMilkLemonade) and The Management present the first episode of Sinking Hearts, a hilarious gothic soap opera with drag in the tradition of Dark Shadows, Twin Peaks, and True Blood.

Written by Joshua Conkel

Directed by Meg Sturiano

Tuesday, July 13 at 7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

THE VANISHING CITY: 1975 - THE GOLDEN AGE OF GAY

Robert Richards, one of New York’s most beloved artists and stylish bon vivants, takes us on a whirlwind weekend journey with a typical gay man living in the West Village during the hedonistic 1970s, the Golden Age of Gay.  We follow our guide as he cruises the streets, historic bars, shops, attends gallery openings, and explores the notorious meat packing district and abandoned piers. Followed by cocktail hour in the Lounge.

Curated and hosted by Robert Richards

Tuesday, July 13 - 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

THAT MAN: PETER BERLIN – A DOCUMENTARY

With his trademark Dutch boy haircut, Tom of Finland physique, and oh-so-tight trousers, Peter Berlin was the poster boy for the sexually-liberated 1970s. Jim Tushinski’s fascinating portrait traces the Peter Berlin story over the past forty years, examining his life as his own work of art.  Idolized by Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe, the Berlin mystique remains unparalleled in the history of modern gay icons.  Fans of Berlin such as John Waters, Armistead Maupin, and Jack Wrangler appear in the film and explain the power of his aura on gay culture.  Follow-up talkback hosted by Robert Richards with special guests.

Wednesday, July 14 at  7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

THE GAY IVY

Grateful.  Disgusted.  Proud.  Embarrassed.  The Yale Alumni Magazine’s recent cover story “Why They Call Yale ‘The Gay Ivy’” sparked a furor among its readers. The Gay Ivy explores this controversy and issues of homophobia, tradition and the generational divide in our country today.

Directed by Peter Cook

Musical Direction by Jonathan Breit

Co-conceived and performed by Thomas Dolan, Megan Stern

Performed by Emily Jenda, Kobi Libii, Tim Eliot

Projection Design by Katherine Freer

Originally directed/created by Ethan Heard

Written by Robert Barnett, Bix Bettwy, Jonathan Breit, Joshua Cohen, Greg Edwards, Kyle Ewalt, Laura Jacqmin, Kyle Jarrow, Eric Kubo, Gordon Leary, Eric March, Deb Margolin, Julia Meinwald, Michael Mitnick, Hannah Oberman-Breindel, Bradford Proctor, Kevin Quinn, Nathan Reiff, Zak Sandler and Michael Walker.

Wednesday, July 14 at  9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

LIVING ON THE REAL

Notes from a very different kind of native son, solo performer Michael Lynch tells of his journey from the south to the Bronx, through the turbulent landscape of NYC in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.  Part stand-up, part rock concert, part gospel service and practically part séance, Michael evokes street queens, phone sex operators and victims of hate crimes in a hilarious and brazen parable about facing life and somehow 'keeping it real."

Accompanist and co-author Steve Kaufman

Directed by Mark Finley

Thursday, July 15 at  7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

QUEER AND CURIOUS: Works by Bauman, Stronger, Morrison, and Satter

1. MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Meet Georgia Valentine, circus performer extraordinaire!  She was born in the south and raised, well, who-knows-where.   This morning she's found herself in a bit of a pickle and y'all are invited to come and bear witness to Georgia’s journey through the veils of faith and memory.

Created by Rebecca Stronger

And

2. 50 WAYS TO SAY…

50 Ways to Say… weaves the fates of Sisyphus, Sean Bell, and the countless others who die through excessive force at the hands of those in charge. From lynching, to police brutality, to hate crimes, Sisyphus’ boulder continues to fall back down the mountain. Through her half-evening length dance, Bauman squares her shoulders to find a new trajectory for that boulder.

Written by Maria Bauman

Composer: Keith Witty

Visual Artist: Christopher Myers

Performers: Trebien Pollard, Maresa D’amore-Morrison, Kendra Ross

And

3. UNTITLED GIRL ADVENTURE

Untitled Girl Adventure is a multimedia theater piece created in collaboration with the performers which explores the missing feminine in our culture.  Borrowing imagery from the Ramayana, music videos, French new wave and nature, this excerpt is composed of text, a dance, a tantrum and a French song.

Created by Nina Morrison

Performer Collaborators: Floanne Ankah, Brenda Crawley, Nana Miki, Nina Morrison, Caroline Oster, Ellen Simpson, Katherine O'Sullivan and Katherine Wessling

And

4. SLIDING WHORES

Drawing on the work of British female comedians and contemporary romantic comedies, Sliding Whores is real British performance made by Americans about a strange, little gym teacher who moves into a flat with a lazy, but beautiful bargirl, and a sweet lesbian homemaker. Their budgie always flies away.

Produced by Half Straddle

Written and directed by Tina Satter

Music by Chris Giarmo

Performed by Jess Barbagallo, Eliza Bent and Julia Sirna-Frest

Thursday, July 15 at 10:00PM $5 (Lounge)

BROOKLYN BOOK OF SHADOWS

Join South African performance artist Thain Torres for an evening of “Hoodoo Speak Easy” storytelling and imbibing.

Featuring Thain Torres with special guests Dan Fishback, B0DY H1GH, John Russell, and psychic Hank Starr.

Friday, July 16 at 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

FABULOUS ARTISTIC GUYS GET OVERTLY TRAUMATIZED SOMETIMES: THE MUSICAL!

Watch As Officer Homo, Fruitcake, Dandy, Drag Queen and others discuss important topics such as; unicorn syndrome, craigslist misogyny, male pregnancy, gay panic, and life!

Created by Dave End

Monday and Tuesday, July 19 and 20, - 7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

STRAIGHT TALK

A multi-character play in five scenes, satirizing modern communication through the speech of young adults. The language is debased, often obscene and aggressive, with unexpected leaps into elevated speech and longing vulnerability. 
Artist-In-Residence: Jeff McMahon (playwright)

Actors: Grace Abbott, Salty Brine, Mikeah Earnest Jennings,  Alenka Kraigher,  Daniel Allen Nelson, Elina Zavala

Monday, July 19th - 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

LIVE FEED FROM THE BLACK UNCONSCIOUS

A multi-media performance interrogating the possibility and repercussions of, a black queer unconscious. Using documentation, “live writing,” and improvisation, members of the Black Took Collective engage a radical performance of poetics in order to problematize the claims about being black and queer that many of us hold dear.

Created and performed by Black Took Collective (Duriel E.. Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Ronaldo Wilson)

Tuesday, July 20th at 10PM FREE (LOUNGE)

DRAG SHOW VIDEO VERITE

It's the ultimate NYC drag show... on videotape. Spanning over 50 years of footage, this annual video mash up explores and celebrates the faces and places, past and present of the City's vibrant heritage of male and female impersonation. All new and never before seen footage.

Directed by Joe E. Jeffreys.

Performed by Mario Montez, Zondra Foxx, Rose Wood, Dina Martina, Flloyd, Vaginal Davis, Ivy Winters, Jackie Beat, Mimi Imfurst, and many, many more.

Wednesday, July 21 at 7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

UNDEREXPOSED (Dance Program)

Curated by Jack Ferver

Featuring choreography by Benn Rasmussen, Ryan Manchester, Max Steele, Darrin Wright, Tyler James Ashley

1. BlackGround

‘BlackGround’ is a solo exploration of memory though movement and ritual.  A deeper understanding of time and physical action layers with the sound score to create a rich palette of visual images.  The work is a collaboration between Benn Rasmussen and Ryan Manchester.

Music by Ryan Manchester

All other elements by Benn Rasmussen

2. QUINTET: UNTITLED

Tyler Ashley creates theatrically charged atmospheres and sweat-provoking movement, engaging his audience in a mediated self-discovery.  Mining outbursts of humanity for ugliness, drama, color, and moments of awakening, Ashley focuses on the spectrum of the human condition—from mundane everyday occurrences to transformative rights of passage.

Tyler Ashley, Kris Seto, Michael Ingle, Goldie Peacock, Rakia Seaborn

3. LOVE NOTE FOR DANCE

Billy Cheer has never been a dancer but always wanted to. He writes a love letter to the form and brings it to the stage.

Performed by Max Steele

4. SOLO WITHOUT ME

Watch Darrin dance.  He might fall. Intentionally.  He’ll get back up.  You might be bored.  Look out for Jack’s hands and make a mental note of how many times he does it.  Tell Benn he’s very handsome and sincerely mean it.  
Created and performed by Darrin Wright

Thursday, July 22nd at 7PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

THE MATERIAL WORLD: A MUSICAL

The time is 1921. The place is the Bronx. The Fenster family is contemplating a return to Russia, years after escaping the Tsar. As Mama and Papa fight about socialism and communism, their daughter Gittel hangs out with Madonna, Britney Spears, and an amateur gay webcam pornographer. Everyone breaks out in song.

Written by Dan Fishback

Directed by Stephen Brackett

Performed by Micah Bucey, Cole Escola, Erin Markey, Eleanor Reissa, and Audrey Lynn Weston

Friday, July 23 at 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

ONE MAN SHOW - THE TRUE STORY OF MISS WORLD FAMOUS *BOB*

About a girl who had to become a drag queen to learn how to become a woman. The true story of Miss World Famous *BOB*. An evening of hysterical & heartbreaking storytelling.

Written and performed by World Famous *BOB*

Directed by Kate Valentine

Gowns by David Quinn

Saturday, July 24 at 10PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

BUTCH BURLESQUE

The title says it all! Every girl's dream! Vets to Virgins take it off with butch style.

Hosted and curated by Victoria Libertore

Co-curated by K.S. Stevens

With a cavalcade of exciting burlesque performers

Monday, July 26 - 8:30PM FREE

TAKE THE MIC with Marti Gould Cummings

The cheeky and always effervescent Marti Cummings hosts this open mic night for music, comedy, poetry, and anything else you can do in 7 minutes (within legal parameters).  But make sure you time it right or you get a blast from the horn to get off the stage! - it's sort of like a very gay Gong Show!  Past guest performers have included some of Broadway's newest and most talented rising stars and some of the talent even end up with a regular gig at Dixon Place.  This could be your big chance!  Program includes special celebrity guests!

Tuesday, July 27 at 7:30PM, $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

KIRA BLAZEK/ REBECCA PATEK

7 BODY LANGUAGE MISTAKES

A collection of shorts by Kira Blazek, 7 Body Language Mistakes, draws influences ranging from Monty Python to security surveillance cameras; it is Dance Theater chopped and screwed. Blazek collaborates with film and dance to give a lesson in dancers behaving badly, or women behaving manly, or people behaving like bad men.

Created by Kira Blazek

Performers: Tess Igarta, Rayvawn Johnson, Pat McIntyre, and Cynthia Koppe

Animator: Mary Jaye Blanchard

Manager/Advisor: Jacob “Show Biz” Smith

On a shared bill with

JESSICA’S STORY

Jessica's Story charts the story of little Jessica McClure who fell into a drain in 1987 and was subsequently rescued after a never before seen deluge of media coverage.  Rebecca Patek will recount and investigate this riveting drama while revealing her own story of heartache and loss. In this work, audience and performer come together as a community to bear witness, raise awareness and heal through cathartic release.

Created by Rebecca Patek

Tuesday, July 27 at 9PM, $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

GERRIFICATION

“Gerrification” is a comic play and dramatic performance piece revealing the secret strategies Gerry Visco used to became truly fabulous. Narrated by the author, selected scenes in the hagiography will illuminate Visco’s life and her inspiration to improve the planet via Gerrification, an anti-gentrification global effort designed to bring joy and beauty to America and the world by making people dress like her. Let’s face it, we could all use a makeover.

Written/Directed/Performed by Gerry Visco

Performers: Gio Black Peter, Jennifer Blowdryer, Christina Ewald, Fritz Donnelly, Herra*C, Louis Jordan, Katie Madonna Lee, Taylor Derwin, Cole Nahal, Rob Ordonez, Stefanos Tsigrimanis, Thain Torres.

Special guest: Joseph Keckler.

Wednesday, July 28 at 7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

THE LAW PROJECT

Heather Gold (Northwestern JD '95) teaches the honest class she always wanted to take and saves you 3 years, $180,000 and maybe even your soul.

Written and performed by Heather Gold

Wednesday, July 28 at 9:15PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

SYRUP IN OUR SHORTS, AND OTHER SOUTHERN PLEASANTRIES

Barbie Campers and Pickup Trucks collide in this double bill.  A Kentucky fried queer and a Tallahassee lassie tell stories and sing songs about the politics of surviving Dixie.  Boiled peanuts will be served!

Written & performed by Lea Robinson & Elizabeth Whitney

Produced by KS Stevens

Thursday-Saturday, July 29, 30, 31, Aug. 5, 6, & 7 at 7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

Scotty Heron/Hijack Dance present SMITHSONIANSMITH

"smithsoniansmith" is a lovely, lo-fi, sci-fi mess.  Dancing sculptors, builders and architects in the midst of a sexy, violent play. Performers courting the radical edge of dance, edge of trash, edge of decency. When everything has fallen apart, smithsoniansmith" rises from the dust. A Dixon Place Mondo Cane Commission.

Choreographed and performed by Scotty Heron and HIJACK Dance (Kristin VanLoon, and Arwen Wilder)

Lighting by Heidi Eckwall

Thursday, July 29 at 10PM $5 (Lounge)

WET.HOT.MESS

Mamma Rice is a Brooklyn based, Cabaret/storytelling performance artist. This out and proud, blues and bull$hit slinging brother is joining the Hot Festival to put on a lounge act, like none you’ve ever see. Come see why Mamma Rice is a Wet.Hot.Mess.
Created and Performed by Xavier Rice

Music Direction: Mike Pettry (Jonathan Larson Award Winner)

Guitar/String: Craig Mangano

With special guests!

Friday, July 30 at 10PM $5 (Lounge)

ANNIE LANZILLOTTO: SONGS, RANTS, ANTHEMS

Annie Lanzillotto's vocal grit sings New York with her uncut accent.  A raspy butch vocalizing on love and war, with freestyle sewn in.

Lead guitar: Adeel Salman

Percussion: John Castle

Sax: Rose Imperato

Saturday, July 31 at 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

PENETRATING THE SPACE

A tragicomic send-up of a one-woman show in which a kooky bisexual performance artist and incest survivor mistakenly believes that theatricalizing her psychological fragmentation and integration in front of an audience will lead to mainstream acceptance in the acting industry and a big-time agent.

Written and performed by Kim Katzberg

Directed by John Harlacher

Original Animation by Maia Cruz Palileo

Monday, August 2 at 7PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

DRAW THE CIRCLE

Laid bare is one family's struggle with a child who continuously defies their most basic expectations of what it means to have a daughter... and one woman's commitment to unconditional love. Panel Discussion Post-Show with Kate Bornstein.

Written by Deen

Directed by Chay Yew

Monday, August 2 -  7:30 PM $6 (Lounge)

EXILKABARETT/ARIEL FEDEROW

THE HAND BALL

How is that supposed to go there? For everyone who has ever asked themselves this question, Professor Speedwagon is here to help. With her signature mix of glitter, slapstick, science, and sex appeal, you'll laugh, you'll cry – happy ending guaranteed.

Performed by Ariel Federow

ENFANTS TERRIBLES – An evening of Queer Cabaret

EXILKABARETT brings to life works from the cabaret stage that were lost, destroyed or banned by the political disruptions of the Twentieth Century—namely those works suppressed by the Third Reich.

Performed by Darren Chase, Richard Gammon, Jessica Goldring, Noe Kidder, Alejandra Seeber, Bill Solomon, and Marianna Vogt

Tuesday & Wednesday, Aug. 3 & 4 at 7:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

Holly Hughes and Dan Hurlin present

THE DOG AND PONY SHOW (BRING YOUR OWN PONY)

A comic meditation on the questions that dog us:  What is the sound of one lesbian clapping?

Written & performed by Holly Hughes

Directed by Dan Hurlin

Tuesday, Aug. 3 at 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

THE ONES

New York's most stylish downtown denizens, The Ones appear for the first time at Dixon Place with special guests.  Join Nashom Wooden. JoJo Americo and Paul Alexander as they crank up the disco , pop and glitter in this one night only appearance previewing their gorgeous new album and videos.

Extra special collaborators:  Amanda Lepore, Ladyfag, Justin Bond, Colton Ford, Nomi Ruiz, Erickatoure Aviance, Corey TuT, Cynthia Powell, Dwayne Milan Cooper, Dustin Robertson, David Dalrympl e and MORE!

Directed by: The Ones and Matthew Dailey

Produced By: Peace Bisquit

And please join The Ones in the DP Lounge for a post concert cocktail party!

Thursday, August  5 at 9:30pm $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

D'funQT (pronounced defunct): A Big D'Lo Show

Written and performed by D’Lo

Friday, August 6 at 9:30PM $10 (advance sale), $15 (at door)

I LIGHT UP MY LIFE: THE MARK SAM CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Finally, the long-awaited Celebrity Autobiography of a celebrity you’ve never heard of! Expect jaw-dropping pants dropping and name dropping – just don’t expect to recognize the names. From the writer/performer and director of last year’s off-Broadway solo show Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire.

Created by Mark Sam Rosenthal

Directed by Todd Parmley