They cloned Mozart, it went horribly wrong and now we’re stuck with the consequences. Wearing a cheap wig, Shitty Mozart (Aaron Nemo, a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) performs a dazzlingly chaotic and vulgar one-man multimedia concerto. Terrified that the audience will realize he lacks the musical genius of his predecessor, Shitty Mozart shows off his own talents – playing makeshift instruments he’s invented, performing duets with cartoons he drew, and activating his robot hype man – in a futile attempt to escape Wolfgang’s shadow and make a name for himself.
A new challenger has arrived. It’s… you?! Join comedian and amateur game designer Aran Abilock Clemmons as he guides audience volunteers through a series of original video games designed to make you laugh, cry (of laughter), and laugh again.
Matt Storrs gave himself scurvy. While cleaning the rusty sword he found on the street, he almost ruined his marriage. Despite unrivaled stupidity, Matt Storrs learned how to survive. Now he’ll teach you to avoid his blunders. “Scurvy and Swords” is a cautionary tale that might just save your teeth.
Ten thousand years ago, man had fire, but no best friend. Comedian Douglas Widick explores how the greatest friendship of all time came to be, and how our best farming and hunting tool turned into the fluffy babies that now saturate our social media feeds.
In 2010, Brent Birnbaum was disqualified from his Bronx Science student body president election for breaking a barely enforced rule. Even worse: his dad had the exact same thing happen decades earlier at NYU. Told through interwoven timelines, Brent revisits both campaigns—featuring Facebook drama, dorm politics, a future NYC mayor (or two), and a not-yet-famous music producer—in a show that treats school politics with the seriousness it never deserved.
Jargon is a terrible blight on communication, understanding, and clarity. It’s also hilarious and wonderful. Ben Lillie takes us on a journey through the 10 best pieces of academic jargon, from The Mohorovičić Discontinuity to Deus Ex Machina, and beyond. Come see how the language we use has shaped our view of the world and our place in it.
In Doomscroll, Blake must do whatever the projector says, and the audience has the clicker. Just like on Reels or TikTok, the audience can skip past jokes they don’t like or they can go back to previous slides and make him do it again.
A data analyst uses charts to prove how he peaked in kindergarten, that his wife is more attractive than him, that f****ing around and finding out is typically a non-linear relationship, and most of all that a charts can be a top 6 ingredient in the magic of live theater.
From a young age, Lucy Cao has been looking for emotional regulation in all the wrong places. Now she’s (maybe?) found the right answer: learning to shoot a gun (she’s progressive, don’t worry). Embark on a multimedia odyssey that aims to answer questions like: can a lady shoot a gun? Is growing up in the south really all that bad? Can a gun range be rated “six stars?” And most importantly: is shooting a gun just like it looks in the movies?
As humanity continues to barrel through multiple “points of no return” on our way to a self-inflicted climate apocalypse, we individual humans are left wondering how to process the end of the world, as we know it. This is a show that looks through the history of our planet, and our species, and finds peace with the cycles of extinction, one of which we now find ourselves responsible for. Through audience interaction and thought experiments, I will help my fellow apes find acceptance, and even excitement, in the apocalypse to come, and what comes after we’re gone.
This is a show that examines billions of years in the life of our planet, millennia of human behavior, and decades of denying the truth in front of our eyes.
Realizing he is the same age his father was when he immigrated to the United States, Akmal Tajihan uses his two loves—visual arts and comedy—to explore his relationship with his father.
