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Penny Arcade The Faghag & Her Friends in The Summer of Love (Work-in-Progress)

The latest offering from veteran playwright/performer Penny Arcade, at the peak of her powers, features Arcade’s spot-on impersonations and intoxicating improvisational style, “stiletto wit…blistering” – The New York Times. Together with longtime collaborator Steve Zehentner, they move into new territory, embedding a narrative play into a filmic abstract that travels from 1967 Provincetown to the cafes and nightclubs of New York City’s celebrated demimonde, where tragedy and transformation walked hand in hand and created a breeding ground for revolutionary thinking and artistic innovation.

“When I was 15, 16… my goal every night was to sit at the table with the old queens, a difficult invitation to get for a teenage girl…The old queens knew everything I wanted to know …They did not tolerate banality nor mediocrity and theirs was a fierce and unapologetic intelligence. Just sitting at that table in a dark bar or fluorescent coffee shop, lifted your IQ twenty points!”











When: Thu., Dec. 6, 2018 at 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Baruch Performing Arts Center
One Bernard Baruch Way (25th Street btw. Lexington & Third Aves)
212-352-3101
Price: $11-$31
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The latest offering from veteran playwright/performer Penny Arcade, at the peak of her powers, features Arcade’s spot-on impersonations and intoxicating improvisational style, “stiletto wit…blistering” – The New York Times. Together with longtime collaborator Steve Zehentner, they move into new territory, embedding a narrative play into a filmic abstract that travels from 1967 Provincetown to the cafes and nightclubs of New York City’s celebrated demimonde, where tragedy and transformation walked hand in hand and created a breeding ground for revolutionary thinking and artistic innovation.

“When I was 15, 16… my goal every night was to sit at the table with the old queens, a difficult invitation to get for a teenage girl…The old queens knew everything I wanted to know …They did not tolerate banality nor mediocrity and theirs was a fierce and unapologetic intelligence. Just sitting at that table in a dark bar or fluorescent coffee shop, lifted your IQ twenty points!”

Buy tickets/get more info now