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PRIDEFEST 2024
FRIDAY JUNE 21 – SUNDAY JUNE 30
PrideFest 2024 highlights work that celebrates the queer community. This year’s festival includes work that addresses a range of queer experiences, providing laughter and joy, addressing challenges as we strive for rights, representation, and justice, and dreaming up new futures. At PrideFest 2024, you’ll see art in a range of mediums including theater, comedy, puppetry, storytelling, and music by queer artists creating work for our communities and beyond. These performances shed light on the dynamic individuals and groups who make up the vibrant LGBTQIA+ community in order to help us understand where we've come from, where we are, and where we can go.
EVENTS
Queer To Tell presents “Captured in Color” is a storytelling show/photo series in which 6 storytellers share stories inspired by the six initial colors of the Pride Flag and their meanings.
yo ho. is a sexy, funny, and heartfelt swashbuckling adventure that explores the relationship between Mary Read and Anne Bonny, gender, transitioning, sexuality, and power.
Momdy: the Non-Birthing Lesbian Mom
June 21st 2024 at 9:30pm and June 22nd 2024 at 3:00pm
Through video and shadow puppetry, Jessica Marie Lorence documents her non-traditional journey to parenthood and explores what it means to be a mother when your wife is the one giving birth.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
Gay Femme Mayhem
June 24th 2024 at 9:30pm
Come one, come all to Gay Femme Mayhem, a night of stand-up featuring emerging and established queer femme comedians! Featuring Emily Drossell, Bianca Barragan, Daisy Walker, and more!
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
Anna May Muff
June 22nd 2024 at 7:00pm
In this short sapphic musical, aspiring country pop artist, Anna May Muff, finds herself at an open mic in a bar with an unusual amount of rainbow flags on it.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
Sisterhood
June 22nd 2024 at 9:30pm
"Sisterhood" follows three fifteen-year old girls who, after being total jerks to each other, are haunted by the all-knowing Spirit of Sisterhood. This play is their quest for redemption.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
Prima and Maggie fall in love in the old wild west and fight to defend their home and lives from the dark secrets of Maggie’s past.
Soup's On
June 23rd 2024 at 3:00pm
Matzo ball soup makes everything better. Come find out why. A one man show.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
Eat Your Mother / Es, es!
June 23rd 2024 at 7:00pm
Eat Your Mother is a patchwork performance piece stitching together works from the archive of the Yiddish theater, original compositions, and brand-new translations into Yiddish. Featuring: The Petoskey Breasted Mermaid of Adrienne Rich, a Yiddish-language trans reclamation and recrimination of the poet’s life and afterlife; Jewish Drag Kings; a visit from the Beep-Boop Barry Sisters; a never-before-staged one-act by early 20th century Yiddish playwright Jane Rose; and more.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
Great Aunts
June 24 at 7:00pm
Great Aunts transports audiences to Gran's home for some Southern cooking, spirited phone calls, and a look into family photo albums that are full of diagnoses and revelations.
Ultra-confident butch lesbian ASÍ wrestles (WWE-style) with their longing for true love and internalized machismo when their childhood rival (their older cousin Raiden) interrupts their impromptu solo show.
Jess is an incredibly talented sleight-of-hand magician. Marla is a horrible singer-songwriter. They do not like each other very much. They have been dating for 2 years.
WINNNERS
June 25th, 2024 at 7:00pm
Settling scores against rough odds, Winners is a quirky, queer comedy about a competitive family with communication challenges where everyone's looking for forgiveness and how to manage our losses.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
A lost young man sets off on a poorly-planned trip to West Hollywood in an attempt to find the man of his dreams.
The Cuntry Club is a one woman show about a one woman show — a comedic deconstruction of the form, an experiment that spirals out of control.
Self-love. Erotic cannibalism. Queer relationships. Lindwurms tells the story of what it means to love and be loved, and the sacrifices we make in order to grow.
Fat Faggot
June 26th 2024 at 7:00pm and June 29th 2024 at 7:00pm
Welcome to “The Fat Faggot Variety Hour”: a biting yet fabulous 1960s musical variety show, broadcast in the deep recesses of the mind of Ben Langhorst (protagonist [also the writer]). Using his life as fodder for each new episode, Ben desperately clings to his sanity as a television audience cackles and jeers (a fat gay man looking for love and acceptance - now that’s pathetic!). But even as Ben struggles to break free from old patterns, will the host (also named Ben Langhorst) allow the show to end?
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
Somewhere in the woods of northern Michigan, five teenagers begin their final session at their childhood camp. Over 13 nights in the woods, they struggle with a summer of endings.
The Anti-Gay Agenda
June 26th 2024 at 9:30pm
Tune in to StraightForward, the only News Show that exposes the queer-backwards media for what it is: a child-indoctrinating, God-hating gay-fest! (A queer sketch spectacular!)
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
How can I help you? is a drag monologue for three actors and two phones.
House of Legendary is an opera about double lives and destructive desires set in the glory days of New York City’s underground drag culture.
okay, bye!: a queer solo dramedy explores the grief, wisdom, and humor of personal rejection (friends, relationships, therapists, even a cat). Equal parts comedy and sincere search for meaning.
When does the mask we wear as queer people interfere with our relationships? Through the lens of four queer-ass men on Pride Eve, Velvet Rage explores the queer lexicon, gay iconography, and pop-culture references that connect members of the queer community. And somewhere between the second sex on the beach and the fifth vodka soda, the truth gets spilled and the claws come out.
In 1999, two teenage boys deal with their closeted sexuality and a violent incident changing them both forever. In 2012 and beyond, the scars of their past define their future.
Turnover: A New Leaf
June 28 at 7:00pm
Turnover: A New Leaf is a plant-based musical about how two business-owning families, rooted in prejudice, overturn their views when their queer kids start rooting for each other.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
How Glory Goes
June 28th 2024 at 9:30pm
Drag. Improv. Audra McDonald. 3 genres of storytelling collide in a passionate cabaret, starring Lena Horné. Featuring the music of Audra, wit from Lena, and the passion of BFAs everywhere!
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
When a veteran drag queen takes “death drop” too literally, a hosting gig is up for grabs at one of Milwaukee’s last gay bars. Let the queer catfight commence!
A Rabbit Named Rainer
June 29th 2024 at 9:30pm
Moving past conventional readings, slam legend Regie Cabico and acclaimed poet Drew Pisarra push their shared literary art into the realm of performance in fresh and exciting ways.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
CHOSEN FAMILIES: A Musical Theatre Concert
June 30th 2024 at 3:00pm
This works in progress concert is birthed from musical theatre and opera writer Troy Defour, with arrangements by David Lancelle. It comprises a set of original songs and musical theatre moments surrounding processes and themes on parenting as LGBTQ+ people. We as a queer community must grasp the love surrounding us and build our families of queer love, however we can.
Cast: J. Andrew Speas, Audrey Adams, Troy Valjean Rucker
Music Director/Pianist: Tina Faye
Percussionist: Patrick Phalen
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.
The Fires
June 30th 2024 at 7:00pm
Two men sit outside an abandoned 7/11 as a wildfire approaches, the latest catastrophe in an apocalyptic America. The Fires is a bleakly funny love story set in a burning world.
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.