The Annex Theater presents: A Fistful of Flowers + tour dates

A Fistful of Flowers by Even Moritz
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
September 3
8:00pm - 10:30pm
$5-10

Baltimore Annex Theater's new play A Fistful of Flowers takes the western genre and bends, reshapes and queers the old format into a genre all its own. This play follows two contemporary cowboys, who are ex lovers, as they chase each other around the desert trying to kill each other. The play is populated by the traditional western characters and non-traditional absurdist characters while the future mixes with the past. TNT is detonated via an iPhone app. A man takes violent revenge for a bad Darth Vader tattoo. Desert cacti are animate characters. The landscape comes alive with invented and real imagery that is as psychedelic as it is everyday. Intermittently, gender roles are reversed to lend broader depth to the main characters' search for what it means to be a man... a real man (a woman).

ANNEX THEATER's 2010 WESTERN TOUR, FISTFUL OF FLOWERS

▪ Sept. 2nd Baltimore @ Annex Theater
▪ Sept. 3rd Baltimore @ Creative Alliance
▪ Sept 5th Philadelphia @ Little Berlin
▪ Sept. 6th NYC @ Silent Barn
▪ Sept. 7th Providence, RI @ Building 13
▪ Sept. 8 Maine @ Roots and Tendrils
▪ Sept. 9 Montreal- @ Le Cagibi
▪ Sept. 10 Ottowa @ TBA
▪ Sept. 11 Detroit @ Trumbulplex
▪ Sept. 12 Chicago @ Roxaboxen
▪ Sept. 14 Milwaukee @ Cream City Collective
▪ Sept. 15 Minneapolis @ Savannah's
▪ Sept. 16 Bismark @ TBA
▪ Sept. 18 Missoula @ TBA
▪ Sept. 19 Spokane @ Object Space
▪ Sept. 20 Vancouver, BC @ Toast Collective
▪ Sept. 21 Seattle @ Jewelbox
▪ Sept. 22 Portland @ Working Theatre
▪ Sept. 24- San Francisco @ TBA
▪ Sept. 25- Oakland @ Rock Paper Scissors
▪ Sept 26 LA @ Echo Curio
▪ Sept 28th Las Vegas @ TBA
▪ Sept. 29 @ The Grand Canyon
▪ Santa Fe- Sept. 30
▪ El Paso- Oct. 1
▪ Oct. 2 Fort Worth @ 1919 Hemphill
▪ Oct 3rd Austin @ TBA
▪ Oct. 4 Houston @ Super Happy Fun Land
▪ Oct. 5 New Orleans @ TBA
▪ OCT. 6 OFF
▪ Oct. 7 Huntsville AL @ Flying Monkey
▪ Oct. 8 Nashville @ Little Hamilton Collective
▪ Oct. 9 Knoxville @ Birdhouse Laboratories
▪ Oct. 10 Asheville @ Bobo Gallery
▪ Oct. 11 Stanton @ TBA
▪ Oct. 12 Charlottesville @ The Bridge
▪ Oct. 13 Harrisonburg @ Jeremiah's house
▪ Oct. 14 Shepheardstown @
▪ OCT. 15 OFF
▪ Oct. 16 Baltimore @ TBA

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Ten Minute Play Festival @ the Annex Theatre

Ten Minute Play Festival
Annex Theatre
August 20 at 8:00pm - August 24 at 10:00pm

Night A (August 20 & 23) plays by :
Rachel Monroe
CopyCat Theatre
R.M. O'Brien
Tim Paggi
Ric Royer
Matthew Smith


Night B (August 21 & 24) plays by:
Justin Durel
Liz Donadio
Cricket Arrison
Carrie Keith
Dina Kelberman

Buy tickets online! http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/123720
$7 for one night, $ 12 for both nights

Photos from the Opening of Authorship, Appropriation, The Artist, The Found @ The Annex

Virginia Warwick as Olivia the turtle with her Little Mermaid paintings

Melissa Webb

Jim Rieck

Curator Michael Farley as Dynasty Handbag

Christian Martinelli

Found art

Patrick McDonough above and below

Patrick McDonough (left) Jim Lucio (middle) found art (right)

Carolina Mayorga

Found art

Milana Braslavsky

Performance art covers: Mike Farley as Dynasty Handbag

Tim, Kaitlin and Evan as Drizzlestorm

Authorship & Appropriation: The Artist & The Found @ the Annex Theater & Gallery

Opening Reception for Authorship & Appropriation: The Artist & The Found
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 7:00am
The Annex Theater & Gallery

The opening reception for our Artscape show! Sondheim entrants exhibit alongside "found artwork" with PERFORMANCE ART COVERS! Come re-create your favorite performance art! open to all performers.

SHOW UP EARLY and check out the unveiling of Josh Vanhorne's mural around the corner at Barlay and Lanvale.

Fantastic Planet shows again!

FANTASTIC PLANET by René Laloux and Roland Topor
July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
8:30 PM
Carter Alley (Adjacent to the Annex Theatre)


If you missed seeing Fantastic Planet during Transmodern 2010, worry no more. The Annex Theatre is reviving their performance and performing it in the Alley between the Annex and Area 405! The Annex Theatre along with the 5th dimension presents a full immersion theatrical production with a live band based on the 1973 film "Fantastic Planet".


If it rains, it will move inside the Annex Theatre.

Two plays @ the Annex Theatre this weekend

THE DARK WORLD'S DESTRUCTION by Derek Carr
June 24th, 26th and 27th
8 pm
The Annex Theatre (419 E. Oliver St. 2W)

The story follows our superpowered hero and his huge team of friends through different planets and Derek's own subconscious to fight the true evil of the universe. MR. M. The playwright's from Curtis Bay Middle School in way south Baltimore, and he's 14. The cast is mostly youngsters from Greenmount West neighborhood. Come check it out!

Made possible by a grant from Kresge Arts in partnership with The Baltimore Community Foundation. Thank you also to our partners Child First and The New Greenmount West Community Association.

AND

FANCINESS VS. THE VOID by Savannah Reich
June 25th
8 pm
The Annex Theatre


[purge the world of deadness. purge the world of nothingness. fight the void. choose fanciness.]
Heroes floating aimlessly though the ocean in a small SHANTY BOAT after a MYSTERIOUS apocalyptic event! Will they find meaning in their lives beyond PURE SURVIVAL? Is there any point to making ART when there is no AUDIENCE? If LOVE does not EXIST, is it possible to INVENT it? A story of humanity lost and found, improbable romance, and fish singing country music.
A CatFish Presentation

The Missoula Oblongata Presents: The Daughter of the Father of Time Motion Study @ the Annex Theater

The Missoula Oblongata Presents: The Daughter of the Father of Time Motion Study at the Annex Theater
Thursday, June 3, 2010
8:00pm - 10:00pm
The Annex Theater

Once there was a time when people knew the difference between sacrifice and compromise. Which is to say, they knew the difference between a walrus and a robot. Which is to say, they knew the difference between a hole in the ice and the ice itself. They knew each of the 18 hand movements prescribed by Time Motion Study, and they knew how to use them in a way that was restful. This play is a television mini-series about that remarkable period of time.

As always, The Missoula Oblongata is asking the big questions here: Can inefficiency be cured? If a robot is smarmy, is it only a reflection of your own smarminess? What exactly does it take to get oneself on a postage stamp?

Fantastic Planet the Play @ the 5th dimension

Fantastic Planet the Play
Friday, April 16, 2010
8:00pm - 11:00pm
5th dimension H&H Transmodern Festival

The Annex Theatre along with the 5th dimension presents a full immersion theatrical production with a live band based on the 1973 film "Fantastic Planet".

Live band and live actors and live animated projection.

Artists include: Dan Breen, Kaitlin Murphy, Kate Porter, Freda Mohr, Steve Santillian, Jeremy Hyman, Janet Braunstein, Elisa Urtiaga, Walker Teret, Tiffany Defoe, Jake Hostetter, Josh Van Horne, Tara Fournier, Elizabeth Hollon, John Kan, Mike Farley, Katherine Ralston, Tim Paggi, Shana Palmer, Virginia Warwick, Antoinette Suiter, Jeanne-Marie Burdette, Sue MacCorkle, Sarah Matson, Sarah Magida, Kevin Blackistone, Maggie Burke, Rick Gerriets, Evan Moritz, Sara Seidman, and many more

Dirty Dancing @ the Annex Theatre

Dirty Dancing...like you've never seen it before. We promise.
March 26 - 28
All shows at 8pm
Annex Theatre
$5-$10
The Effervescent Collective, The Motorettes, & Baltimore's Finest Dancing & Acting Talent present a new take on Dirty Dancing. The original plot is left more or less intact, satirizing the archetypal dance film plot also found in Flashdance, Center Stage, and Step Up of dancing-as-good vs dancing-as-evil, establishment vs anti-establishment, romance that transcends class boundaries and the requisite musical montage of training, sweating, and leg warmers.

Buy tickets online by clicking on the Brown Paper Tickets button!
www.effervescentcollective.org

PARTS&LABOR opens @ the Annex Theatre and Gallery

PARTS&LABOR
The Annex Theatre and Gallery
419 E. Oliver St. Unit 2W
February 6 - March 6 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 6 at 7 pm

PARTS&LABOR is the debut visual/performing arts show at the Annex Theater. We are opening our interpretation of a "white cube" gallery in the established non-profit performing arts space with grants from STEW and The Baltimore Community Foundation. Artists were asked to respond to the concept of "Labor." The call was met with entries addressing capitalism, commuting, artistic process, workers' rights, childbirth, and light-hearted kvetching about the day jobs one ends up working with a BFA. Participating visual artists/collectives include:

CHRISTINE BAILEY
COLIN BENJAMIN with JOHN BYLANDER
DAZZLESTORM!
CARRIE FUCILE
ELISABETH GAMBINO
JM GIORDANO
GARY KACHADOURIAN
STEFANI LEVIN
TARA MEGOS
ALEXIS MORGAN
KATRINA NOPLOS
HERMONIE ONLY
AMELIA RAMBISSOON
LOLA ROBINSKY
JOHNNY ROGERS
SERVICES UNITED
TEMPORARY SERVICES
DAVID UBIAS

The reception will begin at 7 PM on Saturday, February 6th followed by a video screening by Robby Rackleff and a 16mm film screening by Gina Carducci and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Author: That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Nobody Passes, and So Many Ways to Sleep Badly). The screenings will be followed by live perfomances by the curator (Michael Farley), Lexie Macchi, Anna Jilongco, Valeska Populoh, Maggie Burke, Jane Vincent, Elizabeth Thamm (of Club Lyfestile), La Hostess (Laure Drogoul and Paul Baroody) and Copycat Theater members Pilar Díaz with Monica Mirabile, Hoesy Corona with Alex D'Agostino, Sam Shea, and Person.

The closing reception will be held at 7PM on Saturday, March 6th with performances TBA.

MATSUKAZE @ the LOF/T

Matsukaze by Kan'ami

A reevisioning of a classic Japanese Noh Theatre piece through a collaborative and experimental process.
It is a story of a zen priest who discovers the souls of two deceased girls, Matsukaze and Murasame, forever waiting for their lost love on the shore.

An ancient Japanese play brought to life with a hodge-podge of
Baltimore artists including:
Ayako Kataoka,
Kaitlin Murphy,
Sam Shea,
Savannah Reich,
Conner Kizer,
Adam Endres,
Ami Dang,
Katrina Ford,
Peter Blasser,
Carson Garhart,
Dan Breen,
Paul Neidhardt.

With direction by Walker Teret, Justin Durel and Evan Moritz.
Designed by Sarah Fask.
December 17, 18 and 19th 8pm LOF/T
$uggested

Beowulf @ the H&H tonight

Tonight at the 5th Dimension (5th floor of the H&H) the Annex Theatre presents the epic play Beowulf plus Zomes and Theresa Columbus. Show is at 8pm, donations suggested.

Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus @ The Annex Theater

Performances:
July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
8pm

Preview night:
July 1

Cost:
sliding scale $5-$10

Ten Minute Play Festival @ Annex Theatre

This is going to be an incredible spectacle of theatre.
There will be two performances
Saturday May 30th @ 8PM
Sunday May 31st @ Noon
All plays will be shown at both performances.
It will be held at the Annex Theatre(419 E. Oliver St)
$5
THEY WILL ALL BE HITS!

They were written by the following people:
Benjamin Beast
Lola Pierson
Dina Kelberman
Lexie Mountain
Bob O'Brien
Connor Kizer
Rjyan Kidwell
Erin Gleeson
Anna Fitzgerald
Evan Moritz

and will be directed by....
Justin Durel
Ben Pranger
Sarah Fask
Kaitlin Murphy
Lola Pierson
Connor Kizer
Rjyan Kidwell
Tim Paggi
Matt Wellins
Evan Moritz

Reception @ The Annex Theater

The Reception

Directed by Patrick Franklin
Written by Matthew Smith

Cast (in order of appearance):
Raphael Krut-Landau
Gabrielle Ponce
Jackson Fratesi

This Thursday, Friday and Saturday
May 14, 15 and 16
Curtain at EIGHT

Stage Manager: Esther Bell

Piano: Anne-Marie Thompson, Santina Gutierrez
Original Composition: Santina Gutierrez

Set Design: Rick Gerriets
Lighting Design: Evan Moritz

Puppet Master: Lis Gambino
Puppet Design: Chiara Keeling
Puppeteers: Danny Volin, Taylor Berman

Poster Design: Jeff Colosino, Jae Yong Choi

Photo and more from Wrath of Khan

This weekend the Annex Theatre, under the direction of Michael Farley and Ryan Mitchell, presented Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan (the play). Taken from the small screen to the big screen and now to the stage, the Wrath of Khan featured high energy performances and imaginative sets. The Wrath of Khan tells the story of the USS Reliant searching for a dead planet for Project Genesis, this enables Khan to escape from a 15 year exile to seek revenge on Kirk.






Evan Moritz gave a stellar performance as Admiral James "Jim" T. Kirk. While giving nods to the original Kirk played by William Shatner, he still was able to perform as a character and not a caricature. Kaitlin Murphy played a passionate Khan set on revenge. The Khan clan looked as if they might have wandered off the set of Waterworld, but fashion is difficult to keep up with while being banished on Centi Alpha V. Tim Paggi as Kirk's illegitimate blond haired son added an extra element of humor as well as showing how bratty a scientist can be. Typecasting was apparent, though it seemed to add to the play with easily recognizable characters. The use of viewscreens and sliding doors really brought familiar elements of Star Trek to life.






Sets were true to the campiness of the movie. Using puppetry and special effects, we were really transported where no man had gone before. Stand out scenes took place in the elevator where Kirk first tries to put the moves on Lt. Commander Saavik, gets interrupted by Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, and finally has trouble communicating with Dr Carol Marcus through a viewscreen. The play ends on a somber note as Captain Spock sacrifices his own life to save the crew of the Enterprise with one last unexpected and tender moment with Kirk.