CuRRENT & UPCOMING SHOWS
exit strategy presents
HOW TO WIN A GAMESHOW
Friday, July 17, 7pm - 8pm
Saturday, July 18, 7pm - 8pm
Sunday, July 19, 3pm - 4pm
Meet Graham!
Graham has been the star contestant of a popular gameshow for either 3 or 327 days. At least that’s what they tell him.
Led by a series of violently charming hosts, Graham and the audience compete in EXTREMELY FUN and MYSTERIOUS games.
The tasks are invasive, the stakes seemingly high and the audience increasingly implicated.
Part performance art, part improv-show, part social experiment, Gameshow blurs the line between performer and audience-rendering everyone subject to scrutiny by an ever-present, controlling, overarching force.
Gameshow is ultimately an exploration of our own capacities for complicity under observation; of our impulses as a group and as individuals; and of our presumed anonymity in theatrical, social, and technological space.
exit strategy’s work pursues a state of primal, kinetic presence in performers and audience alike-often blurring the line between the two. We challenge the expectation that audience members can ever be passive observers in theatrical space. Our work stands in direct contrast to film, social media, and all technologies of surveillance capitalism that encourage people to think of themselves as compliant consumers of art. We ground our research interests in themes of surveillance, conformity, discomfort, danger, humor, cruelty and our ability to hold all of these realities simultaneously as one.
Gameshow was developed in residency at Triplets Amsterdam in the Netherlands with support from 4bid Gallery at Ot301 in Amsterdam, Target Margin Theater in Brooklyn, and CultureLab LIC in Queens.
Gameshow is possible with the generous support of Triplets Amsterdam, 4bid Gallery at OT301, Target Margin Theatre, and CultureLab LIC.
Performers: Samori Etienne, MaryKate Glenn, Rupert Krüger, Jane Skapek
Gameshow is developed, directed, and performed by the company.
COVERS
Music, Migration, and Memory of the Korean Diaspora
Thursday, July 23, 7-9pm
Doors at 6:30pm
Join COVERS BY MP3 for an evening of music, memory, and intergenerational storytelling centered around the music that carried our communities as they built new homes across the diaspora.
The night will feature live performances of songs shared through the project, a sneak peek at our participant documentaries, and a presentation of our recreated album covers, photographic recreations where participants step into the place of the original artists, reimagining iconic covers through the lens of migration, family history, and personal memory.
Together, these images form a visual playlist of the music that shaped the Korean diaspora.
Guests will also be invited to contribute their own songs and stories through interactive installations, flip through our cassette zines, enjoy food and drinks, and create mini CD keychains programmed with their own “home song” to take with them.
Suggested Ticket Donation: $10
Forager Theatre Company
presents
Frizzled
A Magic School Bus Musical Parody
by Eliana Rubin
Frizzled is a wild, nostalgic coming-of-age musical blasting the kids you know and love into outrageous and very grown-up scenarios with their favorite frizzy-haired teacher. Featuring a score packed with infectious hooks about getting older, partying it up, and wanting to lesbian kiss your best friend, this show is guaranteed to make you laugh. Join the kids from Walkerville High as they take one last ride on that big yellow bus!
Frizzled: A Magic School Bus Musical Parody had sold-out runs at The Pit in 2023 and The Tank in 2024 - don't miss your chance to see this one!
Not suitable for audiences under 18.
Upcoming Performances:
Thu, Jul 30, 7 - 8:30pm
Fri, Jul 31, 7 - 8:30pm
Sat, Aug 1, 3 - 4:30pm
Sat, Aug 1, 7 - 8:30pm
Sun, Aug 2, 3 - 4:30pm
master-plan presents
First President of Japan and OK King
Thursday, August 20, 7-11pm
Do you like your rock music up close and in your face?
Are you looking to get your blood pumping and your head spinning?
Then you need a heavy dose of First President of Japan and OK King, two of the most colorful and engaging bands on the local scene. We guarantee this show will rule.
Doors at 7pm
Show at 8pm
master-plan.rocks is a nonprofit for rock n' roll. We provide funding to create and produce intimate live recordings, studio time, and the production of vinyl for the bands we love.
PERFORMING ARTS At Culture Lab LIC
Culture Lab LIC is passionate about supporting emerging artists and fostering ambitious work. Over the past four years, our directors have helped produce over 25 professional productions. We have supported original and in-development work, presenting the premiere productions.
We have provided rehearsal space for over 20 theatre/dance and music groups and produced hundreds of events. In 2024 alone, we donated over 1,000 hours of rehearsal space to local theatre and dance companies. Over the past three years, we have created an amazing space for performing artists to learn, grow, take risks and make work. We are proud to create affordable opportunities for our local artistic community here in LIC!