The Marsh: May 30, 2008

The Marsh presents Evan Specter’s THERE BE DRAGONS

One Performance only! Wednesday, July 30 @ 7:30 pm

The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22^nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $8-12 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750

Part coming-of-age story, part spiritual adventure, this disarming and theatrical solo performance takes us from Venice, California to Kathmandu as Specter, an Amherst religion major, looks for the real thing via esoteric teachings, near-death experiences, giant Komodo lizards and doomed romance.

The Marsh presents Jeff Nichols’ ASK THE QUESTION

One Performance only! Wednesday, July 16 @ 7:30 pm

The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22^nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $8-12 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750

Five loosely connected characters—from “Ahmed,” the Pakistani immigrant held without charge after 9/11, to “The Initiated One,” a guru offering enlightenment for the capitalist age—reveal the conflicts of ideology, faith, political power and the role of the individual in contemporary American life. Alternately dark and comic, intellectual and absurd, “Ask the Question” will engage and provoke you.

The Marsh presents Jeanne Haynes’ THE STOVE IS WHITE

One Performance only! Wednesday, June 25 @ 7:30 pm

The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22^nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $8-12 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750

Dedicated to her African American stepchildren and biracial children, Haynes presents unflinchingly personal civil rights tales (from New York City’s entertainment world, Southern sit-ins and San Francisco race riots)

The Marsh presents Judith Blazer’s AN OPEN MASTER CLASS IN SINGING

One Performance only! Wednesday, June 18 @ 7:30 pm

The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22^nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $20. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750

Veteran Broadway performer Judith Blazer will teach an Open Master Class in Singing one night only at The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street, on Wednesday evening, June 18 at 7:30 pm. The theme of the Master Class will be "Metamorphosis of Style," with a focus on teaching singers to become flexible vocal artists, move among different musical genres, and use not just vocal technique but also diction, musicianship and characterization. Singers who will work onstage with Ms. Blazer have already been selected, but the class is open to the public.

Ms. Blazer will be in San Francisco performing in The Thomashefskys with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. She was most recently seen in New York City Opera's production of Candide.

The Marsh presents Jeff Greenwald’s STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS

EXTENDED AGAIN!

June 12 – June 28

Thursday and Friday at 8:00 pm
Saturday at 5:00 pm

The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22^nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $15-35 Sliding Scale on Thursday. $22-35 Sliding Scale on Friday and Saturday. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750

“STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS” is a series of improvised monologues inspired by the vagaries of wanderlust. “I want this show to evoke the thrill of a journey,” says Greenwald. “The unexpected encounters and diversions that make world travel so wild and illuminating.” To achieve this, he asks audience members to spin a huge, colorful Wheel of Fortune and where it stops, the story begins. Greenwald never knows which tales he is going to tell in the course of an evening—and the audience embarks on this expedition with him, as partner and traveling companion.

Greenwald draws from 30 years of travels for his stories. He is the author of five best-selling travel books, including “Shopping for Buddhas” and “The Size of the World.”

STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS has enjoyed three previous sold out runs at The Marsh since its 2003 premier.

The Marsh welcomes back Brian Copeland’s NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN

July 17 through July 26

Thursday & Friday at 8:00 pm and Saturday at 5:00 pm

The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22^nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $25-50 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750

“…engaging…Copeland knows how to spin a dramatic yarn.” -New York Times!

NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN, the longest running solo show in San Francisco history, returns to The Marsh for a limited two week engagement (there will be no extensions). These performances are a benefit for The Marsh (which is really determined to buy those long-awaited new chairs) and our chance to salute Brian’s return to the Bay Area stage after his severe spinal chord injury.

NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN, reveals a little-known chapter of Bay Area history. In 1971, San Leandro was named one of the most racist suburbs in America. Congressional hearings were held. The next year, the then eight-year-old Brian Copeland and his African-American family moved to San Leandro. In a monologue that's both funny and poignant, Brian explores how surroundings make us who we are.

Join us for an evening of laughter tears and sociology.

The Marsh presents Victoria Doggett’s KISS MY BOOTH

July 26 – July 29 at 8:00 pm

The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22^nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $20-35 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750

During The SF International Gift Fair at the Moscone Convention Center

Doggett is the owner of Italian Harvest, a wholesale import business specializing in Italian foods and ceramics. She exhibits at trade shows and is fascinated by the surreal environment, the strange and quirky personalities. Not only does she encounter booth “babes,” for example, she finds herself hiring one. And the element of espionage intrigues her as she tries to guess at the sometimes mixed motives of the buyers showing interest in her products (are they spies? are they journalists?) Doggett depicts the stress, the humor and the competitiveness of working these shows with wit and insight, all the while hoping that the perfect buyer will come in and place orders for her pasta.

The Marsh presents Liza Raynal’s AMERICAN JOE

July 3 through August 15

Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 pm

The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22^nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $15-35 Sliding Scale on Thursday. $22-35 Sliding Scale on Friday and Saturday. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750

Come and celebrate the troops the San Francisco Way!

“Wrenching, funny, endearing, maddening, and deeply moving.”

Sister. Brother.

She's older. He always wanted to be first.

She wears ballet flats. He wears steel-toed boots.

They're both exercising their rights.

His Second Amendment. Her First.

She's an English teacher. He's an Army recon sniper.

Joe's heading to Afghanistan. Liza's coming to the Marsh to tell her side of the story.

All they're missing is you.

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