The Marsh extends Wayne Harris’ MAY DAY PARADE The Marsh presents Lunatique Fantastique’s Wrapping Paper The Marsh presents Carlo D’Amore’s NO PAROLE The Marsh presents Brian Copeland’s Not A Genuine Black Man The Marsh presents Judy Juanita’s COUNTER-TERRORISM The Marsh presents Kenny Yun’s LETTUCE TOWN LIES

The show plays Saturday at 8:00 pm through December 13, 2008 in The Marsh Studio Theater, 1074 Valencia Street, San Francisco.

Tickets are $15-35 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

“A brilliant performance by a uniquely talented artist.” My Cultural Landscape Blog: George Heymont

”The San Francisco Theater Blog Awards Division awards 'May Day Parade' three stars with a Bangle of Praise. Two of the three stars are for Harris's writing and performing, but the third is for all those drum lines. He is such a musical force on stage that it is hard to stay seated in your little red chair. This viewer wanted to stand up and form a Second Line right behind him.” SF Theater Blog: Doug Konecky
“Just the sight of them big butt girls in short skirts doing the “dirty dog” down Newstead Blvd. put the crowd into a frenzy…I mean, folks were following the band down the street. Ain’t seen nothing like it before or since.”

There’s a parade coming! ….so, get a seat on the curb with a snow cone and watch as Wayne Harris portrays 1 Baptist preacher, 3 generations on a porch, a 4 man bass drum ensemble, 12 rather large “letter” girls bumping and grinding down a mid-town boulevard and the 100 member Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church Drum & Bugle Corps.

Award winning performer and San Francisco Bay Area favorite, Wayne Harris, takes us on a road less traveled…(or maybe less marched) as he prepares at 8 years old, for his first parade maneuvering between a jealous big brother, a drunken deacon, a foul mouthed banner partner, new shoes and a grandmother of biblical proportions…. all while learning the value of family, history and the importance of staying in step!
Bay Area Theater, drum and bugle corps, solo performance, polio

A Family Show For All Ages!

The show plays at 3:30 pm on The Marsh Main Stage, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22nd Street in San Francisco on the following dates:
December 7 (Sun)
December 13 ,14 (Sat, Sun)
December 20, 21 (Sat, Sun)
December 22, 27 28 (Mon, Sat, Sun)
December 29 (Mon)
January 3, 4 (Sat, Sun)

Tickets are $10 (diminished view); $15 regular seating; $50 front section reserved seating with goodie bag. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

"Quick, imaginative, and delightfully funny." SF Chronicle

" A stunning tribute to creativity." Contra Costa Times

" A remarkably clever and moving form of visual poetry." San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Her work strikes an instant chord with audience members." SF Weekly

Live 3D Animatiion!

Liebe Wetzel has the packing materials taking matters into their own, er... “hands” in her show, The Wrapping Paper Caper, this year’s holiday offering for kids of all ages from Lunatique Fantastique. In true private eye guise, our Bogart-esque “detective” follows a trail of styrofoam packing-peanuts, encountering a witty and wonder-filled cast of characters along the way, including an elegant wrapping-paper damsel in “dis-dress”, a cardboard-tube horse, a packing-box Zamboni and a cast of bread rolls, cutlery, linens and dishware that display extremely unusual table manners.

The show plays Thursday thru Saturday at 8:00 pm from November 13 – December 13, 2008 on The Marsh Main Stage, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $15-35 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org
Anyone with a mother should see this!
No Parole is a hoot! It’s a dark engrossingly hilarious roller-coaster ride, full of crime, a Peruvian diva-like matriarch and rags-to-riches-to-rags immigrants. This autobiographical solo play explores the nature of sons and mothers while telling the tale of this extraordinary family. There truly is no parole from family.
Carlo directed the New York premiere of Voices From Guantanamo. A dramatization of poems written by detainees held at Guantanamo Bay for Actors and Poets Group. The poems were all published by the Iowa Press in conjunction with the Center For Constitutional Rights and Amnesty International and were greatly anticipated in their New York debut.

Broadway credits include the Round About Theater Company’s production of Tennessee William's "Summer and Smoke" directed by David Warren, and most recently “Latinologues” directed by Cheech Marin where he played seven different characters to sold out crowds at the Helen Hayes Theater.

Regional acting credits include three productions at the legendary Magic Theater and four productions at Theater Rhino, including solo work on the highly awarded "Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown".

Film and Television credits include being directed by Spike Lee for a project at “Forty Acres and a Mule.” His television debut was in the critically acclaimed series “OZ,” opposite Rita Moreno, directed by Tom Fontana.

Directed by Margarett Perry.

Three performances only! A benefit for The Marsh! December 4 thru 6, 2008. Thursday and Friday at 8:00 pm and Saturday at 5:00 pm. On The Marsh Main Stage, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22nd Street in San Francisco.

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

NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN, the longest running solo show in San Francisco history, 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.

One Performance only! Wednesday, November 19 @ 7:30 pm

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

Tickets are $10-15 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

Homeless, pontificating Ann (Cathleen Riddle) invades the mind of educated, shopaholic Tylea (Judy Juanita) in this two-woman play about identity, sexuality and acknowledging “the other” in troubled times.

Judy Juanita’s COUNTER-TERRORISM was a Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2004 winner. Her plays include “Theodicy” (1st runner up in the 2007 Eileen Heckart Senior Drama Play Contest at Ohio State); “Heaven’s Hold,” (Brava Theatre and 2001 National Black Theater Festival); ‘Knocked Up”, a commedia dell’Arte she co-wrote about RU-486 which tours periodically with the SF Mime Troupe; and farces “Famine,” “The History of Sweat” and “Samaritan-ism” (Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley). She received an MFA from San Francisco State University.

Cathleen Riddley, an alumna of The Juilliard School Drama Division, stars in “The America Play” at Thick Description this November. She has also appeared at Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks, MTC, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, A.C.T., Willows Theatre Company and Center Rep. As vocalist for Sweetie Pie And The Doughboys, she belts out Blues, Rock & Roll and R&B.

One Performance only! Wednesday, December 10 @ 7:30 pm

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

Tickets are $10-15 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

He's Gay. He's Asian. He's coming of age in Lettucetown. If that’s not bad enough, he's got a crush on a hick. If that’s not bad enough, his friends think fun is blowing up lettuce. If that’s not bad enough, he has to sneak to the bathroom to buy drugs and Donna Summer records. Adolescence! It's fun, it's lies. In Lettucetown.