Past Shows
47 WAYS TO DIE
a horror cabaret show
47 Ways to Die is a delightfully dark evening of unexpected deaths and dancing. Get your groove on with zombies as you step into the nightlife of the afterlife!
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JERKUS CIRCUS
produced and hosted by The Steamy Bohemians
Jerkus Circus is America's most delinquent traveling circus, created, produced, and hosted by The Steamy Bohemians. It�s the award-winning campy cabaret show that will steal your heart - and your identity, to download porn. Called "haute vaudeville" and winner of "Best Nouveau Vaudeville" for 2009 by the Boston Phoenix, Jerkus Circus brings back variety in style, including wildly diverse performance artists, uniquely hilarious comedic acts, pasties, drug references, and all your favorite swear words. Watch us channel the gods of chaos! Our struggle will seem effortless. What song will Lainey forget how to play? What will Niki pull out of her boobs? There's only one way to find out. Come see hilarious comedians, scary weirdos, sexy dancing, feats of daring, and fabulous music.
ALL THE KINGS MEN
All The Kings Men (ATKM) is an award-winning, all female, Boston-based performance troupe that creates wholly electrifying cabaret-style and modern vaudevillian productions. Since April of 2002, ATKM have been bringing their unique brand of entertainment to hundreds of venues across the United States and internationally. Their ever-changing show features a troupe of six prolific artists who collectively play more than fifty characters per performance. Incorporating pop-cultural satire, dance, scene work, gender-play, socio-political commentary, burlesque, multi-media, comedy and drama.
BOILING POINT BURLESQUE
If you missed it the first time you won't want to make that mistake again- Halloween weekend make
sure to stop by our remount of this sexy, funny, bawdy, acrobatic spectacle!
Featuring old and new acts: Big Moves, Babes in Boinkland, Lainey Schooltree and Molly Zenobia,
Miss Lolita LeVamp, Miss Nicholle Pride, The Naked Comic, Sugar Dish's Slutcracker Teaser, Maria Kogan,
Miss Femme Brulee, Stage Kitten Extraordinaire Penny Candy, UnAmerika's Sweetheart Karin Webb,
the Legendary Mary Dolan, and more! For more information go to www.axe2ice.com
Vintage Globestomp II: Copal + Haale [solo] + Vadalna + Kassar
An evening of otherworldly beauty and grace
Copal and Vadalna present Vintage Globestomp II: an evening of otherworldly beauty and grace.
Drawing on Persian mystical and American folk traditions, Haale weaves engaging lyrics and
trance-inducing melodies in a rare solo acoustic set, which will open the night.
Copal blends the haunting sounds of violin and cello with world rhythms, electronic soundscapes,
and original melodies rooted in global traditions. The evening features Kassar Tribal Dance Duo
and Vadalna Tribal Dance Co., east coast tribal dance troupes who meld Middle Eastern movement and
rhythms with hip hop and beats of the electronic underground, the ancient with the ultra-modern,
the intensely personal with the universal and archetypal. Come early and stay late for the full experience.
The Rocky Horror Show Live!
The cult classic has come to Cambridge for a one night only engagement!
Follow Brad and Janet, an ordinary couple, on an outrageous journey through
Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle. Little do they know that they have stumbled
on the night Frank is to unveil his "beautiful creature", Rocky! This action
packed show is full of laughs, sex, and even murder! Featuring Richard O'Brien's
fantastic score including "Time Warp", "Sweet Transvestite", "Science Fiction",
and many more! "The Rocky Horror Show" is playing one night only at Oberon!
V for Vixen, presented by The Boston Babydolls
A wintertime, wartime fable told in swingtime
Boston's burlesque home team is coming to Oberon for one performance only: a magical
night that re-creates a Golden Age of Burlesque that never really was. It's the
ultimate burlesque experience--an elegant evening of rhinestones and feather boas,
of spectacle, sailors, and speakeasy. Come party on the dance floor like its 1939
as the U.S.O.-inspired show unfolds on all sides of you. It's a wartime, wintertime
fable told in swingtime. The living is easy as Oberon is transformed into a fantasy
blend of the best parts of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
"The Boston burlesque scene is heating up, and The Babydolls are at the helm of
it all" [Boston.com]
To honor the brave men and women of the United States armed forces, The Boston
Babydolls are pleased to offer a 50% discount on advanced tickets to those on active
duty. Just enter the code "HERO" when purchasing your tickets and show your military
I.D. at the door when picking up your tickets.
WONDERLAND
Dance on down the rabbit hole
Join Sexy Alice as she journeys through a world of bondage cards, naughty bunnies,
coked-out hatters, and fabulous queens! Flesh, music, drinks, and desire...a special
one-night-only engagement sure to titillate, tease, bewitch and amuse.
O.N.C.E IN HELL: DANTE'S INFERNO IN TEN COURSES
Your lost love Beatrice has summoned you to join Cuisine en Locale and her friends at OBERON for a culinary and theatrical interpretation of the venerable 14th c. work by Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia: INFERNO
Cost of admission includes a ten courses of locally sourced food along with an epic performance, followed by a dance party in Heaven. Gratuity and alcohol not included. Full bar available as well as a special cocktail and wine menu. Not suitable for vegetarians. O.N.C.E. in Hell does contain strobe lights. For more information on the culinary experience, visit www.cuisineenlocale. Beatrice has called...how deep will you go ... For the love of your life?
JAZZ, ETC.
Presented by Giafrese Productions
You are invited to join Giafrese Productions for an evening of champagne cocktails and live musical talents in celebration of the upcoming Holiday Season. Oberon will host fine young musical talents, with singers and ensembles from the Boston and Cambridge areas for your entertainment. Toast the end of 2009 in style, as Jazz, Pop and Folk music provide for an unforgettable evening.
NAKED COMEDY SHOWCASE
Created and hosted by Boston comic, Andy Ofiesh, the NAKED COMEDY SHOWCASE returns to OBERON with an eclectic roster of stand-up, sketch, and improv artists, all completely in the buff! Andy has been drawing crowds in with a unique blend of clever wit and nudity in various venues from New York to Boston to Scotland, where he had a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Bent Wit Cabaret
Brought to you by Axe To Ice Productions
A High-End Low-Brow Variety Show
Don't Miss this exotic event! Hosted by Mary Dolan and UnAmerika's Sweetheart Karin Webb, featuring the stylings of house band extraordinaire Elephant Tango Ensemble, and boasting a roundabout of the best performers we can find monthly. January's theme is Blue and genius interpretations are brought to you by Boston Tap Company, Lolli Hoops, Sugar Dish, Johnny Blazes, Femme Brulee, Julee Antonellis, Le Roi Noir, Lainey Schooltree, and ever so much more...For more information visit www.axe2ice.com.
A Dozen Things I want to do on stage
A one woman cabaret by Rebecca Nagle with acts by Aquanette Jones, Frenchy Distemper, Miss Madison West, Johnny Blazes, Intro to Anatomy, Haywood Wakefield and Madge of Honor
A Dozen Things I want to do on stage is a new one-woman cabaret by Rebecca Nagle. Of the dozen, Nagle will undress to "Wenn Ich Mir Was Wunschen Durfte", fit in a small box, tell your secrets, discuss why something is racist, fall in love, read her fantasies, act out your fantasies, induce a tragedy, fall down, take truth serum while letting the audience ask her questions, tell a tall tale, and disembowel herself. Using the format of 1920's political European cabaret, A Dozen Things combines contortion, burlesque, poerty, games, lecture, ritual, confession, audience participation, science experiments, real-life moments and staged performance to deliver hard truths, half-truths and straight up lies. The cabaret plays with the familiar themes and tropes of the human condition, namely: sexuality, violence, fantasy, love, tragedy, ecstasy, history, and death. Nagle pits reality and action against fantasy and performance for an all out social deconstructionist battle..
Naked Girls Reading
Michelle L'amour's NAKED GIRLS READING is coming to OBERON!
Naked Girls Reading is a group of beautiful ladies who love to read...naked...out loud...in front of an audience. That's really it. There's not a whole lot more to it. You don't have to look for something larger here...once you experience it, you'll know. There's something beautiful and more intimate about a woman reading while naked; showcasing her mind and body at the same time. It's both extremely simple and profoundly complex.
Naked Girls Reading was started in Chicago in March 2009 by international burlesque sensation Michelle L'amour and producer Franky Vivid. The idea had rolled around in their heads for a few years in different formats, but with the opening of Chicago's Studio L'amour in 2008 they had found the perfect venue for an intimate live event. After the very first reading it was obvious to all in attendance that something big had just happened. Immediately, the press took hold and emails started coming in from cities all over the country from ladies interested in starting their own franchise. Now Boston joins Chicago, L.A., New York, Denver, and a whole host of other great cities as an official chapter of Naked Girls Reading.
The event is elegant and powerful, sexy and funny, and can be anything else from sweet to uplifting to melancholy. One thing's for sure, an evening at Naked Girls Reading is memorable, and may just change your life. You can read more about NAKED GIRLS READING at www.NakedGirlsReading.com or contact us at NGRBoston@gmail.com.
Stone Soup
A Hearty Theatrical Brought to You by New Exhibition Room
Drink, Dance, and Help Us Get Our Theater On.
Banish those January blues with a hearty dose of our annual potluck feast of the imagination - Stone Soup. Our midwinter theatrical brings together a sampling of local artists creating a healthy helping of musical and theatrical wonders to warm your generous spirits.
What's in our soup? We've brought together the drunken song stylings of The Steamy Bohemians, a pinch of The Movement Workshop Groups' rock n' roll meets flamenco piece Wanderlust. Then we're gonna turn up the heat with the Macabre Cabaret 47 Ways To Die from Aimee Rose Ranger and Veroncia Barron. Then we're gonna introduce you to The Prions - featuring Chuong Pham, Molly Schreiber and Alex Simoes, and of course we're gonna spice it nice with UnAmerika's Sweetheart Karin Webb. And you know who's stirrin' our pot? The one and only Mary Dolan! Soup's on people, come and get it!
After the performance stay for dancing! All proceeds from this performance will support our next free original production, Candyland, and the entry of our first show, Shh! into the New York Fringe Festival..
Reel Love
Three Films about Love among the Orthodox in Israel
Relationships are complicated enough here at home. Imagine what they must be like in an Orthodox community in Israel! Join Prism for an interactive screening of three short films about the triumphs and challenges of love. Created by young Israeli filmmakers from the only orthodox film school in Israel, the Ma'aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts in Jerusalem, And Thou Shalt Love follows the story of Ohad, a gay seminary student who falls in love with his study partner. The Orthodox Way is a comedy of errors about blind dating, and Willingly provides a rare, poignant window into the Jewish divorce ceremony. We'll use the films to spark small group discussions - you can grab a drink at the Oberon bar, sit next to new friends, and talk about the themes at the heart of each short film. For more information, visit New Center Boston.
The Big Quiz Thing
New York City's Live Trivia Spectacular
For one-night only, the ultimate live trivia game comes to Boston, with a massive $200 grand prize.
Having entertained thousands in New York and nationwide, the Big Quiz Thing now brings its multimedia team-trivia spectacular to OBERON. Quizmaster Noah Tarnow-the trivia king of NYC-joined by DJ sidekick EDP and the B-Cuties, presents the ultimate test of useless knowledge, for a very grand prize of $200 cash. Featuring "The Bipolar Movie Challenge," "Really,Really,Really Slow Songs," Smart-Ass Points for wrong but funny answers, the Lightning Round, the Three-Way Finish, and a whole lot more. More details and clues at bigquizthing.com and twitter.com/bigquizthing.
The Red Light Revue
Presented by Rogue Burlesque
Striptease, Aerialists, Contortion, Dance Party, and Muppets...Yes, Muppets.
Glittering gals Dixie Douya, Busty Keaton, Ms. Sassypants, and Lilly Bordeaux will seduce and amuse you. Special guests Dominique Immora and the magnificent Morgan of the Boston Circus Guild will astound you as they spin above the stage. DJ Chris Ewen (of HEROES) spins a mix of 80s, glam, goth, and New Wave. Influenced by film noir, Looney Tunes, punk rock, and circus arts, Rogue Burlesque invites you to GO ROGUE!
Mortified
Angst Written.
Hailed as a "cultural phenomenon" by Newsweek and celebrated for years by the likes of This American Life, The Today Show, Esquire, The Onion AV Club, Daily Candy, Entertainment Weekly, and E!, Mortified is a comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Witness adults sharing their own adolescent journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more. The largest and longest-running project of its kind, Mortified produces comedic content for the stage, the page, and the web. Its latest book, Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield, is in stores everywhere. Visit us at http://www.getmortified.com..
Burlesque Virgins
A Tasty Sampling of Some Red-Hot Burlesque First-timers and more!
THE BOSTON ACADEMY OF BURLESQUE EDUCATION is the training
branch of THE BOSTON BABYDOLLS - New England's leading burlesque troupe. For years, the tassel-twirling teachers and perfectly pulchritudinous professors of B.A.B.E have been molding ordinary women and men into rhinestone studded, bumping, grinding, divas of burlesque! Our latest graduates are joined by some of Boston's "hidden gems" of burlesque for a class recital like you've never seen before! For more information visit BostonBabydolls.net
CodeSwitch7
Black Out. Flip the Switch.
Join CodeSwitch7, the seven African-American actors at Harvard's Institute for Advanced Theater Training, as they explore the definition of blackness in an evening of performance, conversation and music.
You might get uncomfortable. You will have fun.
CodeSwitch7: Renee-Marie Brewster, Kelley Green, Anthony Gaskins, Faith Imafidon, Richard Scott, Lindsay Strachan, and Charles Settles, Jr.
Find out more about CodeSwitch7 in the Harvard Crimson: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/2/2/code-7-race/
Annie Darcy Band
All the Kings Men
The one and only award-winning, all female, character-based comedy, burlesque, dance, and performance troupe
We're packing for a London Theater Festival - please come see our fund-raising show!
Since April of 2002, ATKM has been bringing their unique brand of entertainment from Boston to hundreds of venues across the United States and internationally. Their ever-changing show features a troupe of six prolific artists who collectively play more than fifty gender bending characters per performance. Incorporating pop-cultural satire, dance, scene work, storytelling, socio-political commentary, burlesque, multi-media, comedy and drama, All The Kings Men seek to create unique experiences that excite, engage, educate and entertain. For more information visit ATKM.com
Boston Comedy Showcase
Presented by Peter Norris and Shereen Kassam
A night of stand-up comedy showcasing Boston's funniest, hottest, and most fabulous comedians!
The line-up for Boston Comedy Showcase:
Joe Wong - Late Show with David Letterman & The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Corey Manning - Jamie Foxx's Laffapalooza
Mehran - Boston Comedy Festival Finalist & Brown and Friendly Tour
Lady Vain - Boston's Martin Lawrence 1st Amendment's Comedy Showcase & NE DEF Comedy Jam Showcase
Dan Crohn - Boston Comedy Festival Semi-Finalist
Shereen Kassam -Magner's Comedy Festival Boston Semi-Finalist & SlumDog Comedy Tour
V for Vixen 2.0
Presented by The Boston Babydolls
Back by popular demand!
Boston's burlesque home team is coming to OBERON one more time! V FOR VIXEN Redux: The 18.27% New Stuff Show is magical night that re-creates a Golden Age of Burlesque that never really was. It's the ultimate burlesque experience--an elegant evening of rhinestones and feather boas, of spectacle, sailors, and speakeasy. Come party on the dance floor like it's 1939 as the U.S.O.-inspired show unfolds on all sides of you. It's a wartime, wintertime fable told in swingtime. The living is easy as Oberon is transformed into a fantasy blend of the best parts of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. "The Boston burlesque scene is heating up, and The Babydolls are at the helm of it all" [Boston.com]
KLOCKWERQ
An Evening of Steampunk Entertainments
Top hats and automatons, steam power and hoop skirts are all in fasion for Boston's only retro-futuristic dance party.
The calliope creaks, the wax cylinders spin and music fills the air! Ladies and gentlemen of both good repute and ill-fame gather to take their ease at KLOCKWERQ! Boston's only steampunk dance party features a musical performance from Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, and bellydance from Troupe Moirae. Plus coin-operated girls, special surprises, and more!
