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PENNY ARCADE
(1950 - )
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Penny arcade (born Susana Ventura July 5, 1950), is an American performance artist, actress, and playwright based in New York City. photo Jasmine Hirst
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1001 Nights Of Penny Arcade, The / Talking Out Loud / New York Values
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Alive And Kicking
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Artist Survivor
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B!D!F!W!
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Penny Arcade B!D!F!W! is one of the most exuberant events ever to emerge from New York's downtown art scene. Blending outrageous humor, razor sharp satire, theatre, cabaret and erotic go-go dancing with uplifting audience dance breaks, B!D!F!W! propels the anarchic into the mainstream, creating a freedom of speech anthem and political provocation for our times.
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Old Vic Tunnels, London 08 Aug 2012
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Bad Reputations
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Penny arcade's hystErically funny and heartrending play about a young teen runaway's coming of age in a Catholic reform school run by nuns who were former fashion models, her subsequent life on the streets of '60s New York, and her survival and transcendence of drugs, crime and sexual brutality
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Based On A True Story
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Bid For the Big Time
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The Ballroom, NYC, NY Aug 1988
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Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!
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Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! is one of the most exuberant events ever to emerge from New York's downtown art scene. Blending outrageous humour, razor sharp satire, theatre, cabaret and erotic go-go dancing with uplifting audience dance breaks, B!D!F!W! propels the anarchic into the mainstream creating a freedom of speech anthem and political provocation for our times.
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and Her Dancers
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P.S. 122150 1st aVenue, New York, NY 10003 Jul 1990
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Bringing It All Back Home
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Escape From the East Village NY NY
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Bam Cafe, NY, NY Dec 2004
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Etiquette Of Death, The
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Death is a messy and terrifying horror. Or, it can be a quiet, unapologetic thief in the night. For the past twenty-five years living in the east Village Chris Tanner has been surrounded by death. He's obsessed with how the dying and those who love them behave in the face of it. When you explore the artifice and manners that surround this unruly journeythe etiquette of deaththe outcome can be absurd, paradoxical, wrenching, and at times, hilarious. He's asked a group of artists he admires to help him put together a collage of scenes, songs, poetry, music and dance that explores the etiquette of Death.
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Contributing writers And composers include Penny Arcade, Lance Cruce, Angela DiCarlo, Martha Girdler, Jeremy Halpern, John Jesurun, Beena Kamlani, Taylor Mac, Stephen McCauley, edgar Oliver, Brandon Olson, Greta Jane Pedersen, Jon Ritter, Penny Rockwell, Tony Stavick, Sebastian Stuart And Chris Tanner.
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Evening With Penny Arcade And Quentin Crisp, An
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Vienna Festival, Vienna, Austria May 1995
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Invisible On the Street
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University Of The Streets, NYC, NY Nov 1986
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Invitation To the Beginning Of the End Of the World
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La Miseria
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a rare depiction of working class Italian-Americans from a woman's point of view: Penny arcade's hilarious and heartbreaking portrayal of the clash between working class morals and compassion during the 1980s aIDS epidemic
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P.S. 122150 1st aVenue, New York, NY 10003 Mar 1991
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Lady Fest
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Olympia, Wa Aug 2000
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Last Will And Testament Of Quentin Crisp, The
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Knitting Factory, NYC, NY Sep 1999
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Longing Lasts Longer
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Howl! Festival Rooftop Rant Solo, NYC, NY Aug 2004
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Love, Sex And Sanity
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New York Values
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Old Queen
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Old Queen is arcade's attempt to fathom the loss of a gay culture that is mostly gone, due in part to the ravages of AIDS, as well as the social and economic trends of the last 20 years. the free-spirited gay subculture that celebrated individuality, creativity, and intelligence is now almost entirely a memory-one that arcade is determined to preserve. arcade creates her pieces improvisationally, in front of an audience, so seeing any of the nine performances of Old Queen is a chance to watch-and participate in-a step of her creative process. She values the artistically engaged audience as an important component of her work, and there's a sense that she is watching you as carefully as you're watching her.
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Operating Under the Influence
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Penny Arcade At the Warhol Museum
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Penny Arcade In Motion
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Fez Night Club, NYC, NY Jan 2005
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Penny Arcade Longing Lasts Longer
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Edinburgh's only double award winning show from New York's undisputed queen of the underground is an exuberant performance anthem and passionate rumination on love, longing and loss. In equal parts memoir and manifesto, Arcade's razor sharp satire is mixed live to euphoric soundscapes inspired by four decades of pop culture. Driven by her magnetic rock n' roll energy, Penny Arcade creates a crack in the post-gentrified landscape where you can think, laugh and dance at the same time!
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Penny Arcade Solo Work
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Poetry Project, NYC, NY Feb 1885
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Quit Evening With Sid And Nancy, A
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Chelsea Hotel, NYC, NY For En Garde Arts Jan 1988
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Rebellion Cabaret
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Knitting Factory, NYC, NY 1999
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Sex. Politics. Reality.
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Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, Festival Aug 2001
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Sisi Sings the Blues
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Vienna Festival, Vienna, Austria May 1996
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State Of Grace
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Sunday Tea With Quentin Crisp
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True Stories
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Virtual Arcade Cyber Performance And Interview Show
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Knitting Factory, NYC, NY Jan 2000
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While You Were Out
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P.S. 122150 1st aVenue, New York, NY 10003 Jun 1985
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Working My Way Down
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Fez Night Club, NYC, NY Mar 2003
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