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Chemystery: Boston Magic Lab

Chemystery: Boston Magic Lab

Friday, December 16. 2022 at 8pm

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Boston Magic Lab is bringing to Cambridge three national-level magicians. For one night only, you don’t need to fly to the Magic Castle in Los Angeles or to a Las Vegas theater; you just need to get a ticket right here in Central Square. These are magicians at the top of their field & renowned for their skills: showcasing Paige Thompson, Meadow Perry, and Kayla Drescher (as seen on the CW’s Penn & Teller’s Fool Us!)

Chemystery is a Boston Magic Lab production. The Boston Magic Lab is home of The Magic Lab, Boston’s monthly open mic magic show.

Chemistry (noun)

– a science that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations that they undergo

– interaction between people working together

Chemystery (noun)

– a transformation undergone by magicians who have spent years perfecting their craft – masters of entertainment & the magical arts

– magicians working so well together that the electricity of their rapport is undeniable

A photographer or videographer will be present and filming/taking photos of the show. Purchasing a ticket conveys consent with being filmed or photographed during your time in the theater.

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That’s What She Said: Medusa Reclaimed

The Nora’s That’s What She Said program presents Medusa Reclaimed, a timely myth of reparation, redemption, and reckoning where the world of gods and mortals is flipped upside down. This workshop directed by Eileen Little stirs Medusa’s voice in all of us with an active cast of 6 actors in multiple roles utilizing dialogue, movement, aerial theater, shadow puppetry by Norah Solorzano, and music by the band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?.

Medusa Reclaimed premiered as an animated radio play with live music in a 2019 sold-out Summer run in the Charles Hayden Planetarium at Museum of Science, Boston. In 2021, the creative team was awarded a Boston Foundation LAB grant to further develop the play for Boston audiences. Learn more at MedusaReclaimed.com

All tickets are Pay What You Can.

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Stones to Rainbows: Queer Cabarets

QUEER CABARETS, the performance project that has grown from STONES TO RAINBOWS/GAY TO QUEER LIVES, the award winning  multi-media installation developed with LGBTQ+ voices from all points on the spectrum by Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion, comes to the stage this coming Pride Month – June, 2022.

Live performers for QUEER CABARETS are all members of the Boston-region’s eclectic LGBTQ+ artist community – singers, comedians, dancers, poets and drag artists.

QUEER CABARETS will be presented with a rotating cast of intergenerational and intersectional performers that perform live  – cradled by an installation of previously recorded  multi-media interviews featuring area and national LGBTQ+ community members, ages 20’s to 70’s and from all points on the LGBTQ+ spectrum. Expect performances of stellar music, dance, spoken word, comedy and just downright fabulousness – can we say high-heeled pole-dancing meets Cole Porter? –  along with the funny and often poignant reflections on gay to queer lives over the span of 100 years.

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Humor for Humanity: Jimmy Tingle Live! NO MASK

Humor for Humanity: Jimmy Tingle Live! NO MASK

October 11 & 12 at 7pm
All tickets $20. Fees apply.
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Comedian Jimmy Tingle weaves the good, the bad and the ugly of the pandemic with the humor, hope and humanity the world so desperately needs in 2021. If laughter is the best medicine then Jimmy Tingle is the Dr Fauci of political humor.

About Jimmy Tingle

Jimmy Tingle is a comedian, commentator, actor and the founder of Humor for Humanity. He was a 2018 democratic candidate for Lt Governor of Massachusetts and received 41.3% of the vote in the Massachusetts primary in September of 2018.

He is a graduate of UMASS Dartmouth and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration (MPA). He was the graduate school commencement speaker at Harvard graduation for the class of 2010.

He has worked as a humorist and commentator for 60 Minutes II and MSNBC and has appeared on The Tonight Show, CNN, Conan O’Brien, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and in his own HBO half-hour comedy special.

He recently had a cameo appearance with Julia Loise-Dreyfus in Veep on HBO.

Theatrical credits include writing, performing and producing several one-person shows including Uncommon Sense; Jimmy Tingle for President- The Funniest campaign in History and Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream.

He has appeared in several documentary films including Damned in the USA; America with the Top Down; When Stand up Stood Out; Call Me Lucky directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream which Jimmy wrote and produced. It was directed by Vincent Straggas.

Feature film work includes Next Stop Wonderland; Boondock Saints; Head of State starring Chris Rock and Clear History starring Larry David.

Tingle has the rare distinction of winning Boston Magazine’s “Best of Boston” in the “stand-up comedy” category and for “best alternative theater” as the producer and artistic director of Jimmy Tingle’s OFF BROADWAY Theater in Somerville.

He is the founder of a new social enterprise entitled “Humor for Humanity” which aspires to raise spirits, funds and awareness for nonprofits, charities and social causes through his work as a comedian, emcee and auctioneer.

His latest film “Jimmy Tingle’s 20/20 Vision: Why would a comedian run for office?” is a funny, thought provoking and hopeful look at contemporary life and politics through the experience of comedian, commentator and 2018 candidate for LT Governor of Massachusetts, Jimmy Tingle.

The show will help answer the question “why would a comedian run for office” as it illuminates the 2018 campaign of Jimmy Tingle with passion, purpose and a sense of humor. As the nation looks past the presidential campaign of 2020, Jimmy Tingle’s 20/20 Vision will entertain, enlighten and challenge the audience to move beyond the current politics of presidential tweets, sound bites and the nightly news cycle and into the realm of long-term thinking and life affirming possibility.

His latest one-person theatre show “Humor for Humanity: Jimmy Tingle Live! NO MASK” weaves the good, the bad and the ugly of the pandemic with the humor, hope and humanity the world so desperately needs in 2021. If laughter is the best medicine, then Jimmy Tingle is the Dr Fauci of political humor.

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Genie in the Machine: Virtual Play Readings on Artificial Intelligence

Join us April 18th, April 25th, and May 2nd at 8pm for Genie in the Machine: Virtual Play Readings on Artificial Intelligence. Each night, 10-minute play readings will be presented via Zoom and Facebook Live by the Catalyze Playwriting Group, inspired by Ada and the Engine.

April 18th – The Canteen – by Carl Danielson & The Orphidy Smorlack Variety Hour – by Nathan Comstock

April 25th – Deaths of Despair – by Anna Waldman-Brown & HadalyGirl – by Zach Barryte and Rachel Bowens-Rubin
May 2nd – Edisons – by Austin Hendricks
Zoom Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/801660241
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