Pearls Over Shanghai
HELD OVER: Through December 19, 2010!
Thrillpeddlers celebrate the 40th anniversary of the gender-bending theatrical troupe The Cockettes with this psychedelic musical inspired by sin-soaked Old Shanghai and Busby Berkeley movie musicals from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
“Minute for minute, you simply won’t find a more joyously zany show in San Francisco” – SF Weekly
“A shockingly filthy good time” – Violet Blue
“One of the top 3 productions of 2009″ – Bay Area Reporter
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Shocktoberfest!! 2010: Kiss Of Blood
Thrillpeddlers are proud to announce our signature Halloween show SHOCKTOBERFEST!! 2010: KISS OF BLOOD, the 11th annual presentation of Grand Guignol terror plays and titillating farces running Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 pm from Sept. 30 through Nov. 19, 2010, with a special Halloween performance on Sunday, Oct. 31 at 8:00 pm.
The program features 3 One-Act plays, including the Grand Guignol classic KISS OF BLOOD, as well as LIPS OF THE DAMNED and THE EMPRESS OF COLMA, two original plays in the Grand Guignol tradition. Thrillpeddlers’ famed black-out spook show finale will leave you screaming for more.
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Recent Press
By Nicole Gluckstern for the SF Bay Guradian :: It's been a different kind of thrill down at the Hypnodrome as Thrillpeddlers enters the 11th month of extensions for its runaway smash hit, The Cockettes' musical Pearls Over Shanghai. One hundred performances strong (as of May 1) and with no end in sight, Thrillpeddlers has slyly redefined its brand of thrills to embrace a wholly different genre besides the Grand Guignol revivalism for which it ...
By Leslie Katz for the SF Examiner :: Not only has “Pearls Over Shanghai” survived a flash flood that closed it down for several weeks, the good-humored, gender-bending show is hosting guests of national prominence and questionable tastes — such as John Waters. The director of the 1972 cult classic “Pink Flamingos” (as well as the original “Hairspray”) was in the house at the refurbished Hypnodrome Theatre (in an alley on 10th Street near Bryant) as Thrillpeddlers ...
Chris Jensen for the SF Weekly :: In November 1971, a San Francisco theater troupe became the laughingstock of New York. The Cockettes were a ragtag bunch of acid-tripping Bay Area misfits who had started performing less than two years earlier at the Palace Theater in North Beach. Rex Reed happened to catch a local performance and wrote breathless praise in his nationally syndicated column, calling them "a landmark in the history of new, liberated theater." ...
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John Waters Visits The Hypnodrome
It was quite a thrill for Thrillpeddlers last Friday night when John Waters came the Hypnodrome to see “Pearls Over Shanghai.” The visit was planned well in advance and I could feel our excitement mounting from the moment we heard the news last November that he was all set to come on January 8th. [...]
Amazing Halloween Weekend at the Hypnodrome
True to form, Halloween weekend was a blast at The Hypnodrome. We sold out all three performances of Shocktoberfest!! 2009: The Torture Garden (including a special midnight show on Halloween night). The 8 pm performance of Peals Over Shanghai was standing room only with most of the audience in full costume. [...]
Thrillpeddlers on “Inside City Limits”
A news story about Thrillpeddlers’ tenth annual Shocktoberfest!! will being airing this week on “Inside City Limits” on Comcast’s channel 11 in San Francisco. The air dates are 10/21 – 24 (Wednesday at 9 pm, Thur at 8 pm, and Fri and Sat at 6:30 pm). The TV crew came to interview me [...]
