Now Playing at the Hypnodrome: Shocktoberfest!! 2009: Torture Garden Thursdays and Fridays through Nov. 20th Buy Tickets Online | More Info  |
Now Playing at the Hypnodrome: Pearls Over Shanghai Saturdays and Sundays through Jan. 1st Buy Tickets Online | More Info  |
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By Mariella Krause for the LA Times :: In San Francisco, you need not worry about which horror movies the video store has in stock when there are half a dozen Halloween-themed plays you can see. "Shocktoberfest," for instance, has become a Halloween tradition. This annual blood-fest, put on by the Thrillpeddlers, is inspired by the Grand Guignol tradition of French horror plays, which means plenty of spurting blood whenever the occasion demands -- and the ...
Violet Blue from SFGate.com :: How can I best describe the adults-only, non-PC, musical extravaganza "Pearls Over Shanghai?" Take our local, super-talented Grand Guignol theater company The Thrillpeddlers and mate them with the legendary drag troupe The Cockettes -- it's as if Heklina birthed Rosemary's Baby. It's also the most entertaining live performance you may ever see, complete with horror, murder, BDSM, nudity, pure period glamour and musical numbers that either pay homage or defile the ...
By Robert Avila for the SF Bay Guardian :: Thrillpeddlers, the Bay Area's Grand Guignol maestros, is having a very good year. Amid an ever-extending run of the gloriously notorious Cockettes' musical Pearls over Shanghai — the hit revival now shimmying its way to New Year's Day — opened its 10th anniversary pageant of Halloween-season splatter drama in the perennially spooky sideshow-cool of the company's tricked-out Hypnodrome theater. This year, the mix of terror and titillation ...
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Amazing Halloween Weekend at the HypnodromeTrue 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 [...]
“Morbid Curiosity” Book Release Party at the Hypnodrome
Last night The Hypnodrome was filled to capacity for the release of “Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues,” a new anthology of strange true tales from the ever-popular ‘zine called “Morbid Curiosity.” Two Thrillpeddlers, Bill Selby and Jill Tracy, have their stories in the book and joined other contributors in reading their work. We [...]
