San Francisco public radio station KALW (91.7 FM) will feature Thrillpeddlers on the “Open Air” broadcast this Tuesday, March 25th at 1:00pm. Host Alan Farley interviews professor Richard Hand and director Eddie Muller about our U.S. Premiere production of Noel Coward’s long-lost comedy “The Better Half.” If you’re not in San Francisco, you can listen [...]
Writer Kelli Stanley blogs about a preview performance of our new show, “Flaming Sin: London’s Grand Guignol.” She summarizes her in-depth review this way: So even if you’re not particularly a fan of the Vault of Horror, troop down to the Hypnodrome on 10th street in San Francisco — for a twenty dollar seat, you’ll [...]
As the April 1st release date nears, the first reviews of Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd DVD are starting to hit the web. Why do we care? Thrillpeddlers are featured in the documentary Grand Guignol: A Theatrical Tradition included on the 2-disc collector’s edition. It looks like the DVD producers did an excellent job of lining [...]
Thrillpeddlers proudly presents the 2008 Hypnodrome Valentine revue featuring Jill Tracy in concert with violinist Paul Mercer and our special guests V. Vale, Jello Biafra and Monte Cazazza! February 12-17, 2008 Tuesday – Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 7:00 PM At THE HYPNODROME 575 10th St. (between Bryant and Division) San Francisco, California [MAP] [...]
Young devotees of Horror, Sci-Fi and Suspense have a summer camp to call their own! Creepshow Camps face “fright” with curiosity and creativity, revealing the secret techniques behind scary entertainments’ vitality and power. Workshops led by our dedicated staff of teaching artists engage participants, hands-on, in activities that teach and reinforce the fundamental skills of [...]
Here’s something that you don’t see every day: A first edition of Mel Gordon’s classic “Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror” for sale on eBay. Judging from the photos, it looks like it’s in really nice condition. This is the book that inspired us to stop simply dreaming about the Grand Guignol and actually [...]
Fresh on the heals of his visit to the Hypnodrome to catch our Hypnodrome Head Trips show, film director Guy Maddin is featured in today’s New York Times. His latest film, the silent Brand Upon The Brain, incorporates live musicians, singers, and actors who perform on stage as the “soundtrack.” A live screening/peformance of Brand [...]
Nathaniel Eaton has written a very enthusiastic review of our current show, Hypnodrome Head Trips, in today’s SF Weekly newspaper. We’re usually quick to post the juiciest quotes on our website, but this particular review contains so many spoilers – key surprises and plot twists – that it’s difficult for us to pull a quote [...]
The highly anticipated (at least in my household) Tarantino/Rodriguez double feature GRINDHOUSE opened this weekend, and although it came in 4th at the box office (behind an Ice Cube family comedy?!), it’s far and away my favorite movie since, well… KILL BILL. I was lucky enough to see it at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theater, an [...]
Today’s edition of the University of Maryland’s student newspaper features a story on the student-produced and directed Grand Guignol play that I mentioned here yesterday. The Lab: An Experiment in Grand Guignol gets high marks from student reporter Dave Smith, though his article could have used another proof-read and a healthy dose of judicious editing: [...]
