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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. The [...]
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. Kudos to the couple [...]
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 on the [...]
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 also presented [...]
Last week Thrillpeddlers enjoyed the height of serendipity with the fabulous Cockettes. That Thrillpeddlers embrace the spirit of San Francisco’s legendary psychedelic drag ensemble is no surprise. The group was part of a late-60s/early-70s bi-coastal queer hippie performing arts clique that included Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company and John Waters’ Dreamland Studios. Their work would [...]
On Saturday June 2nd we bid adieu to Hypnodrome Head Trips. Bittersweet as it was to say goodbye to the Head Trips company, fans and our favorite roles, I couldn’t have asked for a better closing night performance and party. We had a full house that included some very special folks. My Dad, Jim Blackwood, [...]
The Hypnodrome’s free movie night last week was great fun! Thrillpeddlers’ playwright and visual effects director Jonathan Horton introduced one of his all-time horror film favorites – Curse of the Demon. This 1958 crowd pleaser has it all: witchcraft, hypnosis, séances, Devil cults and skeptical scientists. And since we were screening the English version (the [...]
It was certainly a thrill when Thrillpeddlers won the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award for “Best Live Onstage Bloodbath” in 2004. Not ones to rest on our laurels, Thrillpeddlers recently campaigned for – and won – SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco 2007 Reader’s Poll for “Best Theatre Company!” With more [...]
On Saturday morning everything seemed normal. Jim and I went at to breakfast at Luna in The Castro. It was crowded. The waiter divided a “four top” made up of two small tables, so the two gents next to us were sitting very close indeed. I couldn’t help but eavesdrop a bit, overhearing things like [...]
It came as no surprise to Thrillpeddler Heidi Wolff that spirit orbs appeared both on stage and off during a behind the scenes interpretive dance she shared with Head Trips cast members during Friday night’s performance of John Zorn’s Cobra. Miss Wolff has fed her mediumistic talents and love of “the dance” since she was [...]
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Thrillpeddlers have been performing authentic Grand Guignol horror plays, Theatre of the Ridiculous, and lights-out spookshows in San Francisco for nearly 20 years.
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Russell Blackwood
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- There are a handful of tickets left for tonight's Shocktoberfest: Fear Over Frisco. The rest of the run is SOLD OUT. http://t.co/0uRthA9V 2011-11-11
- RT @SFExCulture: ‘Shocktoberfest 12’ — campy, chilling noir trio from Thrillpeddlers http://t.co/6zsmLv4g 2011-10-06
- We're taking the 'Vice Palace' company to NYC for the HOWL festival, but need your help. Only $450 away from our goal: http://t.co/LjIJOfZE 2011-10-03
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