Thrillpeddlers will be performing with the fabulous Cockettes as part of New York’s Howl Festival, September 6 – 10, 2008. It’s our first appearance on the East Coast, and we couldn’t be more excited. We’ll be performing pieces from our recent “Theatre of the Ridiculous Festival” as well as The Cockettes legendary “Pearls Over Shanghai.” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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] [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The party that The Onion threw for us on Thursday night at Butter was da bomb! And Friday night we got a special treat as well when film director Guy Maddin joined Thrillpeddler playwright Eddie Muller in the center “Shock Box” for the performance of Hypnodrome Head Trips. You need only see Maddin’s The Saddest [...]
