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 [...]

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!” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tonight we begin a five-week extension of Hypnodrome Head Trips, our latest show. Shoot, that means I’ll be having my eyes gouged out until at least June 2! The Onion has offered to kick things off with a post-performance party tonight at Butter, a white-trash themed SOMA nightclub just a couple of blocks [...]

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 first reviews of our new show Hypnodrome Head Trips are starting to trickle in. In her review for the San Francisco Bay Times titled “A Grand Time at Grand Guignol,” Linda Ayres-Frederick writes:
With high technical production values, Thrillpeddlers lives up to their name, delivering thrills that stimulate the mind and other portions of the [...]