Our 11th annual ‘pageant of terror and titillation’ featuring plays from, and inspired by, the notorious Grand Guignol theatre. Don’t come alone! Click for more info.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
October 1 – November 20, 2009
Thrillpeddlers are proud to announce our signature Halloween show “Shocktoberfest!! 2009: The Torture Garden,” our tenth annual pageant of titillating Grand Guignol terror plays and stimulating sex farces. “Shocktoberfest!! 2009” will consist of two plays, the Grand Guignol classic “The Torture Garden” (1922) by Pierre Chaine and Andre de Lorde, and “The Phantom Limb,” an original play in the Grand Guignol tradition commissioned by the Thrillpeddlers from New York playwright Rob Keefe.
Shocktoberfest!! 2008: Elemental Horror Saturday October 18 – Saturday, November 22, 2008 (Previews October 16 & 17) Thursdays – Fridays – Saturdays at 8:00 PM At The Hypnodrome – 575 10th Street, San Francisco $25 General Admission $69 Private “Shock Box” for 2 Buy Tickets Online Fresh on the heels of Thrillpeddlers Off-Broadway debut with [...]
A Musical Seance with Jill Tracy and Paul Mercer Click here to buy tickets for A Musical Seance with Jill Tracy and Paul Mercer. Just awarded the prestigious Best of the Bay 2008, our favorite noir chanteuse Jill Tracy returns home to Thrillpeddlers Hypnodrome for her latest incantation – “A Musical Seance”, an intimate collaboration [...]
Flaming Sin: London’s Grand Guignol March 21 – May 31, 2008 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. At the Hypnodrome, 575 10th Street, San Francisco Click Here to Buy Tickets In an amazing coup for Bay Area theatre, a “lost” one-act play by the legendary Noel Coward will have its U.S. premiere in San Francisco. [...]
