Beer with Your Serial at the Flea
Madeleine Bundy and Stephen Stout in “Kapow-I GoGo” by Matt Cox in #serials@theflea. Photo: Joel Soren
It’s not your usual night at the theater.
For the price of $12, which includes a beer, audiences get to see five 10-minute plays and vote for their top three favorites. The winning playwrights then write another episode with the same characters that is performed the next week.
Now in its third season, #serials@theflea, the Flea Theater’s late night shows (curtain time is 11 p.m.) feature The Bats, the Flea Theater’s volunteer resident acting company. Some of the playwrights and directors have already found wider fame, such as Rob Askins (“Hand of God”) and Nick Jones (“The Coward”).
Carol Ostrow, the theater’s producing director, compared the shows to a “live TV serial.”
“There are devotees who never miss a show,” Ostrow said. Indeed, the theater’s 40 seats are always filled. “What else can you do that’s funny, fun and something to do with friends?” she added.
This month’s cycle runs Thursdays through Saturdays, November 13 to 22. Tickets are at theflea.org or call 212-352-3101.