The Dad's Garage Going Out of Business Show!

Created by Matt Horgan

Written by the Dad's Garage Artistic Family

Directed by Scott Warren

October 2 – October 30, 2009 (Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 8pm) on the Main Stage

Pay What You Can Performance – Monday, October 12 @ 8pm

Thursday : $13 Online, $15 Phone & Door, ½ price student tickets

Friday : $15 Online, $17 Phone & Door

Saturday : $18 Online, $20 Phone & Door

It's an "everything must go" sketch show! It's a laugh liquidation sale! It's the comedy clearance on the century! Okay, okay, we admit – the state of the economy is no laughing matter. With all of the talk about foreclosures, layoffs, and the upcoming class war – it's hard to feel good about the current recession unless there are massive discounts involved!!! We've got video, we've got song, we've got dance - we've got the inside scoop on Stephen Hawking's summer job. So, stock up now on a variety of hilarious bits and skits about the present hard times because when they're gone, they're gone.

Large Animal Games

Written by Steve Yockey

Directed by Melissa Foulger

November 06 – November 29, 2009 (Fri, Sat @ 8pm plus select performances) in the Top Shelf

Pay What You Can Performances – Monday, November 16 & 23 @ 8pm

Sunday performances on November 22 and 29 @ 7pm

Friday : $15 Online, $17 Phone & Door

Saturday : $18 Online, $20 Phone & Door

Sunday : $15-18 Online, $17–20 Phone & Door

Appearances and reality don't always align…especially when one's true identity is involved. Anchored at a lingerie shop, three unique stories collide in a brand spankin' new stage play by award-winning playwright Steve Yockey (Skin, Sleepy). Staying true to his darkly comedic meets erotic sensibility; Steve delivers a mix of confusion, wit, pleasure, and fervor in this World Premiere featuring cross-dressing fiancés, Spanish speaking lovers, and shoot-to-kill safaris.

Large Animal Games is a co-world premiere with Impact Theatre in Berkeley, CA which will debut its own production simultaneously with Dad's Garage.

Invasion: Christmas Carol

Concept by The Dad's Garage Improv Ensemble

Directed by Chris Blair

November 27 – December 23, 2009 (Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 8pm) on the Main Stage

Pay What You Can Performance – December 14 @ 8pm

Sunday, Tuesday, & Wednesday performances – December 20, 22 & 23 @ 8pm

Special Thanksgiving weekend performance on Friday, November 27!

Thursday : $15 Online, $17 Phone & Door, ½ price student tickets

Friday : $17 Online, $19 Phone & Door

Saturday : $20 Online, $22 Phone & Door

* A $2 per ticket discount will be available for patrons participating in our canned food drive

It's time to replace your regular holiday tradition with a Dad's Garage tradition – kicking classic theatre in the tookus! After last year's success, the award-winning Dad's Garage Ensemble will again be skewering the quintessential Christmas play – A Christmas Carol. You'll see your favorite characters acting in ways that might not be so familiar as our improvisers create a whole new holiday experience right before your very eyes. Visited by different ghosts every evening (that are a complete surprise to the cast), you'll see Scrooge's past, present, and future unfold in a new way each night. And because it'll be bursting with even more improv flavor than last year, things are guaranteed to get even nuttier than a Cornish game hen.

Griefers

Written by Christian Danley & Randy Havens

Directed by Christian Danley & Randy Havens

February 05 – 27, 2010 (Fri, Sat @ 8pm plus select performances) in the Top Shelf

Pay What You Can Performance – Monday, February 15 @ 8pm

Closing Thursday Performance – Thursday, February 25 @ 8pm

Thursday : $13 Online, $15 Phone & Door, ½ price student tickets

Friday : $15 Online, $17 Phone & Door

Saturday : $18 Online, $20 Phone & Door

As defined by Wikipedia, a 'griefer' is someone who plays a video game in order to irritate and harass other players, rather than pursue game objectives. But what happens when someone from the gaming world experiences real–life grief? The World Premiere of Griefers, direct from the minds of Randy Havens and Christian Danley (who brought you FWD>>), explores just that. Armed with his gaming experience and his best friend, our griefer must face the realities of death, birth, failed relationships, and his own mortality. It's true that wisdom and humor often spring from sorrow, but can one actually learn to “game the system” when the system is life?

Clash Titan Clash!

Written by Lucky Yates

Directed by Jason von Hinezmeyer

March 12 – April 3, 2010 (Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 8pm) on the Main Stage

Pay What You Can Performance – March 22 @ 8pm

Thursday : $13 Online, $15 Phone & Door, ½ price student tickets

Friday : $15 Online, $17 Phone & Door

Saturday : $18 Online, $20 Phone & Door

Based on Clash of the Titans and the Greek myth of Perseus (the son of Zeus for those of you not so mythologically inclined) – Clash Titan Clash! is a story of epic proportions on a tiny scale. A first for Dad's Garage, the entirety of this World Premiere will be created and fashioned in "Toy Theatre" (miniature puppets being manipulated and projected onto a giant screen right before your very eyes). In this timeless tale of love, Perseus will embark on a long journey to save princess Andromeda from a terrible fate only to encounter and battle a slew of sea monsters, the wicked Medusa, and the legendary Kraken along the way. Oh, and did we mention that the ever-adorable Bubo the mechanical owl is coming along for the ride? (How could we not keep him?)

The Change: Another Teenage Werewolf Musical

Written by Travis Sharp

Music by Eric Frampton

Directed by Sean Daniels

May 28 – June 19, 2010 (Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 8pm) on the Main Stage

Pay What You Can Performance – Monday, June 7 @ 8pm

Thursday : $15 Online, $17 Phone & Door, ½ price student tickets

Friday : $17 Online, $19 Phone & Door

Saturday : $20 Online, $22 Phone & Door

Adolescence can get hairy, which is exceptionally true for Mikey, a mild-mannered high school student who feels anything but normal. On top of being new to a small town, he's going through that difficult transformation that all teenage boys do: adolescence. But for Mikey, armpit hair and raging hormones are only the beginning of his problems - he's unknowingly inherited the family curse – lycanthropy! Written by Travis Sharp (co-author of the smash hit zombie musical: Song of the Living Dead), this World Premiere musical comedy is not your typical story of teenage transformation. In addition to the landmark struggles of youth, Mikey will have to face dark family secrets and battle his own murderous instincts, all while becoming a werewolf…and singing about it!

Spoon, The Musical

Written by Matthew Myers

Directed by Alison Hastings

July 9 – July 31, 2010 (Fri, Sat @ 8pm plus select performances) in the Top Shelf

Pay What You Can Performance – Monday, July 19 @ 8pm

Closing Thursday Performance – Thursday, July 29 @8pm

Thursday : $13 Online, $15 Phone & Door, ½ price student tickets

Friday : $15 Online, $17 Phone & Door

Saturday : $18 Online, $20 Phone & Door

This summer, Dad's Garage is serving up a brand–new, spine–tingling, toe-tapping World Premiere. Dig in as we ladle out six hilarious and horrifying tales about the journey of a haunted spoon. Forged by the Devil in the darkest depths of Hell, a daring and sardonic spoon manages to escape and make its way to Earth – subsequently cursing all those unfortunate enough to cross its path. You'll follow the tale of this satanic silverware and his unsuspecting victims throughout the ages as sin and singing come together to make perfect harmony.