A new cross-disciplinary showcase, Pangea’s Incubator Festival runs from Monday, January 13 through Sunday, January 26, with new projects in theater, music, comedy and storytelling. And as per Pangea c-owner, Stephen Shanaghan notes, it’s a chance to shine a light on new work that’s hard to categorize sometimes, but that hits us in a deep place.
The line-up is:
Broadway veteran Emma Sofia brings us the premiere of a high-fusion club act Resurrection: A Look Back at My Jesus Year, with special guests (and fellow Broadway performers) Colin Cunliffe, Claudia Mulet and Nia Calloway. Monday, January 13, 7:30 PM
In an updated version of Stay Lost, singer-humorist David Mills appears with ith Jody Shelton on piano on Friday, January 17 at 7 PM
A master of storytelling, David Dean Bottrell’s new show, Teenage Wasteland: Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, offers five painfully funny tales of heartbreak, hair. and more from the stage and television performer, and winner of the 2024 LA Stage Scene Award for Best Solo Performance. Saturday, January 18 at 7 PM
Downtown stalwart Penny Arcade shares an intimate look at her performance process with collaborator Steve Zehentner as she presents new writing from her on-going nine-part musical memoir Penny Arcade’s The Art of Becoming. The latest is “Episode 4: 1974-1981— The Reluctant Recluse,” in which an adventurous teen bouncing between Europe and the States. Sunday, January 19 at 7 PM Jan 19 at 7 PM
Presented by The Great Griffon, the six-time Moth Storytelling champ Jamie Brickhouse offers The Brothers Orphan in his Pangea debut. The gripping and sometimes lurid tales of Texan brothers Ronny, Jeffrey and Jamie are brought to life by this master of voice and character-driven observation. Sunday, January 26 at 7 PM.
Tickets, from $20 to $30, can be purchased at www.pangeany.com There is a $20 food and drink minimum per person.
Pangea is located at 178 Second Avenue (between 11th & 12th Streets), NYC
