A brief summary of a BRILLIANT theater company….

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“ . . . far better than others with similarly provocative titles… a skit… may be the funniest of the year.”

– Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, Naked Holidays

“Honest and courageous, Naked Holidays steps outside the Disney-filled Christmas box by offering something entertaining, raw, and audaciously clever. This excitingly raunchy, provocative show will become more of a holiday tradition than egg nog and mistletoe.”

-Christina Mancuso, broadwayworld.com, Naked Holidays

“Pushing theater to the edge fearlessly and perhaps even wantonly . . . unlike anything else that’s playing in New York at the moment”

-Martin Denton, newyorktheater.com, Vignettes for the Apocalypse

“ . . . as absurd, senseless, and unabashed as the subject material itself and, as such, it works beautifully.”

– Andrew Turner, stageandcinema.com, Manson the Musical

“Top of the 2009 crop . . . creepy-sexy and dependably weird . . . As Fringe shows go this is a veritable bear on a trike.”

– Robert Avilla, SF Bay Guardian, The Godling

THIS IS ENDTIMES

EndTimes is an independent Theater/Film Production Company founded in New York City in 2006. Since then, EndTimes has produced 10 Full-Length Productions, and over 100 short plays, involving the talents of more than 300 theater artists. The company has performed in the New York, San Francisco, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, winning top honors for Best Production, Best Director, and Best Ensemble at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2008 for William Whitehursts Knuckleball, and again in 2009 for Mark Borkowskis The Godling. EndTimes also won the Best Production award in 2010 for its presentation of Jamie King’s TMZTV at the Shortened Attention Span Festival. EndTimes has been widely featured in various publications, including, Time Out New York, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, The Daily News, and Broadwayworld.com. 

EndTimes focuses on work that is dark and satiric, with an underlying element of social commentary. Incorporating dance, music, vaudeville, and comedy, we produce high-energy, entertaining theater that is aimed at a wider audience than more traditional forms. Drawing for inspiration from sources as varied as the Marx Brothers, Alice Cooper, Robert Anton Wilson, Del Close, the Annoyance, and George Romero, EndTimes merges popular forms with the ancient tradition of live performance to create a theater experience that is appealing and accessible to modern audiences.

WHERE WE’RE GOING

EndTimes has been truly blessed over the past year, garnering critical acclaim, and finding an amazing new home at The 133^rd Street Arts Center.  Starting with an empty building one year ago, EndTimes has gradually renovated the space, offering rehearsal and performance opportunities to local artists, for a fraction of the price of downtown facilities.  As a result, the formerly empty space, is now alive with activity around the clock, and its black box theater books out 6 months in advance.

EndTimes has also used the freedom from outrageous downtown rental costs to launch a new division, The EndTimes Bunker, under the leadership of former Managing Director Matthew Kreiner, whose focus is the development of new works from new writers.

Artistically, EndTimes also raised the bar this year, moving Naked Holidays from its downtown home (RIP Ace of Clubs), to its first Off-Broadway level production, at The Times Square Arts Center, selling out most of the run to a primarily out-of-town audience.  Its been a long, strange, wild trip for a troupe that faced financial collapse not so very long ago.  But to keep moving onward and upward, we need a little help from our friends.

Our new home needs a lot of work.  To really become the fully functioning arts facility that it could be, we need to replace floors and ceilings, hire a contractor to fix the terminally leaky roof, lay down sound proofing between our two active floors, and even run heat to our rehearsal studio, which we’re currently forced to close down for the winter.  Its an old building, that’s been neglected for a long time.  To really make it come alive again is going to take funds.  By contributing those funds, you aren’t only helping one company, you’re helping to provide a much needed low-cost facility to the entire New York arts community.

OUR SEASON
(or…. “WHY WE NEED TO RAISE MONEY.”)

 This season will be our most ambitious yet.  Here’s how it breaks down:

Vignettes for the Apocalypse

The festival that started it all, and has gone on to become New York’s oldest and largest horror/sci-fi themed theater festival.  This year we’ll be presenting 15 short new works, one new full-length, and a reimagining of Karel Capek’s classic “RUR”, the play that first coined the term  “robot.”  Playing 9/19-9/30, at the The 133rd Street Arts Center. The best part? It’s happening now. We mounted this multi-show festival on our own just to prove we could. Come and see it, and see why we’re worth fostering. Because it leads up to…

Naked Holidays

New York’s favorite and most anticipated anti-holiday holiday bacchanalia returns to The Times Square Arts Center, and this time its personal.  Meaning EndTimes is personally writing the entire show.  This year we’ve hired a full band, an amazing dance corps, a puppeteer, and a lot of people who at various times and in various places have been known to be naked.  The budget for this one has doubled year over year for the past three years.  Without your help, we may just have to keep our clothes on this time.  Believe it, or not, its cheaper.  Playing 11/30-12/30, at The Times Square Arts Center. And right after we take the manger underwear off, box up the tiny penis hat, and flame throw the last fleck of tinsel….

Stephen King in High School: The Musical

Stephen King’s senior year in high school is a tough year. With the super flu slowly killing the student body, the principle seeming more and more like an evil killer clown, and his best friend being sexually harassed by his living car, Stephen’s finding it really hard to finish his first novel. When a waifish new transfer student with an active mind floats into town, Stephen can’t seem to keep his head in the page. Can he finish his magnum opus before the principle and his maniac English teacher literally squeeze it out of him?

EndTimes first musical since its long-running hit, Manson: The Musical, and the first musical scripted and composed entirely by the EndTimes company, we’re really excited about this one, and we hope you can help us to make it happen.  Playing 4/1-4/28, at The Times Square Arts Center.

The EndTimes Bunker

Headed up by Artistic Director, Matthew Kreiner, The Bunker will present both readings and full mountings of new works, as well as taking a stab at the classics.  At least if we can talk Matthew into bloodying up The Miser a bit.  Through The Bunker, EndTimes continues its long-standing mission of supporting new works from new writers.

Yeah, its a really big season.  We’ve been accused of a lot of things (theft, arson, meth, camp, bribary, madness, etc.), but no one’s ever accused us of being lazy.  Now that James Brown’s dead, we’re the hardest working people in showbusiness, and through our productions and facilities, EndTimes makes an enormous positive impact on the local arts community.

If you can help out with a contribution, that’s amazing. We’ll show our amazement and gratitude with a personal thank you, and one of the nifty gifts to the right.

And even if you cant contribute, please spread the word via Facebook, Twitter, Text, Likes, Retweets, and foggy Instagram pictures. Shout your barbaric yawp over the rooftops of Brooklyn.  Let people know the campaign is happening. Tell as many people as you can about EndTimes Productions efforts to put together the best season ever.

Thanks to everyone who has supported EndTimes over the years, and continues to make our work possible.

We have provided a creative home for hundreds of theater artists during the past five seasons, and will continue to create a space where artists can try out the craziest thing they’ve ever thought of doing, in an environment that fully supports that choice.