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MARK ROMYN'S THURSDAY NIGHT COMBO. EXIT's longest running variety show presents local greats and soon-to-be discovered-greats doing their magic, dance, storytelling, comedy, stage and scene work, monologues, readings, music and more ... hosted by Mark Romyn. No Reservation Required. $5 donation requested. Thursdays at 8:30pm JUL 17

PRIVATE EYES by Steven Dietz. Spare Stage presents Steven Dietz's sexy and intricate tour de force of passion and deception, secrecy and suspicion on the EXIT Main Stage. EXIT Theatre July 10th - July 26th, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 PM Saturdays Matinees at 2 PM (July 19th and 26th) Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets CLICK FOR ONLINE TICKETS or call 1-800-838-3006 Directed by Stephen Drewes Cast includes Whitney Gafford, Jason Jeremy, Sarah Meyeroff, Aaron Murphy, Richard Ryan, Holly Silk, Eleni Zaharopoulos

Sean Owens & Christina Augello in Her Majesty PHOTO: Laurie Gallant CLICK ON IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE PRESS PHOTO

HER MAJESTY by Sean Owens RETURNING FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY !!! EXIT Stage Left FRI/SAT 8pm JUL 11 - JULY 19 Tickets: $12 - $20 sliding scale cash at the door ($20 online with credit card) Reservations: 415-673-3947 CLICK FOR ONLINE TICKETS You are cordially invited by Christina Augello and Sean Owens to revel and play with HER MAJESTY -- A breakneck farce-for-two where queens of every kind collide and quick changes and theatrical follies soon give way to the folly of theater. If you can't follow the plot, no worries -- neither can playwright Sean Owens and his diva, Christina Augello! Question their sanity ... but never HER MAJESTY. A fun-filled flurry of people, places and plots by Sean Owens, named "Best Comic Playwright" by the SF Weekly. MEDIA & REVIEWS playwright Sean Owens; performers Sean Owens & Christina Augello; director Kathryn Wood; set & lighting designers Amanda Ortmayer & Curtis Overacre; costumes Kathy Jo Lafreniere; stage manager Michelle Talgarow; photo Laurie Gallant; produced by EXIT Theatre PRESS RELEASE

Avant GardARAMA! an evening of short experimental plays by Cutting Ball Theatre. EXIT on Taylor 8pm JUL 18 - AUG 16 CLICK TO BUY ONLINE TICKETS Avant GardARAMA! showcases plays that radically experiment with theatrical form. This year the three playwrights are American women: Gertrude Stein, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Eugenie Chan. Parks and Chan both acknowledge Stein as an influence and have taken some of her experiments from the twenties and have made them their own Accents in Alsace by Gertrude Stein Included in her extraordinary 1922 publication, Geography and Plays, Accents in Alsace is a kind of cubist portrait of World War I. Don't let the formalism throw you. Stein's play is as human and touching as any artistic work treating the subject of war. Betting on the Dust Commander by Suzan-Lori Parks Our fourth Suzan-Lori Parks play in as many years, Betting on the Dust Commander depicts a couple on their wedding night and then years later as the husband steals away to the race track. For Cutting Ball audiences who enjoyed the jazz-like language of The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, this portrait of a marriage offers a musical logic that is all its own. Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan, World Premiere Commissioned by The Cutting Ball Theater and Magic Theatre / Z Space New Works Initiative Bone to Pick sets the story of Ariadne in a diner at the end of the war-torn world. Here, Ariadne, now reconfigured as Ria the Waitress, has been stranded in a military base diner for three-thousand years. Depleted by millennia of foreign occupation, Ria enters the labyrinth and confronts her part in the murder of her brother, Steer #576. A dizzyingly postmodern and playful look at the costs of love and war.

THE PANDORA EXPERIMENT by Christian Cagigal FRI/SAT 8pm JUL 25 - AUG 16 EXIT Stage Left Tickets: $20 CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Master Magician & Illusionist Christian Cagigal returns. "The Pandora Experiment" is inexplicable theatrical magic EXIT Theatre brings back acclaimed magician and illusionist Christian Cagigal to reprise his latest show, The Pandora Experiment, presented by EXIT Theatre and Zeitgeist Artworks. Cagigal's previous work at the EXIT has delighted both audiences and critics. The Pandora Experiment is an intimate evening of close-up magic, mind-reading, and theater guided by award-winning magician and illusionist Christian Cagigal. "It's not a mere series of 'tricks,' but a real experiment that dares you to take a peek, and then think inside the box," Cagigal says. Cagigal presides over this dark and intimate show with "a music box, toys with souls, an oft told tale…and you." MEDIA & REVIEWS PRESS RELEASE

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Penny Dreadful Theatricals presents... The Ukeapocalypse Radio Hour What year is this? Local cult performer, Kelly McCubbin, seems unsure as he and his group of drunks, misfits and malcontents try to put on a live Science Fiction Radio Show. From the creator of "Uke-y Stardust" and "Purple Rain - When Ukes Cry" comes this loving and hysterical tribute to Golden Age Radio, but with a modern edge. Chaos, comedy, music and an entire, brand new, science fiction radio drama will overtake the Exit Theatre for 2 weekends in August. Beware the Cognizance Reaction!!! EXIT Theatre 8pm FRI/SAT AUG 1 - 9, 2008 Tickets - $15. $10 for students, seniors and TBA members. For tickets call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 or CLICK FOR ONLINE TICKETS

FUNNY BUT MEAN presents FUNNY BUT MEAN'S NEXT SHOW (cruel and unusual sketch comedy) EXIT Theatre 8pm August 11 & 18 (see www.funnybutmean.com for details) Cast: Alexandra Creighton, Lauren Grace, Jessica Heidt, Oliver Elliot. Kalli Jonsson, Anthony Nemirovsky, Ignacio Orellana-Garcia, Frannie Pope, Ryan Rigazzi, Cole Smith, Zoë Stagg

Adapted from the novel by Matthew Lewis, written by Nirmala Nataraj, directed by Stuart Bousel, featuring Margery Fairchild, Ryan Hayes, Meghan E. Kane, Christopher P. Kelly, Rik Lopes, Cassie Powell, Alison Sacha Ross, Lisa Swanson, James Tinsley, Nathan Tucker, Rana Weber, Cordell Wesselink. Masks designed/fabricated by Gregorio De Masi, stage managed by Martin Schwartz, sound design by Lisa Fowle, graphic design by Cody Rishell.

No Nude Men Productions Presents: The Monk From one of the most influential horror novels of all time … Lust. Power. Deception. And lots of labyrinthine plot twists. EXIT Stage Left 8pm FRI/SAT OCT 10 - NOV 22 Tickets: $10 first weekend, $15 - $20 subsequent performances. More Info visit www.myspace.com/ambrosioandmatilda No Nude Men Productions continues its five-year legacy of bringing intelligent, challenging theater to the Bay Area, with a new stage adaptation of Matthew Lewis's seminal horror novel, THE MONK. By turns comical, sad, horrific and romantic, the story has captivated audiences since it was first published in 1796 and rocketed its 20-year-old author to stardom (he was even made a member of the British Parliament and nicknamed "Monk" Lewis). It has been cited by Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, James Herbert and numerous other writers as a major influence on their work and has never been out of print in over two centuries. This fall, No Nude Men premieres Nirmala Nataraj's spine-tingling new stage adaptation, the first to be attempted by an American theater company in over 50 years. The story revolves around a Spanish monk, Ambrosio (Ryan Hayes), whose life is crossed by a pair of young women: the tragic nun Agnes (Lisa Swanson) and the impoverished aristocrat Antonia (Margery Fairchild), both of whom will be key in the arrogant cleric's fall from grace. As Ambrosio is guided down a path of dissolution by a mysterious beauty named Matilda (Cassie Powell), the story weaves in and out of the quest for Antonia's hand by the handsome cavalier Lorenzo (James Tinsley) and the desperate search by Don Raymond (Cordell Wesselink) for the missing mother of his child. Along the way, ghosts and demons intervene, bandits attempt murder on hapless travelers, and nothing short of the Spanish Inquisition turns up for the finale. Nataraj (who penned the 2005 San Francisco Theater festival favorite, THE BOOK OF GENESIS: REMIXED AND REMASTERED) joins forces with Director Stuart Bousel, who combines the intense passion of NNM's 2005 production of PHAEDRA with the epic scale of the company's 2006 LOVE'S LABOURS LOST, to fashion a gothic romance of grand proportions. With masks designed by Gregorio De Masi, lights by James Tinsley and art by Cody Rishell, the performance aspires to combine the most riveting elements of small theater, medieval melodrama and Italian carnival.

EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left, EXIT Cafe and EXIT on Taylor

Celebrating its 20th year on the wild side of downtown San Francisco, EXIT Theatre is an experimental theater with a bohemian cabaret atmosphere and three venues. EXIT Theatre is also the producer of the annual San Francisco Fringe Festival (September 3-14, 2003) EXIT Theatre, EXIT Stage Left and EXIT Cafe are located at 156 Eddy Street (between Mason and Taylor) in downtown San Francisco. EXIT on Taylor is located at 277 Taylor Street (between Eddy and Ellis). All theatres are within a few block walk of the Powell Street BART/Muni station and cable car turnaround and there is adjacent parking. The EXIT Cafe offers beer, wine and a light bistro menu from one our before curtain time.

EXIT THEATRE, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, 415.673.3847.

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