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Best Bonus Theater Experience
Award Winner 2008

Entertainment: Live Entertainment

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2008 | Best Bonus Theater Experience

Grand Guignol is French for "what people watched before horror movies existed." Before electricity brought us Evil Dead 2, obviously some folks had to figure out how to make that kind of thing happen onstage, and they did, and it was about as popular as slasher flicks are today. Described by one Yelper as "a series of vignettes that follow a shit your pants/boner/shit your pants/boner sequence," the art form has its own dedicated theater space, the Hypnodrome, here in town. Not content to... More »

"Hot Greeks": Thrillpeddlers and Cockettes Revive Drag Pleasures

By Lily Janiak | Wed, April 25, 2012

A few years ago, the Thrillpeddlers, San Francisco's theater of the gaudy, gory, and grotesque, embarked on a collaboration that could hardly have been more successful: teaming up with the surviving members of the Cockettes, the gender-bending tro... More »
Thrillpeddlers Gender-Bends History With Another Cockettes Musical: Hot Greeks

By Chris Torres | Thu, March 22, 2012

Thrillpeddlers continues its revival of original Cockettes musicals this week with the more-than-suggestively titled Hot Greeks. Scrumbly Koldewyn, an original member of the Cockettes, San Francisco's... More »
History Gets Bent

By : Chris Torres | Wed, March 21, 2012

Thrillpeddlers continues its revival of original Cockettes musicals with the more-than-suggestively titled Hot Greeks. Scrumbly Koldewyn, an original member of the Cockettes, San Francisco’s gender-bending theater troupe of the late 1960s and earl... More »
Debauchery Good Enough for a Second Look

By Chris Jensen | Wed, January 25, 2012

Combine Poe's The Masque of the Red Death with Fellini's La Dolce Vita, persuade most of your actors to show off their peens, then stage the whole thing as a '30s musical revue. You might end up with something like Vice Palace, but you'll be lucky... More »
"Shocktoberfest 12": Mostly Awe in Thrillpeddlers' Latest

By Lily Janiak | Wed, October 12, 2011

It can be hard to tell some Bay Area theater companies apart. They produce similar repertoires, they cast the same actors, and they use New York to define the terms of their success. ("One of our premieres shipped to Off-Broadway!") It's refreshi... More »
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