Save the oldest active women and trans* theater collective in NYC
 GROUP THERAPY, March 2014more at https://www.facebook.com/events/782813135081379/ |
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 The Journey of a Brown GirlMarch 2014 more at http://www.thejourneyofabrowngirl.com/ |
 Queerific! June 2013HyperGender Burlesque and Shades of Burlesque joined forces to bring you an amazing queeraganza! |
 The Scene, June 2011by KS Stevens more at http://www.ksstevens.com/index.html |
 A Love Like Damien's, September 2006more at http://alovelikedamiens.blogspot.com/ |
 Rivers of Honey, 1998More on Rivers of years past http://www.wowcafe.org/rivers/ and more recent Rivers http://riversofhoney.com/cabaret/ |
 Rivers of Honey, November 2009More on Rivers of years past http://www.wowcafe.org/rivers/ and more recent Rivers http://riversofhoney.com/cabaret/ |
 Dr. Lucky's School of BurlesqueAugust 2013 <br> more at https://www.facebook.com/events/144078579133037/ |
 The Satellite WOW Reunion 3-11The Satellite / WOW Reunion show: LOVE, PEACE & POETRY <br> Fri-Sat, March 25-26 and April 8-9, 2011 http://www.wowcafe.org/satellitewowreunion |
 The Reality Show, November 2002the After "Schooled" Special:<br> earnest teenage issue docudrama meets karaoke night! pictured: Sir Real (left) and Slik Rik (right) <br> more at: http://www.wowcafe.org/sirreal/archivenov02/index.html |
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 WOW member Sharon Jane Smith |
 TRANS/ART, March 2007A festival celebrating trans and gender queer performers at WOW Cafe Theatre.<br> more at http://www.wowcafe.org/transart/ |
 The Asshole Differential ContinuesThe Asshole Differential Continues (& we carry on), February 2010 |
 Happy Days, March 2009Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, directed by Miriam Eusebio. more at http://intentionaltheater.blogspot.com/ |
 Galileo, September 2005Bertolt Brecht's play, performed by women. Directed by Kristen Plylar-Moore. |
 Hypergender Burlesque, July 2007The "AHOLICS Anonymous" edition produced by JZ Bich and Agent N<br> (show descriptions for the early years of hypergender at the link below) |
 Once in Love with Amy, March 2007by Amy Dawn Verebay<br> more at http://www.wowcafe.org/onceinlovewithamy/ |
 Bees and Lions, April 2012winner of Sanguine Theater's Project Playwright 2012<br> more at http://www.sanguinenyc.com/#!productions-2012/c1tqc |
 Holiday Hootenanny! December 2004a collection of queeriginals, transtastic boy-girl duets and smart-ass sing-a-longs by Bebe Gunn (aka Shana Scudder) and Buck Shot (aka Anderson Toone) <br> more at http://andersontoone.com/ |
 Faces... Voices, August 2006A triptych of one-act plays written by Doreen Perrine, directed by Miriam Eusebio <br> more at http://www.wowcafe.org/facesvoices/ |
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 Moving at the Speed of SoundMarch 2006 more at http://www.wowcafe.org/moving/ |
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WOW Cafe Theatre
59-61 East 4th Street, 4E
New York, NY 10003
WOW Cafe Theater is located at 59-61 East 4th Street on the fourth fFloor. We are between Bowery and 2nd Avenue in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, USA.
CONTACT US
p: (917) 725-1482
OUR PAST
WOW started as an international women's theatre festival in October of 1980. Over the course of eleven days, 36 shows from 8 countries were performed for hungry New York lesbians. Within 18 months the group had a permanent space at 330 East 11th Street, where they began the incredible creative project that is WOW today: a year-round festival of women and/or trans* peoples' performances. In 1984 (or thereabouts), WOW moved to the 1400 sq ft loft space that we inhabit today at 59-61 East 4th Street. Those familiar with the downtown NYC theatre scene call the block of east 4th between 2nd Ave. and the Bowery "theater row." WOW is proud to call this space home and have among its neighbors: New York Theatre Workshop, the Rod Rodgers Dance Company, La Mama ETC, and many other arts groups. In decades of WOW’s existence thousands of artists have participated, performed and changed the collective.
OUR PRESENT
Today, WOW Café Theater is a women's and/or trans* people theater collective in NYC's East Village, which promotes the empowerment of women through the performing arts. Historically, WOW has been a majority lesbian space but today many of our members come from the entire spectrum of queerness including our non queer identifying allies. WOW welcomes the full participation of all women and/or transpeople in solidarity with women. WOW especially welcomes women and/or transpeople of color, and women and/or transpeople who identify as lesbians, bisexual and queer. We provide a working theater space to our members & the technical support to create and produce works, regardless of economic status. We acknowledge the links between different kinds of oppressions and strive to be open to all sexualities and spiritualties, to be multilingual and intergenerational, and to challenge all oppressions including racism, classism, ableism, sexism, ageism, and sizeism. Our weekly Tuesday meeting and collective governance structure provide a space for artists to share their ideas, facilitate the exchange of labor and knowledge, and realize their creative visions. Our affordable tickets and policy that nobody is turned away at the door ensure art is shared with anyone who wants to experience it and is not limited in experience by lack of funds.
ABOUT US
