DANSE MACABRE THEATRICS WAS A THEATER COMPANY

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"WOW. ... the most heartfelt and genuinely patriotic work of art that I've seen in I don't know how long... Not merely dead-on timely satire but (an) inspired masterwork... ATTENTION SAVVY PRODUCERS: THE NEXT BIG THING MAY WELL BE HAPPENING AT THE RED ROOM. THEATRE JUST DOESN'T GET MORE VITAL, ENTERTAINING, OR EXUBERANTLY IN-YOUR-FACE THAN SUGARBABY." --Martin Denton, review of Sugarbaby, NYTheatre.com, July 12, 2003

"Exceptional ... Cwiklik's direction (is) on a par with Coppola or Scorcese... Tom Mazur presents a powerful portrayal... Michele Schlossberg displays realistic torment... A vital work of theater, and a refreshing perspective on a classic work... It will be remembered years from now by those who experience it." -- Carlo Fiorletta, review of Antony & Cleopatra, Stage Press Weekly

"Fulfills much of the material's bizarre promise Welles was too busy to mine... Cwiklik builds an exciting air of intrigue... often mesmerizing... Tom Reid is the kind of wounded monster Fritz Lang might dream up..." -- Stephen Boone, review of The Stranger, Show Business Weekly

MARCH 1999... The show that started it all... Girls' School Vampire, the horror/comedy extravaganza about coming of age, bloodlust, and how to pick up chicks. A riotous, one-of-a-kind cult classic epic, GSV is like much of the work that was to come -- it's unlike anything else around...

FEBRUARY 2000... Salome is my London After Midnight. I have no photos. No videos. No documentation whatsoever. Hell, I can't even find the PR anywhere. I have the cue discs, the script, and a poster. That's it. I got nothing...

ONGOING... DMTheatrics proudly presents the MASTERWORKS OF EDWARD D. WOOD, JR. series, an ongoing tribute to the man the smug and hip would call "the worst director of all time". Part sincere appreciation, part affectionate spoof, this series intends to shed some light on the life and work of this idiosyncratic and infamous cinema artist... SERIES INCLUDES The Sinister Urge, Bride of the Monster, Jail Bait!, The Fugitive Girls!, The Violent Years!, and Orgy of the Dead...

MAY 2000... In the year of our Lord 1992, we have conquered the moon and Mars, and now, the US of A sends its finest space pilots to conquer… time! Back, back, back in time they travel to find themselves on a planet inhabited entirely by women...!

SEPTEMBER 2000... From ragtime to techno. From Lower East Side tenements to Fifth Avenue penthouses. From lust to love and back again. This sprawling record of our recent past melds pop culture, sex, and history in a whirlwind tour of the Twentieth Century’s highest and lowest moments. One of the last shows ever to grace the stage of the legendary Todo Con Nada, this love letter to the 20th century became a personal favorite of the DM company...

JANUARY 2001... A somnambulistic, sadomasochistic kaleidoscope and sex and violence, Bitch Macbeth laid the groundwork for the style quickly emerging from the collaboration of director Frank Cwiklik, producer Michele Schlossberg, and their talented crew of artists and actors. This breathtaking, draining S&M mutant Shakespeare presented a world of warring families, trapped in a sadistic, erotically charged world with no hope and little respite...

JUNE 2001... The minds behind the infamous Masterworks of Edward D. Wood, Jr. series present QUICKSAND, based on the cult classic thriller directed by Irving Pichel, in which a young man in over his head tries to impress the femme fatale of his dreams with a little petty larceny, only to find himself caught up in a web of deceit, intrigue, and bald faced thievery...

DECEMBER 2001... Pure evil hides itself in a small American town when an escaped Nazi official adopts a new identity and marries into one of America's most prominent families... until an obsessed stranger arrives to flush out his true identity. The only one who can help him -- and one of the only people to know his horrifying secret -- is the woman who loves him. And even she can't help him anymore...

APRIL 2002... Ed Wood’s obscure sexploitation cult favorite The Fugitive Girls! presents four deadly women and their desperate bid for freedom, as they rape, pillage, and plunder their way through late-60’s America, leaving a trail of death, destruction, and horror in their wake. Sex, violence, pop culture, and shocking ugliness await you in this gruesome, shocking, brutally entertaining bad girl action comedy...

MAY 2002... Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Kookamonga Falls… Not too close to where you live. Upstate. Tucked away in the forests, up in the mountains. Some folks around here say the woods are haunted. It is said that at night, when it’s late and you’re all alone, you can sometimes see the spirits of our gorilla ancestors, drifting through the woods… Oh, look, there goes one right now...

JULY 2002... The mutant love child of O Brother Where Art Thou and The Rocky Horror Show, House of Trash is a sinister, darkly comic cornpone musical extravaganza featuring original songs, vaudevillian lunacy, and the world's first truck driving gorilla companion. Trav S.D.'s devious musical both explores and destroys every cliché you’ve ever heard about rural Americana – deftly satirizing and sympathetically humanizing the kind of people most New Yorkers would run screaming from...

OCTOBER 2002... The place: Empire, Nevada. Away from the prying eyes of the law, five casino bosses tussle over turf both real and perceived. Bullets fly, bodies pile up, and before this long, hot summer is over, someone's gonna end up dead -- and someone else is going to have complete control of Empire, Nevada...

JANUARY 2003... Originally presented to stunned sellout audiences in early 2001, this shocking, influential work made a triumphant return in the newly refurbished Kraine Theater, jewel of the Horse Trade Theater Group, in a massive, overwhelming, senses-shattering encore engagement. It's performance, it's music, it's visuals, it's movement, it's terrifying, it's moving, it's like nothing you've ever seen...

JULY 2003... War, unemployment, terrorism -- what's a simple country girl to do? Well, if you're Bailey Sugarman, 17 years old and cute as a button (her friends call her Sugarbaby), you run away from home, with the help of your best friend Jesus, the mechanic who thinks he's Elvis, to see America, before it's all sold off, co-opted, argued away, blown up, or just plain lost...

OCTOBER 2003... She was one of the most desirable, recognizable pinup queens of the late 1950’s. She appeared on dozens of magazine covers, calendars, photo spreads… And then one day, she simply vanished, disappeared, leaving behind a legion of fans and a tantalizing mystery… Who in the Hell is the Real, Live Lorelei Lee...?

FEBRUARY 2004... Welcome to Empire, a dreary, dusty company town in the heart of the new Nevada Territory, under the thumb of the psychopathic man of God known only as Padre. In rides a beautiful stranger, known only as Red, who’s got a plan to take the Padre for everything he’s got. Soon, the simmering tensions, escalating violence, and mob savagery of the Old West threaten to rip the town of Empire apart…

JUNE 2004... Originally staged as the swan song of the legendary Todo Con Nada, this moving and romantic work became the swan song for DMTheatrics, and an impressive showcase for its tireless company of actors and artists. This melancholy, nostalgic look at the American Century neatly summarized DMTheatrics' tradition of engaging, immersive, human theater.