Surf Reality

Surf Reality

Infobox Theatre
name = Surf Reality


image_size =
caption =
address = 172 Allen Street, Lower East Side
city = New York City
country = USA
designation =
latitude = 40.72212
longitude = -73.98883
architect =
owner = Robert Prichard
capacity = 65
type = Performance Art Theater
opened = 1993
yearsactive =
rebuilt =
closed = 2003
othernames = Surf Reality's House of Urban Savages
production =
currentuse = yoga studio
website = www.surfreality.com

Surf Reality's House of Urban Savages, also known as Surf Reality, was a 65 seat performance venue on Manhattan's Lower East Side from 1993-2003. A laboratory for experimental performance of all kinds, Surf Reality was known for cutting edge comedy, performance art, classic burlesque, modern music, vaudeville and experimental theater.

Surf Reality began as a video production company that produced a series called The Movie of the Month Club, including such works as Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die and Manic A-Go-Go.

The theater also served as the home for Faceboyz Open Mic, New York's longest-running weekly open stage. Other acts that passed through Surf include The Upright Citizens Brigade, Todd Barry, Dave Chapelle, Maggie Estep, and Jonathan Ames. Surf Reality was noted as a venue for "alternative comedy, along with performance art and theater pieces" where "visitors have to be buzzed in through its scrap-metal door and climb up to a loftlike second-floor space" by "The New York Times". [Citation
last=Pareles
first=Jon
author-link=Jon Pareles
title=The New Bohemia: It's East of SoHo And Still Unspoiled
newspaper=The New York Times
publisher=The New York Times Company
date= September 9, 1997
year= 1997
month= September
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E3DE1F3BF935A1575AC0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3 | accessdate = 2008-08-11 ]

Robert Prichard, former owner of Surf Reality, produces various shows throughout Manhattan under the "Surf Reality Presents" moniker, and is currently working on his new project, the Queens Bridge Theater.

References

External references

* [http://www.surfreality.com Surf Reality]

See also

*
* [http://queensbridgetheater.com/blog/ Queens Bridge Theater]


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