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Drawn Out Storytelling is storming back. This time, we're taking on the classroom. Get ready for the greatest show and tell on earth!

Each month we tackle a theme through four personal narratives accompanied by music and drawings. May is the month of final exams for most college students, so we thought we'd help them out with some stories from the classroom.

Period 1: Literature w/ Sm Shrake and Phong Tran
Period 2: Science w/ Ben Lillie and Zachary Garrett
Period 3: Gym w/ John Flynn and Amedeo Turturro
Period 4: Politics w/ Angel Yau

Of course, all this will be accompanied by our own marching band that just like the marching band in my high school in rural Maine marched by sitting down.

And our lovely guidance counselor will be Nisse Greenberg.

EPIC WIN Burlesque presents...

The Spoken Nerd: Geeky Stories by Dorky People
An evening of story tellers sharing true tales from real nerds!

Tickets: $10 (which includes 1 free raffle ticket)
doors open @ 9p

Welcome to NYC’s very first Live Storytelling Talkshow! Not only will you get Stories, magic, burlesque and science – you will also get interviews and insight into the minds of these very nerdy people.

THEME: Games People Play. Stories of Dice, Mind, Video, Con(games).

* * Hosted By * *
Peter Aguero - First Chair - Lead singer of the BTK Band, a host of The Moth, and a Moth StorySlam winner.

Nelson Lugo - Second Chair - Magician, Pie Lover, Burgeoning Vaudeville Impresario and he's pretty sure he's the 13th Doctor.

* * Storytelling By * *
Sara Peters - Wife, gamer and witch - but not in that order

Steven Berkowitz - Storyteller and rabid D&D player

Mojdeh Rezaeipour - Moth Storyslam winner and recovering chess club president

* * Science Demonstration * *
Lawrence DeGeest - Studies economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, who prior lived in NYC and ran around with the brain gang from NYU. He will present an informative and entertaining mini-lecture on the science of Game Theory.

* * Burlesque * *
Minnie d'Moocha - a full time burlesque performer/pinup model/vintage hairstylist/lounge singer in the NYC area. She loves belly-dancing, Donkey Kong and lounging around in a latex Batgirl costume.

* * House Band * *
H2Awesome! - a collection of Comic Book Writers, Artists, Filmmakers, Screenwriters and Directors turned Musicians. They love all things geeky and will glady sing songs about them.

* * * *
The Spoken Nerd is a celebration of the great and noble art form of storytelling...but from a very geeky point-of-view. Each show has a theme and each invited guest story teller shares a true and personal story based on that theme. Sometimes the stories are funny, sometimes they're not. Sometimes the stories are serious, sometimes they're not. However, the stories are always explorations of the human condition immersed in tons of pop-culture. Both theatrical and intimate The Spoken Nerd strives to give a voice to the comic book/gamer/sci fi/science dork in all of us.

But more than just stories, every show will have non-story artists! Practical science demonstrations, sideshow artists, string theory lectures, jugglers and Nerd Core Hip Hop will share the stage from time to time. And all of this will come together in an epic nerd stew of awesome.

Games will be played... Prizes will be won... Stories will be told! BYOD: Bring Your Own Dice

Friday, May 18 @ 9pm
The Tank Theater - 8th floor
151 w. 46th St. (b/t 6th and 7th Ave)

After their last SOLD OUT show at The Tank, Pirate Sugar returns to The Tank! It's 45 min of original sketch comedy written and performed by 8 awesome ladies.

The lineup (in alphabetical order) is:
Samantha Rivers Cole
Katie Fabel
Delilah "Fancypants"
Catherine Gasta
Lauren Schwartz
Janet Silverman
JessAnn Smith
Ann Marie Yoo

Directed by Paul Valenti (of the award-winning "Chris and Paul Show")

Stand-up comic is TBD, but will be somebody funny or he/she will walk the plank!

Buy tickets to Pirate Sugar on Brown Paper Tickets

$400 in cash prizes | 16 team lottery selection | 8 teams perform twice

The Garathon /ˈgarəˌTHän/ is an elimination-style improv tournament in which sixteen local NYC teams are selected, at random, from a pool of applicants to vie for $400 in total cash prizes. Eight teams will perform at least twice in two weeks! Who will go the distance?

It’s free to submit! There is no submission fee for the tournament, however, there is a $25 tournament fee (per team) for those teams picked to perform. All proceeds from tournament fees will be set aside as prize money. The submission deadline is April 15th and all teams will be selected by lottery and notified, via email, of their selection status by May 1st.

Each team is allowed to perform any type of improvisation they choose so long as they adhere to the strict time limit allotted. Teams will compete in three rounds whereby winners advance by audience voting (in preliminary rounds) and by a combination of guest judging and audience voting (in the finals). Download the Tournament Details for a full list of rules and schedule.

We’re delighted to announce that The Tank Theater will host the 2012 Garathon, again, this year. The Tank is located at 151 West 46th Street, 8th floor (between 6th and 7th).