Breaking Legs

Don't be alarmed by the post's title - Breaking Legs is the stage play we recently hosted here at GAS, performed by the always-excellent Mortar & Pestle productions.

In this farcical comedy we are introduced to a group of successful Italian mobsters looking to strike it big by entering the world of theatre by producing an original play. Enter Terrence O'Keefe, the down on his luck playwright and former college professor and love interest of the Mob Boss' beautiful daughter, Angie. Throw in plenty of drinks, mountains of pasta, family and a 'Hit' and you have the perfect recipe for a heartwarming disaster of a comedy.

Breaking Legs ran from October 12-21.

Check out some pictures from the performance:

Reception for Jennifer Nikitin- Dirty & Smiling. Show is on until Oct 1st

A great musical event with Brian Abbott & Faster

Eastside Confectionery Records presents Ladies Night! With iSpy and Maggie Christl

The Puppet Show

The Puppet Show, August 2- 20.
Reception August 3, 6 - 0pm.













Pics form the reception below.
(That's Brian Abbott and Kayla Milmine aka FASTER playing some tunes in the background, btw.)

The Puppet Show currently on display at GAS has got us thinking…

Faces are so compelling to human beings - and our brains will see a face in even the simplest arrangement of dots and lines! This is surely the origin of puppetry as vehicle for storytelling: add eyes to a simple shape and you instantly have a character that humans will relate to! And with puppets you can do fantastical things that would be difficult or impossible to do with human actors.

But WHY do you think we see faces so easily, even in abstract patterns? Is it some preprogrammed caveman instinct to help us notice when a predator is stalking us? Is it an ego thing where we want everything we see to be one of us? Tell us your theories!

(And come visit our puppets! They're on display until August 20th.)