Award-winning queer film noir-inspired musical comedy by and starring Dan Kitrosser makes New York Premiere
Friday, November 22, 2024 at Laurie Beechman Theater
Award-winning queer film noir-inspired musical comedy SMOOTH by and starring Dan Kitrosser will make its New York on Friday, November 22 at 7 PM at The Laurie Beechman Theater (inside West Bank Café at 407 West 42nd Street at Ninth Avenue). Directed by Kyle Metzger, SMOOTH promises to turn the film noir genre on its head with a riotous blend of humor, gender play, and mind-bending twists. Doors open at 6pm with showtime at 7pm. Tickets are $24 for general admission or $35 for VIP tickets that include reserved front table seating and a meet-and-greet, available at www.SpinCycleNYC.co. Please note that there is also a $25 per person food/ drink minimum at all performances.
In SMOOTH, Private Investigator Willy Blough is on the case to uncover the mystery behind the vanishing detectives in this audacious, hilarious, and ferociously queer send-up of classic noir. Award-winning writer/performer Daniel Kitrosser dons multiple hats, embodying every character with a fierce, singular energy in this solo spectacle that puts the ME in FemME Fatale. With gender-bending performances, interactive moments, and more twists than a contortionists’ orgy, this show is a theatrical thrill ride like no other.
Dan Kitrosser (director) is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and performer. He cowrote the screenplay for WE THE ANIMALS which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, winning the NEXT: Innovator Award, Best Narrative at OutFest and was nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards and a GLAAD Award. His plays have been performed all over the world, including TAR BABY (Amnesty International Citation of Excellence). His solo shows SMOOTH and HOMOS! A Solo Disaster Musical, bitch both received a Fringie Award at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. You can hear Dan as the host of the acclaimed iHeartRadio podcast SVETLANA! SVETLANA!, a ten-episode podcast about Dan’s obsessions with Josef Stalin’s daughter. Dan lives in South Philadelphia with his fabulous husband Jordan and his narcissistic dog, Gemma.
Kyle Metzger is a director, deviser and educator. Now based in Philly, he spent a decade in NYC developing new works, touring Shakespeare adaptations and directing in the city and regional theaters around New England. New York directing projects include work at 59e29, terraNOVA Collective, Culture Project, Tenement Street Workshop, Theatre Row, New Georges, Ugly Rhino, Flying Carpet, Stages on the Sound, Caps Lock Theatre, and Network Theater Co. In 2017, he was selected for the Access Theatre Residency program for Untitled Parlor Play, devised with Dina Vovsi. From 2012-2018 he was the Artistic Director of The Glass Eye, directing and producing new works monthly through Fresh Produce’d and touring musical adaptations of Shakespeare around New York and Connecticut (As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Tempest). Favorite regional productions include Murder for Two (Playhouse on Park – Hartford CT), Of Mice and Men, The Game’s Afoot (Monomoy Theatre – Chatham MA), and Fun Home (New Light Theatre - Wilmington, PA).In Philly Kyle’s directed new plays such as Hannah and the Healing Stone (The Drake) and the pigeon (Strides Collective) and devised Wyck Live! - an immersive theatre experience at Wyck Historic House. His recent reworked production of The Little Prince the Musical at Quintessence Theatre Group was extended and Barrymore recommended. For the Philadelphia Fringe Festival he directed Homos! by Dan Kitrosser (Winner Best Nightlife Show) and Catholic Guilt by Kelly McCaughan (shortlisted Best Newcomer at Edinburgh International Fringe). Kyle is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of the Arts and has directed and taught at Drexel, Arcadia, Rowan and Rider Universities. MFA: UNC Greensboro, BFA: The Hartt School. kylemetzger.com