The Modern Problems

Fri, Jan 20
9:30
$5

Comedians and Writers team up to form The Modern Problems

Six Bay Area writers and comedians have formed a performance group
called The Modern Problems.

The group evolved from a regular workshop the six held to work on
their new material.
"None of us fit in to the current state of the open mike scenes,
either for comedy or poetry, so we formed our own workshop," says
writer Bucky Sinister. "That's where we all met, in the 90's heyday
of open mikes in the Mission."
The next evolutionary step for the workshop was to form into a group
to showcase each performer's new work.
"Each of us commandeers twenty minutes of stage time," Sinister
continued. "You might see sketch comedy, stand-up comedy, or six
short one man shows. It depends on the night and the performer. It's
where tragedy, comedy, and drama meet on one stage."

The Modern Problems consists of Joe Donohoe (author of To Be Santa
You Have to Be Tested), Colin Mahan (former member of sketch groups
Sequel 4000 and Fresh Robots), Harmon Leon (author of Republican Like
Me and The Harmon Chronicles), Lester Milton (author of The
Accidental Adventures of Dogget Mann, and former member of White
Noise Radio Theater), Mike Spiegelman (founder of the variety show
Speigelmania! and former Fresh Robots member), and Bucky Sinister
(author of Whiskey and Robots).

The Modern Problems have a weekly show every Friday at the Off Market
Theater starting January 20th at 9:30pm. The Off-Market Theaters are
conveniently located in downtown San Francisco at 965 Mission Street,
between 5th and 6th Streets. Our beautiful theaters are just two
blocks away from the corner of Powell and Market, easily accessible
to exceptional hotels, terrific restaurants, downtown shopping, MUNI/
BART, and close parking.
"Have you ever had friends you're terrified to introduce to each
other? Not because they won't get along, but because they're very
powerful evil geniuses who might hatch and execute plans for world
domination? imagine there are six of them, all viciously talented
writer-men, all funny, most of them handsome. OK, some of them
handsome. If such a sextet were allowed to get together, one result
might be a comedy lineup so sly and dark it would make Tina Fey pee
her mom jeans. Frighteningly, such a commingling has come to pass."-
SF Weekly

Venue:

Off -Market Theater
965 Mission St/6th
San Francisco

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