WE'VE BEEN BAD BLOGGERS

How could we not be if we didn't post this glowing Village Voice review from Garrett Eisler last week? Or invite you to catch up on the latest nytheatre.com reviews of our shows? Or the other positive reviews of Suspicious Package?

But seriously, we've been so busy at The Brick, and with presenting and producing all the wonderful shows at The Film Festival: A Theater Festival, that we can hardly be blamed. (And if you dare to point out that we have a fully-functioning Mac in the box office on which we can theoretically blog between shows we'll punch you in the jaw.)

However, we are not so behind the curve that we can't tell you about our excitement regarding the Film Festival Extensions that we'll be running throughout July! The schedule (with show blurbs) is below. Read it and weep!

Birthtaint
Written by Andrew Gilchrist
Directed by Julie Rossman
Dawn sees promise in the grandiose fantasies of her large-faced friend Daniel, who dreams of one day building a theater on a cliff. She also knows scant time remains before she's lost him to the loose and cocksure girls of the Cabaret Magnifique. But will Dawn's confidence avail her? Or will she find herself in a struggle for which she's not yet prepared? In her dreams, she was special… In reality, it was always her Birthtaint...
70 minutes
Mon 6/30, 10pm
Tue 7/1, 10pm
Thu 7/10, 10pm

Death at Film Forum
Old Kent Road Theater
Written and Directed by Eric Bland
www.oldkentroadtheater.com
Four hip, overweening cinephiles compete in the cruelest of cruelties: an Indie Film-off with one auteur left standing. Naturally the story ends in murder.
105 minutes
Wed 7/2, 8pm
Sat 7/5, 8pm
Mon 7/7, 8pm

The Stubborn Illusion of Time
Bone Orchard
Created by the Company
www.boneorchard.org
Born out of improvisation, The Stubborn Illusion of Time tells the story of a living man who stumbles into an old casket factory and emerges, his head bursting with what he has seen: ghosts frozen in a photograph. Bone Orchard plays off the film of their previous theatre piece, The Immediate Present to explore the nature of reality, illusion and time itself.
75 minutes
Sun 7/6, 8pm
Fri 7/11, 10pm
Sat 7/12, 8pm
Fri 7/18, 8pm
Sat 7/19, 8pm
Thu 7/24, 8pm
Fri 7/25, 8pm

Suspicious Package
The Fifth Wall
Created by Gyda Arber
www.thefifthwall.org
In this Brooklyn Noir, you are the Detective, the Starlet, the Heiress, or the Producer in the mean streets of Williamsburg, where technology, reality, theater and film meet. Are you a victim of circumstance or the guilty party? Personal video players accompany you through the mystery and prompt you through your lines, as you star in the show.
Sat & Sun, 7/5 - 7/27
By appointment starting at 4pm

Tod & I
Piehole Productions
Created by Piehole
Puppets, shadows, and sounds remind us what it is to encounter the strangeness of death for the first time, and show us why the woods beyond the funeral home can be the perfect place to play hide and seek. Get away from the flowers and formaldehyde and come out into the dusk with Tod and I.
50 minutes
Wed 7/9, 8pm
Fri 7/11, 8pm

Stayed tuned for more stuff!