Know Theatre - A Stage Set for Alternative Theatre


		The Bengsons performers of Ain't That Good News at the 2010 Cincinnati Fringe Festival & Music From The Proof as part of FringeDevelopment at the 2011 Festival. On Stage: February 7, 2012 @ 7pm Know Theatre Underground


Overview	Husband-and-wife led band, The Bengsons, are proud return to the Know Theater Underground on their cross-country 2012 winter tour. The Bengsons' music blends rousing, all-join-hands group choruses with spry melodies over energetic, frenetic rhythms. The show will include songs from their up coming experimental folk opera, Hundred Days, which was workshopped at the 2011 Cincy Fringe Festival and is premiering at Z Space in San Francisco. Described by The New York Times as possessing "not only a tremendous musical talent, but a raw honesty, a sincere righteousness,” The Bengsons present a ruckus evening of music, story, and spastic joy.
Cast	The Bengsons are the best in vaudevillian indie folk and rising stars in the NYC experimental music and theater community. They have performed their original shows, performances pieces and original musicals, Ain't That Good News and The Magic Show: The Story of the Barefoot Angels, across the country and around the world. They have appeared to acclaim at such venues as Culture Project’s Women Center Stage (NYC), MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), terraNOVA Collective’s soloNOVA Arts Festival at The Daryl Roth Theater (NYC), La MaMa E.T.C. (NYC), Dixon Place (NYC), BRIClab (Brooklyn, NY), The Flynn (Burlington, VT), Town Hall Theater (Middlebury, VT), The Thacher School (Ojai, CA), the Tijuana Christian Orphanage (Tijuana, Mexico) and the Market Theater (Johannesburg, South Africa). The Bengsons are also activists and teachers, who have taught students in NYC's public schools and Cambodian immigrants in Massachusetts, as well as internationally, including at the Market Theater Lab of Johannesburg, ZA, the Tijuana Christian Orphanage of Tijuana, Mexico, and ASAPROSA, in Santa Ana, El Salvador.
Reviews & Articles	"Not only a tremendous musical talent, but also a raw honesty and sincere righteousness." The New York Times "There is just no easy way to describe the experience... It's a little bit of everything and also unlike anything you've seen and heard before. There's no show quite like it... on any stage anywhere" Cincinnati CityBeat "Inspired... worthy of Bob Fosse's Cabaret work, as funny as it is horrifying." EDGE Entertainment “Beautiful and artful.” NYTheater.com “Friendly, fresh-faced and downright enchanting... audiences are bound to sit up and take notice.” Addison Independent “A rare and compelling talent.” Rachel Chanoff, Artistic Director of Celebrate Brooklyn and MASS MoCA “Tremendous vocals and a range of stunning and diverse musical stylings... Would bring tears to even Charles Manson's eyes.” Brandon Lucy Campos, My Feet Only Walk Forward
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