Performances & Visual Art

January 7, 2019

Deep Night with Dale Launches 2019 with Coast to Coast Shows!

Deep Night with Dale turns 10 this year, and to celebrate we’re kicking things off with back to back shows on both coasts! First up, we return for our sixth appearance at SF Sketchfest with a brand new spin on the format that started it all. While the podcast is only ten years old, Dale really started his career in comedy in the basement at Cafe Du Nord as part of the Killing My Lobster Kabaret, seventeen years ago. Variety shows are in his bones, so he decided he’d assemble an all-star roster of comedians and interesting people to put on a variety event like no other. With a focus on the future, Dale’s welcoming old friends and new for the first ever Deep Night with Dale’s Vortex Variety Hour as part of SF Sketchfest. Ticket and information lives over on sfsketchfest.com. The lineup includes a very special surprise guest, The Templeton Philharmonic, Francesca Fiorentini, Sureni Weerasekera, a new work from Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, a visit from the long-lost Comics of the Future, music from Agouti and an interview with future-expert, Rose Eveleth! Plus a short video from Cole Kush. Sunday, January 13th 8pm. At Piano Fight.

Then Dale returns to NY with the first live show of 2019 – an extraordinary episode of Deep Night featuring guests Maria Dizzia (Orange is the New Black), X Mayo (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah), Katie Hannigan (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), and musician Vera Sola (new album Shades). Plus we have CUSHIONS playing music and movement throughout by The Deep Night Dancers, 96B Dance Theatre. Info on that one up on deepnightshow.com.

Artwork here for the show in SF, by the fantastic Maria Nguyen.
Full poster shown below:

March 18, 2016

WUNNERFUL RETURNS TO JOE’S PUB 4/10

Join co-hosts Leslie Goshko (Huffington Post Comedy) and James Bewley (Dale Radio) as they present an all-new musical salute to spring inspired by the long-running Lawrence Welk television program. Far from a traditional tribute, the hour-long event veers off into unexpected territory as petty jealousies, forbidden passions, and over-sized egos of the cast are revealed. Bewley, as his alter ego Dale Seever, picks up the celebrated conductor’s baton to lead an evening of popular songs as reimagined by a talented cast that includes:

Downtown cabaret sensation Molly Pope; genre-defying song stylist Salty Brine; singer- songwriter Cariad Harmon; three person brass section and comedy troupe The Trumpet Boys; emerging choreographer Carol Mendes & Artists; along with singing sirens Barrie McLain,
Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Tonya Glanz, and Shaye Troha; with an orchestra of handsome gents known as The Wunnerful Companions (Andrew Bancroft, Moondrunk; Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan, Freestyle Love Supreme; Eric Biondo, Antibalas; Steve O’Reilly, Tammany Hall NYC) .*
*Lineup subject to change

Wunnerful Wunnerful!: A Retro Variety Show will take place:
Sunday, April 10th, 2016, 9:30pm (doors open at 9:00pm)
@ Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place)
NY, NY 10003
212-967-7555

Tickets are $20 online. $12 food minimum or two drink minimum per person.
http://joespub.publictheater.org/

Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.

June 9, 2015

Even More Wunnerful June 25th!

I’m incredibly excited to be performing and presenting another edition of Wunnerful Wunnerful! our weirdo-tribute to Lawrence Welk. This time we’re part of one of the most exciting new theater festivals in NYC, ANT Fest at Ars Nova. So many great theater projects have emerged from the festival and from the fine folks at Ars Nova. It’s an exceptional place for new work and we’re going to give it our all with this totally new iteration of the show. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door – but it’s a smaller venue, so it’s a good idea to get tickets early. Here’s the link.

Ars Nova is located at 511 WEST 54TH ST NEW YORK NY 10019
Show is Thursday, June 25th at 7pm – Running Time is about 70 minutes.

I’m so pleased that Leslie Goshko – the one and only, the fantastic, the exceptional – Leslie Goshko has agreed to collaborate once again on this project with me. Leslie brings the heat to the ivories and keeps the show off-kilter with her portrayal of Geraldine Shirley, Mistress of the Keys. Steve O’Reilly is leading up the band this time as Ace Calhoun. And we’ve got an all-star cast of rising talents and experienced pros doing numbers in a summer way. The theme is Summer Flings – so be prepared to be tempted by the sultry, embraced by the fleeting, and pine for the impossible. Also there will be bubbles.

Get some tickets and come out and celebrate a fun time with Cory McAbee, Reformed Whores, Melissa Elledge, Ashley Perez Flanagan, Josh Sharp, Julia Anrather, Abigayle Horrell, and the ladies from the band PEP! And in the band Jeff Scherer and Dan Menke with Steve O and Leslie.

See you there!! Keep a song in your heart!

Above photo by Mark Shaw.

March 17, 2015

Things Get Wunnerful This Spring!

It’s happening! On Saturday, April 11, at 9:30pm at Joe’s Pub in NYC – I’ll finally be realizing a long-held dream to inhabit the world of the Lawrence Welk Show and make it my own with Wunnerful Wunnerful! For years I’ve wondered what would it be like to have a talented cast of performers take on personas – much like Dale – and put on a show. A genuine singing and dancing spectacular, updated for the modern age.

So here we are. A tribute to Lawrence Welk. Tickets are $20 and I suggest getting them early so you can select the seat you like. Leslie Goshko on piano and at my side making this happen with a band led by Andrew Bancroft that includes Shockwave, Eric Biondo, and Steve O’Reilly. Numbers by Reformed Whores, Jo Equality Lampert, Shaina Taub, Michael Raine, Amber Nelson, Matteo Lane, and more! All with Dale in the host spot ensuring it all goes according to plan. Now we just need a plan.

Click here for tickets!

Photos of Leslie and Dale by the talented Mark Shaw.

April 2, 2010

YD Industries

In collaboration with George Nachtrieb, founder of this masterwork of a website (YDIndustries.com), detailing the products and services of a fictitious mega-corporation. I suggested we start doing live events and allow people to peek inside the successful walls of this multi-national conglomerate. Inventing the persona of Dean Kramer to George’s Steve Musselman, I co-wrote and performed informative podcasts, generated the biting commentary in the company blog, acted and co-created powerpoint presentations for live Success! Seminars, and aided in the production of video shorts including the one below featuring the calls of the Mastodon. Among the things I am most proud of: developing the savory flavors of Condom Burst! Now available in Garlic Nan!

November 10, 2006

Theatre de la Jeune Lune

Of the three companies I would want to be on stage with, this one was at the top. If you’re ever in Minneapolis, go see a show by these terrific pranksters. I appeared in an election year satire Ubu for President, based on the Ubu Roi plays by Alfred Jarry. The important thing was that I played Ma Ubu, which meant a lot of stage combat in pumps and a six foot drop onto a wrestling mat wearing a corset. Best three months ever.

Vincent Gracieux was Ubu, pictured here in an earlier production of the piece. Vinny was my husband in the play and my host for most of my stay in Minneapolis and it was an honor to perform with him. We drank a lot of Czech beers late at night while watching Charlie Rose and the Olympics.

Me as Ma Ubu:

November 10, 2006

The Bat Series

The first incarnation of this set of 22 drawings was created for a group exhibition at White Columns in New York, curated by Marisa Olson. The second time around, I made new work based on the same concept for Characters, Scene I and II, (one exhibition, two locations) curated by Helianthe Bourdeaux-Martin. The show also included James Jean, R. Crumb, Cindy Sherman, Philip Guston, and many other giants, and it was a true honor to have work on the same walls with them. The concept was that instead of happening to Bruce Wayne, the Batman mythos happened to me, minus the shooting of the parents and all. But what if I had taken up the mantle of the bat? I tried to portray my own fears and insecurities faced by a super hero, but in the end he ended up just being as vulnerable and threatened by it all as I was.

November 10, 2006

Lovesome

I was doing a lot of internet dating at the time, and this was my tribute to that form.Read More

November 10, 2006

Moon Transfer

Space Man ends up on the moon. Space man finds a moon slug. Space man is saddened by the loss of all his friends and family so far away.Read More

November 10, 2006

Gilly G’s Goodtime Showcase

This project was a tribute to a Philadelphia morning show called Al Abert’s Showcase. With the help of Michelle Dean (director/editor) and Jon Wolanske (actor) I filmed what was the last episode of this fictional children’s show hosted by Gilly G. Grasshopper.Read More

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