Although City Solo is not a PianoFight show (Off-Market is presenting this one) we really dig the producers Thao P. Nguyen and Nicole Maxali and the killer performers they line-up each month. Basically, City Solo is a culturally diverse collection of solo artists performing excerpts from their own full-length shows, and by diverse, we really do mean diverse. Last month performers ranged from Jawad Ali talking about his recent trip to Pakistan to help out after a pretty massive earthquake destroyed quite a bit, to comic Mary Van Note who deadpanned the following line every night: “So last night I came so hard I passed out.”

This month features another all new line-up consisting of Lambeth Sterling, David Allan Moss, Zahra Noorbakhsh and Erica Lutz who hit on themes ranging from atheism to dating to clowning to becoming a widow. Oddly enough, a few weeks ago, stand-up legend Dave Chappelle came to Off-Market to check it out (he and Nicole are buddies and Nicole’s opened for him a few times). Here’s how Mr. Chappelle described the show: “City Solo at Off-Market is like an adventure, it’s funny then heartfelt then funny again. I’ve never seen solo shows done like that before.” Crazy right? Dave Chappelle was hanging out in our theater – pic below:

To get tickets to City Solo, click here, and for a more detailed description of performers and their pieces click here. To tell us how much you love Dave Chappelle, please leave a comment below.

Chloe Veltman of SF Weekly and ArtsJounral.com chronicles how Rotten Veggies Night came to be here.

And Rotten Veggies making waves across the pond as the Guardian UK crushes on some PF Veggies here.

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After two years of impressing the hell out of the Bay Area theater community, PianoFight was tapped to be a producing partner with Three Wise Monkeys as part of BOA. “The Philadelphian,” by Sam Leichter, premieres as part of BOA’s Program 1 line-up, Thursday, February 18th at 8:00pm at the Boxcar Theater. Stars Brian Trybom and Ray Hobbs (producer of The S.H.I.T. Show) are directed by PianoFight’s AD Rob Ready and healthy ammounts of Jameson.

Full BOA 9 line-up

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www.ApplyForThePosition.com

SF-based production company PianoFight is proud of and slightly baffled by an unexpected sponsorship from mysterious corporation The Concern, for PianoFight’s upcoming world premiere of William Bivins’ The Position, February 4 – 28, Thursdays – Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 7:00pm, at the Off-Market Theaters, 965 Mission Street in San Francisco.

The Concern Culture & Arts Fund (CCAF) has published a website in honor of the event, www.applyfortheposition.com, at which one can fill out an application for The Position and receive a discount code for $5 off tickets as well as a chance to win free tickets to this CCAF sponsored event. The Concern has also created a short advertisement for The Position which is also posted at the aforementioned website. For more info about PianoFight’s partnership with The Concern and info about the CCAF endorsed play The Position, please click here. To visit The Concern’s promotional website for The Position, please click here.

Sunday, Feb 21, 2:00pm @ Off-Market

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Poems n’ Song n’ Dance for Haitian Earthquake Relief
Come for the cause, stay for the dancing, poems and tunes

Featuring local musicians and poets (full line-up here)

All proceeds go directly to Yele Haiti, the relief organization of musician and Haiti native Wyclef Jean, AND Partners in Health, a non profit with over 20 years’ work in Haiti.

More info …