Zach Morris/Third Rail Projects presents STEAMPUNK HAUNTED HOUSE
Four nights of visually stunning terror at the historic Abrons Arts Center’s Playhouse on the Lower East Side
Tours Run
October 28 & 29 6:00pm – 9:30pm
October 30 & 31 8:00pm – 11:30pm Location: Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street), New York, NY
(F to Delancey, J or M to Essex, D or B to Grand) General Admission: Wed & Thurs $20 | $10 Students
Fri & Sat $25 | $10 Students
(Regular priced tickets available online. Students tickets, walk-up only) Box Office: Purchase tickets ONLINE or call 212.352.3101
Project Description: This Halloween, enter an immersive world of churning gears, mechanical monstrosities, and steam-powered cyborgs as the Abrons Arts Center’s historic Playhouse and catacombs are transformed into New York’s first Steampunk Haunted House.
Elegantly designed, and staged under the direction of Bessie award-winning artist Zach Morris, in collaboration with a team of installation and performance artists, including: Elizabeth Carena, Jesse Green, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Liz Sargent, Brigid C. Scruggs, Barry Weil, Kryssy Wright, and the Abrons’ Urban Youth Theater, this terrifying promenade fashions a lush, visually stunning, and fiercely designed and choreographed experience.
The aesthetic of steampunk offers a fresh, romanticized spin on technology and fashion, creating an alternate, anachronistic Victorian-era that retains a pre-industrial elegance. The Steampunk Haunted House is like no other Halloween experience in the city, exploiting the more sinister aspects of the Playhouse’s early 20th-Century architecture to create a maze of science fictions. Clockwork spiders, legions of half-man/half-machine drones, and mechanized monsters and misfits manifest in eerie parlors, laboratories, and boiler rooms. Navigating dark, narrow hallways, corridors, and caverns, the audience is met with startling, stunning terrors around every turn.
Tour groups are admitted incrementally into the haunted house. Like most attractions of its kind, this is roughly a twenty-minute experience. Children under 8 will not be admitted.
Disclaimer:
Tickets are sold in fifteen minute intervals. Please arrive 30 minutes before the time slot you purchase.
Student tickets will only be sold at the door.
All walk-ups will be first-come, first served.
Ticketed latecomers will be placed in the walk-up line .
Those waiting in the walk-up line are admitted on a first come, first served basis only AFTER we’ve admitted all ticket holders for the timeslot we’re currently serving. In other words, if you don’t buy your ticket in advance or miss your ticketed time slot, we can not guarantee how long you’ll have to wait for admission, or if you’ll be able to get in at all.
There are no refunds or exchanges for any reason.
Management reserves the right to refuse service to, or remove anyone from the haunted house at any time, for any reason without refund. Anyone who appears to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or who are unruly or violent will not be admitted.
The Steampunk Haunted House is a frightening, immersive experience that winds through the theater and catacombs of the Henry Street Settlement playhouse. It requires walking up and down staircases, and navigating tight spaces and twists and turns in the dark. There will be fog effects, strobe lights, loud noises, lots of dust, soot, dripping pipes, churning gears, rusty metal, and other things that will hurt you if you touch them. Visitors who have health conditions are strongly cautioned should check with their doctor before attending the event.
You will be instructed not to touch any actor, any of the props, decorations, or scenery in the haunted house. If you do, you will be immediately removed from the house by security without refund.
If you need to leave the haunted house for any reason, you will be escorted out. There are no refunds.
If you loose something inside the house, we cannot stop to look for it while tours are running. You can speak to a box office person who will take your information in the event that our staff finds the item. We are not responsible for lost or stolen property.
Jesse Green Technical Director
Jesse has worked with Third Rail on a variety of projects over the last 5 years including the fabrication of three funded Burning Man installations; The Gate in 2005, TREE in 2007 and The Drifting Encyclopedia this past summer.
Liz Sargent's performance installations have been produced by Danspace Project City/Dans, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Sitelines, Dance Theatre Workshop’s 40th Anniversary, The Chocolate Factory, Piccolo Spoleto and Mount Tremper Arts. While Liz has focused particularly on her performance installations she has also been active in education at The Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, and as an arts administrator with Dance Theater Workshop, J Mandle Performance, and Sens Production. As a dancer, producer, set and costume designer she has worked with various artists and companies in NYC. Currently Liz works in wardrobe at St Anns Warehouse, Montclair University and freelance. LizSargent.com Brigid C. Scruggs
Kryssy Wright is a lighting designer based in Brooklyn who is mildly obscessed with Halloween. Her work has been seen all over the country. Kryssy's collaborations with Brendan McCall have recieved acclaim from the New York Times. She holds a BA from Bennington College.
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Credits:
Support for this project provided by:
Steampunk Haunted House is made possible, in part, with support from Abrons Arts Center; by Materials for the Arts/DCA and Department of Sanitation; and by Third Rail Projects, with support from individual and institutional donors.
Steampunk Haunted House is proudly sponsored by Halloween Adventure / newyorkcitycostumes.com.
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