One Sunday a month at 7pm, we feature an exceptional artist with new work in development at the iconic restaurant/cabaret Pangea @ 178 2nd Avenue in Manhattan’s East Village.
On April 27th, we present…
In her new show Retrospective Zoë Van Tieghem reflects on both career and life, sampling bits of every cabaret she’s ever done.
Zoë Van Tieghem is an actor and singer. A two time BroadwayWorld cabaret award nominee, her sold out solo shows have been performed at Birdland, Don’t Tell Mama, Green Room 42 and The Duplex. Zoë is a graduate of the LaGuardia High School Drama Department, The New School, and has studied at the Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Film and TV credits include Regarding Us, Delinquent, Juvie, The Broken Ones, Whisper Me a Lullaby, Pulp, Miss Miserable and Magic Hour. Off-Broadway and regional theater: Near Vicksburg (Incubator Arts, Phoenix Theater Ensemble, Soho Rep), The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois (Dorset Theater Festival), Eleemosynary (DeSotelle Theater), The Uncovering (The Collective), A Small Fire (Ensemble Studio Theatre / Youngblood), Moses (HERE Arts).
AND TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE FOR OUR NEXT SHOW! SUNDAY MAY 18th, we proudly present…
In his new show, Dan Thaler dives in deep with the '3D's: Dinner, Dating, and Death...obsessions he's desperately avoided yet can never escape. In the end, Dan realizes that all three Ds are inevitable and best faced head-on with love, humor, and grace.
Dan Thaler has enjoyed a wonderfully dynamic musical life here in the greatest city in the world. He has worked professionally in opera and music theater, taught music in NYC public and private schools K-12, and is a vocal teacher and coach. He is the founder of Dan Thaler Voice Studio and New York Singing Studio.
"Dan Thaler's sweet, supple operatic voice was the highlight of the entire evening; this is a singer to watch." -New York Theater Wire
"A laidback tenor with melting high notes....hypnotizing." -Cabaret Scene
And coming up June 22nd, Broadway singer and actor Jonathan Christopher (Sweeney Todd, national tour of Hamilton) will be gracing us with his new solo show! TICKET LINK COMING SOON
Check out our past Tales of the Underdog shows below…
UNROOTED
Nineteen years after the sudden loss of her father, Nairoby embarks on a deeply personal and transformative journey to Cuba, the land where he was born and raised. As she walks the streets he once knew and immerses herself in the vibrant culture that shaped him, she uncovers the true meaning of “home”—not just as a place, but as a connection to the past, a celebration of love, and a bridge to understanding herself.
Praise for Otero: “…truly touching, genuine, and so truthfully acted by Otero, a true theatre star." —Theatrescene
The Brothers Orphan
Packed with funny, bawdy and touching true tales told by “natural raconteur” (Washington Post) TikTok sensation, and 6-time Moth storytelling champ Jamie Brickhouse, The Brothers Orphan is a darkly comic show of sibling rivalry and revelry. When Texan brothers Ronny, Jeffrey and Jamie are orphaned in middle age, they’re thrown together after years living separate lives. Jamie’s stories of his brothers’ adventures from Times Square titty bars to used truck dealerships are loaded with heart and hilarity. As they sift through the family home, they return to their juvenile selves but their adult afflictions—addiction, resentments, mental illness—threaten to burn the house down.
Award-winning writer and storyteller Jamie Brickhouse has recorded voices on Beavis and Butthead, appeared on PBS-TV’s Stories from the Stage and The Moth Podcast, and his daily #storiesinheels TikTok videos have over 6 million views, 1.1 million likes, and 75 thousand followers. He’s the creator of the memoirs and solo shows Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother, I Favor My Daddy: A Tale of Two Sissies, and Pearl Necklace: A Gay Sexcapade.
Old Fashioned Love Story
Old Fashioned Love Story is a tale of being young, gay, drunk, and in the arts. On the piano, David pines for lost love, for New York, for that period of life that seems all too fleeting as he shares his bittersweet love story with a talented fashion designer of ten
years…of the forces that keep them together as they tear themselves and one another apart…
“David Beck’s voice is acerbic and his wit is sharp.” – Booklife
“David Beck is a revelation and a delight.” -Broadway World