THE BACKYARD TOUR / NEWEST FIRST
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JULY 30–AUGUST 8, 2026 JULY 30–AUGUST 8, 2026
Live Animals Onstage! goes WILDE with DECAPITATRIX, a decadent adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salomé set in the seedy techno club of your nightmares. Equal parts biblical fever dream, family drama, warehouse rave, and ritual sacrifice, the production stages a perverse ritual communion with the divine in a sterile industrial world oscillating between stoicism and decadence.
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AUGUST 22–24, 2025 AUGUST 22–24, 2025
Our swan song in the backyard -- a celebration of the community and town that built LAO.
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NOVEMBER 2–3, 2024 NOVEMBER 2–3, 2024
A story of love, hate, and the wheel of fate, set amidst a backyard masquerade in East Williamsburg.
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APRIL 26-27, 2024 APRIL 26-27, 2024
Live Animals Onstage turned Edward Albee’s marital warzone into an intimate backyard dinner party: courses served, drinks poured, guests seated close enough to feel every toast curdle.
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
A late-summer backyard collision of Shakespeare, faerie mischief, firelight, party energy, and Live Animals Onstage’s signature DIY spectacle.
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JUNE 3, 2023 JUNE 3, 2023
A firelit backyard ritual of godly arrival, ecstatic chorus, family rupture, and Live Animals Onstage’s early DIY appetite for theatrical danger.
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AUGUST 20, 2022 AUGUST 20, 2022
An early Live Animals Onstage backyard party reading of 10 Things I Hate About You: scripts, firelight, red cups, party lights, and full commitment to teen-movie chaos.
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MAY 14, 2022 MAY 14, 2022
The first Live Animals Onstage backyard production — a rough, intimate Seagull that lit the fuse for the company to come.
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