LRS: Live!
The Thanksgiving Throwdown
Join your hosts, Alex ("Uncle Al") Bechtel and Alice ("Cousin Bill's New Girlfriend") Yorke, for an evening of raucous performance, guilty pleasures, whiskey chasers, and turkey basters. The Thanksgiving Throwdown pits your dread of family conversation against your desire to get just drunk enough to be grateful. Gather round with our chosen family of performers, Brett Robinson, Pax Ressler, Alicia Crosby, and Terran Scott for a little bit of singing, a little bit of stripping, and a whole lot of the unexpected that you’ve come to expect from Lightning Rod Special.
It's all the stuffing of America's most complicated holiday with none of the stress of the three-hour drive home.
LRS: Live! is a new performance series from Philadelphia's Lightning Rod Special ("The Appointment," "Underground Railroad Game"). Hosted by LRS company member Alex Bechtel ("Should have been nominated for a Tony" -Ben Brantley, NYTimes) and LRS co-director Alice Yorke (Best Theatre Talent, 2019, Philly Mag), LRS:Live! translates the daring, gut-punching work of their full-length plays into a happy-hour variety event featuring performances from some of Philly's brightest and boldest.
