Wandering Aesthetics is proud to announce the next Electric Pressure Cooker Cabaret – an AWARD WINNING monthly “Anything Goes” Open Mic–style Cabaret.

The Electric Pressure Cooker will be held on Saturday, May 28th, 2016 at 8 pm at None Too Fragile Theater inside Pub Bricco, located at 1841 Merriman Road in Akron, Ohio.

The Electric Pressure Cooker is open the public. There is a $5 cover charge or pay-what-you-can at the door. Audience members can pay their covers and artists can pre-register for a performance slot online at www.watheatre.com/epcooker or via phone at 330.612.3090.

All Proceeds Will Go To:

The Electric Pressure Cooker presents… Bigger Than A Breadbox is one of the 27 winners for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge in Akron. The Knight Arts Challenge is a matching grant, so Wandering Aesthetics needs to raise $37,500 over the next year and $75,000 over the next two years to receive funds for Bigger Than A Breadbox.  

For more information visit watheatre.com/btab or email watheatre@gmail.com.

About the Event:

Because of the ever-expanding and loving #EPCooker Community, the Electric Pressure Cooker Cabaret continues to be one of the area’s hottest monthly events. Recently winning a 2016 Akron/Summit Convention & Visitors Bureau Zenith Award in the "You Tell the Tourist" - Your Attendance is Mandatory category, it is an artist driven event that sees over 100 audience members, 20 performances and 6 non-stop hours of art.

Registration for performers begins at 7:30 pm. Performances begin between 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm. Anyone may sign up for a 12-minute slot. Performers may pre-register at watheatre.com/epcooker

An emcee, house drum kit, keyboard and sound system (with operators) are provided.

ALL varieties of acts are encouraged to perform. Previous acts have included: monologues, acoustic musicians, play readings, comedians, experimental art, dancers, scenes from plays, improv, devised work, full rock bands and performance artists. But the sky is the limit; no art is too taboo for the #EPCooker!

ALL levels – from beginner to the most experienced – are encouraged to perform. Those under 18 are permitted to attend (and perform!) with adult supervision. 

The #EPCooker is not just an Open Mic. It is an open and welcoming community of artists. It is also a great networking event, a great place to improve stage presence and a great place to develop as an artist.

Pub Bricco has a full bar and a wide selection of food. Food and alcohol are permitted in the theatre.

About Bigger Than A Breadbox:

Building on the success of Wandering Aesthetics’ reoccurring Electric Pressure Cooker Cabaret, Bigger Than a Breadbox (BTAB) draws inspiration from Akron’s historic ties to vaudeville. Using this vaudevillian blueprint, BTAB will be a dynamic quarterly event that celebrates artistic excellence and unites audiences through affordable access to a revolving lineup of high quality performers. BTAB will tour Akron; each “bill” will be comprised of acts selected from the #EPCooker and the neighborhoods where BTAB events are held. Acts will reflect a diverse array of talent and receive a performance stipend.