Alex Romania

Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

The third evening length piece in the ‘Whoops!’ saga following KLUTZ (2018, Abrons Arts Center), and junkhead (2019, Brooklyn Studios for Dance) – Face Eaters, while entirely a Total Theater Mess, is also part haunted house of never-ending endings, part operatic home movie nightmare, and part decrypted love poem to the dead. Dwelling in the zeitgeist of never as ineffable “autobiography”, Face Eatersfeatures some words from creator Alex Romania’s late brother Zachary Romania, some remixed video inspired by collaborations with the late Taylor Sakarett, and monologues featuring the no-town non-performance legend Arthur Romania otherwise known as toxic cream cheese face rambler or Alex Romania’s father. In the desire to unfix time, Face Eaters considers feelings of impossible loss as the psychedelics of the everyday drift through the absurd…a sheet in love with a smoking hot mattress, a beloved futon’s hellish aria, a collection of alternative identities, a chaos meditation, ashen breath and performance for the end times.

Welcome to your vacation,

apocalypse nostalgia,

come get some.

Created and performed by Alex Romania in deep collaboration with Stacy Lynn Smith, Shane Jones, Nazareth Hassan, and Arthur Romania; with contributions by the late Zachary Romania and Taylor Sakarett. Lighting design: Wesley Bryon. Video tech: Glenn Potter-Takata.

A Note On Ticket Prices

Starting in December 2023, The Chocolate Factory Theater will implement a new tiered ticketing price structure, with the goal of remaining accessible to every person who wishes to attend our events while acknowledging the very real value of the service - namely, artistic and administrative labor - that a ticket purchase represents; and adjusting for the realities of inflation and the ever-increasing cost of…everything.

We now offer a range of ticket prices; and ask that you select the option that best reflects your individual circumstances:

1. $35 (our new base price - the equivalent of one hour of labor for a lead artist, performer, design collaborator or technician)
2. $20 (the price we have historically charged, for more than ten years, without an increase)
3. $10 
4. $50
5. $100
6. $275 (the actual, unsubsidized value of a ticket, if box office was our sole source of income)

Our intention here is not to create walled gardens or tiers of access based on monetary status; we’re merely trying to make our practice - of paying artists, technicians and administrative staff a fair wage (more than 80% of our annual budget goes to labor, fyi) - more sustainable (or truthfully, less unsustainable), while remaining (we hope!) accessible and welcoming to all.

As a ticket buyer, you’ll receive the same experience regardless of the price you pay. It’s general admission for everyone. In other words: if you’re used to paying $20, and that feels right to you, nothing will change. If you can pay more, please pay more; if you need to pay less, pay less. We’ll operate on the honor system, no questions asked; and we’ll see how it goes.