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Slipper Room

167 Orchard Street
Bars & Music Slipper Room
Since 1999, the Slipper Room has been instrumental in reviving—perhaps even creating—the burlesque community in New York City, for the first eleven years as the cozy, intimate cocktail lounge it once was, and now as the two-level burlesque theater an... more

Since 1999, the Slipper Room has been instrumental in reviving—perhaps even creating—the burlesque community in New York City, for the first eleven years as the cozy, intimate cocktail lounge it once was, and now as the two-level burlesque theater and bar and it's become. James Habacker, the producer and host behind the Slipper Room's early years, designed the space himself when the original building was demolished, making the Slipper Room not just perfect but designed to meet the needs of neo-burlesque performers, with sightlines and lighting well in mind. The main room is a stunning paean to Jazz Age with a stage that vaults the full two stories up, where balcony visitors get a bird's eye view of the action.


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Lower East Side Description

Slipper Room is located in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. While this could apply to most neighborhoods in this guide, the Lower East Side might be the best example yet of an area that was once down-at-the-heels, full of recent immigrants striving towards the American dream and long-time residents just trying to make ends meet, and is now as expensive as anywhere else in Manhattan, filled to the gills on weekends with the bridge-and-tunnel crowd looking to eat fancy and party hard. The Lower East Side is boxed in between Alphabet City and Chinatown and between Little Italy, Nolita, and the East Rive, running roughing south from Delancey Street to FDR Drive and from the East River west to Allen Street. In the last 150 years, the Lower East Side has been populated by successive waves of lower-income German, Irish, and Jewish immigrants, and has seen extensive immigration of Chinese and Latin populations in recent decades. Although the well-known Tenement Museum on Orchard Street chronicles the historically difficult, even squalid, conditions in the neighborhood’s tenements, rents have risen to four, six, even eight times what they were just five years ago. Today, Ludlow and Orchard Streets reflect the newest wave of immigrants: the dot-com and downtown crowd. In fact, an unbelievable array of new boutiques, restaurants, stores, fabulous bars and music clubs compete with the area’s long-established tailors, fabric dealers, button wholesalers, religious artifact suppliers, pickle vendors, and Kosher wine distributors. The neighborhood’s crowded parks and outdoor recreation areas reflect the pastiche of New York’s ethnically diverse groups, especially in summer, and a dizzying array of music from around the world can be heard literally on every corner. Take a stroll around to see some of the city’s oldest synagogues, famous delicatessens, shopping streets, and hang out with the hippest crowds. Art enthusiasts will be interested to know that the mother lode of art galleries in New York's Chelsea neighborhood has seen tectonic shifts, albeit slowly, to the Lower East Side, with trendy smaller new galleries popping up here and there. Many attribute this gallery migration to the Lower East Side to the presence of the New Museum of Contemporary Art on the Bowery, the first art museum ever constructed from the ground up in this neighborhood. Nightlife on the Lower East Side, especially on the weekends, is always rocking, with almost as many people cruising its narrow streets as there are inside its numerous bars, restaurants and live music venues. Up and coming alternative rock bands play at Bowery Ballroom on Delancey Street and Mercury Lounge on East Houston Street, while lesser known acts perform at smaller venues, such as the performance space in Pianos and the Living Room on Ludlow Street, or by booking Arlene's Grocery on Stanton Street. If you're looking to grab a bite to eat before concert-hoping from venue to venue, try Apizz, which features great Southern Italian cuisine and Prune, which is renowned for its fine American dining. The Lower East Side is definitely moving upwardly in its hotel and real estate offerings. The growth of this neighborhood has brought several new luxury boutique hotels, including Hotel On Rivington and the deluxe boutique Blue Moon Hotel on Orchard Street.

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167 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 253-7246
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Tue-Sat: 8:30pm-3:00am

Sundays and Mondays typically offer special events, so make sure to check schedule information.

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  • to Delancey St -- 0.2

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NYC Talent Show open mic variety extravaganza

NYC Talent Show is a fantastic, zany and historical off-off-Broadway, ongoing, no-holds-barred open mic that features celebrity guests such as Jim Gaffigan, Janeane Garofalo, Jessica Kirson and more. The show originated at Bowery Poetry Club in the early 2000s, and was hosted by the fabulously ... [ + ]weird, infamous O’Debra Twins. Since then, noted comedian, illustrator and entrepreneur Victor Varnado has taken the show over and hosts and presents it from the lower east side’s beloved Slipper Room venue.The concept is fun and silly: anyone can get on stage and is granted a few minutes to do whatever they want to—this leads to lots of off the cuff delights and surprises (plus a “credit” of having shared the stage with known celebs!).Details: Every Tuesdaydoors at 7pm, show at 7:30pmNYC Talent Show open michosted by Victor Varnado and Madame BougeThe Slipper Room167 Orchard St., NYC. 10002Tickets: $45Performers get in freeEventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-talent-show-tickets-679418187087?aff=erelexpmltPress release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QunGebh93T83K1NGdi-uqiJu12iE9vY21iOdIJ085Bg/edit?usp=sharingWebsite: NYCTalentShow.com

09/10/2024 07:00 PM
Tue, September 10
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NYC Talent Show open mic variety extravaganza

NYC Talent Show is a fantastic, zany and historical off-off-Broadway, ongoing, no-holds-barred open mic that features celebrity guests such as Jim Gaffigan, Janeane Garofalo, Jessica Kirson and more. The show originated at Bowery Poetry Club in the early 2000s, and was hosted by the fabulously ... [ + ]weird, infamous O’Debra Twins. Since then, noted comedian, illustrator and entrepreneur Victor Varnado has taken the show over and hosts and presents it from the lower east side’s beloved Slipper Room venue.The concept is fun and silly: anyone can get on stage and is granted a few minutes to do whatever they want to—this leads to lots of off the cuff delights and surprises (plus a “credit” of having shared the stage with known celebs!).Details: Every Tuesdaydoors at 7pm, show at 7:30pmNYC Talent Show open michosted by Victor Varnado and Madame BougeThe Slipper Room167 Orchard St., NYC. 10002Tickets: $45Performers get in freeEventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-talent-show-tickets-679418187087?aff=erelexpmltPress release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QunGebh93T83K1NGdi-uqiJu12iE9vY21iOdIJ085Bg/edit?usp=sharingWebsite: NYCTalentShow.com

09/17/2024 07:00 PM
Tue, September 17
7:00PM
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NYC Talent Show open mic variety extravaganza

NYC Talent Show is a fantastic, zany and historical off-off-Broadway, ongoing, no-holds-barred open mic that features celebrity guests such as Jim Gaffigan, Janeane Garofalo, Jessica Kirson and more. The show originated at Bowery Poetry Club in the early 2000s, and was hosted by the fabulously ... [ + ]weird, infamous O’Debra Twins. Since then, noted comedian, illustrator and entrepreneur Victor Varnado has taken the show over and hosts and presents it from the lower east side’s beloved Slipper Room venue.The concept is fun and silly: anyone can get on stage and is granted a few minutes to do whatever they want to—this leads to lots of off the cuff delights and surprises (plus a “credit” of having shared the stage with known celebs!).Details: Every Tuesdaydoors at 7pm, show at 7:30pmNYC Talent Show open michosted by Victor Varnado and Madame BougeThe Slipper Room167 Orchard St., NYC. 10002Tickets: $45Performers get in freeEventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-talent-show-tickets-679418187087?aff=erelexpmltPress release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QunGebh93T83K1NGdi-uqiJu12iE9vY21iOdIJ085Bg/edit?usp=sharingWebsite: NYCTalentShow.com

09/24/2024 07:00 PM
Tue, September 24
7:00PM
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NYC Talent Show open mic variety extravaganza

NYC Talent Show is a fantastic, zany and historical off-off-Broadway, ongoing, no-holds-barred open mic that features celebrity guests such as Jim Gaffigan, Janeane Garofalo, Jessica Kirson and more. The show originated at Bowery Poetry Club in the early 2000s, and was hosted by the fabulously ... [ + ]weird, infamous O’Debra Twins. Since then, noted comedian, illustrator and entrepreneur Victor Varnado has taken the show over and hosts and presents it from the lower east side’s beloved Slipper Room venue.The concept is fun and silly: anyone can get on stage and is granted a few minutes to do whatever they want to—this leads to lots of off the cuff delights and surprises (plus a “credit” of having shared the stage with known celebs!).Details: Every Tuesdaydoors at 7pm, show at 7:30pmNYC Talent Show open michosted by Victor Varnado and Madame BougeThe Slipper Room167 Orchard St., NYC. 10002Tickets: $45Performers get in freeEventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-talent-show-tickets-679418187087?aff=erelexpmltPress release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QunGebh93T83K1NGdi-uqiJu12iE9vY21iOdIJ085Bg/edit?usp=sharingWebsite: NYCTalentShow.com

10/01/2024 07:00 PM
Tue, October 01
7:00PM
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NYC Talent Show open mic variety extravaganza

NYC Talent Show is a fantastic, zany and historical off-off-Broadway, ongoing, no-holds-barred open mic that features celebrity guests such as Jim Gaffigan, Janeane Garofalo, Jessica Kirson and more. The show originated at Bowery Poetry Club in the early 2000s, and was hosted by the fabulously ... [ + ]weird, infamous O’Debra Twins. Since then, noted comedian, illustrator and entrepreneur Victor Varnado has taken the show over and hosts and presents it from the lower east side’s beloved Slipper Room venue.The concept is fun and silly: anyone can get on stage and is granted a few minutes to do whatever they want to—this leads to lots of off the cuff delights and surprises (plus a “credit” of having shared the stage with known celebs!).Details: Every Tuesdaydoors at 7pm, show at 7:30pmNYC Talent Show open michosted by Victor Varnado and Madame BougeThe Slipper Room167 Orchard St., NYC. 10002Tickets: $45Performers get in freeEventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-talent-show-tickets-679418187087?aff=erelexpmltPress release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QunGebh93T83K1NGdi-uqiJu12iE9vY21iOdIJ085Bg/edit?usp=sharingWebsite: NYCTalentShow.com

10/08/2024 07:00 PM
Tue, October 08
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