It is known for its Fractured Classicks series, satirical interpretations of classic American plays and films that employ unique casting choices;[1] and its critically acclaimed[2] productions featuring performance artist John Kelly, playwrights Bill Russell and Adrienne Kennedy, and drag icons Varla Jean Merman and Lypsinka.
Among these various productions, Malony presented the first incarnation of John Kelly's[10] Obie-award-winning Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte,[11] acclaimed writer Edgar Oliver's first theatrical work The Seven Year Vacation, and the performance ensemble Watchface.
[12][13][14][15] Malony's other writing and directing credits during this time include Brenda Bergman's Her Reality[16] and Endangered Species: The Brenda Bergman Story;[17] Colleen O'Neill as Dr. Julia Wonder in Make My Dreams Your Reality, among many other Julia Wonder shows;[18] drag chanteuse Varla Jean Merman's The Christmas Concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall;[19] Tom Judson's Canned Ham at Dixon Place and on tour;[20] and Joseph Keckler's Midnight Mass at Ars Nova.
[21] In 1996, with longtime company members Stephen Pell and Colleen O'Neill, Malony launched the Tweed Fractured Classicks Series, which presented parodied classic plays and movies featuring unusual, comedic, and often cross-gender casting.
"[23] Tweed Fractured Classicks received Cease and Desist requests for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Blow Out Your Candles, Laura (The Glass Menagerie), Jungle Red (The Women),[24] and Whaddya Blind?!
Longtime Tweed artist Carol Lipnik is a frequent performer, and Sundays @ 7 has been the venue where actor/writer David Cale has workshopped his autobiographical musical We Are Only Alive for a Short Amont of Time,[31][32] which premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theater in Fall 2018.