In time for Valentine’s Day, Pig Iron Theater Company is putting on its annual benefit cabaret and auction in the theme of love. Having love, not having love, pretending to have love, etc. As event host and company artistic director Quinn Bauriedel explains, “The audience and performers are known to engage in an artistic orgy of the senses.” Oh, my. The event will feature the Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret and the “erotic teasings” of the Peek-A-Boo Revue. There will also be an auction of items like a Pig Iron play performed in your living room, sumptuous meals at fancy, dimly lit restaurants, white-dove releasings and personal cheese concierges — although, as the website notes, “some items fictional, but not most.” But above all, as Bauriedel says, “this cabaret will be one hell of a party.”
Fri., Feb. 1, auction 7 p.m., show 8 p.m., $25-$30, The Trocadero, 1003 Arch Street, 215-425-1125, pigiron.org, thetroc.com.
