Room to Swing an Ax
Sat, Oct 17
|Citizens Bank Theater
TICKETS on SALE SOON. From the team that brought you last year's "spellbinding!" (Kevin Smith, Dogma) The Devil & Daisy Dirt comes a brand-new fever-dream hoedown, featuring the critically acclaimed writer/performer Alex Dawson and the award-winning folk singer Arlan Feiles.
Time & Location
Oct 17, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Citizens Bank Theater, 72 Eyland Ave, Succasunna, NJ 07876, USA
About the event
Save the Date. Tickets will be on sale soon!
Like Waylon Jennings' memoiristic "Man Called Hoss," Alex and Arlan use spoken word and ten biographical ballads to pull you through the mud and blood of Dawson's harsh but magical life on a haunted horse farm in rural Alabama.
Think Big Fish meets Blaze Foley.
Beginning with the morning his stepdad, a rancher named Doc, hit him in the head with a 5-pound Fireside Friend; ending with the old man dead, buried by bucket loader among his horses. There are witches in the woods, snakes in the lake, ghosts in the barn, and trapped in every bent tree is the soul of someone who died wrong.
Called "mesmerizing!" by the Asbury Park Press, "absolutely stunning" by Reactor, 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel Kraus, Angel Down says Ax is "weird and wonderful!"
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