YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: The Comedy Canon Film Series

<span id="docs-internal-guid-dfbf8f7f-7fff-ff0a-6eb1-0deb3bfc739f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduced by comedian Eddie Brill!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the legendary Mel Brooks turns 100, celebrate the funniest movie parody of the 20th century, a black-and-white riff on classic Universal monster movies that gives Gene Hackman one of his most memorable roles. Loaded with hilarious one-liners (“That’s FrankenSTEEN!”) and a kooky atmosphere that doubles as a love letter to the era it sends up, Brooks’ audacious comedy follows a neuroscientist to old Europe where his plan to reanimate dead tissue leads to…well, some sillier results than any other </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frankenstein</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> version out there.&nbsp;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align: center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">THE COMEDY CANON</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; line-height: 1.38; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><i>Abby Russell’s Sticks and Stones Comedy Club and the Hamptons Comedy Film Festival</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; line-height: 1.38; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0pt 0px; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The laughs continue all summer at the Playhouse with our repertory series The Comedy Canon. For this inaugural edition, we’re joining forces with Abby Russell's Sticks and Stones Comedy Club and the Hamptons Comedy Festival to feature special introductions before each screening from celebrated comedians. </span></p></span>ComedyPT1H46MPG2026-07-15USen
Gene Wilder
Peter Boyle
Marty Feldman
Mel Brooks
Michael Gruskoff
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: The Comedy Canon Film Series"YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: The Comedy Canon Film Series"

Showtimes

July 15, 7:00 pm

Southampton Playhouse