{"id":326147,"date":"2026-08-20T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326147\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:26:07","slug":"buffy-the-vampire-slayer-episode-tabula-rasa-to-be-staged-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326147\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode &#8216;Tabula Rasa&#8217; to be Staged in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cult classic television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is headed back Off-Broadway for one night only.<\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of the sold-out engagements of &#8220;Once More With Feeling&#8221; and &#8220;Welcome To the Hellmouth,\u201d the episode &#8220;Tabula Rasa&#8221;\u00a0will be presented in a staged reading format August 26\u00a0at 7 PM and 9 PM to raise funds for the\u00a0Alzheimer&#8217;s Association and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/the-entertainment-community-fund-producer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Entertainment Community Fund<\/a>, honoring the episode\u2019s memory loss plotline.\u00a0Staged at Brooklyn&#8217;s The Rat NYC, each performance will be followed by multiple rounds of Buffy the Vampire Slayer trivia, with prizes\u00a0for winning teams.<\/p>\n<p>Following the critically acclaimed musical episode &#8220;Once More With Feeling,\u201d &#8220;Tabula Rasa&#8221;\u00a0follows the\u00a0Scoobies after the music fades away and the dancing stops.\u00a0When a spell goes haywire, the gang finds themselves without their memories, with only context clues to figure out who they are, how they&#8217;re connected, and what they&#8217;re fighting.\u00a0Meet Joan the Vampire Slayer, Randy Giles, and your favorite \u201cLoan Shark\u201d as Sunnydale flips upside down.<\/p>\n<p>This reading of &#8220;Tabula Rasa&#8221; will star\u00a0Oren Alperin, Laurie Beckoff, Lauren Cagnetta, Emily Enden, Susanna Guffey, Margaret Hall,\u00a0Ali Regan, Rachel Robins, Derek Sherry, Allison St. Rock, and Johnny Vorsteg.<\/p>\n<p>Buffy The Vampire Slayer at The Rat is produced by Something to Sing About Productions, with direction by LaRena Iocco. <\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theratnyc.com\/event-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TheRatNYC.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cult classic television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is headed back Off-Broadway for one night only. Hot on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-326147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}