The Onion Cellar perform throughout the show, including compositions originally from their previous albums. The Onion Cellar The Onion Cellar is a play that premiered at the American Repertory Theater's venue, the Zero Arrow Theater (now Club Oberon), in Cambridge, Massachusetts from December 9, 2006 to January 13, 2007. It is a cross between a musical, cabaret show, rock concert and drama. It was the brain child of Amanda Palmer who based the title of the production on a chapter from Günter Grass's "The Tin Drum". In the novel, The Onion Cellar is a bar in post-war Germany where people go to share
The Cellar Door Cellar Door were recorded and released. The club was the venue for the renowned "Live-Evil" (later expanded into "The Cellar Door Sessions"), a live album with Miles Davis. The Bud & Travis "In Person" album was recorded there in 1964. Richie Havens recorded most of the tracks on "Richie Havens Live at the Cellar Door" there in 1970 and The Seldom Scene, a Bethesda, MD based bluegrass band, recorded their signature live album "Seldom Scene Recorded Live At the Cellar Door" in December 1974. Danny Gatton's "The Redneck Jazz Explosion" album was also recorded at The Cellar Door in 1978.