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 Onion Cellar counterpoint while still others are off in a world of their own." it was never supposed to be a dark, dismal, sobfest as the article sort of implies: it was supposed to be an interactive environment with lots of confusion, fun, prankery, audience participation and also darker images about Grass himself, the holocaust, guilt, the creation of art in terms of grappling with the past and how we, as humans, try to come to terms with emotions that are difficult to face. - Amanda Palmer "The Onion Cellar" was conceived and written by Amanda Palmer, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Marcus Stern,