On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010Fourth Arts BlockThrough the lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Hannah Höch, Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, Cindy Sherman and Louise Nevelson K. Savage, using hand-cut Japanese paper and acrylic, traces her own personal journey using references from the work of these groundbreaking artists’ – charting their relevance from the 1600s to present day. K. Savage is a community artist who believes in preserving humanity in the arts.
Previews Feb. 24-March 7, Opening March 9, Final performance March 28New York Theatre WorkshopIt’s 1971 and the nation is at war. The intractable conflict escalates in Vietnam while here at home the battle for public opinion rages. A federal court blocks The New York Times from publishing the top-secret history of US involvement in Vietnam. Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham has a single day to decide whether to print these Pentagon Papers. When the Nixon administration closes in and charges treason, the fight for a free press explodes.
Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PMNew York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street TheaterNajla Saïd was raised in a privileged environment on the Upper West Side. Her father was Palestinian. Her mother is Lebanese. Her best friends growing up were Jewish. PALESTINE is a personal journey from the “toniest private schools”, to the “stench of Gaza,” through two wars, the horrors of 9/11, encounters with the likes of Yasir Arafat, “cheeky” photographers and, of course, her esteemed family.
March 10-20, Wed-Sat @ 8PM, also Sat @ 3PM, Preview Tues March 9EBE EnsembleElephants on Parade 2010 features six plays, five world premieres and one New York area premiere, that examine the peculiar difficulties of true communication and connection in the 21st century in a broad spectrum of styles from magical realism to farce to quiet drama.
March 9th&10Th @ 8PM and 14th&15th @ 7PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The Red RoomRoots and Wings Theatrical is presenting the second installment of their twice-annual Duct Tape and a Dream festival of new works. This spring's show will include four new plays, a new movement piece, songs by DM Salsberg, and an original performance by the RaW Board. All of the plays in the festival are inspired by or themed after the Picasso painting Girl Before a Mirror, making for a diverse range of conflicts and relationships.
Every Tuesday @ 9PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sPenny’s Open Mic invites you and any artist to gather together in a theater to workshop, experiment and share their work 7 minutes. The audience is here to listen and support, there is a back garden for talking and smoking, a bar for drinks, a green room for the performers to prepare before they go on stage. With the help of the many talented artists who grace this stage Pennys Open Mic has become an inspiring atmosphere where people feel free and safe to grow as artists and as people
Wed. 4:30-7PM, Sat. 10AM-4PMRod Rodgers Dance CompanyEnroll students ages 5-17 in RRDC's Youth Workshop, which offers classes at various levels in Ballet, Pointe, Jazz, Modern Dance, Tap, Hip-Hop, and Conga Drumming. Pointe class may only be purchased in conjunction with one ballet class per week. Please visit the Youth Workshop page for individual class details. Students must submit online registraion no later than January 20, 2010 at 6PM.
March 4th-27th at 7:00PMNew York Neo-FuturistsNew York Neo-Futurists Desiree Burch, Cara Francis & Erica Livingston serve up a cure for what ails you in this Neo-Medicine show, performing in and around a giant pot of self-made soup. Bottling this soup, as well as a series of elixirs, potions, tonics and products, they heal and reveal the female experience live, honest and in the flesh. ADVISORY: There is adult language and nudity in the production.
March 10th- 20th Wed @7PM Thurs, Fri, Sat @8PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sSix strangers find refuge for the night in the city of light. Through the windows of a Parisian hotel, they scan the streets below to guess where each will lead before setting out to meet their future. Each room reveals a private universe of hope, excitement, fear, faith, ambition, failure, fantasy and redemption all the qualities of human spirit that build and sustain a great metropolis. With mime, shadow puppets, accordion, and cancan, the show celebrates the romance of urban isolation.
Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PMFourth Arts BlockCome to FAB Central every Thursday & Friday to get discount and 2for1 ticket deals to the hottest shows in the Lower East Side! Each week, we sell rush tickets to multiple shows from theaters including Performance Space 122, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Neo-Futurists and Horse Trade Theater Company. Check out our website for each week's updates and be sure to get in line before we sell out!
Saturday, February 20-Sunday, March 14Performance Space 122Known for its radical and reckless theatricality, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s potboilers and Milton's epic Paradise Lost.
March 4th-21stTheater for the New CityCzechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will probe revolution with stilts and strings in "Revolution!?," a theater spectacle that examines revolutions throughout the history of mankind as a backdrop for the extraordinary peaceful 1989 Velvet Revolution in former Czechoslovakia.
8pmMilDred Gerestant for WOW Cafe TheaterA Night of Three Goddesses at WOW Cafe Theater!!! Three new one woman shows in one night for one price! MilDred Gerestant, the artist formerly known as DRED, Tantra Zawadi and Sokhna Heathyre Mabin.
March 11th-28th Thurs through Sat @8PM Sun @3PMTheater for the New CityA comedic fairytale-like odyssey about a farmer’s daughter from behind the Iron Curtain. Escaping her poor village in Poland, she flew here first for a vacation and came back to stay. She achieved the secure married life her parents had wanted for her, but realized that it was not what she desired. At 28 she experienced teenage rebellion, rejected her past, tried to reinvent herself over and over, only to realize one truth: there is no hope for happiness without the acceptance of one’s roots.
March 12th-27th Fri&Sat @7:30PMDixon PlaceAnnette and Oliver, two fragmented characters struggle for survival and understanding in this multi-media dance piece, inspired by choreographer Regina Nejman’s own experiences teaching in a psychiatric outpatient program. Methodical and meditative movements combined with a deconstructed soundscape will fill the stage creating a dream-like environment and a search for balance accented throughout by a sense of humor.
Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PMNew York Neo-FuturistsWith its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Now playing 50 weeks a year.
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