Saturdays at 3pm, Sundays at 7pmBleecker Street Opera Bleecker Street Opera’s second production of their acclaimed inaugural season opens on December 20th with Rossini’s knock-out comedy The Barber of Seville. Conductor David Rosenmeyer and Director Vincent Titone lead the brilliant cast and orchestra in this popular and delightful opera. The clever Figaro helps the Count Almaviva disguise himself in order to win the love of the beautiful Rosina and to rescue her from her awful guardian Dr. Bartolo. Full of plot twists and witty repa...
Saturday, February 7-9PMKGB BarThe series resumes.
Wed thru Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm & 7:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C. - THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is a modern interpretation of the classic American short story The Devil and Daniel Webster about a poor farmer who sells his soul in exchange for financial prosperity. Using marionette and bunraku-style puppetry, revolving puppet stages, recorded dialogue and original music and multi-media projections, Ping Chong, Erik Sanko and Jessica Grindstaff will transform this Faustian tale into a hilarious and haunting mediation on lost souls, fool’s gold and democracy’s...
10pmHyperGender BurlesqueThe money is tight, the jobs are not here, the unemployment is running out. Do not despair - HyperGender is here to tell you what to do if you used to be a teacher, a lawyer or even a lumberjack. Take your clothes off and be merry! Guests: Dizzy Swank, Charlie Demos, Goldie Peacock and more!
Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10Teatro IATIThis workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology. This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.
9pmHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
January 6 & 11, 7:00PM; 9 & 13, 8:00PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The KraineBound and blindfolded in a war-torn country, two hostages take refuge in music, memory and each other in this new indie-rock musical. ">"In this season of unlikely musicals, on Broadway and off, ‘Hostage Song’ may be the oddest of all…fantasy is transformed into an emotionally sustained reality” Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
Wednesday, January 06 at 7:00pmPerformance Space 122 Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. It is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get away from the culture and family life of 1980s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that l...
Wednesday, January 06 at 9:30pmPerformance Space 122As I was walking in front of this old, decayed townhouse, I happened to look up just in time to see a gnarled hand reach through the Venetian blinds and tape this beat-up old paper bag to the inside of the parlor floor window. On the paper bag was scrawled in pencil, in this kind of horror handwriting - Room For Rent. So I ran up the front steps, and I rang the doorbell. The room was very small. But it had a big, beautiful window looking out onto the trees of Tenth Street.
Wednesday, January 06 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
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!
Thursday, January 07 at 5:00pmPerformance Space 122 Morgan Thorson teams with the sublime slowcore band LOW in pursuit of ecstatic and corporeal perfection in a real-time performance ritual. This reverential spectacle transfers the myth of perfection from the religious to the theatre world as a roving chorus of performers undertakes angelic choral singing and Thorson's uniquely dynamic choreography. While extreme restriction is transformed into powerful kinesthetic expression, believers and non-believers, dance-enthusiasts and live music-lovers...
Thursday, January 07 at 6:30pmPerformance Space 122 Gisèle Vienne's Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed "the most dangerous writer in America" by the Village Voice. It is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s. Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche. Performed by and created in...
Januray 7, 8, 10, 7:00PM; 9, 6:00PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The KraineCritically-acclaimed, award-winning RADIOTHEATRE brings you Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, FRANKENSTEIN, adapted for the stage with a great cast of story tellers, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects! All that is required is your imagination!
Jan 7,8 and 9th at 8pm/ Jan 11,12,18,19,25 and 26th at 9pmHorse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room Radio Star is a 1940's radio detective spoof written and performed by Tanya O'Debra with original music by Andrew Mauriello. Watch (but mainly listen) as Nick McKittrick: Private Dick hilariously solves a murder in “The Case of the Long-Distance Lover”. Fresh off a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Radio Star marks Tanya O’Debra’s re-emergence into the theatre after her 8-year collaboration as one half of The O'Debra Twins. She is armed and dangerous with...
Thurs-Sat @ 8PM, Sun @ 2:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor TheaterA new interpretation of Medea as two different characters. Medea as a mother vs. Medea as a lover. The performance utilizes daily sounds and voice work derived from the Korean traditional Korean one-person opera ‘pansori’ and traditional folk song. For this, the work won the Best Director award at the 2007 Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.
January 7 & 8, 9:00PM; 12, 7:00PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The KraineThis edition of The Pumpkin Pie Show explores the bond formed between three women in the wake of a high school tragedy. ">"...an actor of rare gifts... someday Hollywood will steal her, so you have to snatch at every chance to see [Hanna Cheek] onstage." Helen Shaw, Time Out NY
Thursday, January 07 at 9:30pmPerformance Space 122As I was walking in front of this old, decayed townhouse, I happened to look up just in time to see a gnarled hand reach through the Venetian blinds and tape this beat-up old paper bag to the inside of the parlor floor window. On the paper bag was scrawled in pencil, in this kind of horror handwriting - Room For Rent. So I ran up the front steps, and I rang the doorbell. The room was very small. But it had a big, beautiful window looking out onto the trees of Tenth Street.
Open Thurs.-Sun. 1-6PMLa MaMa - La GalleriaA group exhibition of New York based artists Christopher Ouellette, Grant Shaffer & Ulrich Fladl Carmona who are exploring themes of subconscious, dreams, and fiction in multiple mediums.
Friday, January 08 at 6:30pmPerformance Space 122 Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: ...
Friday, January 08 at 7:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Friday, January 08 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122 Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. It is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get away from the culture and family life of 1980s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that l...
Sat. Jan. 9; 3pmTeatro IATITeatro IATI welcomes 2010 with this friendly event for the entire family. Tertulia 2010 will take place on January 9, 2010, 3pm, at 64 East 4th Street. Presentations are in Spanish and English.
Saturday, January 09 at 5:00pmPerformance Space 122 Morgan Thorson teams with the sublime slowcore band LOW in pursuit of ecstatic and corporeal perfection in a real-time performance ritual. This reverential spectacle transfers the myth of perfection from the religious to the theatre world as a roving chorus of performers undertakes angelic choral singing and Thorson's uniquely dynamic choreography. While extreme restriction is transformed into powerful kinesthetic expression, believers and non-believers, dance-enthusiasts and live music-lovers...
Saturday, January 09 at 7:00pmPerformance Space 122 Gisèle Vienne's Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed "the most dangerous writer in America" by the Village Voice. It is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s. Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche. Performed by and created in...
Saturday, January 09 at 7:30pmPerformance Space 122 Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. It is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get away from the culture and family life of 1980s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that l...
Saturday, January 09 at 9:30pmPerformance Space 122 Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: ...
Saturday, January 09 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122Following sold-out runs at Performance Space 122 in 2008 and 2009 Temporary Distortion return and climb back inside one of their signature box structures to unspool a theatre-cinema hybrid so new it can only be called bleeding-edge as they delve into the world of Japanese ghost stories and J-Horror. Americana Kamikaze is haunted by vengeful spirits, impossible physical manipulations, elliptical storylines, creepy sound designs, equally creepy cinematography, and bizarrely happy endings.
11:00PMBanana Bag & BodiceDigging into the roots of the original epic poem, this re-imagined version hearkens back to the raw and roudy style of storytelling in the old Scandinavian mead halls – with a passion for fierce poetry and a pint of thick beer.
Sunday, January 10 at 4:30pmPerformance Space 122As I was walking in front of this old, decayed townhouse, I happened to look up just in time to see a gnarled hand reach through the Venetian blinds and tape this beat-up old paper bag to the inside of the parlor floor window. On the paper bag was scrawled in pencil, in this kind of horror handwriting - Room For Rent. So I ran up the front steps, and I rang the doorbell. The room was very small. But it had a big, beautiful window looking out onto the trees of Tenth Street.
Sunday, January 10 at 5:00pmPerformance Space 122 Morgan Thorson teams with the sublime slowcore band LOW in pursuit of ecstatic and corporeal perfection in a real-time performance ritual. This reverential spectacle transfers the myth of perfection from the religious to the theatre world as a roving chorus of performers undertakes angelic choral singing and Thorson's uniquely dynamic choreography. While extreme restriction is transformed into powerful kinesthetic expression, believers and non-believers, dance-enthusiasts and live music-lovers...
Sunday, January 10 at 7:00pmPerformance Space 122 Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: ...
Sunday, January 10 at 7:30pmPerformance Space 122Following sold-out runs at Performance Space 122 in 2008 and 2009 Temporary Distortion return and climb back inside one of their signature box structures to unspool a theatre-cinema hybrid so new it can only be called bleeding-edge as they delve into the world of Japanese ghost stories and J-Horror. Americana Kamikaze is haunted by vengeful spirits, impossible physical manipulations, elliptical storylines, creepy sound designs, equally creepy cinematography, and bizarrely happy endings.
Sunday, January 10 at 9:30pmPerformance Space 122 Gisèle Vienne's Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed "the most dangerous writer in America" by the Village Voice. It is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s. Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche. Performed by and created in...
Sunday, January 10 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Sunday 10:00PMBanana Bag & BodiceDigging into the roots of the original epic poem, this re-imagined version hearkens back to the raw and roudy style of storytelling in the old Scandinavian mead halls – with a passion for fierce poetry and a pint of thick beer.
Monday, January 11 at 5:00pmPerformance Space 122Following sold-out runs at Performance Space 122 in 2008 and 2009 Temporary Distortion return and climb back inside one of their signature box structures to unspool a theatre-cinema hybrid so new it can only be called bleeding-edge as they delve into the world of Japanese ghost stories and J-Horror. Americana Kamikaze is haunted by vengeful spirits, impossible physical manipulations, elliptical storylines, creepy sound designs, equally creepy cinematography, and bizarrely happy endings.
Monday, January 11 at 7:00pmPerformance Space 122As I was walking in front of this old, decayed townhouse, I happened to look up just in time to see a gnarled hand reach through the Venetian blinds and tape this beat-up old paper bag to the inside of the parlor floor window. On the paper bag was scrawled in pencil, in this kind of horror handwriting - Room For Rent. So I ran up the front steps, and I rang the doorbell. The room was very small. But it had a big, beautiful window looking out onto the trees of Tenth Street.
Monday, January 11 at 7:30pmPerformance Space 122 Morgan Thorson teams with the sublime slowcore band LOW in pursuit of ecstatic and corporeal perfection in a real-time performance ritual. This reverential spectacle transfers the myth of perfection from the religious to the theatre world as a roving chorus of performers undertakes angelic choral singing and Thorson's uniquely dynamic choreography. While extreme restriction is transformed into powerful kinesthetic expression, believers and non-believers, dance-enthusiasts and live music-lovers...
Monday, January 11 at 9:30pmPerformance Space 122 Gisèle Vienne's Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed "the most dangerous writer in America" by the Village Voice. It is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s. Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche. Performed by and created in...
Monday, January 11 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122 Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. It is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get away from the culture and family life of 1980s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that l...
Tuesday, January 12 at 4:30pmPerformance Space 122 Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: ...
Tuesday, January 12 at 5:00pmPerformance Space 122 Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. It is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get away from the culture and family life of 1980s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that l...
Tuesday, January 12 at 7:00pmPerformance Space 122As I was walking in front of this old, decayed townhouse, I happened to look up just in time to see a gnarled hand reach through the Venetian blinds and tape this beat-up old paper bag to the inside of the parlor floor window. On the paper bag was scrawled in pencil, in this kind of horror handwriting - Room For Rent. So I ran up the front steps, and I rang the doorbell. The room was very small. But it had a big, beautiful window looking out onto the trees of Tenth Street.
Tuesday, January 12 at 7:30pmPerformance Space 122 Morgan Thorson teams with the sublime slowcore band LOW in pursuit of ecstatic and corporeal perfection in a real-time performance ritual. This reverential spectacle transfers the myth of perfection from the religious to the theatre world as a roving chorus of performers undertakes angelic choral singing and Thorson's uniquely dynamic choreography. While extreme restriction is transformed into powerful kinesthetic expression, believers and non-believers, dance-enthusiasts and live music-lovers...
Tuesday, January 12 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Tuesday 11:00PMBanana Bag & BodiceDigging into the roots of the original epic poem, this re-imagined version hearkens back to the raw and roudy style of storytelling in the old Scandinavian mead halls – with a passion for fierce poetry and a pint of thick beer. Monsters and professors collide in blood-soaked Scandinavia as this hefty poem is rescued from 1,000 years of analysis and transformed into a raucous dissertation on art and violence. It combines Weillian cabaret, 40's jazz, and indie rock into a cacophonous swirl.&...
January 13th-31st, Wednesday-Saturday 7PM; Sunday 3PMNew York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street TheaterNew York Theatre Workshop presents Mabou Mines' production of Pataphysics Penyeach, avant-garde legend Lee Breuer's irreverent new one-acts (a la Alfred Jarry): Summa Dramatica - a spiritual acting lesson, and Porco Morto - an elegy for Ponzi Porco PhD, pig of the avant-garde.
Thursday, January 14 at 7:30pmPerformance Space 122As I was walking in front of this old, decayed townhouse, I happened to look up just in time to see a gnarled hand reach through the Venetian blinds and tape this beat-up old paper bag to the inside of the parlor floor window. On the paper bag was scrawled in pencil, in this kind of horror handwriting - Room For Rent. So I ran up the front steps, and I rang the doorbell. The room was very small. But it had a big, beautiful window looking out onto the trees of Tenth Street.
Thursday, January 14 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122 Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. It is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get away from the culture and family life of 1980s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that l...
January 14th-February 4thTeatro CirculoMeet an epically dysfunctional family plucked from Greek mythology and dropped square in the middle of Fast Food Nation. King Minos, Queen Pasiphae, their daughter and, of course the Minotaur--half-man, falf-bull monster that only a mother could love. Toss in a coupled of severed fingers, kid-hating corporate mascot in a plush suit, and you've got one deliciously disturbing dark comedy.
Thursday, January 14 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122 Gisèle Vienne's Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed "the most dangerous writer in America" by the Village Voice. It is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s. Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche. Performed by and created in...
Thursday 10:00PMBanana Bag & BodiceDigging into the roots of the original epic poem, this re-imagined version hearkens back to the raw and roudy style of storytelling in the old Scandinavian mead halls – with a passion for fierce poetry and a pint of thick beer. Monsters and professors collide in blood-soaked Scandinavia as this hefty poem is rescued from 1,000 years of analysis and transformed into a raucous dissertation on art and violence. It combines Weillian cabaret, 40's jazz, and indie rock into a cacophonous swirl. ...
Thursday, January 14 at 10:30pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Friday, January 15th 7-9PMKGB BarArchipelago Books presents a reading by Basque author Unai Elorriaga and English translator Amaia Gabantxo from Mr. Elorriaga’s latest novel, Plants Don’t Drink Coffee.
Friday, January 15 at 7:30pmPerformance Space 122 Gisèle Vienne's Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed "the most dangerous writer in America" by the Village Voice. It is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s. Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche. Performed by and created in...
Friday, January 15 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
8pmWOW Cafe TheatreAn evening of genre-bending, gender-blending comedic theater! Blazes is a transgender vaudevililan whose blend of drag, clowning and circus arts has earned hir a reputation in Boston for bringing both raunch and intelligence to the stage.
Friday, January 15 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122As I was walking in front of this old, decayed townhouse, I happened to look up just in time to see a gnarled hand reach through the Venetian blinds and tape this beat-up old paper bag to the inside of the parlor floor window. On the paper bag was scrawled in pencil, in this kind of horror handwriting - Room For Rent. So I ran up the front steps, and I rang the doorbell. The room was very small. But it had a big, beautiful window looking out onto the trees of Tenth Street.
Friday, January 15 at 10:30pmPerformance Space 122 Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. It is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get away from the culture and family life of 1980s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that l...
January 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PMNo Longer EmptyNever Can Say Goodbye illuminates the economic and social changes caused by the emergence of the Internet as the dominant means of music distribution. In its heyday, Tower Records was sales central for indie and contemporary music, as well as a gathering place for musicians and music lovers. Today, in its place, is a virtual landscape without architecture, sales staff, ...
Saturday, January 16th 3PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubCoffeehouse Chronicles presents personal accounts of the history and development of the Experimental, International & Off-Off Broadway Theatre scene in NYC and at La MaMa by the individuals who created them. This week, Federico Restrepo will present some of the puppets he has made as well as archival video from his work at La MaMa over the past 25 years. This event is free, but donations are gladly accepted.
January 16th 7-9PMKGB BarIn this event presented by NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and literary venue KGB Bar, NYU-SCPS writing instructors working and teaching in a variety of genres will read from their work.
Saturday, January 16 at 7:30pmPerformance Space 122As I was walking in front of this old, decayed townhouse, I happened to look up just in time to see a gnarled hand reach through the Venetian blinds and tape this beat-up old paper bag to the inside of the parlor floor window. On the paper bag was scrawled in pencil, in this kind of horror handwriting - Room For Rent. So I ran up the front steps, and I rang the doorbell. The room was very small. But it had a big, beautiful window looking out onto the trees of Tenth Street.
Saturday, January 16 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122 Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. It is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get away from the culture and family life of 1980s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that l...
Saturday, January 16 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122 Gisèle Vienne's Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed "the most dangerous writer in America" by the Village Voice. It is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s. Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche. Performed by and created in...
Saturday, January 16 at 10:30pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Sunday, January 17 at 5:30pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Sunday, January 17 at 6:00pmPerformance Space 122 Gisèle Vienne's Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed "the most dangerous writer in America" by the Village Voice. It is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s. Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche. Performed by and created in...
Sunday, January 17th 7-9PMKGB BarThe KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers. This writers studio will feature work by Lisa Bellamy, Lesley Dormen, Lucinda Holt, Rachael Nevins, Cynthia Weiner
8:00 PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's Tonight we wonder through one woman's darkly funny journey through this meaningless and absurd world and life's most pivotal moments of desperation. From childhood to her adult life Rebecca is convinced that suicide is her only sure escape but her attempts are continually derailed by a mysterious comically dysfunctional dark "angel" who's method is less convinci...
Sunday, January 17 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122 Performed at a grand piano by one of Ireland's most exciting new theatrical voices, Mimic is a poetic and extraordinarily prescient solo performance about a culture in economic and spiritual freefall. It is a story about a young man, Julian Neary, who becomes a professional Mimic and leaves home to get away from the culture and family life of 1980s Ireland, and about what he finds when he returns home years later. A dark satire about imitation, authenticity, and what happens to a nation that l...
Sunday, January 17 at 8:30pmPerformance Space 122As I was walking in front of this old, decayed townhouse, I happened to look up just in time to see a gnarled hand reach through the Venetian blinds and tape this beat-up old paper bag to the inside of the parlor floor window. On the paper bag was scrawled in pencil, in this kind of horror handwriting - Room For Rent. So I ran up the front steps, and I rang the doorbell. The room was very small. But it had a big, beautiful window looking out onto the trees of Tenth Street.
Mon. Jan 18th @ 8PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubPoetry Electric fuses music, movement, sound, and dance with the spoken word. A poetry scene dedicated to poets who seek an alternative way to present the spoken word and word performance. This month featuring Kid Lucky The A Cappella MC with special guests Grey Matter and Kalae All Day.
Wednesday, January 20th 7-9PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubDavid Anthony Durham, winner of the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, is the author of Acacia: The War With The Mein and its sequel, The Other Lands. He’s currently at work on the concluding third volume. Lev Grossman is the author of the novels Codex and the N.Y. Times bestselling The Magicians. He’s currently working on a sequel to The Magicians.
Wednesday, January 20 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Third Wednesday every month at 10pmHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sRevealed is a cutting-edge burlesque show. This unique and extra-sultry night of cabaret features the sexiest, most notorious burlesque performers in New York giving you more bang for your buck than any other show in town. Born in Brooklyn, Revealed is all grown up and moving to the big city, brought to you by GiGi La Femme and Doc Wasabassco.
Thursday, January 21 7-9PMNo Longer EmptyThis performance marks the debut of Dirty Mirrors, a country band featuring Jon Kessler, John Miller, Aura Rosenberg and Dan Walworth. Performance schedule is subject to change. All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150.
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.
Friday, January 22 7-9PMKGB BarThis Emerging Writers Series will feather C.K. Williams.
Friday, January 22 7-9PMNo Longer EmptyV Count Macula: Straight out Detroit with that smash hit Smooth Wizardz. Doin that boss up stance, makin them girls dance... & Jeffrey Porterfield and David Marshall: Ride Coda Into Fade (or Thank You!), A musical performance. All performances are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150.
Friday, January 22 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
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.
January 23rd 7-9PMKGB BarFICTION Damian Dressick - Fables of the Deconstruction (Spire Press, forthcoming) NONFICTION Shelly Reed - Editor, Spire Press
Saturday, January 23 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Saturday, January 23 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
January 23, 24, 30, 31; 11am to 5pmTeatro IATIIn this workshop participants will explore the basics of Six Viewpoint training. All workshop members will practice and explore these elements with an emphasis on ensemble playing and creating new work.
Sunday, January 24 3-5PMNo Longer EmptyWith roots in bebop but incorporating the sound and soul of the Rhythm & Blues and Afrobeat, Il Collettivo has created music that defies easy categorization but is swinging, tuneful, and compelling. A highlight of Il Collettivo's live set, "Nonosi" has been known to turn previously indifferent audience members into shouting, dancing, clapping enthusiasts. $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150.
Sun. @ 6PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubThe Mess You Made is the new groundbreaking hip-hop LP by the Brooklyn producer and emcee duo AbCents + Postell. They celebrate its worldwide release January 24th with an album release party and performance. “Like Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side, there's something very 4-a.m.-in-the-city about The Mess You Made," says Ig, Grammy® nominated organist of the band Oh My God.
Sunday, January 24 at 6:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Sunday, January 24 7-9PMKGB BarThe KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.This Sunday features work by Jonathan Dee and Stefan Block
Monday @ 8PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The Club3rd Avenue Rep performs a reading of an original work based on interviews with immigrants about their experiences in the United States. At the event, they will also hold a live auction. All ticket sales and proceeds will go to victims of the recent tsunami in Samoa.
Tuesday, January 26th 7PM, Suggested DonationNo Longer EmptyNo Longer Empty will host various panelists have been invited to discuss how technology has transformed art— addressing how contemporary gadgets and the internet have shaped twenty-first century music production, listening and consumption and the affect of this shift on contemporary art. Donations are appreciated, but no one will be turned away for lack of funding.
Wed-Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm and 8pmElisabeth Aroneau and Kellie MeclearyAMONG ROSES AND THE ASH is a meditation on the power, beauty, and limitations of the English language, seen through the eyes of an author. Inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.
Wednesday, January 27 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
January 28th 7-9PMKGB BarAuthors Teri Coyne (“The Last Bridge”) and Masha Hamilton (“31 Hours”) read from their latest work and explore Ordinary Women: Extraordinary Heroines - a new paradigm for the modern heroine.
Thursday @ 7PMRabbit Hole EnsemblePart mystery, part thriller, and set in the landscape of 9/11, Before Your Very Eyes is about how denial can so easily replace the unbearable truth, and how desire and need create belief in unbelievable circumstances. It’s about how memories and secrets can behave like infections. It’s about the cost of safety…and the cost of belief. It’s about what it means to be “foreign”. Can your husband be foreign to you? Can you be a foreigner to yourself? FREE.
Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. - The AnnexThe play, directed by Ivica Buljan, is based on the popular contemporary Croatian novel of the same name by Zdenko Mesaric, which has been described as "moving, dark, cold, Sisyphean." The play will be performed in English and a boxing ring will be set up center-stage. There will be live music by Croatia's most popular hip-hop band and spectacular physical theater.
Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The KraineSarah, Lee, and Mona wait for news on a loved one involved in a terrible car accident. Throughout their time together, a camaraderie develops as they share their lives and the events that led them to this current situation. The clock ticks as they wait to find out if their loved one will live or die, and no matter the outcome, their lives are changed forever. RSVP to ucwaitingroom@gmail.com with the date of performance and # of tickets.
Thursday, January 28 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Thurs.-Sat. @ 8PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sIn the impoverished world of ex-Steel town Donora, PA three brothers make a blood oath to escape by any means necessary. A story as gritty and moving as the place it depicts, Blood Potato explores how hope, family, and unrequited love are twisted by the crystal meth hurricane sweeping through small town America.
Thursday, January 28 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Friday, January 29 7-9PMNo Longer Empty((audience)) is a traveling, biennial festival of 5.1 surround sound art works intended as "cinema in the dark." The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a 2 1/2 hour program of surround sound works by eight international artists: Jamie Allen, Simona Brinkmann, Loud Objects, Uli Schuster, Bryan Jacobs, Natasha Barrett, Cedric Maridet, and Emmanuel Madan / Anna Friz. All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited t...
Doors open @ 7PM, Films begin @ 8PMThe Millennium Film WorkshopBring your work for an open screening (like an open mic) at Millennum Film Workshop. Open to 16MM, S8MM, and DVD formats, first come first served. See emerging filmmakers before they have even emerged!
Friday, January 29 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Fri. & Sat. @ 10PM, Sun. @ 8PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubWeimaraners were desperate to escape the realities of their time. Jerry Stahl put it this way: “Even as Death, smiling like a sadistic Domina, lowers her high-heeled boot on your face, you can smile, and grind, and know that, for one tragic and ecstatic moment, release is yours. And you can forget about the obliteration to come … The Girls of Weimar Berlin could make anybody forget."
Friday, January 29 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Saturday, January 30 12-5PMNo Longer Empty12:00pm | Mystie Chamberlin 12:45pm | TBD Writer 1:00pm | 8-bit artist Dapantz 1:45pm | Lisa Jaeggi 2:30pm | Richard Allen 2:45pm | Bradley Dean 3:45pm | Brother Mike 4:00pm | All Up in Arms 5:00pm | TBA
Cocktail Hour @ 5PM, Show @ 5:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The Club1929! The stock market crash ushers in the Great Depression. People are desperate.What to do? Answer: repeal Prohibition; open Cocktail Lounges. 2008! Fiscal Meltdown. Desperation! The solution? Re-invent the cocktail; bring back the speakeasy. Cocktail Cabaret is a celebration (and investigation) in words and music of this phenomenon...linked to the current pulse of New York City.
Saturday, January 30 at 8:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Saturday, January 30 at 10:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Sunday, January 31 3-5PMNo Longer EmptyNehedar is the project of New York-based singer-songwriter Emilia Cataldo. Jon Taub: bassist, guitarist and bandleader for Black Box Enterntainment's Off-B'way productions "Soul Searching" and "Generations". Taub is currently arranging Black Box Studios' "Out Of Whack: The All-Kids' Rock Musical". All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150.
Sunday, January 31 at 6:00pmPerformance Space 122Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?
Sunday, January 31 7-9PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubThe KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.This Sunday readings will be performed by Jami Attenburg and Simon Van Booy.
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