On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Monday, February 1 7-9PM
KGB Bar
Beverly Gologorsky will read from her novel, The Things We Do to Make It Home. First published in 1991, the novel became an instant classic with its heartfelt rendering of the lives of Vietnam vets’ families.  Helen Benedict will read from her new novel, The Edge of Eden.  Benedict’s work on women soldiers won the 2008 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.  Nora Eisenberg will read ...

7:00 PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
An Audelco award-winning one-man play about jazz great Thelonious Monk starring Rome Neal

Monday, February 01 at 7:30pm
No Longer Empty
All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This 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.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Tuesday @ 7:30PM
Fourth Arts Block
FAB brings together two ensembles from the East 4th Street Cultural District whose works are both based in their true life experiences to perform in a site-specific exhibit at the old Tower Records. Join BTK Band, raconteurs who regale the audience with true stories from their lives set to music, and the New York Neo-Futurists who will present an excerpt from The Soup Show, a work-in progress that focuses on the state of feminism today. Corner of Broadway and 4th Street.

9pm
Horse 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 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PM
No Longer Empty
Never 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, ...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

January 14th-February 4th
Teatro Circulo
Meet 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.

Feb. 3-6 @ 8PM
DMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts center
Join us in choosing which films will be screened at the next NYC Downtown Short Film Festival in April 2010. We screen them...you vote...the top vote getters are screened at the Festival. A fun evening out for $10.....you can't go wrong.

January 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PM
No Longer Empty
Never 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, ...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come 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!

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This 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.

6-8PM
Fourth Arts Block & Coopers Square Commercial Committee
An exhibition by students of the City Studio at Eugene Lang College, the New School & Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, in collaboration with SPURA Matters. Exploring SPURA, delves into the experience of living at SPURA now - the resources and restrictions as well as the experience of the SPURA diaspora, displaced many years ago. The exhibition hopes to continue encouraging productive conversation about the site's future.

6:30pm
Fourth Arts Block & Coopers Square Commercial Committee
Please join your neighbors, along with various elected officials and city agencies for a discussion with the New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) An opportunity to speak directly to newly appointed Chairman Dennis Rosen regarding nightlife and quality of life issues. Rosie encourages all concerned neighbors to join this important discussion.

Thursday, February 4 7-9PM
No Longer Empty
Disco Monkeys are a progressive art band known for its high-energy performances and visual appeal.  Oxygen Ensemble is a collective of musicians led by New York bassist Thomas Bell.  All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
The 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.

January 14th-February 4th
Teatro Circulo
Meet 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.

Feb. 3-6 @ 8PM
DMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts center
Join us in choosing which films will be screened at the next NYC Downtown Short Film Festival in April 2010. We screen them...you vote...the top vote getters are screened at the Festival. A fun evening out for $10.....you can't go wrong.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 8PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
In 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.

January 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PM
No Longer Empty
Never 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, ...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come 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!

Friday, February 5 7-9PM
KGB Bar
This Friday, Myla Goldberg, the author of the bestselling Bee Season will be reading.  Her short stories have appeared in McSweeneys and Harpers.  Her book reviews have appeared in the New York Times and Bookforum.

Friday, February 5 7-9PM
No Longer Empty
Azita Youseffi first made a name for herself on a national scale as the bassist for Chicago’s neo-no wave trio Scissor Girls.  Under the moniker of Animal Hospital, Kevin Micka explores this with little more than an arsenal of effects pedals and other assorted guitar gear.  All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Friday, February 05 at 7:30pm
Downtown Art
HOUSE OF DREAMS -- bad boys, silent film, pop culture, 100 years ago.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of Nobel Peace prize winner Jane Addams book, "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets", turn of the century circus, & early silent film...performed by DTA's teen artists with skill and edge.

February 5-7
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Ian Ellis James aka William Electric Black will direct "The Lonely Soldier Monologues (Women at War In Iraq)" by Helen Benedict, author of "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq" (Beacon Press, April 2009). It contains monologues of seven soldiers that were gathered through interviews and correspondence for the book.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
The 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.

Feb. 3-6 @ 8PM
DMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts center
Join us in choosing which films will be screened at the next NYC Downtown Short Film Festival in April 2010. We screen them...you vote...the top vote getters are screened at the Festival. A fun evening out for $10.....you can't go wrong.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 8PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
In 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.

8:00PM door, 9:00PM show
WOW Café Theater
Rivers of Honey is a cabaret featuring women and trans artists of color the first Friday of every month.
$10 suggested, but no one turned away for lack of funds.

Fri. & Sat. @ 10PM, Sun. @ 8PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Weimaraners 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."

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With 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 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PM
No Longer Empty
Never 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, ...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Saturday, February 6 3-6PM
No Longer Empty
Sacred Bones Records began in Brooklyn, NY in 2007. The label is dedicated to shedding light to some of the best underground music as well as unearthing lost treasures from years past.  All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150.

Cocktail Hour @ 5PM, Show @ 5:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
1929! 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, February 6 7-9PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Jon Herington “Steely Dan’s New Guitar Guy” – arguably one of the most coveted slots in the annals of popular music. Jon played on Steely-Dan’s superb grammy-winning CD, Two Against Nature, and their latest release, “Everything Must Go.”  Dennis Espantman on bass and Frank Pagano on drums.  All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Saturday, February 06 at 7:30pm
Downtown Art
HOUSE OF DREAMS -- bad boys, silent film, pop culture, 100 years ago.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of Nobel Peace prize winner Jane Addams book, "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets", turn of the century circus, & early silent film...performed by DTA's teen artists with skill and edge.

February 5-7
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Ian Ellis James aka William Electric Black will direct "The Lonely Soldier Monologues (Women at War In Iraq)" by Helen Benedict, author of "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq" (Beacon Press, April 2009). It contains monologues of seven soldiers that were gathered through interviews and correspondence for the book.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
The 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.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

Feb. 3-6 @ 8PM
DMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts center
Join us in choosing which films will be screened at the next NYC Downtown Short Film Festival in April 2010. We screen them...you vote...the top vote getters are screened at the Festival. A fun evening out for $10.....you can't go wrong.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 8PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
In 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.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

10pm
HyperGender Burlesque for WOW Cafe Theater
The Valentine/(anti)Valentine extravaganza! Hosts JZ Bich and N with guests Jo Boobs, Velocity Chyaldd and more!

Fri. & Sat. @ 10PM, Sun. @ 8PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Weimaraners 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."

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With 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.

Sat. & Sun. @ 11AM
Metropolitan Playhouse
A whimsical series of brief, witty poems, piano pieces, and dances that reveal the secret life of vegetables. We find ourselves in a vast supermarket where a toddler, shopping with mom, nods off to sleep. The child dreams of vegetable adventures—stories of bravery, bounciness, and a Veggie Western—each introduced by a couple of silly, yet eloquent produce clerks.

January 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PM
No Longer Empty
Never 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, ...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

February 5-7
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Ian Ellis James aka William Electric Black will direct "The Lonely Soldier Monologues (Women at War In Iraq)" by Helen Benedict, author of "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq" (Beacon Press, April 2009). It contains monologues of seven soldiers that were gathered through interviews and correspondence for the book.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
The 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.

Sunday, February 7 3-5PM
No Longer Empty
With 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.  All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

Cocktail Hour @ 5PM, Show @ 5:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
1929! 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.

Sunday, February 7 7-9PM
KGB Bar
Dani Shapiro's most recent book's include Black & White (Knopf, 2007), Family History (Knopf, 2003) and the best-selling memoir Slow Motion.  Geoffrey Becker is the author of Dangerous Men, a collection of short stories (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and Bluestown, a novel (St. Martin’s Press, 1996).

Sunday, February 7 7-9PM
No Longer Empty
Featuring performances by Luke DuBois, Richard Garet and Kamran Sadeghi.  All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Sunday @ 7PM
Bleecker Street Opera
Join us for a special concert presentation entitled Women on the High C's: Opera and the Triumph of Women. It will be hosted by long-time Amato Opera Theatre scenic designer and director, Richard Cerullo, who will provide background and witty repartee. The concert will feature five sopranos performing semi-staged arias by Massenet, Delibes, Herbert, Moore, Thomas, Bellini and more.

Fri. & Sat. @ 10PM, Sun. @ 8PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Weimaraners 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."

Sat. & Sun. @ 11AM
Metropolitan Playhouse
A whimsical series of brief, witty poems, piano pieces, and dances that reveal the secret life of vegetables. We find ourselves in a vast supermarket where a toddler, shopping with mom, nods off to sleep. The child dreams of vegetable adventures—stories of bravery, bounciness, and a Veggie Western—each introduced by a couple of silly, yet eloquent produce clerks.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

7:00 PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
An Audelco award-winning one-man play about jazz great Thelonious Monk starring Rome Neal

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This 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.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

9pm
Horse 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 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PM
No Longer Empty
Never 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, ...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Wednesday, February 10 7-9PM
KGB Bar
Rachel Resnick is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick. She has published articles, essays, and celebrity-profile cover stories in the Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, Women's Health, and BlackBook. She is a contributing editor at Tin House magazine.

Wednesday, February 10 7-9PM
No Longer Empty
This selection of works, culled from the collection of the Artist Pension Trust, considers the ways in which music videos have influenced contemporary video art with Ted Riederer, Rashid Johnson, Rho Jae Oon, Robert Boyd, Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard and Luke Fowler

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 10-14, Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun 6PM
Performance Space 122
The BodyCartography Project's 1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean - connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand.

January 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PM
No Longer Empty
Never 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, ...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come 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!

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This 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.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. Working with classical Indian techniques of storytelling, and contemporary music by the award winning Rudresh Mahanthappa, Magis will transport its audience to a world big enough to hold a fairy-tale and real enough to show us ourselves.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 11th-21st Thus- Sat at 7:30PM & Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
An autobiographical one man show about a kid who decides to run away for a better life on the road in America – Will he become a casualty of the “road” if he goes; a victim of the “street” if he stays? Maybe the road is just another street in Brooklyn. 

February 10-14, Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun 6PM
Performance Space 122
The BodyCartography Project's 1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean - connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand.

Thurs. - Sat. @ 8PM
Metropolitan Playhouse
Basketball is fun for Billy, but when he tries out for his 9th grade team he is confronted with coach Krinko's approach to the game. Work and winning are paramount. While his hard work doesn't get him to the NBA, it does put him on Wall Street. He finally flees investment banking in search of a spot on a team in Europe. He settles for playing against the Harlem Globetrotters, losing every game. On the tour he discovers that true success is not about winning; it's about loving the game.

Thursday, February 11 at 8:00pm
Donysha Smith
Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, ALL ABOUT LOVE offers a “fresh look at love” in an energetic, interactive, modern multi-media experience that combines live theater, film, music, dance and more into a single narrative piece about love in all of its fabulously unpredictable forms. ALL ABOUT LOVE consists of three unique storylines seamlessly woven together.

Thus - Sat 8PM, Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
A yuppie woman from Massachusetts, accompanied by her adoring but crude boyfriend, moves to Brooklyn and gets a job at HBO. The woman is humiliated in a leading edge Yoga class that is taught by her close girlfriend. The Yoga Teacher, filled with the power of her own kundalini, seduces the boyfriend. The Yuppie Girl gets even by usurping the Yogi girl in the divine graces of an elderly, powerful Hundu saint.

January 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PM
No Longer Empty
Never 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, ...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come 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!

Friday, February 12 7-9PM
No Longer Empty
Debut Album On Varese Vintage Records and available on iTunes, Amazon.com & In Stores NOW!  Avalable In Europe On Colosseum Records.  All performance are $10 suggested donation | No admittance without prior reservation | Entry limited to 150.

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Friday, February 12 at 7:30pm
Downtown Art
HOUSE OF DREAMS -- bad boys, silent film, pop culture, 100 years ago.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of Nobel Peace prize winner Jane Addams book, "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets", turn of the century circus, & early silent film...performed by DTA's teen artists with skill and edge.

February 12-14
Performance Space 122
While no audience participation is required, Marisa Olson will invoke the familiar persona of the self-help "guru" in encouraging viewers to think about the role of mindfulness and positive thinking in their interactions with the environment. Her message is ultimately to stop freaking out and start chilling out. Expect kitsch and giggles as much as tranquility and a reawakening of your bodily senses.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. Working with classical Indian techniques of storytelling, and contemporary music by the award winning Rudresh Mahanthappa, Magis will transport its audience to a world big enough to hold a fairy-tale and real enough to show us ourselves.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 11th-21st Thus- Sat at 7:30PM & Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
An autobiographical one man show about a kid who decides to run away for a better life on the road in America – Will he become a casualty of the “road” if he goes; a victim of the “street” if he stays? Maybe the road is just another street in Brooklyn. 

8pm
Maria Bauman and Dawn Robinson for WOW Cafe Theater
The Gratitude Project is an evening of dance performance produced and choreographed by Dawn Robinson of nicholasleichterdance, and Maria Bauman of Urban Bush Women, inspired by the ideas of abundance and thanks. Special guest choreographer Nia Love, Artistic Director of Blacksmith's Daughter. Ticket $15.

February 10-14, Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun 6PM
Performance Space 122
The BodyCartography Project's 1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean - connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand.

Thurs. - Sat. @ 8PM
Metropolitan Playhouse
Basketball is fun for Billy, but when he tries out for his 9th grade team he is confronted with coach Krinko's approach to the game. Work and winning are paramount. While his hard work doesn't get him to the NBA, it does put him on Wall Street. He finally flees investment banking in search of a spot on a team in Europe. He settles for playing against the Harlem Globetrotters, losing every game. On the tour he discovers that true success is not about winning; it's about loving the game.

Friday, February 12 at 8:00pm
Donysha Smith
Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, ALL ABOUT LOVE offers a “fresh look at love” in an energetic, interactive, modern multi-media experience that combines live theater, film, music, dance and more into a single narrative piece about love in all of its fabulously unpredictable forms. ALL ABOUT LOVE consists of three unique storylines seamlessly woven together.

Thus - Sat 8PM, Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
A yuppie woman from Massachusetts, accompanied by her adoring but crude boyfriend, moves to Brooklyn and gets a job at HBO. The woman is humiliated in a leading edge Yoga class that is taught by her close girlfriend. The Yoga Teacher, filled with the power of her own kundalini, seduces the boyfriend. The Yuppie Girl gets even by usurping the Yogi girl in the divine graces of an elderly, powerful Hundu saint.

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With 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 16-February 13 Wednesdays-Sundays 12-7PM
No Longer Empty
Never 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, ...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Saturday, February 13 at 7:30pm
Downtown Art
HOUSE OF DREAMS -- bad boys, silent film, pop culture, 100 years ago.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of Nobel Peace prize winner Jane Addams book, "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets", turn of the century circus, & early silent film...performed by DTA's teen artists with skill and edge.

February 12-14
Performance Space 122
While no audience participation is required, Marisa Olson will invoke the familiar persona of the self-help "guru" in encouraging viewers to think about the role of mindfulness and positive thinking in their interactions with the environment. Her message is ultimately to stop freaking out and start chilling out. Expect kitsch and giggles as much as tranquility and a reawakening of your bodily senses.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. Working with classical Indian techniques of storytelling, and contemporary music by the award winning Rudresh Mahanthappa, Magis will transport its audience to a world big enough to hold a fairy-tale and real enough to show us ourselves.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 11th-21st Thus- Sat at 7:30PM & Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
An autobiographical one man show about a kid who decides to run away for a better life on the road in America – Will he become a casualty of the “road” if he goes; a victim of the “street” if he stays? Maybe the road is just another street in Brooklyn. 

8pm
Maria Bauman and Dawn Robinson for WOW Cafe Theater
The Gratitude Project is an evening of dance performance produced and choreographed by Dawn Robinson of nicholasleichterdance, and Maria Bauman of Urban Bush Women, inspired by the ideas of abundance and thanks. Special guest choreographer Nia Love, Artistic Director of Blacksmith's Daughter. Ticket $15.

February 10-14, Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun 6PM
Performance Space 122
The BodyCartography Project's 1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean - connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand.

Thurs. - Sat. @ 8PM
Metropolitan Playhouse
Basketball is fun for Billy, but when he tries out for his 9th grade team he is confronted with coach Krinko's approach to the game. Work and winning are paramount. While his hard work doesn't get him to the NBA, it does put him on Wall Street. He finally flees investment banking in search of a spot on a team in Europe. He settles for playing against the Harlem Globetrotters, losing every game. On the tour he discovers that true success is not about winning; it's about loving the game.

Saturday, February 13 at 8:00pm
Donysha Smith
Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, ALL ABOUT LOVE offers a “fresh look at love” in an energetic, interactive, modern multi-media experience that combines live theater, film, music, dance and more into a single narrative piece about love in all of its fabulously unpredictable forms. ALL ABOUT LOVE consists of three unique storylines seamlessly woven together.

Thus - Sat 8PM, Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
A yuppie woman from Massachusetts, accompanied by her adoring but crude boyfriend, moves to Brooklyn and gets a job at HBO. The woman is humiliated in a leading edge Yoga class that is taught by her close girlfriend. The Yoga Teacher, filled with the power of her own kundalini, seduces the boyfriend. The Yuppie Girl gets even by usurping the Yogi girl in the divine graces of an elderly, powerful Hundu saint.

February 10-14, Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun 6PM
Performance Space 122
The BodyCartography Project's 1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean - connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand.

February 12-14
Performance Space 122
While no audience participation is required, Marisa Olson will invoke the familiar persona of the self-help "guru" in encouraging viewers to think about the role of mindfulness and positive thinking in their interactions with the environment. Her message is ultimately to stop freaking out and start chilling out. Expect kitsch and giggles as much as tranquility and a reawakening of your bodily senses.

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With 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.

Sat. & Sun. @ 11AM
Metropolitan Playhouse
A whimsical series of brief, witty poems, piano pieces, and dances that reveal the secret life of vegetables. We find ourselves in a vast supermarket where a toddler, shopping with mom, nods off to sleep. The child dreams of vegetable adventures—stories of bravery, bounciness, and a Veggie Western—each introduced by a couple of silly, yet eloquent produce clerks.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. Working with classical Indian techniques of storytelling, and contemporary music by the award winning Rudresh Mahanthappa, Magis will transport its audience to a world big enough to hold a fairy-tale and real enough to show us ourselves.

February 11th-21st Thus- Sat at 7:30PM & Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
An autobiographical one man show about a kid who decides to run away for a better life on the road in America – Will he become a casualty of the “road” if he goes; a victim of the “street” if he stays? Maybe the road is just another street in Brooklyn. 

Thus - Sat 8PM, Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
A yuppie woman from Massachusetts, accompanied by her adoring but crude boyfriend, moves to Brooklyn and gets a job at HBO. The woman is humiliated in a leading edge Yoga class that is taught by her close girlfriend. The Yoga Teacher, filled with the power of her own kundalini, seduces the boyfriend. The Yuppie Girl gets even by usurping the Yogi girl in the divine graces of an elderly, powerful Hundu saint.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 12-14
Performance Space 122
While no audience participation is required, Marisa Olson will invoke the familiar persona of the self-help "guru" in encouraging viewers to think about the role of mindfulness and positive thinking in their interactions with the environment. Her message is ultimately to stop freaking out and start chilling out. Expect kitsch and giggles as much as tranquility and a reawakening of your bodily senses.

February 10-14, Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sun 6PM
Performance Space 122
The BodyCartography Project's 1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean - connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand.

Sunday, February 14 at 6:00pm
Donysha Smith
Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, ALL ABOUT LOVE offers a “fresh look at love” in an energetic, interactive, modern multi-media experience that combines live theater, film, music, dance and more into a single narrative piece about love in all of its fabulously unpredictable forms. ALL ABOUT LOVE consists of three unique storylines seamlessly woven together.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Dinner begins at 6:30 PM and the performance starts at 7:30 PM.
Bleecker Street Opera
Bring your Valentine to a Gala Concert and early dinner.  Tickets are $50 and include dinner/wine/champagne.

Sunday, February 14 7-9PM
KGB Bar
The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Sat. & Sun. @ 11AM
Metropolitan Playhouse
A whimsical series of brief, witty poems, piano pieces, and dances that reveal the secret life of vegetables. We find ourselves in a vast supermarket where a toddler, shopping with mom, nods off to sleep. The child dreams of vegetable adventures—stories of bravery, bounciness, and a Veggie Western—each introduced by a couple of silly, yet eloquent produce clerks.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Monday, February 15 7-9PM
KGB Bar
This series resumes.

7:00 PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
An Audelco award-winning one-man play about jazz great Thelonious Monk starring Rome Neal

Mon. Feb 15th @ 8PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Justin Woo and La MaMa E.T.C. bring you an event that bridges the worlds of poetry and music. Slam finalists share the stage with musicians to create a night of thought-provoking entertainment that you won't find anywhere else in New York. Featuring the musical and lyrical talents of, The Woo! Brown? Project, The Mighty Third Rail, and Mikumari as well as NYC's best poets - Mahogany L. Browne, Heather Aletha, Adam "Shadokat" Bowser, Erik "Advocate of Wordz" Maldonado, and mo...

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This 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.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

9pm
Horse 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.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

Third Wednesday every month at 10pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Revealed 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.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come 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!

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This 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.

Thursday, February 18 7-9PM
KGB Bar
Robert Knightly, Kaylie Jones, Renette Zimmerly, Charles Salzbergwill be reading.

7:00 PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
A dance and theatrical production in which seven women explore spirituality and love. Impulse Initiative blends dramatic performance with choreography in inventive and memorably ways; their previous production at the Nuyorican (Jose Rivera's Sonnets for an Old Century) was a crowd-pleasing hit.

Thursday, February 18-Sunday, March 7
Performance Space 122
The unofficial godfather of downtown performance, Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life---and of his travels through avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s! He was a teenage magician, a Jesuit schoolboy, a Los Angeles trial lawyer, a LaMama playwright in the 60s, a traveling street performer peddling his wares from Seattle to Calcutta, and finally a pioneer in the performance scene that sprang up in the East Village in the 1980s.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. Working with classical Indian techniques of storytelling, and contemporary music by the award winning Rudresh Mahanthappa, Magis will transport its audience to a world big enough to hold a fairy-tale and real enough to show us ourselves.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 11th-21st Thus- Sat at 7:30PM & Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
An autobiographical one man show about a kid who decides to run away for a better life on the road in America – Will he become a casualty of the “road” if he goes; a victim of the “street” if he stays? Maybe the road is just another street in Brooklyn. 

Thurs. - Sat. @ 8PM
Metropolitan Playhouse
Basketball is fun for Billy, but when he tries out for his 9th grade team he is confronted with coach Krinko's approach to the game. Work and winning are paramount. While his hard work doesn't get him to the NBA, it does put him on Wall Street. He finally flees investment banking in search of a spot on a team in Europe. He settles for playing against the Harlem Globetrotters, losing every game. On the tour he discovers that true success is not about winning; it's about loving the game.

Thursday, February 18 at 8:00pm
Donysha Smith
Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, ALL ABOUT LOVE offers a “fresh look at love” in an energetic, interactive, modern multi-media experience that combines live theater, film, music, dance and more into a single narrative piece about love in all of its fabulously unpredictable forms. ALL ABOUT LOVE consists of three unique storylines seamlessly woven together.

Thus - Sat 8PM, Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
A yuppie woman from Massachusetts, accompanied by her adoring but crude boyfriend, moves to Brooklyn and gets a job at HBO. The woman is humiliated in a leading edge Yoga class that is taught by her close girlfriend. The Yoga Teacher, filled with the power of her own kundalini, seduces the boyfriend. The Yuppie Girl gets even by usurping the Yogi girl in the divine graces of an elderly, powerful Hundu saint.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come 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!

7:00 PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
A dance and theatrical production in which seven women explore spirituality and love. Impulse Initiative blends dramatic performance with choreography in inventive and memorably ways; their previous production at the Nuyorican (Jose Rivera's Sonnets for an Old Century) was a crowd-pleasing hit.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Friday, February 19 at 7:30pm
Downtown Art
HOUSE OF DREAMS -- bad boys, silent film, pop culture, 100 years ago.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of Nobel Peace prize winner Jane Addams book, "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets", turn of the century circus, & early silent film...performed by DTA's teen artists with skill and edge.

Thursday, February 18-Sunday, March 7
Performance Space 122
The unofficial godfather of downtown performance, Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life---and of his travels through avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s! He was a teenage magician, a Jesuit schoolboy, a Los Angeles trial lawyer, a LaMama playwright in the 60s, a traveling street performer peddling his wares from Seattle to Calcutta, and finally a pioneer in the performance scene that sprang up in the East Village in the 1980s.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. Working with classical Indian techniques of storytelling, and contemporary music by the award winning Rudresh Mahanthappa, Magis will transport its audience to a world big enough to hold a fairy-tale and real enough to show us ourselves.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 11th-21st Thus- Sat at 7:30PM & Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
An autobiographical one man show about a kid who decides to run away for a better life on the road in America – Will he become a casualty of the “road” if he goes; a victim of the “street” if he stays? Maybe the road is just another street in Brooklyn. 

Thurs. - Sat. @ 8PM
Metropolitan Playhouse
Basketball is fun for Billy, but when he tries out for his 9th grade team he is confronted with coach Krinko's approach to the game. Work and winning are paramount. While his hard work doesn't get him to the NBA, it does put him on Wall Street. He finally flees investment banking in search of a spot on a team in Europe. He settles for playing against the Harlem Globetrotters, losing every game. On the tour he discovers that true success is not about winning; it's about loving the game.

Friday, February 19 at 8:00pm
Donysha Smith
Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, ALL ABOUT LOVE offers a “fresh look at love” in an energetic, interactive, modern multi-media experience that combines live theater, film, music, dance and more into a single narrative piece about love in all of its fabulously unpredictable forms. ALL ABOUT LOVE consists of three unique storylines seamlessly woven together.

Thus - Sat 8PM, Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
A yuppie woman from Massachusetts, accompanied by her adoring but crude boyfriend, moves to Brooklyn and gets a job at HBO. The woman is humiliated in a leading edge Yoga class that is taught by her close girlfriend. The Yoga Teacher, filled with the power of her own kundalini, seduces the boyfriend. The Yuppie Girl gets even by usurping the Yogi girl in the divine graces of an elderly, powerful Hundu saint.

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With 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.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

3:00 PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Sledge Project Studio NY presents our guest and featured actor Jeremy Sisto of Law & Order. The evening will feature a jazz trio, a conversation with the featured actor, and a Q&A session.

7:00 PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
A dance and theatrical production in which seven women explore spirituality and love. Impulse Initiative blends dramatic performance with choreography in inventive and memorably ways; their previous production at the Nuyorican (Jose Rivera's Sonnets for an Old Century) was a crowd-pleasing hit.

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Saturday, February 20 at 7:30pm
Downtown Art
HOUSE OF DREAMS -- bad boys, silent film, pop culture, 100 years ago.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of Nobel Peace prize winner Jane Addams book, "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets", turn of the century circus, & early silent film...performed by DTA's teen artists with skill and edge.

Thursday, February 18-Sunday, March 7
Performance Space 122
The unofficial godfather of downtown performance, Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life---and of his travels through avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s! He was a teenage magician, a Jesuit schoolboy, a Los Angeles trial lawyer, a LaMama playwright in the 60s, a traveling street performer peddling his wares from Seattle to Calcutta, and finally a pioneer in the performance scene that sprang up in the East Village in the 1980s.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. Working with classical Indian techniques of storytelling, and contemporary music by the award winning Rudresh Mahanthappa, Magis will transport its audience to a world big enough to hold a fairy-tale and real enough to show us ourselves.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 11th-21st Thus- Sat at 7:30PM & Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
An autobiographical one man show about a kid who decides to run away for a better life on the road in America – Will he become a casualty of the “road” if he goes; a victim of the “street” if he stays? Maybe the road is just another street in Brooklyn. 

Saturday, February 20-Sunday, March 14
Performance Space 122
Known 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.

Thurs. - Sat. @ 8PM
Metropolitan Playhouse
Basketball is fun for Billy, but when he tries out for his 9th grade team he is confronted with coach Krinko's approach to the game. Work and winning are paramount. While his hard work doesn't get him to the NBA, it does put him on Wall Street. He finally flees investment banking in search of a spot on a team in Europe. He settles for playing against the Harlem Globetrotters, losing every game. On the tour he discovers that true success is not about winning; it's about loving the game.

Saturday, February 20 at 8:00pm
Donysha Smith
Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, ALL ABOUT LOVE offers a “fresh look at love” in an energetic, interactive, modern multi-media experience that combines live theater, film, music, dance and more into a single narrative piece about love in all of its fabulously unpredictable forms. ALL ABOUT LOVE consists of three unique storylines seamlessly woven together.

Thus - Sat 8PM, Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
A yuppie woman from Massachusetts, accompanied by her adoring but crude boyfriend, moves to Brooklyn and gets a job at HBO. The woman is humiliated in a leading edge Yoga class that is taught by her close girlfriend. The Yoga Teacher, filled with the power of her own kundalini, seduces the boyfriend. The Yuppie Girl gets even by usurping the Yogi girl in the divine graces of an elderly, powerful Hundu saint.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

8pm
Dogsbody Theater In Association With Nursha Project for WOW Cafe

Saturday, February 20 at 8:00pm
Millennium Film Workshop
 Artists’ Television Access (ATA), based in San Francisco, is a non-profit, artist-run, experimenta­l media arts gallery that has been in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and video screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established artists and a weekly cable access television program.

10PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
 Hosted by WiseGuy & Gaston with DJ Boo.
WORDS was created by Rocky LaMontagne & Bobbito the Barber to give young up-and-coming poets & emcees the opportunity to showcase their work to an audience of their peers.

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With 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.

Sat. & Sun. @ 11AM
Metropolitan Playhouse
A whimsical series of brief, witty poems, piano pieces, and dances that reveal the secret life of vegetables. We find ourselves in a vast supermarket where a toddler, shopping with mom, nods off to sleep. The child dreams of vegetable adventures—stories of bravery, bounciness, and a Veggie Western—each introduced by a couple of silly, yet eloquent produce clerks.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. Working with classical Indian techniques of storytelling, and contemporary music by the award winning Rudresh Mahanthappa, Magis will transport its audience to a world big enough to hold a fairy-tale and real enough to show us ourselves.

February 11th-21st Thus- Sat at 7:30PM & Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
An autobiographical one man show about a kid who decides to run away for a better life on the road in America – Will he become a casualty of the “road” if he goes; a victim of the “street” if he stays? Maybe the road is just another street in Brooklyn. 

Sunday, February 21 at 3:00pm
Donysha Smith
Inspired by the music of Stevie Wonder, ALL ABOUT LOVE offers a “fresh look at love” in an energetic, interactive, modern multi-media experience that combines live theater, film, music, dance and more into a single narrative piece about love in all of its fabulously unpredictable forms. ALL ABOUT LOVE consists of three unique storylines seamlessly woven together.

Thus - Sat 8PM, Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
A yuppie woman from Massachusetts, accompanied by her adoring but crude boyfriend, moves to Brooklyn and gets a job at HBO. The woman is humiliated in a leading edge Yoga class that is taught by her close girlfriend. The Yoga Teacher, filled with the power of her own kundalini, seduces the boyfriend. The Yuppie Girl gets even by usurping the Yogi girl in the divine graces of an elderly, powerful Hundu saint.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

Thursday, February 18-Sunday, March 7
Performance Space 122
The unofficial godfather of downtown performance, Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life---and of his travels through avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s! He was a teenage magician, a Jesuit schoolboy, a Los Angeles trial lawyer, a LaMama playwright in the 60s, a traveling street performer peddling his wares from Seattle to Calcutta, and finally a pioneer in the performance scene that sprang up in the East Village in the 1980s.

Saturday, February 20-Sunday, March 14
Performance Space 122
Known 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.

Sunday, February 21 7-9PM
KGB Bar
Risa Miller will be reading during this installment of Sunday night fiction.  MIller’s first novel, Welcome to Heavenly Heights (St. Martin‘s Press), began as her MFA thesis and went on to win Risa the PEN New England Discovery Award.

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Sunday, February 21 at 7:00pm
Bleecker Street Opera
On Sunday, February 21st at 7:00 PM, David Rosenmeyer will conduct a concert of Bel Canto arias and scenes. Tickets are $20.

7:00 PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
A dance and theatrical production in which seven women explore spirituality and love. Impulse Initiative blends dramatic performance with choreography in inventive and memorably ways; their previous production at the Nuyorican (Jose Rivera's Sonnets for an Old Century) was a crowd-pleasing hit.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

8pm
Dogsbody Theater In Association With Nursha Project for WOW Cafe

9PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
 Exactly 35 years after we lost brother Malcolm, Old Amsterdam joins New Amsterdam for a lyrical salute. "Amsterdames" Simone Zeefuik and Kirsten van den Hul a.k.a. The Change Agent celebrate the revolution, one poem at the time. 

Sat. & Sun. @ 11AM
Metropolitan Playhouse
A whimsical series of brief, witty poems, piano pieces, and dances that reveal the secret life of vegetables. We find ourselves in a vast supermarket where a toddler, shopping with mom, nods off to sleep. The child dreams of vegetable adventures—stories of bravery, bounciness, and a Veggie Western—each introduced by a couple of silly, yet eloquent produce clerks.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

7:00 PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
An Audelco award-winning one-man play about jazz great Thelonious Monk starring Rome Neal

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

7PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Hosted by Frank Calo. Celebrate LGBT Spirit! Shape your act around celebration of our community, our world, any religious/spiritual vision, happy atheism, song, story, dance, comedy, tragedy, or stripping! 

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

9pm
Horse 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.

9PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
 EMCEEs! Come show off your FREESTYLE skills and compete for a CASH PRIZE!! Doors open @ 9:00. Admission is $10 plus a $5 registration fee to compete (the winning emcee will receive all of the registration fees as a prize). 

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

February 24th-March 6th
No. 11 Productions
Medea, suddenly abandoned by her husband Jason, plots her bloody revenge.  A beautiful and heartbreaking staging of Euripides’ 2, 400-year-old play about love, broken expectations, passion, violence and what happens when we want too much.  An original score and puppetry add an artistic twist to this vibrant translation.

February 24th-March 7th
The Lopsided Company, Inc.
With delightful and poignant tales of a Southern Songstress and her gay family, Alex Bond and David Carson read selections from Ms. Bond’s novel and transport you to Dallas 1977, a magical time before HIV/AIDS, but not before ignorance and prejudice. A favorite at the 2008 San Francisco Fringe and the 2009 Fresh Fruit Festival.

February 24th-March 4th
Alena Smith
Somewhere between Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure  and The Tell-Tale Heart, this provocative dark comedy explores the basement of a suburban home where Andrew has devoted himself unconditionally to his incredible collection of figurines.  Suffering the loss of The Red One, he seeks to uncover The Ultimate Arrangement before his hideout is invaded, and his dark secret is revealed.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 24th-March 6th
Secret Weapon Theatre
Two teens on the run find comfort in a deserted cabin in the woods where they discover the thing they are running from is themselves. The story moves from past to present as they both must choose if who they were will be who they will remain. But before all that can be resolved, a price must be paid.

February 24th-March 7th
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Lucky Chengs Balloon man, delusional comic, and man of no God tries to justify 34 years of poor life choices and degeneracy. Profiled in Playgirl, FHM Magazine, Time-Out NY Magazine, Murdock is not your Father’s balloon man. A straight man in a gay world, a feminist in the sex industry, a ridiculous man in a ridiculous world.

Thursday, February 18-Sunday, March 7
Performance Space 122
The unofficial godfather of downtown performance, Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life---and of his travels through avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s! He was a teenage magician, a Jesuit schoolboy, a Los Angeles trial lawyer, a LaMama playwright in the 60s, a traveling street performer peddling his wares from Seattle to Calcutta, and finally a pioneer in the performance scene that sprang up in the East Village in the 1980s.

Previews Feb. 24-March 7, Opening March 9, Final performance March 28
New York Theatre Workshop
It’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.

February 24th-March 7th
International BTC
First the Toaster has a Photo ID, then the Blender has an ID, next thing you know the Stove’s stealing your car and the Lamp’s huffing glue! When a man refuses to respect his talking Toaster, the entire community launches into a debate of ownership, civil rights and Robot Uprisings.

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8pm
Dogsbody Theater In Association With Nursha Project for WOW Cafe

February 24th-March 7th
Second Best Bed Productions
This recently discovered and newly translated work of Aristophanes demonstrates the classic playwright’s eerie knack for predicting the future.  Follow Mediocrates as he struggles to find and maintain his artistic identity in the present-day East Village.  This timeless production is sure to have you rolling in the isles.

February 24th-March 7th
sh+sh=gold
TENDERPITS tells the part-autobiographical, part-fictionalized story of a young man's immigration from Canada to New York City- and of his realization that he is, in fact, a wizard. From the creators of ART'S HEART (Winner, Outstanding Solo Show FringeNYC 2009) comes a sick new show about identity, magic and armpits. Do you believe?

9PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Hosted by Jive Poetic. Sign Up & Slam!

February 24th-March 7th
Mark Shyzer
Shockingly funny and equally moving, Mark Shyzer’s Fishbowl slyly reveals the connections between five outrageously hilarious characters: a nerdy schoolgirl obsessed with physics, a nihilistic teenage hipster, a gin-soaked divorcee, a perky aerobics instructor and an octogenarian with an odd sense of humour… all played by Shyzer.

February 24th-March 6th
Agony Productions
An innovative play in which two adults discover a love for their inner halves while searching for their other halves. Two adults. Four Quarters. Working, pushing and struggling to connect, trying to be one whole.

February 24th-March 7th
Killer Killy Productions
KILL THE BAND IS THE ORIGINAL, COMEDY ROCK AND ROLL, ANTI-CABARET! Coinciding with the release of their first concept album, KILL THE BAND takes you on a cleverly comedic, musically theatrical trip through the band's breakdowns and breakthrough.  Free CD with every ticket!

February 24th-March 7th
Nobody's Token
What would happen if the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” moved to “South Park” or if the Cosby’s lived next door to “The Family Guy?” Using the Harold improv structure as a guide Nobody’s Token creates an improvised sitcom based off of the audience’s suggestion.

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come 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!

February 25th-March 6th
8 Mon
A dynamic one person show taking the audience on an energetic journey of a young professional as she works to establish her career, hold onto her dreams, drown out the voices of parents, peers and friends, to eventually discover the importance of claiming yourself and being true to who you are.

February 25th-March 7th
O
Onomatopoeia! presents clowning and juggling in a brand new light.  Three characters present a collection of short scenes, which explore a single idea through physical theater and object manipulation.  As the title suggests the only spoken words in the piece will be Onomatopoeias!

February 25th-March 7th
T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!KIMLEIGH
In this totally powerful theater piece you will witness Kimleigh as a young cheerleader transform into a woman who embraces her inner superhero as she reclaims her sexuality and lives as a whole, healthy woman! You will Cheer for M--O-R-E!

Thursday, February 25
KGB Bar
Jerry Williams is the editor of It’s Not You, It’s Me. He teaches creative writing at Marymount Manhattan College, and has two collections of poetry Casino of the Sun and Admission.  Linda Gregg is the author of seven poetry collections: Too Bright to See; Alma; and All of it Singing: New and Collected Poems.  Peter Covino is the author of Cut Off the Ears of Winter.  Martha Rhodes is the auth...

7PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Four Time National Monologue Slam Champion Katie Northlich hosts and performs her award-winning pieces. Show up, drop your name in, and get your chance to hop up on stage to perform your 1 minute monologue. 
 

Thursday, February 18-Sunday, March 7
Performance Space 122
The unofficial godfather of downtown performance, Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life---and of his travels through avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s! He was a teenage magician, a Jesuit schoolboy, a Los Angeles trial lawyer, a LaMama playwright in the 60s, a traveling street performer peddling his wares from Seattle to Calcutta, and finally a pioneer in the performance scene that sprang up in the East Village in the 1980s.

Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
In the fifth century, India 's master poet Kalidasa composed an epic of love, fidelity, courageous faith, hope in spite of despair, and memory. Working with classical Indian techniques of storytelling, and contemporary music by the award winning Rudresh Mahanthappa, Magis will transport its audience to a world big enough to hold a fairy-tale and real enough to show us ourselves.

Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PM
New York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street Theater
Najla 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.

February 25th-March 7th
Live Blaggard
A dead teacher. A missing cat. A charming prisoner. A trip to Paris gone sour. A robbery attempt gone sweet.  Live Blaggard, a motley collection of theatre artists, presents an explosive evening of original short plays celebrating the things we’ve left behind, and the things we just can’t shake.

February 25th-March 7th
Leslie Goshko
Rather than abuse her, Leslie’s alcoholic father would buy her shoes, drag race the lawnmower, and burn the neighbor’s bills, while her mother managed a doomed Christian bookstore and prayed in tongues over Leslie’s ailing sister. Leslie’s storytelling navigates a humorously tragic journey through childhood with frighteningly endearing characters.

Saturday, February 20-Sunday, March 14
Performance Space 122
Known 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.

Thurs. - Sun. @ 8PM, Sun. @ 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
“The Golden Bat” was the first Japanese Avant-Garde theatre production to go Off Broadway. Four of the original artists gather once more at La MaMa for the Celebrating Ellen Season to celebrate the Tokyo Kid Brothers’ 40th year anniversary of “Golden Bat”. Lead by Itsuro Shimoda and will combine music, dance, visual images and texts which will create one symphonic poem.

Previews Feb. 24-March 7, Opening March 9, Final performance March 28
New York Theatre Workshop
It’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.

Thurs. - Sat. @ 8PM
Metropolitan Playhouse
Basketball is fun for Billy, but when he tries out for his 9th grade team he is confronted with coach Krinko's approach to the game. Work and winning are paramount. While his hard work doesn't get him to the NBA, it does put him on Wall Street. He finally flees investment banking in search of a spot on a team in Europe. He settles for playing against the Harlem Globetrotters, losing every game. On the tour he discovers that true success is not about winning; it's about loving the game.

Thus - Sat 8PM, Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
A yuppie woman from Massachusetts, accompanied by her adoring but crude boyfriend, moves to Brooklyn and gets a job at HBO. The woman is humiliated in a leading edge Yoga class that is taught by her close girlfriend. The Yoga Teacher, filled with the power of her own kundalini, seduces the boyfriend. The Yuppie Girl gets even by usurping the Yogi girl in the divine graces of an elderly, powerful Hundu saint.

February 25th-March 6th
(ral-u-pop) Theatre
A Winn Dixie Supermarket.  Daytona Beach, Florida. Circa 1970s.  A stolen pack of Trident gum.  An eight year old thief.  Her mother.  The Boyfriends.  The Husbands.  Jim "Bo Bo" Lehrer.  And (of course), Jesus.  It's a crowded crime scene, especially considering it's a one woman show.

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8pm
Dogsbody Theater In Association With Nursha Project for WOW Cafe

February 25th-March 6th
Brianna Stark
Bombarded by striking images of outer-space, floating petals, racing cars, and many more; Stark takes us on a journey of birth, life and beyond through her signature movement language combining the genuine with the forced. High energy music sets the tone.

February 25th-March 6th
David Lawson
Floundering About (in an age of terror) is a coming-of-age story about growing up in a paranoia-filled, post-9/11 D.C. suburb, an orange alert world where only duct tape and oxygen masks can stop the evildoers.

9PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Featuring Willie Martinez and La Familia Sextet. 

February 25th-March 6th
the performance tube
Trace Morgan’s mother is dead.   Trace will do whatever it takes to forget.  She travels through the night and ultimately finds what she’s looking for in a familiar face. Through Space Exploration, Jack Daniels, and the dreaded ‘Emotional Overload’,  together they draw a map of human experience that transcends age and circumstance.

February 25th-March 7th
Martin Dockery
In a breathtaking quest to uncover the nature of the psychedelic experience, a man journeys through San Francisco, India, and Switzerland, tapping into history’s very first acid trip by, amongst other things, renting a bike. 2009 FRIGID Audience Choice Award for “The Surprise.” Breakthrough Performer of the Year, soloNOVA Festival; Best Solo Performance, San Francisco Fringe; Best of Fest, Winnipeg Fringe; Best Original Work, London Fringe; Best in Venue, Orlando Fringe.

February 25th-March 6th
Penny Pollak (a)muse collective
In a narcissistic attempt to win her family's attention, Abigail decides to perform the greatest stunt of all- attempted suicide. When her childish venture turns into unexpected reality, Abigail finds herself trapped in purgatory - a warped version of her apartment with two exits.  Heaven or Hell. As a result of her foolish mistake, there is atonement and penance to be paid... and time is running out.

February 25th-March 6th
Pageant Wagon
Gavin, a wounded and delirious soldier is taken in by a mysterious stranger. Nursed by the three women of the household--mother, wife and daughter--Gavin becomes entangled in ancient and deadly game of seduction, transgression and vengeance.

Feb 26th-March 7th
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
 As time, space and memory pass through the pinhole of death, events are upended in the camera obscura. Don’t Peek.  Created and Performed by Woof Nova: 
ANNIE KUNJAPPY, DANIEL ALLEN NELSON,
MORGAN von PRELLE PECELLI
and CARLA BOSNJAK. 

On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010
Fourth Arts Block
Through 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.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come 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!