On view every day Jan 22-April 22, 2010Fourth Arts BlockThrough the lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Hannah Höch, Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, Cindy Sherman and Louise Nevelson K. Savage, using hand-cut Japanese paper and acrylic, traces her own personal journey using references from the work of these groundbreaking artists’ – charting their relevance from the 1600s to present day. K. Savage is a community artist who believes in preserving humanity in the arts.
Raffle FundraiserTeatro IATINeed less Drama? Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical. Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.
February 26th-March 6thTheatre ReverbMax, Maxi and the Operator fight for their survival in this action-packed comic-erotic end times fantasy featuring live video stream, text, dance and spectacle.
February 26th-March 7thZeekTech ProductionsIsaac & Ken use their charismatic charm and manic delivery to put together a show that combines percussion, character/sketch comedy, physical theatre, and performance art. This Frankenstein of comedic arts tells the story of two underdogs reaching beyond the unimaginable to make their dreams a reality in a world that is potentially make believe.
February 24th-March 4thAlena SmithSomewhere 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.
Doors open @ 7:00PM, discussion begins 7:30PM. $3 suggested donation at doorFourth Arts Block with ArtForwardIn honor of Women's History Month, this panel discussion and reception is a companion event to the pop-up solo exhibition of new work by K. Savage in the East 4th Street Cultural District. Panelists K. Savage, Vikki Law and Kimberely Mackenzie will discuss art and accessibility, art as a form of empowerment that effects community change, and the contributions of women artists specific to New York City. Moderated by Joyce Manalo of ArtForward.
February 26th-March 6thSummer Shapiro & Peter MusanteA physical exploration of limits, perspective and chocolate cake. Rooted in physical comedy and set to music, it takes a magical look at the mundane where two people stumble into the extraordinary. It peeks at human loneliness and hits up against reality's glass ceiling to poke about in the breathing space beyond.
February 24th-March 6thNo. 11 ProductionsMedea, 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 25th-March 6thPageant WagonGavin, 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.
8pmDogsbody Theater In Association With Nursha Project for WOW Cafe
February 25th-March 6thBrianna StarkBombarded 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 24th-March 7thThe 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 27th-March 6thLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubSmall town librarian Esther never thought she would become a porn star. That was before she found out her ex-boyfriend secretly videotaped her having sex and sold the tape for money. Hilarious and heartwarming, don't miss this sell out show by off-Broadway playwright Chris Craddock.
February 25th-March 6th8 MonA 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 24th-March 7thsh+sh=goldTENDERPITS 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?
February 24th-March 7thMark ShyzerShockingly 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.
Previews Feb. 24-March 7, Opening March 9, Final performance March 28New York Theatre WorkshopIt’s 1971 and the nation is at war. The intractable conflict escalates in Vietnam while here at home the battle for public opinion rages. A federal court blocks The New York Times from publishing the top-secret history of US involvement in Vietnam. Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham has a single day to decide whether to print these Pentagon Papers. When the Nixon administration closes in and charges treason, the fight for a free press explodes.
Tues.-Sat. @ 7:30PM, Sun. @ 4PMNew York Theater Workshop’s Fourth Street TheaterNajla Saïd was raised in a privileged environment on the Upper West Side. Her father was Palestinian. Her mother is Lebanese. Her best friends growing up were Jewish. PALESTINE is a personal journey from the “toniest private schools”, to the “stench of Gaza,” through two wars, the horrors of 9/11, encounters with the likes of Yasir Arafat, “cheeky” photographers and, of course, her esteemed family.
February 25th-March 7thLive BlaggardA 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 24th-March 7thKiller Killy ProductionsKILL 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 26th-March 7thNuttall ProductionsTake a ride on the absurd side of wild and enter the world of Maggie Nuttall as she takes you through true stories of calamity and random acts of violence with the humor and dexterity of a wide-eyed child.
February 24th-March 6thAgony ProductionsAn 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 25th-March 6ththe performance tubeTrace 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 24th-March 7thSecond Best Bed ProductionsThis 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 25th-March 7thMartin DockeryIn 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 6thDavid LawsonFloundering 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.
Thursday, February 18-Sunday, March 7Performance Space 122The 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.
February 25th-March 6th(ral-u-pop) TheatreA 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.
February 24th-March 6thSecret Weapon TheatreTwo 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 25th-March 7thT-O-T-A-L-L-Y!KIMLEIGHIn 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!
February 25th-March 7thOOnomatopoeia! 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 6thPenny Pollak (a)muse collectiveIn 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.
Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PMFourth Arts BlockCome to FAB Central every Thursday & Friday to get discount and 2for1 ticket deals to the hottest shows in the Lower East Side! Each week, we sell rush tickets to multiple shows from theaters including Performance Space 122, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Neo-Futurists and Horse Trade Theater Company. Check out our website for each week's updates and be sure to get in line before we sell out!
February 24th-March 7thLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubLucky 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.
March 4th from 6pm - 10pmThe Cooper Square Committee and other community groupsFashion Institute of Technology: Haft Auditorium 7th Avenue at 27th Street, Manhattan The MTA plans to stop weekend and night M8 service! Join us at the hearing -- you don't need to register. Look for the Save M8 signs! MTA Public Hearing Info: http://www.mta.info/hearings/access.html
March 4th-27th at 7:00PMNew York Neo-FuturistsNew York Neo-Futurists Desiree Burch, Cara Francis & Erica Livingston serve up a cure for what ails you in this Neo-Medicine show, performing in and around a giant pot of self-made soup. Bottling this soup, as well as a series of elixirs, potions, tonics and products, they heal and reveal the female experience live, honest and in the flesh. ADVISORY: There is adult language and nudity in the production.
March 4th-7thLa MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex In 2010, the world commemorates Tolstoy on the centennial of his death. The Theater Program of Eugene Lang College invites you to experience the genius of Tolstoy’s drama. Join us at the new production of The Power of Darkness (1886) to be gripped and appalled by the realm driven by greed, filled with murder, betrayal, and the absence of true love. How does one regard good and evil? We take action from the 19th century Russia and place it in present day small-town America.
Saturday, February 20-Sunday, March 14Performance Space 122Known for its radical and reckless theatricality, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s potboilers and Milton's epic Paradise Lost.
March 4th-21stTheater for the New CityCzechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will probe revolution with stilts and strings in "Revolution!?," a theater spectacle that examines revolutions throughout the history of mankind as a backdrop for the extraordinary peaceful 1989 Velvet Revolution in former Czechoslovakia.
February 25th-March 7thLeslie GoshkoRather 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.
February 24th-March 7thNobody's TokenWhat 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.
February 24th-March 7thInternational BTCFirst 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.
8:00PM door, 9:00PM showWOW Café TheaterRivers 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.
Feb 26th-March 7thLa 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.
Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PMNew York Neo-FuturistsWith its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Now playing 50 weeks a year.
Saturday, March 06 at 5:30pmLaGoDi Productions and the Shark Tank PlayersDestinies of a European countess and a humble American chambermaid collide at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Swords of steel penetrate gender norms, true identities are freely explored, and one man discovers it is better to receive than to give.
Saturday, March 06 at 8:00pmMillennium Film WorkshopMark Street will be present to show and discuss two of his newest films, HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT (60 min. 2008) and TRAILER TRASH (5 min. 2009).
10pmHyperGender burlesque for WOW Cafe TheaterA celebration of women who made a difference!
Second Monday of every month @ 7PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sThe show opens with one of a rotating pool of great storytellers in New York City. They will tell a wonderful, fifteen-minute original story. Then Adam Wade will greet the audience and for the next forty-five minutes he’ll tell a few stories from his adolescent years, sing a song or two on the guitar, and play videos and rare home movies. No two shows will be the same.
Second Monday of every month @ 8PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sThe BTK Band is NYC's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band. Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while music and lyrics are improvised to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos.
March 10-20, Wed-Sat @ 8PM, also Sat @ 3PM, Preview Tues March 9EBE EnsembleElephants on Parade 2010 features six plays, five world premieres and one New York area premiere, that examine the peculiar difficulties of true communication and connection in the 21st century in a broad spectrum of styles from magical realism to farce to quiet drama.
March 9th&10Th @ 8PM and 14th&15th @ 7PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The Red RoomRoots and Wings Theatrical is presenting the second installment of their twice-annual Duct Tape and a Dream festival of new works. This spring's show will include four new plays, a new movement piece, songs by DM Salsberg, and an original performance by the RaW Board. All of the plays in the festival are inspired by or themed after the Picasso painting Girl Before a Mirror, making for a diverse range of conflicts and relationships.
Every Tuesday @ 9PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sPenny’s Open Mic invites you and any artist to workshop, experiment and share their work 7 minutes. The audience is here to listen and support, there is a back garden, a bar and a room for the performers to prepare. With the help of the many talented artists, Penny's Open Mic has become an inspiring atmosphere where people feel free and safe to grow as artists and as people.
March 10th- 20th Wed @7PM Thurs, Fri, Sat @8PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sSix strangers find refuge for the night in the city of light. Through the windows of a Parisian hotel, they scan the streets below to guess where each will lead before setting out to meet their future. Each room reveals a private universe of hope, excitement, fear, faith, ambition, failure, fantasy and redemption all the qualities of human spirit that build and sustain a great metropolis. With mime, shadow puppets, accordion, and cancan, the show celebrates the romance of urban isolation. ...
8pmMilDred Gerestant for WOW Cafe TheaterA Night of Three Goddesses at WOW Cafe Theater!!! Three new one woman shows in one night for one price! MilDred Gerestant, the artist formerly known as DRED, Tantra Zawadi and Sokhna Heathyre Mabin.
March 11th-28th Thurs through Sat @8PM Sun @3PMTheater for the New CityA comedic fairytale-like odyssey about a farmer’s daughter from behind the Iron Curtain. Escaping her poor village in Poland, she flew here first for a vacation and came back to stay. She achieved the secure married life her parents had wanted for her, but realized that it was not what she desired. At 28 she experienced teenage rebellion, rejected her past, tried to reinvent herself over and over, only to realize one truth: there is no hope for happiness without the acceptance of one&rsquo...
Friday @ 7PMNuyorican Poets CafeLate Night Tri-Lingual Comedy Show, hosted by Cindy SugaRusH accompanied by Lady Delish & The SugaBusH Band Experience with special guest comedians from around the world & La Gran Mansana. Also featuring comedic media, sketch comedy, & poetry by guest poets. Brought to you in part by Boricuation.com.
7/8:30 PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine Vodka Shoes Leslie Goshko Brooklyn, NY@ 7pm + Festival Favorite Award Winner Legs and All Summer Shapiro & Peter Musante Brooklyn, NY @ 8:30pm
Friday, March 12 at 8:00pmDMAC - 62 East 4th Street East Vllage, USA
5:30 PM / 7 PM / 8:30 PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The KraineMEDEA No.11 Productions Long Island City, NY @ 5:30pm + BONNE NUIT POO POO Theatre Reverb Brooklyn, NY @ 7pm
Saturday @ 7PMNuyorican Poets CafeAurora sings some of her favorite folk songs as well as her originals, which fuse jazz, folk, soul with catchy pop melodies to create an indefinable sound to support her powerful voice. Tickets $10.
Saturday, March 13 at 8:00pmMillennium Film WorkshopA selection of award-winning independent films and videos from the 2010 festival. Festival director and co-founder, John Columbus will be present to introduce and discuss the works shown.
Saturday, March 13 at 8:00pmDMAC - 62 East 4th Street East Vllage, USA
March 13th and 14thLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubThe Gilded Red Cage is an original production of two dramatic monologues performed in English by Silvester Lavrik and Katarina Morhacova and a hard-hitting exhibit of documentary photos from revolutionary times in former Czechoslovakia. The show tells the hilarious and sexy stories of a woman and a man who were touched by the Velvet Revolution and lived to tell the tale. The joy, excitement and disbelief of 1989 return for an evening.
March 14th- April 18th; Sun @3PM Wed @7PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The KraineThe Jewish Theater of NY presents a new play about the use of hi-tech in numbing the brains of followers and creating a perfect herd mentality through the use of “Kosher Cellphones.” This play tells the story of daily life in extreme religious sects at the very near future. Forced to subscribe to, and carry, Kosher Phones followers are under the watching eyes of Holy Rabbis 365/24.
Third Sunday of the month @7PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's"Turn on the radio, Dad, it's Sunday!” Cognac Live Radio Orchestra presents a sweet tirade of radio plays, audio sketches, and character pieces. Experience foley effects, musical acts, and a professional dance crew bringing you a delightful live comedy hour. Free clementines.
Sunday @ 8PMNuyorican Poets CafeFeaturing comedy by DJ Hazard, a reading by New Yorker humor writer Yoni Brenner, jazz by Peter Mezoian & his Ad Hoc Gathering of Hip Cats, and more music by IBMA guitarist of the year Jim Hurst and Uncle Monk featuring Claudia Tienan (formerly of The Simplistics) and Tommy Ramone (formerly of The Ramones). All this plus Carolita Johnson will be making the art live on stage. Hosted by The New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee.
7 PM Third Monday of the monthHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's TOLD is a monthly storytelling show hosted by Seth Lind. Each month New York's best performers take the stage to tell true stories related to a central theme. A special guest provides interludes to glue the evening together into a collective experience
Monday @ 7PMNuyorican Poets CafeNoPassport Theatre Alliance & Press presents HIBERNATING RATTLESNAKES: An Evening of Excerpts from and Short Works for Performance with MC Ephraim Lopez. Written and read by Dacyl Acevedo, Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya, Maria Alexandria Beech, Christine Evans, Anne Hamilton, Lanna Joffrey, Alejandro Morales, Saviana Stanescu, Caridad Svich, Andrea Thome, and more. Doors open 7 PM, event begins 7:30 PM.
Every third Monday of every month @ 8PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The KraineThis is the longest running all-clown variety show in the world! Every night is a new show packed with fantastic clown acts performed by New York's top clowns and exciting newcomers. Featuring fun games and prizes! Performs every third Monday of every month. A barrage of clown theatre.
Tuesday 7PMNuyorican Poets CafeA collection of 12 monologues about the sometimes hysterical, sometimes heartbreaking issues surrounding dating, hooking up, and breaking up as a 20- or 30-something in Manhattan. Tickets $8.
Tuesday @ 9PMNuyorican Poets CafeHigher Heights Entertainment presents Trinity, Danny Atoms, and Daath.Nix. A portion of the proceeds from this show will be donated to Haiti relief efforts.
Third Wednesday every month at 10pmHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sRevealed is a cutting-edge burlesque show. This unique and extra-sultry night of cabaret features the sexiest, most notorious burlesque performers in New York giving you more bang for your buck than any other show in town. Born in Brooklyn, Revealed is all grown up and moving to the big city, brought to you by GiGi La Femme and Doc Wasabassco.
10 PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The KraineREVEALED is a burlesque show unlike any other. It's a seduction, a tease, an epiphany, a dare, a conspiracy of pleasure. Hosted by devilishly charming master of ceremonies Bastard Keith, each show stars pin-up queen GiGi La Femme and a rotating ensemble of the most beloved burlesque performers in New York. Come out and experience an evening of salacious striptease and skin, where the climax of each number leaves everything…Reveale...
Thursday @ 6PMNuyorican Poets CafeUrban Word NYC is proud to host the 12th Annual NYC Teen Poetry Slam. With nothing but a mic and their powerful voices, over 500 of New York City's inspiring young poets, spoken word artists and emcees will recite their own original. Winners from the semifinals move on to the Grand Slam Final held at Harlem\'s world famous Apollo Theater.
8pmMimi McGurl and Kim Howard for WOW Cafe TheatreOne of U.S. 20th-century history's most celebrated and tragic figures gets a surprising and provocative new look. Performed by Kim Howard. Directed by Mimi McGurl.
March 18th- April4th 2 additional performances March 29th and 30th @8PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The KraineTwo Gentlemen of Lebowski is an extraordinary new work from filmmaker/playwright Adam Bertocci which reimagines the cult classic motion picture as a Shakespearian farce, creating an amazing new work from the heightened language and surreal comic landscape of its inspirations. Both immaculately crafted and riotously funny, this instant classic is brought to the New York stage by the venerable DMTheatrics, one of the most imaginative and imitated of all downtown theater companies.
Fri. & Sat. 7:30PMDixon PlaceAnnette and Oliver, two fragmented characters struggle for survival and understanding in this multi-media dance piece, inspired by choreographer Regina Nejman’s own experiences teaching in a psychiatric outpatient program.
Sunday @ 9PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubLatinosNYC is proud to present Master James and his co-host Simply Rob in a phenomenal erotic open mic show featuring the Dirty Dozen. This will be a night of exXxcitement and one that you should not miss. Come join our celebration of glamorous debauchery. Please Note: This event is ages 18 and over only.
8PMPerformance Space 122In 1979 a group of progressive, on-the-edge performance artists -- Charles Moulton, Charles Dennis, Tim Miller and Peter Rose -- commandeered this.
March 22nd-31st Monday-Thursday at 8PMDysfunctional Theatre CompanyA Voluminous Evening of Brevity is an evening of short plays both comic and tragic dating to the beginning of the 20th Century: Porcelain & Pink by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Purgatory by WB Yeats, Two Slatterns and a King by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Trifles by Susan Glaspell.
Wednesday 03/24 (7pm)Teatro IATIWomen-HOOD (La Flaca y La Gorda) by José Goicuria Through the eyes of a 12-year old, Joey, the story of La Flaca (Skinny) and La Gorda (Fat) unfolds. Single-mothers living in the projects, they are bound by friendship and circumstance.
March 24th-27th @7:30PM March 28th @2:30PMAmore OperaThe operetta opens at a soiree at the Parisian embassy of Pontevedro hosted by Baron Mirko Zehta for his high society friends. Everyone is anxious as they await the arrival of Hannah Glawari, the recent widow of the owner of the Bank of Pontevedro. Zeta’s ambition is to prevent Hannah from marrying a foreigner, which would leave the Bank in financial ruin. He makes sure that Prince Danilo is available to woo Hannah. What he doesn’t know is that Hannah and Danilo are not exactly str...
Thurs-Sun 1-6PMLa MaMa - La Galleria With a nod to Jill Johnston’s 1971 essay, Movement Schmoovement, which highlighted the tension between movement and stasis, collective power and individuality, the desire to work with others to create change, alongside the desire to set out alone. This exhibition brings together 12 artists who have pursued their work for as long as thirty years.
Thursday, March 25th 3PMLower East Side History ProjectJoin LESHP educator and director of outreach, Andrea Coyle, for a special tour honoring the historic and influential women of New York City's Lower East Side. Topics will include Susan B. Anthony, Emma Goldman, Lilian Wald, Margaret Sanger, Victoria Woodhull, Evangeline Corey Booth and Dorothy Day, to name just a few -- and of course a visit to the site of the Triangle Factory disaster, where 99 years ago, 146 young women lost their lives on March 25, 1911.
Thurs.-Sat. @ 7PMNuyorican Poets CafeOften overshadowed by the more showy male roles, August Wilson's Women are the bedrock of his stories and emerge triumphant. Special Thursday Price - Just $10! All other shows $20/$18 with flyer/$15 students or seniors.
8PM + Sun@ 3PM.Teatro I.A.T.I. IATI Theater kicks off their world tour of Forbidden Love. This one-woman play is scheduled to be presented in Egypt, Germany, France, Austria, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. But first the show will be presented at Teatro IATI from March 25th to April 3rd. Forbidden Love portrays a powerful society whose members
March 13th- April 11th Thurs-Sat:8PM Sun:3PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubWhen a stubborn, well-meaning man has condemned his family to his best intentions, he must save them from fulfilling their promises to him....even if it means returning from the dead. A sentimental ghost story from the imagination of the greatest impressario of the age.
Thurs-Sat: 8PM Sun:2:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor TheaterPuppet theater has an uncanny ability to take on big themes, and such will be the case when Jane Catherine Shaw, co-director of the Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, takes on world drought in "Thirst: Memory of Water," her newest puppet theater work. It's a big theme, but Shaw is trying to make it manageable by concentrating on themes of women and water because, as she writes, "around the world women are carrying (literally) the burden of maintaining life by walking for water."...
Doors open @ 7PM, Films begin @ 8PMThe Millennium Film WorkshopBring your work for an open screening (like an open mic) at Millennum Film Workshop. Open to 16MM, S8MM, and DVD formats, first come first served. See emerging filmmakers before they have even emerged!
3/12-4/10 Thurs.& Fri. @8pm, Sat. @ 8pm&10pmLa MaMa - Ellen Stewart TheatrePreisser & Weiner’s CALIGULA MAXIMUS presents an outrageous collection of over two-dozen circus performers, wrestlers, showgirls & freaks; audiences should expect “an entertainment” that will test their limits of human intellect & appetite.
March 26th-April 4thLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubThis Mind the Art Anthology features 3 distinct works: What if?, DIE and Under the Veil. These three work include everything from musical theater, to comedic looks at philosophical, to political performance art. Explore these pieces that are sure to entertain, while challenging the status quo of your thinking and rebelling against your reality.
March 27th @11AMAmore OperaA performance for kids and the whole family, entitled “Opera-in-Brief” of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera, “The Mikado.” The opera opens in the town of Titipu where Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, has escaped in order to avoid an arranged marriage to Katisha, whom he doesn’t love. Unfortunately for the disguised Nanki-Poo, the girl he does love, Yum-Yum, is engaged to be married to her guardian, the tailor Ko-Ko.
3/27@3pm; 3/28@6pm; 3/31@8pm; 4/3@3pmTeatro I.A.T.I.Lauren, a college freshman, is suddenly confronted with the possibility of being HIV positive. This fear causes her to wake up and appreciate the love she has taken for granted as she realizes how a single bad decision could change her life forever.
Last Saturdays @ 10PMNuyorican Poets CafeHosted by Helena D. Lewis. Open mic, monologue, spoken word, music, skit, comedy showcase. Featuring J. F. Seary, Susan Baraka, Phyastartah.
Monday 03/29 (7pm)Teatro IATICharlie is a struggling novelist who is suffering from writer’s block, a soul crushing job, and his only comfort is writing a blog about the subway, which he hate’s riding. But one day, while riding the no. 5 train, Charlie saves 3 Mariachis from being attacked.
Tuesday 03/30 (7pm)Teatro IATIThis is a play based on a story written by a NYC public school teacher. It is a work of fiction based on actual events that occurred on 9/11.
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