Exhibition dates: January 24 – May 31, 2009.Meet at Cuppa Cuppa, 75 E. 4th StreetJoin us for the opening of FAB's newest ArtUp exhibition "A Closer NY" by Sherry Mills. The artists work will cover scaffolding. The exhibition is a reaction to the form of sensory adaptation that debilitates aesthetic recognition through ignorance of scaffolding and industrial equipment on the sidewalks. “A Closer NY” encourages the audience to seek beauty in imperfections.
Every Friday Starting April 24 at 5PM (and Saturdays in June!)Fourth Arts BlockCome to the East 4th Street Cultural District (E. 4th between Bowery & 2nd Ave.) every Friday starting April 24th, 2009 to get rush tickets to theater, dance, film, and events for as little as $5 to shows all over the East Village, including shows at La MaMa E.T.C., New York Theatre Workshop, Teatro IATI, Teatro Circulo, and Millennium Film Workshop. Ticket booth hours are 5-7PM and every week the first 25 customers will get a FREE gift. Tickets are limited, so please arrive early!
May 1st and 2nd at 8pmTeatro IATIVital Vox: A Vocal Festival explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. This two day festival celebrates a new generation of young vocal artists creating and performing their own original works and those of American masters, like Meredith Monk and John Zorn.
Thurs. - Sat. 8PMHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sCaitlin and the Swan tells the story of a frustrated SAT tutor, her animal-loving friends, and their powerful attractions to the forbidden. Inspired by the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan, this play explores feminism, bestiality, and the twisted links between pain and love. Featuring Jake Aron, Brian Burns, Marguerite French, Shetal Shah, and Teresa Stephenson. Sound design from Adam Swiderski, original music by Colin Wambsgans, and movement/choreography by Croft Vaughn. Tickets $18.
April 27-May 3 every evening at 8:00PMDMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts centerIn today's attention-deficient world of YouTube, IMs, and blog posts, the short film has never been more relevant. The same can be said for the Annual NYC Downtown Short Film Festival, which attracts more submissions and a larger audience every year.
April 23-May 10La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor TheaterAfter the last year the success of “The Cherry Orchard Sequel”, UniArt Theatre Company presents a new play, written and directed by OBIE award winner Nic Ularu. “The System” tries to dissect in a humorous way the condition of the artist and the act of creation of a special theatre piece. If “life is theatre and theatre is life”, The System gives a glimpse of life in theatre, questioning present day political life, audience tastes, and manipul...
April 24-May 3 Friday and Saturday at 10:00PM Sunday at 5:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The Club"White Elephant" features a series of poetic vignettes about animals, people and objects transitioning from one plane to another. Inspired by the true story of an unwanted, white, weathered, wicker elephant whose owner tosses it onto a roaring bonfire one chilly fall night, White Elephant is brought to life through puppetry, movement, mask, super 8 film, and live music. Tickets $15
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.
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.
April 18 and 25 May 2 12:00PM-4:00PMNew York Neo-FuturistsIn this 12-hour introductory workshop taught by Erica Livingston and Eevin Hartsough, students will use the Neo-Futurist aesthetic to kick their creative impulses into high gear. Participants will quickly generate and perform new work that engages the self, the immediate surroundings, and the...
Door at 9:30pm, show at 10pmHyperGender Burlesque for WOW Cafe TheatreHyperGender burlesque is a post neo burlesque show that mixes various short art forms with burlesque. Check out our website for the details. We stretch the boundaries and cross the comfort levels all in good humor and all while twirling some pasties (often imaginary ones).
Tuesday, May 05 at 7:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C. - The AnnexA Benefit for La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival Honoring Harvey Lichtenstein and Deborah Jowitt For Harvey’s visionary leadership as a producer of innovative art and artists, and Deborah’s intelligent, deeply poetic and enduring eye on dance and dancers. La MaMa Moves! runs from May 7 to May 31.
6:30 Drink Time and Silent Auction Time; 8:00 Meal Time; 9:00 Bid Time; 10:30 Dance Time; 11:30 Bed TimeCreative TimeWe hope you'll join us for another adventurous evening honoring Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy and benefiting Creative Time's unparalleled support of ambitious projects that reach millions. The evening will include performances, dinner, live and silent auctions featuring works by top contemporary artists, and a few surprises...all at one of the BEST parties of the year. The 69th Regiment Armory
8pmJZ Bich Productions for WOW Cafe TheatreEnter the dark world in which love and terror form a symbiosis that is disturbing and appealing. This play explores lies, deception and what it means to be stuck in the world without hope. There is enough sex and violence for a NC-17 rating, enough questions to make your head spin, and enough meta theatrical references to find humor in the darkness. Love in the Time of Terror is a new work by Jasmina SInanovic, a Balkans-New York hybrid artist who brings the East to the West and defines di...
May 7-23 Thursday-Saturday at 8:00PMNo Tea ProductionsLIARS is a collection of eight brand-new comedic plays about deceiving, falsifying, fibbing, and stretching the truth. Join us as we set fire to the pants of Hollywood agents and other sleazy hucksters, and expose cons from tofu to Santa Claus. Playwrights featured will include Jesse Jones, Jeremy Mather, Daniel McCoy, Lindsey Moore, Joe Musso, Caroline O’Hare, Matt Sears, and Jeff Sproul.
May 7-24, Thurs-Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 3pmEquilicua ProduccionesWay to Heaven is inspired by the notorious true story of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where the Nazis constructed a fake village to fool the Red Cross inspectors and quell extermination rumors. This is the New York Premiere of the play, by Spain's 2007 National Theater Award recipient, Juan Mayorga. Directed by award-winning Matthew Earnest, Way To Heaven has been produced w...
May 8-10 at 7:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. - The AnnexLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is committed to the dance community, providing rehearsal space and performances for emerging and seasoned choreographers. Dance takes place on all three stages at La MaMa. This festival reflects La MaMa's longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. NYU COLLABORATION PROJECT An evening of pieces choreographed by alumni and graduate students of NYU Tisch School of the Arts Dance Dept for current Dance Dept. students: Julian Barn...
May 8-10 Friday & Saturday at 10:00PM, Sunday at 5:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubBeneath the Waves by The Pan-Art Collective with Panonian Wave! Fueled by the infectious rhythmic pulse of the balkan-soul-gypsy-world-meltdown band Panonian Wave, and using a mix of song, movement, and unique storytelling, the Pan-Art Collective creates a spectacular peepshow that invites you to revel in the fragility and absurdity of the human condition. See if you can resist…
Saturdays 5:00PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubThe Dyke Division of Two-headed Calf is Jess Barbagallo, Laryssa Husiak, Brooke O'Harra, Brendan Connelly, Laura Berlin Stinger, Barbara Lanciers, Karina Mangu-Ward."Ellie's flown the coop and Robbie's in a tizzy. Julie's gone workin' girl and Bailey's gone power dyke. Dire's on the path to adulthood and Lacey's barely on the wagon. Top that off with a healthy dose of good old-fashioned retired nun sex, some late-life BDSM play and a killer community theatre production of The Killing of Sis...
May 13th @ 8pmTeatro IATIIt has been said Macbeth's death was delivered by the curse of three witches and influenced by his wife. In this new work of Griselda Gamabaro, you’ll see the witches and Lady Macbeth. There are hardly any men in this plot of spectra. Gambaro rewrites the Shakespearian tragedy again spreading the blame and expanding the mysteries. Lady Macbeth is an extraordinary and audacious piece of one of the most talented playwrights of Latino literature. Griselda Gambaro
May 14-31 Thursdays-Sundays 1-6PMLa MaMa - La GalleriaLa MaMa La Galleria is pleased to announce Luba Lukova’s exhibition Umbrellas, Social Justice & More. The exhibition will present a wide range of work including an installation with her critically acclaimed Social Justice poster portfolio. The La MaMa show will also feature Lukova’s prints, original drawings and 3-d objects. Internationally recognized, New York based Luba Lukova is regarded as one of the most distinctive image-makers working today. Whether by using an econo...
Thursday, May 14 at 7:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C. - The AnnexLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is committed to the dance community, providing rehearsal space and performances for emerging and seasoned choreographers. Dance takes place on all three stages at La MaMa. This festival reflects La MaMa's longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. Higher-Ups: Spinnin' Ronin and Chriselle Tidrick.
May 14-17 at 8:00PMLa MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor TheaterLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is committed to the dance community, providing rehearsal space and performances for emerging and seasoned choreographers. Dance takes place on all three stages at La MaMa. This festival reflects La MaMa's longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. New York International: Eun Jung Choi Gonzalez & Guillermo Ortega Tanus/Da Da Dance Project, Jye-Hwel Lin & Hsin-Yi Hsiang, ...
Thursday, May 14 at 8:00pmDMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts CenterThe Goodword Theatre presents Sherry Kramer’s dramatic tale about Jean, Marilyn, and the love affair that almost was. Jean and Marilyn, two young redheaded women, are fast falling in love when the news of a tragic suicide finds its way into their blissful escape. With their debut production, The Goodword brings forth a raw story told on the oh-so-thin line between reality and imagination. “David’s Redhaired Death” is as much as anything a play about how we get thru the hardest times in our live...
May 14-23 Thursday-Saturday at 9:00PMHuman GroupAdapted for the stage by Lindsey Hope Pearlman and Randi Rivera, produced in association with The Centrifuge, and directed by Randi Rivera. I am I because my little dog knows me…really? In this new adaptation of Stein’s humorously dizzying novel The Geographical History of America, Human Group plays with the ways we conceive, contextualize, and perform our identities. Employing dance, music, and digital photography, THE GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA is a communal exper...
Friday, May 15 at 7:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C. - The AnnexLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is committed to the dance community, providing rehearsal space and performances for emerging and seasoned choreographers. Dance takes place on all three stages at La MaMa. This festival reflects La MaMa's longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. Group Dynamics: Patrick Corbin/CorbinDances, Anneke Hansen, Jeremy McQueen, Muna Tseng, and Bill Young & Co.
Friday, May 15 at 8:00pmDMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts CenterThe Goodword Theatre presents Sherry Kramer’s dramatic tale about Jean, Marilyn, and the love affair that almost was. Jean and Marilyn, two young redheaded women, are fast falling in love when the news of a tragic suicide finds its way into their blissful escape. With their debut production, The Goodword brings forth a raw story told on the oh-so-thin line between reality and imagination. “David’s Redhaired Death” is as much as anything a play about how we get thru the hardest times in our live...
May 15-17 Friday & Saturday at 10:00PM, Sunday at 5:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is committed to the dance community, providing rehearsal space and performances for emerging and seasoned choreographers. Dance takes place on all three stages at La MaMa. This festival reflects La MaMa's longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. Cabaret Nights: Jen Abrams, Lauren Brown & Rachel Kolar, Jack Ferver, Rachel Klein, and Rico Nogu...
Noon-4PMFourth Arts BlockDo you like fashion? Do you like the arts? Don't you wish that you could benefit both at the same time (money being what it is)? Our tough economy has been hard on non-profits, young designers and the bargain shopper, but here is a great way to join forces. The goods include deeply discounted clothing and accessories by almost a dozen designers that usually sell in high-end boutiques, as well as original artwork. Don't miss this chance to eat, drink, mingle, shop and help support NYC artists dur...
Saturday, May 16 at 8:00pmDMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts CenterThe Goodword Theatre presents Sherry Kramer’s dramatic tale about Jean, Marilyn, and the love affair that almost was. Jean and Marilyn, two young redheaded women, are fast falling in love when the news of a tragic suicide finds its way into their blissful escape. With their debut production, The Goodword brings forth a raw story told on the oh-so-thin line between reality and imagination. “David’s Redhaired Death” is as much as anything a play about how we get thru the hardest times in our live...
May 17 2:00PM & 4:00PMLa MaMa E.T.C. - The AnnexLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is committed to the dance community, providing rehearsal space and performances for emerging and seasoned choreographers. Dance takes place on all three stages at La MaMa. This festival reflects La MaMa's longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. East Village Dance Project: Martha Tornay, Artistic Director.
Sunday, May 17 at 2:00pmDMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts CenterThe Goodword Theatre presents Sherry Kramer’s dramatic tale about Jean, Marilyn, and the love affair that almost was. Jean and Marilyn, two young redheaded women, are fast falling in love when the news of a tragic suicide finds its way into their blissful escape. With their debut production, The Goodword brings forth a raw story told on the oh-so-thin line between reality and imagination. “David’s Redhaired Death” is as much as anything a play about how we get thru the hardest times in our live...
Wednesday, May 20 at 7:00pmHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sThe Sci Fi Screening Room is a monthly showcase of offbeat videos, featuring cult classics, TV rarities and stuff you won’t find on Netflix or YouTube. Previous events, including Batman Night! and Bigfoot Night! have been named as a Voice Choice, Time Out NY Best Bet, Gothamist pick and highlighted in the New York Times’ Urban Eye. $7.00 at the door.
Wednesday, May 20 at 8:00pmDMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts CenterThe Goodword Theatre presents Sherry Kramer’s dramatic tale about Jean, Marilyn, and the love affair that almost was. Jean and Marilyn, two young redheaded women, are fast falling in love when the news of a tragic suicide finds its way into their blissful escape. With their debut production, The Goodword brings forth a raw story told on the oh-so-thin line between reality and imagination. “David’s Redhaired Death” is as much as anything a play about how we get thru the hardest times in our live...
May 21-24 at 8:00PMLa MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor TheaterLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is committed to the dance community, providing rehearsal space and performances for emerging and seasoned choreographers. Dance takes place on all three stages at La MaMa. This festival reflects La MaMa's longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. Mavericks in Motion: Edgar Cortes,Gabriel Forestierl/ProjectLIMB, Zvi Gotheiner/ZviDance, Jonathan Kinzel, Sydney Skybetter, Dario Vaccaro, Bergen Wheeler, Anthony Whitehurst ...
Thursday, May 21 at 8:00pmDMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts CenterThe Goodword Theatre presents Sherry Kramer’s dramatic tale about Jean, Marilyn, and the love affair that almost was. Jean and Marilyn, two young redheaded women, are fast falling in love when the news of a tragic suicide finds its way into their blissful escape. With their debut production, The Goodword brings forth a raw story told on the oh-so-thin line between reality and imagination. “David’s Redhaired Death” is as much as anything a play about how we get thru the hardest times in our live...
May 22-June 28 Tickets on sale April 24New York Theatre WorkshopRecipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and an OBIE Award, among many other awards, playwright and poet Naomi Wallace (The Fever Chart, One Flea Spare) follows up the NYTW production of Trestle at Pope Lick Creek with this powerful and poetic examination of the unintended conflict between race and ideology. In Depression-era Alabama, black Sunday school t...
May 22-24 Friday & Saturday 10:00PM, Sunday 5:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is committed to the dance community, providing rehearsal space and performances for emerging and seasoned choreographers. Dance takes place on all three stages at La MaMa. This festival reflects La MaMa's longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. American Hybrids: Monstah Black & Nicholas Leichter, HIJACK/Kristen Van Loon & Arwen Wilder, and Tom Pearson.
Saturday, May 23 at 8:00pmDMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts CenterThe Goodword Theatre presents Sherry Kramer’s dramatic tale about Jean, Marilyn, and the love affair that almost was. Jean and Marilyn, two young redheaded women, are fast falling in love when the news of a tragic suicide finds its way into their blissful escape. With their debut production, The Goodword brings forth a raw story told on the oh-so-thin line between reality and imagination. “David’s Redhaired Death” is as much as anything a play about how we get thru the hardest times in our live...
May 28-June14 Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. - The AnnexLa MaMa E.T.C. presents Ellen Stewart's world-premiere play ASCLEPIUS -- the first known play to tell the story of the ancient Greek god of medicine and healing -- featuring an international cast from the acclaimed Great Jones Repertory Company. Conceived, written, and directed by the legendary Ellen Stewart, Aesculapius tells how the son of sun god Apollo and mortal maiden Coronis transcends to his rightful place in the heavens because of his great work in medicine. It is belie...
May 28-30 at 8:00PMHorse Trade Theater Group - The Red RoomA collaborative effort of six emerging playwrights, six imminent directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Each play was written specifically for The Drafts; playwrights were given randomly compiled cast lists and the theme “hope plays” before setting out to write them. Plays featured will include: "The Things Tom Left Behind" Written by Pia Wilson, directed by Heidi Grumelo; "Even Hope Lays an Egg Now and Then" Written by William Barne...
May 28-June 14 Thursdays-Saturdays 8:00PM, Sundays 2:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor TheaterBlue Day is a play by Alessandro Corazzi, an Italian playwright and director. In 2005 Alessandro wrote the play “L’ora della Perla”, a quote by Steinbeck, and decided to give birth to Blue Day. The play “L’ora della perla” faces present problems: the alienating factory work, the impossibility of living a love due to the lack of money, firing for no reason, Blue Day’s main core is the economical crisis.
May 29-31 Friday & Saturday at 10:00PM, Sunday at 5:30PMLa MaMa E.T.C. – The ClubLa MaMa Moves! Dance Festival is committed to the dance community, providing rehearsal space and performances for emerging and seasoned choreographers. Dance takes place on all three stages at La MaMa. This festival reflects La MaMa's longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. Cunningham Generations: Kimberly Bartosik, Michael Cole, Ellen Cornfield, Foofwa d'Imobilite, Douglas Dunn, Alan Good, Rashaun Mitchell, Matthew Mohr, Dennis O'Connor, and Da...
Last Sunday of every monthHorse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark'sCelebrate Edgar allan Poe's Bicentennial (1809-2009) with the critically acclaimed, award-winning Radiotheatre in a unique event as they perform live, on-stage, a year-long presentation of seventeen major works by the grand master of American horror! Included are The Tell tale Heart, the Pit and the Pendulum, the House of Usher, Morella, the Mask of the Red Death, Berenice, the Cask of Amantillado, The Raven, Annabel Lee etc. All newly-adapted audio works for the stage by Dan Bianchi. Tickets $1...
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