Single Tickets Go On Sale for GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN At The Public

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Patrick Willingham) is set to present the return of GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN (You've Never Had It So Good), devised and performed by the German/British Collective GOB SQUAD. A hit at last year's Under the Radar Festival, GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN will begin previews on Thursday, January 19 and continue through Sunday, February 5 in the Newman Theater with an official press opening on Monday, January 23.

Single tickets, priced at $60-70, go on sale Tuesday, December 6. Member tickets are $35 and are on sale now. Tickets can be purchased by calling (212) 967-7555, by visiting www.publictheater.org, or in person at The Public Theater box office at 425 Lafayette Street.

"The biggest, noisiest, splashiest, most-in-need-of-an-immediate-return-engagement show [from last year's Under the Radar Festival] was Gob Squad's Kitchen, an entirely mediated experience in which the audience sits before a screen while the cast drolly recreates Andy Warhol's classics."- HeLen Shaw, Time Out New York

"The sweetly entertaining Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good) sets out to reconstruct
Andy Warhol's 1965 Kitchen. What they were doing wasn't necessarily acting, and the result wasn't necessarily theater, but it was wonderful all the same." - Alexis Soloski, Village Voice

It's 1965 and everything is just about to happen. The German/British collective GOB SQUAD invites you to take the hand of the King of Pop himself, Andy Warhol, and take a trip back to the underground cinemas of New York City, back to where it all began. GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN reconstructs Warhol's films in the quest to illuminate the past for a new generation, reflecting on the nature of authenticity, the here and now, and the hidden depths beneath the shiny surfaces of modern life.

GOB SQUAD'S KITCHEN features video by Miles Chalcraft, sound design by Jeff McGrory, and stage design by Chasper Bertschinger.

GOB SQUAD will also return to Under the Radar 2012 with three showings of their latest show, Super Night Shot, running January 5-8. In addition to these two productions, GOB SQUAD is curating an interactive "Resource Room" that covers their unique methods of making performance and details their history of groundbreaking events. The "Resource Room," running January 7-28, is presented in association with the Goethe-Institut New York in the Wyoming Building (5 East 3rd Street), and admission is free.

The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director) was founded by Joseph Papp in 1954 and is now one of the nation's preeminent cultural institutions, producing new plays, musicals, and productions of classics at its downtown home and at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The Public Theater's mandate to create a theater for all New Yorkers continues to this day onstage and through extensive outreach programs. Each year, more than 250,000 people attend Public Theater-related productions and events at six downtown stages, including Joe's Pub, and Shakespeare in the Park. The Public Theater's productions have won 42 Tony Awards, 158 Obies, 42 Drama Desk Awards and four Pulitzer Prizes. Fifty-four Public Theater Productions have moved to Broadway, including Sticks and Bones; That Championship Season; A Chorus Line; For Colored Girls…; The Pirates of Penzance; The Tempest; Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk; The Ride Down Mt. Morgan; Topdog/Underdog; Take Me Out; Caroline, or Change; Passing Strange; the revival of HAIR; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and The Merchant of Venice. www.publictheater.org.