La MaMa to Continue 'Coffeehouse Chronicles' Series with Performing Arts Journal 40th Anniversary

La MaMa presents COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES #138 "PERFORMING ARTS JOURNAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY" on Saturday, December 17, 2o16 from 3 to 5 p.m. at La MaMa.

Spend an intimate afternoon celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Performing Arts Journal. The event, moderated by Frank Hentschker, features a special interview with Bonnie Marranca by Joseph Cermatori, and panelists Lee Breur, Norman Frisch, Annie-B. Parson, John Jesurun, Maude Mitchell, Theodora Skipitares, and Tory Vazquez.

The Performing Arts Journal is a triannual academic journal of arts that was established in 1976 by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta. It has taken a particular interest in contemporary performance art and features expanded coverage in video, drama, dance, installations, media, and music. The journal is published by special arrangement with the MIT Press. Issues can also be accessed through the online databases JSTOR and Project M-- USE.

PAJ integrates theatre and visual arts in an expanded view of performance history. The journal publishes essays, interviews and artists' writings, reviews of new exhibitions, performances, and books, and also, plays and performance texts from the United States and abroad. In recent years PAJ has featured new series on performance drawings; art, spirituality and religion; dialogues on crossovers in performance and visual arts.

Bonnie Marranca is the founding publisher and editor of the Obie-Award winning PAJ Publications and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. She has edited several anthologies, including New Europe: plays from the continent, Conversations on Art and Performance, Interculturalism and Performance, Plays for the End of the Century, and The Theatre of Images. Her most recent book is Conversations with Meredith Monk. Joseph Cermatori has written on theatre and opera for the Village Voice, New York Times, Theater, and was formerly associate editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. He is an assistant professor in the English department at Skidmore College.

IF YOU GO:

COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES #138 "PERFORMING ARTS JOURNAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY"

Moderator: Frank Hentschker

Interview: with Bonnie Marranca by Joseph Cermatori

Panel: Lee Breur | Norman Frisch | Annie-B. Parson | John Jesurun | Maude Mitchell | Theodora Skipitares |

Tory Vazquez

Series Director: Michal Gamily

Educational Outreach: Arthur Adair

When: Saturday December 17, 2016 at 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Where: La MaMa | The Downstairs | 66 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003

Reservations & Info: http://lamama.org/performing_arts_journal/
ADMISSION IS FREE/SUGGESTED DONATION

COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES - is an educational performance series exploring the history and development of Off-Off Broadway; part artist portrait, part creative event, part history lesson, part community forum.

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