SORRY ROBOT Runs Now thru 1/17 at PS122's COIL
by BWW News Desk
- Jan 6, 2015
As part of the tenth edition of the COIL festival, Performance Space 122 and New Ohio Theatre present the world premiere of Sorry Robot, the playwriting debut of beloved performer and Bessie-Award-winning composer Mike Iveson, best know for his work with Sibyl Kempson, Elevator Repair Service and choreographer Sarah Michelson. In Sorry Robot, four performers and a piano create a haunting world where robots long to experience the same emotions that their embarrassing, sort-of-pathetic human masters feel. In a hotel that doubles as a software development facility in an ever-dystopian Florida, the machines of the future set out to prove they can do almost anything but shut up.
SORRY ROBOT to Run 1/6-17 at PS122's COIL
by Tyler Peterson
- Dec 1, 2014
As part of the tenth edition of the COIL festival, Performance Space 122 and New Ohio Theatre present the world premiere of Sorry Robot, the playwriting debut of beloved performer and Bessie-Award-winning composer Mike Iveson, best know for his work with Sibyl Kempson, Elevator Repair Service and choreographer Sarah Michelson. In Sorry Robot, four performers and a piano create a haunting world where robots long to experience the same emotions that their embarrassing, sort-of-pathetic human masters feel. In a hotel that doubles as a software development facility in an ever-dystopian Florida, the machines of the future set out to prove they can do almost anything but shut up.
Redcat Presents Return of ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE, Now thru 11/9
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 5, 2014
REDCAT, CalArts Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, is pleased to present the return of the provocative and inventive New York theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service (ERS), with 5 PERFORMANCES ONLY, November 6-9, 2014, of Arguendo, a verbatim staging of the 1991 Supreme Court case Barnes v. Glen Theatre, where a group of exotic dancers used the First Amendment to challenge a ban on public nudity.
Redcat Presents Return of ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE, 11/05-09
by Sally Henry Fuller
- Oct 11, 2014
REDCAT, CalArts Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, is pleased to present the return of the provocative and inventive New York theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service (ERS), with 5 PERFORMANCES ONLY, November 6-9, 2014, of Arguendo, a verbatim staging of the 1991 Supreme Court case Barnes v. Glen Theatre, where a group of exotic dancers used the First Amendment to challenge a ban on public nudity.
Woolly Mammoth's Season Continues with Elevator Repair Service's ARGUENDO, 4/1-20
by Tyler Peterson
- Mar 5, 2014
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo, a playful and incisively witty theatricalization of the 1991 Supreme Court case in which a group of go-go dancers, citing the First Amendment, challenged an Indiana state ban on public nudity. Elevator Repair Service's Artistic Director John Collins will direct the Company in its first extended stay in Washington, DC. Originally slated to close April 20, Arguendo will be extended for an additional weekend, performing April 25-27.
Photo Coverage: GATZ Opens at The Public
by Kevin Thomas Garcia
- Oct 4, 2010
The Public Theater welcomed the press to the critically acclaimed GATZ, the theatrical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby created by Elevator Repair Service yesterday, October 3. Directed by John Collins, GATZ will continue through Sunday, November 28. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage below.
ERS Benefit Announces $30 Balcony Seats
by Jeff Dennhardt
- Apr 24, 2010
Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is hosting their spring benefit on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. The company is currently finishing the third play in a trilogy of critically acclaimed plays based on great American novels by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. This event will celebrate ERS's success with Frances McDormand (Burn after Reading, Fargo), Lili Taylor ('Six Feet Under'), Fred Armisen ('Saturday Night Live'), Frankie Faison ('The Wire'), and ERS company members in a one night only performance of loved, banned and mythologized American fiction. Authors include Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Edgar Allan Poe. Readings will be accompanied by ERS's unique signature sound design.
Performance Space 122 Upstairs Presents ADS
by BWW News Desk
- Jan 20, 2010
Richard Maxwell / NYC Players presents ADS Wed, Jan 20 - Sun, Jan 31, Wed - Sat at 8pm, Sun at 6pm. LATE shows: Sat, Jan 23, Sat, Jan 30 at 10pm, No show: Thu, Jan 21 at Performance Space 122 Upstairs 150 1st Ave (at 9th Street)
Performance Space 122 Upstairs Presents ADS
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Jan 12, 2010
Richard Maxwell / NYC Players presents ADS Wed, Jan 20 - Sun, Jan 31, Wed - Sat at 8pm, Sun at 6pm. LATE shows: Sat, Jan 23, Sat, Jan 30 at 10pm, No show: Thu, Jan 21 at Performance Space 122 Upstairs 150 1st Ave (at 9th Street)
Meryl Streep Joins Soho Rep's Spring Gala '07
by BWW News Desk
- May 7, 2007
Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep will join previously announced Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Joe Pantoliano, and Lois Smith in performances of excerpts from new plays by a host of artists at Soho Rep's Spring Gala '07
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