Ontological-Hysteric Theater News

Formerly a project of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the Incubator Arts Project supports independent, experimental performing artists through a series of programs aimed at offering production opportunities and guidance with long-term growth and artistic sustainability. This month, it will feature Ben Forster's 'Edibles Incorporated'.

Everywhere Theatre Group attempts to stage the World Wide Web in The Internet. Fusing dance, movement, video, music, original and found texts, ETG examines what lies beneath the cool, sleek surface of the information super highway. By asking what propels people into the shadowy underworld of the Web, where one desires to objectify bodies and see people fail, ETG aims to find the root of human connection at its newest form.

Formerly a project of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the Incubator Arts Project supports independent, experimental performing artists through a series of programs aimed at offering production opportunities and guidance with long-term growth and artistic sustainability. This summer will have many performances of original performances Tickets will be priced at $18 for general admission and $14 for students. Purchase tickets in advance at incubatorarts.org or by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101. Incubator Arts Project is located at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater at 131 E. 10th St. in New York City.

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin recently announced that Amy Corcoran will direct the Company's production of the award-winning Annie Baker play, Circle Mirror Transformation. The comedy runs November 4-21, 2010 in the Studio Theatre at the Addison Theatre Centre. WaterTower Theatre will celebrate its 15th anniversary with its 2010-2011 season.

Brooklyn-based theater company 31 Down's loud meditation on paranoia and premonition surrounding plane crashes, RED OVER RED, will premiere with a run at New York City's Incubator Arts Project July 22-August 7, 2010. 31 Down returns with their signature sonic destruction, creating a horror theater that is immersive, visceral and contemporary. Red Over Red follows four people working in and around the airline industry to explore distrust in one another on a personal level, and distrust in the unknown on a primal level. Featuring recurring crash nightmares, the work graphically dives into our renewed fears of flight post 911. Starring frequent Richard Foreman and Hal Hartley actor DJ Mendel, and Caitlin McDonough-Thayer, Ryan Holsopple and Risa Sarachan.

Formerly a project of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the Incubator Arts Project supports independent, experimental performing artists through a series of programs aimed at offering production opportunities and guidance with long-term growth and artistic sustainability. (More info at the end of this announcement.)

Classic Stage Company presents the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl's ORLANDO, adapted from the work of Virgina Woolf and directed by Rebecca Taichman. Performances begin September 8, 2010.

Half Straddle, a New York based experimental theater company, follows up their critically-acclaimed show, FAMILY (A Top 10 of 2009 by Time Out New York), with Nurses in New England, an intimate, unexpected look at a coastal New England hospital run entirely by nurses, July 28 - 31, 7 p.m. presented by Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory 2010, at the Ohio Theatre 66 Wooster St. Tickets are $15 General Admission, $10 Students & Seniors.

Half Straddle, a New York based experimental theater company, follows up their critically-acclaimed show, FAMILY (A Top 10 of 2009 by Time Out New York), with Nurses in New England, an intimate, unexpected look at a coastal New England hospital run entirely by nurses, July 28 - 31, 7 p.m. presented by Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory 2010, at the Ohio Theatre 66 Wooster St. Tickets are $15 General Admission, $10 Students & Seniors.

Everywhere Theatre Group attempts to stage the World Wide Web in The Internet. Fusing dance, movement, video, music, original and found texts, ETG examines what lies beneath the cool, sleek surface of the information super highway. By asking what propels people into the shadowy underworld of the Web, where one desires to objectify bodies and see people fail, ETG aims to find the root of human connection at its newest form.

Formerly a project of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the Incubator Arts Project supports independent, experimental performing artists through a series of programs aimed at offering production opportunities and guidance with long-term growth and artistic sustainability. (More info at the end of this announcement.)

Brooklyn-based theater company 31 Down's loud meditation on paranoia and premonition surrounding plane crashes, RED OVER RED, will premiere with a run at New York City's Incubator Arts Project July 22-August 7, 2010. 31 Down returns with their signature sonic destruction, creating a horror theater that is immersive, visceral and contemporary. Red Over Red follows four people working in and around the airline industry to explore distrust in one another on a personal level, and distrust in the unknown on a primal level. Featuring recurring crash nightmares, the work graphically dives into our renewed fears of flight post 911. Starring frequent Richard Foreman and Hal Hartley actor DJ Mendel, and Caitlin McDonough-Thayer, Ryan Holsopple and Risa Sarachan.

Leigh Evans' new work, Quiet to Departure, has been selected to premiere at the 4th Annual undergroundzero festival of experimental theater, presented at PS122, July 13-18. Combining Butoh dance, video, and original music by Peter Whitehead, the duet Quiet to Departure explores the illusory nature of form through the shifting perceptions of self and other. Reflection, refraction, disjunction, shadow, and presence reveal our simultaneous transparency and visibility in this journey of self and memory.

Half Straddle, a New York based experimental theater company, follows up their critically-acclaimed show, FAMILY (A Top 10 of 2009 by Time Out New York), with Nurses in New England, an intimate, unexpected look at a coastal New England hospital run entirely by nurses, July 28 - 31, 7 p.m. presented by Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory 2010, at the Ohio Theatre 66 Wooster St. Tickets are $15 General Admission, $10 Students & Seniors.

Leigh Evans' new work, Quiet to Departure, has been selected to premiere at the 4th Annual undergroundzero festival of experimental theater, presented at PS122, July 13-18. Combining Butoh dance, video, and original music by Peter Whitehead, the duet Quiet to Departure explores the illusory nature of form through the shifting perceptions of self and other. Reflection, refraction, disjunction, shadow, and presence reveal our simultaneous transparency and visibility in this journey of self and memory.

Written and performed by Miranda Huba, Candy Tastes Nice follows the story of a young girl determined to auction off her virginity. What starts off as a simple bid to re-pay student loans turns into a mass media frenzy, and soon countries are bidding against each other in order to obtain the girl's elusive innocence.

Formerly a project of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the Incubator Arts Project supports independent, experimental performing artists through a series of programs aimed at offering production opportunities and guidance with long-term growth and artistic sustainability. This summer will have many performances of original performances Tickets will be priced at $18 for general admission and $14 for students. Purchase tickets in advance at incubatorarts.org or by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101. Incubator Arts Project is located at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater at 131 E. 10th St. in New York City.

Miranda Huba's CANDY TASTES NICE is set to premiere at HERE (145 6th Ave. -Enter on Dominick, 1 Block South of Spring) from July 7-10th.

Leigh Evans' new work, Quiet to Departure, has been selected to premiere at the 4th Annual undergroundzero festival of experimental theater, presented at PS122, July 13-18. Combining Butoh dance, video, and original music by Peter Whitehead, the duet Quiet to Departure explores the illusory nature of form through the shifting perceptions of self and other. Reflection, refraction, disjunction, shadow, and presence reveal our simultaneous transparency and visibility in this journey of self and memory.

The Ontological-Hysteric Theater announced today that it will cease operations at the theater space at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery at the end of the 2009-2010 season (June 30, 2010). Since taking up a permanent home at St. Mark's Theater in 1992, the Ontological has presented annual theater works by Richard Foreman, whose trademark 'total theater' unites elements of the performing arts, visual art, philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature and, in recent years, film.