Penny Arcade News

Lower East Side Festival of the Arts to take place this weekend

Performance Space 122 will honor, celebrate and salute stellar individuals who work at every level critical to live performance, who epitomize the vital roles played onstage: performer Tom Murrin; backstage: producer Lori E. Seid; and offstage: our members at the Spring Gala 2008 to be held on Thursday, May 15th at the Angel Orensanz Center (172 Norfolk Street, Manhattan).

THE 13th ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE (LES) FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS will bring together under one roof in just three days over 100 performing arts organizations, local and international celebrities, independent artists, poets, puppeteers, film makers and many others -- all of whom reside, work or have their roots in the culturally diverse, willfully anarchistic Lower East Side -- for New York City's most diverse FREE 3-day festival, from Friday, May 23 through Sunday, May 25, at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue, between E. 9th and 10th Streets) in Manhattan.

The first annual Globesity Festival: Hunger Strike Theater kicks-off tonight, Monday October 22.

Legendary social activist Dick Gregory will deliver the keynote speech at the first annual Globesity Festival: Hunger Strike Theater, it was announced by the Festival's artistic directors Penny Arcade and Michael Premo. The week-long multidisciplinary festival, which kicks off Monday, October 22 (through Sunday, October 28) at New York City's Theater for the New City, will be FREE to the public.

The first ever 'Globesity Festival: Hunger Strike Theatre' has been set for October 22 - 28 at New York City's Theatre for the New City (155 First Ave.), and it will be free to the public.

In 1990 Penny Arcade created the now legendary Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, her sex and censorship show, in response to the Senator Helms/National Endowment For The Arts censorship crisis. Now it returns in an exclusive Spiegeltent season for the first time in over a decade on Tuesday, September 11 at 10 p.m.

Coming off an acclaimed performance as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) will perform excerpts from the play on Saturday, May 26 at 10 p.m. at the 12th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue, between E. 9th and 10th Streets) in Manhattan.

Saturday, May 26th has been designated LES Kids' Day 2007 as part of The 12th Annual Lower East Side (LES) Festival of the Arts. LES Kids' Day 2007 will feature free performances and special events for kids and by kids, beginning at 2pm at Theater for the New City

Peculiar Works Project, producers of the acclaimed site-specific performance, OFF Stage: the West Village Fragments, will present 'BANG! For Your Buck'

The 12th Annual Lower East Side (LES) Festival of the Arts will bring over 100 performing arts organizations, local and international celebrities, independent artists, poets, puppeteers, film makers and others together under one roof for New York City's free Memorial Day Weekend festival.

Ken Kleiber, of 'That's Kentertainment' will join MargoOH! as the latter TV host moves to the D-Lounge at the Daryl Roth Theatre on September 14th

F. Murray Abraham, Penny Arcade, Joe Franklin and others will take part in the 11th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts from May 26th through 28th

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards (the IT Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, will devote March 18th and 19th to two evenings celebrating performance art

They 2005 New York Innovative Theatre Awards were held on September 19th at 7 PM at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Charles Busch will host the 2005 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, which celebrates off-off-Broadway theatre achievement, on September 19th

On May 2, 2005 Performance Space 122 celebrates its 25th anniversary with a gala benefit at Webster Hall where they will present the first annual Ethyl Eichelberger Award.

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