Public Announces Line-Up for Under the Radar Festival

The Public Theater has announced that it will host Under the Radar 2007, a twelve-day festival that presents contemporary theater artists from across the country and around the world.

Now in its third year, Under the Radar "embraces the vitality of contemporary theater in all of its many guises: this year's extraordinary lineup features performance, playwriting, puppetry, solos, ensembles, and classics re-considered.  Located at The Public Theater and its partner theaters – 59E59, Downtown Arts, The Kitchen, and St. Ann's Warehouse – Under the Radar will offer a crash course in theater that is exciting, independent, and experimental, created by some of the most dynamic artists working today," as press materials state. 

The event will be produced by Mark Russell, an independent producer/curator working in New York City. He is also the guest Artistic Director for the Portland (Oregon) Institute of Contemporary Art – Time Based Arts Festival for 2006, 2007.  From 1983-2004, Russell was the Executive Artistic Director of Performance Space 122 (P.S. 122).

The line-up will include a number of pieces presented at the Public Theater: Daniel MacIvor's A Beautiful View,  Allen Johnson's Another You, The Old Trout Puppet Workshop's Famous Puppet Death Scenes, Teatro de los Andes' En Un Sol Amarillo (Memorias de un Temblor) or In a Yellow Sun (Memories of an Earthquake), Oliver Py's Epistle to Young Actors, Mike Daisey's Invincible Summer, Anne Bogart and Darron L. West's Radio Macbeth, Lone Twin's Nine Years, Taylor Mac's The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, Tarell McCraney's The Brothers Size, John O'Keefe's Two Songs.

At partner theatres, the following will be presented: Caden Manson and the Big Art Group's Dead Set #3, Rude Mechanicals' Get Your War On, Cynthia Hopkins, Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg's Must Don't Whip 'Um, and Nature Theater of Oklahoma's No Dice.

Tickets for each show are $15.  A 'Public Access Pass' is available for $70 (a 30% discount), which includes a ticket to all Under the Radar shows at The Public Theater and a $5 discount for shows at partner theaters.

Tickets will go on sale Monday, December 18th at The Public Theater box office, 425 Lafayette Street; on-line at www.publictheater.org or by phone at 212-967-7555(please note new number). 

Visit the Public Theater's website for more information.