Austin Pendleton and Barbara Bleier to Return to Pangea with WE DON'T REMEMBER CHRISTMAS

Vintage hipsters, Austin Pendleton and Barbara Bleier, return to downtown's hideaway, Pangea, in December, with "We Don't Remember Christmas."

There are two performances scheduled: Dec. 11th and 18th at 7pm. Christopher Denny joins them as Musical Director and Barbara Maier Gustern directs.

Pangea is located in the East Village at 178 Second Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets. Tickets are $20 in advance online and $25 at the door. For online ticketing, visit brownpapertickets.com/3161298, or call 212.995.0900 for information.

Together, Pendleton and Bleier have made several critically lauded appearances at Pangea as "Austin and Barbara," two old friends with a "past." From "Late Nights in Smoky Bars" to last year's hilarious holiday offering "'Tis the Season to Be Morbid," they offer performances which showcase their humor and skills as consummate actors. They recently performed "Beautiful Mistake: Songs of John Bucchino and Amanda McBroom," in which they sang the songs of their very good friends (for real).

Austin Pendleton is an actor, director, playwright and teacher of acting, whose most recent stage appearance was as the King in Lear at The Secret Theatre, a critically lauded run that just ended in early April. He recently directed a production of Tennessee Williams' "The Two-Character Play" The Duo Multicultural Arts Center. Pendleton's first Broadway appearance was as Motel the Tailor in the original production of Fiddler on the Roof directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel. He has since appeared frequently on, off and off-off Broadway, and can be seen in approximately 200 films. His many TV appearances include roles on Oz, Homicide, Law and Order and Billions. In New York, he has directed Between Riverside and Crazy and four shows at CSC (Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, Ivanov and Hamlet) featuring such players as Peter Sarsgaard (Hamlet), Maggie Gyllenhall and Ethan Hawke. Pendleton is the author of three plays (Orson's Shadow, Uncle Bob, Booth) all produced in New York, and, in the case of Uncle Bob and Orson's Shadow, internationally. He has most recently directed Luft Gangster for Nylon Fusion Theatre Company & Cloverleaf Collective, A Day at the Beach for the Mint Theatre Company, and A Taste of Honey for the Pearl Theatre. He teaches acting in New York at HB Studio, where he studied with Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. He also studied acting with Robert Lewis.

Barbara Bleier is a singer, actor and playwright who has appeared on stage, in film, and on TV, as well as in solo shows and revues in national and international cabaret. She played the mother of a psychopathic killer in the cult classic, Swoon, and appeared in the film This is Where I Leave You, with Jane Fonda and Tina Fey, and in They Came Together, with Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler. Her solo show, Who's Your Mama? was selected for production in the NYC Women at Work Festival, and her two-person revues with Austin Pendleton, Late Nights in Smoky Bars (New York, Chicago and Philadelphia) and 'Tis the Season to Be Morbid, received critical praise in the press. She has studied acting with Austin Pendleton, singing with Barbara Maier, and musical performance with the late Julie Wilson at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.

Pendleton and Bleier will soon be appearing in the independent release,"Sunset," written and directed by the award winning filmmaker, Jamison LoCascio.

Downtown's intimate supper-club Pangea is the ultimate in alt, playing home to some of the best in alt cabaret.