La MaMa E.T.C. Announces Live ONLINE HAPPENINGS
La MaMa E.T.C. announced today new live streaming initiatives under the umbrella of Online Happenings. While programming in the theatres is suspended during the COVID-19 crisis, La MaMa is exploring ways to respond creatively to a situation that is potentially changing how we gather as a community.
Dael Orlandersmith Will Celebrate Her 60th Birthday With The Wild Project
Dael Orlandersmith celebrates her 60th birthday with a special benefit evening at the Wild Project. The event takes place on Saturday, November 23 at 7 pm at Wild Project (195 E. 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B). Tickets are $60 - $100 (including food and drink) and will benefit the Wild Project's mission and programming. Advance tickets can be purchased online at http://www.thewildproject.com.
PANGEA PRIDE Adds New Shows To Three-Week Fest
The Downtown supper club Pangea celebrates fifty years of Pride in an excitingly decadent and stylish performance festival, "Pangea Pride," which began on Monday June 10 and runs to Sunday June 30.
PLEASURE SEEKERS LIVE! Heads to Pangea for SULTRY SUMMERr And PRIDE EDITION
PPleasure Seekers is LIVE! Variety Cabaret show with some of downtown's most intriguing cultural diva's with creatrix actress Heather Litteer brings you Sultry Songs, Summers Of Forbidden Love Stories, Moon Dancing into the Solstice and Celebrating StoneWall 50 Pride Edition and even some of her very own secrets of the downtown underground!
SLASHR Biting Political Satire Returns To The Gene Frankel Theatre In January
Last September, veteran downtown playwright Tony Stinkmetal foisted upon a Trump-weary New York City a frantic fever dream of a theater show: SlashR was a tongue-in-cheek satire that tackled issues as diverse as immigration, political correctness, dating apps, Benghazi, Big Pharma and bedbugs - all wrapped up in a cuddly tale of serial killers and Russians destroying American democracy.
Estelle Parsons Hosts Root Us In The LES: A Wild Project Benefit
the wild project will hold Root Us in the LES, a benefit performance night on Monday, January 7 at 7:00 PM. The benefit performance kicks off their new capital campaign: a fund dedicated to the purchasing of the building and the future of the wild project, a vital part of the East Village community. To purchase tickets, which are $50, to the benefit performance or to make a donation to the Root Us in the LES capital campaign, visit www.thewildproject.org.
SLASHR Biting Political Satire Returns To The Gene Frankel Theatre In January
Last September, veteran downtown playwright Tony Stinkmetal foisted upon a Trump-weary New York City a frantic fever dream of a theater show: SlashR was a tongue-in-cheek satire that tackled issues as diverse as immigration, political correctness, dating apps, Benghazi, Big Pharma and bedbugs - all wrapped up in a cuddly tale of serial killers and Russians destroying American democracy.
Photo Coverage: Meet the Cast of Tony Stinkmetal's SLASHR
SlashR is a taught and sexy thriller set in the traumatized New York of November 2016. What starts as a mundane murder investigation (of a young man prone to using dating apps) soon exposes a conspiracy for world domination skewering the entire two-party system, celebrity worship and the tendency for the US to find the shallowest and easiest solutions. In the course of the investigation, Detective Oakley comes up against evil PACs, a manipulative media, and serial killers. With the help of an outlaw hacker named Reeta and her mid-to-low-tech comrade The Exterminator, Oakley uncovers a connection between The Great Bed Bug Panic of 2010, the 2016 election, the worldwide spread of fascism and the scary clowns.
FREEZE FRAME: Meet the Cast of Tony Stinkmetal's SLASHR
SlashR is a taught and sexy thriller set in the traumatized New York of November 2016. What starts as a mundane murder investigation (of a young man prone to using dating apps) soon exposes a conspiracy for world domination skewering the entire two-party system, celebrity worship and the tendency for the US to find the shallowest and easiest solutions. In the course of the investigation, Detective Oakley comes up against evil PACs, a manipulative media, and serial killers. With the help of an outlaw hacker named Reeta and her mid-to-low-tech comrade The Exterminator, Oakley uncovers a connection between The Great Bed Bug Panic of 2010, the 2016 election, the worldwide spread of fascism and the scary clowns.
Dixon Place Lounge Presents Gershwin Live: S & M, Songs & Monologues Featuring Heather Litteer
Take a walk down memory lane with actress Heather Litteer. Heather will share intimate tales of her experiences in NYC as one of downtown's most iconic party girls---and notorious performers--of the 1990s. From the Wild West era in the Meatpacking District to the terrible beauty of the Lower East Side on fire, culminating with an unforgettably strange jaunt in Chelsea at one of the hottest spots in town. All stories will be accompanied with a song in the key of middle C--and a wiggle or three.