Following the Gypsy Rock Opera fusion of Viva Patshiva, the chairs will be cleared and the Metrofolk Band will take the stage to teach and play traditional Hungarian Gypsy folk dance and music.
Long Live The Party! Drink and Dance, Gypsy Style!
'Bacchanalian gypsy sounds pulse at the heart, but these folks are clearly caught up in punk, ska, jazz and seedy cabaret, all elements of which they knit into a convincingly schizophrenic whole. Patshiva's main weapon is a trio of singers who are all extreme personalities, inflated egos that deliver in-character with complete conviction.' - Martin Longley, Spannered.org
Long Live The Party! Drink and Dance, Gypsy Style!
'Bacchanalian gypsy sounds pulse at the heart, but these folks are clearly caught up in punk, ska, jazz and seedy cabaret, all elements of which they knit into a convincingly schizophrenic whole. Patshiva's main weapon is a trio of singers who are all extreme personalities, inflated egos that deliver in-character with complete conviction.' - Martin Longley, Spannered.org
Blessed Unrest of New York and Teatri Oda of Kosovo present their ground-breaking collaboration
DORUNTINE at The Interart Theatre, 500 West 52nd Street , NYC from October 9-26, 2008 on Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8 PM , Sundays and Mondays at 7 PM.
A co-production from the OBIE-winning HERE Arts Center and The Juggernaut Theatre Company, OH WHAT WAR will play Wednesday, September 10 - Saturday, October 4 at HERE Arts Center. Conceived and directed by Mallory Catlett, OH WHAT WAR is presented as part of HERE's 2008-09 mainstage season of new multi-disciplinary productions spanning theatre, dance, puppetry and multimedia works. Official Opening is Saturday, September 13 @ 7:30 PM. A fantasy of flagrant disobedience to authority, OH WHAT WAR, is underground entertainment performed by a band of deserters stuck in No Man's Land.
A co-production from the OBIE-winning HERE Arts Center and The Juggernaut Theatre Company, OH WHAT WAR will play Wednesday, September 10 - Saturday, October 4 at HERE Arts Center. Conceived and directed by Mallory Catlett, OH WHAT WAR is presented as part of HERE's 2008-09 mainstage season of new multi-disciplinary productions spanning theatre, dance, puppetry and multimedia works. Official Opening is Saturday, September 13 @ 7:30 PM. A fantasy of flagrant disobedience to authority, OH WHAT WAR, is underground entertainment performed by a band of deserters stuck in No Man's Land.
The Interart Theatre Development Series will present BRIDGE OVER LAND, a play by Gilbert Girion, directed by the author. Performances will be at the Interart Theatre Annex, 500 W 52nd Street. Performances will begin on Friday, April 18th, continuing through Saturday, May 10th.
The Interart Theatre Development Series will present Bridge Over Land, a play by Gilbert Girion, directed by the author. Performances will be at the Interart Theatre Annex, 500 W 52nd Street. Performances will begin on Friday, April 18th, continuing through Saturday, May 10th.
The Public Theater will continue its fall season with the world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play The Brothers Size, directed by Tea Alagic, and produced in association with The Foundry Theatre who brought The Brothers Size to The Public's 2007 Under the Radar Festival earlier this year where it was the breakout hit of the festival. It will have a full production at The Public Theater October 23 to December 23 with an official press opening on Tuesday, November 6 at 7 PM.
The Interart Development Series and Zena Group Theater presents Illumination Rounds, written by Josh Liveright, directed by Paul Smithyman starring Mark Schulte and Freya Fox. Performances run October 4 through 15.
Lee Nagrin, 78, succumbed to complications from advanced colon cancer peacefully today at 8:45 AM in hospice care at Beth Israel Hospital, New York City
Silver Whale Gallery is announcing the world premiere of a new play by playwright/performer Lee Nagrin (La Mama's Valley of Iao, Women's Interart Center's Bird/Bear, Silver Whale's Angels Elegy) and puppeteer/performer Basil Twist (Lincoln Center Festival's La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco, director, The Dream Music Puppetry Program at HERE Arts Center).
Director David Willinger will stage a new production of Job's Passion, the controversial work by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin with original music by Ithai Benjamin.
Al Pacino, Kevin Anderson and Jessica Chastain will appear in a presentation with music of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece SALOME at the Wadsworth Theatre for 26 performances only, April 14 to May 14.