Jane Catherine Shaw News

New York's Theater for the New City will present TheaterPeace, a theater company led by Philip Suraci, in 'Catch Her in the Lie' for the final performance on May 22.

New York's Theater for the New City will present TheaterPeace, a theater company led by Philip Suraci, in 'Catch Her in the Lie' May 5 to 22.

New York's Theater for the New City will present TheaterPeace, a theater company led by Philip Suraci, in 'Catch Her in the Lie' May 5 to 22.

New York's Theater for the New City will present TheaterPeace, a theater company led by Philip Suraci, in 'Catch Her in the Lie' May 5 to 22.

La MaMa ETC in association with La Criatura Theater presents the World Premiere of THE ORPHANS by Karina Casiano.

La MaMa ETC in association with La Criatura Theater presents the World Premiere of THE ORPHANS by Karina Casiano.

La MaMa ETC in association with La CriAtura Theater presents the World Premiere of THE ORPHANS by Karina Casiano. With this erotic love story, La CriAtura follows up its 2010 IT Award nominated production of Rootless: La No Nostalgia at PS 122 and 8vo Festival Internacional de Cabaret in Mexico City.

With its newest production, 'In Retrospect,' the LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company, led by Federico Restrepo, investigates how we each construct our personal memory box: how we keep our memories fresh and preserve the things that made us who we are.

'Broken Nails: A Marlene Dietrich Dialogue' by Anna Skubik (Poland) has NY premiere November 11-21 as part of 'La MaMa Puppet Series IV-Built to Perform.'

With its newest production, 'In Retrospect,' the LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company, led by Federico Restrepo, investigates how we each construct our personal memory box: how we keep our memories fresh and preserve the things that made us who we are.

'Broken Nails: A Marlene Dietrich Dialogue' by Anna Skubik (Poland) has NY premiere November 11-21 as part of 'La MaMa Puppet Series IV-Built to Perform.'

What puppeteer doesn't wonder what will happen to him as he impersonates the creator? In 'Wake Up, You're Dead!,' Aaron Haskell of Brooklyn Art Department (www.brooklynartdepartment.com), one of the original designers of Nightmare: NYC's Haunted House, gives us a Halloween-flavored creation myth. It's a De La Guarda-type event and spectacle that adds a late-night attraction to 'La MaMa Puppet Series IV--Built to Perform.' It will be presented October 29 to November 7 in the second-floor Club of La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East Fourth Street.

To add a family theater component to 'La MaMa Puppet Series IV -- Built to Perform,' La MaMa will present Jane Catherine Shaw in a solo show of found object puppetry, 'Folk Tales of Asia and Africa,' from October 16 to November 7.

Nonstop theater, a costume competition and ballroom dancing will bewitch the East Village in Theater for the New City's 34th annual Village Halloween Costume Ball on Sunday, October 31 at TNC, 155 First Avenue.

What puppeteer doesn't wonder what will happen to him as he impersonates the creator? In 'Wake Up, You're Dead!,' Aaron Haskell of Brooklyn Art Department (www.brooklynartdepartment.com), one of the original designers of Nightmare: NYC's Haunted House, gives us a Halloween-flavored creation myth. It's a De La Guarda-type event and spectacle that adds a late-night attraction to 'La MaMa Puppet Series IV--Built to Perform.' It will be presented October 29 to November 7 in the second-floor Club of La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East Fourth Street.

Nonstop theater, a costume competition and ballroom dancing will bewitch the East Village in Theater for the New City's 34th annual Village Halloween Costume Ball on Sunday, October 31 at TNC, 155 First Avenue.

'Chopin-An Impression,' a virtuoso performance of Chopin's music by a virtuoso puppet troupe, was originally commissioned by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the worldwide celebration of The Year of Chopin 2010, celebrating the bicentennial of the composer's birth in Zelazowa Wola, Poland.

La MaMa ETC in association with La Criatura Theater presents the World Premiere of THE ORPHANS by Karina Casiano.

To add a family theater component to 'La MaMa Puppet Series IV -- Built to Perform,' La MaMa will present Jane Catherine Shaw in a solo show of found object puppetry, 'Folk Tales of Asia and Africa,' from October 16 to November 7.

Italy's Dario D'Ambrosi, a radical innovator of the theater and founder of the movement called Teatro Patologico (Pathological Theater), will direct his newest play, 'Bong Bong Bong against the Walls, Ting Ting Ting in our Heads,' as the opening production of 'La MaMa Puppet Series IV--Built to Perform.'