Due to popular demand and rave reviews, JACKIE FIVE-OH! has extended its run yet again at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) through April 4th. In the all-new JACKIE FIVE-OH!, the blisteringly funny, filter-free Hoffman muses on her own decay at 50, her career of playing 'bit' parts, her thoughts about being in The Addams Family and an array of other topics running the gamut from Queen Latifah to Kristen Chenoweth. Hoffman also sings five new original songs (written with musical director Bobby Peaco). Hoffman will also continue in her hilarious, scene-stealing performance as Grandma inTHE ADDAMS FAMILY into the summer.
YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents William Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, directed by Shana Cooper, at the University Theatre (222 York Street) March 11-April 2, 2011.
Ticketing info: General $18/Student $14 - Cash only at the door. Purchase in advance at incubatorarts.org or by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101. Incubator Arts Project (inside St. Mark's Church) • 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Ave.) L to First or Third Ave; R, W to Broadway/8th St.; 6 to Astor Place; N,Q, 4, 5 to Union Sq.
From January to July of 2011, The Brick is presenting a series of productions and festivals that display the range and boldness of its many artists - whether they be returning favorites or brand new faces! This will be a season of sorority, cadavers, abortions, time, comic books, crime, heritage and video games.
After moving from readings in Los Angeles to a workshop in New York, the next step in the evolution of this multi-media solo show is the world premier production in the FRIGID New York Festival 2011.
The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Executive Director) announced the return of the popular Public Forum series with "Your Foreman Fix: An Evening With Richard Foreman" on Wednesday, January 19 at 7 p.m. at Joe's Pub.
Thousands of people have already been entertained by the OBIE-winning, music-theatre hit Three Pianos (New York Theatre Workshop), the COIL 2011 (Performance Space 122) and the Under the Radar Festival (from The Public Theater, performed at, among other spaces, La Mama E.T.C. and Dixon Place). This weekend, all three will give their last performances.
Thousands of people have already been entertained by the OBIE-winning, music-theatre hit Three Pianos (New York Theatre Workshop), the COIL 2011 (Performance Space 122) and the Under the Radar Festival (from The Public Theater, performed at, among other spaces, La Mama E.T.C. and Dixon Place). This weekend, all three will give their last performances.
In 2010, Time Out New York celebrated The Brick as Essential New York! 'For the nerds, outcasts and mad experimenters of theater. That includes both creators and spectators.' From January to July of 2011, The Brick is making good on this claim by presenting a series of productions and festivals that display the range and boldness of its many artists - whether they be returning favorites or brand new faces!
The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Executive Director) announced the return of the popular Public Forum series with "Your Foreman Fix: An Evening With Richard Foreman" on Wednesday, January 19 at 7 p.m. at Joe's Pub.
Emancipatory Politics: A Romantic Tragedy flings a large ensemble into a traumatic struggle to create an opening for sprawling thought and intimate embraces. Committed to the comedy of desire, the physicality of loss, and the potential for new spaces, this total-theater, contemporary ecstasy rejects the notion that ours is a post-ideological/post-historical age devoid of generative aesthetic vision and expansive social purpose; confronts the cruel ironies and certain failures of this world; and searches for the inextinguishable kernel of the radical-possible.
Playwright Young Jean Lee is earning attention for her new song, 'I'll Be Spending Christmas Alone,' which was recorded with frequent collaborators Future Wife. Lee plans to bring this song and many moore to a new one-woman show at Joe's Pub sometime in spring of 2011. Some lyrics from the new song are below:
Emancipatory Politics: A Romantic Tragedy flings a large ensemble into a traumatic struggle to create an opening for sprawling thought and intimate embraces. Committed to the comedy of desire, the physicality of loss, and the potential for new spaces, this total-theater, contemporary ecstasy rejects the notion that ours is a post-ideological/post-historical age devoid of generative aesthetic vision and expansive social purpose; confronts the cruel ironies and certain failures of this world; and searches for the inextinguishable kernel of the radical-possible.
As part of its 2010-11 mainstage season, HERE proudly presents Soul Leaves Her Body, by filmmaker and video artist Peter Flaherty and dance theater artist Jennie MaryTai Liu.
WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin recently announced that Amy Corcoran will direct the Company's production of the award-winning Annie Baker play, Circle Mirror Transformation. The comedy runs November 4-21, 2010 in the Studio Theatre at the Addison Theatre Centre. WaterTower Theatre will celebrate its 15th anniversary with its 2010-2011 season.
Emancipatory Politics: A Romantic Tragedy flings a large ensemble into a traumatic struggle to create an opening for sprawling thought and intimate embraces. Committed to the comedy of desire, the physicality of loss, and the potential for new spaces, this total-theater, contemporary ecstasy rejects the notion that ours is a post-ideological/post-historical age devoid of generative aesthetic vision and expansive social purpose; confronts the cruel ironies and certain failures of this world; and searches for the inextinguishable kernel of the radical-possible.
WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin today announced casting details for Circle Mirror Transformation which will be performed in the Studio Theatre, November 4 - 21, 2010. The cast features Lynn Blackburn as Theresa, Kayla Carlyle as Lauren, Lisa Hassler as Marty, Bill Jenkins as James and Ted Wold as Schultz.