The Concept - 1986 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 20

Director Eric Schaeffer's restaging is first major American production in 20 years.

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.'

In the spring of 1939, two musical adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 music theater masterpiece "The Mikado" opened on Broadway. One, which had originated in Chicago, was called "The Swing Mikado." The other, which producer Mike Todd created when he was prevented from producing "The Swing Mikado" himself, was called "The Hot Mikado."

Japan's foremost Butoh dance company, Sankai Juku, will make its Joyce Theater debut, during a two-week engagement from October 5 - 17, with the North American Premiere of Tobari - As if in an Inexhaustible Flux, an evening-length work by Artistic Director Ushio Amagatsu.

Highline Ballroom is located at 431 West 16th Street between 9th Avenue and 10th Avenue. - Tickets may be purchased through Ticketweb, online at ticketweb.com or at the Highline Box Office from noon until doors close at 866-468-7619.