Saturdays & Sundays @ 11AMThe Metropolitan Playhouse
Jan 12- Feb 12, Wed-Sun 1pm-7:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C.In Farmiga’s exhibition “versus.” she will be presenting a group of new works ranging in media, that function in a series of comparative relationships. Using the structural framework of the preposition “versus”, Farmiga posits observations within the full range of this analogous scenario – from the personal and geographical, to the art historical and ideological.
Saturday @ 7PM & 9PM, Sunday @ 2PM & 5:30PM9th SpaceMo[u]rnin'. After. is the mythic autobiography for the queer prodigal son. Dream ballets included. Written and Performed by Brigham Mosley. Directed by Laura Hix. Lighting Design by Lois Catanzaro. Tickets: $10.
Tuesday-Saturday @ 7:30PMCOIL FestivalNewyorkland combines popular cop movies and TV police procedurals with first-person accounts from real-life police officers. Acclaimed director Kenneth Collins and prominent video artist William Cusick merge visual and performance art, documentary realism, cinéma vérité, and pure fiction as they follow four police officers. Tickets: $20 general, $15 seniors & students with valid ID.
Jan 20-Feb 5, Wed-Sat @ 7:30pm, Sun @ 2:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C.John Jesurun’s Stopped Bridge of Dreams unfolds inside an anonymous globe-circulating jetliner- a modern age pleasure palace operated by a mother and son. Inspired by 17th Century Japanese writer, Saikaku Ihara’s “floating world” stories Stopped Bridge of Dreams features a variable nightly series of revolving playlets and characters. Jesurun weaves text, video, music & live internet feeds to reflect the anxiety of spiritual and sexual dislocation of contemporary life.
Saturday Feb 4, 2012 @ 7:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C.By Keith Josef Adkins 1843. Kentucky. A free family of color risk everything to help a slave escape to Liberia. The consequences? Their freedom and their lives. Directed by Jasper McGruder.
Tuesday-Saturday @ 8PMCOIL FestivalMission Drift is a pioneering journey west through time and space in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism. In this critically acclaimed contemporary musical, seductive storyteller Miss Atomic interweaves the epic saga of two immortal Dutch teens with an intimate portrait of a cocktail waitress and a cowboy. Tickets: $25 general, $20 seniors & students with valid ID.
Wednesday-Saturday @8PMThe Living TheatreThe Living Theatre presents The History of the World, an interactive play written and directed by Judith Malina. Tickets: $20.
Saturday @ 9:30PMDixon PlaceCreated & Performed by Janet Werther. Janet exposes the mythology of finding one's "true" gay family upon coming out, explores multiple facets of the mother-daughter experience, and hypothesizes that the real problem is that nobody truly values femininity. Tickets: $15 general, $10 seniors & students with valid ID.
Feb 2-12, Thurs-Sat @ 10pm, Sun @ 5:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C.Presented in Association with the Performing Arts Students, Pace University, NYC In honor of La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary, Pace University’s Performing Arts celebrate La MaMa’s “Homecomings” season with a tribute to three playwrights who called La MaMa their early home: Maria Irene Fornes, Sam Shepard & Lanford Wilson. These three one-acts are meant to continue Ellen Stewart’s legacy of “Welcome to La MaMa, dedicated to the playwright and all aspects of the theatre.”
Sat Feb 4, 2012 @ 10:00pmWOW Cafe TheaterYou may ask why are we doing Valentine's show 10 days early? Well.... we think you need a test run - make sure it will work, take the pressure off, warm up ahead of the time or just enjoy some Passion and sexiness. Host JZ Bich is accompanied by Essence Revealed as her co-host. With lovely performers: Clams Casino, Deity, Ginger Brown, Apathy Angel, Luvely Rae and Miss China Doll!
Sunday Feb 5, 2012 @ 2:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C.By Melody Cooper. An African-American general’s niece is getting married but the military wedding is disrupted by the ghosts of Rwanda. Directed by Melissa Maxwell.
Sunday Feb 5, 2012 @ 7:30pmLa MaMa E.T.C.By Henry Meyerson. Jump Jim Crow may have started as an innocent shuffle dance in the vaudeville houses of mid-19th century New York, but this dance became the rationalization for Jim Crow laws throughout the United States. Directed by George Ferencz.
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