Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.

9pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's

Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.

Wednesday, December 02 at 8:00pm
DMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts center
Join us in choosing which films will be screened at the next NYC Downtown Short Film Festival in April 2010. We screen them...you vote...the top vote getters are screened at the Festival. A fun evening out for $10.

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come to FAB Central every Thursday & Friday to get discount and 2for1 ticket deals to the hottest shows in the Lower East Side!  Each week, we sell rush tickets to multiple shows from theaters including Performance Space 122, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Neo-Futurists and Horse Trade Theater Company.  Check out our website for each week's updates and be sure to get in line before we sell out!

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

Thursday, December 03 at 8:00pm
DMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts center
Join us in choosing which films will be screened at the next NYC Downtown Short Film Festival in April 2010. We screen them...you vote...the top vote getters are screened at the Festival. A fun evening out for $10.

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come to FAB Central every Thursday & Friday to get discount and 2for1 ticket deals to the hottest shows in the Lower East Side!  Each week, we sell rush tickets to multiple shows from theaters including Performance Space 122, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Neo-Futurists and Horse Trade Theater Company.  Check out our website for each week's updates and be sure to get in line before we sell out!

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

Friday, December 04 at 8:00pm
DMAC-Duo Multicultural Arts center
Join us in choosing which films will be screened at the next NYC Downtown Short Film Festival in April 2010. We screen them...you vote...the top vote getters are screened at the Festival. A fun evening out for $10.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

8:00PM door, 9:00PM show
WOW Café Theater
Rivers of Honey is a cabaret featuring women and trans artists of color the first Friday of every month.
$10 suggested, but no one turned away for lack of funds.

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Now playing 50 weeks a year.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Saturday and Sunday Mornings at 11 am
Metropolitan Playhouse and Freestyle Repertory
For Children and their Families:  You write the plot, you make the scene, you play the heor on a daring journey to free a magical land from a wicked ruler.  An improvised, interactive adventure for heroes of all ages.

Saturday, December 5 & Sunday, December 6 1-7PM
Open Shoppe
Open Shoppe will throw a Winter Art Party and Exhibition presenting work from six visual artists who work in many styles and media: Amir Bey, Alan Bolle, Dingda McCannon, Mitsuyo Mori, Barbara Sfraga and Karen Tweedy-Holmes. There will also be CDs, poetry and art books, of some of the newest sounds and innovative thoughts around the town!

Every Saturday at 2:00pm
Lower East Side History Project
Trace the steps of criminal heavyweights like Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone on this popular and exciting walking tour. Explore turn of the century crime, the Jewish and Italian mob, the Prohibition wars, and the birth of organized crime.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

3:00PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
From the critically-acclaimed, award-winning performance group, that brought you KING KONG, WAR OF THE WORLDS, DRACULA, THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE TIME MACHINE and more, now comes Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, FRANKENSTEIN, adapted for the stage with a great cast of story tellers, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects!   All that is required is your imagination!

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

9:30pm, 10pm
HyperGender Burlesque for WOW Cafe Theatre
Somewhere between Thanksgiving and New Year's catch HyperGender's "Gluttony", celebration of excess and rampant commercialism.

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Now playing 50 weeks a year.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Saturday and Sunday Mornings at 11 am
Metropolitan Playhouse and Freestyle Repertory
For Children and their Families:  You write the plot, you make the scene, you play the heor on a daring journey to free a magical land from a wicked ruler.  An improvised, interactive adventure for heroes of all ages.

Saturday, December 5 & Sunday, December 6 1-7PM
Open Shoppe
Open Shoppe will throw a Winter Art Party and Exhibition presenting work from six visual artists who work in many styles and media: Amir Bey, Alan Bolle, Dingda McCannon, Mitsuyo Mori, Barbara Sfraga and Karen Tweedy-Holmes. There will also be CDs, poetry and art books, of some of the newest sounds and innovative thoughts around the town!

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

7:00PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Sip on free beer and witness art-in-progress as The Drafts Ensemble presents a new play, Suzanne Dottino's wry dark comedy "An Absolutely Perfect Life". An Absolutely Perfect Life: A trio of one-act plays on marriage, children, and what lays underneath a façade of normalcy. Leaping from satire to drama to downright farce, An Absolutely Perfect Life explores American ideals with light tongue and a dark bite. Celebrate when the curtain goes down with a fundraising party for FRIGID...

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

9pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's

Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Wednesday, December 09 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center
Join us for 4 new commissions 4 premieres.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come to FAB Central every Thursday & Friday to get discount and 2for1 ticket deals to the hottest shows in the Lower East Side!  Each week, we sell rush tickets to multiple shows from theaters including Performance Space 122, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Neo-Futurists and Horse Trade Theater Company.  Check out our website for each week's updates and be sure to get in line before we sell out!

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects presents the N.Y. premiere of Diagnosis of a Faun, inspired by the classic ballet Afternoon of a Faun.

Thursday, December 10 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center
Join us for 4 new commissions 4 premieres.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come to FAB Central every Thursday & Friday to get discount and 2for1 ticket deals to the hottest shows in the Lower East Side!  Each week, we sell rush tickets to multiple shows from theaters including Performance Space 122, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Neo-Futurists and Horse Trade Theater Company.  Check out our website for each week's updates and be sure to get in line before we sell out!

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects presents the N.Y. premiere of Diagnosis of a Faun, inspired by the classic ballet Afternoon of a Faun.

Friday, December 11 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center
Join us for 4 new commissions 4 premieres.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Now playing 50 weeks a year.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Saturday and Sunday Mornings at 11 am
Metropolitan Playhouse and Freestyle Repertory
For Children and their Families:  You write the plot, you make the scene, you play the heor on a daring journey to free a magical land from a wicked ruler.  An improvised, interactive adventure for heroes of all ages.

Every Saturday at 2:00pm
Lower East Side History Project
Trace the steps of criminal heavyweights like Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone on this popular and exciting walking tour. Explore turn of the century crime, the Jewish and Italian mob, the Prohibition wars, and the birth of organized crime.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

3:00PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
From the critically-acclaimed, award-winning performance group, that brought you KING KONG, WAR OF THE WORLDS, DRACULA, THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE TIME MACHINE and more, now comes Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, FRANKENSTEIN, adapted for the stage with a great cast of story tellers, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects!   All that is required is your imagination!

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects presents the N.Y. premiere of Diagnosis of a Faun, inspired by the classic ballet Afternoon of a Faun.

Saturday, December 12 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center
Join us for 4 new commissions 4 premieres.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Wed, Thur, Sat, & Sun at 8:30PM, Fri 7:30PM & 10:00PM
13 Playwrights, Inc
Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning. Or somewhere else.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Now playing 50 weeks a year.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Saturday and Sunday Mornings at 11 am
Metropolitan Playhouse and Freestyle Repertory
For Children and their Families:  You write the plot, you make the scene, you play the heor on a daring journey to free a magical land from a wicked ruler.  An improvised, interactive adventure for heroes of all ages.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects presents the N.Y. premiere of Diagnosis of a Faun, inspired by the classic ballet Afternoon of a Faun.

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

9pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Sketch Comedy meets a Block Party. This monthly show features a guest host comedian, three guest sketch troupes and drinking. Sunday Nights are Back!

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Doors open 6:30PM
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center 62 East 4th Street
Join us for a holiday cocktail party at DUO Multi-Cultural Arts Center. Start on the ground floor, with cocktails and an open rehearsal with Rod Rodgers Dance Company. Then move upstairs for dance theater works by Sidra Bell Dance Company, selections from "Blonde All Over", performance artist Edward Vilga, and films from the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival. Open bar sponsored by Hornitos tequila & tasty hors d'oeuvres all evening long, plus a goodie bag for those of you who have b...

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

9pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's

Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come to FAB Central every Thursday & Friday to get discount and 2for1 ticket deals to the hottest shows in the Lower East Side!  Each week, we sell rush tickets to multiple shows from theaters including Performance Space 122, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Neo-Futurists and Horse Trade Theater Company.  Check out our website for each week's updates and be sure to get in line before we sell out!

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects presents the N.Y. premiere of Diagnosis of a Faun, inspired by the classic ballet Afternoon of a Faun.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Every Thursday & Friday, 1-6PM
Fourth Arts Block
Come to FAB Central every Thursday & Friday to get discount and 2for1 ticket deals to the hottest shows in the Lower East Side!  Each week, we sell rush tickets to multiple shows from theaters including Performance Space 122, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Neo-Futurists and Horse Trade Theater Company.  Check out our website for each week's updates and be sure to get in line before we sell out!

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects presents the N.Y. premiere of Diagnosis of a Faun, inspired by the classic ballet Afternoon of a Faun.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Dec. 18(Fri) & 19(Sat) @ 8pm; 20(Sun) @3pm
Teatro IATI
The Silver Spirit: Music, Poetry, Chocolate & Champagne
Imagine yourself sitting at a table with chocolates & champagne while enjoying songs by two sopranos, music by a world renowned classic guitarist, poems and stand-up comedy. This's what The Silver Sprit brings to IATI these Holidays.

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Now playing 50 weeks a year.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Every Saturday at 2:00pm
Lower East Side History Project
Trace the steps of criminal heavyweights like Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone on this popular and exciting walking tour. Explore turn of the century crime, the Jewish and Italian mob, the Prohibition wars, and the birth of organized crime.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

3:00PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
From the critically-acclaimed, award-winning performance group, that brought you KING KONG, WAR OF THE WORLDS, DRACULA, THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE TIME MACHINE and more, now comes Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, FRANKENSTEIN, adapted for the stage with a great cast of story tellers, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects!   All that is required is your imagination!

Saturdays at 3pm, Sundays at 7pm
Bleecker Street Opera
Bleecker Street Opera’s second production of their acclaimed inaugural season opens on December 20th with Rossini’s knock-out comedy The Barber of Seville. Conductor David Rosenmeyer and Director Vincent Titone lead the brilliant cast and orchestra in this popular and delightful opera. The clever Figaro helps the Count Almaviva disguise himself in order to win the love of the beautiful Rosina and to rescue her from her awful guardian Dr. Bartolo. Full of plot twists and witty repa...

Saturday, December 19 at 4:00PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Part poetry slam, part theater! Come back to the roots of hip-hop where words, music, sound and fury work towards social change. Five poets, an MC and a DJ keep the audience jamming to poetic riffs of living in one's own skin. Using slam poetry, candid interactions and researched material, In the Cypher questions whether truth and identity are more than skin deep.

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects presents the N.Y. premiere of Diagnosis of a Faun, inspired by the classic ballet Afternoon of a Faun.

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Dec. 18(Fri) & 19(Sat) @ 8pm; 20(Sun) @3pm
Teatro IATI
The Silver Spirit: Music, Poetry, Chocolate & Champagne
Imagine yourself sitting at a table with chocolates & champagne while enjoying songs by two sopranos, music by a world renowned classic guitarist, poems and stand-up comedy. This's what The Silver Sprit brings to IATI these Holidays.

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm
Metropolitan Playhouse
A valian heroine, a dastardly villain, and a good man tied to the railroad tracks. The 1867 melodrama that defined the genre.  "A holiday gift for New York" - Backstage

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

Every Friday and Saturday at 10:30PM
New York Neo-Futurists
With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light... is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen and the Neo-Futurists. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. Now playing 50 weeks a year.

December 9-19, Thursday-Saturday, 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
Santa’s reindeer gather at their private North Pole watering hole, and as the booze flows, the scandal grows. Alternately hilarious & disturbing, nothing is held sacred as the reindeer expose all of Santa’s (& their own) indiscretions. Screaming, crying and WAY too much eggnog... isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

Wed thru Sat at 8PM & Sun at 2PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The government is bailing out theater. But, if you want a slice of Uncle Sam’s pie you have to make a musical! Can a group of indie artists receive the funding? Watch this absurd comedy about how far people are willing to go to cash in on the opportunity of a lifetime.

Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects presents the N.Y. premiere of Diagnosis of a Faun, inspired by the classic ballet Afternoon of a Faun.

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

3:00 pm Festivities; 3:30 Reading Begins
Metropolitan Playhouse
An annual tradition:  a free-for-all, unstaged reading of the sentimental holiday favorite: It's A Wonderful Life. Mary! George! Mr. Potter!  YOU!

Wed thru Sat at 7:30PM & Sun at 5:30PM
Performance Space 122
Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and also underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.) Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling perfo...

Thurs thru Sat at 6PM & Sun at 6PM
Performance Space 122
Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl flip P.S. 122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you've imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Em...

Tues 7PM, Wed-Fri 8PM, Sat 3PM & 8PM, Sun 2PM & 7PM
New York Theatre Workshop
Heart is a Lonely Hunter follows the story of a deaf man, John Singer, as he navigates the world without his dearest friend who has been committed to an insane asylum. When Singer moves to a small Southern town, the locals flock to him as a newfound confidant, seeking compassion and understanding from the one person who needs it the most.

Saturdays at 3pm, Sundays at 7pm
Bleecker Street Opera
Bleecker Street Opera’s second production of their acclaimed inaugural season opens on December 20th with Rossini’s knock-out comedy The Barber of Seville. Conductor David Rosenmeyer and Director Vincent Titone lead the brilliant cast and orchestra in this popular and delightful opera. The clever Figaro helps the Count Almaviva disguise himself in order to win the love of the beautiful Rosina and to rescue her from her awful guardian Dr. Bartolo. Full of plot twists and witty repa...

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Dec. 18(Fri) & 19(Sat) @ 8pm; 20(Sun) @3pm
Teatro IATI
The Silver Spirit: Music, Poetry, Chocolate & Champagne
Imagine yourself sitting at a table with chocolates & champagne while enjoying songs by two sopranos, music by a world renowned classic guitarist, poems and stand-up comedy. This's what The Silver Sprit brings to IATI these Holidays.

7pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's


TOLD is a FREE monthly storytelling show, presented by Horse Trade Theatre Group and hosted by Seth Lind. Each month New York's best performers take the stage to tell true stories related to a central theme. A special guest provides interludes to glue the evening together into a collective experience.

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

9pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's

Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.

December 10-23
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Kraine
Famous the world over, the often bizarre and ultimately heart-warming story of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the others needs no detailing here. Mr. Horovitz's adaptation follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strength its timeless virtues.

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.

Every Saturday at 2:00pm
Lower East Side History Project
Trace the steps of criminal heavyweights like Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone on this popular and exciting walking tour. Explore turn of the century crime, the Jewish and Italian mob, the Prohibition wars, and the birth of organized crime.

Saturdays at 3pm, Sundays at 7pm
Bleecker Street Opera
Bleecker Street Opera’s second production of their acclaimed inaugural season opens on December 20th with Rossini’s knock-out comedy The Barber of Seville. Conductor David Rosenmeyer and Director Vincent Titone lead the brilliant cast and orchestra in this popular and delightful opera. The clever Figaro helps the Count Almaviva disguise himself in order to win the love of the beautiful Rosina and to rescue her from her awful guardian Dr. Bartolo. Full of plot twists and witty repa...

Saturday, December 26 from 7PM-2AM
Teatro I.A.T.I.
During the holidays people vacate the city, and calm descends over New York, as the crowds disperse and NYC 's usual crazed frenzy dies down. I will have a 7 hour Drawathon Extravaganza the day after X-mas: a gathering, a 7 hour nonstop art-making happening for those who remain in NYC for the holidays.

2pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Celebrate the Master Of The Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe's Bicentennial with the critically acclaimed, award winning Radiotheatre in a unique event as they perform live, on stage, a year-long presentation of seventeen major works by the grand master of American horror.

Saturdays at 3pm, Sundays at 7pm
Bleecker Street Opera
Bleecker Street Opera’s second production of their acclaimed inaugural season opens on December 20th with Rossini’s knock-out comedy The Barber of Seville. Conductor David Rosenmeyer and Director Vincent Titone lead the brilliant cast and orchestra in this popular and delightful opera. The clever Figaro helps the Count Almaviva disguise himself in order to win the love of the beautiful Rosina and to rescue her from her awful guardian Dr. Bartolo. Full of plot twists and witty repa...

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.

9pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's

Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.

Wed thru Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:30pm & 7:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C. -
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is a modern interpretation of the classic American short story The Devil and Daniel Webster about a poor farmer who sells his soul in exchange for financial prosperity. Using marionette and bunraku-style puppetry, revolving puppet stages, recorded dialogue and original music and multi-media projections, Ping Chong, Erik Sanko and Jessica Grindstaff will transform this Faustian tale into a hilarious and haunting mediation on lost souls, fool’s gold and democracy’s...

Third Wednesday every month at 10pm
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Revealed is a cutting-edge burlesque show. This unique and extra-sultry night of cabaret features the sexiest, most notorious burlesque performers in New York giving you more bang for your buck than any other show in town. Born in Brooklyn, Revealed is all grown up and moving to the big city, brought to you by GiGi La Femme and Doc Wasabassco.

Tues & Thurs, 6-8pm; 11/17/09 - 02/18/10
Teatro IATI
This workshop aims to prepare participants in the first guidelines to acting, giving them the tools needed for a on-stage natural development, which include working or training the actor’s body and psychology.

This workshop will be instructed in Spanish.