Thurs-Sun 1-6PM
La MaMa - La Galleria
The exhibition will include pieces from David's most notable Jazz Loft period, as well as a range of works and artifacts demonstrating his diversity as an artist. The largest portion of the exhibition however, will focus on some of David's most passionate material, his work inspired by Haiti.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

8PM Week-days & Saturday 3PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Clones, robots and teenage time travelers search for connection at a dance party aboard a satellite. So what if its purpose is to celebrate an exploding star? For the kids in this "sci-fi dance party spectacle" this is going to be the best night ever.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

7:30PM/Sun.2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Kinding Sindawin in a new dance theater about a woman from the southern Philippines, working as a caregiver in New York, rekindles her strength of spirit through the folklore and lifecycle rituals of the Yakan people of Basilan Island. Tales of her ancestors, stories of the sea, dazzling dreams of dragons that swallow the moon and magical struggles for the earth and sky at once sustain her and make her nostalgic for her village and home.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
Based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, the play exposes the tragic consequences of ruthless power struggles. A martial arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. A story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.

Saturday, April 24th-Sunday, May 9th
Performance Space 122
Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense. He collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Saturday, May 01 at 8:00pm
By & By Productions
As Max prepares to leave the childhood home he shares with his sister Emily, she tries convincing him that leaving won’t eliminate his problems.  Addiction. Infidelity. Divorce.  When we move to a new home, can we leave behind our issues or do they inadvertently get packed with the china?

Saturday, May 01 at 8:00pm
DMAC - 62 East 4th Street East Vllage, USA
Join us for our biggest festival yet. No matter how sophisticated your home cinema is there is nothing else that rivals getting together with a group of strangers in a darkened space to experience the magic of film making. No red carpets...no celebrity judges...just great films.

Saturday, May 01 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center

8 PM Thur. - Sat. 7PM Sun.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB’S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B.  Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux’s planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

8 PM
Dixon Place
Asylum is the darkly comic true story of a high school pothead who checks himself in to the only place he can’t get high: a psychiatric hospital. Only to make the disturbing discovery that some of the patients are actually crazy and some of the counselors nuts--but they’re all more sane than his family. &nbs...

Thurs-Sat 8PM Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
The separate journeys of two young women from village and nomadic traditional life into the city become epic descents into the Great Below where songs, skills and languages disappear leaving only mute markers like the Scythian Stones found throughout the grasslands of Ukraine and Central Asia. The production will feature traditional music, modern design and movement.

Thurs-Sat 8PM; Sun 3PM
Teatro Circulo
Zig thought he could talk his way out of anything. That is, until he met Rose. Now he finds himself locked away, playing a very dangerous game. Welcome to The Tender Mercies, where the only difference between wordplay and a war game is a weapon.

Saturday, May 01 at 9:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center

Fri&Sat 10PM Sun5:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Two inter-related tales. The first half follows a day in the life of Mitch and Chester, a committed couple in a long time relationship. It is a boy-meets-boy story of promiscuity, first dates, self-imposed celibacy, and true love. The second half takes place on Mother’s Day, as Mitch help his mom with her garden. She recounts the story of how she discovered her breast cancer, the doctor who saved her life, and how her illness has re-affirmed her faith.

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Door opens at 9:30pm, show at 10pm
HyperGender Burlesque for WOW Cafe Theater
Celebrate May 1st - international workers day - because in the end all of us are paying for Empire to run!

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.

Saturday, April 24th-Sunday, May 9th
Performance Space 122
Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense. He collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

Thurs-Sun 1-6PM
La MaMa - La Galleria
The exhibition will include pieces from David's most notable Jazz Loft period, as well as a range of works and artifacts demonstrating his diversity as an artist. The largest portion of the exhibition however, will focus on some of David's most passionate material, his work inspired by Haiti.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

7:30PM/Sun.2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Kinding Sindawin in a new dance theater about a woman from the southern Philippines, working as a caregiver in New York, rekindles her strength of spirit through the folklore and lifecycle rituals of the Yakan people of Basilan Island. Tales of her ancestors, stories of the sea, dazzling dreams of dragons that swallow the moon and magical struggles for the earth and sky at once sustain her and make her nostalgic for her village and home.

Thurs-Sat 8PM Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
The separate journeys of two young women from village and nomadic traditional life into the city become epic descents into the Great Below where songs, skills and languages disappear leaving only mute markers like the Scythian Stones found throughout the grasslands of Ukraine and Central Asia. The production will feature traditional music, modern design and movement.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
Based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, the play exposes the tragic consequences of ruthless power struggles. A martial arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. A story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

5-8pm
WOW Cafe Theater
Come and meet and greet the artists, mingle with WOW members, share memories and eat some good food. 
Note: the event is free but food is not provided, we encourage RSVPs to assure the best experience.

Fri&Sat 10PM Sun5:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Two inter-related tales. The first half follows a day in the life of Mitch and Chester, a committed couple in a long time relationship. It is a boy-meets-boy story of promiscuity, first dates, self-imposed celibacy, and true love. The second half takes place on Mother’s Day, as Mitch help his mom with her garden. She recounts the story of how she discovered her breast cancer, the doctor who saved her life, and how her illness has re-affirmed her faith.

Saturday, April 24th-Sunday, May 9th
Performance Space 122
Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense. He collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

Sunday, May 02 at 8:00pm
DMAC - 62 East 4th Street East Vllage, USA
Join us for our biggest festival yet. No matter how sophisticated your home cinema is there is nothing else that rivals getting together with a group of strangers in a darkened space to experience the magic of film making. No red carpets...no celebrity judges...just great films.

Sunday, May 02 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center

8 PM Thur. - Sat. 7PM Sun.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB’S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B.  Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux’s planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

Sunday, May 02 at 9:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

Every Monday 7:30PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
A multimedia performance that captures significant moments in the lives of three gay American men from different eras and cities. Bob is a carefree soul who lives in 1970s San Francisco and finds sex and love closely intertwined. Patrick, a gay Republican, tries to survive 1980s New York City but finds hi...

May 3rd & 17th 8:15PM
Dixon Place
Reno, long bullish (in the sense of "...in a China Shop"), has Wall Street in her bullseye lately, bringing a Finance Professional onstage with her each night, just to make sure. In past shows, Reno has hosted several Nobel Economists as well as a form...

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

Every Tuesday @ 9PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Penny’s Open Mic invites you and any artist  to workshop, experiment and share their work 7 minutes. The audience is here to listen and support, there is a back garden, a bar and a room for the performers to prepare. With the help of the many talented artists, Penny's Open Mic has become an inspiring atmosphere where people feel free and safe to grow as artists and as people.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

May 5, 7, 12, 15 at 7PM May 8 at 2PM
Performance Space 122
Arrested and locked up for writing hot checks, a ten-year-old Texan girl loses her way in a reality where even the adults themselves are lost. Merging childhood stories with searing songs of fear and juvenile justice.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

7:30PM
Dixon Place
Circuit Bending is one of the most popular musical trends in the DIY arts and science world. It involves modifying the circuitry of electronic toys and homemade gadgets to create new sounds and effects. Participants experiment with the hidden technology in childhood playthings and show the crowd how they re-wired the device to make an entirely new musical instrument. Discussions, demonstrations, and lots of fun ensue as the science and tech geeks take over Dixon Place for the night.

Saturday, April 24th-Sunday, May 9th
Performance Space 122
Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense. He collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

Previews April 22,23 & 24 @8PM April 28th- August 25th every Wednesday @8PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
After a dinner party goes wrong and their guest ends up unexpectedly slain after a violent political debate, a group of liberal minded roommates decides that this can be their way of changing the world and making a difference. They begin inviting guests over for dinner and political discussion. With each dinner, the roommate’s relationships to one another and reality quickly begin to unravel. 

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

7:45 to sign up for open mic, 8pm show
WOW Cafe Theater
An evening of fun and laughter featuring Micia Mosely and some of her favorite artists. We'll laugh, sing and dance until it hurts.  Do you have something funny to share? Come at 7:45 to sign up for the Community Open mic!

9:15 PM (May 8 @ 4:15 PM)
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Violent. Tender. Erotic. Submissive. Abandoned. The worlds of pop music, myth and video collide in Jesse Zaritt's movement-based quest for love, connection and the self. Part of soloNOVA Arts Festival

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!

Thurs-Sun 1-6PM
La MaMa - La Galleria
The exhibition will include pieces from David's most notable Jazz Loft period, as well as a range of works and artifacts demonstrating his diversity as an artist. The largest portion of the exhibition however, will focus on some of David's most passionate material, his work inspired by Haiti.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

Thursday, May 6 6PM
Lower East Side History Project
Join us for a Free ! showing of the classic 1959 film Pull My Daisy (29min, Dir: Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie) Featuring: Allan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Delphine Seyrig, Peter Orlovsky, Pablo Frank, Mooney Peebles, Alice Neal, Sally Gross.  Stay after the film for a discussion with LESHP's Cary Abrams. 

Thursday, May 06 at 6:00pm
Millennium Film Workshop
Millennium presents the Opening Reception for Richard Sandler's still photography exhibit, THE FORMER NEW YORK: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1980's. Sandler's East Village documentary, BRAVE NEW YORK (2004, 55mins) will be screened at 8pm. Refreshments will be served. This event is free.

6:00PM FREE
East Village History Project
Join us this evening for a showing of the classic 1959 film: Pull My Daisy. Directed by: Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie. Featuring: Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Mooney Peebles. Written and narrated by: Jack Kerouac. Runtime: 29min

7PM (May 15 @2PM)
Performance Space 122
For 45 years, Daniel Berkey suffered the ravages of schizophrenia with attendant addictions to sex, heroin and alcohol. At the age of 51, he experienced complete remission. This is his story. Part of soloNova Arts Festival

7-10PM
Creative Time
A short video working within Nigeria's thriving film industry, known as Nollywood. Inspired by the democratized, DIY approach to cinema, director Boeskov traveled to Lagos, Nigeria and collaborated with Nollywood film director Teco Benson to create the short, art-action video Dr. Cruel and the Afro-Icelandic Liberation Front. The video collaboration is both manic and subtly rich, commenting on urgent political questions in an atmosphere of mayhem. Make sure to RSVP

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Set in the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003. “Five Days in March” presents the lives of hipsters obsessing over the details of their lives. The police escort’s uniforms elicit more comment than the war itself. The show perfectly captures the irony and impotency of Generation Y in Japan today.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
The show is set in the last year of Einstein's life as he looks back at himself as a young man during the period of his greatest creativity. Between consciousness and dreams, Einstein watches himself and his first wife Mileva Maric. This blend of theater, live music, real-time video, masks and puppets creates a shifting reality in which Einstein questions perceptions, existence, and possibility for survival.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
Based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, the play exposes the tragic consequences of ruthless power struggles. A martial arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. A story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.

Saturday, April 24th-Sunday, May 9th
Performance Space 122
Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense. He collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

8 PM Thur. - Sat. 7PM Sun.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB’S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B.  Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux’s planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

8PM Week-days & Saturday 3PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Clones, robots and teenage time travelers search for connection at a dance party aboard a satellite. So what if its purpose is to celebrate an exploding star? For the kids in this "sci-fi dance party spectacle" this is going to be the best night ever.

Thurs-Sat: 8PM Sun: 3PM
Theater for the New City
"Generation (bu)Y" explains our slavery to marketing from the mouths of babes. The play will be performed by an ensemble of 18 young actors (aged 11 to 13) plus 3 adult actors. The intent of the production is to raise awareness of the effects marketing and advertising upon children. "Generation (bu)Y" examines strategies used by marketers such as the belittlement of parents and adults and the exploitation of child needs of acceptance by peers.

Thurs-Sat 8pm; Sun 3PM
Alan Kitty
"The most outstanding qualification I can offer the voter took a lifetime - and a little more - to achieve. I am finally morally perfect and ready to lead. I am dead." Mark Twain has a solution to the financial crisis, and he's running for President in 2012.

9PM (May 15 @ 4PM)
Performance Space 122
Daniel MacIvor's celebrated chiller returns to the NY stage with Avery Pearson stepping into the skin of 16 characters. Peeling back psychological layers to reveal the heart of an individual experience, Monster dissects the true nature of evil.

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!

Thurs-Sun 1-6PM
La MaMa - La Galleria
The exhibition will include pieces from David's most notable Jazz Loft period, as well as a range of works and artifacts demonstrating his diversity as an artist. The largest portion of the exhibition however, will focus on some of David's most passionate material, his work inspired by Haiti.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

May 5, 7, 12, 15 at 7PM May 8 at 2PM
Performance Space 122
Arrested and locked up for writing hot checks, a ten-year-old Texan girl loses her way in a reality where even the adults themselves are lost. Merging childhood stories with searing songs of fear and juvenile justice.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Set in the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003. “Five Days in March” presents the lives of hipsters obsessing over the details of their lives. The police escort’s uniforms elicit more comment than the war itself. The show perfectly captures the irony and impotency of Generation Y in Japan today.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
The show is set in the last year of Einstein's life as he looks back at himself as a young man during the period of his greatest creativity. Between consciousness and dreams, Einstein watches himself and his first wife Mileva Maric. This blend of theater, live music, real-time video, masks and puppets creates a shifting reality in which Einstein questions perceptions, existence, and possibility for survival.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
Based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, the play exposes the tragic consequences of ruthless power struggles. A martial arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. A story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.

Saturday, April 24th-Sunday, May 9th
Performance Space 122
Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense. He collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

8 PM Thur. - Sat. 7PM Sun.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB’S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B.  Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux’s planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

8 PM
Dixon Place
Asylum is the darkly comic true story of a high school pothead who checks himself in to the only place he can’t get high: a psychiatric hospital. Only to make the disturbing discovery that some of the patients are actually crazy and some of the counselors nuts--but they’re all more sane than his family. &nbs...

8PM Week-days & Saturday 3PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Clones, robots and teenage time travelers search for connection at a dance party aboard a satellite. So what if its purpose is to celebrate an exploding star? For the kids in this "sci-fi dance party spectacle" this is going to be the best night ever.

Thurs-Sat: 8PM Sun: 3PM
Theater for the New City
"Generation (bu)Y" explains our slavery to marketing from the mouths of babes. The play will be performed by an ensemble of 18 young actors (aged 11 to 13) plus 3 adult actors. The intent of the production is to raise awareness of the effects marketing and advertising upon children. "Generation (bu)Y" examines strategies used by marketers such as the belittlement of parents and adults and the exploitation of child needs of acceptance by peers.

Thurs-Sat 8pm; Sun 3PM
Alan Kitty
"The most outstanding qualification I can offer the voter took a lifetime - and a little more - to achieve. I am finally morally perfect and ready to lead. I am dead." Mark Twain has a solution to the financial crisis, and he's running for President in 2012.

9:15 PM (May 8 @ 4:15 PM)
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Violent. Tender. Erotic. Submissive. Abandoned. The worlds of pop music, myth and video collide in Jesse Zaritt's movement-based quest for love, connection and the self. Part of soloNOVA Arts Festival

Fri-Sat 9:30PM
Dixon Place
t's 1969 & late blooming, druggy Tony won't grow. He can caddy for the auto barons. But can he ROCK? By Kestutis Nakas.

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.

Fri & Sat @10PM - Sun @5:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
In Brazil Nuts, a quartet of eccentric gay characters find themselves caught in the middle of the national debate about gay marriage and immigrant rights. Fabiana is an illegal immigrant living in the USA. She marries Ron a go go dancer. Now her relationship with Jackie , a dog walker, goes to the dogs. The three are drop kicked into a triangle of immigration, soccer and samba. Friday and Saturday nights, bar opens 30 minutes prior to show...

May 7 10:15PM May 14 10:45 PM
Performance Space 122
This provocative dark comedy explores the basement of a suburban home where Andrew has devoted himself to his collection of figurines. Suffering the loss of The Red One, he seeks to uncover The Ultimate Arrangement.

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.

Saturday, May 8th 10AM-2PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Celebrate the arts, bicycling and sustainable streets at the third annual Kids' Art Bike Parade on Saturday, May 8th in Tompkins Square Park! There will be a Learn-to-Ride class, bicycle helmet fittings and giveaways, bicycle decorating, live entertainment, refreshments and of course, the Parade itself! For more information, please email lesbikeparade@gmail.com.
 

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Sat & Sun at 12 & 2:30 PM (3:30PM on 5/22, 5/23 & 5/30)
Downtown Art
In 1909, sparked by events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, over 20,000 garment workers, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an 11-week strike that drew together working girls, middle-class progressive women, female college students, and even women leaders of NY society

Thurs-Sun 1-6PM
La MaMa - La Galleria
The exhibition will include pieces from David's most notable Jazz Loft period, as well as a range of works and artifacts demonstrating his diversity as an artist. The largest portion of the exhibition however, will focus on some of David's most passionate material, his work inspired by Haiti.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

May 5, 7, 12, 15 at 7PM May 8 at 2PM
Performance Space 122
Arrested and locked up for writing hot checks, a ten-year-old Texan girl loses her way in a reality where even the adults themselves are lost. Merging childhood stories with searing songs of fear and juvenile justice.

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Sat & Sun at 12 & 2:30 PM (3:30PM on 5/22, 5/23 & 5/30)
Downtown Art
In 1909, sparked by events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, over 20,000 garment workers, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an 11-week strike that drew together working girls, middle-class progressive women, female college students, and even women leaders of NY society

8PM Week-days & Saturday 3PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Clones, robots and teenage time travelers search for connection at a dance party aboard a satellite. So what if its purpose is to celebrate an exploding star? For the kids in this "sci-fi dance party spectacle" this is going to be the best night ever.

9:15 PM (May 8 @ 4:15 PM)
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Violent. Tender. Erotic. Submissive. Abandoned. The worlds of pop music, myth and video collide in Jesse Zaritt's movement-based quest for love, connection and the self. Part of soloNOVA Arts Festival

7PM (May 15 @2PM)
Performance Space 122
For 45 years, Daniel Berkey suffered the ravages of schizophrenia with attendant addictions to sex, heroin and alcohol. At the age of 51, he experienced complete remission. This is his story. Part of soloNova Arts Festival

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Set in the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003. “Five Days in March” presents the lives of hipsters obsessing over the details of their lives. The police escort’s uniforms elicit more comment than the war itself. The show perfectly captures the irony and impotency of Generation Y in Japan today.

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7:30pm
WOW Cafe Theater
Tantra-Zawadi and La Lupe present pieces from La Lupe’s novel about Sisters of Color and the USA! Plus La Lupe Shares herstory.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
The show is set in the last year of Einstein's life as he looks back at himself as a young man during the period of his greatest creativity. Between consciousness and dreams, Einstein watches himself and his first wife Mileva Maric. This blend of theater, live music, real-time video, masks and puppets creates a shifting reality in which Einstein questions perceptions, existence, and possibility for survival.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
Based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, the play exposes the tragic consequences of ruthless power struggles. A martial arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. A story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.

Saturday, April 24th-Sunday, May 9th
Performance Space 122
Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense. He collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

8 PM Thur. - Sat. 7PM Sun.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB’S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B.  Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux’s planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

8 PM
Dixon Place
Asylum is the darkly comic true story of a high school pothead who checks himself in to the only place he can’t get high: a psychiatric hospital. Only to make the disturbing discovery that some of the patients are actually crazy and some of the counselors nuts--but they’re all more sane than his family. &nbs...

Thurs-Sat: 8PM Sun: 3PM
Theater for the New City
"Generation (bu)Y" explains our slavery to marketing from the mouths of babes. The play will be performed by an ensemble of 18 young actors (aged 11 to 13) plus 3 adult actors. The intent of the production is to raise awareness of the effects marketing and advertising upon children. "Generation (bu)Y" examines strategies used by marketers such as the belittlement of parents and adults and the exploitation of child needs of acceptance by peers.

Thurs-Sat 8pm; Sun 3PM
Alan Kitty
"The most outstanding qualification I can offer the voter took a lifetime - and a little more - to achieve. I am finally morally perfect and ready to lead. I am dead." Mark Twain has a solution to the financial crisis, and he's running for President in 2012.

9PM (May 15 @ 4PM)
Performance Space 122
Daniel MacIvor's celebrated chiller returns to the NY stage with Avery Pearson stepping into the skin of 16 characters. Peeling back psychological layers to reveal the heart of an individual experience, Monster dissects the true nature of evil.

Fri-Sat 9:30PM
Dixon Place
t's 1969 & late blooming, druggy Tony won't grow. He can caddy for the auto barons. But can he ROCK? By Kestutis Nakas.

Fri & Sat @10PM - Sun @5:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
In Brazil Nuts, a quartet of eccentric gay characters find themselves caught in the middle of the national debate about gay marriage and immigrant rights. Fabiana is an illegal immigrant living in the USA. She marries Ron a go go dancer. Now her relationship with Jackie , a dog walker, goes to the dogs. The three are drop kicked into a triangle of immigration, soccer and samba. Friday and Saturday nights, bar opens 30 minutes prior to show...

May 8, 15,22 10PM
Dixon Place
Shelly Mars & Kirby (DP's mascot) offer a night of bull-dyke bullshit, artistry & edgy performances. Shake your tails off. Tickets are at the door and cash only.

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.

Saturday, April 24th-Sunday, May 9th
Performance Space 122
Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense. He collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Sat & Sun at 12 & 2:30 PM (3:30PM on 5/22, 5/23 & 5/30)
Downtown Art
In 1909, sparked by events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, over 20,000 garment workers, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an 11-week strike that drew together working girls, middle-class progressive women, female college students, and even women leaders of NY society

Thurs-Sun 1-6PM
La MaMa - La Galleria
The exhibition will include pieces from David's most notable Jazz Loft period, as well as a range of works and artifacts demonstrating his diversity as an artist. The largest portion of the exhibition however, will focus on some of David's most passionate material, his work inspired by Haiti.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Set in the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003. “Five Days in March” presents the lives of hipsters obsessing over the details of their lives. The police escort’s uniforms elicit more comment than the war itself. The show perfectly captures the irony and impotency of Generation Y in Japan today.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Sat & Sun at 12 & 2:30 PM (3:30PM on 5/22, 5/23 & 5/30)
Downtown Art
In 1909, sparked by events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, over 20,000 garment workers, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an 11-week strike that drew together working girls, middle-class progressive women, female college students, and even women leaders of NY society

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
The show is set in the last year of Einstein's life as he looks back at himself as a young man during the period of his greatest creativity. Between consciousness and dreams, Einstein watches himself and his first wife Mileva Maric. This blend of theater, live music, real-time video, masks and puppets creates a shifting reality in which Einstein questions perceptions, existence, and possibility for survival.

Thurs-Sat: 8PM Sun: 3PM
Theater for the New City
"Generation (bu)Y" explains our slavery to marketing from the mouths of babes. The play will be performed by an ensemble of 18 young actors (aged 11 to 13) plus 3 adult actors. The intent of the production is to raise awareness of the effects marketing and advertising upon children. "Generation (bu)Y" examines strategies used by marketers such as the belittlement of parents and adults and the exploitation of child needs of acceptance by peers.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
Based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, the play exposes the tragic consequences of ruthless power struggles. A martial arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. A story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.

Thurs-Sat 8pm; Sun 3PM
Alan Kitty
"The most outstanding qualification I can offer the voter took a lifetime - and a little more - to achieve. I am finally morally perfect and ready to lead. I am dead." Mark Twain has a solution to the financial crisis, and he's running for President in 2012.

Fri & Sat @10PM - Sun @5:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
In Brazil Nuts, a quartet of eccentric gay characters find themselves caught in the middle of the national debate about gay marriage and immigrant rights. Fabiana is an illegal immigrant living in the USA. She marries Ron a go go dancer. Now her relationship with Jackie , a dog walker, goes to the dogs. The three are drop kicked into a triangle of immigration, soccer and samba. Friday and Saturday nights, bar opens 30 minutes prior to show...

Saturday, April 24th-Sunday, May 9th
Performance Space 122
Farrington's principle source is a film from the Master of Suspense. He collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

6PM
WOW Cafe Theater
Ask two WOW members a question and you¹ll get three answers. WOW members from the 80¹s and 90¹s gather to tell the story of WOW as they saw it, remember it, fabricate it, crush out on it, love it and hate it. Join us for a raucous evening of reminiscence, rivalry and relativism. Come to laugh. A lot.

8 PM Thur. - Sat. 7PM Sun.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB’S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B.  Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux’s planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

Second Monday of every month @ 7PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The show opens with one of a rotating pool of great storytellers in New York City. They will tell a wonderful, fifteen-minute original story. Then Adam Wade will greet the audience and for the next forty-five minutes he’ll tell a few stories from his adolescent years, sing a song or two on the guitar, and play videos and rare home movies. No two shows will be the same.
 

7PM (May 15 @2PM)
Performance Space 122
For 45 years, Daniel Berkey suffered the ravages of schizophrenia with attendant addictions to sex, heroin and alcohol. At the age of 51, he experienced complete remission. This is his story. Part of soloNova Arts Festival

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

Every Monday 7:30PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
A multimedia performance that captures significant moments in the lives of three gay American men from different eras and cities. Bob is a carefree soul who lives in 1970s San Francisco and finds sex and love closely intertwined. Patrick, a gay Republican, tries to survive 1980s New York City but finds hi...

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8pm reading, 9pm reception
WOW Cafe Theater
Taking place ten years in the future, in a broke and broken down New York City with rarely working public transportation, Mel a woman from New Orleans and Anna from South Carolina meet and fall in love in New York City working at a specialized clinic.  Reading followed by a tasting reception.

8PM Pre-show cocktail at 6PM
Dixon Place
Little Theater and Dixon Place with The Flea Theater present a benefit for ‘Pataphysics Writers Workshops. $5 raffle tickets for ‘Pataphysical goodies including tickets to SoHo Rep, PS122, The Flea, books, DVDs... An evening of cocktails, prizes and theater! Contact Dixon Place for tickets to the pre-show cocktails and raffle starting at 6:30PM.

Second Monday of every month @ 8PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
The BTK Band is NYC's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band. Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while music and lyrics are improvised to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos.

9PM (May 15 @ 4PM)
Performance Space 122
Daniel MacIvor's celebrated chiller returns to the NY stage with Avery Pearson stepping into the skin of 16 characters. Peeling back psychological layers to reveal the heart of an individual experience, Monster dissects the true nature of evil.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

May 11,14,16,20: 7PM; May 22: 2PM
Performance Space 122
A sexy, bold and bilingual journey through the emotional life of migrants with songs from tango to rock. Unraveling the psychological toll of displacement and delving into the role of newcomers and their responsibility toward their own countries.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

7PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
As seen in the New York Times! The Moth StorySLAM returns to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7pm. Doors open at 7, stories begin at 7:30. Please Note: There are no advance ticket sales for this show. All sales are first come, first serve at the door.

7:30PM
Dixon Place
New literary work by queer writers, curated by Bianca Stone & Adam Fitzgerald. Featuring: John Ashbery, Deborah Landau, Matthew Zapruder.

Every Tuesday @ 9PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Penny’s Open Mic invites you and any artist  to workshop, experiment and share their work 7 minutes. The audience is here to listen and support, there is a back garden, a bar and a room for the performers to prepare. With the help of the many talented artists, Penny's Open Mic has become an inspiring atmosphere where people feel free and safe to grow as artists and as people.

May 22, 4PM; May 26,27 & June 2,3 8PM; May 30 & June 4, 6PM
Performance Space 122
Black President or not, racism continues to make a comeback. W. Kamau Bell is here to make (non)sense of it all. Irreverent and thoughtful, The W. Kamau Bell Curve skewers pop culture, news pundits and the man himself, Barack Obama.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

May 5, 7, 12, 15 at 7PM May 8 at 2PM
Performance Space 122
Arrested and locked up for writing hot checks, a ten-year-old Texan girl loses her way in a reality where even the adults themselves are lost. Merging childhood stories with searing songs of fear and juvenile justice.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

7:30PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
This autobiographical one-woman show depicts life in 1980s Brownsville, Brooklyn amidst the swirl of salsa and the birth of hip-hop. Creator Elaine Del Valle has won almost every solo show award available for this memorable play.

7:30PM
Dixon Place
Circuit Bending is one of the most popular musical trends in the DIY arts and science world. It involves modifying the circuitry of electronic toys and homemade gadgets to create new sounds and effects. Participants experiment with the hidden technology in childhood playthings and show the crowd how they re-wired the device to make an entirely new musical instrument. Discussions, demonstrations, and lots of fun ensue as the science and tech geeks take over Dixon Place for the night.

Wednesday, May 12 at 8:00pm
DMAC - 62 East 4th Street East Vllage, USA

Sidra Bell's anthemic full length looks at aspects of beauty both extravagant and violent. This fantastical work takes viewers through a dreamscape of personas that are simultaneously, glamorous, destroyed, endangered, grotesque and heroic.

Previews April 22,23 & 24 @8PM April 28th- August 25th every Wednesday @8PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
After a dinner party goes wrong and their guest ends up unexpectedly slain after a violent political debate, a group of liberal minded roommates decides that this can be their way of changing the world and making a difference. They begin inviting guests over for dinner and political discussion. With each dinner, the roommate’s relationships to one another and reality quickly begin to unravel. 

8PM
Dixon Place
Cartoon slide shows & other projected pictures, presented by a glittering array of artists, performers, graphic novelists, & other characters. Hosted By R. Sikoryak. Featuring: Ann Decker, Patrick Hambrecht & John Mathias, Dean Haspiel, M. Sweeney Lawless, Jason Little, Neil Numberman, Doug Skinner, & more!

Wednesday, May 12 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center

9PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Every Weds Night except first Weds of the month. The first 20 poets to sign up will slam & the winner of this night is eligible to perform in the Friday Night Poetry Slam. Get there early & sign the book. Hosted by Jive Poetic.

9:15 PM (May 8 @ 4:15 PM)
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
Violent. Tender. Erotic. Submissive. Abandoned. The worlds of pop music, myth and video collide in Jesse Zaritt's movement-based quest for love, connection and the self. Part of soloNOVA Arts Festival

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!

Thurs-Sun 1-6PM
La MaMa - La Galleria
The exhibition will include pieces from David's most notable Jazz Loft period, as well as a range of works and artifacts demonstrating his diversity as an artist. The largest portion of the exhibition however, will focus on some of David's most passionate material, his work inspired by Haiti.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

6PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
OKNA is a multimedia installation involving video, art and music inspired by diverse personal stories about Jewish identity coming from people in the Russian-speaking community. The shared memories and associations will be displayed in a video art installation. The music portion will feature DJ sets and guest performer Psoy Korolenko with a Klezmer-Russian-English repertoire.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

Thurs-Sat 7PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
The Drafts Fest is the collaborative effort of seven playwrights, seven directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts and their invited Guests based on this year’s theme, Pre-Existing Condition.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Set in the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003. “Five Days in March” presents the lives of hipsters obsessing over the details of their lives. The police escort’s uniforms elicit more comment than the war itself. The show perfectly captures the irony and impotency of Generation Y in Japan today.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
The show is set in the last year of Einstein's life as he looks back at himself as a young man during the period of his greatest creativity. Between consciousness and dreams, Einstein watches himself and his first wife Mileva Maric. This blend of theater, live music, real-time video, masks and puppets creates a shifting reality in which Einstein questions perceptions, existence, and possibility for survival.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
Based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, the play exposes the tragic consequences of ruthless power struggles. A martial arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. A story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.

Thursday, May 13 at 8:00pm
DMAC - 62 East 4th Street East Vllage, USA

Sidra Bell's anthemic full length looks at aspects of beauty both extravagant and violent. This fantastical work takes viewers through a dreamscape of personas that are simultaneously, glamorous, destroyed, endangered, grotesque and heroic.

8 PM Thur. - Sat. 7PM Sun.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB’S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B.  Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux’s planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

8PM Week-days & Saturday 3PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Clones, robots and teenage time travelers search for connection at a dance party aboard a satellite. So what if its purpose is to celebrate an exploding star? For the kids in this "sci-fi dance party spectacle" this is going to be the best night ever.

Thurs-Sat: 8PM Sun: 3PM
Theater for the New City
"Generation (bu)Y" explains our slavery to marketing from the mouths of babes. The play will be performed by an ensemble of 18 young actors (aged 11 to 13) plus 3 adult actors. The intent of the production is to raise awareness of the effects marketing and advertising upon children. "Generation (bu)Y" examines strategies used by marketers such as the belittlement of parents and adults and the exploitation of child needs of acceptance by peers.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

8pm
WOW Cafe Theater
‘348′ is a searing examination of the troubled teen industry, forced institutionalization, and madness in America. Cael’s misadventures in the psychiatric industry combine with statistics, stories and stigma for revelations on power, pain, and isolation.  

Thurs-Sat 8pm; Sun 3PM
Alan Kitty
"The most outstanding qualification I can offer the voter took a lifetime - and a little more - to achieve. I am finally morally perfect and ready to lead. I am dead." Mark Twain has a solution to the financial crisis, and he's running for President in 2012.

8PM
Dixon Place
A Howling Vic revue with burlesque beauties, magical musicians and surprise giveaways!

Thursday, May 13 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center

May 22 9PM; May 26,29 & June 2 10PM; June 4,5 & 6 8PM
Performance Space 122
Attempting to enter the "real world," new college graduate Bridget is rejected from employment at Chuck E. Cheese and hired as a stripper at DejaVu in Ypsilanti, MI. Everything seems trashy, unfair and exciting until she falls for a co-stripper named Sky. The irreverent and poetically charged Bridget learns to sell her body while buying what her irresistibly midwestern competitors have to offer. And there's pole dancing.

9PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Since the inception of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, music has been an integral part of our programming, particularly music rooted in the Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz and straight-ahead jazz traditions as well as Hip Hop. Every Thursday the Nuyorican presents Thursday Night Latin Jazz with a different group each week. Look on the website for more information.

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!

Thurs-Sun 1-6PM
La MaMa - La Galleria
The exhibition will include pieces from David's most notable Jazz Loft period, as well as a range of works and artifacts demonstrating his diversity as an artist. The largest portion of the exhibition however, will focus on some of David's most passionate material, his work inspired by Haiti.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

May 11,14,16,20: 7PM; May 22: 2PM
Performance Space 122
A sexy, bold and bilingual journey through the emotional life of migrants with songs from tango to rock. Unraveling the psychological toll of displacement and delving into the role of newcomers and their responsibility toward their own countries.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

Thurs-Sat 7PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
The Drafts Fest is the collaborative effort of seven playwrights, seven directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts and their invited Guests based on this year’s theme, Pre-Existing Condition.

7PM
NYFA
$5 adv/$7 at the door Heineken specials to benefit NYFA and the Nuyorican! Join NYFA and the Nuyorican for a spring party featuring a reading by three-time NYFA Fellow, Willie Perdomo. Meet and mingle with artists, writers and NYFA staff. Learn how NYFA has been providing funding and resources to artists and writers for over 30 years!

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Set in the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003. “Five Days in March” presents the lives of hipsters obsessing over the details of their lives. The police escort’s uniforms elicit more comment than the war itself. The show perfectly captures the irony and impotency of Generation Y in Japan today.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
The show is set in the last year of Einstein's life as he looks back at himself as a young man during the period of his greatest creativity. Between consciousness and dreams, Einstein watches himself and his first wife Mileva Maric. This blend of theater, live music, real-time video, masks and puppets creates a shifting reality in which Einstein questions perceptions, existence, and possibility for survival.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
Based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, the play exposes the tragic consequences of ruthless power struggles. A martial arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. A story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.

Friday, May 14 at 8:00pm
DMAC - 62 East 4th Street East Vllage, USA

Sidra Bell's anthemic full length looks at aspects of beauty both extravagant and violent. This fantastical work takes viewers through a dreamscape of personas that are simultaneously, glamorous, destroyed, endangered, grotesque and heroic.

8 PM Thur. - Sat. 7PM Sun.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB’S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B.  Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux’s planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

8 PM
Dixon Place
Asylum is the darkly comic true story of a high school pothead who checks himself in to the only place he can’t get high: a psychiatric hospital. Only to make the disturbing discovery that some of the patients are actually crazy and some of the counselors nuts--but they’re all more sane than his family. &nbs...

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

2pm
WOW Cafe Theater
The Giddy Multitude Vaudeville, Co. is a monthly cabaret traversing the east river to offer feasts of entertainment in Brooklyn and the East Village. We are reviving vaudeville with storytelling and social commentary in the form of circus arts, burlesque, comedy, and music.

8PM Week-days & Saturday 3PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Clones, robots and teenage time travelers search for connection at a dance party aboard a satellite. So what if its purpose is to celebrate an exploding star? For the kids in this "sci-fi dance party spectacle" this is going to be the best night ever.

Thurs-Sat: 8PM Sun: 3PM
Theater for the New City
"Generation (bu)Y" explains our slavery to marketing from the mouths of babes. The play will be performed by an ensemble of 18 young actors (aged 11 to 13) plus 3 adult actors. The intent of the production is to raise awareness of the effects marketing and advertising upon children. "Generation (bu)Y" examines strategies used by marketers such as the belittlement of parents and adults and the exploitation of child needs of acceptance by peers.

Thurs-Sat 8pm; Sun 3PM
Alan Kitty
"The most outstanding qualification I can offer the voter took a lifetime - and a little more - to achieve. I am finally morally perfect and ready to lead. I am dead." Mark Twain has a solution to the financial crisis, and he's running for President in 2012.

Friday, May 14 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center

May 22, 4PM; May 26,27 & June 2,3 8PM; May 30 & June 4, 6PM
Performance Space 122
Black President or not, racism continues to make a comeback. W. Kamau Bell is here to make (non)sense of it all. Irreverent and thoughtful, The W. Kamau Bell Curve skewers pop culture, news pundits and the man himself, Barack Obama.

Fri & Sat @10PM - Sun @5:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. – The Club
In Brazil Nuts, a quartet of eccentric gay characters find themselves caught in the middle of the national debate about gay marriage and immigrant rights. Fabiana is an illegal immigrant living in the USA. She marries Ron a go go dancer. Now her relationship with Jackie , a dog walker, goes to the dogs. The three are drop kicked into a triangle of immigration, soccer and samba. Friday and Saturday nights, bar opens 30 minutes prior to show...

10PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Nuyorican Friday Night Poetry Slam is pretty popular and fills up fast, so please get in line early. (suggested arrival latest 9:15pm). Hosted by Mahogany Browne. If you are interested in becoming a Friday Night Slam Spotlight, please send samples of your work both written & recorded (MP3 or provide video links, etc.) to slamspot@nuyorican.org

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.

May 7 10:15PM May 14 10:45 PM
Performance Space 122
This provocative dark comedy explores the basement of a suburban home where Andrew has devoted himself to his collection of figurines. Suffering the loss of The Red One, he seeks to uncover The Ultimate Arrangement.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Sat & Sun at 12 & 2:30 PM (3:30PM on 5/22, 5/23 & 5/30)
Downtown Art
In 1909, sparked by events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, over 20,000 garment workers, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an 11-week strike that drew together working girls, middle-class progressive women, female college students, and even women leaders of NY society

Thurs-Sun 1-6PM
La MaMa - La Galleria
The exhibition will include pieces from David's most notable Jazz Loft period, as well as a range of works and artifacts demonstrating his diversity as an artist. The largest portion of the exhibition however, will focus on some of David's most passionate material, his work inspired by Haiti.

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Applies to all PEARL performances
WOW Cafe Theatre
The PEARL Pass gives access to all of the events of WOW Cafe Theatre's PEARL: A 30th Anniversary Celebration. PEARL is a a month long celebration with over 25 performances and events which your PEARL Pass can get you into for less. The PEARL Pass allows for guranteed seating with reservation.

Raffle Fundraiser
Teatro IATI
Need less Drama?
Escape to Punta Cana Purchasing a $10 raffle ticket may give you the perfect vacation to the Caribbean. Enjoy roundtrip airline tickets for two and 7 nights at a 4-star hotel in Punta Cana, with meals and drinks provided Melia Caribe Tropical.  Take a great vacation while supporting the following IATI's 2010-2011 programs: Main-stage, Tours, Workshops, and Play Development.

7PM (May 15 @2PM)
Performance Space 122
For 45 years, Daniel Berkey suffered the ravages of schizophrenia with attendant addictions to sex, heroin and alcohol. At the age of 51, he experienced complete remission. This is his story. Part of soloNova Arts Festival

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

Sat & Sun at 12 & 2:30 PM (3:30PM on 5/22, 5/23 & 5/30)
Downtown Art
In 1909, sparked by events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, over 20,000 garment workers, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an 11-week strike that drew together working girls, middle-class progressive women, female college students, and even women leaders of NY society

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

3-6pm
WOW Cafe Theater
Drawing its influences from physical theater, drag, object manipulation and dance, Johnny Blazes' clowning workshop is a celebration of the multifarious characters that exist within each performer. Financial Aid available, send request to johnny@johnnyblazes.com

8PM Week-days & Saturday 3PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's
Clones, robots and teenage time travelers search for connection at a dance party aboard a satellite. So what if its purpose is to celebrate an exploding star? For the kids in this "sci-fi dance party spectacle" this is going to be the best night ever.

9PM (May 15 @ 4PM)
Performance Space 122
Daniel MacIvor's celebrated chiller returns to the NY stage with Avery Pearson stepping into the skin of 16 characters. Peeling back psychological layers to reveal the heart of an individual experience, Monster dissects the true nature of evil.

May 5, 7, 12, 15 at 7PM May 8 at 2PM
Performance Space 122
Arrested and locked up for writing hot checks, a ten-year-old Texan girl loses her way in a reality where even the adults themselves are lost. Merging childhood stories with searing songs of fear and juvenile justice.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat Evenings 7PM-10.30PM/Sat 1PM-5PM
The Millennium Film Workshop
Marbled evidence of beauty mixing with decay. Pictures of the recent past reveal a time just before the proliferation of computers, cell phones, i-pods, digital cameras & the internet; there was no hiding, no refuge in virtual space. For better and for worse one was simply “on the street.”

Thurs-Sat 7PM
Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room
The Drafts Fest is the collaborative effort of seven playwrights, seven directors, and ten multifaceted actors. Playwrights receive randomly compiled cast lists and create stories tailored to The Drafts and their invited Guests based on this year’s theme, Pre-Existing Condition.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - The Annex
Set in the days before the U.S. began its war against Iraq in March 2003. “Five Days in March” presents the lives of hipsters obsessing over the details of their lives. The police escort’s uniforms elicit more comment than the war itself. The show perfectly captures the irony and impotency of Generation Y in Japan today.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 2:30PM
La MaMa E.T.C. - First Floor Theater
The show is set in the last year of Einstein's life as he looks back at himself as a young man during the period of his greatest creativity. Between consciousness and dreams, Einstein watches himself and his first wife Mileva Maric. This blend of theater, live music, real-time video, masks and puppets creates a shifting reality in which Einstein questions perceptions, existence, and possibility for survival.

Thurs-Sat 7:30PM; Sun 3PM
Theater for the New City
Based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, the play exposes the tragic consequences of ruthless power struggles. A martial arts epic with a fighting/kicking ensemble of 18 actors playing 26 speaking parts. A story about friendship and love, deception and betrayal, ambition and lust for power.

Wed-Sat 8PM; Sun 6PM
Performance Space 122
Winner of the 2009 Ethyl Eichelberger Award
Vaginal Davis is "a performance artist of underground legend" - Guy Trebey, The New York Times
With special guests nightly and co-hosts Carmelita Tropicana and Jennifer Miller, expect 10 days of the unexpected, unusual, and sublime.

Saturday, May 15 at 8:00pm
DMAC - 62 East 4th Street East Vllage, USA

Sidra Bell's anthemic full length looks at aspects of beauty both extravagant and violent. This fantastical work takes viewers through a dreamscape of personas that are simultaneously, glamorous, destroyed, endangered, grotesque and heroic.

8 PM Thur. - Sat. 7PM Sun.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB’S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B.  Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux’s planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

8 PM
Dixon Place
Asylum is the darkly comic true story of a high school pothead who checks himself in to the only place he can’t get high: a psychiatric hospital. Only to make the disturbing discovery that some of the patients are actually crazy and some of the counselors nuts--but they’re all more sane than his family. &nbs...

Online ticket sales for this event have expired.

2pm
WOW Cafe Theater
The Giddy Multitude Vaudeville, Co. is a monthly cabaret traversing the east river to offer feasts of entertainment in Brooklyn and the East Village. We are reviving vaudeville with storytelling and social commentary in the form of circus arts, burlesque, comedy, and music.

Thurs-Sat: 8PM Sun: 3PM
Theater for the New City
"Generation (bu)Y" explains our slavery to marketing from the mouths of babes. The play will be performed by an ensemble of 18 young actors (aged 11 to 13) plus 3 adult actors. The intent of the production is to raise awareness of the effects marketing and advertising upon children. "Generation (bu)Y" examines strategies used by marketers such as the belittlement of parents and adults and the exploitation of child needs of acceptance by peers.

May 15th - June 6th, Tues. - Sat. at 8PM & Sun. at 3PM
Metropolitan Playhouse
Sinclair Lewis's novel, dramatized by Sidney Howard. When a Captain of industry retires, he finds a whole new life (and life changing loss) in his personal second act.

Thurs-Sat 8pm; Sun 3PM
Alan Kitty
"The most outstanding qualification I can offer the voter took a lifetime - and a little more - to achieve. I am finally morally perfect and ready to lead. I am dead." Mark Twain has a solution to the financial crisis, and he's running for President in 2012.

8PM
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Presented by Latinos NYC in conjunction with El Grito De Poetas. Latinos NYC and El Grito de Poetas present Theatrical Spoken Word Show. Proceeds will be donated to the 2010 NYC AIDS Walk.

Saturday, May 15 at 8:00pm
DMAC - Duo Multicultural Arts Center