The Snow Globe Show
February 10 & 11, 2012
Joe's Pub at
the Public Theater

Inspired by vaudeville and silent film, Monica Bill Barnes' new evening-length work The Snow Globe Show addresses the possibility that anything can happen during a live show. Performers Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass attempt to tackle the tribulations of showmanship and stage fright as unexpected interruptions send their show spinning off in new directions.

ARE YOU MY MOTHER??
February 4, 2012, @ 9:30pm
Dixon Place's signature activity, the Performance Works-In-Progress series, puts the spotlight on performance work from today's most innovative artists. This week, don't miss Janet Werther's "ARE YOU MY MOTHER??" Song-and-dance cabaret meets post-modern "downtown" dance, Gender Performance Theory, and hilarious personal anecdote in one young woman's realization that she cannot avoid becoming her mother...
Tickets: $12 in advance; $15 General Admission; $10 for seniors/students/TDF.

New York Theatre Workshop's An Iliad
February 15 - March 25, 2012
by DENIS O'HARE & LISA PETERSON
based on Homer's "Iliad" translated by ROBERT FAGLES
directed by LISA PETERSON

Visionary creators Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare have crafted a sprawling yarn based on Homer's epic poem. AN ILIAD spins the familiar tale of gods and goddesses, undying love and endless battles told through an original and immediate voice. Making its New York premier, Tony Award-winning actors Denis O'Hare (Assassins, Take Me Out) and Stephen Spinella (Angels in America) will alternate as performers in this 100-minute sweeping account of humanity's unshakeable attraction to violence, destruction and chaos. Has anything really changed since the Trojan War?

Mo[u]rnin'. After.
February 4 & 5, 2012. Tickets: $10
Presented at 9th Space
Mo[u]rnin'. After. is a mythic autobiography for the queer prodigal son - a journey into the afterlife and back to the homeland (Oklahoma!) through time travel, magic, and musicals. Written and performed by a FABnyc favorite emerging artist, Brigham Mosley.

Metropolitan Playhouse presents the Festival of the Vegetables, a whimsical series of brief, witty poems, piano pieces, and dances that reveal the secret life of veggies! Find yourself in a vast supermarket where a toddler nods off to sleep and dreams of vegetable adventures. As spring draws near, you won't want to miss this colorful spectacular that's fun for the whole family!