Playing a very brief run at The Tank in NYC, Tyler Anthony Smith's QUEEN FOR A DAY is campy, late-summer fun! Originally produced in Chicago, the setup is a down-and-out Halston is visited by Queen Elizabeth I...plus there's Liza Minnelli (a delightful Dakota Hughes).
September 4 - 14, 2026
The Tank
312 W 36th Street
New York, NY, 10018
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Remember the future? Nova Express is the final edition of DECODER, a sound and image cutup machine, that has been turning out concerts, digital transmissions, video art, and sound recordings for the last 8 years. This Machine is for everyone – according to William Burroughs whose instructions were followed closely to create it. With two tape recorders and a microphone, performers Jim Findlay and cassette tape artist G Lucas Crane take you on an interstellar adventure into the prophetic imagination of The Nova Trilogy, Burroughs’ 1960’s space odyssey whose central character is the virus. Acting as both fictional characters and real-time systems operators, our time travelers cut internet debris into kaleidoscopic dreamscapes, prophetic pronouncements, and surreal routines of colonial fantasies and alien eroticism that expose their complicity in the systems that control them. Created pre, mid and “post” pandemic, Nova Express is a fever dream turned time machine that confronts the physical sensation of living today by traveling back to a time when the political problems we now face, became unavoidable.
Director: Mallory Catlett. Performer and Set: Jim Findlay. Performer, Sound and Video Manipulation: G Lucas Crane. Video: Keith Skretch. Interaction Design: Ryan Holsopple. Dramaturg: Alex Wermer-Colan. Lighting: Yuki Nakase Link. Costume: Enver Chakartash.
DECODER: Nova Express
Last seen at Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks, Sarah Einspanier’s wonderful LUNCH BUNCH has returned courtesy of Play Company. A rare Critics' Pick from The New York Time's Alexis Soloski should tell you not to miss this second chance to see this show!
Seven public defenders seek meaning, belonging, and some semblance of order via their frenzied quest for the perfect lunch – while battling ACS, inequality, burnout, and a big ole serving of existential dread.
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March 15-April 15, 2023
Written by Sarah Einspanier
Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad
Featuring: Janice Amaya Tala Ashe Ugo Chukwu David Greenspan Louisa Jacobson Francis Mateo Jo Mei Julia Sirna-Frest
122CC
2nd Floor Theatre
150 1st Avenue
New York, NY
Tickets + Info: CLICK HERE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023 @ 7PM [EDT]
The Center for Fiction, a 200-year-old literary nonprofit, and TCG will co-present Story/Teller Arts: An Evening with Taylor Mac on Wednesday, March 15 at 7pm ET at The Center for Fiction (15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217) and via livestream.
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, which centers around the cleanup crew called in the day after Shakespeare’s famously sanguineous first tragedy, premiered on Broadway in 2019 starring Nathan Lane and was nominated for seven Tony Awards. Jesse Green of the New York Times named Gary a Critic’s Pick, and called it “the unlikeliest bird to land on Broadway in many a year.” Hilton Als of the New Yorker wrote that his ears “shivered with pleasure” upon hearing the play’s dialogue, which is written largely in verse. Mac will be joined in conversation by theatre critic Laura Collins-Hughes.
Two-time OBIE and BESSIE award winner, the GREAT Karen Finley is opening a new show at The Laurie Beechman Theatre!
In COVID VORTEX ANXIETY OPERA KITTY KALEIDOSCOPE DISCO, Finley will present a new solo performance written during the pandemic
that reflects on the traumas, politics, world events amidst the coping
strategies with isolation, death, loss and a culture of anxiety. The
text will be a poetic reflection/ response that explores the pandemic,
and all its emotional consequences, embodiment, vision and courage,
agency, absurdity and humanity. Being in New York City, as the hotspot
will reflect on an earlier NYC as an AIDS hotspot while encountering the
rage and sorrow that still remain. Such as the reversal of Roe vs Wade
and the feminist intersections with other challenges. This look back
while trying to look forward creates the performance purpose, passion
and vulnerability of how to employ love despite the hate, to circumvent
humanity despite the violence that proliferates. And the gratitude
within the creative gesture as possibility of re-imagining anew.
Any new performance by Karen Finley is cause for celebration, so get your tickets Now at www.spincyclenyc.com.
COVID VORTEX ANXIETY OPERA KITTY KALEIDOSCOPE DISCO
written and performed by Karen Finley
April 8 – May 6, 2023
Laurie Beechman Theatre
407 W 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Tickets: General Admission: $24
Reserved VIP Seating: $35
Plus $25 food/drink minimum
For tickets and information: CLICK HERE
