Brick Retro

The resourceful Brick Theater in Williamsburg is celebrating their 10th Anniversary by bringing back a few of their popular offerings, among them: Bouffon Glass Menajoree and NECROPOLIS 1+2: World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed.

BOUFFON GLASS MENAJOREE
Ten Directoins
Gentlemen callers beware: The Wingfields are crawling back out of your nightmares for a limited return engagement! Like a recurring sore, the award-winning Bouffon Glass Menajoree is back after their critically- acclaimed runs in New York, Minnesota and Dublin. Amanda, Tom, and Laura plume their nest with broken glass, twisted morals, and perverted minds. Each night a new audience member plays the role of Jim, the gentlemen caller. The Wingfields claim no responsibility for hurt feelings and offended sentiments. Why would anyone do this to an American Masterpiece?

NECROPOLIS 1 + 2: WORLD GONE WRONG/WORTH GUN WILLED
Gemini CollisionWorks
A world where the leaders lie, cheat, steal and murder. A world where Art and Science and Beauty and Reason are no longer valued. A world where survival means selling out, and trying to do the “right thing” means failure as a human being. A familiar place? Yes, of course, it is the fictional, 1940’s world of film noir, nothing like our own present world at all, right? Right? Or has noir come true, and we’re all living in a world gone wrong?

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2013 COIL Festival

January has become THE most important month for contemporary performance in NYC.  Under The Radar, COIL and American Realness festivals have made January hot.

Let's take a look and what COIL is serving up this year.

Radiohole
INFLATABLE FRANKENSTEIN

Influenced by James Whale’s Frankenstein films, Radiohole explodes the tumultuous and tragic life of Mary Shelley.

Half Straddle/Tina Satter
SEAGULL (THINKING OF YOU)

Writer/director Tina Satter draws on Chekhov’s letters, translations, and perverse sense of comedy to consider anew the darkness, beauty, and history of Chekhov’s iconic play The Seagull.

Kristen Kosmas
THERE THERE
More Chekhov! Christopher Walken, on tour in Russia with a solo show inspired by everyone’s favorite Chekhovian sociopath, mysteriously falls off a ladder and is unable to perform. Karen, who apparently proofread the script once, is asked to go on in Walken’s place. A precarious bilingual performance duet ensues between Karen and her Russian interpreter, Leo.

Peggy Shaw
RUFF
Peggy Shaw's tribute to those who have kept Shaw company over the last 68 years, a lament for the absence of those who disappeared into the dark holes left behind by her recent stroke, and a celebration that her brain is able to fill the blank green screens with new insight.

Annie Dorsen/Anne Juren
MAGICAL
Magical, a collaboration between Juren (performer) and Dorsen (director), places the canon of historical feminist performance into the context of a magic show. Through the rituals of illusion, trickery, and transformation the audience is shown the contradictions of contemporary feminism, contemporary art by women, and the contemporary female body.

PS122 presents
COIL 2103
Various Venues
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2013 Under The Radar Festival

Tickets for the 2013 Under The Radar Festival will go in sale on Tuesday, November 27th.  Here are some highlights of this year's offerings:

Hollow Roots
Written by Christina Anderson
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
a woman traverses a nameless urban landscape plagued by a question: can a person of color have a "neutral narrative"?

Ganesh Versus the Third Reich
Back to Back Theatre (Australia)
Ganesh's travels through Nazi Germany to reclaim the Swastika, an ancient Hindu symbol.

Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker
Belarus Free Theatre
A love letter to a home that exiles those willing to fight for it, Minsk 2011 celebrates and mourns a land that has lost its way.

Hamlet, Prince of Grief
Leev Theater Group (Iran)
Shakepeare's tragic hero comes to terms with his violent fate through an obsessive retelling of the moments that preceded the tragedy.

Life and Times
Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA)
Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 charts one person's account of their own life from earliest memory through adolescence with music, movement and mystery.

2 Dimensional Life of Her
Fleur Elise Noble (Australia)
An enchanting mix of drawing, animation, puppetry, projection and paper, 2 Dimensional Life of Her is a richly imagined performance installation set in an artist's studio.

Zero Cost House
Pig Iron Theatre Company (USA) & Toshiki Okada (Japan)
A meditation on how Henry David Thoreau's Walden changed a man's life; on the disruptions and re-imaginings that followed the tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster at Fukushima; and on the uneasy compromises between radical idealism and contemporary living.

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2103 UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL 
January 9 - 20, 2013
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Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol Returns

Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol returns to Abrons Arts Center this holiday season. This year, downtown legend Everett Quinton is on hand for the festivities. Farrington uses his signature style of projecting video images onto a multitude of surfaces to tell the classic Dickens tale incorporating images from 35 different film versions that range from Mister Magoo to George C. Scott and from The Muppets to Bill Murray. The juxtaposition of the Victorian and the digital make for an incredibly unique holiday experience.

Abrons Arts Center presents
Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol 
November 24, 2012 - December 23, 2012
Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 8 pm; Saturday, Sunday: 3 pm
$25 adults, $15 students and seniors

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Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002

Q & A with Jonathan Franzen @ HOUSE FOR SALE

The marvelous Transport Group will be hosting a rare personal appearance by Jonathan Franzen after the Thursday, November 15th performance of Daniel Fish's adaptation of Franzen's HOUSE FOR SALE.

Audience Q & A hosted by Transport Group's Artistic Director, Jack Cummings III follows the 7pm performance and audience members will receive an autographed copy of Franzen's The Discomfort Zone!

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Roman Tragedies @ BAM

We are LOVING this trailer for Toneelgroep Amsterdam's production of Roman Tragedies By William Shakespeare, directed by Ivo van Hove!




BAM presents
Roman Tragedies
By William Shakespeare
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Directed by Ivo van Hove

Nov 16—Nov 18, 2012

Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

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RUN TIME: 5hrs 30min (no intermission; no assigned seating; audience is encouraged to move around the theater)

Performances of WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT begin Friday, Nov. 9th

Soho Rep presents Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.  Eric Ting directs this New York premiere, which is described as follows:

"An ensemble of American actors come together to make a play about the little-known first genocide of the 20th century. As the group wrestles with this remote story, their exploration hits much closer to home than anyone ever expected."

Performances were to begin on Wednesday, November 7th, but due to Hurricane Sandy, the first performance will be Friday, November 9th.

Soho Rep presents
We Are Proud to Present 
a Presentation About the 
Herero of Namibia, 
Formerly Known as 
South West Africa, 
From the German 
Sudwestafrika, 
Between the Years 1884-1915 
by Jackie Sibblies Drury
directed by Eric Ting

Nov 9 - Dec 2, 2012

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Soho Rep's excellent FEED program continues with We Are Proud To Present... Click Here for a full list of FEED events for this show