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Some Shows/Sites/Venues, ever in formation. (I update primarily when I am in NYC, generally Winter break and Summer; Fall 2018 I'm on sabbatical so will be updating!)
Interested in the growing field of immersive, non "theatre-based" theatre? Check out https://www.noproscenium.com and sign up for their newsletter. Thanks to our former MFA student Megan Weaver for letting me know about this! Listings for LA and SF as well.
Comprensive info on Broadway show prices and price-breaks, including lotteries (for Hamilton!) and standing room: http://broadwayforbrokepeople.com
The Public Theatre's free SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK has a virtual ticket line, if you can't deal with the lines
In 2018 NYC started the Culture Pass program; get a library card and you are eligible for free passs to places like The Whitney Museum, MOMA, etc.
SmartTix discounts http://www.smarttix.com
the old reliable TDF discounts and their TKTS booths, which now have an app for your phone!
Don Shewey's blog http://www.donshewey.com
For Dance-focused work, Wendy Perron (choreographer, dancer, writer, and former Editor of Dance Magazine) has an excellent blog
Not An Alternative a hybrid arts collective and non-profit organization with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, and history. Work that questions and leverages the tools of advertising, architecture, exhibit design, branding, and public relations. Performances, installations all over town
For interesting non-mainstream films, check out: IFC 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street | (212) 924-7771 Anthology Film Archives at 2nd Ave. and 2nd St. in East Village, Film Forum 209 West Houston Street, between 6th Avenue and Varick (7th Avenue)and the film series at MOMA Film Series, Film Society at Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater
Great music and intimate setting. Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre
Pangea at E. 11th and 2nd Ave has reasonably priced food and some great acts in their club in the back. David Cale has workshopped his songs there over the years and lots of other talented folks.
Brave new work and works-in-progress at the new Dixon Place on 161 Chrystie
So new it's not even built yet (so this is the temporary site) A Prelude to the Shed Promising to be a center for all arts.
New York Live Arts 219 W. 19th St.
Roulette 509 Atlantic Ave. (at 3rd Ave)Brooklyn (917)267-0363
The Kitchen 512 W. 19th Street
Chocolate Factory in Brooklyn new and always compelling work
Baryshnikov Arts Center/BAC 450 W. 37th St. (866) 811-4111
Performance Space 122 (now known as Performance Space New York) has reopened! E. 9th Street and First Ave
HERE at 145 Sixth Avenue
3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center
LaMama on 4th Street. Continuing on in the spirit of Ellen Stewart
Abrons Art Center in the real LES (NYU-free zone) down on Grand Street (at Pitt) has more and more great stuff happening every year.
New York Theatre Workshop has some of the best new productions around. And the best stage in NYC
An unusual space in Brooklyn focusing on conceptual/visually-based Performance Art, Grace Exhibition Space & Gallery
AUNTS collective sponsors interesting events, performances, classes at a variety of venues.
BRIC in Brooklyn is home to a lot of very compelling new stuff
WAX/Williamsburg Art Nexus founded way back in 1999 by Marisa Beatty, Brian Brooks, Melissa Rodnon and David Tirosh, continues on at Triskelion. Lots of new and emerging dance talent and showcases.
CATCH a series of events that started in Brooklyn and moves all around. 2015 Obie Award Winner! Best Ambulatory Feast of Experimental Performance- Village Voice Best of 2013. Curators Andrew Dinwiddie, Caleb Hammons, and Jeff Larson.
Cathy Weis curates an amazing series of events at her loft on Broadway.Sundays on Broadway Free! Cathy Weis Studio/Weisacres, 537 Broadway, between Prince and Spring streets. Press buzzer #3 and walk upstairs. Elevator available upon request
The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. 155 Avenue C, New York, NY 10009 • 973.818.8495
Lincoln Center Claire Tow Theater on the roof of the Beaumont. 112 seats and the home of their LCT3 program for new works and new audiences. Great space.
Do go to the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site. It's beautiful, evocative and disturbing. Yes there was all that squabbling over money and real estate and politics but this expression of a void, of loss, is very moving.
And if your range extends to a few hours north, check out Mount Tremper Arts near Woodstock. Matthew Pokoik curates a really excellent series, with talents like Young Jean Lee, Tere O'Connor, Jonah Bokaer, Brian Rogers, and poet Ann Carson trying out new work.
Also in the Summer, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. 14 days of all sorts of great stuff. Just a Metro-North commutor train ride away from NYC.
Greenlight bookstore in Ft. Greene has a great series of readings, book groups, etc. So does McNally Jackson in Soho and Williamsburg.
2018
MAY
-27 A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOMEN Alan Ayckbourne directs his latest scrip. Something about a 60 year old man. Is that why I am drawn to this? 59E59 Brits Off-Broadway series.
-13 A Prelude to The Shed. What promises to be a major merging of art forms, but the building isn't built yet, so they are doing a series of events at a temporary site
-27 LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Caryl Churchill's complex 1976 play about (among other things) the Roundheads during the English Civil War (1647). New York Theatre Workshop. Directed by Rachel Chavkin (Obie for Pierre and the Great Comet) Excellent cast and staging. The complexities of the historically based script are opened up quite well.
11-13 THIS DANCERIE: NEW LOVE 1910: WORLD OUT OF KILTER an ambitous new work involving film and live performance created by Tony Whitefield with collaborators Oisin Stack, Alexandre Bado, Yoshiko Chuma , Andrew Alden
14 MOVEMENT RESEARCH AT JUDSON J. Bouey (recent ASU Dance BFA grad!) mayfield brooks, Courtney Krantz, Kate Watson-Wallace. J is an excellent mover, and I'm excited to see what he is up to now that he's relocated to NYC. Free! 8pm
15 DAVE DRIVER performs "Standards & Classics & Starsky (no Hutch" at Pangea 7pm There is a food/drink minimum. Dave is immensely talented and a master of multiple vocal styles.
20 DAVID CALE sings at Pangea. Presented by TWEED Here's a chance to see the brilliant creator of the solo work, Harry Clarke, and many other brilliant and lyrical monologues, singing with his excellent band. 7pm. These evenings with David at Pangea are intimate, exploratory, and deeply satisfying.
21 GARDINER COMFORT performs New Work, New York as part of TWEED@ Pangea 7pm
21 MOVEMENT RESEARCH AT JUDSON Keith Hennessy, Bailey Allshouse, Lorene M. Bouboushian. Keith I know (amazing!) the others are new to me, but these free events are glorious. 8pm
25-27 the amazing ELLEN FISHER presents her TIME DON’T STOP FOR NOBODY at La Mama Moves Festival "a movement-based performance inspired by perceptions of age. Fisher drew on her own experiences working with the elderly and children, and the answers of over 100 respondents to a questionnaire, to structure this intimate theater piece. An ensemble of four performers, ranging in age from 12 to 95, collaborated during the creative process, exploring what it means to grow up." Featuring: Pablo Vela, Mina Nishimura, Leo Garcia, Ellen Fisher and special guest artist Nilusha I think Ellen did this a while back, but this is her 2018 re-mount!
31-June 16 KING LEAR, The Shakespeare Forum at El Barrio's Artspace PS 109, 215 E. 99th St. Featuring the most excellent Alenka Kraigher as Goneril!
31-June 3 Niall Jones premieres his SIS MINOR, IN FALL at Abrons Underground Theatre. "Niall Jones assembles and lingers inside unreliably situated structures that engage [im]materiality, [in]visibility, and [dis]orientation. Sis Minor, In Fall stages an ongoing entanglement with the object of the body, hallucinatory presences, and the excess sustained in minor architectures" Niall's a captivating and intense performer, whom I've seen in work by others, so am very eager to see this piece of his own. 7:30pm
-July 15 DAVID BOWIE IS at Brooklyn Museum. Also the RADICAL WOMEN-LATIN AMERICAN ART 1960-1985 is quite compelling, with some artists who were new to me (I saw that show in one of its other venues. And CECILIA VICUÑA:DISAPPEARED QUIPU looks really promising.
JUNE
2-July 8 FAIRVIEW at Soho Rep. Written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and directed by Sarah Benson with choreography by Raja Feather Kelly. Co-pro with Berkeley Rep. One of my very smart and talented former students says "most important play in NYC right now!" So go. And now I've seen it and yes yes yes. It's a workout but worth it. Kinetic, complicated, confusing and disruptive. The performances and direction astonishingly assured. It's worth the price, but if you're short on cash, check out their 99cent Sundays
-July 1 DANCE NATION Clare Barron's script, directed/choregraphed by Lee Sunday Evans is alternately opaque, hilarious, frustrating, provocative, and deeply sad. I didn't know what to think. Which is why you should see it. It's one of those performances that exploits the possibilities of liveness in subtle but devastating ways. Playwrights Horizons
1-July 15 LOG CABIN world premiere of Jordan Harrison's play directed by Pam MacKinnon. I think the title refers to the dreaded gay Republican organization, and how the newly liberated forget those who have been left behind. He wrote MARJORIE PRIME, so my expectations are high. Playwrights Horizons
7-16 THIS WAS THE END created/directed by Mallory Catlett. Mabou Mines Theater, 150 First Ave. (PS 122) Featuring Rae C Wright, Black-Eyed Susan, G. Lucas Crane, Jim Himelsbach, Paul Zimet, Sound & Video by G. Lucas Crane and video by Keith Skretch.
3-September 3 REZA ABDOH RETROSPECTIVE the visionary and confrontational American-Iranian theatre director whose spectacles smashed together humour and enormous rage gets a retro many years after his death in the 1990's. MOMA/PS1 in Long Island City
7-July 8 FIRST LOVE by Charles Mee, directed by Kim Weild. Cherry Lane Theatre. "A couple in their sixties meet and fall in love for the first time in their lives." With Michael O'Keefe, Angelina Fiordellisi
and Taylor Harvey. Kim's a terrific director, and has masterfully handled several of Mee's scripts in the past.
7-July 1 THE LET GO Installation by visual artist/conceptualist Nick Cave. Park Avenue Armory. Installation open during the weekends ($17) with performances ($35) in the evenings Wed-Friday at 8.
13, 20, 27 (every Wednesday) IM A LOT LIKE YOU an evening with Salty Brine. 7pm Pangea. A delightful performer. He makes theatre pieces out of material from record albums. "This round I’m covering Weezer’s sophomore album Pinkerton from 1996. It’s loosely based on Madame Butterfly. So we dive head first into a conversation about race and asian stereotypes and white, male power using the music of Weezer, Puccini, and some Miss Saigon and Debbie Harry thrown in for good measure"
13-16, 20-23 RADIO DELIRIO at The Performing Garage 8pm $20 Written and choreographed by: Alessandro Magania; Performed by: Alessandro Magania, Mickey Solis, Kim Macron; Directed by: Geoff Sobelle; Music performed by: Jae Kyo Han. "A piano recital featuring only the page turner. A radio program hot on the trail of a whistleblower hiding in plain view of the audience. Radio Delirio imagines a classical concert taken over by the man no one was even meant to notice. While dutifully minding the score, the page-turner weaves his own show over the music: a news exposé, cum manhunt, cum chronicle of a precarious sense of self. The language of investigative news is employed — warped and digressed from — counterpointed by a layered, hyperkinetic physical score. Drawing on the culture of surveillance and whistleblowing scandals, Radio Delirio presents a tragicomic take on assimilation, derailment, and fear of inconsequence."
16 8 STOPS a performance by DEB MARGOLIN benefitting Dixon Place 7:30pm Directed by Jay Wahl
17 DAVID CALE sings at Pangea. Presented by TWEED Here's a chance to see the brilliant creator of the solo work, Harry Clarke, and many other brilliant and lyrical monologues, singing with his excellent band. 7pm. These evenings with David at Pangea are intimate, exploratory, and deeply satisfying.
21 SIBYL KEMPSON 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens: Summer Solstice 5:30 in the morning! Produced by the Whitney Museum at Skyport Marina at 2430 FDR Drive (performance takes place on boat in the river). You must purchase tickets prior.
21 PRIMITIVE GAMES Guggenheim Museum 7pm "Shaun Leonardo asks, “What might happen when four seemingly divided groups are invited to debate one another without using words?” Loosely based on the Renaissance-era Italian sport calcio storico, this live performance culminates a series of movement-based workshops led by Leonardo and involving four communities, each with a unique relationship to a single social issue. For an hour, the museum’s rotunda is transformed into an arena for a sport-like competition generated by and bringing together workshop participants. By witnessing the dynamics of these groups against the backdrop of an increasingly divisive national political climate, performers and audience members alike are given an opportunity to reconsider their own place within the debates pervading society today." $7
21-28 THEM Performance Space New York the legendary mid-80's piece by Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dennis Cooper, Chris Cochrane examining the lives of gay men just as the wave of AIDS was breaking. First presented at P.S. 122 in 1985, with several iterations since. Dennis will be reading his material live!
27-August 3 THE RACIAL IMAGINARY INSTITUTE: ON WHITENESS The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St. Gallery hours Mon-Fri 11-6pm and 1 hour before performances. Opening reception June 27 6-8pm. Performances, installations, symposium. see site for details
-July 29 CYPRUS AVENUE by (the appropriately named) David Ireland, directed by Vicky Featherstone, and featuring Stephen Rea. Abbey Theatre/Royal Court co-production with NY Public Theater Harsh, stark, violently funny play about the toxic history of Northern Ireland that also manages to be one of the most effective plays I've seen recently about the poison of extreme ideology, assumed racial purity/identity, and the fear of "the other." Rea is spectacular. A gorgeous and upsetting play.
29-30 IMMIGRATION STORIES presented by The Performing Garage and New York City Players. "Four short plays about the trials and joys of living in New York, family, legal/illegal immigration, and the many characters met along the way." Written by Yasmin Sanchez, Bréhima Sangaré, Zarshed Djamaliddinov, Michael Rodriguez and Leury Polanco, and Lakpa Bhutia. Performed by Rosana Appleton, Lakpa Bhutia, Herve Bollou, Sarah Camara, Zarshed Djamaliddinov, Fatim Karama, Linda Mancini, Philip Moore, Leury Polanco, Bréhima Sangaré, Yasmin Sanchez, Amara Sidibe. Directed by Tory Vazquez. Dramaturgy: Richard Maxwell & Jim Fletcher. Costumes: Linda Mancini. 8pm Free but RSVP
JULY
1-Sept. 3 ROCKAWAY! What began in 2014 and appears to be an annual event, organized by MOMA/PS1. This year features a re-installation of Yayoi Kusama's piece from the 1960's, Narcissus Garden. And some events led by Aunts (see August listing). Fort Tilden, Gateway National Recreation Area, Rockaway. If you've never been out to Rockaway, it's a rather wonderful place (and a long commute on the A train). Fridays through Sundays, 12–6pm, and on September 3 (Labor Day)
5, 12, 19 (Thursdays) Cuerpxs Radicales: Radical Bodies in Performance. "introducing new and recent work by contemporary Latinx artists as they respond to themes in the Brooklyn Museum's exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Brooklyn Museum in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, invites a selected group of artists to present a three-day performance series." Free with museum admission, but RSVP
10-12 UNCLE REBUS a performance by Will Rawls on the Highline at W. 17th St.. 6-8pm "a choreographed meditation on Uncle Remus, the fictional narrator of Joel Chandler Harris's Brer Rabbit Tales, a 19th-century compilation of African-American Southern folklore. Three dancers spell out a story using a large-scale keyboard to destabilize the fictional dialects of Harris’s imagination, further exploring the limits of linguistic sense and written speech." RSVP/Free
10 PERSON[ING] Devised & Performed by: The Organism that Persons (the OtP)
Projections: Jake Nathanson, Jordan Ross, “A Lady Called Camille” 7:30pm Dixon Place Hot! Festival. I saw a few minutes of this at the Hot! Fest opening party and was intrigued. Part of a three-event bill; don't know anything about the other two.
10 LADY RIZZO Joe's Pub at The Public Theatre. 9:30pm. She's fiercely talented. $30
11-August 19 THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND by Marcus Gardley. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. New York Theatre Workshop. Inspired by Lorca's HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA "In the heat of summer in 1813, Louisiana passed from France to the US. On the eve of the transfer, freedom hangs in the balance for a steely widow and her three eligible daughters, all free women of color." Strong performances and beautifully produced revelation of the particular fraught postition of suppposedly "free" people of color in the era of slavery.
11 VERANO, VERANO (SUMMER, SUMMER) Puerto Rican playwright Myrna Casas' play in an English translation by my ASU colleague Oscar Giner, and featuring several of our very exceptional recent ASU graduates: Quinn Johnson (on his way to RADA to be a grad student), and Katrina Donaldson. Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce St. The performance is part of POWER GRID-A FESTIVAL OF PUERTO RICAN THEATRE VOICES, running July 10-14 and sponsored by Cherry Lane and the Dramatist's Guild as "a fundraising festival of 6 play readings by 6 Puerto Rican playwrights. It aims to raise money for "Roots and Action," an organization looking to bring theater and arts education to sectors of the island that have none or have lost them during the post-Maria crisis."
11-29 THE PECULIAR PATRIOT written and performed by Liza Jessie Peterson, directed by Talvin Wilks. The National Black Theatre , 2031 Fifth Ave. "confronts the complex and critical issue of mass incarceration, examining the human impact and inhuman machinery of the prison-industrial complex and shining a glaring light on the racial disparities that feed the draconian system." I've seen other projects that Talvin has been involved with, and they are alwasy compelling.
12-28 MARIE AND BRUCE by Wallace Shawn directed by Knud Adams. At Jack, 505 Waverly Ave. Brooklyn. "in Wallace Shawn's 1978 American masterpiece, facts are slippery things. In this radical re-imagining at JACK, two multi-disciplinary artists play the combative titular couple and head up the design team. Joined by an ensemble of some of Brooklyn's sharpest comedic voices, Gordon Landenberger (Bruce) and trans actress Theda Hammel (Marie) double as the set and sound designers, respectively, for this hilarious and timely new production."
produced by the delightful John Early & Allie Jane Compton with: Kate McGee (lights) Theda Hammel (Performer + sound designer) Gordon Landenberger (Performer + set designer) Matt Barats (Performer) Peter Mills Weiss (Performer) Eudora Peterson (Petey Peterson) (Performer) Lorelei Ramirez (Performer) Alexandra Tatarsky (Performer)
13-Sept. 30 David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night. Whitney Museum. An essential show if you want to have some understanding of NYC 1980-90's. He was an enormous presence and influence, in both his brilliantly engaged and enraged writing and visual work. especially the photo and photo-based work. And check out Cynthia Carr's deep book about David, FIRE IN THE BELLY, which will soon be reissued on Bloomsbury. And David's own CLOSE TO THE KNIVES.
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13-October 12 THE UNFLINCHING EYE: THE SYMBOLS OF DAVID WOJNAROWICZ curated by Hugh Ryan for the Fales Library/Mamdouha S. Bobst Gallery at NYU's Bobst Library. Particular focus on David's archive at Fales and his "Magic Box."
16 SIX MONOLOGUES 1990-2007 BY JEFF MCMAHON launch for my new book out on NoPassport Press. Dixon Place Lounge 7:30pm. I'll also be showing a preview screening of my film of the monologue (Ob)scene, seen live last year at Dixon Place. Free (but you better buy a book!)
17-28 THE DAMNED Ivo Van Hove and Comedie-Francaise stage an adaptation of Visconti's film from the 1970's. Park Avenue Armory $35 and up. Van Hove is always worth experiencing. This is not dramaturgically the strongest work he's done (perhaps this lies in Visconti's original script on which the piece is based), but the staging is overwhelming, with the design, and Tal Yarden's media truly spectacular. Cool verging on cold, but some moments really punch.
20-24 DANCE ON CAMERA FESTIVAL co-presented with Film Society of Lincoln Center. My colleague Marcus White will be part of a panel on film production on the last day of the festival as part of the Dance Films Association/DFA Global Exchange. And Marta Renzi's lovely HER MAGNUM OPUS screens on July 21 at 3pm, featuring Arthur Aviles, Aileen Pasiloff and many more.
25-28 STRAY by Tanya Marquart and directed by the very skilled Mallory Catlett. "a meta-memoir concert based on creator Tanya Marquardt’s experience as a sixteen-year-old runaway, BDSM model, and New York transplant. Beginning the day she ran away from home, each song leads you through the people and places of her life, and how art sustained her. If you have been to the David Wojnarowicz show at the Whitney, he plays a big role in the piece and the life of this artist." at The Tank , 312 W. 36th St.
26 ANTI-DEPORTATION SUITCASE ACTION/DEMO Join Rev. Billy and many others in a conceptual protest at ICE headquarters, 26 Federal Plaza downtown Manhattan btw Broaday/Lafayette at Worth. Bring a suitcase "packed for deportation" and bring one (1) object you would pack in a loved one's suitcase if they were being deported. bringasuitcase@gmail.com #WhatWouldYoutTake #NothingButASuitcase 5:30pm-into evening.
THE NEW MUSEUM summer show through September 2. An especially strong series of artists, none of whom I've heard of before. Which is good! The large scale video installations by John Akomfrah "Signs of Empire" require time, but are very much worth it.
-August 17 FRED WILSON-AFRO KISMET Pace Gallery, 510 W. 25th St. M-F (summer hours) featuring his most recent body of work originally produced for the 15th Istanbul Biennial in 2017.
AUGUST
-August 12 GRABBING PUSSY Karen Finley's new performance to accompany her new book (OR Books) of the same title. The Laurie Beechman Theater (inside West Bank Cafe) at 407 West 42nd St. $22 general admission or $35 for VIP tickets that include a signed book and a one-of-a-kind bookmark handmade by Finley. $20 food/drink minimum 212-352-3101 www.SpinCycleNYC.com.
10-11 THE CARDINAL-A JOURNAL THROUGH FLUSHING LA's legendary Cornerstone Theatre comes to NYC! Written by Cusi Cram and directed by Juliette Carillo. "featuring local residents, original music, and a spectacular puppet portrait of the landscape of Queens. Created as part of Cornerstone's Institute Summer Residency." Kupferberg Center for the Arts' Goldstein Theatre, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing 800-578-1335
24-25 SCREAMERS Brian Rogers/The Chocolate Factory Theater. Abrons Arts Center. "a 75-minute feature film created and performed by members of the New York City experimental dance, theater and performance communities – including dancers, actors, directors, designers and curators. A kind of conceptual ghost story, Screamers was conceived during a year-long residency at a former Catholic Church owned by the artist Dan Hurlin in Stuyvesant, NY – and was subsequently filmed over the course of two weeks in September 2015, with additional filming in the Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center. Screamers is the first feature film by Chocolate Factory Co-Founder / Artistic Director Brian Rogers and is the third in a trilogy of works referencing cinematic vocabularies after Hot Box (2012/13, co-presented with Crossing The Line, PS122 and EMPAC) and Selective Memory (2010/11, Bessie Nomination)." 7pm
25-26 AUNTS@ Rockaway ROCKAWAY! (see July listing). "a collection of over a dozen artists organized by AUNTS in collaboration with Beach Sessions will transform the neighborhood and take over three diverse locations. Audiences will be able to join, follow, wander and experience as many as or as few performances as they choose, creating their own experiences through chance encounters." August 25 starting at 5pm; August 26 starting at 2pm at
multiple locations: on the beach at B110th Street; on the boardwalk between B110th and the Castle; Rockaway’s The Castle
Free #dance, #sitespecific, #promenade, #MobilityAdvisory.
continuing: THE NEW MUSEUM summer show through September 2. An especially strong series of artists, none of whom I'd heard of before. Which is good! The large scale video installations by John Akomfrah "Signs of Empire" require time, but are very much worth it.
SEPTEMBER
8 FORCED ENTERTAINMENT: AND ON THE THOUSANDTH NIGHT a 6 hour performance marathon, midnight to 6am from this extremely influential Brit company. NYU Skirball
11-16 FORCED ENTERTAINMENT; COMPLETE WORKS:TABLE TOP SHAKESPEARE at NYUSkirball
13-30 THE ARTS, written and directed by Kevin Doyle, and created by Sponsored By Nobody. LaMama. "Investigates the origins of public funding for the arts in the U.S. and contrasts with current state of funding"
15 A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF SAM MILLER (1952-2018) St. Mark's Danspace 11am-10pm
22-23 BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY'S ANALOGY TRILOGY NYUSkirball the entire 6 hour trilogy. I saw the "Ambos" section at Gammage in AZ last year and thought it was some of the most subtle, nuanced work I have seen from this company. Really fine.
25-29 WHAT REMAINS Claudia Rankine, Will Rawls, John Lucas. Originally commissioned for Live Arts Bard, now at Danspace/Crossing the Line
27- OKLAHOMA! Rogers & Hammerstein get a new hammer, wielded by director Daniel Fish. We saw this at Bard in 2015 and it's brilliant. Not like any production you have ever experienced of this musical. St. Anne's Warehouse
27-28 10,000 GESTURES Boris Charmatz. NYUSkirball "a 24-strong ensemble of dancers perform, in succession, 10,000 gestures – none repeated, every one unique."
OCTOBER
11-14 LANGUAGE REVERSAL Written/performed by Aaron Landsman, co-created with Serbian company Kulturanova. LaMama co-commissioning with ASUGammage. The final work will premiere in 2020 "a multi-lingual performance and conversation about resistance and translation." Aaron is a 2017-18 Guggenheim Fellow (and his work is always utterly unique and engrossing)
12-13 LONG RUN first seen at Bard last year, a new dance piece by the always bracing Tere O'Connor. NYU Skirball