When Spalding Gray succumbed to depression and took his life in the winter of 2004, he left behind a loving family, a legion of devoted fans and an enormous body of work. Stories Left to Tell charts a uniquely personal journey through Spalding's inimitable perspective and voice, featuring excerpts from his hilarious monologues juxtaposed with journal entries, poems, and other unpublished - and previously unperformed - writing.

Created and co-directed by his widow Kathleen Russo and Lucy Sexton, this resonant program is exquisitely crafted from excerpts of both his classic work as well as previously unpublished writing.

100% of the proceeds from Stories Left to Tell presented by Barrow Street Theater will benefit The Spalding Gray Award

The Spalding Gray Award is an annual commissioning award created by Performance Space 122, UCLA Live, and Kathleen Russo.

The Spalding Gray Award supports gifted writer/performers who fully realize both aspects of Spalding's legacy, who are fearless innovators of theatrical form, who reach into daily experience and create resonant, transcendent work that makes us all bigger, wider, wiser and, somehow, more than we were when we entered the theater. The Award Committee is Vallejo Gantner (P.S. 122), Philip Bither (Walker Arts Center), Ben Harrison (The Warhol), and Kathleen Russo.

Gray long considered P.S. 122 a creative home-base, and it is still home to his signature desk. Gray developed and created Morning, Noon and Night, Gray on Gray and Interviewing the Audience at P.S. 122, where he was working on Life Interrupted at the time of his death.

Winners of the Spalding Gray Award:

• 2008 - Radiohole
• 2007 - the National Theater of the United States of America
• 2006 - Heather Woodbury

Be sure to check out all of the one-night-only performances of acclaimed solo shows and take joy in the fact that $1 of all ticket sales to the festival will also be donated to The Spalding Gray Award!

ONE NIGHT ONLY presented as part of Barrow Street Theater's
Summer SOLO Series
Thu, July 16 8pm
Tickets $35 Online
By Phone: (212) 691-1555
In Person: Soho Playhouse Box Office
(Open Tue - Sun 1-8pm)
15 Vandam Street (1 block north of Spring Street, just west of Sixth Avenue)

The undergroundzero festival is an experimental theater festival curated by Paul Bargetto and produced by East River Commedia in association with Collective:Unconscious. Now in its third year, the undergroundzero festival has given producing artists a flying laboratory outside the usual curatorial system where risk is encouraged and innovation can flourish.

At the heart of the festival is a question asked of every artist: What would you make if you could make anything you wanted? Our mandate is to select artists, not projects. We trust the artist to make his or her own creative choices. In exchange for this trust we expect radical experimentation and the courage to risk everything. This year undergroundzero will present fifteen full productions and five staged readings on both stages of Performance Space 122.

UPSTAIRS AT PERFORMANCE SPACE 122:

The South Wing - AOI!
Wed, Jul 8 7p | Thu, Jul 9 9p | Fri, Jul 10 7p | Sat, Jul 11 9p | Sun, Jul 12 5p
"A remarkable young company determined to carve a niche for itself in 21st century avant-garde theater." - Frank Episale, Off-off online (for DiVL!) A tale of passion that survives the grave, when nothing is left but an empty desire to possess and destroy. (60 Minutes)

East River Commedia - The Jamal Lullabies
Wed, Jul 8 9p | Thu, Jul 9 7p | Fri, Jul 10 9p | Sat, Jul 11 7p | Sun, Jul 12 2p
Four young, white women sing about Jamal, a beloved black student at their school who was killed at a gang shooting during a party. As the women unfold their stories it becomes clear that each of them loved him in profound ways that altered the course of their lives. Scored by Emily Conbere and directed by Paul Bargetto. (50 Minutes)

Blessed Unrest - Nick
Wed, Jul 15 9:30p | Thu, Jul 16 7p | Fri, Jul 17 7p | Sat, Jul 18 7p | Sun, Jul 19 5p
"...emotional intensity.... sheer originality... delightful surprises." - Pamela Newton, Time Out New York (For Doruntine) Blessed Unrest, 2008 Innovative Theatre Award winner for Outstanding Play, presents an electrifying, contemporary adaptation of Chekhov's Ivanov. (95 Minutes)

Pinchbottom Burlesque - Pretencion
Wed, Jul 15 7p | Thu, Jul 16 10p | Fri, Jul 17 10p | Sat, July 18 10p | Sun, Jul 19 7p
"The best burlesque show in town" -The Village Voice
Step into the world of Pinchbottom's Pretencion: un cirque de burlesque, un burlesque de cirque -- but be careful not to trip on the magic. (90 Minutes)


Dangerous Ground - 3!
Wed, Jul 22 9p | Thu, Jul 23 7p | Fri, Jul 24 9p | Sat, Jul 25 7p | Sun, Jul 26 5p
3! is a multimedia experiment inspired by Fassbinder's 1979 film The Third Generation. Hybrid forms of performance subvert reality in an attempt to interrogate violence. (120 Minutes)

TerraNOVA Collective & Pace University - The Consequences
Wed, Jul 22 7p | Thu, Jul 23 9p | Fri, Jul 24 7p | Sat, Jul 25 9p | Sun, Jul 26 2p
"Mr. Jarrow is the kind of writer who likes to provoke people." - The New Yorker The Consequenes is the new indie-rock musical from Kyle Jarrow and Nathan Leigh, the team behind "Love Kills" (NYMF), "Big Money" (Williamstown Theater Festival), and the rock band Super Mirage.

DOWNSTAIRS AT PERFORMANCE SPACE 122:

Thinking Person's Theater - She of the Voice
Tue, Jul 7 7:30p | Wed, Jul 8 7:30p | Thu, Jul 9 7:30p | Fri, Jul 10 7:30p
"Delectable, sweeping... audaciously playful...Kunzru writes with wry certitude and cinematic precision."-The New York Times What's the difference between a wise fool and crazy neighbor? Magda Mandela's fellow citizens ponder this and more in an adaptation of award-winning author Hari Kunzru's free-wheeling exploration of human fellowship. (60 Minutes)

WaxFactory & Eric Dean Scott - Tales from Bordertown (prologue)
Tue, Jul 7 9:30p | Wed, Jul 8 9:30p | Thu, Jul 9 9:30p | Fri, Jul 10 9:30p
Let's get lost. Downtown performer Eric Dean Scott follows a trail of dreams, poetry, jazz recollection, lost roads, New Orleans and the razor's edge...past shore, past time, past place....into bordertown. (90 Minutes)

Nora Woolley & Christine Witmer - Selling Splitsville
Sat, Jul 11 7 :30p | Sun, Jul 12 5:30p | Sat, Jul 18 5:30p | Sun, Jul 19 5:30p
TV shopping hosts Kath and Cheryl Marissa hawk speciality products for divorced families. Go from denial to acceptance in three easy instalments of $19.99. Directed by Raquel Cion. (75 Minutes)

Hoi Polloi - Winter Journey
Tue, Jul 14 7:30p | Wed, Jul 15 7:30p | Sat, Jul 18 7:30p | Sun, Jul 19 2:30p
"Pitch-perfect. . . this is a chance to watch an already impressive director as he modulates into a higher key." - Time Out New York (The Less We Talk)
Hoi Polloi Artistic Director Alec Duffy explores his father's lifelong obsession with Schubert's late masterwork, the "Winterreise" song cycle. (55 minutes)


Wolf 395 - Evanston: A Rare Comedy
Tue, Jul 14 9:30p | Wed, Jul 15 9:30p | Thu, Jul 16 9:30p | Fri, Jul 17 7:30p
"A very gifted group of young artists" - Andy Horowitz, Culturebot A teenage girl disappears in deepest suburbia, and a meeting of the Evanston Women's Book Club ends in blood. (90 minutes)

Columbia University School of the Arts - The Misanthrope
An ensemble-created contemporary revisiting of Moliere's classic social comedy told with austere passion and ecstatic frustration in music, movement, and verse.
Thu, Jul 16 7:30p | Fri, Jul 17 9:30p | Sat, Jul 18 9:30p | Sun, Jul 19 7:30p

NU Classic Theater - Apocalypsis Cum Figuris and The Constant Prince
Tue, Jul 21 7:30p | Wed, Jul 22 7:30p | Wed, Jul 22 9:30p | Thu, Jul 23 9:30p | Fri, Jul 24 7:30p NU Classic Theater presents Apocalypsis Cum Figuris and The Constant Prince, to commemorate Grotowski and his actors work; with poetry, a state of crisis, a biomechanics etude, and intense physicality. (60 minutes)

Coffee Cup (a theatre co.) - We Are Being Held
Thu, Jul 23 7:30p | Fri, Jul 24 9:30p | Sat, Jul 25 5:30p | Sat, Jul 25 7:30p | Sun, Jul 26 7:30p A highly physical original show rooted in the minute and momentary connections that pass between us on the subway. (75 minutes)

playgroundzero (staged readings) created/curated by Saviana Stanescu
playgroundzero aims to offer a chance to exposure to plays that are highly original, risk-taking, innovative, bold and provocative.

• Me You Us Them by Andrea Lepcio Sat, Jul 11 3:30p
  
• Incomplete and Beautiful by Nathaniel Kressen Sun, Jul 12 2:30p The hilarious coming-of-age story of a group of artists in the gentrified East Village of NYC. (90 Minutes)
  
• For a Barbarian Woman by Saviana Stanescu Sat, Jul 18 3:30p
  
• Vattago by Ian Cohen Sat, Jul 25 2:30p The demon, Vattago, infiltrates the home and workplace of Matt Ross, resulting in chaos and death. A comedy.
  
• Torrents by Robert Attenweiler Sun, Jul 26 3:30p
  The story of two sisters battling the divide of one's rural militia agenda and the other's fundamentalist religious hope. (75 Minutes)
  

July 7 - 26, 2009
All shows: $15
EXCEPT: Pinchbottom Burlesque: $20 / playgroundzero (staged readings): $5

"It's hard to justify seeking any other form of entertainment on your Saturday night."-Claudia La Rocco , The New York Times

"Would you totally go out and see some of the underground artsy dancing and acting that New York offers so much of, if only you had an ironclad guarantee that the performance wasn't going to be boring and sucky? Well, today is your lucky day."
- Emily Gould, Gawker.com

Catch & the creators of Our Hit Parade meet Kanye West!

WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!! is a group show inspired by Kanye West's ground-breaking, "Thom Yorke in the Strip Club" crossover pop album 808s & Heartbreak. Conceived by Brendan Kennedy and presented by Neal Medlyn and Catch in association with Performance Space 122, the evening-length performance will feature work by a vast array of downtown superstars showing pieces inspired by each song from the album, much as the Joffrey Ballet's (in)famous Billboards choreographed the songs of Prince.

Performed by:
Dance Gang !
Christine Elmo !
Justin Jones & Elliott Durko Lynch !
Myles Kane !
Karinne Keithley !
Juliana May !
Neal Medlyn !
Kenny Mellman !
Jennifer Monson !
asubtout !
Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad !
Ann Liv Young !

July 30 - Aug 1
Thu - Sat 8pm
Tickets from $20, Students/Seniors $15, Members $10

"Ms. Kim is a smart, analytical artist, creating works that challenge personal and cultural assumptions... her choreography, often drawing on deeply personal experiences, relies on a gripping, dreamlike logic."
- Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

"Undoubtedly smart and talented."
-Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice [Placid Baby]

Darling is a black comedy disguised as a horror film disguised as a dance. Inspired by the genre subversion and dysfunctional family dynamics of the 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' Darling exposes killers, cannibals, half-wits and the sexually demented for who they really are - monsters with extraordinary human qualities who must put up with the shaming and nagging of their insufferable families, just like everyone else. Darling answers the burning question, "What do butchers and cannibals do in their off-time? And, how do they do it?" Darling is essentially the story of family - necessary, painful, horrific, and ultimately laughable.

Performed by Jodi Bender, Sam Kim, Ryan McNamara, and Liz Santoro

SAM KIM makes dances that focus on the margins of culture and behavior, creating space for vulnerability while courting danger. Since 2002, Sam has created dumb dumb bunny (The Kitchen, 2007), Cult (Dance Theater Workshop, 2007), AVATAR (Mulberry St Theater, 2006), Nobody Understands Me (Dance Theater Workshop, 2004), Placid Baby (Performance Space 122, 2003) and Valentine (Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, 2002). She has created several shorter works since 1997.

Darling was created, in part, through the Artist in Residence Program at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and with private funds from the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Darling was created, in part, with support from The Lucky Star Foundation.

Photo by: Ryan McNamara

Wed, June 24 - Sun, June 28
Wed - Sat 8p/Sun 6p
$20, $15 (students/seniors),
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

Dark Horse/Black Forest at The Gershwin Hotel
Presented by Performance Space 122 and Neke Carson

A special Dance Installation: Space is Limited, Book in Advance

What is DARK HORSE/BLACK FOREST?

It's an intense love story presented in the most intimate of spaces: the bathroom.

It's designed to be bought and owned for an evening in the privacy of your own bathroom in your home or special event venue.

It's dance. It's art. It's interior design.

It's critically acclaimed and causing quite a stir.

And... It's currently being performed in an exclusive engagement in the lobby bathroom of The Gershwin Hotel NOW through Sunday, June 28.

Buy tickets to this special event Click here to purchase tickets online
Act fast - space is limited - only seven spaces are available per night.

If event appears to be sold out, you can come to The Gershwin Hotel one hour before the performance you wish to see and add your name to a waiting list.
The wait list is accessible in person at The Gershwin Hotel Lobby only and must be signed up for on the same day you wish to attend.

Inquire about booking Dark Horse / Black Forest as a private event in your home or selected venue.
Prices begin at $1650 for private home installations and begin at $2500 for corporate events. Private bookings are available worldwide and include fully edited archival digital documentation of the event for continued enjoyment.

To find out more about private home bookings of Dark Horse / Black Forest, please email darkhorse@ps122.org
These privately booked performances are made available exclusively through Performance Space 122 and for a limited time only.

More about the limited run at The Gershwin...
The W.C. at The Gershwin Hotel in New York City has been transformed by flourescents, mirrors, and video screens. The audience is privy to an emotional and private exchange between a couple that evolves into a formal, sensual dance. There are two casts that rotate bi-weekly: a man and a woman (Heather Olson & Joseph Poulson), and two men (Luke Miller & Darrin Wright).

"[Castro is] as much an installation artist as a choreographer" - Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

"Castro's smart, kooky shenanigans captivate..." - Chris Dohse, The Village Voice

"Castro's upcoming duet takes voyeurism to a precipice... it doesn't happen on a stage but in a bathroom like yours." - Lori Ortiz

Photos courtesy of Charles Houghton, Brett Crocitto and Yanira Castro

Heather Olson & Joseph Poulson:
June 5-7, 12-14
Luke Miller & Darrin Wright:
June 19-21, 26-28

June 5 - 28
ADDED PERFORMANCES:
Fri, June 26 7pm and 9pm
Sat, June 27 9pm and 11pm
Sun, June 28 5pm and 7pm

All performances: $45

All performances at The Gershwin Hotel
Located at 7 East 27th Street, between Madison and 5th Avenue
(N & R train at 28th Street)



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GOLD SPONSORS
Scott Rudin Productions, Creative Artists Agency, Ivan Martinez & Patty Adams de Martinez, East Side Community Coalition, David Neubert, Heather Thomas & Chet Kerr

SILVER SPONSOR
Proskauer Rose LLP, Jane Friedman

BRONZE SPONSORS
Harry Bond, Anne Dennin, Joseph T. Donohue, Sally Greene, Michelle Kim, Lynda Logan, TheaterMania and Ovationtix.

BENEFIT COMMITTEE
Caterina Bartha, Dominique Bravo, Schuyler Brown, Gaby Darbyshire, Mia Fenwick, Olivia Georgia, David Leslie, Steve Oakes, L. Gabrielle Penabaz, Kathleen Russo, Mark Russell, Howard Spector, Jason Tsou, Lauren Versel

ARTISTS COMMITTEE
Jonah Bokaer, Thomas Bradshaw, Travis Chamberlain, Earl Dax, Yehuda Duenyas, Karen Finley, Ain Gordon, Trajal Harrell, Holly Hughes, Kyle Jarrow, Lisa Kron, Dean Moss, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Jay Scheib and Tanya Selvaratnam, Ildiko Szollosi, Carmelita Tropicana

Tickets & Sponsorship levels:

Platinum Sponsor: $10,000
10 prestige seats to the show, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, full-page ad and listing in the program, listing in Spring 2009 playbills and on website

Gold Sponsor: $5,000
10 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artist, full-page ad in the program.

Silver Sponsor: $3,000
10 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, half- page ad in the program.

Bronze Sponsor: $2,000
4 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, plus sponsorship listing in the program.

Benefit Committee: $1,000
4 premium orchestra seats, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, plus sponsorship listing in the program.

Individual Sponsor: $500
1 premium orchestra seat, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists, plus listing in the program.

Individual Patron: $200
1 orchestra seat, pre-show reception, post-show party with the artists.
Limited number remaining

Single Ticket: $100
One rear orchestra seat. Sold out.

Artist Ticket: $40
One balcony seat. Sold out.

Click here to purchase your benefit ticket online now.

SPONSOR AN AD IN THE BENEFIT PROGRAM:

Premium ad (inside front/back cover or centerfold, 5" wide, 8" high) $1500
Full page (5" wide, 8" high) $500
Half page (5" wide, 4" high) $300

*SPECIAL ARTIST CLASSIFIED 25 words for $25!
A great way to let Ishmael Houston-Jones, C. Carr, and the Performance Space 122 community know what they mean to you. 2009 Classifieds are closed as of May 20. Thanks for your messages.

Please send ads as JPG files, black/white, 300 dpi. Or simply email us your congratulatory message and we'll design the ad for you.
Ad deadline: Friday, May 15.
For further info, email benefit@ps122.org

*Please note, in addition to appearing in the Benefit program, all sponsors will be listed on the Spring Benefit web-page.

Date: Wednesday, May 27
Location: Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand St. (at Pitt St.)
New York, NY 10002


Evening Overview:
*6:00 Cocktails & hors d'oeuvres, , performance installation by the Butoh Rockettes
*8:00 Performance & Tributes
"Intermission" with Live Auction & Benefit Boutique
*10:00 Party with DJs Andrew Andrew



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Performance Space 122 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization