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March 17, 2010 | Performance Space 122 E-Mail Newsletter
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NOW PLAYING:

THE PS122 PASSPORT:

RADIOHOLE RAVES:

COMING SOON:

Special Offers, Events, Partnerships:

STOCK UP ON PASSPORTS NOW AND ENJOY SPRING LATER

iPassport: Each time you buy a PS122 Passport between March 1-21 you will be entered to win a brand new Apple iPod touch.

The PS122 Passport is a package of 5 tickets to Performance Space 122 that can be used in ANY combination this Spring!

Passports are fun, flexible and easy - the way a good package should be!

Purchase a PS122 Passport for yourself or as a gift
& be automatically entered to win an Apple ipod touch

Boost your chances by stocking up on Passports now &
Enjoy Spring later

Spring 2010 includes:
Radiohole (Through March 21),
The Wooster Group's Booty Call Avant-Garde-Arama!,
Reid Farrington, Vaginal Davis (Winner of the 2009 Ethyl Eichelberger Award),
Adrienne Truscott, Isabel Lewis
and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins...
More about Spring 2010

Bonus for all active Passport holders!

  • FREE MARGARITA – ONCE PER VISIT to LA PALAPA
    Show your PS122 Passport at either LaPalapa location (77 St Marks btwn 1st & 2nd or 359 6th Ave btwn W. 4th & Washington Pl.) and receive 1 FREE Margarita. Once per visit. No purchase necessary, although we recommend everything on the menu. Good until we say stop but at least until June 2010.
  • 10% OFF ALL PURCHASES at TEICH DESIGN
    Show your PS122 PASSPORT to receive 10% off all purchases at Teich Design (84 East 7th St btwn 1st & 2nd Ave) as featured in O magazine, Marie Claire, Lucky, and Inhabitat
  • FREE EYEBROW SHAPING & 30% OFF ALL OTHER SERVICES at LILIZ SALON
    Show your PS122 PASSPORT to receive FREE eyebrow shaping & 30% off all other services at Liliz Salon (MacDougal & 8th St)
  • FREE CUPCAKE at BUTTER LANE
    Show your PS122 PASSPORT to enjoy 2 cupcakes for the price of 1 at Butter Lane (123 East 7th St.)

Drawing will be held Monday, March 22 - Winners will be announced first on twitter (@PS122) and will be posted on our passport page on or before March 25. Bon chance!

LAST CHANCE - MUST END SUNDAY
Radiohole - Whatever, Heaven Allows

WINNER OF THE 2009 SPALDING GRAY AWARD
NY PREMIERE

Excerpts from Ben Brantley's review in The New York Times:
"I enjoyed it"... "'Whatever' includes some funny video sequences (love that chain-smoking deer!), clunky karaoke-style musical numbers (the Jane Wyman stand-in sings 'I Am Woman') and one inspired routine involving haka, a traditional Maori dance form. Oh, yes, there are also a couple of scenes (partly performed in German) from 'Ali: Fear Eats the Soul,' Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1974 cinematic hommage to 'All That Heaven Allows.'...

But you have to admit that Radiohole is a great leveler. It makes Milton sound like a Brill Building songwriter, and Sirk seem as on-the-surface as 'Melrose Place.' Culture don't get no respect from Radiohole, which may not be enlightening, but for a generation that's so over postmodernism, it is kind of liberating." Enjoy the full review

Known for its radical and reckless theatricality, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s potboilers and Milton's epic Paradise Lost. Our heroine is an all- American "Eve" who must save her home from an evil-doer while struggling to find fulfillment in a lasting relationship with a supposedly good man who looks like god. Radiohole's newest synthesis of cultural flotsam is sure to be bawdy, silly, possibly transcendent, and a touch disturbed.

5 MORE SHOWS
Thru Sunday, March 21
Thu - Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM
Late Shows: Saturdays at 10:30PM: Feb 27/Mar 6/Mar 13/Mar 20

Tickets:
$20, $15 (students/seniors), $11 (with the PS122 Passport)

TheaterMania

Passport holders: Log in and reserve tickets

"Fishnet stockings and feather boas aren't usually the subject of a lecture but today students are taken back to the turn of the twentieth century and topless showgirls [by Dr. Lucky]." - Judith Kampfner, NPR

This verbal varieté strategizes the explicitly semiotic spectacle in a multimedia showcase of live art representing an encounter between the academic lecture hall, the poet's theater, and the vaudeville house.

PERFORMANCES BY: Vaginal Davis | Lord Whimsy | Dr. Lucky | Jeremy J F Thompson | Paolo Javier | Daniel Scott Snelson | Shonni Enelow

STENO POOL: AN INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE Featuring: Leesa Abahuni | Nicole Abahuni | Jen Zak | Kristen Rhea van Liew | Fyodor Pavlov | Lawrence Gullo | Kyle Hittmeier | Lindsay Comstock

CODEXKAMMER: A FUNCTIONAL LENDING LIBRARY
MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY: Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopators
INTERTITULAR TAP BY: The Minsky Sisters
ONE-MINUTE CURATORIAL MICRO-LECTURES BY Mashinka Foxtrot Firunts

Reception to follow.

Co-sponsored by Ugly Duckling Presse
Alcohol provided by Russian Standard Vodka

Monday, March 22
8PM + ADDED 10PM
FREE - Reservations required

TheaterMania

PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 HONORS
JOHN LEGUIZAMO

Honorary Chairs
Baz Luhrmann & Claire Danes

Evening MCs
Carmelita Tropicana & Marga Gomez

SAVE THE DATE: TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010

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WAXFACTORY: DELIRIUM 27

Part of the WaxFactory Year 11 Retrospective
March 24-27 8pm
March 28 5 pm

DELIRIUM 27 is a hybrid performance/installation featuring the work of the WaxFactory ensemble, employing an unconventional blend of text- and movement-based live performance. In an unknown amount of time, under the hum of the electric lights, a fever takes hold of Ode Black, who is being held under investigation for a crime. On the border of a breakdown, remnants of his former life blur the lines of memory, imagination, and forgotten thoughts, while humor becomes his only compass out of the darkness. Written and directed by Erika Latta, DELIRIUM 27 was first staged in January 2008 in collaboration with Bunker Productions in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and this engagement marks its American premiere.

Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St at Pitt St)
Tickets - $15

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