NOW PLAYING:

• EXTENDED! Added Radiohole performances:
  Radiohole - Whatever, Heaven Allows Through Sunday, March 21
• FINAL WEEKEND:
  Tom Murrin & Lucy Sexton - The Talking Show Through Sunday, March 7

THE PS122 PASSPORT:

• iPassport: Each time you buy a PS122 Passport between now and March 21 you will be entered to win a brand new Apple ipod touch
• FREE MARGARITAS For ALL active Passport holders from La Palapa!

RADIOHOLE BUZZ:

• "I enjoyed it - Ben Brantley, The New York Times
• "It's a marvelous effect: gross and improbably gorgeous" - Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice
• "Shooting interdisciplinary references faster than they could huck you a Pabst Blue Ribbon." - Helen Shaw, Time Out New York
• "Reinforce their brilliance as performers, not just creators." - Obscene Jester
• "Incantatory and indulgent" - John Del Signore, Gothamist
• "Vigorous sloppy hilarious Radiohole, who put the fun, weirdness, wrestling, and beer back into downtown performance art." - David Johnston, NYtheater
• Whatever, Heaven Allows is "anarchically entertaining" - Aaron Riccio
• Whatever, Heaven Allows Video Trailer

TALKING ABOUT THE TALKING SHOW:

• 4 STARS: "As long as Murrin’s willing to talk, there's reason to listen. - Paul Menard, Time Out New York
• "Perhaps a sequel is in order. Anticipate another Alien invasion." - Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice
• Five Questions for Tom Murrin from Culturebot
• Paper Mag chats with "Tom Murrin On His Magical, Ridiculous Journey" - Alana Levinson
• Check out the photos from The Talking Show's Opening Night on Getty
• Tom Murrin "has fascinating stories to tell" - Jerry Portwood, The NY PRess
• The Talking Show Video Trailer

Special Offers, Events, Partnerships:

• HERE Arts presents SOUNDING thru March 13
• Dixon Place presents Annette March 12 - 27
• We recommend theatreMAMA's weekly hot tip-sheet of performance
• Discover Fourth Street Arts Block! We did!
• SAVE THE DATE Performance Space 122's annual Spring Gala will be on Tuesday, May 4 honoring John Leguizamo!
• Performance Space 122 is available for rental
  Upstairs(130 seats) & Downstairs (70 seats) Available for rehearsal or performance. Prices vary, according to length of rental. For more info, please email rentals@ps122.org with the dates you are interested in and what the project is

A Call to Action:

• The time of budget cuts is upon us and there are threats at the City, State and Federal level to cut funding to the arts. Please take a moment to send letters to your local, state and federal representatives and tell them that while these cuts are chump change to their budgets, the ripple effect to our economic and cultural stability will be manifold. We've tried to make this as easy as possible here on our new advocacy page.

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:
Tom Murrin, Radiohole (Extended through March 21), Avant-Garde-Arama curated by The Wooster Group, Reid Farrington, Vaginal Davis (Winner of the 2009 Ethyl Eichelberger Award), Adrienne Truscott, Lewis Forever 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)

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!

EXTENDED THROUGH MARCH 21
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.

RADIOHOLE EXTENDS!
Now through 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)

Passport holders: Log in and reserve tickets

Tom Murrin - The Talking Show

WORLD PREMIERE

"You can't take your eyes off his chaotic energy." -Laurie Stone, Vogue

"So mesmerizing and playful that the unsuspecting hordes may not even realize the full impact of his message." -Paper

Fairy godfather of downtown performance Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life - and of his travels though avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s! Murrin has been there from the beginning and lived to tell the tale. Speaking with wild-eyed excitement, Murring hits you with history, hilarity, and his extraordinary generosity of spirit and innocence. It must be seen and heard to be believed.
Written & performed by Tom Murrin. Directed by Lucy Sexton. Produced by Lori E. Seid. Lighting Design by Melissa J. Mendez. Featured performers: Kate Benson, Laurie Berg, and Heidi Dorow. Special guests: Mike Iveson (Feb 18-28); Salley May and Mimi Goese (Mar 4-7)

Thursday, February 18 - Sunday, March 7
Wed - Sat at 7:30PM, Sun at 5:30PM

ARTIST TALKBACK: Thursday, March 4

Tickets $20, $15 (Student/Senior), $11 (with the PS122 Passport)

Passport holders: Log in and reserve tickets

HERE Presents SOUNDING
Thru Mar 13 Wed-Sat 8:30 PM | TIX $15** Tickets at here.org | 212.352.3101
*HERE Friends Special Discount $3 off TIX

Live cinema surges onto stage in this multi-media play set to an original soundtrack inspired by Patti Smith, Bartok and Portishead
Written by Jennifer Gibbs, Directed by Kristin Marting
Featuring Bessie Award-winning Okwui Okpokwasili* as Leda
and an ensemble cast featuring Todd d’Amour, Ana Kayne, Irene Longshore, Rudy Mungaray, Michael Pemberton*, Stephen Reyes*
*AEA

www.here.org/sounding

From our Friends at Dixon Place

FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, MARCH 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27 at 7:30pm

ANNETTE
by REGINA NEJMAN
A Mondo Cané Commission

Dixon Place - 161A Chrystie Street Map it
212-219-0736
Get Tickets Online

"Vivid...kinkily athletic...explosive..." - Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice
"dynamic...compelling...unexpected..." - David St.-Lascaux, Brooklyn Rail

Annette and Oliver, two fragmented characters struggle for survival and understanding in this multi-media dance piece, inspired by choreographer Regina Nejman's own experiences teaching in a psychiatric outpatient program. Read more

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