Now Playing:

• COIL 2009 Jan 6 - 13
  12 companies. 8 days. Breathtaking performance.
  COIL Party Sun, Jan 11 @ 9p
• Yanira Castro + Company - Dark Horse/Black Forest - Private bookings only
  Follow this project on Twitter beginning Dec. 2

Coming Soon:

• Pan Pan - The Crumb Trail
  Presented as part of COIL and Under The Radar | Extended: Jan 15 - Jan 17
• Ella Hickson/Tantrum Productions
  Presented as part of COIL | Extended: Jan 14 - 25
• the TEAM - Architecting
  Presented as part of Under The Radar | Extended at P.S. 122: Jan 22 - Feb 15

Recent Press:

• "Ireland's Pan Pan theatre group is back in town" - Flavorpill
• "Everyone wants a piece of Eight" - Neil Cooper, The Herald
• "Best of the Fests" - Leonard Jacobs, NY Press
• Watch Young Jean Lee and Richard Maxwell chat as part of a BOMB Magazine event at P.S. 122

Special Events and Offers:

• Give Membership: Year round packages to P.S. 122 starting at only $60
• "ADDICTED TO BAD IDEAS: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century" Jan 9, 8p
• CULTUREMART 2009 at HERE Arts Center Jan 3-Feb 4
• Banana Bag and Bodice at the cabaret at Under The Radar Jan 17 @ 11pm
• MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA Jan 27 - Apr 18
• Australia Plays Broadway Jan 20 @ 8pm
• Caffe Emilia's ongoing discounts for Performance Space 122 friends, patrons, and members
• Marions A-Go-Go - Helping P.S. 122 and you plan fabulous parties for over 16 years

COIL 09
Performance Space 122's Annual Winter Festival
January 6 - 13

12 companies. 8 days. Breathtaking performance.

The COIL pass: $60. See any and all COIL shows EXCEPT 'Architecting', and 'The Passion Project' for only $60

Individual Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)

Presenter Tickets: $10 each with APAP/UTR/business affiliation.
Please email shoni@ps122.org
Presenters can download your COIL 2009 form here

*COIL Party*
Sun, Jan 11 @ 9pm
Special guest performance by Cynthia Hopkins
Join all of us at Performance Space 122 celebrate COIL at the LuEsther Lounge in The Public Theater. (425 Lafayette St.)
Going to another show or party that night? No problem, we'll be there 'til 1am -
Stop for an after-party!

No cover, Cash bar, drink specials

Pan Pan - The Crumb Trail
80 min
Wed, Jan 7 6:30p | Thu, Jan 8 10:30p | Fri, Jan 9 2:30p | Sun, Jan 11 7p | Mon, Jan 12 3:30p | Extended: Jan 15 - Jan 17

Joseph Silovsky - Jester of Tonga
60 min
Wed, Jan 7 10p | Fri, Jan 9 7:30p | Sat, Jan 10 2:30p | Mon, Jan 12 9:30p

Lewis Forever - LEWIS FOREVER: Freak the Room
60 min
Wed, Jan 7 7p | Fri, Jan 9 10p | Sat, Jan 10 6:30p | Tue, Jan 13 3p

Okwui Okpokwasili - Pent Up: A Revenge Dance 60 min
Sun, Jan 11 7:30p | Mon, Jan 12 2:30p | Extended: Feb 10 - 22

Ella Hickson/Tantrum Productions - Eight 150 min
Tue, Jan 6 7:30p | Thu, Jan 8 7:30p | Fri, Jan 9 2pm | Sun, Jan 11 2pm |
Extended: Jan 14 - 25

Temporary Distortion - Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) 60 min
Wed, Jan 7 10:30p | Thu, Jan 8 2:30p | Sat, Jan 10 7p | Tue, Jan 13 7:30p

The Shalimar - Trash Warfare
75 min
Thu, Jan 8 3p | Sat, Jan 10 10p | Mon, Jan 12 6:30p | Tue, Jan 13 7p

LeeSaar The Company - Geisha 60 min
Sat, Jan 10 2p | Mon, Jan 12 7p

The BodyCartography Project - Holiday House 50 min
Tue, Jan 6 8p | Fri, Jan 9 7p | Sat, Jan 10 10:30p | Mon, Jan 12 10p | Tue, Jan 13 3:30p

Palissimo - Blind Spot 60 min
Thu, Jan 8 7p | Fri, Jan 9 10:30p

Reid Farrington - The Passion Project* 35 min
Jan 10 - 17: 3p & 9:30p | Jan 13 - 3p ONLY | Jan 14 - 9:30p ONLY

The TEAM - Architecting** 150 min
Fri, Jan 9 8p | Sat, Jan 10 1p | Sun, Jan 11 7p | Wed, Jan 14 7p | Thu, Jan 15 7p | Sat, Jan 17 7p | Sun, Jan 18 2p | Extended: At Performance Space 122, Jan 22 - Feb 15

*Reid Farrington's The Passion Project is not covered by the COIL pass. 'The Passion Project' will be performed offsite at 3LD Art and Technology Center. Please purchase tickets at www.3LDnyc.org

**The TEAM's Architecting is co-presented by Under The Radar. It is not covered by the COIL pass and is ticketed exclusively through Under The Radar. To purchase tickets for 'Architecting' please visit thepublictheater.org or call 212-967-7555

Photo by: Jose Aragon

Ella Hickson/Tantrum Productions
Eight

"One of the most self-assured, startlingly well-written and moving pieces of theatre around."
- The Herald

"Stunningly well performed...this is a truly impressive and exciting hour of theatre"
- The Scotsman

Winner of the 2008 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award and Fringe First Award Winner, EIGHT is a collection of extraordinary tales of remarkably self-aware young adults smartly crafted by breakout playwright Ella Hickson.

From high-class hookers to those who make friends in morgues, to single mothers and bereaved gallery owners, Eight gives all of these otherwise neglected characters center-stage, including the moving, politically punchy portrait of a man who has lost everything except his memories of the 7/7 London bombings. Marginal behavior is integrated into the mainstream and apathy blazes across it all. 'Eight' works to find the glimmers of faith in a world of wholesale cynicism. Incisively witty yet touching and potent, these eight monologues present what those reaching adulthood in The Naughties would be saying - if they could be bothered.

Writer Ella Hickson has written and published poetry since her late teens and completed her first novel in 2004. In addition she has worked as a producer for BBC comedy troupe The Penny Dreadfuls, Offstage Theatre, The Edinburgh Film Festival and in 2006 established her own production company, Escape Artist.

Presented as part of COIL 2009
Extended: Wed, Jan 14 - Sun, Jan 25
Wed - Sat at 8pm
Sun at 5pm

Tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

Photo by Tom Bishop

Pan Pan
The Crumb Trail

Praise for Oedipus Loves You:
"Wonderful" - Time Out New York ****

"Unexpected rewards come to those who wait." - Ben Brantley, NY Times

"...approaches the sublime... the songs are first-rate ear candy" -Variety

Once upon a time, Dublin’s foremost experimental theatre company made its highly anticipated return to N.Y.C. to unveil a decamerous performance installation grappling with crises and engagement. The Crumb Trail is blunt and sharp — part detective story, part autopsy. Can we live in a world without fairy tales? Where did being good ever get anyone?

Pan Pan has created 17 new productions and has toured throughout Ireland as well as Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, U.K, USA, Italy, Norway Sweden, Poland, Austria, Australia and Korea. The Crumb Trial is directed by Gavin Quinn, text by Gina Moxley, designed by Aedin Cosgrove. Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, The Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council.

Presented as part of COIL 2009 and Under The Radar festivals
Extended: Thu, Jan 15 - Sat, Jan 17
Thu - Sat at 8pm
Additional Performance Sat, Jan 17 at 10:30pm

Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

Photo by Oliver Paul

the TEAM
Architecting

"A remarkable piece of work..." - The Financial Times

“A complex gem. Extraordinary.” — The Scotsman

From a condemned bar in post-Katrina New Orleans to the mythical South of Gone With The Wind, to a lonely gas station in Arkansas, Architecting is a multi-media road tripping requiem for modern America. Three-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winners the TEAM (Theatre of the Emerging American Moment) bend time, hoop skirts, and history in this musical and wickedly funny epic.

The TEAM is the Theatre of the Emerging American Moment, a theatre company dedicated to dissecting and celebrating the experience of living in America today. 3-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winners (2005 - 2008), 2008 Total Theatre Award, 2007 Best Production Dublin Fringe, and TimeOut New York's Top Ten 2007. The TEAM's work has been seen stateside, all over New York, including Performance Space 122; nationally, including the Walker Art Center and Vanderbilt University; internationally, including London's Battersea Arts Centre, the Bristol Old Vic, Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, and the Galway Arts Festival.

Architecting is the first co-production between the TEAM and the National Theatre of Scotland and was created with support from the National Theatre of Scotland Workshop, the Greenwall Foundation, the Panta Rhea Foundation, the Battersea Arts Centre in London, and the Orchard Project.

Early workshops were presented at Manhattan's 3LD Art and Technology Center and the BAC in London.

Presented as part of Under The Radar festival at The Public Theater
Extended at Performance Space 122: Tue, Jan 22 - Sun, Feb 15
Tue - Sat at 7:30pm
Sun at 5pm

Tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

Photo by Yi Zhao

Yanira Castro + Company
Dark Horse/Black Forest

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

"As much an installation artist as a choreographer, [Castro] creates intricate environments in which lighting, costumes and set share equal weight with steps."
- Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

Dark Horse/Black Forest expands exploration of audience environments: how an observer and performer connect and how space influences how we participate in a performance. The performers and audience inhabit the space together. Yanira Casto + Company present their intensely performed love story in the most intimate of spaces: your bathroom.

These privately booked performances are made available exclusively through Performance Space 122 and for a limited time only. Please email darkhorse@ps122.org for reservations and more information.

Starting Tuesday, December 2 you can follow Dark Horse/Black Forest on Twitter. It's easy, here's how:

1. Twitter is a free service and is easy to join. Go to Twitter.com and sign up.
2. Click on each of the following two links, and from their profile pages click the "follow" button:
twitter.com/doghebitme
twitter.com/darkbloom8

You will now be able to follow their conversations from your home page on Twitter.

To be even more immersed: receive tweets on the go and instantaneously by connecting your cell phone to Twitter. (Twitter doesn't charge anything for this, but be sure to know what your text plan looks like with your wireless carrier.)

1. Go to Settings. Go to Devices. Add your cell phone number.
2. You will be given a number to text to activate your phone.3. Then go to Profile. Click on "following" above Updates. Turn the device updates on for doghebitedme and darkbloom8.

Photo courtesy of Yanira Castro

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One Night Only!

ArKtype presents

World/Inferno Friendship Society's
"ADDICTED TO BAD IDEAS: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century"
Co-Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib

NYC Premiere

PLUS Full Set!

January 9, 2009

8PM Doors @ Webster Hall
125 East 11th Street

Presented in association with Under The Radar Festival 09 and Bowery Presents

$16 SPECIAL ON-LINE DISCOUNT FOR P.S. 122 PATRONS!
DISCOUNT CODE: LORRE
Tickets available at Ticketmaster & Bowery Presents Outlets

BOX OFFICE LINKS:
http://www.bowerypresents.com/calendar/show/2281/
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0000415B98AA4FB5?artistid=1269450&majorcat

January 3 - February 4

CULTUREMART 2009

The annual festival of Hybrid Performance Featuring work by HERE's Resident Artists
Jan 3-Feb 4

Visit here.org for the full Festival Schedule

Including 2 Special Engagements in the Under the Radar Festival
Jan 7-11
Ray Lee's SIREN a whirling, spinning spectacle of mechanical movement, electronic sound and light by UK artist Ray Lee.

Corey Dargel’s REMOVABLE PARTS A theatrical series of love songs about voluntary amputation in which the unrequited lover – whose heart is broken – begins to question the usefulness of his other body parts. "pleases on almost every level... with an intelligent grace that is as moving as it is impressive." –New York Times

Saturday, January 17 @ 11p

Banana Bag & Bodice

A Few Songs from Beowulf - A Thousand Years Of Baggage
@ Under The Radar Cabaret Space
The Public Theater
Saturday 17th January, 11pm

"That was fucking awesome...Beowulf succeeds magnificently." - Sam Hurwitt, East Bay Express

"hilarious...clever...has the makings of a cult fave." - Dennis Harvey, Variety

Flawed heroes, sympathetic monsters and haughty professors collide as this hefty poem is rescued from the grasp of 1,000 years of highbrow analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous musical. Presented by San Francisco’s infamous Shotgun Players and New York’s infectious Banana Bag & Bodice, this new SongPlay is an irreverent dissertation on art versus criticism in blood soaked Scandinavia!

Beowulf - A Thousand Years Of Baggage
Coming soon
Abrons Arts Center
April 1-18, 2009

For more information please visit
www.bananabagandbodice.org
www.shotgunplayers.org

January 27 - April 18

MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA

A trilogy by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Scott Elliott

Featuring
Carolyn Baeumler, Mark Blum, Joseph Cross, Susan Goodwillie, Bob Hogan, Mycah Hogan, Jena Malone, Patrick Mapel, Sean Meehan, Anson Mount, Phoebe Strole, Lili Taylor, John Wojda

JANUARY 27 – APRIL 18, 2009

Lili Taylor ("Six Feet Under," Aunt Dan and Lemon), Jena Malone (Doubt, Saved!) and Joseph Cross (Milk, Running With Scissors) portray the murderous Mannons in this sizzling re-imagining of The Oresteia. At the end of the Civil War, General Mannon's wife and daughter await his return with very different agendas. When his battle- scarred son Orin finally arrives, he finds a house divided and hurtling toward oblivion. A classic tragedy of Freudian proportions, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA is a spine-twisting tale of adultery, obsession and madness.

See MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA for ONLY $39*!

(*when you use code MBP2)
For tickets thenewgroup.org
Or call Ticket Central (212.279.4200)

And for One Night Only -
O'Neill and his Electra:
Tony Kushner in Conversation with Arthur and Barbara Gelb
ONE NIGHT ONLY EVENT
January 16th, 6:30pm
The Acorn Theatre
$20
FREE TO SUBSCRIBERS

January 20 @ 8pm

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Caffe Emilia is "highly recommended" - New York Magazine

Open daily 8am to midnight
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