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Now Playing:
- Verdensteatret's Louder Sept 25-28
Reception following tonight's performance - Thomas Bradshaw's Southern Promises Sept 7-27
Final 3 performances - Thu, Fri, Sat
Coming Soon:
- Ouramdane and Rambert's Diptyque: A Standing Boy and With My Own Hands Oct 3,4
- Amy Caron's Waves of Mu Oct 10- 19
Recent Press Louder:
- Along Came a Giant Spider – Read the Cover Story Feature about Louder
- Louder is “UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU’VE EVER SEEN BEFORE” – Culturebot
- View photo gallery of Louder on Broadwayworld
Recent Raves for Southern Promises:
- "Playwrights generally tiptoe around the subject of race. Thomas Bradshaw stomps." - Jason Zinoman The New York Times
- "Rich and groundbreaking work" - Hilton Als The New Yorker
- "Tom Bradshaw is a deliberately crude playwright" "The cast is uniformly excellent" - David Cote Time Out New York
- "Deeply twisted and coolly brutal" - Rob Weinert-Kendt The Village Voice
- Tom Murrin from Papermag talks with Tom Bradshaw
- Tom Bradshaw "has a genuine gift" - Reese Thompson OffOffOff.com
- "Bradshaw remains one of the city's most audacious and provocative playwrights." - Andy Propst American Theater Web
- "You won't be able to get this play out of your head" - Peter Schuyler NYTheatre.com
- CRITIC'S PICK: "Playwright Thomas Bradshaw is on to something with 'Southern Promises'...It's a killer" - Robert Windeler, Backstage
- Southern Promises Would Like to Show You Some Nastiness
- Alexis Soloski The Village Voice - Channel Thirteen's SundayArts highlights Southern Promises
Recent Press:
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- CRITIC'S PICK: "Yanira Castro + Company bring high art to your humble abode" - Michael Alan Connelly New York Magazine
- "[No one is] more strangely, painfully eloquent or imaginative than Mr. Ouramdane." -Alastair McCauley The New York Times
- Diptyque, and Lewis Forever are highlighted in The New York Times' Fall Dance Preview
- Gia Kourlas features 'Diptyque', P.S. 122's co-presentation with Crossing The Line
- "Performance Space 122's freewheeling spirit has only been fast-forwarded by its artistic director, Vallejo Gantner" - Lori Ortiz The Gay City News
- "It will be an extraordinarily brilliant fall." -George Hunka
- 'Eight' awarded the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award
Congratulations to Reid Farrington and Shelley Kay of The Passion Project!
- "Farrington gives his show the full Wooster" - Helen Shaw Time Out New York
- "This fascinating film's embers...still give off heat" - Tom Sellar The Village Voice
- "What beauty there is in Mr. Farrington's work" - Claudia La Rocco The New York Times
- CRITIC'S PICK: Gia Kourlas interviews Reid Farrington and Shelley Kay: “It’s hard not to be blown away by Maria Falconetti, the star of 'The Passion of Joan of Arc.'”
- "There's technological magic at work here" - Andy Propst American Theater Web
- "A perfect medium through which to present the work." - Beatrice Barbareschi Culturebot
- It's mixed-media at its best." - Jeremiah Tash Edge.com
- The Passion Project in The New York Times Fall Theatre Preview
- Channel Thirteen's SundayArts highlights The Passion Project
Special Events and Offers:
- Prelude '08 is here! See P.S. 122 alums, and upcoming artists Sept 24-27
- Special Offer for Gazillonaire's Late Night Lounge! through Nov 2
- Take advantage of Caffe Emilia's ongoing discounts for Performance Space 122 friends, patrons, and members
Check out our Season Highlights
- See the season at a glance
- Download our fall season calendar
- See a sneak preview of our upcoming shows
Final Three Performances: Thu, Fri, Sat @ 8:30
Must close Saturday
Thomas Bradshaw's
'Southern Promises'
"Rich and groundbreaking work."
- Hilton Als
The New Yorker
When the master of the plantation dies, he wills his slaves to be freed, but his wife doesn't believe that good property should be squandered. The play is inspired by the true story of Henry Box Brown who escaped to the north by mailing himself in a box.
Playwright provocateur Thomas Bradshaw ignites the stage yet again in his signature inflammatory style. Following sold out and controversial runs at Performance Space 122, including Prophet and Purity, and elsewhere, including Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist and Cleansed, Bradshaw teams with acclaimed director Jose Zayas (a/d Talk Radio) for an explosive new creation that is not for the faint of heart.
Featuring: Hugh Sinclair*, Lia Aprile*, Erwin Thomas*, Jeff Biehl*, Peter Mccabe*, Sadrina Johnson*, Derrick Sanders*, Matt Huffman.
More Plays by Thomas Bradshaw:
PURITY, PROPHET, CLEANSED and STROM THURMOND IS NOT A RACIST are published by Samuel French, Inc.
Learn more about them and get your copies today at http://www.samuelfrench.com
Presented in conjunction with The Immediate Theatre Company and Queens Theater in the Park as part of B.O.B., P.S. 122’s intra-borough commissioning program. Produced in collaboration with the David Schwartz Foundation.
Southern Promises was developed, in part, through IRT Theater's Artist in Residence Program. www.irttheater.org
*Appearing courtesy Actors' Equity. AEA approved showcase.
Running Time: 80 min.
Sept 7-27
Wed-Sat 8:30pm
Sun+Mon 7pm
No performances:
Mon, Sept 15
Wed, Sept 24
Tickets from $18
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photo: Yi Zhao
Opening Tonight
"Form and substance are in perfect symmetry"
- Terese Bjoerneboe
Klassekampen
Combining robotics, video, sound, music, shadow play, object theatre, and new technology, Norway's Bessie - award winning performance collective conjures an intense and other - worldly voyage through the Mekong delta. A vast visual soundscape, Louder is a storytelling orchestra rigged with wire, teeming with strange new instruments, and propelled by blaring bullhorns.
Opening night reception on Thu, Sep 25 following the performance.
Sept 25-28
Thu-Sat 7:30pm
Sun 5pm
Running time: 80 min.
Tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photo: Asle Nielsen
Verdensteatret is supported by Arts Council Norway, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway, and the Royal Norwegian Consulate General.
For two nights only
October 3 + 4
Rachid Ouramdane, Pascal Rambert, and Kate Moran
'Diptyque: A Standing Boy' and 'With My Own Hands'
An extrordinary double bill: director Pascal Rambert and choreographer Rachid Ouramdane present two autonomous dances in conversation. 'With My Own Hands' presents a naked male figure, microscopically lit. 'A Standing Boy' is a performance with Ouramdane surrounded by projections of nature. Gender, presence and the very idea of the performer are all thrown into confusion in this dizzy two bodied free fall.
Oct 3,4
A Standing Boy: Fri, Sat 7:30pm
With My Own Hands: Fri, Sat 9pm
Both Shows tickets from $35
$30 (students/seniors)
$20 (FIAF and P.S. 122 members)
Single show tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (FIAF and P.S. 122 members)
Photo: Patrick Imbert
The performances are in English
Co-presented by the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF)
as part of Crossing the Line 2008
Opens October 10
"Just when you thought science geeks and art snobs and nothing in common, along comes 'Waves of Mu'."
- Anchorage Daily News
According to neuroscienctist V.S. Ramachandran, "The discovery of mirror neurons is the most important unpublicized story of the decade," rocking psychology the way DNA did biology and informed by this monumental discovery and created along side wirld-renowned scientists, Amy Caron's beautifully complex two-room installastion-performance-lab drives multi-disciplinary art headlong into new headspace.
Waves of Mu is presented as part of Room, P.S. 122's cross-disciplinary commissioning program.
Free Gallery Opening Thu, Oct 9
Oct 10-19
Tue-Sat 7:30pm
Sun 5:30pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photo: Trish Empey
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Channel Thirteen highlights The Passion Project and Southern Promises
on SundayArts
SundayArts, a new online and on-air destination from Thirteen/WNET, featured
Performance Space 122's Southern Promises and The Passion Project this past Sunday.
Check out the clip online anytime at www.thirteen.org/Sundayarts
Channel Thirteen always offers world-class performances, museum and gallery exhibits, artist proflies, the latest local arts news and more.
PRELUDE '08 IS HERE
At the forefront of Contemporary NYC Theatre and Performance
Prelude '08 is a free mini-festival and symposium that gives audiences the rare chance to see the work of NYC's most distinctive contemporary theatre under one roof.
Prelude '08 will feature over 30 short performances, readings and panels with renowned artists such as:
Banana Bag &Bodice
Neal Medlyn
NTUSA
Okwui Okpokwasili
WaxFactory
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
...and more!
For a complete schedule of performances and events please visit www.preludenyc.org
Sept 24-27
FREE!
First come, First served
Prelude '08 is held at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
The Graduate Center/CUNY
365 Fifth Ave. between 34th and 35th
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Runs now through November 2
Tue - Thu 9pm
Fri + Sat 11pm
Sun 9pm
Exceptions:
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Sun, Oct 12 10pm
Sat, Oct 18 12am
Sun, Oct 19 10pm
Thu, Oct 30 10pm
Fri, Oct 31 12am
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