Now Playing:

• Goat Island - The Lastmaker Nov 6 - 16
  *Opening night reception Thu, Nov 6
• Live interview with Young Jean Lee + Richard Maxwell (BOMB Magazine) - FREE - Wed, Nov 5 @ 7:30pm

Coming Soon:

• Joe Silovsky - Jester of Tonga Nov 13 - 23
• The Debate Society - Cape Disappointment Nov 22 - Dec 7
• Check out more season highlights

Recent Press:

• Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice, previews Goat Island's break-up
• Valerie Jean Johnson, New City Chicago, talks to Goat Island about saying 'good-bye'
• Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune, says The Lastmaker is "moving" and "emblematic of the group’s long-lived contribution to the Chicago performance scene."
• The Lastmaker is "particularly striking" - Natasha Tripney, Music OMH


• Click to read more previews and reviews of current and past shows

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• Become a PS122 Member today for EXTRA SAVINGS plus EXTRA PAIR(s) OF FREE TICKETS!
• 50% OFF tickets to 'Catalpa' presented by the Irish Arts Center Nov 12 - 15
• 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

November 6 - 16
The last and final performances by Goat Island

Goat Island
'The Lastmaker'
N.Y.C. Premiere

"Simply one of the most important theatre groups working today." -BBC 4

"A haunting meditation about change, finality, footprints and moving on."
-The Herald, Glasgow

Goat Island returns to say farewell with their new, and final, performance. Inspired by the Hagia Sophia - the Byzantine church then mosque and now museum - a detailed architectural dance excavates layers of identity; then gives way to a high energy concert, deaturing Lenny Bruse, St. Francis, and the last minute of Bach's 'Art of the Fugue.' The Lastmaker recapitulates Goat Island's remarkable 20 year creative journey, all the while seeking a way to say "good-bye."

Goat Island is a Chicago-based collaborative performance group founded in 1987 and incorporated in 1989 as a non-profit organization to produce collaborative performance works developed by its members for local, national, and international audiences. Goat Island's last performance will be performed in New York City at Performance Space 122.

Nov 6-16
*Opening Night Party - Thu, Nov 6
Thu-Sun 7:30pm

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

Photo: Hugo Glendinning

November 13 - 23

Joseph Silovsky
'Jester of Tonga'
World Premiere

At last, the man known as one of downtown's technological wizards steps out from behind the curtain and into his first full length solo theatrical production. Joe Silovsky and his robot Stanley tell the very true and complex story of Jesse Bogdonoff, the sensational modern-day Court Jester to the Royal Tongan Court. Twenty suitcases packed full with island lore spill their secrets, scandals and adventures onto the stage.

Nov 13-23
Wed-Sat 8pm
Sun 6:30pm

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

Photo: Richard Termine

November 22 - December 7

Debate Society
'Cape Disappointment'
World Premiere

"The Debate Society's theatrical brilliance can't be argued with." -John Del Signore, Gothamist

The Debate Society's 4th full-length play transforms the upstairs space at P.S. 122 into their own version of a Drive-In theater to present an intimate and absurd perspective of classic Americana. The Brooklyn based play-makers invite audiences to experience the Feature Presentation from the comfort of their own private 4-seater, equipped with a cooler, speaker box, and a close-up view of the action. Like an evening at the Drive-In, Cape Disappointment starts with a "cartoon" and proceeds to the feature: a road-trip epic populated by characters racing across the crumbling landscapes of bygone hey-days. There's even an intermission tossed in just long enough to grab some popcorn.

The Debate Society is a Brooklyn based company that creates new plays through the collaboration of Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, and Oliver Butler. Joining co-writers Bos (Gothamist Best Actress of 2007) and Thureen (Hostage Song) onstage is actor Michael Cyril Creighton (The Vietnamization of New Jersey) and acclaimed NY actress, Drama Desk and two-time Obie Award winner and Emmy nominee Pamela Payton-Wright, who is also the mother of Cape Disappointment director Oliver Butler.

Nov 22 - Dec 7
Mon - Sat at 8:00pm
Sun at 6:00pm
No shows: Wed, Nov 26 / Thu, Nov 27 / Mon, Dec 1
Additional Shows: Sat, Dec 6 10:30pm

Tickets from $18
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

Photo: Ian Savage

BOMB Magazine interviews Young Jean Lee + Richard Maxwell
FREE ADMISSION

Join BOMB Magazine for an on-stage conversation between playwrights Young Jean Lee and Richard Maxwell and the audience, co-sponsored by Performance Space 122 and hosted in Mabou Mines Studio. This is a shoot, filmed for streaming video on BOMBsite.com. BOMBLive! is an ongoing series of conversations filmed in front of audiences throughout the city. Come be a part of the show!

Wednesday, November 5
7:30pm
FREE
Performance Space 122
150 First Ave.
Mabou Mines Studio

For more information, please visit bombsite.com

Read the Recent Previews and Reviews:

WaxFactory - BLIND.NESS

• Tom Murrin of Papermag talks with Ivan Talijancic and Erika Latta of WaxFactory
• John Del Signore (Gothamist) raves: BLIND.NESS is "Dark and Steamy"
• "[BLIND.NESS's] layers of potent and enigmatic imagery aspire to be baffling, disturbing, and intoxicating at once." - John Beer, The Brooklyn Rail

Sara Juli - Death

• Sara Juli talks to Gay City News' Brian McCormick
• Listen to an interview with Sara Juli on the InfiniteBody podcast
• Broadway World previews 'Death'

Jo Strømgren Kompani - The Society

• "Comedic touches worthy of Peter Sellers" - Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
• "A Used Teabag Sets a Norwegian Society Areel" - Andy Propst, American Theatre Web

Rob Roth and Theo Kogan - Screen Test

• "Screen Test [is] an abstract orgy of mental-visual-aural stimulation" - Matt Bell, Next Magazine
• Joey Arias, Singer and cabaret icon, says "I’m so excited for this Rob Roth performance art musical called “Screen Test” at P.S. 122."

Yanira Castro - Dark Horse/Black Forest

• "This is the palpable sensation of art" - Debra Griboff, Encore Magazine
• CRITIC'S PICK: "Yanira Castro + Company bring high art to your humble abode" - Michael Alan Connelly New York Magazine

Performance Space 122's Fall Season

• Diptyque, and Lewis Forever are highlighted in The New York Times' Fall Dance Preview
• "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

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Catalpa
Presented by the IRISH ARTS CENTER

“RIP-ROARING THEATRICAL ADVENTURE”
(Washington Post)

Written and Performed by Donal O’Kelly
With Live Music Composed and Performed by Trevor Knight

“EXUBERANT, EXHILARATING, MAGICAL...A TRIUMPH, A JOY, AND A DELIGHT!”
Irish Times

Fringe First Winner - Edinburgh Theatre Festival

Based on the true story of a daring voyage to rescue six Irish prisoners from an Australian penal colony in 1875, CATALPA is a “rip-roaring theatrical adventure” in the great epic tradition of Moby Dick and The Great Escape.
From the whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, to the penal colony in Fremantle, Australia, to the scene of New York’s first ever ticker-tape parade, CATALPA is about heroes and visionaries, political intrigue and personal loyalty, with searing romance and battles at sea. It’s an epic adventure story that challenges the very nature of heroism.
Donal O’Kelly’s thrilling, virtuosic performance creates an astonishingly gripping tapestry, a huge story brought to life by words and music. Featuring live musical accompaniment by Trevor Knight, one of Europe’s top contemporary composer/musicians.

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NOV 12 - 30
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