Now Playing:
- Fall 09 is LIVE. DISCOVER the new season. We DARE you.
- Your PASSPORT to our season is your PASSPORT to SAVINGS
- undergroundzero festival Ends July 26 - New additions to the line-up:
Jack Ferver and Richard Maxwell
Coming Soon:
- Catch & Neal Medlyn present, in association with Performance Space 122, Brendan Kennedy's WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!! July 30 - Aug 1
- The Amoralists The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side Extended in August!
Recent Press:
- "Wild, wild West" Gia Kourlas previews WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!!
- Performance Space 122 "hasn't lost its cred" - Anna Balkrishna , Time Out New York
- Culturebot gets excited about P.S. 122's Fall Season line up
- Steven McElroy previews Fall Theatre offerings by P.S. 122
Special Events and Offers:
Fall 09 is LIVE.
Avant-Garde-Arama!
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, DANCE, MUTLI-MEDIA, NEW MUSIC, LIVE ART
Fri, Sept 18 + Sat, Sept 19
"Orchestrated mayhem and the excitement that ensues are the only predictable variables...Try as it may to maintain theatrical composure, [A.G.A.] always ends up degenerating, or exploding, into an all-out party." - Flavorpill
Cupola Bobber - Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me
N.Y. PREMIERE | THEATRE
Thu, Sept 24 - Sun, Sept 27
"...this pair of Chicago-based 30-year-olds can lay claim to a special talent for alternative performance-making of disarmingly odd, cosmic charm." - Donald Hutera, The Times of London
"What Samuel Beckett doing standup would be." - trailerpilot.com
Maria Hassabi - SOLO SHOW
WORLD PREMIERE | DANCE
Solo Tue, Sept 29 - Sun, Oct 4
Co-presented with the Crossing the Line Festival
SoloShow Thu, Nov 12 - Sun, Nov 15
Co-presented with PERFORMA 09
"The boundaries between dance, artwork, installation and performance are subtly blurred...every sculptural position suggests unverifiable meaning...The quality of the darkening light is as beautiful as a painting, but the effect - the music, the spatial emptiness - is pure theater." - Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times (on GLORIA)
John Jahnke / Hotel Savant - The Archery Contest
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE
Fri, Oct 2 - Sun, Oct 18
"Dandy theatrical experimenteur...mind bending sex comedy." - Time Out, New York
31 Down - The Assember Dilator
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE
Thu, Oct 8 - Sun, Oct 18
"An amazing and groundbreaking company - their work deserves a broad audience." - Martin Denton
Temporary Distortion - Americana Kamikaze
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, MULTI-MEDIA
Sat, Oct 24 - Sat, Nov 14
"I've never seen anything like this on the stage...so compelling, so haunting, so thoroughly absorbing." - Nytheatre.com (on Welcome to Nowhere: Bullet Hole Road)
"Discover Temporary Distortion...intimate theater for our time." - Le Mondé
Morgan Thorson - Heaven
N.Y. PREMIERE | DANCE, NEW MUSIC
Sun, Oct 25 - Fri, Oct 30
BEST CHOREOGRAPHER 2008 - Best of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St.Paul City Pages
"Powerhouse" - Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times
Rabih Mroué - [TITLE TBA]
THEATRE
Thu, Nov 5 - Sun, Nov 8
"Mr. Mroué [is] to Beirut what the Wooster Group is to New York: a blend of avant-garde innovation, conceptual complexity and political urgency, all grounded in earthy humor." - Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, The New York Times
Marisa Olson - Assisted Living
N.Y. PREMIERE | THEATRE, MULTI-MEDIA
Thu, Nov 19 - Sun, Nov 22
"Funny and humorous" - Wired
"Anything but stupid." - The New York Times
LeeSaar The Company - Prima
WORLD PREMIERE | DANCE
Wed, Nov 19 - Sun, Nov 22
"LeeSaar's dances always require unwavering attention" - Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
Lisa D'Amour & Katie Pearl with Emily Johnson - Terrible Things
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, DANCE
Fri, Dec 4 - Sun, Dec 20
"Next time D'Amour and Pearl bring their enchanting work to town be sure to take it in." - John del Signore, The Gothamist
"The collaborative team of playwright Lisa D'Amour and director Katie Pearl make beguiling, innovative theatre pieces." - American Theater Magazine
Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson Jr. - Crime or Emergency
WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, CABARET
Fri, Dec 4 - Sun, Dec 20
"Nervy, bewitching performance" - John Del Signore, Gothamist
Check out The P.S. 122 Passport for the easiest access to all the upcoming shows
All tickets to Performance Space 122 Fall 09
$20, $15 (Students/Seniors)
YOUR PASSPORT TO OUR SEASON IS YOUR PASSPORT TO SAVINGS!
The more Passports you get, the more you save!
For example: use your passport to see five shows on your own, or see one show with 4 friends, or any combination iin between.
Collective:Unconcious & East River Commedia present
The undergroundzero festival is an experimental theatre festival curated by Paul Bargetto, the Artistic Director of East River Commedia, and Collective:Unconscious, a long time presenter of cutting edge performance.
At the heart of the festival is a question asked of every artist: What would you make if you could make anything you wanted? Our mandate is to select artists, not projects. We trust the artist to make his or her own creative choices. In exchange for this trust we expect radical experimentation and the courage to risk everything. This year undergroundzero will present fifteen full productions and five staged readings on both stages of Performance Space 122.
Don't miss theses newest additions to undergroundzero for this final week of performances*:
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Jack Ferver - I Am Trying To Hear Myself and Vandam Goodbar
Wed, Jul 22 7p | Fr,i Jul 24 7p | Sat, Jul 25 9p | Sun, Jul 26 2p
Two works about desire, longing, and humiliation. "I Am Trying To Hear Myself" concerns the elusive quality of romance and the disappointment of viewing one's current life through the idealization of one's past. "Vandam Goodbar" is a new piece about the humorous, disturbing, and unfortunate violent excursions that can happen in the restless search for a connection.
Richard Maxwell and The Reena Spaulings Band
ONE NIGHT ONLY - Thu, July 23 9p
The Reena Spaulings Band is a country music band, a rag-tag outfit, with ever-changing personnel exploring the ever-expanding kingdom of Country music.
Imagine being alone, perusing the rows of your local library branch on a Friday night. Maybe you're trying to better yourself, get cultured, when you happen upon a kind of music all but forgotten.
This band provides a night of Country unlike any other—a musical template of possibilities, potential energy upon which you wander. Featuring: Bob Feldman (saxophone), Jim Fletcher (vocals, harmonica, recorder), Mike Iveson (vocals, piano), Rich Maxwell (vocals, guitar) and Brian Mendes (vocals, guitar, bass).
For a complete list of showtimes and descriptions please visit www.ps122.org
*The performances of TerraNova Collective's "The Consequences" have been cancelled
All shows: $15
EXCEPT: Pinchbottom Burlesque: $20 / playgroundzero (staged readings): $5
July 7 - 26
Catch & Neal Medlyn present,
in association with Performance Space 122, Brendan Kennedy's
WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!!
"It's hard to justify seeking any other form of entertainment on your Saturday night."-Claudia La Rocco , The New York Times
Catch & the creators of Our Hit Parade meet Kanye West!
"Would you totally go out and see some of the underground artsy dancing and acting that New York offers so much of, if only you had an ironclad guarantee that the performance wasn't going to be boring and sucky? Well, today is your lucky day." - Emily Gould, Gawker.com
WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!! is a group show inspired by Kanye West's ground-breaking, "Thom Yorke in the Strip Club" crossover pop album 808s & Heartbreak. Conceived by Brendan Kennedy and presented by Neal Medlyn and Catch in association with Performance Space 122, the evening-length performance will feature work by a vast array of downtown superstars showing pieces inspired by each song from the album, much as the Joffrey Ballet's (in)famous Billboards choreographed the songs of Prince.
Performed by:
Dance Gang ! Christine Elmo ! Justin Jones & Elliott Durko Lynch ! Myles Kane ! Karinne Keithley ! Juliana May ! Neal Medlyn ! Kenny Mellman ! Jennifer Monson ! asubtout ! Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad ! Ann Liv Young !
Thu, July 30 - Sat, Aug 1
Thu - Sat 8pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (Students/Seniors)
EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND
The AMORALISTS
The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side
"'The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side is the most exciting theatre I've seen in quite a while. The Amoralists are making theatre here that really does have the capacity to lead their audience towards some meaningful social change." - NYtheatre.com
EXTENDED
Thu, July 30 - Sun, Aug 17
Mon, Thu - Sat 7:30pm
Sun 5:30pm
Tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
Photo by Larry Cobra
The Barrow Street Theater's Summer SOLO Series at The Soho Playhouse
Going on now through Aug 4
Be sure to check out all of the one-night-only performances of acclaimed solo shows and take joy in the fact that a portion of all ticket sales to the festival will also directly support The Spalding Gray Award!
The Spalding Gray Award is awarded annually by Performance Space 122, The Walker Arts Center, UCLA Live, The Andy Warhol Museum, and Kathleen Russo.
Past winners include:
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2008 - Radiohole
2007 - the National Theater of the United States of America
2006 - Heather Woodbury
For tickets:
Online: CLICK HERE
By Phone: (212) 691-1555
In Person: The Soho Playhouse
15 Vandam Street (1 block north of Spring Street, just west of Sixth Avenue)
Open Tue - Sun 1-8pm (Closed on Monday)
The 2009 season marks several exciting new additions to CityParks Theater presented by Time Warner, including the National Theater of the USA's Chautauqua!
CHAUTAUQUA! had it's NY Premiere at Performance Space 122 in February of 2009 to sold out houses. It explores the hotly debated relationship between High Culture and the Mass Mind, in the style of the original Chautauqua Lectures, which were popular between 1874 and the Great Depression.
CHAUTAUQUA! will be performed in East River Park In the bandshell - Cross FDR Drive at Delancey St. walking bridge) on Thu, Aug 6 + Fri, Aug 7
ALL performances begin at 8pm
FREE to the public
For more information and a complete schedule of the City Parks Theater Program for 2009 Click here
Performance Space 122
150 1st Ave. (@ E. 9th St.)
New York, NY 10009
Tickets Online: www.ps122.org
Tickets by Phone: at (212) 352-3101
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Tuesday-Saturday: 4pm - 8pm
Sunday - 4pm to 6pm
To see active performance dates, please see our Calendar-at-a-Glance
www.ps122.org/performances
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