Kristen Kosmas
Hello Failure

"Kosmas is one of the most exciting...new voices in the American theatre"
- George Hunka

Matt Maher is "delciously creepy"
- The Village Voice

“(Kosmas is) a rare sort of poet who can bring you along on rhapsodic flights of storytelling, like an expert rafter running the rapids of a wild and unruly word river.”
–The Seattle Times

Kristen Kosmas' newest work is a sprawling associative neo-realistic comedy of beauty involving seven submariners' wives, one counterfeit civil war ghost, one lusty renegade hairdresser and a poignant potted plant all making it through the day...barely.

Acclaimed playwright and co-founder of Obie-Award winning Little Theater, Kristen Kosmas will premier her new work Hello Failure at P.S.122 this season. In Hello Failure, Kosmas' singular voice and distinctive theatrical sensibility create an oddly affecting and delightfully disorienting world, where bridges and communication collapse, and little attempts at kindness are botched or lost in the mail. Misha Berson of The Seattle Times says Kosmas is "a rare sort of poet who can bring you along on rhapsodic flights of storytelling, like an expert rafter running the rapids of a wild and unruly word river." Kosmas' work has been seen across the country and in New York City at venues including Dixon Place, Little Theater, Barbes, BRIC, Nada, the Ontological/Hysteric Downstairs Series, and The Ohio.

Hello Failure
Previews: March 2 - 4
March 2 Preview at 6:30pm,
March 3 - 4 preview at 8:00pm,
Opens Thurs March 6 at 8:00pm,
Mon, Thurs - Sat at 8:00pm,
Sundays at 6:30pm
Tickets from $18, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)

Kevin Augustine and the Lone Wolf Tribe
Bride

"Utter genius—gorgeous and scary and heartbreaking. The images that Augustine creates will haunt you for days."
- Martin Denton NYTheatre.com

"...one of the most compelling and charismatic actors working today"
- The Philadelphia City Paper

Psychologically dark and brutally poetic, Bride is an epic puppet work for adults. Making its world premier at P.S.122 this season, it is written and performed by Kevin Augustine and accompanied by a woodwind quintet conducted by Andrea La Rose of Anti-Social Music. Teasing the existential and macabre out of religious history and influenced by the works of Samuel Becket and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Bride investigates the fate that befell the ancient Goddess-The Great Mother-while taking a critical look at the bloody legacy of her patriarchal successor, God the Father. Five puppeteers, a solo dancer, and complex aerial puppetry sequences bring Bride to life.

Kevin Augustine is artistic director of Lone Wolf Tribe; a one-man theatre ensemble composed of himself (the wolf) and his tribe of foam rubber puppets. In Augustine's hands (as well as feet) ordinary foam is transformed, hand carved for maximum expressiveness, into living breathing creatures-strangely unsettling while at the same time extremely tender. This bizarre and evocative partnership makes Lone Wolf Tribe performances a truly powerful, and uniquely mesmerizing theatre experience. Established in 1997 LWT is winner of the San Francisco Fringe Festival Critic's Choice Award and the New York International Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Award for Solo Show and has performed at prestigious theatre festivals and artistic centers in the US and abroad.

Bride
Preview Sunday March 16th at 7pm
Opens Monday, March 17 at 8pm
March 16 - 30
Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm,
Sundays at 7 pm
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)

Annie Dorsen
Democracy in America

Democracy in America is an experiment in political performance: it is not art about politics or ideology but rather art that is made in a political way. A collage made from the cacophonous jumble of ideas, opinions and attitudes floating in the American ether, Democracy in America is a continually shifting 4-dimensional billboard advertising the desires of the multitude.

Up until the 29th of February, using eBay, Craigslist, and a performance specific website all elements of the performance were ON SALE. The creators offered "for sale" space within the performance to both individuals and groups which could potentially be used for any purpose the purchaser desires. This may include statements of the purchaser's opinions, jokes that tickle the purchaser's fancy, pre-existing texts of his or her choosing, or stories or anecdotes from the purchaser's life. In addition to the spoken material, the physical or non-verbal actions and all elements of the design were on sale. One might choose a particular image to be shown onstage, a costume for one of the performers, a sound cue to be played, or a gesture or sequence of movement. Product placement or other advertising opportunities to corporations, small businesses and groups were also available to be purchased.

Now the sale is over and the production is slated to begin. It's time for Annie Dorsen, director of the Broadway sensation Passing Strange, to piece these bits together. Come March 30th the world will get to see what this performative experiment looks like. Democracy in America makes literal the so-called "marketplace of ideas," in which those with means purchase access to the privately-owned technologies of opinion-making and information dissemination, and those without money are the passive receivers of views which supposedly represent them.

Democracy in America is a copresentation of Performance Space 122 and The Foundry Theatre

Democracy in America
Sunday, March 30 - Sunday, April 20
Tuesdays - Fridays at 8:30pm
Saturdays at 4:30pm and 8:30pm
Sundays at 7:00pm
Additional preview on Monday, March 31 at 8:30pm
Opening night party Thursday, April 3
No Performance Sunday, April 6
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)

Jay Scheib
Untitled Mars (this title may change)

Taking a cue from the space industry, Jay Scheib's latest work pits hard Science against Philip K. Dick as interplanetary speculation runs amok, the indigenous population gets screwed, and a strange "anomalous" kid seems to hold all the answers. Developed at MIT with a team of Mars researchers and anthropologists, a mission to colonize the Red Planet is revving up for 2017. Imagining what might happen once we get there, Scheib drops seven performers into a simulated Martian society. Can't make ends meet on Earth? Consider a one-way ticket to Mars!

With performances by Karl Allen, Dorka Gryllus, Caleb Hammond, László Keszég, Catherine Mc-Curry, Tanya Selvaratnam, April Sweeney, Natalie, Thomas, Balázs Vajna with special on-camera appearances byPhillip Cunio, Zahra Khan and Dr. Robert Zubrin and others…

Scenic Design by Peter Ksander, Costume Design by Oana Botetz-Ban, Lighting Design by Miranda Hardy, Sound Design by Catherine McCurry, Video Design by Balázs Vajna

Dramaturg/Hungarian Project Manager: Anna Lengyel

Directed by Jay Scheib

Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) is made possible through the generous support of Ensemble Studio Theater/ Sloan; The Trust for Mutual Understanding; Hungarian Cultural Center; Deutsch-Ungarische Industrie und Handelskammer; Swing Space, a program of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, generously supported by the September 11th Fund—project space donated by Capstone Equities; with special thanks to the Mars Society, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences.

Untitled Mars (this title may change)
April 8 - 27
Tuesday - Friday at 8
Saturday at 4 and 8
Sunday at 6
Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)

Jay Scheib featured in Helen Shaw’s “Radar Roundup”

“The title "Under the Radar" may imply undiscovered potential. But in the case of Mr. Scheib, we are actually seeing an already major talent coming triumphantly into its own.”

“Untitled Mars (this title may change)” directed by Jay Scheib makes its world premiere at P.S. 122 this spring: April 8 – 27.
Get more info and tickets by clicking here

Read the full New York Sun article here

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Meet Jennifer Miller
This year's Ethyl Eichelberger award winner

Jennifer Miller has been confounding expecations for over twenty years as a performer, writer, professor, juggler, fire-eater and, most famously, as a woman with a beard. Her celebrated Circus Amok is closing in on its twentieth anniversary but remains as fresh and exciting as ever. Throughout her career, Ms. Miller has held up a mirror to the City of New York, forcing us to examine society and ourselves through performances that investigate gender, politics, history, and art.

P.S. 122 is proud to be a part of this celebration of art, exploration, and gender-bending fabulosity.

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Adrienne Truscott's genesis no! at Dance Theater Workshop
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Adrienne Truscott collages text, set design, and physical vocabulary -- found or overheard -- as she and collaborators contemplate a museum and ponder art and artifacts in genesis, no!, making an hour of pure “magic.” (The New York Times) “Bawdy, bold, and bizarre… an exercise in existentialism befitting of Beckett” says Dance Magazine. Featuring the original cast: Truscott, Natalie Agee, Carmine Covelli, Neal Medlyn, David Neumann

The remount of Adrienne Truscott’s genesis no!
March 19-22 at 7:30pm
Box Office: 212 924 0077
Location: 219 W 19th St. (btwn 7th & 8th Avenues)

E-Moves 9
at Harlem Stage

Delight in a mosaic of edgy, new dance works with “E-Moves 9” presented by Harlem Stage, a showcase of fifteen rising E-Merging, E-Volving and E-Stablished choreographers at Harlem Stage. Six performances turn it out with new works that span the spectrum of dance including modern, flamenco, tap, break dance and vogue, while E-stablished choreographers bring it, starting with master tap phenomenon Tamango and his collaboration with maverick funk jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter. Also featured is Francesca Harper and her project “Modo Fusion: Truth for Sale,” a multi-disciplinary work that explores personal rage and social consciousness through a seamless blend of original choreography, live music and original video. Friday to Sunday, April 4-13, Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue. Call 212.281.9240 or Click here for more info...

Here Arts Centers presents...
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Text and video by James Scruggs Directed by Kristin Marting

"A powerful multimedia fugue... Pointed, visually striking."
- Time Out New York on the creators' past work, Disposable Men

From critically acclaimed playwright James Scruggs comes the intimate, psychosexual mystery of one man, his wife, and another -- each yearning to feel something they can't feel anymore -- drawn together towards a final fall. Piece together a fragmented memory trail that reveals an underworld of extreme pleasure, set to throbbing Latin beats.

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Show runs February 27 - March 22, Wed. - Sat. @ 8pm
212-352-3101 / www.here.org

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Ladies and Gents
Live Noir Thriller in Central Park

A site-specific noir thriller set in a public bathroom in 1957 Dublin, “Ladies and Gents” is performed live inside the public bathrooms at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park.

Winner of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award

“Visceral Little Shocker, Brilliantly Detailed”
- The Guardian

Limited Engagement
March 17th – 29th
Performances at 7PM, 8PM, and 9PM nightly
Running time: 45 minutes
Tickets $25

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