Now Playing:
- the National Theater of the United States of America - CHAUTAUQUA!
Now thru Mar 15 - Added late night show Sat, Mar 14 @ 10:30pm - Yanira Castro + Company - Dark Horse/Black Forest - Private bookings only
Follow this project on Twitter! - Crumpler 6-Pack Special on sale NOW! 6 tix + Crumpler Courier Bag: Yours for ONLY $100 - Good for ANY show this Spring INCLUDING CHAUTAUQUA!
Coming Soon:
- David Levine & CiNE - Venice Saved: A Seminar Mar 21 - Apr 5
- Sally Silvers & Dancers - Yessified! Mar 22 - 29
- Shotgun Players present Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
A Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay Mar 31 - Apr 18
All performances at The Abrons Arts Center - Spring Season is ON SALE now
- Claudia La Rocco and the Performance Club debate for hours after seeing CHAUTAUQUA!
- "NTUSA had to come along and steal Obama's thunder" - Paul Menard, Time Out, New York
- "A bright light in the season" - Alexsis Soloski, The Village Voice
- NTUSA's Yehuda and James on The Brian Lehrer Show
- "A beautiful meditation on the ways in which we inherit the present" - The New Yorker
- "A jaunty, stimulating new experiment" - Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
- "Consistently charming" - Adam R. Perlman, Theatermania.com
- "Incredibly fun" - Gyda Arber, NYTheatre.com
- "Irresistible" - John Del Signore, Gothamist
- "CHAUTAUQUA! earns its exclamation point" - Aaron Riccio, That Sounds Cool
- VOICE CHOICE: NTUSA is "marvelous" - Alexis Soloski, Village Voice
- "Brooklyn Troupe Wins Spalding Gray Award" - Patrick Healy, The New York Times
- "Brooklyn Troupe Wins Spalding Gray Award" - The New York Times
- "Wickedly exciting news!" - Julie Caniglia, The Walker Arts Center
- "PS 122 Honors Radiohole" - Playbill.com
- "Radiohole Receives 2009 Spalding Gray Award" - Theatermania
- "Radiohole Receives PS122 Spalding Gray Award" - Broadway World
- "Yessified! roughs up the issue of race" - The New Yorker
- P.S.122 "still the Off-Off venue to beat" - Time Out New York
- Venice Saved highlighted in The New York Times Spring Preview
- David Levine interviewed by Christian Hawkey in The Believer - Venice Saved is coming in March to P.S. 122
- Congratulations to Screen Test! Winner of Live Design's Excellence Award
Special Events and Offers:
- What's in your Crumpler? Crumpler 6-Pack Special on sale NOW
- Weddings and Beheadings by Palissimo presented by the 92 St. Y
Opens TONIGHT with post-show party - Ripe Time presents FIRE THROWS at 3LD March 11 - 28
the National Theater of the United States of America
CHAUTAUQUA!
"[NTUSA] left me stunned and breathless and completely in awe." -Malcolm Gladwell
Winners of the 2007 Spalding Gray award honoring innovative theatrical vision, the National Theater of the Unitied States of America explore the hotly debated relationship between High Culture and the Mass Mind. Channeling the form and style of the original Chautauqua Lectures through their own inimitable aesthetic and theatrical rhythm, NTUSA combines lecture, debate, scientific demonstration and tales of explorers with more traditional forms of entertainment such as dance, dramatic recital, feats of strength, and joke telling. The company examines their own role as "entertainers" as well as "artists" and question whether or not the convergence of art and commerce is possible, sustainable, or even good for either party.
SPECIAL GUESTS NIGHTLY!
Mark Russell,
Rich Maxwell,
the Vintage DJ,
Vallejo Gantner,
Jonathan Lethem,
Robert Zukerman,
Steve Cuiffo,
Kathleen Russo,
Barbara Allen,
Dalton Helms,
Noah Lindquist,
Ethan Lipton,
Rollo Romig,
Samantha Hunt,
Juliana Francis Kelly,
Greta Byrum,
Zoe Rosenfeld,
Edgar Oliver,
Kathleen Russo,
BOXCAR Billy Burns and his puppet Horizontal John,
PLUS! A grand semi-finale dance valentine to N.Y.C. furnished by Faye Driscoll & Dancers
Check out the CHAUTAUQUA! video here
Feb 21 - Mar 15
Wednesday - Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5:30pm
*Added late-night show Sat, Mar 14 10:30pm
Tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photos by Justin Bernhaut
CHAUTAUQUA! is a commission of Performance Space 122, The Walker Arts Center, and UCLA LIVE, and is made possible with grants from the 2007 Spalding Gray Award, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Greenwall Foundation, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the generous support of friends of the NTUSA.
David Levine & CiNE
Venice Saved: A Seminar
A performance piece that takes theater as its topic. Truly interactive theater (ugh). Performance as education. A performance about the nature of performance (ugh). Potential topics include: theater, performance art, torture, outsourcing, anorexia, Israel, Palestine, Blackwater, the TCG, Charismatic Leadership, the Shock Doctrine, theater vs. performance, the exhibition as school, theanyspacewhatever, learning vs. "learning," talking vs. "talking", performing vs. acting, democracy vs. Authenticity. Totally Bitchen. Simone Weil (100 years). Seminar format. Participatory. On the 100th anniversary of Simone Weil's birth, CiNE takes the philosopher's unfinished play and asks American Theater, "What were you thinking?"
Venice Saved received funding and developmental support in 2006 from the Drama League Directors Project's New Directors/New Works Program. Made possible with the support of Etant Donnés,the French-American Fund for the Performing Arts.
Mar 21 - Apr 5
Wednesday - Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 6pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Artwork by Annerose Schulze
Sally Silvers and Dancers
Yessified!
"One of the most beloved of downtown choreographers." - Joan Acocella, The New Yorker
Iconoclassical choreographer Sally Silvers returns to Performance Space 122 with her first new group dance since 2005's Puppy Skills.
Whiteness is on the hook and down for the hybrid. Silvers answers the seductive call of a stable/single racial life by outing and othering it. Whiteness as symbiotic, open face Blackness. Sudden turns and shocks, bleed-throughs and angularity, pivoting centers, conflict embrace -- a new world is ever unexplored and the night's secret is to make the day swing blue. Jutting and swerving, Yessified is a hyperactivating dance of quirky, fun wired physicality & imagery, a provocative text, and electronica star-crossed with sweet soul music.
Featuring Javier Cardona, Alan Good, Sara Beth Higgins,
Takemi Kitamura, Alejandra Martorell, Miriam Parker,
Julia Planine-Troiani, Keith Sabado, and Sally Silvers. Music
performed live by Bruce Andrews and Michael Schumacher.
Costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy, lighting by Carolyn Wong.
Mar 22 - 29
Tuesday - Saturday 8pm
Sunday 6:30pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Photo by Jenny Woodward
Shotgun Players present
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage
A Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay
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!
Written by Jason Craig, music by Dave Malloy, directed by Rod Hipskind
Presented in association with Performance Space 122
For more information visit beowulfnyc.com.
Special offer for friends of P.S. 122
Use code PS122 and enjoy discounted tickets Mar 31 - Apr 5
March 31st - April 18th
Wed - Sat at 8PM, Sunday at 5PM
Running Time is 2 Hours with Intermission
Wednesday, March 31 is 'Pay What You Can'
Tickets $20 (Wed - Fri and Sun), $25 (Sat)
and can be purchased online at beowulfnyc.com
or by calling OvationTix at 866-811-4111
All performances at The Abrons Arts Center
Located at 466 Grand Street @ Pitt
Available for booking this Spring
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.
You can follow Dark Horse/Black Forest on Twitter. It's easy, here's how:
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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
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.)
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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
What's in your Crumpler?
Snatch up 6 tickets in any combination to P.S. 122's Spring Season and get
a Limited Edition Performance Space 122 Crumpler "Western Lawn" Courier Bag.
For example,
You could book 6 tickets to NTUSA’s CHAUTAUQUA! and make it a party.
Or you could book a pair of tickets to CHAUTAUQUA, a pair to DAVID LEVINE’s VENICE SAVED, and a pair to SALLY SILVERS' YESSIFIED! and make your date(s) very happy.
Or you could gorge yourself on performance and use all the tickets yourself to see six different shows.
ALL YOURS with the Crumpler Bag for only $100.
(a $220 value)
What could be better than a 6-Pack just in time for Spring AND a Crumpler to carry it in?*
That’s $120 worth of TICKETS + the $100 value Crumpler Bag
For only $100
FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY.
HERE's HOW:
Between NOW and March 15th
Purchase THE CRUMPLER 6-PACK
Online through our ticketing system,
By phone at 212-352-3101,
Or at the Box Office
And then apply your tickets in any combination to our Spring shows (through May 31).
Not sure what shows you want to schedule right away? No problem.
Purchase THE CRUMPLER 6-PACK now and choose your shows later...
Desire personal hand-holding P.S. 122-style? E-mail boxoffice@ps122.org and our expert team will help you take advantage of this limited time offer. Include your full name and the best number and time to reach you. Keep in mind, the Box Office operates during concentrated afternoon/evening hours, so it may take a day or two to get back to you.
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The Crumpler Western Lawn is more than a mere aesthetic marvel. This courier bag from Crumpler, the stalwart Aussie bag company, provides all the high-performance details you'd ever want: two external pockets and three internal (one with a Velcro closure); a wide, comfortable strap with an easily adjustable buckle and a "slap strap" loop that keeps the excess strap from trailing behind; and two Velcro lip closures.
The water-resistant 1,000-denier shell and 300-denier ripstop lining keep things dry and durable, and the 854-cubic-inch volume is perfect for lugging all the essentials onto that laborious, long flight or for back-'n'-forth commuting duties.
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SPECIAL UPDATE: The bags are here--no long wait. This year's one-time shipment has arrived and is in the building!
Pictured above: James Stanley in his Crumpler in CHAUTAUQUA! – New York Premiere Feb 21- Mar 15; courtesy of NTUSA.
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WEDDINGS AND BEHEADINGS
March 11-15 (Wed, Thu & Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm)
At The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 West 55th Street at 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Please join us on Wednesday, March 11th for the opening night performance and the after-party. Through special arrangements, we are offering $25 combo tickets which include ticket to the show and the afterparty including a toast drink. These tickets are available at www.palissimo.com/news (credit card) or mail check to Palissimo Inc. 875 West 181st Street, Suite 5H, New York, NY 10033. ALL OTHER tickets are $20 - see details below.
Tickets: $20, $17 (groups or 10 and more)
Online www.92Y.org/harkness
By phone at 212-415-5500
In person at the 92nd Street Y box office
Direction, Choreography and Sound Design: Pavel Zuštiak |
Created with performers Elena Demyanenko, Sho Ikushima, Jeff Kent Jacobs and Lindsey Dietz Merchant |
Rehearsal Assistant: Gina Bashour |
Projections Concept and Images: Robert Flynt |
Scenography: Nick Vaughan |
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur |
Projections Design and Animation: Keith Skretch |
Stage Manager: Yi Zhao
Photo by Robert Flynt
FIRE THROWS
Ripe Time presents FIRE THROWS
For a limited Run - now through March 28 only!
From March 11-March 22 - with the code PSFRIEND get tickets for 20% off, only $20.
Written and directed by Rachel Dickstein
Based on Sophocles’ Antigone
"Visually stunning" - Time Out New York
"Dickstein’s true innovation is in the visual language she creates, a striking blend of movement and video projection that conveys a fragmented yet distinctly ancient world." – The New Yorker
A contemporary Antigone challenges her past, re-examining her own story of sacrifice through the kaleidoscopic frenzy of a fever dream. Through video, live music, and a physically charged staging, FIRE THROWS explodes this classic Greek text into a cutting-edge meditation on desire, drive and what’s at stake in breaking the rules.
Created in collaboration with the ensemble:
Erica Berg, Laura Butler, Kiebpoli Calnek, John Campion, Kimiye Corwin, Juliana Francis-Kelly, Kyle Leland, Paula McGonagle, Leajato Amara Robinson, Jorge Rubio, and Caesar Samayoa
Now through March 28 only
at 3LD Art & Technology Center
Wednesday-Sunday at 8 pm (No performance Sunday March 29)
80 Greenwich Street @ Rector (2 short blocks west of Broadway)
Tickets: $25 ($20 Student and Senior tickets with ID). TDF Accepted www.ripetime.org or www.3ldnyc.org
Or call 212.352.3101
For information or Group sales call (718) 622-3650
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
Our box office is open for walk-up sales on performance dates:
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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