May 2008
Will Calhoun Black Holes, Best of Boroughs
Two-time Grammy Award winner Will Calhoun presents a live world music concert-multi-media event. Internationally known as the virtuosic drummer/composer of NYC's rock band Living Colour, Calhoun performs his own live electronic percussion loops, and drums and flutes, as he is joined by poet Louis Reyes Rivera, a nightly guest vocalist, and a dancer performing African dance and ballet.
May 1 - May 4
Thursday at 7pm
Friday at 10 pm
Sunday at 7 pm
(no show Saturday, May 3)
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
Remember this Moment Best of Boroughs
In anticipation of their two year-old child's fiftieth birthday, two older parents create a digital video - part time capsule, part time travel - and fill it with love and living memories, as a gift for their child to open in the future.
May 1- 4
Thursday at 10pm
Friday and Saturday at 7pm
Sunday at 4pm
(in rep with Will Calhoun)
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Mayim Rabim / Great Waters, Best of Boroughs
A ten piece song cycle composed by jazz vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb spans erotic love poetry from the bible. With director Franny Silverman and video artist Renate Aller, Gottlieb creates a multi-sensory experience that starts at the moment one steps into the theatre.
May 8-10
Thursday - Saturday at 8pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
Yukiko Motoya Vengeance Can Wait, Best of Boroughs
A kinky comedy about love, submission, and sweet revenge by one of Japan's leading contemporary female playwrights.
U.S. Premiere
Friday, April 25 - Sunday, May 4
Tuesdays - Fridays at 8
Saturdays at 2 and 8; Sundays at 4
Tickets $18, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members)
Liza Lentini The Euthanasist
The Euthanasist explores the nature of care giving, devotion and losing one's self in a self-imposed torture of the day to day. Through her diarized testimonial, alongside multi-channeled images, the landscape of one woman's rationale is revealed as she questions her relationship to living and others' desire to die. Told to us compellingly by the mysterious Euthanasist, this theatrical event is certain to stir and provoke.
May 29 - June 15
Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 6pm
Tickets from $18
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
The Shalimar La Femme est Mort
The Shalimar's smash hit LA FEMME EST MORTE or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son returns to New York for eight performances at PS122.
May 14-18,
May 21-24 all at 8:00pm
Tickets from $15
$10 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
Avant-Garde-Arama Avant-Garde-Arama Keeps Hope Alive
P.S. 122's longest-running series is the definitive multi-disciplinary mini-festival, showcasing a nightly line-up of bite-sized, eclectic new works from daring and dangerous artists.
May 9 and 10 at 8pm
Tickets from $10
Pan Pan Theatre's Oedipus Loves You
Pan Pan Theatre's Oedipus Loves You is a wickedly funny and wonderfully theatrical take on the Oedipus plays of Sophocles and Seneca and their legacy, Freudian psychology. These performances - the New York debut of this Dublin-based company - are part of a highly acclaimed world tour following the premiere in 2006.
Wednesday, May 21 - Sunday, June 1
Wednesdays - Sundays at 8
Saturdays at 8 and 11
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
June 2008
Opéra Français de New York
The Mephisto Project
(or a Date with the Devil)
You have a date with the devil! Inspired by the myriad expressions of the devil's persona in French opera, Mephisto Project is an experimental work combining opera, literature, dance and videography. The evening's program will include scenes from Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable, Gounod's Faust, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Hervé's Le Petit Faust, and Massenet's Grisélidis.
June 19 and 20
at 8:00 pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
TICKETS ON SALE 5/8/08
Palissimo Blind Spot
Pavel Zustiak, the 2007 recipient of The Princess Grace Award in Choreography, reprises the acclaimed Blind Spot at Performance Space 122 and creates a world where that which is no longer seen, heard, nor felt reoccurs as an unwelcome guest. Numb senses retrieve their former abilities and experience the world as if for the first - or last - time.
June 11 - 15
Wednesday - Sunday 8pm
Additional late show Saturday at 10pm
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Liza Lentini The Euthanasist
The Euthanasist explores the nature of care giving, devotion and losing one's self in a self-imposed torture of the day to day. Through her diarized testimonial, alongside multi-channeled images, the landscape of one woman's rationale is revealed as she questions her relationship to living and others' desire to die. Told to us compellingly by the mysterious Euthanasist, this theatrical event is certain to stir and provoke.
May 29 - June 15
Tuesday - Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 6pm
Tickets from $18
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
Young Dance Collective Right Here. Right Now.
Alert, ardent, open and decisive, Young Dance Collective hurtles into a new evening of exploration - the art of becoming one's self.
June 5 - 8
Thurs - Sat at 7:30
Saturday and Sunday at 4:00
Tickets: $20 each, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122
members)
July 2008
Neal MEDLYN'S UNPRONOUNCEABLE SYMBOL
NEAL MEDLYN'S UNPRONOUNCEABLE SYMBOL is Neal Medlyn's fourth and largest to date pop song tragic-comedic extravaganza. Following the success of his Lionel Richie Opera, R. Kelly cabaret, and wild and bloody spin on Phil Collins, Medlyn takes on the purple, hyper-sexualized world of Prince.
July 9 - 20
Wednesdays - Sundays at 8
Additional Late Shows on Saturdays at 11
Opening Night Party Wednesday, July 9
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
TICKETS ON SALE 5/8/08
