The Praise Keeps Coming For Peggy Shaw's RUFF

“She’s an inspiration.” 

- Jill Dolan, The Feminist Spectator 

“I am smitten….this performance could, and should, be seen as one of quiet charms and a sort of honoring of a performance milieu and style and community. Women speaking to women, lone voices reaching out to embrace other human beings, a pared -down sensibility telling a tale of self-revelation through poetic words, through sharing a shoe or an orange or a piece of clothing with the audience (later to be delivered to the performer). Small acts of connecting adding up to a big theatrical heart that beats constantly and loudly for audience members smart enough to make their way to La MaMa before this show closes.” 

- Martha Wade Steketee, Urban Excavations 

 “5-STARS...Brava, or should I say Bravo to Peggy Shaw, the butch lesbian Sean Penn look-alike for her solo show 'Ruff'.” 

- Taffy Jaffe, The Front Row Center 

"The great Peggy Shaw returns with an acclaimed solo show that celebrates creativity in the midst of aging and infirmity." 
- Andy Buck, Theater Is Easy

Final 4 Performances! 

Thursday, January 23rd @ 7:30pm 
Friday, January 24th @ 7:30pm 
Saturday, January 25th @ 7:30pm 
Sunday, January 26th @ 2:30pm 

Tickets: $20 Adults; $15 Students/Seniors 

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Coming Soon to The Club @ La MaMa: 39 DEFAULTS

Ricard Neun is a Spanish social activist. He has defrauded 39 banks in Spain. He claims this is not a crime, but a general call for financial disobedience. He is travelling around America giving lectures about this “action”. In New York he gives a talk and meets Liz, who invites him to stay at her place.

The play shows their interaction in real time. Liz asks Ricard to deliver a package for her. But Ricard, who was willing to sacrifice jail for a better society, distrusts Liz.

39 DEFAUTS is a play about idealism and human interactions, about the contrast between ideas and daily necessities.

“39 Defaults is a must-see: smart, brilliant, and reticent.”
-Franco Baldasso, Nueva York 2012

La MaMa presents
Fifth Wall's production of
39 Defaults
by Mar Gomez Glez
directed by Julián Mesri

Performed by Pep Muñoz and Kelly Haran

January 31 – February 9, 2014
Fridays and Saturdays at 10pm; Sundays at 5:30pm

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; a limited number of $10 tickets are available, in advance, for every performance as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative, on a first come, first served basis. Must be purchased in advance - not available day of show.

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This Week @ The Club: The Return of M. Lamar!

M. Lamar's Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche returns to The Club @ La MaMa this week for 3 performances only! 

Out of the constant violent and sexualized surveillance of the black male body, plantation overseer, the NBA, stop and frisk, prisons etc emerge M. Lamar’s new music theater piece for countertenor and piano Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche. 

Utilizing multiple live and prerecorded camera feeds, this plantation fantasy explores surveillance from the point of view of a black man condemned to death for the murder of his male overseer with whom he has fallen in love. Surveillance plunges the deepest darkest depths of interracial desire and an our interracial culture from the watch tower to the to the psyche of the black man being watched. 

Listen to David Garland's interview 
with M. Lamar from WNYC: HERE 

La MaMa presents 
Surveillance Punishment 
and the Black Psyche 
by M. Lamar 

January 24 – January 26, 2014 

Friday - Saturday at 10pm; Sunday at 5:30pm 

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; a limited number of $10 tickets are available, in advance, as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative. Not available day of show. 

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NY Times In Performance: PEGGY SHAW

NY Times In Performance: Peggy Shaw 

By Erik Piepenburg, Emma Cott, Amy Rio, Kriston Lewis and Robin Lindsay  

The Obie-winning performer and writer Peggy Shaw performs a scene from her solo piece “Ruff,” about her life before and after a stroke. The show is at La MaMa.

View the full clip: HERE

RUFF runs through Sunday, January 25th only.

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Hilto Als Reflects on Adrienne Kennedy In Anticipation of Coffeehouse Chronicles

In anticipation of this Saturday's Coffeehouse Chronicles examining and celebrating Adrienne Kennedy, Hilton Als joins La MaMa in looking back at the career and life of the extraordinary Ms. Kennedy.

In 1976, La Mama hosted an operatic version of Kennedy’s outstanding 1966 play “A Rat’s Mass,” directed and composed by Cecil Taylor. Now, on Jan. 25, La Mama will present a panel that addresses Kennedy’s life and work.

Read the entire article: HERE

La MaMa presents
CoffeeHouse Chronicles #117:
Adrienne Kennedy

Saturday, January 25th - 3pm 

The Club @ La MaMa

74 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Admission is FREE.

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