Weekend With Sam: Feb 3 & 4, 2018

 Photo by John Pilson, Used with permission

La MaMa continues its season-long celebration of the life and work of Sam Shepard with WEEKEND WITH SAM, two days of readings and excerpts from Sam Shepard’s plays, prose and poetry, directed by Neil La Bute, Lois Weaver, Scott Wittman and Joel Zwick.  WEEKEND WITH SAM will be held in The Ellen Stewart Theatre, February 3 – 4, 2018.  All readings are free and open to the public.

Saturday, February 3 at 7:30 pm: 

Hawk Moon (features excerpts and monologues from Hawk Moon, Motel Chronicles, Tongues, Cowboy Mouth, Angel City, A Lie of the Mind, Action, Icarus’s Mother, Tooth of Crime, Curse of the Starving Glass, Days Out of Days, and Buried Child) 
Directed by Scott Wittman 

CAST: Betsy Aidem, Matthew Broderick, Phil Burke, Monk Hooper, Erin Markey, Deirdre O’Connell, John Slattery, J. Smith-Cameron and Larry Saltzman (on guitar).

Sunday, February 4 at 4 pm: 

Killer’s Head 
Directed by Lois Weaver 
CAST: Peggy Shaw 

Dog 
Directed by Joel Zwick 
CAST: Harry Mann & Zack Segel 

The Rocking Chair 
Directed by Neil LaBute 
CAST: Fred Weller & Gia Crovatin

Reservations now open to La MaMa Members and open to the general public beginning Monday, January 22. 

For more info: CLICK HERE

NY Times on UNEXPLODED ORDNANCES (UXO)

The New York Times' Elisabeth Vincentelli reviews Split Britches' UNEXPLODED ORDNANCES (UXO):

"Planes carrying nukes, the terrifying sound of life atomized into static noise: “Unexploded Ordnances (UXO)” feels very much of the minute.

Yet the feminist duo Split Britches has spent almost two years working on its new play, which bears the 1960s aesthetic of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” rather than the totalitarian kitsch of Kim Jong-un, so you can’t accuse the company of hot-button opportunism. These theatermakers have steadfastly remained on the outer edge of the mainstream since 1980."

Read the full review HERE.

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La MaMa presents

UNEXPLODED 
ORDNANCES (UXO)

by Split Britches

January 4, 2018 - January 21, 2018

The Ellen Stewart Theatre

66 East 4th Street

(Between Bowery and Second Avenue)

New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors

For Tickets & Info: CLICK HERE

Preview Video: PANORAMA

 
Don't miss the World Premiere of PANORAMA by Motus Theatre with Great Jones Repertory Company at La MaMa as part of the Under The Radar Festival.
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La MaMa and Motus presents
PANORAMA
Devised and Directed by Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò
Dramaturgy by Erik Ehn and Daniela Nicolò

With Maura Nguyen Donohue, John Gutierrez, Valois Mickens, Eugene the Poogene, Perry Yung & Zishan Ugurlu

Assistant Director: Lola Giouse
Music: Heather Paauwe
Set Design: Seung Ho Yeong
Visual Design: Bosul Kim
Video Design: CultureHub with Sangmin Chae
Technical Direction: Yarie Vazquez

Now through January 21, 2018
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sundays at 2pm

The Downstairs at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Winter/Spring 2018 Brochure Preview

Click Here for a digital preview of La MaMa Winter/Spring 2018 brochure

Winter/Spring Season includes:

The Pill – A Family Memoir

Conceived by Marla Mase

Directed by Randolph Curtis Rand

Series of One:

A Solo Performance Festival

It’s All True

by Object Collection Theatre

time no line

by John Kelly 

Distant Observer:Tokyo/New York Correspondence

by Takeshi Kawamura and John Jesurun

SEAGULLMACHINE

by The Assembly

THERE'S BLOOD AT THE WEDDING: Songs for Lorca

bu Theodora Skipitares

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10@$10 Tickets now on sale 

for all shows NOW ON SALE

First Look: GEMINI STARS/SCORPIO STARS @ La MaMa

All photos by Theo Cote

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La MaMa presents

GEMINI STARS/

SCORPIO STARS

Written and Directed by Gian Marco Lo Forte
A Pioneers Go East Collective Project

Set during a holiday party in a Brooklyn apartment, GEMINI STARS / SCORPIO STARS is a music-theatre work inspired by stories of LGBTQ vloggers coming out and self-identifying to the world on YouTube, juxtaposed with stories of exclusion and violence IRL. Over the course of the Christmas party, a group of artists share psychological and emotionally intimate experiences. It is a funny and touching performance about Realvlogs love, self-identity, and self-defense while reflecting on what the community has achieved (or hasn’t) using social media. This close-knit group of diverse friends have found each other and have chosen spend Christmas together. Like all good parties, this festive gathering is ultimately a safe space to share, and simply be. 

Gemini Stars / Scorpio Stars features stories written and performed by Daniel Diaz, Jess Barbagallo, Fleur Voorn, Michaela Reggio, Niko Tsocanos and Ryan Leach. Video vlogs feature stories performed by Julia Dobner-Pereira, Chloe Li Piazza, G.J. Dowding and Shane O'Neill.Special musical guest Ombro de Oro.

December 7 - 17, 2017

Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sunday at 2pm

The Downstairs @ La MaMa

66 East 4th Street

(between Bowery and Second Avenue)

New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE