BroadwayWorld: La MaMa & The Assembly Extend SEAGULLMACHINE

La MaMa & The Assembly Extend SEAGULLMACHINE World Premiere

"La MaMa, in association with The Assembly, announced today that the world premiere of SEAGULLMACHINE will extend through May 5, 2018. SEAGULLMACHINE is created by The Assembly, conceived by Nick Benacerraf, co-directed by Jess Chayes"

Click here to read the full article on BroadwayWorld

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La MaMa in association with

The Assembly presents 

SEAGULLMACHINE 

Created by The Assembly 

Conceived by Nick Benacerraf 

Co-directed by Jess Chayes & Nick Benacerraf 

Text by Anton Chekhov, Heiner Müller, and The Assembly 

 April 14 - May 5, 2018 

The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa 

66 East 4th Street 

(between Bowery and Second Avenue) 

New York, NY 10003 

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors; first ten tickets to every performance available for $10 each, advance sales only, as part of La MaMa 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative 

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Press for Jane Comfort: 40th Anniversary Retrospective

Jane Comfort and Company celebrates 40 years of making dance with an Anniversary Retrospective concert. Twenty-three former and current company members gather to recreate excerpts of works spanning from 1978 to 2018, including such favorites as the provocative take on the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings from S/He, scenes from the Bessie award-winning Underground River, archival videos and much more.

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5 Dance Performances to See in NYC in the Week Ahead 

"For 40 years, Ms. Comfort has made compelling dance dramas that investigate timely issues while experimenting with ingredients like spoken text and polyrhythms. She celebrates this impressive anniversary with a retrospective that samples from her large repertory, featuring a vast cast of former and current company dancers." - Brian Schaefer, The New York Times

Read the full article: HERE

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JANE COMFORT: 40 YEARS IN THE RESISTANCE

"Comfort began her career as a Minimalist, admiring the pure lines and rhythmic subtleties in Merce Cunningham’s dances, and listening to the music of avant-garde composers Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and Laurie Anderson. Comfort’s first creation was the solo “Steady Shift,” a tactile exploration of her own body. Yet while viewers described this 1978 piece as mathematical, they didn’t know what Comfort was thinking. Is there any way, in our sexist society, that a woman’s body can escape being political?" - Robert Johnson, The Dance Enthusiast

 Read the full article: HERE

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Jane Comfort To Present 40th Anniversary Retrospective At La MaMa

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La MaMa presents 

Jane Comfort: 
40th Anniversary 
Retrospective 

Choreographed by Jane Comfort 
Presented in association with Lumberyard 

This performance contains brief nudity. 

Jane Comfort: Artistic Director 
Joe Levasseur: Lighting Design 
Lianne Arnold: Video Design 
Alexandra Nikolchev and Sean Donovan: Documentary Video 
Liz Prince: Costume Design 

April 5, 2018 - April 8, 2018 
Benefit Performance: Thursday April 5th: Tickets $200 
Regular Tickets (April 6-8): $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors 

The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa 
66 East 4th Street 
(between Bowery and Second Avenue) 
New York, NY 10003 

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Press for La MaMa's 56th Season Announcement

La MaMa to Host Belarus Free Theater Next Season

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La MaMA's New Season Will Explore Resistance, Appropriation, and Representation

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Belarus Free Theatre Featuring Pussy Riot, Charles Ludlam Festival and More Slated for La MaMa's 56th Season

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La MaMa Announces Programming for 56th Season

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To see the full season lineup: CLICK HERE!

BroadwayWorld onTHE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot will receive a rare New York revival this spring at The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa (66 East 4th Street) with previews beginning March 9th, 2017 for a limited Off-Broadway engagement through March 26th. Opening Night is set for Monday, March 13, 2017 at 7pm.

Academy Award winner and long time member of The Actors Studio Estelle Parsons directs a cast that includes Richarda Abrams, Bob Adrian, Victor Almanzar, Erick Betancourt, Michael Billingsley, Fig Chilcott, Suzanne DiDonna, Lash Dooley, Timothy Doyle, Gabe Fazio, Gabriel Furman, Leland Gantt, Daniel Grimaldi, Shashwat Gupta, Con Horgan, Liana Jackson, Jay Johnston, Burnadair Lipscomb-Hunt, Beth Manspeizer, Javier Molina, Marcus Naylor, Myla Pitt, Joanna Rhinehart, Delissa Reynolds, and Count Stovall."

Read the full BroadwayWorld article: HERE

10@$10 Tickets are going fast so buy now!

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La MaMa presents

The Last Days 

of Judas Iscariot

Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis 
Directed by Estelle Parsons

March 09 - March 26, 2017

Thursday to Saturday at 7PM; Sunday at 4PM *additional performance Monday, March 13 at 7PM

Ellen Stewart Theatre 

66 East 4th Street (2nd Floor)

New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $20 Adults; $15 Students/Seniors; ten tickets are available for each performance for $10 each, advance sales only - first come first served.

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Press for La MaMa's 55th Season!

New Works by Neil LaBute, Israel Horovitz and More Slated for La MaMa's 55th Season

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Downtown Manhattan’s La MaMa Announces Anniversary Season Lineup

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New Works by Neil LaBute, Israel Horovitz, and More Set for La Mama's 55th Season

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Tickets for Fall shows now available to members - get an Experimental Theatre Club Membership HERE!

BroadwayWorld looks at DARK NIGHTS BRIGHT STARS

BroadwayWorld previews Yara Arts Group's Dark Nights Bright Stars, now playing at The First Floor Theatre at La MaMa, through June 19th.

"Communication without translation is at the heart of the show created by Virlana Tkacz and her cast, which paradoxically, also places focus on the word, providing it with great depth and multidimensionality. The characters exchange only a few important words - revealing the multiplicity of meanings which usually escapes us in ordinary speech. Words like "mama" "Ukraine -Little Russia" "home" "portrait" and "friend" acquire the kind of depth of meaning only found in poetry."

Read the full preview: HERE

La MaMa and Yara Arts Group present
DARK NIGHTS 
BRIGHT STARS

Conceived and Directed by Virlana Tkacz

NOW through June 19, 2016
Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm; Sunday at 2pm

The First Floor Theatre @ La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

MDLSX by Motus comes to La MaMa in January 2016

Motus brings their show MDLSX, featuring Silvia Calderoni, to 

The Downstairs @ La MaMa in January 2016. 

"In MDLSX - created and performed by MOTUS company member Silvia Calderoni and directed by MOTUS founders Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolo - Ms. Calderoni is part actor, performer and DJ as she weaves autobiography and literary evocations in a fervent paean to the freedom of becoming, gender-blending, being what cannot be contained within the borders of the body, skin color, sexual organs or national identity."

Read the full BroadwayWorld preview: HERE

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La MaMa in association with Watson Arts present

MDLSX

by Motus

with Silvia Calderoni

January 7 - 17, 2016

The Downstairs @ La MaMa

66 East 4th Street

(between Bowery & Second Avenue)

New York, NY 10002

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; ten tickets priced at $10 each are available (advance sale only) for every performance.

For tickets and info: CLICK HERE 

BroadwayWorld on Pasolini's PYLADE at La MaMa

BroadwayWorld covers the US premier of PYLADE by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Directed by Ivica Buljan, the cast includes leading actor of the Slovenian National Theatre, Marco Mandic joining members of The Great Jones Repertory Company, including La MaMa's Artistic Director, Mia Yoo,  Perry Yung, Cary Gant, Eugene the Poogene, Maura Donahue, Valois Mickens, John Gutierrez, Chris Wild and Tunde Sho.

"Pasolini's PYLADE, a contemporary reinterpretation of the relationship between Pylades and Orestes from Greek mythology and the ORESTEIA, is a poetic, tragic meditation on democracy, consumerism, and the struggle for real social change. The rhythm and emotion of Pasolini's text, translated into English by Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson, is heightened by the music and movement incorporated into this production by Buljan and GJRC, to create a total theatre of movement, text, spectacle and music. "The re-construction" of democracy was of principal interest to Pasolini," stated Mr. Buljan."

PLYADE plays The Ellen Stewart Theater from December 3 - 18, 2015 for 10 performances only.

La MaMa presents

PYLADE

Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini
English Translation of Pylade is by Adam Paolozza and Coleen MacPherson
Directed by Ivica Buljan
Assistant Directed by Arthur Adair
Performed by Great Jones Repertory Company with Marco Mandić
Music composed by Michael Sirotta, additional music by Yukio Tsuji and Heather Paauwe

Thursday December 3 - Friday December 18, 2015
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sunday at 4pm

The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; ten tickets priced at $10 each available for each performance, in advance only, as part of La MaMa's 10@$10 ticketing program!

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

BroadwayWorld Looks at 2015 La MaMa Puppet Series

BrowadwayWorld looks at the upcoming 2015 La MaMa Puppet Series, coming to all the La MaMa venues in November!

"This biennial festival highlights new contemporary puppet theatre from many of the world's leading puppet artists during the month of November, including Heather Henson, Ty Defoe, Tom Lee, Koryu Nishikawa V, Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company and Maiko Kikuchi."

Read the full article: HERE 

In addition to the main stage puppet theater shows, the 2015 La MaMa Puppet Series also includes family programing, Coffeehouse Chronicles #129 on Contemporary Puppet Theater and the annual Puppet Slam.

Tickets are now on sale, including Puppet Packages which are discounted through November 1st.

La MaMa presents

THE 2015 LA MAMA 

PUPPET SERIES

curated by Denise Greber
featuring Heather Henson/Ibex Puppetry, Tom Lee & Koryu Nishikawa V, Théâtre d’un Jour, Liz Hara & Spencer Lott, Maiko Kikuchi and Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company

November 5 - 29, 2015

All Venues @ La MaMa

Tickets: $20 - $25 Adults; $15 - $20 Students/Seniors; a handful of $10 tickets still available for some performances.

Puppet Packages: 2, 3 and 5-Show Packages available

For Info, Tickets and Packages: CLICK HERE

Gardiner Comfort Video on BroadwayWorld

Check out the BroadwayWorld StageTube Exclusive video featuring Gardiner Comfort talking about his solo show, The Elephant in Every Room I Enter, coming to The First Floor Theatre at La MaMa - October 15 - 31, 2015.

La MaMa presents
The Elephant 
in Every Room 
I Enter

created by Gardiner Comfort & Kel Haney
featuring Gardiner Comfort
directed by Kel Haney

October 15 - 31, 2015

The First Floor Theatre
74A East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; ten $10 tickets are available for every performance, in advance only, first come first served via web, phone or at the box office.

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

BroadwayWorld on Dario D'Ambrosi's MEDEA

BroadwayWorld looks at the US Premiere of MEDEA by Dario D'Ambrosi, opening at The Ellen Stewart Theatre on October 8th for a limited run of 8 performances:

"The piece combines professional actors from New York and Italy, who perform in English, with a chorus of 14 actors with differing abilities drawn from the University program of D'Ambrosi's La magia del teatro (The magic of Theatre) drama academy, who perform in Attic Greek. Dario D'Ambrosi, one of Italy's most distinguished theater artists, has made a career of plays and films that are with and about people with psychiatric disabilities, devising productions that portray their unique perspective on life."

Don't miss this powerful show; $10 tickets still available for every performance - but hurry!

La MaMa presents

MEDEA

By Teatro Patologico (Italy)

Directed by Dario D’Ambrosi

October 08 - October 18, 2015 - 8 performances only!
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sunday at 4pm

The Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; ten $10 tickets available for every performance, in advance only, via web/phone/box office

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

2015 Fall Season Announcement

Our Fall 2015 Season at La MaMa has been announced and includes a diverse roster of artists including: Teatro Patologico/Dario D'Ambrosi (from Italy), GRANDMA, Object Collection, Gardner Comfort & Kel Haney, Loco 7, Ibex Puppetry/Heather Henson, Tom Lee & Koryu Nishikawa V, Théâtre d’un Jour (from Belgium), Pioneers Go East Collective, Kate Rigg and many more!

Read the announcements everywhere!

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Tickets for most of the Fall shows are now on sale, including our 10@$10 tickets for every performance!

Click here for Tickets and more info!

BroadwayWorld previews AMERICAN MILL #2

BroadwayWorld.com previews Pioneers Go East Collective's AMERICAN MILL #2, directed and designed by Artistic Director Gian Marco Lo Forte, with text and puppetry by co-Artistic DirectorAbby Felder,  American Mill #2 plays the La MaMa Galleria June 25 - 27, 2015.

"AMERICAN MILL #2 is a docudrama theatre work about childhood and child labor at the turn of the century, framed by an exploration of the textile industry in the American South. Live and recorded video and photography re-create a textile mill environment, as live artists perform folk music written and arranged by Gina Stewart and Brenda Lee Gambill of the folk duo, Jonesalee, and interview excerpts inspired by original oral historical texts from textile workers."

Read the fill preview: HERE



La MaMa presents
AMERICAN MILL #2
(Lint Head)
by Pioneers Go East Collective

June 25 - June 28, 2015

Gallery Hours: Thursday to Sunday 1 to 7pm

Box Office opens at 7PM with gallery viewing
Performances: Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm

La MaMa Galleria

47 Great Jones Street (between Bowery and Lafayette Street) 

New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $15; ten tickets priced at $10 each are available for every performance, while they last, pre-sale only.

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

BroadwayWorld previews BOTOX ANGELS by Dood Paard

BroadwayWorld takes a look at the upcoming BOTOX ANGELS by Dood Paard, coming to The Ellen Stewart Theatre for five performances only: June 25 - 28, 2015.

"From Dood Paard ("Dead Horse") Theatre in Amsterdam comes "Botox Angels," a play about militant female sexuality which is abundant in sultry dialogue, jealousy and emotional violence. Three clownish lesbian characters, named Swift, Cocky and Deedee, negotiate shifting power relationships, juggle dildos and fake breasts, play dress-up games and cross swords about men, breast reductions, philosphy versus banality and emotion versus rationality. Written by Rob de Graaf, translated into English by Paul Evans, it is performed by Ellen Goemans, Janneke Remmers and Manja Topper, all from Holland. La MaMa presents the work's American premiere June 25 to 28, coinciding with Gay Pride Weekend."

Read the full article: HERE


La MaMa presents
BOTOX 
ANGELS
by Dood Paard
Performed by Ellen Goemans, Janneke Remmers & Manja Topper
Text by Rob de Graaf
Choreography by Roy Peters

June 25 - 28, 2015
Thursday - Friday at 8pm; Saturday at 3pm and 8pm; Sunday at 4pm

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; ten tickets priced at $10 are available for every performance - pre-sale only, not available day-of-show!

For Tickets and Info: Click Here