Photo Call: THE THIRD POLICEMAN

Photos by Theo Cote - www.theo-cote.com 

La MaMa presents
Nomad Theatrical Company's production
of Flann O’Brien’s
THE THIRD POLICEMAN
Adapted and Directed by
Stephen Jobes and Grant Neale

Final 4 Performances!
December 12th - 15th, 2013

Tickets: $18 Adults; $15 Students/Seniors; a limited number of $10 tickets are available for every performance, in advance only - not available day of show.

For tickets and info: Click Here

Coming Soon: CHRISTMAS IN NICKYLAND 2013

Photo by Simon Miller | Pictured: Nicky Paraiso with Reindeer Simon Miller (left) and Elf Matt Nasser (right) 

Just in time for the holidays, La MaMa E.T.C. presents Nicky Paraiso as the master of ceremonies for the ultimate holiday cabaret, CHRISTMAS IN NICKYLAND 2013, in our intimate 99-seat cabaret space, The Club at La MaMa.

Each night there will be a holy host of characters singing, dancing, gender-bending, and merry making, all to get you into the East Village spirit of the season. Performances by: The All-La MaMa Ding-Ding Christmas Chorus, Laurie Berg, David Cale, Dan Fishback, Ellen Fisher, Patricia Hoffbauer, Peggy Gould & Guests, Jon Kinzel, Chris Masters, Brigham Mosley, Susan Murphy, Matt Nasser, Edgar Oliver, George Emilio Sanchez, Shane Shane & Heather Litteer, Max Steele, Chris Tanner, and other special guest artists TBA!

Join us and ring in the Holidays the La MaMa way!

La MaMa presents
Christmas in NickyLand 2013
Hosted by Nicky Paraiso

Saturday December 21st at 10pm
Sunday December 22nd at 5:30pm, The Club at La MaMa

Tickets: $15 Adults; $10 Students/Seniors; a limited number of $10 tickets are available as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative (advance purchase only - not available day-of)

For tickets and info: Click Here

Video Preview: A SEASON IN THE CONGO

A Season in the Congo chronicles the rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Republic of Congo, in the year 1960. Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), a writer and politician known as the “poet leader that lit the fire of Africa” explores themes of racism, betrayal and decolonization in this seminal piece of political theatre. Now, on the 100th anniversary of Césaire’s birth, director Rico Speight brings his work to a new audience.

La MaMa presents
A Season in the Congo
Written by Aimé Césaire Directed by Rico Speight

December 19 – December 22, 2013
Thursday – Saturday @ 7:30pm; Sunday @ 2:30pm

Tickets: $18 Adults; $15 Students/Seniors

First Floor Theatre @ La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
Between 2nd Avenue & Bowery
New York, NY 10003

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

The New Yorker Previews La Davina Caricatura

Joan Acocella (The New Yorker) talks to Lee Breuer and previews La Davina Caricatura which begins performances this Friday, December 6th at The Ellen Stewart Theatre.

“La Divina Caricatura” has a lot more than puppets. We get video, a live band, and an impressive crucifixion. There’s a quartet of male soul singers and a trio of female backup singers, in sequinned gowns. The music incorporates rhythm and blues, soul, tango, reggae, rap, Gregorian chant, French folk songs, and Indian ragas. (Breuer says that he was also influenced by ancient Indian epics such as the Mahabharata and by Disney’s animated features, especially “Snow White.”)

Read the full article: HERE

La MaMa ETC and St. Ann’s Warehouse present
The World Premier of Lee Breuer’s
LA DIVINA CARICATURA
Part 1, The Shaggy Dog
a Bunraku Puppet Pop-Opera

December 6 – December 22, 2013

Tuesday – Saturday @ 7:30pm; Sunday @ 2:30pm

Tickets: $40 Adults; $30 Students

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

New This Week: The Third Policeman @ The Club

Nomad Theatrical Company's production of Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman comes to The Club @ La MaMa this Friday. Stephen Jobes and Grant Neale's adapt and direct O'Brien's darkly comic, surrealistic novel with a cast of seven actors, two puppeteers and live music. This show is not to be missed!

Actors: Arthur Aulisi, Bairbre Dowling, LeeAnne Hutchison, Todd Licea, Grant Neale, John Robert Tilitson, Julia Watt Musicians: Michael Lydon, Mary Orzano, Marianne Miller

Puppeteers: Bejamin Freeman, Teresa Gilhooly

Puppet Master: Ralph Lee
Composer: Katie Down
Lighting Designer: Richard Currie
Costume Designer: Sara Vandenheuvel
Stage Manager: Mark Brystowski
Scenic Artists: Ron Erickson, Angela Lucido
Video: Paul Lieber
Prop Fabrication: Ian Roy
Theatrical Magic:Jeff Duer

La MaMa presents
Nomad Theatrical Company's production of
Flann O’Brien’s
THE THIRD POLICEMAN
Adapted and Directed by
Stephen Jobes and Grant Neale

December 6th - 15th, 2013

Tickets: $18 Adults; $15 Students/Seniors; a limited number of $10 tickets are available for every performance, in advance only - not available day of show.

For tickets and info: Click Here

REFEST at CultureHub

Refest is CULTUREHUB's 3-day art and technology festival that celebrates the convergence of new and old, digital and analog, near and far. The artists featured in Refest are those who are breaking open possibilities through their practice. Creators working across a broad range of technologically informed media will gather at CultureHub in New York City to share video, performance, music, and more. Refest invites artists to share how they are reforming, rebuilding, reiterating, and renewing ideas.

Here is the full weekend schedule:

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29

5 PM Exhibition Opening / Featuring works from Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Jane Tingley and Michael Seta, RATS Theatre, Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint, Jesper Norda, Jody Zellen, Karen Niemczyk, Matthew Mazzota, EcoArtTech, Robert Spahr, Namwoo Bae

6 PM Long Table co-curated by CultureHub and Tom Tenny of Re/Mixed Festival NYC featuring remix scholar Eduardo Navas, musician Adriano Clemente, RE/Mixed NYC founder Tom Tenney, performing artist David Commander and more TBA!

8 PM In Flight by David Commander / Theatre Performance

8:30 PM LightPUSHer with Adriano Clemente / Musical Performance

9 PM Kick-Off Party

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30

12 PM The Moment by ss-io / Generative audiovisual installation

1 PM Maryam: A Mobile Drama from RATS / Interactive Performance

2 PM foci + loci / Installation

3 PM Indeterminate Hikes+ with Leila Nadir & Cary Peppermint / Interactive Experience

6 PM Artist Talk with Jesper Norda

7 PM Artist Talk with Matthew Mazzota

8 PM Reception

9 PM Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid with Sound Impact / Performing Seoul Counterpoint *This event will be Livestreamed

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1

11 AM CoLab with Federico Restrepo / Children's Workshop

1 PM Le Blanc et Le Noir, CoLab presentation / Interactive game

5 PM Memory Palace with Christopher Cerrone

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For info and tickets: CLICK HERE

Thankful @ La MaMa

La MaMa is so thankful for everyone who came out for our DIY Season Gala last Thursday to help us celebrate our DIY season and honor Patsy Tarr and Michael Feingold. Mike Albo and Marga Gomez were terrific hosts and we were wowed by the talents of Tom Gold, Joan Morris, Jonah Bokaer, Joyce Castle and Sting (yes, STING!).

We hope everyone had enjoyed themselves and if you didn't get to come, please join us for our next one.

The online auction is still going on via CharityBuzz until Wednesday, December 4th. CLICK HERE to bid!

And we wish everyone a Very Happy Thanksgiving!

Opening The Week: The Republic, or My Dinner with Socrates

The La MaMa Puppet Series may have just concluded, but there are still more puppets inhabiting the La MaMa First Floor Theatre.  This week, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's  The Republic, or My Dinner with Socrates begins performances.  With a cast of 6 actors, 50 marionettes and dozens of shadow puppets, The Rupublic asks: Is democracy not the ideal form of government?  Was Socrates executed by a vigilant Athenian "department of homeland security?  The play may or may not answer these questions, but will at least hope to open a dialogue in a true Socratic method.

La MaMa presents
Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's
The Republic, or My Dinner with Socrates

Written and Directed by Vít Hořejš

November 29 – December 15, 2013

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; A limited number of $10 tickets are available as part La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative, through which ten tickets are available for every performance for only $10: these tickets must be purchased in advance.

For tickets and information: Click Here

Felt It Again II @ La Galleria

AN EXHIBITION OF
WEARABLE ART BY
SELCUK GURISIK & ALI ALEV

Dr. Selçuk Gürısık has researched traditional Anatolian felt-making for 28 years. After a long absence, he is back on the New York art scene with a dazzling new exhibition. The show invokes the collective, progressive spirit of the felt-making community. Felt makers’ multimedia techniques merge traditional and contemporary concepts, expressing aspects of post-postmodernism. Adopting a theme of “today creates tomorrow,” this exhibit puts on display the felt-makers’ ultimate ambitions for their art.

The exhibition will also commemorate the memory of Ellen Stewart, the founder and director of the avant-garde theater company La MaMa, and Huseyin Katircioglu, a Turkish Performance artist and founder of Assos Performance Arts Festival. Both had a profound influence over Gurisik’s work and the exhibition simultaneously serves as an homage to the indispensible body of theaterical work that came out of their collaboration together in international theater festivals in Italy, Turkey and the US.

La MaMa Galleria
6 East 1st Street
(Between Broadway & 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun 1-7:30pm

Free Admission

For more info: Click Here

La MaMa DYI Season Gala Tomorrow!

The La MaMa DIY Season Gala will happen at The Ellen Stewart Theatre tomorrow, Thursday, November 21st at 6:30pm. The evening will honor Michael Feingold and Patsy Tarr and will be hosted by Marga Gomez and Mike Albo.

You can support La MaMa in several ways:

• Buy a ticket and attend the gala: Click here

• Bid on some of the fabulous auction items: Click Here

• Buy a raffle ticket and be entered to win some terrific East Village-y prizes: Click Here

• Make a tax-deductible donation: Click Here

...And THANK YOU for your continued support!

The Critics Are Blown Away by THE GOD PROJEKT

"one of the most startlingly intense shows I've seen" 

- Helen Shaw, Time Out New York

"pure unadulterated theater magic" 

- Martin Denton, New York Theater Now

La MaMa Puppet Series presents

THE GOD PROJEKT

Created by Lone Wolf Tribe
Conceived by Kevin Augustine
Written & Directed by Kevin Augustine and Edward Einhorn
In association with Untitled Theater Company #61

November 14 – November 24, 2013

Tickets are $18 for Adults; $13 for students and seniors.
A limited number of $10 tickets are available as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 initiative.

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

La MaMa Puppet Series Continues: DORME

Italian company, La Capra Ballerina brings their show, DORME, to the First Floor Theatre at La MaMa.

Conceived and performed by Laura Bartolomei, DORME tells the story of a who girl goes to sleep and embarks on a journey within her dreams and nightmares: flying among fish with human faces; playing with light and shadow; the death of her cat; falling into water and meeting her own death. The non-linear narrative is composed as a dance, with a musical score by Stefano Zazzera and the wrist puppet technique developed by the Russian master, Vladimir Zakharov.

La MaMa Puppet Series presents 
La Capra Ballerina's 
Dorme 
Conceived and Performed by Laura Bartolomei 

November 21 – November 24, 2013
4 Performances Only!

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; a limited number of $10 tickets are available, in advance only, as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative.

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

Race & the Colonial Impulse: Queer Performance Practices

The Helix Queer Performance Network presents
Race & the Colonial Impulse: 
Queer Performance Practices
A Long Table Conversation

Performance artists M. Lamar and Dan Fishback host a Long Table conversation reflecting on the contributions of people of color (POC) in various queer performance communities, and examining the presentation of those performance practices. This discussion will explore ways in which the colonial impulse may exist in queer artists and presenters alike. From the appropriation of queer POC by white queer culture, to racially exclusive booking practices, to why queer people of color are exploited for artistic innovation but unrewarded within predominantly white institutions, this discussion will also explore how POC are empowering themselves outside of these institutions. Whose legacies are whose to claim in terms of appropriation or influence? How can arts institutions better support queer artists of color? How can NYC’s queer arts landscape become more integrated while maintaining the integrity of safe POC space and avoiding easy traps of tokenization and orientalization?

Conceived by performance artist Lois Weaver, The Long Table format experiments with participation and public engagement by re-appropriating a dinner table atmosphere as a public forum, and encouraging informal conversations on serious topics. It is literally a very long table set up with chairs, where anyone and everyone is welcome to come to the table, ask questions, make statements, leave comments, or simply sit, listen and watch.

Joining the conversation will be Susana Cook, Arthur Aviles, Juliana Huxtable, Kia LaBeija, V.S. Tobar, Erica Cardwell, and more…

The Helix Queer Performance Network presents
Race & the Colonial Impulse: 
Queer Performance Practices

A Long Table Conversation 

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 
7 – 9pm

20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor, NYC
FREE admission

RSVP via Facebook

La MaMa Puppet Series: Week 2

The La MaMa Puppet Series, curated by Denise Greber, continues this week with THE GOD PROJEKT, ECHO IN CAMERA and LA MAMA PUPPET SLAM, as well as Kids programming: GOLDILOCKS & THE THREE BEARS, THE THREE LITTLE PIGS and SQUIRREL STOLE MY UNDERPANTS!

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THE GOD PROJEKT

Created by Lone Wolf Tribe, conceived by Kevin Augustine, written & directed by Kevin Augustine and Edward Einhorn, in association with Untitled Theater Company #61.

The God Projekt is an interdisciplinary, minimalist extravaganza on religious and secular morality that investigates the historical legacy of monotheism. God (played by Augustine in a full-body “old age” silicone prosthetic) joins a cast of highly realistic, hand-carved puppets inspired by 18th century wax anatomical figures and Old Testament animals and characters to deliver a dynamic interpretation of a deep, contradictory, and ambiguous Almighty.

November 14-24, 2013

The Club @ La MaMa

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; A limited number of $10 tickets are available, in advance, as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 initiative!

For tickets and info: Click Here

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ECHO IN CAMERA

Conceived, designed and directed by Roman Paska

Echo in Camera, a co-production of Dead Puppet, the Schauspielhaus Wien and the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, explores the relationships between hearing, understanding and identity in a “little mental drama” that recasts the Orpheus legend as an interior journey, tracing the descent of a divided puppet protagonist through a netherworld of his own imagination to retrieve a missing other.

Through November 17th, 2013 - Final 4 Performances!

Ellen Stewart Theatre

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; A limited number of $10 tickets are available, in advance, as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 initiative!

For tickets and info: Click Here

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Curated by Jane Catherine Shaw, this is a one-night only puppet slam featuring contemporary short-form puppet and object theatre. These super short works make their point fast and furious, and bring artists and audiences together for an evening of puppetry mash up fun.

November 15 , 2013 at 7pm

La MaMa First Floor Theatre 

Tickets: SOLD OUT 

For More info: Click Here

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Puppet Series Children's Programming!

GOLDILOCKS & THE THREE BEARS 

WonderSpark Puppets / Performed by Chad Williams

Goldilocks is a naughty little girl who does anything she wants – but what will happen when she breaks into the Three Bears’ house? Lots of laughter and sing-a-longs! The well-known story about one girl, three bears, finding friends and learning responsibility.

La MaMa First Floor Theatre

Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 11am

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THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

WonderSpark Puppets / Performed by Chad Williams

Three Little Pigs build their houses of hay, sticks and bricks – but will they withstand the Big Bad Wolf? The classic tale retold with hilarious puppet pigs and a silly wolf – with an emphasis on ‘being prepared’.

La MaMa First Floor Theatre

Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 11am

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SQUIRREL STOLE MY UNDERPANTS 

Created & performed by Bonnie Duncan

Music by Brendan Burns & Tony Leva 

Directed by Dan Milstein

A poignantly silly adventure tale for families / Ages 5 & up

Sylvie is sent to the backyard to hang up the laundry. The moment her back is turned, a mischievous squirrel steals her favorite piece of clothing and runs off. When Sylvie gives chase, an entire world emerges from her laundry basket, and curious characters show her the way through mysterious lands. Will our lonely heroine rescue her underpants and discover the magic within herself? Join us on this adventure to find out!

La MaMa First Floor Theatre

Saturday, November 16 and Sunday November 17, 2013 at 2:30pm

Coffeehouse Chronicles #116: Richard Schechner and East Coast Artists

Coffeehouse Chronicles continues on November 23rd with “Richard Schechner and East Coast Artists: Reimagining the Classics in Performance, Rehearsal, Workshop and Training” 

Saturday, Novemver 23rd at 3pm
La MaMa First Floor Theater
74A East 4th Street

Richard Schechner and East Coast Artists:
Reimagining the Classics in Performance, Rehearsal, Workshop and Training

Curated by Michal Family and Saviana Stanescu

Panel: Richard Schechner | Saviana Stanescu (moderator)| Paula Murray Cole | Jennifer Lim | Frank Wood | Ulla Neuerberg-Denzer | Ralph Denzer | Joan Macintosh | Daphne Gaine

 Discussing & screening selected clips from Schechner’s work, including: Dionysus in ’69 | Faust Gastronome| Three Sisters | Yokastas/Yokastas Redux | Waxing West, Harvest, Timbuktu

 Live demonstration: Paula Murray Cole will lead a rasaboxes performance 
technique workshop.

Admission is free, but the hat is passed in keeping with the coffeehouse tradition.

For more info: Click Here

Martin Denton Talks To Kevin Augustine

Martin Denton (Indie Theater Now!) talks to puppeteer, playwright, designer and actor, Kevin Augustine, about his upcoming show The God Projekt (co-written and co-directed with Edward Einhorn) and other projects. 

Listen to the podcast: HERE.

La MaMa Puppet Series presents 
THE GOD PROJEKT 

Created by Lone Wolf Tribe 
Conceived by Kevin Augustine 
Written & Directed by Kevin Augustine and Edward Einhorn 

November 14 – November 24, 2013 Tickets are $18 for Adults; $13 for students and seniors. A limited number of $10 tickets are available as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 initiative - and only a handful remaining. 

For Tickets and info: Click Here

La MaMa DIY Raffle

In conjunction with our DIY Gala, La MaMa is having a DIY Raffle with some VERY cool East Village-y prize packages, such as:

THE EAST VILLAGE EXPERIENCE

Experience a sampling of some of the unique small businesses that keep the DIY spirit alive in the East Village:

- $150 gift certificate to vintage eyeglass shop Fabulous Fanny’s

- $50 gift certificate to Abraco Coffee

- Lunch for two at classic lunch counter Archie And Son’s

- $40 gift certificate for dessert at the historic Veniero’s Italian Bakery

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A YEAR OF DIY THEATRE

Check out the works in progress from up and coming artists at downtown staple Dixon Place:

- Dixon Place Season Pass!

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FANCY FREE ON EAST 4TH

A fabulous evening on East 4th Street:

- Two tickets to any show of your choice at La MaMa E.T.C.

- Dinner at Calliope Restaurant, called “glamorous” and “unabashedly retro” by The New Yorker.

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LIVIN’ IT UP ON LAFAYETTE

A lovely evening on Lafayette Street:

- Two tickets to a show at the newly renovated Public Theater

- Dinner at Chef Andrew Carmellini’s newest venture: Lafayette Restaurant

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To see the full list of prizes and to buy raffle tickets
CLICK HERE

Video Preview: THE ORPHAN CIRCUS

The Quebecois company Les Sages Fous bring THE ORPHAN CIRCUS to The First Floor Theatre at La MaMa beginning tonight. Les Sages Fous has performed in over 27 countries at over 179 festivals and we are so excited to have them at La MaMa.

In The Orphan Circus, two junk peddlers create a small circus of visual tableaux evoking the life of a cabaret troupe of derelicts and misfits. This wayward troupe is ruled with an iron fist by the mysterious impresario Monsieur. P.T. Issimo. This is a place where the gruesome become the beauties and even impossible love can be fulfilled.

La MaMa presents
Les Sages Fous'
THE ORPHAN CIRCUS
Part of the La MaMa Puppet Series

November 7th - 10th

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; a limited number of $10 tickets are available, in advance only, as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative.


For tickets and info: Click Here

Roman Paska Talks Puppets

Roman Paska's ECHO IN CAMERA begins performances this Friday, November 8th at the Ellen Stewart Theater.  The piece was developed in part at Rober Wilson's Watermill Center in Water Mill, NY in early 2013.

Roman talked to Michelle Trauring for The East Hampton Press while preparing for that workshop.

“The essence of puppetry is the idea of animating a dead thing. Maybe that means that puppetry is always, in some way, an indication of our quest for immortality. It puts it right up there with the big themes.”

You can read the full article HERE. 

And you can see the premiere of ECHO IN CAMERA through November 17th at La MaMa. 

La MaMa presents
ECHO IN CAMERA
by Roman Paska

Part of the 2013 La MaMa Puppet Series.

November 8th - 17th, 2013
Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; a limited number of $10 tickets are available as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative through which ten tickets are available, in advance on a first come first served basis.

For tickets and info: Click Here

The Puppets Are Coming!

The 2013 La MaMa Puppet Series takes over all three theatres at LaMaMa beginning this week with Roman Paska's ECHO IN CAMERA, Les Sages Fous' THE ORPHAN CIRCUS and Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew's ARE THEY EDIBLE? 

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ECHO IN CAMERA

Luminary theatre artist Roman Paska returns to the New York stage with the premiere of Echo in Camera, exploring the relationships between hearing, understanding and identity in a “little mental drama” that recasts the Orpheus legend as the journey of a divided puppet protagonist through the netherworld of his own imagination to retrieve a missing other.

Echo in Camera runs November 8 - 17th at the Ellen Stewart Theatre.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students and seniors.  A limited number of $10 tickets are available, in advance only, as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative.

For tickets and info: Click Here 


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THE ORPHAN CIRCUS

In Les Sages Fous' The Orphan Circus, two junk peddlers create a small circus of visual tableaux evoking the life of a cabaret troupe of derelicts and misfits. This wayward troupe is ruled with an iron fist by the mysterious impresario Monsieur. P.T. Issimo. This is a place where the gruesome become the beauties and even impossible love can be fulfilled. 

The Orphan Circus runs November 7th - 10th at La MaMa's First Floor Theatre.  
Tickets are $18 for adults and $13 for students and seniors.  A limited number of $10 tickets are available, in advance only, as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative. 

For tickets and info: Click Here

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ARE THEY EDIBLE?

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew's Are They Edible?, a multi-sensory puppetry performance inspired by Homer’s epics, The Iliad and the Odyssey, takes place in an interactive setting where food consumption is used to engage the audience in a tactile discourse on the relationship between war, heroes, and hunger (or the urge to consume). 
Read our interview with Jeanette here.

Are They Edible? runs November 7th - 10th at The Club at La MaMa.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $13 for students and seniors.  A limited number of $10 tickets are available, in advance only, as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative. 

For tickets and info: Click Here

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To see the full Puppet Series schedule: Click Here  

2, 3 and 5 Show Puppet Packages are available: HERE