New La MaMa Podcast: Amy Rox Surratt chats with Split Britches

Photo by Christa Holka

In the latest edition of the La MaMa Podcast, Amy Rox Surratt chats with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw of Split Britches.

New La MaMa Podcast: Albert Poland

In the new episode of the La MaMa Podcast,  La MaMa Director of Audience Development John Issendorf speaks with Albert Poland, whose memoir STAGES looks at his life and 43 year career in NYC theater.

ALBERT POLAND, in his 43 year career in the New York theatre, served as general manager for more than 90 productions including The Homecoming, Talk Radio, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Award, Best Revival), Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Tony Award, Best Revival), and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Dirty Blonde, The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Tony Award, Best Play), The Grapes of Wrath (Tony Award, Best Play), As Is (Drama Desk Award, Best Play), The Price, the original productions of Little Shop of Horrors (Drama Critics, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Best Musical), Steel Magnolias, and One Mo’ Time as well as Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Drama Desk, Best Play), Uta Hagen in Mrs. Klein, Eileen Heckart in The Waverly Gallery, Always Patsy Cline, Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind (Drama Critics, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Best Play), Vanities, David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre, The Neon Woman, Tommy Tune Atop the Village Gate, Let My People Come, Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little and Tom Lehrer’s Tomfoolery. Mr. Poland operated the Astor Place Theatre from 1977 through 2000, during which time it was host to such long runs as A Coupla White Chicks, The Dining Room, The Foreigner, and Blue Man Group. He is the Co-Editor/Author, with Bruce Mailman, of The Off-Off Broadway Book published in 1972 by Bobbs-Merrill. As a performer, he appeared at Carnegie Hall, La Mama, Judson Poets Theater and the Village Gate. Mr. Poland’s first venture in show business was as the founding president of The Official Judy Garland Fan Fan Club in 1955.
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La MaMa Postcast: Stefanie Batten Bland & Stephen Winter

For the new episode of the La MaMa Podcast,  Jerome Robbins Award–winning choreographic artist and filmmaker, Stefanie Batten Bland sat down with award-winning filmmaker, writer and artist, Stephen Winter to discuss the 1967 film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, which happens to be the inspiration for Stefanie's world premiere production: Look Who's Coming To Dinner, which opens at La MaMa on October 3rd.

Listen to the podcast on here on SoundCloud or download it on iTunes.

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La MaMa presents

Look Who's Coming To Dinner
Co-presented as part of Crossing the Line Festival
produced by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)

October 03 - October 06, 2019
This Week Only!

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

Jerome Robbins Award–winning choreographic artist and filmmaker, Stefanie Batten Bland makes her Crossing the Line Festival debut with the world premiere of Look Who’s Coming to Dinner. Inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film starring Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, the work pays tribute to those who paved the way toward acceptance in love and life

Tickets: $25 Adult; $20 Student/Senior [+$1 Facility Fee]

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE