Coffeehouse Chronicles #131: Mabou Mines

Our next Coffeehouse Chronicles (#131 for those keeping track!) will explore the history and legacy of Mabou Mines.  Mabou Mines is currently in rehearsal for the world premiere of Imagining the Imaginary Invalid, beginning performances on January 21.

So please join us on Saturday, January 30th at 3pm for a look back and a look ahead at this legendary company.  Admission is free, but the hat will be passed in keeping with the coffeehouse tradition.

Panelists & Performers Include:

Lee Breuer

Karen Kandel

Sharon Fogarty

Greg Mehrten

Clove Galilee

Maude Mitchell 

and the cast of Imagining the Imaginary Invalid.

La MaMa presents

Coffeehouse Chronicles #131: 

Mabou Mines

Panelists & Performers Include:  Lee Breuer, Karen Kandel, Sharon Fogarty, Greg Mehrten, Clove Galilee, Maude Mitchell and the cast of Imagining the Imaginary Invalid.

Saturday, January 30, 2016 @ 3pm 

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

Tickets are FREE, reservations suggested - donations welcome!


For Info and Reservations: CLICK HERE

The Films of Lee Breuer @ CUNY Grad Center

A rare opportunity to catch films by playwright, director, filmmaker, poet, and lyricist, Lee Breuer. He is a co-artistic director of Mabou Mines Theater Company, which he founded in 1970 with JoAnne Akalaitis, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow.

Monday, March 30, 2015
Screening Schedule:


10:30am: In Memoriam
(Introductions, Lee Breuer)
The Lost Ones with David Warrilow (1975) – 47 min
B. Beaver Animation with Frederick Neumann (1979) – 32 min
Hajj with Ruth Maleczech (1986) – 55 min


2:15pm:  Gospel
(Introductions, Bob Telson)
Sister Suzie Cinema (1980) – 21 min
The Gospel at Colonus (1985) – 89 min


4:30pm: Sneak Peeks
(Introductions, Lee Breuer & Eric Marciano)
Un Tramway Nommé Désir (Stills from The Comédie Française) (2011) – 10 min
Glass Guignol (2013) – 10 min
La Divina (Puppet Film Version) (2013-2015) – 10 min
The Book of Clarence (2011-2015) – 10 min


6:30pm: Mabou Mines DollHouse
Mabou Mines DollHouse (ARTE Film) (2008) – 123 min
Q & A with Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell


The Films of Lee Breuer
Monday, March 30 
All Day + 6:30pm
Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center CUNY

NY Times Loves LA DIVINA CARICATURA

****NY TIMES CRITICS' PICK****

Laura Collins-Hughes on Lee Breuer's LA DIVINA CARICATURA, playing through Sunday, December 22 at The Ellen Stewart Theatre.

"Lee Breuer’s dark, joyous and utterly splendid musical fantasia...'La Divina' is indeed unusual: strange, singular, perfectly self-contained and so wondrous that it may leave you in a daze. Don’t say you haven’t been warned." 

Read the full review: HERE

NY Times previews La Divina Caricatura!

Rose the dog is back as the central character of La Divina Caricatura (Trivia buffs note: Rose the dog is the only puppet to win an Obie Award for performance.) 

“It sounds like a Hollywood ploy: ‘40 years in the making,’ ” Mr. Breuer said. “But, yeah, aspects of this piece were around then, so technically, I’ve been screwing with it for that long. The story keeps evolving as I evolve.” 

 Read the full article: HERE

Tickets: $40 Adults; $30 Students

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 7 – December 22, 2013

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

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

Coming Soon: Lee Breuer's La Divina Caricatura

La MaMa ETC and St. Ann’s Warehouse, and producers piece by piece productions, Mabou Mines and Dovetail Productions—all ardent and longtime supporters of Lee Breuer, the “bad boy of avant-garde theater” (Village Voice)—unite for Breuer’s epic magnum opus La Divina Caricatura. The mixed-media pop-opera completes Breuer’s Animations series and draws on material that stretches all the way back to Breuer’s doo-wop opera Sister Suzie Cinema, first conceived as a poem in 1975. 

La MaMa and St. Ann’s Warehouse present 
LEE BREUER’S 
LA DIVINA CARICATURA 
A Bunraku Puppet Pop-Opera | Part 1: The Shaggy Dog 

December 6 – December 22, 2012  

La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre 
66 E 4th Street  
New York, NY 10003 

Produced by piece by piece productions, Mabou Mines, and Dovetail Productions 
Music by Lincoln Schleifer 
Additional Music by Bob Telson 
Puppetry by Jessica Scott 
Video by Eamonn Farrell Rose 

Tickets: $40 Adults; $30 Students/Seniors; A limited number of $10 tickets available for every performance as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticket initiative - but they are selling quickly!

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

Tickets now on sale for LA DIVINA CARICATURA!

Nearly 40 years in the making, Lee Breuer’s magnum opus, with music from Motown to Broadway, reggae to rage, features our heroine, Rose the Dog, and her mad love affair with her master John, La Divina Caricatura Part 1, The Shaggy Dog gets its world premiere at The Ellen Stewart Theatre in December. 

La MaMa, St. Ann’s Warehouse, piece by piece, Mabou Mines and Dovetail Productions – all ardent supporters of the “bad boy of avant-garde theater” (Village Voice) – unite to complete Breuer’s epic Animation series.


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 | Part 1: The Shaggy Dog


December 6 – December 22, 2013


The Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $40 Adults; $35 Students/Seniors; Ten $10 tickets are available to every performance, in advance, as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative.

For tickets and info: Click Here