The reviews are IN for NELLA TEMPESTA!

“'Nella Tempesta,' which runs through Dec. 21 at the Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa, 

is a full-throated cry to the young and disaffected to get off their collective duffs, 

shake off their shackles and do something. Conceived and directed 

by Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande, this production turns 

a cast of six and an assortment of blankets into an 80-minute youthquake 

that seems likely to leave even cynical audience members shaken and stirred."

- Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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"a ruminative and resonant production by Italy's Motus Theatre Company...This isn't so much a drama as an evocative theatrical search through the symbolic sphere. Nella Tempesta can be discursive, but ultimately it makes an elegiac and stirring forecast of bad political weather headed our way." 

-Tom Sellar, Village Voice

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"BEST BET...A mind expanding new production from Italy’s Motus Theatre Company that masterfully illuminates contemporary political and climate change issues alongside text borrowed from Shakespeare."

- Keith Paul Medelis, Theatre Is Easy

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"Political Drama At Its Finest...It’s refreshing to see this kind of play at La MaMa. Plays like Nella Tempesta provide exactly the kind of theater experience that keeps La MaMa so relevant."

- Marcina Zaccaria, Theater Pizzazz 

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 the third production of “The Tempest” at LaMaMa this season, 
and it is richly inventive and visually arresting.
..it’s the blankets that make this show so breathtaking. 
The blankets comfort, and buffet and transport us. 

- Jonathan Mandell, New York Theater.me

La MaMa presents
NELLA 
TEMPESTA
by Motus Theatre

Now through 21st, 2014
Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 4pm

Audiences are encouraged to bring a clean, unwanted blanket to the performances.  The blanket will be used in the performance and donated to someone who needs it after the NYC run.

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

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors; 10@$10 Tickets are sold out!

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Theater Pizzazz on NELLA TEMPESTA

Marcina Zaccaria, of Theater Pizzazz,  has high praise for Motus Theatre Company's Nella Tempesta, now playing at The Ellen Stewart Theatre until December 21.

"Political Drama At Its Finest" 

"rigorous theater that is unafraid of the larger inquiry into dynamics of power and people." 

"It’s refreshing to see this kind of play at La MaMa. Plays like Nella Tempesta provide exactly the kind of theater experience that keeps La MaMa so relevant."

Read the full review HERE.

La MaMa presents
NELLA 
TEMPESTA
by Motus Theatre

December 11th - 21st, 2014
Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 4pm

Audiences are encouraged to bring a clean, unwanted blanket to the performances.  The blanket will be used in the performance and donated to someone who needs it after the NYC run.

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

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors; 10@$10 Tickets are sold out!

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

NY Times Loves NELLA TEMPESTA

The New York Times' Ben Brantley came to see Nella Tempesta last night and his review is already on line.  He loved it, and you will too!

“'Nella Tempesta,' which runs through Dec. 21 at the Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa, is a full-throated cry to the young and disaffected to get off their collective duffs, shake off their shackles and do something. Conceived and directed by Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande, this production turns a cast of six and an assortment of blankets into an 80-minute youthquake that seems likely to leave even cynical audience members shaken and stirred."

"There was a time, a half-century ago, when such rough-hewed, kinetically charged, politically aggressive theater was common in New York. And “Nella Tempesta” quivers with vibrations from that time. It seems only right that the production should be staged at La MaMa, which has a history of convention-flouting theater in the raw that dates to the early 1960s, and that its soundscape includes the recorded voice of Judith Malina, a founder of the iconoclastic Living Theater."

"The third installment of La MaMa’s season of plays inspired by “The Tempest” (which included a New York-grown version and an import from South Korea), “Nella Tempesta” is openly didactic and exhortative in ways seldom encountered in American theater these days. It doesn’t pretend to have any answers to the crises of environmental degradation, war, famine and racism that the world faces."

"What it does do is convey the belief that nothing will come of nothing, as another tyrant out of Shakespeare, King Lear, observed — that stasis breeds only more stasis. Tempests may destroy, but they have the virtue of sweeping people into action. And for as long as this determined, resourceful company is in extravagant, unceasing motion onstage, you may even believe that world-shaking change is possible after all."

Read the full NY Times review HERE

Now through Sunday, December 21st only!

La MaMa presents
NELLA 
TEMPESTA
by Motus Theatre

December 11th - 21st, 2014
Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 4pm

*Dance party immediately following the Saturday, December 13th performance.  DJ: Silvia Calderoni.  Free for all ticket holders.  Cash bar.

Audiences are encouraged to bring a clean, unwanted blanket to the performances.  The blanket will be used in the performance and donated to someone who needs it after the NYC run.

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

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors; a handful of 10@$10 Tickets are still available for some performances

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

TheaterLab Party for MOTUS!

On Tuesday, our friends at TheaterLab threw a Celebrate The Artist party for Motus!  

It was a fabulous event as you can see here:

Come see Motus' NELLA TEMPESTA at La MaMa December 11 - 21, 2014.

La MaMa presents
NELLA 
TEMPESTA
by Motus Theatre

December 11th - 21st, 2014
Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 4pm

*Dance party immediately following the Saturday, December 13th performance.  DJ: Silvia Calderoni.  Free for all ticket holders.  Cash bar.

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

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors; a handful of 10@$10 Tickets are still available for some performances

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Julia Dobner-Pereira on MOTUS

We left a rained out Sagra to drive back through the hills of Umbria to the magical and ethereal house of La MaMa. A Sagra is an outdoor celebration of life and family that happens most weekends of an Italian summer. This one was rained out, held in a plastic tent with fluorescent lighting and tiny beers. The band left before dinner.

The ride back was dark and turbid, and for the first few minutes we just listened to the rain and thunder that was everywhere. I was happy to be in the MOTUS car, with two soft, heavy heads on my shoulders. We sang softly and Daniela asked for more. Neither Enrico Casagrande nor Daniela Francesconi Nicolò (founders of MOTUS) joined; they just listened with rapt attention, because that is what they do. MOTUS is youth, fire, revolution: urgent political theatre. It is not about creating to match up or pursue, it is creating because that is the only thing to do.

The stormy, beautiful Sagra night ended Enrico and Daniela’s week at La MaMa Umbria. When I think about the summer now, I remember first, effortlessly, three distinct things. I can pull up myriad other tiny kaleidoscope details from my idyllic summer but these come first.

One. A film I created with two other students about monotony, broken patterns, and blasphemy. Enrico and Daniela fired us up and then set us free – giving us only two guidelines: observe someone in town for an hour or so on your own, and then work in a small group to create a one-shot film. The instructions weren’t important. What kindled every film created was the foundation we received during our first workshop with MOTUS. Enrico and Daniela shared footage from their experiences at demonstrations across Europe, occupying an abandoned city in Germany, and, most memorable to me – their time spent on a refugee camp island between Northern Africa and Italy. Never before had I seen politics and theatre converge like this.

Two. Occupy Teatro Valle. Really, for me - physically - this was just posing in a photo. Mentally, it was a heart-racing engagement that made me want to scream. Since then, topped only by the injustice of Ferguson and what is happening right now. In August, The Roman government was trying to take away the theatre of the people – Teatro Valle – and artists like MOTUS reacted fiercely: occupying the space in higher numbers, organizing protests, and starting an international social media campaign that La MaMa Umbria took part in.

Three. The storm. MOTUS examined storms on a personal, political, and environmental plane, and then they went even further, asking people around the world “What does it mean to be in the eye of the storm?” In Umbria, we dealt with this question by interviewing each other while Enrico and Daniela observed. We polarized ourselves to two sides of the room, with a camera, monitor, and microphone at one end. We played with this polarization, interacting in pairs to find ways across the line. Two by two, we took turns interviewing each other, our answers projected through body and voice on the monitor. The intimacy of being interviewed by one person demanded truth, while the knowledge that your words affected the group’s movement and polarization demanded compassion.

MOTUS is doing what we all need to do. They are responding now to what is happening now, not living in a post-70s delusional haze or grasping for some un-nameable immersive technological experience to credit to their names. They will stay up all night to help you work, because they love each other and their work and their actor Silvia and all things that speak with truth.

After that rained-out Sagra last summer, Enrico and Daniela said – “we will dance in New York!” 

Go see Nella Tempesta at La MaMa and dance with Enrico and Daniela after the show on December 13th, when Silvia Calderoni will be DJing after the 8pm performance. Bring blankets to support MOTUS and then warm a body that needs it. Feel the thing you thought you were going to feel when you were 15, dreaming about imaginary art on your bedroom floor.

La MaMa presents
NELLA 
TEMPESTA
by Motus Theatre

December 11th - 21st, 2014
Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 4pm

*Dance party immediately following the Saturday, December 13th performance.  DJ: Silvia Calderoni.  Free for all ticket holders.  Cash bar.

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

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors; a handful of 10@$10 Tickets are still available for some performances

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Nella Tempesta Blanket Drive

Blankets play a very important part in Motus Theatre Company's Nella Tempesta - both on stage and off.  Where ever Nella Tempesta has played, audiences have been asked to bring blankets to the performances that will be used in the show and then donated to a local organization after the run.

The company in making Nella Tempesta thought about what would be a necessary item for a defenseless body after a hurricane, a shipwreck or an armed conflict? The most immediate answer was a blanket. The set of Nella Tempesta is created from blankets that will be donated to shelters and social service organizations at the end of the run.

We hope you come see this amazing show, and that our New York audience will engage in this way and give back during the holiday season!

So, bring a clean blanket to The Ellen Stewart Theatre when you come see Nella Tempesta, see it used in the show, and know that it will be given to someone who needs it after the run.

La MaMa presents
NELLA 
TEMPESTA
by Motus Theatre

December 11th - 21st, 2014
Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 4pm

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

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors; a handful of 10@$10 Tickets are still available for some performances

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

MOTUS #mamaearth

 

The Italian company Motus brings Nella Tempesta to The Ellen Stewart Theatre in December - the third production of the TEMPEST 3 Series. In keeping with the La MaMa Earth Season, Motus created a #mamaearth video about the fight to keep a green space in Rome from being developed.

Don't miss Nella Tempesta and don't forget to share your own local #mamaearth video!

La MaMa presents
NELLA 
TEMPESTA
by Motus Theatre

December 11th - 21st, 2014
Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm; Sunday @ 4pm

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

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors; a handful of 10@$10 Tickets are still available for some performances

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Video Preview: Nella Tempesta

The Italian company Motus returns to La MaMa with NELLA TEMPESTA, the third and final production of La MaMa's TEMPEST 3 series. 

Nella Tempesta creates a short circuit between Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Une Tempête by Aimé Césaire. Reflecting on the turmoil in our society and the consequences of the economic crisis, the performance also speaks about storms in the Mediterranean Sea, which are sinking the migrants ships that set sail from the coast of North Africa to reach Europe—“Brave new world,” to quote Miranda and Aldous Huxley. This version of The Tempest imagines the play about a world not as it appears to be ending, but a world on the verge of a new beginning.

La MaMa presents
NELLA 
TEMPESTA
by Motus Theater

December 11, 2014 - December 21, 2014
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 4pm

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors; ten tickets priced at $10 are available for every performance as part of La MaMa's 10@$10 ticketing initiative.  10@$10 Tickets are available in advance only via web, phone and at the box office, but not available day of show.

For Tickets and Information: CLICK HERE

TEMPEST 3: The Tide is Rising

The centerpiece of La MaMa's 53rd Season: LA MAMA EARTH will be Tempest 3: The Tide is Rising comprised of three very diverse productions of Shakespeare's final play, each from a unique perspective:

October 2 -November 2, 2014
TEMPEST
The world-premiere of a new production of TEMPEST, adapted and directed by Karin Coonrod, with music by La MaMa veteran composer Elizabeth Swados (La MaMa Cantata, Runaways, Kaspar Hauser). The international and intergenerational cast will feature Reg. E. Cathey (The Wire and House of Cards) as Prospero, and the 14-year-old star of Broadway's Billy Elliot, Joseph Harrington as Ariel. Director Coonrod notes similarities between Prospero's world and ours today, noting, "Prospero re-enacts power games on an island - just as Manhattan is an island - and it is the non-human Ariel who is fascinated by humanity's power to love and reminds Prospero of his humanity. The play demonstrates a juxtaposition of time present and timelessness - hence, we will begin the play with a pendulum swinging: a signal of impending disaster and a reminder of time moving forward. A warning."

Tickets: $40 Adults; $30 Students/Seniors. 10 @ $10 tickets are available for this performance, in advance only.  

To purchase: Click Here

November 20 - 23, 2014
THE TEMPEST
The U.S. premiere of Seoul, Korea's Mokwha Repertory Company production of THE TEMPEST, adapted and directed by Tae-Suk Oh. Inspired by a true story from the Korean Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, this TEMPEST is set in 5th century Korea and infuses Shakespeare's text with elements of traditional Korean folklore. With music played on Korean instruments and performed in richly layered costumes, this mind-bending production explores acts of nature as they are affected by acts of betrayal, love, forgiveness and reconciliation.  at the Ellen Stewart Theatre. 

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors. 10 @ $10 tickets are available for this performance, in advance only.  

To purchase: Click Here

December 11 - 21, 2014
NELLA TEMPESTA
The U.S. premiere of NELLA TEMPESTA by Motus Theatre. Italy's provocative and dynamic MOTUS Theatre Company explores questions of freedom, control and power in Nella Tempesta. Reflecting on the turmoil in our society - the impact of Hurricane Sandy, the consequences of the economic crisis and questioning of future landscapes - Nella Tempesta is created from fragments of novels by authors including: Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Aldous Huxley as well as Shakespeare's The Tempest and Une Tempête by Aimé Césaire. This version of The Tempest imagines the play about a world not as it appears to be ending, but a world on the verge of a new beginning. 

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors. 10 @ $10 tickets are available for this performance, in advance only.  

To purchase: Click Here

All TEMPEST 3 productions will be at the:

Ellen Stewart Theatre

66 East 4th Street

(between Bowery and 

New York, NY 10003

TEMPEST 3 Packages are available.  Buy before 9/15 and see all three TEMPEST 3 productions for only $60 (regular price: $100 if purchased separately).

Purchase a TEMPEST 3 Package: HERE

Fall 2014 @ La MaMa: LA MAMA EARTH

We are so happy to announce that the 2014-2015 season at La MaMa will be called LA MAMA EARTH and will focus on climate change, environmental and social issues.

The LA MAMA EARTH theme materialized as a result of the up-close and personal impact that individuals and entire communities experienced from the widespread devastation of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Articstic Director Mia Yoo said: “When former Mayor Bloomberg responded to a reporter's question at a press conference with the simple statement, 'The tide is rising,' it struck such a chord with me. La MaMa is honored to have the opportunity to present an American, Korean and Italian production of Shakespeare's bracing play, THE TEMPEST – each of which brings a unique cultural perspective to the environmental and social crises we all face.”

The centerpiece of LA MAMA EARTH will be three diverse, international productions of William Shakepeare's THE TEMPEST – productions of the play from the U.S., Korea and Italy. The trio of TEMPESTS will be presented under the collective title Tempest 3: The Tide is Rising and is comprised of the following: THE TEMPEST directed by Karin Coonrod with original music by Elizabeth Swados; Korea's Mokwha Repertory Company production of THE TEMPEST and NELLA TEMPESTA by Italy’s Motus Theatre. 

Tempest 3 Packages available: See all three TEMPEST productions for only $60, if purchased before September 15th ($100 value if purchased separately).  Click Here to purchase a 3-show package!

The 2014 Fall Season Line-Up:

September 25-October 12
SELMA '65
This world-premiere is set for the 50th anniversary of the Selma Voting March. Written by Catherine Filloux (KILLING THE BOSS, LEMKIN'S HOUSE), who returns to La MaMa, SELMA '65 is based on the real-life story of Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights activist who was targeted by the FBI and Ku Klux Klan for her efforts on behalf of African-Americans protesting for the right to vote. The play stars Marietta Hedges and is directed by Eleanor Holdridge. 
The First Floor Theatre
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: Click Here

September 26-28
QUEER NY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL
Curated by Zvonimir Dubrovic and Nicky Paraiso, the QUEER NY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL festival features contemporary performance and visual art that explores and broadens the traditional concept of “queer” in art. Featured will be DUOS with Darkmatter, Untitled Queen and Merrie Cherry, Jack Waters and Peter Cramer.
The Club @ La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: Click Here

October 2-November 2 
TEMPEST
The world-premiere of a new musical adaptation of THE TEMPEST, adapted and directed by Karin Coonrod, with music by La MaMa veteran composer Elizabeth Swados (LA MAMA CANTATA). The international and intergenerational cast will feature Reg. E. Cathay (The Wire and House of Cards) as Prospero, and the 14-year-old star of Broadway's BILLY ELLIOT, Joseph Harrington as Ariel. Director Coonrod notes similarities between Prospero's world and ours today, noting, “Prospero re-enacts power games on an island – just as Manhattan is an island – and it is the non-human Ariel is fascinated by humanity's power to love and reminds Prospero of his humanity. The play demonstrates a juxtaposition of time present and timelessness – hence, we will begin the play with a pendulum swinging: a signal of impending disaster and a reminder of time moving forward. A warning.” 
The Ellen Stewart Theatre.
66 East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: Click Here

October 2-19 
THE ELEPHANT IN EVERY ROOM I ENTER
April 2014. Gardiner Comfort attends the Tourette Syndrome Association National Conference. Using an erratic and energetic performance style, and evocative details of his week in DC, Comfort shares his life as an actor with Tourette Syndrome. Created by Comfort and his frequent collaborator, Kel Haney (You're Not Tough: HERE, Dixon Place)
The Club @ La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: Click Here


October 16-November 2
AdA: AUTHORS DIRECTING AUTHORS
Playwrights Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani – who teamed to considerable success two years ago at La MaMa to present AdA: AUTHORS DIRECTING AUTHORS return this year with the addition of fellow playwright Nathalie Fillion to present a triptych of one act plays centering on the theme of desire. In this newest version of AdA, each author will write a new one-act play to be directed by one of the other authors, and all characters will be played by the same three actors.  
The First Floor Theatre.  
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!

October 24-November 2
THE DREAM VAULT CYCLE
Amulti-media performances exploring the evolution of a creative idea and the interpretation of its seed value as it journeys from art form to art form, conceived & directed by Christian De Gré & R. Patrick Alberty. 
The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!


November 6-23
WHAT TAMMY NEEDS TO KNOW 
ABOUT GETTING OLD AND HAVING SEX:
The Concert Tour
Conceived and Directed by Lois Weaver, SPLIT BRITCHES’ newest work has Lois Weaver's alter ego, Tammy WhyNot, a trailer park survivor who gave up a career in country music to become a lesbian performance artist, grapples with the difficult subjects of sex and ageing. This concert performance with songs written and performed by Tammy alongside her back-up singers and dancers with guest appearances by Peggy Shaw and Bette Bourne from the Bloolips. 
The First Floor Theatre
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!


November 7-16
DEAD END, DUMMY
A new work by Dick Zigun, the Founder & Artistic Director of Coney Island USA since 1980. Inventor of the Mermaid Parade & godfather of burlesque & sideshow revivals, he is a tattooed author of a dozen weird American plays, the performance artist known as the Mayor of Coney Island, and a legal New York State marriage officiant. 
The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!

November 20-23 
THE TEMPEST/Mokwha Repertory Company 
The U.S. premiere of Seoul, Korea's Mokwha Repertory Company production of THE TEMPEST, adapted and directed by Tae-Suk Oh. Inspired by a true story from the Korean CHRONICLES OF THE THREE KINGDOMS, this TEMPEST is set in 5th century Korea and infuses Shakespeare's text with elements of traditional Korean folklore. With music played on Korean instruments and performed in richly layered costumes, this mind-bending production explores acts of nature as they are affected by acts of betrayal, love, forgiveness and reconciliation. 
The Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: Click Here

November 21-30 
A RIGHT PAIR 
Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw (of Bloolips) have been partners both offstage and on since the late 1970s. This new performance explores some of their favorite scenes, some obscure gems and some things completely new and what it means to be 'A Right Pair' onstage and off. US Premiere. 
The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!

November 27-30
KING OF HEARTS IS OFF AGAIN 
Performed by the Studium Teatralne, an ensemble theatre in the tradition of Jerzy Grotwoski, based in Warsaw, Poland. Directed by Piotr Borowski – himself a longtime student of Grotwoski – KING OF HEARTS IS OFF AGAIN  is based on a novel by Hann Krall, a true story about the life of Izolda Regenberg, a young Jewish woman who lived disguised as an Aryan Polish woman in order to rescue her family, trapped in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.  
The First Floor Theatre
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!

December 4-7
THE SEAGULL
Chekhov's play presented by the Serbian National Thatre, directed by Tomi Janezic. Described by international critics as a 'theatrical phenomenon,' this 7-hour production began in 2012 and has become one of the most successful productions in the history of SNT, which dates back to 1861.  
The Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!

December 4-21
IF COLORADO HAD AN OCEAN
A new play by Mike Gorman, directed by David Bennet and performed by The Forty Hour Club. A poetic drama, OCEAN explores the punk roots of a commercial fisherman and his yearning for an imaginary place. With its rebellious rock and roll spirit, this play is the high energy finale of Mr. Gorman's trilogy THE HONOR AND GLORY OF WHALING.  
The First Floor Theatre
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!

December 5-14
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, 
OY HANUKKAH, 
MERRY KWANZAA 
An adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic “with old world accents and new world inclusiveness” by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre.  
The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!

December 11-21 
NELLA TEMPESTA/Motus Theatre
The U.S. premiere of NELLA TEMPESTA by Motus Theatre. Italy’s provocative and dynamic MOTUS Theatre Company explores questions of freedom, control and power in Nella Tempesta. Reflecting on the turmoil in our society – the impact of Hurricane Sandy, the consequences of the economic crisis and questioning of future landscapes -- Nella Tempesta is created from fragments of novels by authors including: Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Aldous Huxley as well as Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Une Tempête by Aimé Césaire. This version of THE TEMPEST imagines the play about a world not as it appears to be ending, but a world on the verge of a new beginning. 
The Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: Click Here

December 20-21
CHRISTMAS IN NICKYLAND
The Club’s Programming Director, Nicky Paraiso, serves as the MC for this annual holiday celebration with all-star downtown guests. 
The Club at La MaMa
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: On Sale Soon!

Once again, La MaMa is please to be able to offer our 10@$10 tickets for every performance at La MaMa.  10 @ $10 tickets must be purchased in advance via web, phone or at the box office - they are not available day of show.