DOWNTOWN is talking about "now my hand is ready for my heart"

“Nicky Paraiso’s new performance, now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories is breathtaking, offering his life story as sail to illuminate matters of heart, mind, body and spirit…Go Now!”

Karen Finley, writer and performer

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“Sharply honest with wry humor and many laugh out loud moments, we travel Nicky's road that never turns maudlin, a story of how we create new famillies without disowning the ones we are born into.”

Penny Arcade, performer
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“Nicky Paraiso’s show “my hand is ready for my heart,” at La Mama is brilliant. Nicky is brilliant. And John Jesurun’s direction is pitch perfect. Go see it. It’s an homage to a life spent in NY Downtown Theater. Every young performer needs to understand how and who carved the paths for you.”

Ralph Pena, Artistic Director, Ma-Yi Theatre Company
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The “writing was raw, bracing, honest, witty, simple & powerful. What writing should be…the piece was political in the most organic way.”

Jessica Hagedorn, writer and performer
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“(Nicky) tells his story with humor, warmth and ironic gesture. Most of all he reminds how the downtown world and most especially La Mama was created from a wild love of risk and of the people willing to take it. Spend an evening in his presence”

Karen Malpede, playwright

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Only 4 more performances to catch now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories @ La MaMa.

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La MaMa 

in association with Mount Tremper Arts 

presents

now my hand 

is ready for my heart: 

intimate histories

Written by Nicky Paraiso 

Directed by John Jesurun 

With Nicky Paraiso, Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, Paz Tanjuaquio 

now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories is the newest work from Nicky Paraiso, an award-winning 40-year veteran of the New York City performance community. In a deep exploration of an artist’s life, Paraiso investigates aging, identity, sexuality, class and race. Directed by MacArthur Fellow John Jesurun, this world premiere is a multi-disciplinary celebration of an artistic community as it grows older and continues to make work, both individually and with each other. Paraiso is joined by choreographer / dancers Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, and Paz Tanjuaquio in performance and as collaborators.

March 22 - April 07, 2019 
Thursday - Saturday at 7pm; Sunday at 3pm

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

Tickets: $30 Adults; $25 Students/Seniors

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

Tom Murrin Full Moon Performance Festival: WEEK 2

THE TOM MURRIN 

FULL MOON PERFORMANCE 

FESTIVAL 

continues this week with a full line-up of new shows!

Myth or Meth (or Maybe Moscow?)
Radiohole

April 24–27 
Thursday to Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:30pm and 5pm

La MaMa First Floor Theatre

Tickets: $20
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The performance group Radiohole, one of New York’s most uncompromising experimental ensembles, presents Myth orMeth (or Maybe Moscow?). In a shack somewhere on the steppe of Missouri three sisters drink Coke®, eat hamburgers, fend off the local romantic axe-wielding WWI vet, and carry on the family business selling sweet jam. But the hamburgers aren’t great and they long to return to their childhood home Moscow. Or Port-au-Prince. Or whatever. When their Pa unexpectedly returns from Juárez by way of Sebastopol, hungry and spouting neoliberal ideology, the shit really hits the fan. Myth or Meth (or Maybe Moscow?) features Radiohole’s first-ever all-male (more or less) cast with Radiohole founders Eric Dyer and Scott Halvorsen Gillette along with Jim Findlay, Ilan Bachrach, Jon Okabayashi, Ryan Holsopple, and special guests TBA.

Deviants Arise!
Mike Iveson

Wednesday, April 23 at 10pm

The Club @ La MaMa

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A reading of Murrin’s 2002 play in which he deals with the excesses of the George W. Bush era by focusing on behind-the-scenes tensions at a televised “perv-tacular, or perv-stravaganza, or perv-ocalypse.” The reading will include some of the performers from the original production as well as some new music made specifically for this revival.

Featuring: Anthony R Brown, Zbigniew Bzymek, John Collins, David Cote, Jim Fletcher, Anne Gridley, Jeffrey M. Jones, Vin Knight, Young Jean Lee, Richard Maxwell, Sarah Michelson, Julie Atlas Muz, Kristina Satter, Scott Shepherd, Susie Sokol and Mike Taylor

Sport-Fuckers

Gary Ray

Thursday, April 24 at 10pm

The Club @ La MaMa

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Sport-Fuckers looks at the world of suburban swingers and the issues that arise during an intense sex party. First produced in 1999 at Theatre for the New City, Gary Ray is bringing it back as a staged reading with a hilarious cast of actors and special surprise guests that will make you laugh to tears.

Featuring: Penny Arcade * Kimberly Kiki Flynn * Joel Blumsack 'Zeroboy' * Mike Amato Celest Villanueva * Regge Allan Bruce * Michele Carlo *  Walter Novak * Matthew Wells and Gary Ray

Whores and more
Lucy Sexton

April 25–26 
Friday and Saturday at 10pm

The Club @ La MaMa

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Readings of Murrin’s short and hilarious plays Whores on the Range and Hide the Baloney. Directed by Lucy Sexton.

Featuring: Kate Benson, Karen Finley, Annie Iobst, and Lucy Sexton

Son of Cock-Strong
Peculiar Works Project

Saturday, April 26 at 5pm

The Club @ La MaMa

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Ralph Lewis leads Peculiar Works troupers on a wild ride to the top in Son of Cock-Strong. This non-sequel sequel (originally directed by La MaMa bad boy John Vaccaro) follows Arthur Cock-Strong Jr.’s rise to power in a ridiculous musical with new compositions by Spencer Katzman.

Featuring: STAN BAKER* • CRISTI CASTRO • MEGAN COOPER • TIM CUSACK* • ROB GAINES • DENIS GAWLEY* • MICK HILGERS* • KING MAN HO • CAITI LATTIMER • JOYCE MILLER • SYLVIA MILO • RACHEL NAAR • KEVIN PERCIVAL • CATHERINE PORTER* • GABRIELE SCHAFER*