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