La MaMa Umbria Celebrates: Play Readings & Party

Free readings of new plays by playwrights who honed their craft at the 2014 La MaMa Umbria International Playwright Retreats. Meet extraordinary writers from: The US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Korea and Italy. Each evening, you will hear portions of their plays that are in development, accompanied by aperitivo and a taste of Umbrian delicacies.

FEATURED PLAYWRIGHTS: Patricia Davis, Rachel Greenhoe, Everett Irving, Tom Mikotowicz, Mariem Omari, Susan Jennifer Polese, Roderic Wachovskye & Jade Wu.

Saturday, January 3, 2015:

12pm – A Screenplay by Everett Irving, with talkback
2:30pm – After the Blood, A Play by Patricia Davis, with talkback. Cast: Emily Morrison, Hend Ayoub, John Morogiello. Director: Catherine Aselford
4pm – Suicide by Wife, A Play by Susan Jennifer Polese, with talkback. Cast: Michelle Concha Herko, Femi Alao, Dan Kausch. Director and Stage Directions: Michael Toscano
5:30pm – 2752, A full length solo performance by Jade Wu. Director: Benjamin Kamine

CLICK HERE for free reservations

Sunday, January 4, 2015:

12pm – The Duke of Saddle River, a play by Tom Mikotowicz
2pm – Staring out of Windows, A One-Woman Play written and performed by Mariem Omari, with talkback. Director: Maria Oller.
4pm – Tangled, A Play in Two Acts by Roderic Wachovsky, with talkback. Cast: David Diamond, Kate Warren, Angello Pizarro, Nathaniel Peart. Director: Roderic Wachovsky. Stage Directions: Susan Jennifer Polese
6:15pm – A Play by Rachel Greenhoe, with talkback

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Festa Della Befana
Saturday, January 3 at 7pm

Enjoy authentic Umbrian food and wine, live music and gifts from the Italian traditional Befana celebration. Meet La MaMa Umbria family, artists, colleagues and new friends. Discover the new program for the summer 2015 in Spoleto.
Entrance with wine and Umbrian specialties: $20

Tickets: CLICK HERE

La MaMa Umbria Celebrates: Play Readings Free Play Readings 
and Festa Della Befana
47 Great Jones Street
(Between Lafayette Street and Bowery)
New York, NY 10003

For More Info: CLICK HERE

Yara Arts Group brings WINTER LIGHTS to La MaMa

Three Performances Only!

world music theatre piece based on
winter songs from the Carpathian Mountains
an 18th century nativity show
and the crisis in Ukraine today

La MaMa presents

Winter Light: 

Songs, Music and 

Rituals from the Carpathians

created by Yara Arts Group directed by Virlana Tkacz
music directed by Julian Kytasty
set & lights:Watoku Ueno
projections: Volodymyr Klyuzko
with the Koliadnyky of Kryvorivnia
featuring: Paul Brantley, Marina Celander, Sean Eden,
Alina and Teryn Kuzma


The evening, created and directed by Yara's Artistic Director Virlana Tkacz, celebrates Koliada, a winter ritual that now coincides with Christmas but is much older in origin and symbolism. Its oldest songs are preserved in villages high in the Carpathian Mountains, where the Koliada is considered to be the most important event of the year. Some people believe that spring and the harvest will not come to the village unless the songs are sung in every household. The songs are incantations that assume the magical power of words: "what is said, will be so." These songs are featured in the first part of Yara's show. For the second part of the event, Tkacz has adapted and translated a Baroque folk Christmas opera from Ukraine. A highlight is the original 18th century music, as arranged by Julian Kytasty. Woven into the piece are scenes from the crisis in Ukraine today written by Serhiy Zhadan, Ukraine’s most important young writer.

December 27, 2014 - December 28, 2014

Saturday at 3pm & 8pm; Sunday at 2pm

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

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; 10 @ $10 Tickets available for each performance 10 @ $10 tickets are sold out

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

American Theatre looks at THE GOLDEN TOAD

American Theatre's Jim O'Quinn gives us a preview of The Talking Band's new work, The Golden Toad, coming to The Ellen Stweart Theatre in January:

“'This show is about six characters in search of themselves, and they change radically over the course of the four episodes,' says Talking Band stalwart Paul Zimet, cofounder and leader (in tandem with Ellen Maddow and Tina Shepard) of the experimental troupe since its founding in 1974. Maddow and Shepard will be part of the Golden Toad cast (as will some life-sized puppets), playing characters that include a gay couple with a teenage daughter and their less-than-predictable neighbors."

Read the full article HERE.

Tickets now on sale, and starting at $10.  Limited Seating.

La MaMa presents
THE 
GOLDEN 
TOAD
by The Talking Band

January 23 - February 07, 2015

The Ellen Stewart Theatre

66 East 4th Street

(between Bowery and Second Avenue)

New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $25 Adults; $20 Students/Seniors; ten tickets priced at $10 are available for every performance, in advance only, via web, phone or at the box office - not available day of show.

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE

King's Road on IF COLORADO HAD AN OCEAN...

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi covers Mike Gorman's play, If Colorado Had An Ocean... (at La MaMa's First Floor Theatre) and art installation Fishing for Paradise (at the La MaMa Galleria) for King's Road:

The daring drama, set in 1988’s Colorado, tackles fishing, heroin addiction and recovery, with a touch of Melville allure, as Gorman explains: “I blend the whaling era and the modern commercial fishing eras together. The metaphor I make is between opiate addiction and the great white whale. So I’ve drawn a parallel between Ahab being an addict and the great white whale being heroin.”

Read the full article HERE.

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La MaMa presents

If Colorado 

Had an Ocean
by Mike Gorman
directed by David Bennett

FINAL PERFORMANCES!

Now through December 21st, 2014

The First Floor Theater
74A East 4th Street
(Between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; ten tickets are available (in advance only) as part of La MaMa's 10@$10 Ticketing Initiative.  These tickets are available to anyone, first come - first served, via web, phone or at the box office - but they are not available day of show!

For Tickets and Info: CLICK HERE 

TAMBURLAINE Parts I AND II @ Theatre for a New Audience

Our friends at Theatre for a New Audience have a very special Holiday Party offer for their current show TAMBURLAINE Parts I AND II ! 

Monday, Dec 22nd and Dec 29th there is a post-show holiday party that includes a free drink and a backstage tour.  Use code BLOODY to get $39 tickets to see the show AND join the party after. 

To get the Show and Party Tickets: CLICK HERE and remember to use code BLOODY!

And TFANA also has $20 New Deal tickets available for Students and Young Professionals (under 30).  Use promo code NEWDEAL when buying a ticket, phone or online,  to receive the $20 price. Tickets must be redeemed with a valid photo ID at the box office in person. Without a valid photo ID, the tickets are subject to a surcharge of the full price.  

More info about the New Deal s HERE.

Coming up next at Theatre for a New Audience: Soho Rep's AN OCTOROON