Tuesday, July 16, 2019
La MaMa's 57th Season: That's a Wrap!
Monday, June 24, 2019
Watch This: A clip from Bearded Ladies' CONTRADICT THIS!
Final week to catch The Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes at La MaMa through Saturday, June 29th!
Friday, June 14, 2019
6 Questions: ‘MOre’ Zimin from 13 FRUITCAKES
Written & Directed by Byungkoo Ahn
Song Cycle by Gihieh Lee
Lyrics by Lorca, Wilde and Other Queer Poets
Electronic Music by Los Angeles Laptop Collective
Filled with movement and music, 13 Fruitcakes is a series of 13 staged musical vignettes about 13 significant LGBTQ figures that influence humanity through their great achievements in the arts, politics, philosophy, and science. Moments in the lives of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Dong Xian (董賢), King Hyegong, Leonardo da Vinci, Hans Christian Andersen, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, Frida Kahlo, Josephine Baker and Eleanor Roosevelt are staged along with a beautiful song cycle based on poems by queer poets such as Wilde, Mew, Whitman, Rimbaud and Lorca.
Song Cycle by Gihieh Lee
Lyrics by Lorca, Wilde and Other Queer Poets
Electronic Music by Los Angeles Laptop Collective
Filled with movement and music, 13 Fruitcakes is a series of 13 staged musical vignettes about 13 significant LGBTQ figures that influence humanity through their great achievements in the arts, politics, philosophy, and science. Moments in the lives of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Dong Xian (董賢), King Hyegong, Leonardo da Vinci, Hans Christian Andersen, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, Frida Kahlo, Josephine Baker and Eleanor Roosevelt are staged along with a beautiful song cycle based on poems by queer poets such as Wilde, Mew, Whitman, Rimbaud and Lorca.
June 13 - June 16, 2019
Thursday - Saturday at 7PM; Sunday at 3PM
Tickets: $25 Adults/$20 Students and Seniors
For Info and Tickets: CLICK HERE
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Video Teaser: 13 FRUITCAKES
Song Cycle by Gihieh Lee
Lyrics by Lorca, Wilde and Other Queer Poets
Electronic Music by Los Angeles Laptop Collective
Filled with movement and music, 13 Fruitcakes is a series of 13 staged musical vignettes about 13 significant LGBTQ figures that influence humanity through their great achievements in the arts, politics, philosophy, and science. Moments in the lives of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Dong Xian (董賢), King Hyegong, Leonardo da Vinci, Hans Christian Andersen, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, Frida Kahlo, Josephine Baker and Eleanor Roosevelt are staged along with a beautiful song cycle based on poems by queer poets such as Wilde, Mew, Whitman, Rimbaud and Lorca.
June 13 - June 16, 2019
Thursday - Saturday at 7PM; Sunday at 3PM
Tickets: $25 Adults/$20 Students and Seniors
For Info and Tickets: CLICK HERE
Monday, June 10, 2019
Promo Video: Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes
La MaMa presents
Contradict This!
A Birthday Funeral for Heroes
By The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
June 20 - June 29, 2019
Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
(between Bowery and Second Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Cake, coffin, gavel, choir, composers, live musical trolling! On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the much lauded homo poet Walt Whitman's birth and the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is throwing a pageant for the ancestors.
Part trial, part birthday, part funeral, this spectacle will feature original music performed by a host of misfits, drag artists, queers, and a local choir. Come with friends, complaints, heroes and villains alike. All are welcome to the death, birth, and reckoning of the great poet.
Tickets: $25 Adults/$20 Students and Seniors
For Info and Tickets: CLICK HERE
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