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From the 9th of July trough August 23rd

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Ohio Theatre

66 Wooster Street

B/ Spring and Broome Street

General admission $15 / Students & Seniors $10

 

 

Jul 9 -12: Do Not Do This Ever Again

Written by Karinne Keithley

Directed by Maria Goyanes

In a landscape of lost love and modern loneliness, a company of strangers map a tentative journey towards just letting go.  A guided tour of the memory palace.  A theatrical/music composition, from simple counterpoint voices to freestanding opera.  Indoor environmental theatre in four movements.

 

 

Jul 16 - 19: TRACES/fades

 

Written & directed by Lenora Champagne

Music by Daniel Levi

Video by Lauren Petty & Shaun Irons

Production design by Liz Prince

         
Lost traditions.  Memory gaps.  Lessons forgotten.  Action and images shift in the mind of a woman with Alzheimer's, flickering from past to present, from her daughter's home to the nursing home. Who are we when we can't remember?  An intergenerational meditation on the fluid nature of identity and our national inability to remember history. With original music and video.

 

Jul 23 - 26: Greendale

 

 

A rock opera

Undermain Theatre (TX)

Directed by Katherine Owens

Songs by Neil Young adapted for the stage by the ensemble

 

     

 

              This song cycle, by legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young, has been compared to Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesberg Ohio as a portrait of the changing face of small town America.

Voted one of the best albums of 2003 by Rolling Stone Magazine.

 

Jul 30 – Aug 2: Heistman

El Gato Teatro

Written by Obie-winner Matthew Maher

Directed by Gabriella Barnstone

Featuring the inimitable Steven Rattazzi

        Heistman is stuck—inside the bank he is robbing with his henchmen, inside his own tortured head, and inside the feeling he can never have success or love.  The cops have the joint surrounded, and have no answers.  But the hostages do.  Dog Day Afternoon meets The Unabomber Manifesto.  Dance/theater for  visionaries, the weak at heart, and the pleasure-seekers alike.

 

August 6 - 9: Red-Haired Thomas

 

Written by Robert Lyons

Directed by Oliver Butler

 

His daughter doesn’t need him.  His wife might leave him. His newspaper vender might just kill him.

A gambler's darkly comic, spiraling descent into a paranoid mythology of power-point presentations and hostage videos.

Can Thomas Jefferson save him? (With songs)

 

August 13 - 16: WMD

(just the low points)

Sponsored by Nobody

Created by  the ensemble

Directed by Kevin Doyle

 

A large - scale deconstruction of our culture's preoccupations. Incorporates elements of theatre, dance, film, music and installation art. 

Structured around the events of a single date (January 8, 2004), using found texts as a base to examine Americans' relationship with their media during wartime. 

A titanic attempt to rediscover the nation’s soul.

 

August 20 - 23: Victory at the Dirt Palace

The Riot Group

Written & directed by Adriano Shaplin

Rival father/daughter  news anchors compete for ratings in a head-to-head prime-time showdown. Their vicious battle for supremacy becomes a national drama as sex scandals, terrorism, and dementia threaten their careers.

A wicked satire about heredity and corruption among media royalty. Faithlessly adapted from King Lear.

This New York debut is fresh off of heralded stops Edinburgh and London.

“Slick… Ferocious… Mesmeric” –The Independent“Twisted… Crude… Riveting” –Evening Standard “Smartly funny… terrific” –The Guardian

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