David James Boyd
The Groove Factory: An Electronic Musical Fable
February 1-11, 2010
A new musical set on New Years Eve 1999, featuring a high-voltage pulsating original score comprised of electronic dance music, pop, hip hop and R&B
Residency Archive
Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo
New Ground for Composing Form in Theatre
Workshops Dec 28 & 29, 2009 | Performance/Conversation January 2, 2010 - 8pm
Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman are composing and performing movement-based theatre artists who apply complex composed structures to ordinary daily human behavior.
Herman Melville
BARTLEBY.
May 18-30, Dec 6-19, 2009
A chamber ritual exploring Herman Melville’s famous story of Wall Street
Reggie Watts / Tommy Smith
Dutch A/V
November 27 - December 5, 2009 | Workshop performances Dec 3-5
Infused with sonic landscapes performed live by Reggie Watts, DUTCH A/V is a live-edited environmental film that seeks to replicate the first hand experience of being a flâneur in another city.
Mike Daisey
The Last Cargo Cult
November 16-23, 2009
Groundbreaking monologuist Mike Daisey returns with the true-life story of his time on a remote South Pacific island whose inhabitants worship America at the base of a constantly erupting volcano. Their religion is explored alongside our own to form a sharp and searing examination of the international financial crisis.
Lee Sunday Evans
Full
September 27 - November 6, 2009
A new physical theater piece that investigates the messy terrain between fierce idealism, vitriolic rage, paralyzing pessimism and joyous ecstasy.
Maggie Surovell
Oh My!
September 23 - October 18, 2009
A new indie rock musical comedy about the invention of the vibrator. The play takes place in an American town during the late 1800s, a time when vibrators were more popular than toast.
Alex Harvey
2girl_henry5
September 8-21, 2009
Taking the Henry V Chorus’ infamous theatrical challenge “Attest in little place a million” to its literal extreme: only two actresses will imagine and perform this action-packed text, inhabiting the voices of more than 25 characters.
Slightly Askew
We Three Kings
July 6 - August 2, 2009
A multimedia collaboration between artists of New Orleans’ Cripple Creek Theatre Company Mondo Bizarro and NYC-based Slightly Askew.
Immediate Medium
Doesn't Everybody Do It In Paris?
June 8 - June 27, 2009
Immediate Medium's latest work is a non-narrative collage of movement, live and recorded music, video and spoken text inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Young Jean Lee
The Shipment
September 29 - October 27, 2008; December 1 - January 2009
Young Jean Lee applies her signature style and acid wit to hip-hop culture and African American identity politics. The Shipment is an extremely awkward exploration of the experience of being black in America
Immediate Medium
Chuck.Chuck.Chuck.
May 12 - June 1, 2008
Chuck. Chuck. Chuck. is a collage of performance, video, music, and dance that uses William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying as a departure point for a broader examination of failure, secular faith and family.
Katt Lissard
Excavation
September 8-29, 2008
Excavation follows two daughters, each searching for fathers who have lost themselves by losing part of their minds – one, through a bizarre railroad accident in 1848; the other, through the disintegration of dementia.
Thomas Bradshaw
Southern Promises
Aug. 5-31, 2008
When the master of the plantation dies, he wills his slaves to be freed, but his wife doesn't think that good property should be squandered. Pandemonium ensues.
Toomuchery Productions
Sandy the Dandy & Charlie McGee: A Case Study In Harsh Realities
July 18 - August 3, 2008
Set against the backdrop of a whimsical New York City, this new-fangled vaudeville chronicles the adventures of Sandy—a self-proclaimed star-to-be with dreams as big as his debts, and Charlie—his hopelessly optimistic and slightly peculiar companion.
Lively Productions / Métropole Ink
Paper Dolls
April 28 - May 4, 2008
New York Daily News Newsstand Junkie columnist and playwright Patrick Huguenin went behind the scenes of celebrity scandal and brought it to the stage.