| Date |
Title |
Production Information |
| January 2 |
ALL STRANGE AWAY |
Playwright: Samuel Beckett
Director: Gerald Thomas |
| January 5 |
PARADISE 1,2,3 |
Choreographer: Karole Armitage |
| January 7 |
DOG'S EYE VIEW |
Playwright: John Jeserun
Director: John Jeserun |
| January 12 |
HOT TIME |
Playwright: Donald Byrd
Director: Donald Byrd
Choreographer: Donald Byrd
Composer: Larry Attaway |
| January 19 |
BOY'S BREATH |
Playwright: Gina Wendkos, Lynne Taylor-Corbett
Composer: Jim Farmer |
| January 25 |
THE ROUTINE,
THE DEPARTURE |
Choreographer: Marleen Pennison |
| January thru February |
11PM AT LA MAMA |
Featuring guest artists such as the
multi-talented Andre De Shields in HARLEM NOCTURNE who opened
January 20 and has been extended thru February . The musical
direction is by Marc Shaiman featuring singers Debra Byrd, Ellia
English, and Freida Ann Williams. Shami Chaikin, singer: Frances
Ellen Thorpe who 1st appeared at La MaMa at age nine, in a concert
performance. |
| February 2 |
STREETDREAMS |
Playwright: Eve Merriman
Director: John Braswell
Composer: Helen Miller |
| February 3 |
PALERMO-JERUSALEM |
Nation: France
Playwright: Jean Loup Riviere, Hans-Peter Litscher
Director: Hans-Peter Litscher |
| February 11 |
A RACE |
Company: Fiji Company
Created by: Ping Chong
A Multi Media Production |
| March 1 |
LA FIN DU CIRQUE |
Company:
Playwright: Kenneth Bernard
Director: John Vaccaro
Composer: Richard Weinstock |
| March 1 |
THE HOLY TERRORS |
Company: in association with THECO
Adapted by: Barry Crooks
Director: David Kronick
Composer: Gary Monheit |
| March 2 |
THREE MOONS |
Company: TWITAS Workshop
Playwright: Tino Juarez
Director: Virlana Tkacz
Composer: Genji Ito |
| March 7 |
MOVING EARTH |
Choreographer: Kei Takei
Composer: Norma Daldy, Davoid Moss |
| March 20 |
HOT LUNCH APOSTLES,
PEDRO PARAMO |
Company: The Talking Band
Playwright: Sidney Goldfarb (From Teh Novel by Juan Rulfo)
Director: Paul Zimet
Composer: Sybille Hayn, Ellen Maddow, Alice Eve Cohen, Harry
Mann |
| March 24 & 25 |
GUERENCIA,
GUERNICA |
Choreographer: Richard S. Bach
Composer: Keith Jarrett, George Winston |
| March 27 |
WORLD THEATRE WEEK CELEBRATION (with TWITAS/FACE)
Dedicated to Hazel Bryant & Richard Allen with the U.S.
Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) and The
Cultural Society of the U.N. Staff.
March 27 - African Night
March 28 - Asian Night
March 29 - Latin America / Caribbean Night
March 30 - Moroccan Night
March 31 - Third World Cultural Perspective EL NEGRO EN EL
PERU - Carnegie Mellon University - Directed and Choreographed
by Victoria Santa Cruz
April 1 - Stories & Legends from the Thirld World NOHO
Theatre group of Kyota. |
| March 30 |
MALCOM'S TIME |
Playwright: David Willinger, Stephan
T. Gerald, Alonia King & Comapny
Director: David Willinger
Composer: Craig Harris, Coster Massamba |
| April 4 |
I'LL BE RIGHT BACK |
Company: Spiderwoman Theatre
Director: Muriel Miguel
Composer: Ellen Haag |
| April 26 |
BRECHT'S ASHES 2,
THE MILLION |
Nation: Denmark
The American Premiere of Eugenio Barba / Odin Teatret |
| May 23 |
JERUSALEM |
Playwright: Elizabeth Swados
Director: Elizabeth Swados
Composer: Elizabeth Swados |
| May 24 |
FUN CITY |
Playwright: Matthew Maguire
Director: Matthew Maguire
Composer: Vito Ricci |
| May 24 |
NUMBER MINUS ONE |
Playwright: John Jesurun
Director: John Jesurun |
| June 1 |
THE AIR-CONDITIONED BEACH |
Company: Avant Trod Limited
Playwright: Walter Hadler
Director: Daffi |
| June 25 |
TURANDOT |
Playwright: Carlo Gozzi
Director: Vladimir Ilnitzky |
| June 26 |
YUP'IK ANTIGONE
(Alaska) |
Company: Perserverance Theatre and
The Village of Toksook Bay
Playwright: Dave Hunsaker
Director: Vladimir Ilnitzky |
| June 27 |
STRUCTURES |
Playwright: Rudolf Kocevar
Director: Rudolf Kocevar |
| July 13 |
QUEBRADANZA |
Company: Modern Dance - TWITAS
Nation: Equador
Choreographer & Artistic Director: Susana Reyes
Technical Director: Alfredo Breilh
Featuring: Susana Reyes & Juan Del Hierro |
| August 14 & 16 |
LINCOLN CENTER OUT-OF DOORS
a free festival presented Elizabeth Swados' ecumenical musical
JERUSALEM at Damrosch Park with 4000 attending. JERUSALEM
was the first performed in Rome in April during Holy Week
and Later at La MaMa ETC in May of this year. |
| September 6 |
OTELLO |
Company: Falso Movimento
Nation: Italy
Conceived and Directed by Mario Martone
Composer: Peter Gordon |
| September 12 |
LA MULATA
(Workshop) |
Nation: Cuba
Playwright: Esteban Fernandez Sanchez
Director: T. Riccio |
| September 26 |
MIDNIGHT IN MANHATTAN - 11PM AT LA
MAMA |
Playwright: Andre De Shields, Judith &
the Cohen Sisters
Director: Andre De Shields
Musical Director: Joel Silberman |
| September 26 |
ENEIDE |
Company: Krypton Group
Nation: Italy
Conceived & Directed by: Giancario Cauteruccio
Composer: LITFIPA |
| October 1 |
ALPHA,
WHO WAS THAT MAN |
Nation: Polish
Playwright: Slawomir Mrozek, Tamara Karren
Director: John Beary, Richard Harden |
| October 3 |
RED HOUSE |
Playwright: John Jesurun
Director: John Jesurun
Composer: Steve Antonelli |
| October 10 |
CUORI STRAPPATI |
Conceived , Directed & Performed by: La Gaia
Scienza
Composer: Winston Tong & Bruce Geduldig |
| October 12 & 19 |
MIDNIGHT IN MANHATTAN - 11PM AT LA
MAMA |
Playwright: Judith & The Cohen
Sisters
Director: Andre De Shields
Composer: Joel Silberman |
| October 14 & 21 |
MIDNIGHT IN MANHATTAN - 11PM AT LA
MAMA |
Company: The Video Ensemble
Playwright: Troy Von Hollywood |
| October 24 |
KENNETH RINKER DANCE COMPANY |
Choreographer: Kenneth Rinker |
| October 25 |
SKINS,
TONGUES |
Playwrights: John Densmore, Sam Shepard,
Joseph Chaikin
Director: Tony Abatemarco |
| October 31 |
HOLDING PATTERNS (3 Short Solo Works) |
Playwright: Paul Zimet, Tina Shepard
Director: Roger Babb, Paul Zimet
Composer: Ellen Maddow, Harry Mann |
| October 31 |
CHEN & DANCERS |
Company: Chen & Dancers
Choreographer: Chen Hsueh-Tung
Director: Chen Hsueh-Tung
Composer: Michael Rana |
| November 6-11 |
A THIRD WORLD THEATRE ARTS FESTIVAL |
Traditional dances, music, rituals
from Bolivia, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Indonesia,
Japan, Korea, Native American Indian, Peru and South Africa.
Also free performances of Balck Heritage Music Concert with Band'Afro
directed by Magda Silvano & Ligia Barreto and Storytelling
- folktales from The Third World.
Featuring:
RITUAL OF A BODY IN MOON
Created and Performed by:Ismael Ivo and Dudu Tucci
AGA
Choreographed and Directed by Cho Kyoo Hyun with Empty Hands
Dance Theatre. Music by Pauline Oliveros |
| November 16 |
SHEPARDSETS - A TRILOGY OF PLAYS:
SUICIDE IN B FLAT,
ANGEL CITY,
BLACK BOG BEAST |
Playwright: Sam Shepard
Director: George Ferencz
Composer: Max Roach |
| November 26 |
A THIRD WORLD |
An Asian perspective of traditional
and contemporary music, dance, ritual, and poetry from Korea,
Japan, Indonesia, India, China, and the Phillipines |
| November 28 |
MAKING KASPAR |
Playwright: Benjamin Barber, Leah Kreutzer
Director: Benjamin Barber |
| December 7 |
PROMETHEUS BOUND |
Company: Shadow Theatre Company
Playwright: Aeschylus (Translation: Peter Arnott)
Director: Bill Reichblum |
| December 13 |
FOUR FOUR TIME (Soundscape at La MaMa) |
A series of percussionists from Haiti,
Cuba, and Senegal |
| December 21 |
BLUMFIELD |
Company: Teatro Dramma (Caracas, Venezuela)
Playwright: Franz Kafka
Director: Elia Schneider
Composer: Peter Gordon |