Italian Playwrights Project Second edition 2017/2018 Curated by Valeria Orani – Umanism NYC and Frank Hentschker – Martin E. Segal Theatre Center / Graduate Center CUNY La MaMa Presents Teatro delle Albe: Artist Talk with the author Marco Martinelli conversation moderated by Frank Hentschker and Valeria Orani reading from Martinelli’s “Rumore di acque” (Noise in the […]
World Premiere Part of Spill Festival Revue is a choreographed, repeated routine performed naked, for 24 hours set to Cab Calloway’s popular cotton club track, ‘Pickin’ Up The Cabbage’. Revue will be filtered digitally through institutions in cities throughout the world where Josephine Baker performed, and then back into the public domain. The performance is […]
Celebrating Live Mag! #15 MC: Publisher and Editor Jeffrey Cyphers Wright The Underground Rises Up! Join your comrades in this downtown style evening where Boho beauty meets the the pioneers of urban panache. Find revolution in the elocution—at the junction of poetry, music, art, and performance, in this super mix of literary legends and must-see […]
Co-presented with La MaMa Part of the Prototype Festival, a co-production of Beth Morrison Projects and HERE in association with Trinity Church Wall Street Locked away in a sterile room, a sickly child, Bibi, and her doting mother, Lumee, are each other’s sole protectors from the unknown. When a mysterious illness lurking outside their door leaves Bibi […]
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2019: Lisa Kron Now Accepting Applications | Click Here To Apply LISA KRON wrote book and lyrics for the 2015 Tony Award winning Fun Home. Other plays include In The Wake, Well, and the Obie Award winning 2.5 Minute Ride. Acting credits include Well (Tony nom.- Best Actress) and Good Person of Szechuan (Lortel Award-Outstanding Featured Actress). Guggenheim, Sundance and MacDowell fellowships, Doris Duke Performing Artists Award, Cal […]
LET’S SEND A MESSAGE. Historic, deeply important midterm elections are right around the corner. Iconoclastic performance artist Karen Finley headlines a stellar lineup of artists to inspire and activate the downtown community with a “Call to Action” weekend, anchored around her latest protest piece. WEEKEND SCHEDULE: Friday, October 26th | Soapbox: Speak Up, Speak Out featuring Pamela Sneed, Adrienne […]
For the 20th year of the Directors’ Symposium, July 17 – August 16, 2019, La MaMa Umbria is offering unique opportunities to learn from the world’s finest directors, designers and theatre-makers. Please join us. Keep an eye on this page for continuing updates on visiting artists, workshops and other events. Apply OnlineSession One [FULL]: July […]
“…we predicate our hopes and dreams towards survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” -Audre Lorde In these treacherous times, poetry is now more necessary than ever. We need both the revolutionary and the visionary, the pragmatist and the dreamer. Join us as these diverse New York […]
La MaMa presents Vagina Town By MUR As the world of mansplaining, manspreading, and manterrupting takes over New York, seven women form a small town of misfits upstate. For their annual town meeting, they emerge singing of their unique and sometimes tragic tales of abuse and mistreatment. This year, the town faces losing their land to […]
Curated by Michal Gamily Educational Outreach by Arthur Adair Coffeehouse Chronicles honors Ralph Lee and his long career with panelists, live performances and archival material from the La MaMa Archives. Moderator: Bob Holman with Casey Compton, Ralph Lee, Ellen Maddow, Kristine Haruna Lee, Neal Kirkwood, Tom Marion, Harry Mann, Kim Gambino, Rob McFadyen, George Drance […]