La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre is located at 66 East 4th Street, on the second floor.
Hot Lunch Apostles
March 1 – March 18, 2012
A featured production in La MaMa’s 50th anniversary season, Talking Band transforms the Ellen Stewart Theatre into a fairground, complete with game booths, food stands, and geek shows, where sex and religion bash up against each other with perfect theatrical panache.
First produced at La MaMa in 1983, Hot Lunch Apostles imagined a near future with fifty million unemployed in an economically devastated America.
To survive in a time of desperate competition and fervent religion, a traveling troupe of carnival strippers switches to performing stories from the Bible. In its first remounting in 28 years, the play proves to be as prophetic as it is provocative.
Urban Odyssey
March 22 – April 8, 2012
From toy- to life-sized to larger-than-life puppets, immigrants take off on an epic voyage to America. Through movement and visual theatre, this performance follows the journey from beginning to end, witnessing the inevitability of a new American culture.
Prometheus
April 12 – April 29, 2012
Inspired by Aeschylus’ PROMETHEUS BOUND, Theodora Skipitares returns to the subject of medicine, with a look at stem cell science, genetic engineering, and organ theft. With a dazzling array of puppet styles and a bold use of scale, PROMETHEUS features live music composed by Sxip Shirey, multi-dimensional acrobatics by Jonathan Nosan in the title role, and video. PROMETHEUS asks the question: Whose body is it anyway?
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You, My Mother
February 9 – February 20, 2012
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Meredith Monk in Conversation
January 23, 2012 at 7:30pm
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Stopped Bridge of Dreams
January 20 – February 5, 2012
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The Plot is the Revolution
January 9, 2012 at 7:30pm
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Alexis. A Greek Tragedy
January 4 – January 14, 2012