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Beauty as God(dess)

May 25 – May 27, 2012

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by Our Lady J
Beauty as God(dess)
A Concert Celebrating The Aesthetic of The Divine

with special guests
Amanda Lepore*
Veronica Varlow
Max Vernon**
John Hill
Glenn Marla
and The Train-To-Kill Gospel Choir

Our Lady J presents Beauty As God(dess), a concert celebrating the aesthetic of the Divine. Continuing on her previously explored themes of non-traditional, post-religious forms of worship, Our Lady J and special guests perform songs honoring the ever-present, yet mostly unacknowledged modern deity : BEAUTY itself. Is there anything more valued in our 21st Century society? Is there anything more sacred and desired?

Our Lady J’s latest musical offering blends the organic quality of her commanding piano playing with haunting electronic vocoders and live gospel choir, resulting in sublime musical tension– heightened by the show’s thematic oscillation between sacred and irreverent, classical and avant-garde, natural and designed, elegant and gritty.

The evening will also present selections from Our Lady J’s first studio album – to released at the end of 2012 as a companion soundtrack to the foreboding apocalypse.

In May of 2009, Our Lady J set out for her international solo debut at London’s prestigious South Bank Centre, complete with orchestra and gospel choir. She quickly became the buzz of London’s underground music scene and was asked to return for a successful 2 week run with the London “Train-To-Kill Gospel Choir” at the Soho Theatre in the summer of 2010. Other stops on her 2010-11 international tour included Mexico City (El Vicio), Berlin (Bar Jeder Vernunft), Dublin (The George), Manchester (Queer Up North Festival), The Ruhrfestspiele Festival (Recklinghausen, Germany), Australia’s record-breaking Harvest Festival (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane), and Ireland’s Electric Picnic Festival, where she opened for pop superstar Robyn. Since her transplant to Los Angeles last year, she has been a regular at the ROXY, Hotel Cafe, The Mint, and Ivan Kane’s Café Was.

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Haunts

June 1 – June 10, 2012

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Directed and conceived by Geo Wyeth in collaboration with the cast and crew
Elizabeth Orr, Visual Collaborator/Set Design
Mariana Valencia, Costume consultant
Barbara Samuels, Lighting Designer
Nineteenth century American gynecologist James Marion Sims, famous for perfecting his procedures on enslaved African women, encounters his biracial transgender great-great-great grandchild in a collapsed and imagined dream space. Based on Wyeth’s own family lineage, Haunts retraces a contradictory history of violence and ironic inheritance through an incantation of dreams and embodied recollection. Using his body as a point of converging histories, Haunts displays Wyeth’s virtuosity and dynamic presence.

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Lost in Staten Island, More Tales of Modern Living

June 15 – July 1, 2012

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Written by Richard Sheinmel
Music and Lyrics by Clay Zambo
Directed by Jason Jacobs
Get lost in Staten Island with Mitch Mitchell and his Mom as they journey through an extraordinary day. After the death of his brother, Mitch must return home to accompany his mother on a day full of difficult but necessary tasks. Alternately humorous and heartfelt, the drive takes them to unexpected places, where nerves are bared, secrets revealed, and confessions made. Although he grew up in “the forgotten borough,” he finds the familiar roads hard to navigate when landmarks change.

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