Haunts
June 1 – June 10, 2012
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.
Monday Nights with Julie Taymor
June 4, 2012 at 7:30pm
Monday nights with Julie Taymor
Escape
June 7 – June 24, 2012
by Creation Production Company
Written by Susan Mosakowski
Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Lying in wait with a shotgun, Gus, an unemployed elevator repairman, keeps his neighbors and his wife in the crosshairs. Next door lives an actress—a Marilyn Monroe look-alike—held captive by Daddy, a universal terrorist on the run. And in the next apartment, the grandson of Harry Houdini struggles to free himself from his own chains. Release is on everyone’s mind, but can anyone ever escape?
The Etiquette of Death
June 14 – July 1, 2012
A Chris Tanner Production
Directed by Everett Quinton
Choreographed by Julie Atlas Muz
Costumes by Becky Hubbert
Sets by Steven Hammel
Death is a messy and terrifying horror. Or, it can be a quiet, unapologetic thief in the night. For the past twenty-five years, living in the East Village, I’ve been surrounded by death. I’m obsessed with how the dying and those who love them behave in the face of it. When you explore the artifice and manners that surround this unruly journey – the etiquette of death — the outcome can be absurd,paradoxical, wrenching, and at times, hilarious.
Pua Ali`i `Ilima
June 19, 2012 at 7:30pm
Pua Ali’i ‘Ilima, a hālau hula (school of Hawaiian dance) based in Honolulu and New York City celebrates the 35th anniversary of the founding of the school with performances at the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center (DC) on June 18th, La MaMa (NYC) on June 19th and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Beckett, Mass.) on June 20th on the Indside/Out Stage.
The Celestial Hurl
June 19, 2012
by Kimberly Shelby-Szyszko Directed by George Ferencz
Lost in Staten Island, More Tales of Modern Living
June 15 – July 1, 2012
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.
La MaMa 50 Big Bash
June 24, 2012 at 6pm
La MaMa will wrap up its 50th anniversary season with a its LA MAMA 50 BIG BASH on Sunday, June 24th with an evening of performances emceed by longtime La MaMa artist Andre DeShields at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place in Manhattan).