Now Playing at La MaMa Theatres
KING LEAR – January 23-February 8
Compagnia de’ Colombari’s KING LEAR is a primal, physical, and potent “paper crown” Lear that strips the Shakespearian classic to its essence. Coonrod utilizes her signature “multiplicity” to shift and deepen audiences’ connection with the characters.
LA MAMA POETRY ELECTRIC: ASIAN VOICES 2.0 – January 26
The Poetry Electric fuses music, movement, sound, and dance with the spoken word and presents artists working in a wide range of styles including beatboxing, jazz and hip-hop theatre. This series has presented over 200 emerging poets from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Hearing Time in Silence – January 30-31
Hearing Time in Silence is an immersive art organism that composes sound and silence, time and relation through auditory, visual, and bodily experience. Audience, performers, objects, media, light, sound, and silence function as equal agents, overlapping to form a living universe.
H.T. Chen & Dancers – January 30-February 1
Ring in the Lunar New Year of the Horse with H.T. Chen & Dancers. Teahouse Performances include a celebration of and reflection on the Chinese in the Americas through dance.
La MaMa Kids: We Are So Happy You Are Here – January 31- February 1
Step into a world of dance, theatre, and music—designed for children 3+ and the grown-ups who love them.
A performance created for you and every real or imaginary being you might bring. Friends, families, newcomers… everyone belongs here.
Kim Ima is a theater maker, writer, baker and community events enthusiast. Longtime member of the Great Jones Rep. She is the author of the cookbook, The Treats Truck Baking Book, published by HarperCollins.
The First Line of Dante’s Inferno – February 5-22
The First Line of Dante’s Inferno is a wild, feral trip into nature. Ann Espinoza marches deep into a state forest looking for her missing sister, and finds herself.
“Mia M.I.A.” a shadow puppet musical – February 5-15
“Mia M.I.A.” is a science fiction fairytale about grief, love, the role of imagination in healing, and the transformative power of embracing the shadows.
A POETRY ELECTRIC SPECIAL: VIVA THE DIVAS – February 9
The Poetry Electric fuses music, movement, sound, and dance with the spoken word and presents artists working in a wide range of styles including beatboxing, jazz and hip-hop theatre. This series has presented over 200 emerging poets from diverse cultural backgrounds.
MANO A MANO: an operatic monodrama – February 12-22
An operatic monodrama of virtuosic chants, rants, songs and spectacle, surveying toxic masculinity through the ages by needling Anglo-Saxon epics with personal anecdote and pseudo-history.
Paul Pinto is a writer, composer, performer, opera-sermonizer, and multi-disciplinary dabbler. Kristin Marting is an award-winning director and writer of hybrid performance
The Thousand and One Nights Workshop – February 19-March 1
To escape execution by a vengeful king, Scheherazade, the most brilliant storyteller in the world, weaves a tapestry of tales for a thousand and one nights, each story buying her another dawn.
Dave & Golly a tale of virtual loneliness – POSTPONED
Ring in the Lunar New Year of the Horse with H.T. Chen & Dancers. Teahouse Performances include a celebration of and reflection on the Chinese in the Americas through dance.
Footnotes – February 27 – March 15
FOOTNOTES is an immersive puppetry performance takes place in four
distinct locations and examines the theme of walking….……its history, its science,
its political power, its poetic and spiritual dimensions.
La MaMa Puppet Slam – March 12-15
Ring in the Lunar New Year of the Horse with H.T. Chen & Dancers. Teahouse Performances include a celebration of and reflection on the Chinese in the Americas through dance.
Jane Comfort and Company – March 19 -22
The evening includes a premiere with music by MacArthur Award winning composer Heather Christian, plus the 1983 Afro Brazilian work Artificial Horizon with live drumming, and Bites, from 1996.
Jane Comfort has been making multi-disciplinary work for her company since 1978 and has won major accolades, including two Bessie Awards, a Guggenheim, and American Dance Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Antigone in Analysis – March 20 -April 5
Sophocles’ tragedy is reimagined with a metaphysical twist: a chorus of historical philosophers elevates Jocasta to the throne, squaring off with Antigone in a mother-daughter throwdown.
Company:
Peculiar Works Project has created and produced indie theater in NYC since 1993, presenting compelling stories that examine our current moment with complexity and originality.
Spider Rabbit – March 26-April 12
Dan Safer and Tony Torn made the wildly acclaimed “Ubu Sings Ubu”. They have been referred to as “Off Off Broadway luminaries” by the New York Times but have not won any awards.
La MaMa Kids: Elementary – March 28-29
Elementary is an innovative early-years multidisciplinary production designed for children aged 6 months to 3 years. It will create an immersive, sensory-rich environment that sparks curiosity and engagement. It explores the poetic representation of the elements—earth, air, wind, fire, and water—through gentle movement, tactile elements, and interactive storytelling.
Denisa Musilova, a graduate of the Art History and Museum Professions at FIT is a Czech choreographer and performer based in New York City.
Uncle Vanya, scenes from country life – March 28 – April 12
Krymov has never staged “Uncle Vanya”
But now—as our own world burns with despair, longing, and betrayal—it is time for the Lab to take up Chekhov’s masterpiece, transforming it into a grotesque elegy, a wasteland vaudeville.
Krymov Lab NYC develops bold, experimental, design-forward theater under the leadership of Dmitry Krymov, “one of the world’s finest theater-makers.” (The New York Times)
The Door Slams, A Glass Trembles | April 24 – May 10
The dining room of a sanatorium in the Alps. The deck of a ship on it’s way to Egypt. A country home in the Northeast. An uprooted family. An accidental death. Time elongates, compresses, becomes disjointed, and layers events past, present and imagined.
Combining richly textured music-theater with striking visual imagery, Talking Band’s elegant, eloquent, profound performance work has for fifty years been a cornerstone of New York City’s avant-guard theater community. Recipient of 18 OBIE awards including Life Time Achievement awards for its founders Ellen Maddow, Tina Shepard, and Paul Zimet.
Memory Generation – May 2-10
A new interactive, experiential theater work that explores the challenges, moments of humor, and unexpected losses and victories that arise when dementia impacts individuals, families, and communities.
Memory Generation is part of the first year of Pink Fang (formerly Ping Chong and Company), a home for daring experimentation, expanding the boundaries of theater and nurturing creative communities of care.
Take Me To Dollywood – May 14-31
Take Me to Dollywood offers a full-length collage of scenes and experiments with a queer southern twang. On a porch in the south, A faceless Dolly Parton haunts the stage as characters find themselves on the edge of relationships, sexuality, and reality. A woman has eaten her hand, a sexy gummy bear awaits certain death, two men meet for a hook-up, a boss rummages through his employees’ desks, and the playwright details his sex life.
McManus: Fall of a Tyrant – May 14-17
A Nitwit son, A Revolutionary Daughter, Not-too-butch-for-primetime Generals, A Put-upon Wife, Exhausted Servants, Air-filled-Lovers, and Mad-As-Hell-Citizenry threaten to tear down the palace of McManus (King of all he surveys in-his-boxer-shorts). Randy Neale’s McManus: Fall of a Tyrant is a scathingly funny socio-political satire hell bent on “giving” (as the kids say) some catharsis to those damn beleaguered lefties!
The Life and Times of Daisy Forbes – May 21-24
The Life and Times of Daisy Forbes is a long-form lip-sync illustrating a show girl, our last show girl who is at a distinct crossroads in her life. A crossroads where she is forced to make the decision of whether or not to continue pushing the rock up the hill as a performer and human being in this world. Via TV interviews, trashy pop, obscure musical theater scores and film scenes, Daisy channels these voices as a means of excavating the choices she has made, the feeling of abandonment and the uncertain future ahead.
Lucky FM 2 – May 27-31
Riding on the huge success of Lucky FM at La MaMa E.T.C. last season, Slant returns to The Club to dig deeper into the liminal space between past and present with Lucky FM 2. Through the underground radio station’s telethon portal, Slant journeys through AANHPI histories with bamboo flutes, drums, and guitars telling stories of the Japanese American concentration camps, the International Hotel, Vincent Chin, and today. Performed viscerally through music, dance, drama, and humor, Slant finds unity amidst chaos in a celebration of community.
La MaMa Kids: Mary Had A Little Lamb and Also A Substitute Teacher – May 30 -31
Mary and her little lamb are the best of friends—they do everything together. That is until one day, a substitute teacher with an extremely strict “no lambs in school” policy arrives, forcing Mary and her little lamb to spend an entire day apart for the first time ever. Using live music, puppetry and interactive storytelling, Mary Had A Little Lamb And Also A Substitute Teacher is a high energy, laugh filled adventure that reminds us that, while making new friends can be scary, it can also be quite a lot of fun.
The Last Play In Gaza – June 11-21
In “The Last Play in Gaza” two actors attempt to reconstruct The Emigrants by Sławomir Mrożek, performed in Gaza just before the war. Genocide testimonies punctuate their work as they confront erasure and exile.
