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Free Conversations With Culture @ PS 122

FREE and open to the public
"Contemporary Performance and God"
Tuesday, October 20 7pm
11th Street Bar (between Avenues A & B)

Email artsdevelopment@ps122.org to RSVP

Performance Space 122 is pleased to announce the premiere of a new program titled "Conversations with Culture," a series of public panel discussions engaging non-performing arts community members in a dialogue about the art, politics, and life that happens on our stages. These discussions endeavor to reinsert performance into the cultural, economic, and environmental debates coursing through contemporary society, from which it has recently largely been excluded.

On October 20th, PS122 will inaugurate this series with the panel discussion "Contemporary Performance and God," presented in advance of Morgan Thorson's run of Heaven, a new ensemble work exploring emotional and physical manifestations of ecstatic perfection, gleaning forms and concepts from religious practices as strategies for creating the same state through dance. The discussion aims to trigger wider cross-community debates about the role and ramifications of contemporary performance as critique of, complement to, and replacement for other religious practices.
October 20th Participants include:

JAY WEGMAN Director of the Abrons Art Center and and former Canon for Liturgy and the Arts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine www.henrystreet.org/arts

MORGAN THORSON choreographer: HEAVEN premiering at Performance Space 122 on October 25: http://www.ps122.org/performances/heaven.html

JOHN MERZ Diocese of New York Episcopal Chaplain to NYU http://www.ecnyc.net/

MICHAEL DE DORA JR. Executive Director, Center for Inquiry - New York City http://www.centerforinquiry.net/

Like Musicals? Then Its Top of the Heap Opening this Weekend For Ya

The Gallery Players presents
TOP OF THE HEAP
Book and Lyrics by William Squier
Music by Jeffrey Lodin
Directed by Neal J. Freeman

It’s New York City, 1955. The Brooklyn Dodgers are about to square off with the Yankees in a World Series that will net “dem bums” their first title in fifty-five years. So, T.V.’s most popular variety program, ‘Top of the Heap,’ is headed to Brooklyn for a live, remote broadcast tied into the Series. A struggling pair of nightclub comics see this as a chance to bluff their way out of the dives where they perform and into television. But, they soon discover just how high a price they’ll have to pay.

Top of the Heap features a timeless jazz-inflected score with music by Jeffrey Lodin and book and lyrics by William Squier. The Stamford Advocate called Top of the Heap,

“A gritty musical that takes a look at the darker side of showbiz.”

This looks like a winner in the making!

The Gritty Details

Performance Schedule

Saturday, October 24 at 8:00 PM – Opening night

Sunday, October 25 at 3:00 PM – matinee

Thursday, October 29 at 8:00 PM

Friday, October 30 at 8:00 PM

Saturday, October 31 at 8:00 PM

Sunday, November 1 at 3:00 PM – matinee

Thursday, November 5 at 8:00 PM

Friday, November 6 at 8:00 PM

Saturday, November 7 at 2:00 PM – matinee

Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 PM

Sunday, November 8 at 3:00 PM – final performance

General Admission Adult $18.00 Senior 65+ $14.00

Child 12 yrs. & under $14.00

Catch Kitsch If Your Can Nov. 12-19

20 years ago this November 9, the Berlin Wall was opened, admitting a flood of East Germans into the previously verboten West. To mark the occasion Trav S.D. and his company Mountebanks present Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One, a Brecht-flavored retelling of The Comedy of Errors that brings Western-style excess to Shakespeare’s comedy by doubling the number of pairs of twins in the plot to four. Separated at birth with the Allied Invasion of Berlin in 1945, half are raised in the Communist sector only to be unwittingly reunited with their brothers 44 years later when the Wall comes down. The result is mass confusion!

Kitsch was written by Trav S.D. on MacDowell, and Edward F. Albee Fellowships, on a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The play also contains nine original songs by Trav S.D.

Kitsch is directed by Ian W. Hill of Gemini Collisionworks (ably assisted by Berrit Johnson) and features Trav S.D., Kate Valentine (a.k.a “Miss Astrid” from the long-running VaVa Voom Room), Audrey Crabtree (The Bouffon Glass Menajoree), as well as Gyda Arber, Aaron Baker, Tom Bibla, Lily Burd, Betsy Head, William Kahn, John Kelly, Gavin Starr Kendall, Pete Macnamara, Josh Mertz, Brian Mott, Roger Nasser, Avery Pearson, Michele Schlossberg, Esther Silberstein, Jillian Tully (Nov. 14 only) and Michael Whitney. Set design is by David Brune; costumes by Karen Flood.

Note: the November 22 performance will be followed by a special program moderated by Trav S.D., presented at no extra charge: a debate entitled “Is the East Better Off?” Arguing the pro-capitalism side will be Joseph Dobrian, The Libertarian Party’s 2009 candidate for Mayor of New York City; arguing for the left, journalist Doug Henwood (host of WBAI’s Behind the News, and editor/publisher of the Left Business Observer).


KITSCH, OR TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
November 12 – 29
Thursdays – Saturdays, 8pm; Sundays, 3pm

Special Debate following November 22 matinee featuring Joseph Dobrian and Douglas Henwood

No show November 26, Thanksgiving

at Theater for the New City’s Johnson Theater
155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th

Tix: $15/ TDF vouchers accepted
(Special post-Thanksgiving rate: $10 November 27-28-29)


More info: (212) 254-1109 (ask about group rates and other special offers)

Purchases: OvationTix

Also you could go here: www.theaterforthenewcity.net

Frankenstein Tomorrow 3:00 PM @ The Kraine Theater Be There!

Frankenstein

presented by RADIOTHEATRE

From the critically-acclaimed, award-winning performance group, that brought you KING KONG,WAR OF THE WORLDS, DRACULA, THE INVISIBLE MAN, THE TIME MACHINE and more comes Mary Shelley’s masterpiece adapted for the stage with a great cast of story tellers, an original orchestral score and a plethora of sound effects! All that is required is your imagination!

Tickets $20

Students/Seniors $15

The Kraine Theater

85 E. 4th St