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December Announcement of Theater & Lounge

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 03:38 pm EST 11/24/14

DECEMBER ANNOUNCEMENT OF THEATER & LOUNGE PRODUCTIONS: Dixon Place & harunalee Present a New Musical Production WAR LESBIAN Written by Kristine Haruna Lee Music by Kathryn Hathaway Directed by Jordan Fein Produced by Joel Glassman Starring Erin Markey Fri. & Sats. Dec 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 & 20 at 7:30 Additional Dec 20 at 10:00pm estimated runtime: 90 minutes price: $16 in advance, $20 at the door, $12 students / seniors Dixon Place’s (Ellie Covan, Founding & Artistic Director) new musical commission, WAR LESBIAN, will have its world premiere beginning December 5th. Featuring Erin Markey, this original musical, with book by Kristine Haruna Lee, music by Kathryn Hathaway and a cast of ten is directed by Jordan Fein in collaboration with harunalee. WAR LESBIAN will play seven performances only – December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, and 20 at 7:30PM, and December 20 at 10:00PM at Dixon Place (161 Christie Street). Tickets are $16 in advance, $18 at the door, and $12 for seniors and students. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.dixonplace.org WAR LESBIAN, is a new musical based on an Inuit myth about a woman who is rejected from her family for being different and embarks upon a journey creating wars with others and within herself. The musical deals with impossible probabilities, ridiculous heartbreak, and absurdity in which anything, and that means anything, goes. harunalee is an ensemble of performers and designers who collaborate across artistic disciplines to create experimental performance and plays written by Kristine Haruna Lee. New York Theatre Review calls it, “a feast for the eyes as well as the mind and heart.” Since 2010, they have been developing and producing work throughout New York (Plum de Force at Bushwick Starr; Drunkfish Oceanrant at Jack; She’s Sleep at Ars Nova) and have received a 2013 LMCC grant for their upcoming collaboration with Built for Collapse, and a Dixon Place Artist Residency and Commission for War Lesbian. harunalee is Stevo Arnoczy, Sasha Arutyunova, Andrew R. Butler, Sarah Lurie, Lauren Swan-Potras, Marisa Lark Wallin, and Kristine Haruna Lee. Press Representative: Glenna Freedman Contact: Glenna Freedman Public Relations (212) 730-0700, Glennafreedman@gmail.com LIFE: A Work in Progress Saturday, December 6 at 7:30pm written and performed by Joseph Mauricio estimated runtime: 45 minutes price: Free A serious cosmicomic cabaret that will traverse through the beginning to the end of time, with songs, stories and insights. Buddhist teacher, motivational speaker and performance artist, Joseph Mauricio will take you on a journey through his life with real stories and songs. From belly laughs to cosmic insights, this show will leave you thoughtful, entertained and maybe a little bit more awake. Joseph Mauricio is a Buddhist teacher, Life Coach, motivational speaker and as a comic performance artist, the veteran of 1,000's of shows in comedy clubs, theaters and private venues, around New York City. He is the founder of L I F E W O R K Meditation Based Coaching Services where he helps clients, students, performers, professionals and artists develop communication and creativity in order to bring their private voice to life. http://www.josephmauricio.com/ Variety Arts at Dixon Presents Carousel Hosted by R. Sikoryak Saturday, December 6 at 10:00pm price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students / seniors Cartoon slide shows and other projected pictures, presented by a wide array of comic strip makers, graphic novelists and visual artists as well as luminaries from the downtown New York Theater and music worlds. The performance will be followed by a party with a DJ! Featuring: Brian Dewan, James Godwin, Sophie Goldstein, Jason Little, Neil Numberman, Jim Torok, Matthew Thurber, Lauren R. Weinstein, Kriota Willberg and more! Www.dixonplace.org Theater Little Theatre at Dixon Place Little Theatre Monday, December 8 at 7:30pm price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students / seniors New York, NY: the OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media, more-or-less curated by Scott Adkins, Rob Erickson, Normandy Sherwood, Jess Barbagallo, Frank Boudreaux and Jeffrey M. Jones. LINE-UP The Mineralogy of Objects: crystal necklace breakbeat [dance ], with Laurie Berg, Jodi Bender, Bessie McDonough-Thayer and sound by Karl Scholz: "The crystalline structure of the beads endows the surface of each with an electrical charge that attracts dirt.” Black Sheep, written and performed by Darian Dauchan, directed by Nicole Watson: Black Sheep re-imagines the “black experience” through the perspective of a host of characters from cops, to drag queens, to Afro-punk teenagers as they battle the “community” they supposedly come from while fighting their own isolation in search of an identity that lives outside the box of tribalism. Black Sheep invites the audience to expand their perception by glimpsing into the lives of the minorities amongst the minorities. A theatrical exploration on those who despite their skin don’t fit in with their own kin. Aaron/Marie – Chapter 4: Lisbon, created and performed by James Harrison Monaco and Jerome Ellis, co-directed by Rachel Chavkin and Annie Tippe: Aaron/Marie is an ongoing saga of hyper-literary interconnected stories by James and Jerome, told at high speeds and with music. This chapter, "Lisbon," is about violence and curiosity in Portugal. www.jamesandjerome.org late fish/late man, by Songs To Live By (Marco Panella and Joey Weiss): late fish/ late man is the full story of man, covering a period of 200,000 years, told in 15 minutes. Through song, spoken word, and video, the tale of man’s birth, brief encounter with the rich, and death are finally told. www.dixonplace.org In the Dixon Place Lounge The Mosquito Hosted by Nancy Giles Monday, December 8 at 7:30pm price: Free Hang out at the lounge at Dixon Place, the iconic and funky east-village theatre, and have a drink while checking out an early evening collection of musicians, writers, comics and creative types doing all kinds of things. Featuring Pat Candaras, Cynthia Kaplan, Peri Gaffney, Kathryn Rossetter, Sheila Head, Susan Burns, Sue Giles, Nancy Shayne, and more! Nancy Giles is an Emmy award-winning commentator for “CBS News Sunday Morning” and has developed 4 solo shows at Dixon Place with director Ellie Covan, most recently “The Further Adventures of the Accidental Pundette” in Feb. 2013. The Mosquito at Dixon ____________________________________________________________________________ In the Dixon Place Lounge Draw it Out! Hosted by James Godwin Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30pm estimated runtime: 1 hour price: Free Draw It Out! Is an evening of DRINK-AND-DRAW where anyone from any skill level can learn some new tricks. Your host and guide, James Godwin will provide a subject and some expert advice on how you can improve your drawing Mojo. From the basics of drawing technique to the weird world of the ancient Avant-Garde, Draw It Out! Will get your creative juices flowing and supercharge your skills. James Godwin is a performance and visual artist and puppeteer. He is a founding member of the Elementals puppet company and "Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement.” His work has been presented all over NYC and beyond in such venues as P.S.122, Dixon Place, DTW, Franklin Furnace, LaMama and the Walker Art Center. He was also a cast member of Henson Alternative's off broadway show "Stuffed and Unstrung.” James’ one man show, “Lunatic Cunning” was awarded a 2012 project grant from the Jim Henson Foundation and had its premiere at Dixon Place in N.Y.C. in April of that year. ____________________________________________________________________________ In the Dixon Place Lounge PAT CANDARAS is FLUMMOXED Written and Performed by Pat Candaras Wednesdays, December 10 & 17 at 7:30pm estimated runtime: 45 minutes price: Free Pat’s goal was to live her life as a Regular Lady – but she kept getting sidetracked. She tells the story of the travails of being a Mother, a Mother-in-law, a Grandmother and a cancer patient. Pat Candaras has performed at both the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the New York International Fringe Festival. She was the Semi-finalist on Nick-at-Nite/s Funniest Mom 3. Pat was presented as one of the NEW FACES OF COMEDY by the ‘Just For Laughs’ Montreal Comedy Festival. She is the mother of three and the Grandmother of two. In 2011 Pat was diagnosed with CNS Lymphoma of the Brain – in 2012 Pat emerged from treatment ‘disease free’. Theater Cash For Any Car by Sean Edward Lewis / LILAC CO Wednesday, December 10 at 7:30pm estimated runtime: 1 hour price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students / seniors Written and Directed by Sean Edward Lewis Sound by Leon Rothenberg Video by Daniel Hilsinger Featuring Claire Campbell and Sean Edward Lewis Special Guest Edgar Oliver (New Poetry) CASH FOR ANY CAR is a play about language and it is a play about performing and how these questions of language and performance appear in time. And to set the scene as the saying goes ...somewhere in the not too distant future a man and a woman find themselves working at a 24 hour used car lot in the middle of the night. They get the feeling that someone is listening. Someone is watching. http://lilacco.wordpress.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Theater Love, Money, God, Drink, Christmas Written by Siobhan Gilbert Thursday, December 11 at 10:00pm estimated runtime: 70 minutes price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students / seniors Directed by Greg Taubman Produced by Chie Morita Starring: J. Clint Allen, Jocelyn Vammer, Kirsten Benjamin, Katharine Lorraine, Wendy Joy Cooley, Paulo Quiros, Tom Giordano, Gabriella Grier, David Shaw. Love, Money, God, Drink, Christmas is about the rise and fall of an American family during the roller coaster of a very tense twelve-year period in American History. It is a story about the Long Island based Sullivan clan and its extensions. It is also about how they screw with each other and how, in turn, the world screws with them. In this piece, we experience their Christmas party in 1997, 2001, 2005, and 2009. In the Dixon Place Lounge Gershwin Live at Dixon Place: Sasquatch Ritual for FreeBleeders Written by Sibyl Kempson 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr Co. Friday, December 12 at 7:30pm estimated runtime: 45 minutes price: $10 suggested donation Starring Sibyl Kempson, Lindsay Hockaday, Eleanor Hutchins, Maurina Lioce, Clara Lipfert, Sarah Willis, and Michael Wiener. There will be no rhetorical questions in this ritual. All questions raised demand an answer, so please come prepared. We will recite the sacred Internet texts that are pertinent so please pay attention. We will engage in passive object communication and group meditation. We will also grieve for Lost Snacks of the 80's. NO cameras, NO firearms, and NO flashlights, please. 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr Co. is a new performance group founded very recently by Sibyl Kempson. It is named after Brian Sykes' theory of mitochondrial DNA that suggests we have all descended, along matrilineal lines, from seven, twelve, or thirty-six original mother women. Our first production will open in April at Abrons Arts Center, titled LET US NOW PRAISE SUSAN SONTAG. ____________________________________________________________________________ Theater Conversations with Humans Written and Directed by Susana Cook Friday, December 12 at 10:00pm estimated runtime: 45 minutes price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students / seniors Written and Directed by Susana Cook Music by Julian Mesri Performed by: Sofia O.C, Felice Shays, Mistah Coles, Moira Cutler, Kate Conroy, Jackie Rudin, Frank Dunham Jr. And special appearances by: Amber Martin and Nath Ann Carrera We are here. We are Queer. And we are entering the narrative. As gay marriage becomes legal, queer lives enter the stage of rituals and the narrative of traditional families. The linear trajectories of life get convoluted in this hyper ritualistic drama, where graduation, marriage, baptism, death and aging speed up, overlap and move around the pattern of historical repetition. Vanishing the margins of normative ceremonies, this theater ritual unfolds layers of parallel realities in an almost spiritual/ schizophrenic manner. At the beginning there was an end. Then the rituals in between. And the layers, erasing all the margins. We finally arrived to the party. Born in Argentina, Susana Cook is a New York based playwright, director and performer who has been presenting innovative works internationally for over 20 years. Some of her latest shows are : We are Caligula, The Funeral of the Cow, The Homophobes, a clown show, The Fury of The Gods, Homeland Insecurities, The idiot King, The Values Horror Show, 100 Years of Attitude, Dykenstein and Hamletango. Theater POSHLOST SAUDADES! (PS!) Written & directed by Adam R. Burnett / Buran Theatre Saturday, December 13 at 10:00pm estimated runtime: 1 hour price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students / seniors Buran Theatre (Magic Bullets, Mammoth, Nightmares); written & directed by Adam R. Burnett. Starring Aron Canter, Robert Honeywell, Donna Jewell, Michael Karp, Kate Schroeder, Wil Petre, and Mari Yamamoto. Movement & assistant direction by Sarah Matusek. Musical direction by Maria Dessena. Romeo & Juliet score by Sergei Prokofiev. Distillations...Poshlost (Russian), from Vladimir Nabokov, “Corny trash, vulgar cliches, Philistinism in all its phases, imitations of imitations, bogus profundities, crude, moronic, and dishonest psuedo-literature.” Saudades (Portuguese), a longing for what never was and never can be. On the eve of the closing of a once great ballet school, a young girl celebrates her Quinceanera. Suddenly, a disruption: her incarcerated brother arrives, escaped from jail, to claim her as his true love. The guests of the celebration wax and wane their love for one another - all of which are mutually exclusive - as they attempt to recreate Sergei Prokofiev's bombastic ballet Romeo & Juliet, re-imagined as a Dixie-Land Jazz Ballad. BURAN THEATRE is a NYC-based theatre company, led by writer/director Adam R. Burnett, with a national network of company members. For each project a disparate company of artists is identified to meet around Burnett's text to develop performance, design, music, and dance. Major works include Money Buckets! (2009), The Cotton Plantation (2010, by Casey Mraz), The House of Fitzcarraldo (2010-2012, national tour), Nightmares: A Demonstration of the Sublime (2013, national tour), & Magic Bullets (2014). Buran Theatre was named a NYTheatreNow 2013 Person of the Year & was recently nominated for 2 New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Magic Bullets. Buran has been awarded residencies from HB Studio, Incubator Arts Project, Chashama & The Brick Theater and grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council & Tobin Fund for Theatre Arts. Buran Theatre/Adam R. Burnett are currently developing three new works: Mammoth: A De-Extinction Love Story (to premiere at The Brick Theater in May 2015), Poshlost Saudades! (to premiere in 2015/16) and Watch Us Disappear (to premiere in 2017). Up next, Adam is a lead artist for the Target Margin Theater Gertrude Stein Labs at the Bushwick Starr in January. www.burantheatre.com In the Dixon Place Lounge Experiments & Disorders Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford Tuesday, December 16 at 7:30pm estimated runtime: 45 mins price: free Experiments and Disorders is DP’s long running literary series, curated by Christen Clifford and Tom Cole. Recent participants include: Lynne Tillman, Paul Lisicky, Karen Lillis, Ethan Lipton, Phillip Lopate, Laurie Stone, Rebekah Rutcoff, Patty Powers, McKenzie Wark, John Wray, and Eileen MylesLINE-UP Randy Danson most recently performed in the American premiere of Caryl Churchill's, Love and Information, at New York Theatre Workshop and in Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Prior to that she spent a few years with Wicked both on tour and on Broadway as Madame Morrible. She has appeared at many repertory theatres including The Arena Stage, American Repertory Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, and American Conservatory Theatre and New York theatres such as the Vineyard, CSC, The Public and Playwrights Horizons. Roles include Shen Teh/Shui Ta in Good Person of Szechuan (Helen Hayes Award), Vivian in Wit (Barrymore Award), Masha in The Three Sisters, Paulina in A Winters Tale, and Amanda in The Glass Menagerie. She appeared in Martin Scorses's The Last Temptation of Christ and a handful of roles for independent film maker Mark Rappaport. She has received an OBIE for Sustained Excellence. David Van Asselt is the artistic director and a co-founder of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. He is also a playwright in his own right, whose plays include Dog Daze, Incident at Irving's Pet Place (a radio play), A Trip to the Beach, Winning, A Fable, and One Summer Night. His plays have been produced in New York, Washington D.C., Virginia, and Arizona. He is also the author of a book of poetry called “:Fox De Parts: Him Leaves!” Van Asselt has a B.F.A. from NYU Film School as well as an M.A. in Philosophy from N.Y.U. ____________________________________________________________________________ Theater Prologue Written and directed by Maria Litvan Tuesday, December 16 at 7:30pm estimated runtime: 1 hour price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students / seniors Performed by Francisco Reyes and Catherine Correa Video projections by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger Music and sound design by Nana Simopoulos Costume Design by Maria Cuartero Executive Production by Laura Turegano Graphic Design by Isabelle Duverger Prologue is a mixed-media performance created as a composition of moments: Snapshots into the life and thoughts of French philosopher, activist, and mystic, Simone Weil (1909–1943.) In Prologue, two performers— a man playing an actor preparing to interpret Simone Weil, and a woman embodying Weil herself as per the actor’s invocation—collide. Through the actor’s meditations, the piece also reflects on the mystical and artistic processes, and the indispensable role of “the other” in the construction of meaning.

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