UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Sun Oct 10th 2021
Lia Romeo's GREEK TRAGEDY
A reading of Lia Romeo's College Collaboration Project play Greek Tragedy.
The play has been developed in collaboration with Centre College and Wells College
during the 2020/21 academic year. “Greek Tragedy” is a story of a social media
influencer. It explores societies need for fame, recognition, addiction, enabling,...
connection.
This was an exciting play to explore during the isolation of the pandemic - it is even
more exciting to share with you as we are coming back to in person gatherings.
A beautiful play. I hope you'll join us.
Cast for the reading:
Kathleen O'Neal
Michelle Chan (Centre College)
Ashleen Rowan
Carmen Burbridge
Lisa Jill Anderson
John Bingaman (Centre College)
Dylan Crow
Stage Directions - Avery Sedlacek
Sunday Oct 10 at 3:30PM
Tickets are free. Seating is limited.
To make a reservation, email rsvp@thefarmtheater.org
The reading will be followed by a talkback with playwright Lia Romeo,
Artistic Director Padraic Lillis, and cast- to talk about the play as well as the development process.
Audience must show proof of vaccination and will be asked to wear masks during the reading. Actors are vaccinated. They will not wear masks while performing.
Sat Oct 16, 2021
SCRIBBLED LINES
presented by Poetic Theater
Through poetry, song, media, and movement Vanessa Rappa and Poetic Theater Productions presents a theatrical experience that sets the audience members in the middle of a dreamscape. Somewhere strange yet familiar, the piece explores isolation, abandonment, and the search for connection, beauty, and certainty. A choreopoem in structure, audiences will follow a being who re-enters and discovers the body and a being who is stuck in one place .
What can be done when you are stuck in a cycle? Will the repetition ever cease?
What can you do when you try so hard to hold on to being human, and it keeps falling from your grasp like a constant punishment?
FEATURING
VANESSA RAPPA & MAYA N. CARTER
DIRECTED BY
GABRIEL TORRES
Saturday Oct 16, 2021
CYCLES BEING PRESENTED AT
3:00 PM, 4:00PM, 7:00 PM, & 8:00 PM
Studio One - ground floor
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can to $25
and available here
PROOF OF VACCINATION IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRANCE
PATRONS MUST WEAR THEIR MASK AT ALL TIMES WHILE INSIDE THE VENUE
AND MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCE
Sat Oct 30, 2021
This is Me Eating ___
a live immersive experience
presented by Et Alia Theater
This is Me Eating___ started as an online project where women from all over the world were invited to fill in the blank and create a piece of their own that dealt with their relationship to eating and food.
After receiving the City Artist Corps Grant,
Et Alia Theater decided to produce This is Me Eating___ as an immersive, live theater performance.
The themes of food and body image are very specific and unique to different cultures and traditions, yet almost the same in their effect on mental health and societal pressures. From the submissions we received, some felt empowered to “eat” their problems, insecurities, pain, or mental illnesses, while others felt inspired to share their family eating traditions that may not be understood by others.
We will show the potential of dialogue between projection, sound and the physical body, and how this can result in the audience feeling transported in a stimulative and meditative space that feels beyond reality.
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Studio One - Ground Floor
Each performance cycle is 45 minutes. This is a "human museum" experience. Each cycle will start at the following times:
Cycle one: 4:00-4:45PM
Cycle two: 4:45-5:30PM
Cycle three: 6:15-7:00PM
Cycle four: 7:00-7:45PM
Open Discussion with the team: 8:00-9:00PM
Tix available here
We will limit the number of audience members to 20-25 at a time.
Picture a space with human, flawed bodies expressing what they are “eating” (both metaphorically and literally) through the use of their movements and voices.
PROOF OF VACCINATION IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRANCE
Fri Nov 5 – Sat Nov 6, 2021
A Women's Suffrage
Splendiferous Extravaganza!
A Staged Reading
presented by The Pleiades Project
directed by Caroline Miller
With a generous grant from the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council, The Pleiades Project presents the stories of the trail-blazing leaders and watershed moments of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.
As the centennial celebration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment approached in 2020, The Pleiades Project was inspired to create and produce a music-theater work in conversation with this milestone event in American history. With a generous grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and co-created by November Christine, Noelle McMurtry, and Caroline Miller, A Women’s Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza! was born, inspired by turn-of-the-20th-Century vaudeville.
In A Women’s Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza!, our daring Maestra Impresaria & her dynamic troupe present the stories of the trail-blazing leaders and watershed moments of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Through unique adaptations of suffrage propaganda, popular music from the Library of Congress Archive: Songs of Suffrage, and newly-commissioned songs from NYC-based composer Lacy Rose, we endeavor to showcase the breadth & diversity within this eight-decade long struggle, including the pivotal contributions of suffragists of color, who have been continually marginalized and erased from our collective re-telling of the history of the women’s suffrage movement.
Join us on an exhilarating jaunt to celebrate, explore, and problematize this historic fight to win women the vote! By examining the intersection of the voices of American women of the past and women of today, we ask ourselves and our audience to consider how the fight for equality continues in this quest for the enfranchisement of all citizens in our democracy.
November Christine: Co-Creator (Book, Lyrics) & Composer
Lacy Rose: Composer
Noelle McMurtry : Co-Creator (Dramaturg) & Producer
Caroline Miller: Co-Creator (Book, Lyrics), Director & Producer
For more information, visit www.thepleiadesproject.com
Fri Nov 5 – Sat Nov 6, 2021 at 7PM
The Theatre Laboratory - 2nd floor
Tix are $20 and available here
The entire staff and all performers associated with The Pleiades Project & Alchemical are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Vaccines are required to attend AWSSE!, and proof of vaccination must be provided prior to entering the performance space.
Masks and social distancing are required in all areas of Alchemical.
It is important to note that performers in AWSSE! will be performing without masks.
Fri Nov 19, 2021
New Show
presented by The Decipherists
& Ensemble Decipher
Details Coming Soon!
THE SEAGULL
a comedy in 4 acts
by Anton Chekhov
a journey into the past,
as it appears in dreams:
with live characters and music
Performed in Russian language with live music (English captions available) – Directed by Anton Korenev
The performance uses the original text in early modern Russian language that Chekhov himself used to speak and write (which was abolished by the language reforms at the beginning of the 20th century). The use of the original text reproduces the sounds, melody and poetics of the spoken Russian language from the end of the 19th century.
In order to immerse the audience into the atmosphere of a Chekhovian estate of 1896, the production utilizes Russian music of that time period: songs, romances, and musical compositions by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Director's note: This production takes into account feedback of John Strasberg, my mentor. Special attention was paid to John's experience while working on one of the most successful productions of a Chekhov's play in English in the United States - The Actors Studio's production of "Three Sisters" in 1964 (directed by Lee Strasberg), where John Strasberg was the stage manager.
Directed by: Anton Korenev
Concert Master: Nataliya Efimovna Medvedovskaya
Cast:
Claudia Lesnaya as Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina - Andrey Vladimirovich Tchaikovsky as Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev -
Alexander Valerievich Galper as Pyotr Nikolaevich Sorin - Snezhana Alexandrovna Chernyavskaya as Nina Mihailovna Zarechnaja - Alexander Borisovich Feyder as Ilya Afanasievich Shamraev - Mila Anatolyevna Levine as Polina Andreevna -
Olga Nikolayevna Panko as Masha - Anton Sergeevich Korenev as Boris Alexeevich Trigorin -
Edward Igorevich Bekkerman as Evgenii Sergeevich Dorn
For more information, visit www.theseagullnyc.com
Originally slated for Summer 2020 and postponed due to pandemic, currently hoping to open February 2022
Studio A White Box Theatre
Tickets available here
We spend all our time with the internet. Are you afraid of immersing yourself in the it? Play, like, yell, click, poke, scroll through the interactive world of UPDATE in real life. Strangers become friends, tinder swipes, avatars of themselves in this improvisational performance. But who controls the grid when the grid is everywhere?
UPDATE is an immersive performance-ritual exploring communication in the digital age. Using elements from various artistic disciplines, UPDATE create an interactive landscape that transforms audience into performer and strangers into a community. Come play with us!
Fri Sept 27 – Sat Sept 28
Tickets available here
directed and produced by MICHAEL DELAFLOR
devised + performed by BENJAMIN SATCHEL / ADRIAN COLLINS / SHANNON BARNES / RICHARD PANNULLO / FERNANDO CASABLANCAS / MARLAINA RIEGELSBERGER / JADE MANNS/ DIEGO BLANC ZOCO / SOPHIE VINCENT / AARON J STEWART / CESAR PINZON / IRMAK HATIRLI / NOLA LATTY / HOPE LUNA / MARIANNA HOITT-LANGE
music composed + performed by JON CLANCY / TYLER NEIDERMEYER
creative technologist MATEO HERNANDEZ ALMEYDA
associate producer MARIA-SOFIA HERNANDEZ
Morning is a dark, coming of age play written by acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens. Presented by Ab Ovo Theatre Company. We don't want to tell you anything else.
Directed by: Christina Leonardi
Assistant Director: Maddie Perez Browning
Choreography by: Natalie Shinnick
Music by: Nico Huzella
Cast: Allison Boenig, Martin Ortiz, Zach Zamsky, Natalie Shinnick, Ben Swimmer, Christina Leonardi
Lighting Design: Scott Sweitzer
Set Design: Pete Adrian
Costume Design/Photography: Milan Sachs
For more information about Ab Ovo Company visit www.abovocompanyc.com
If you have any questions, please email them directly at abovo.companynyc@gmail.com
Thurs Sept 19 – Mon Sept 23
Tickets available here
