GUIDE TO VENUES

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GUIDE TO VENUES

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Interested in the growing field of immersive, non "theatre-based" theatre? Check out https://www.noproscenium.com and sign up for their newsletter. Listings for LA and SF as well.   Comprensive info on Broadway show prices and price-breaks, including lotteries (for Hamilton!) and standing room: http://broadwayforbrokepeople.com   The Public Theatre's free SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK has a virtual ticket line, if you can't deal with the lines   In 2018 NYC started the Culture Pass program; get a library card and you are eligible for free passs to places like The Whitney Museum, MOMA, etc.   The old reliable TDF discounts and their TKTS booths, which now have an app for your phone!   TodayTix has some good discounts as well    Don Shewey's blog http://www.donshewey.com   For Dance-focused work, Wendy Perron (choreographer, dancer, writer, and former Editor of Dance Magazine) has an excellent blog   Not An Alternative a hybrid arts collective and non-profit organization with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, and history. Work that questions and leverages the tools of advertising, architecture, exhibit design, branding, and public relations. Performances, installations all over town   www.nytheatre-wire.com   For interesting non-mainstream films, check out: IFC 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street | (212) 924-7771 Anthology Film Archives at 2nd Ave. and 2nd St. in East Village, Film Forum 209 West Houston Street, between 6th Avenue and Varick (7th Avenue)and the film series at MOMA Film Series, Metrograph in Lower East Side Film Society at Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater   Great music and intimate setting. Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre   Pangea at E. 11th and 2nd Ave has reasonably priced food and some great acts in their club in the back. David Cale has workshopped his songs there over the years and lots of other talented folks.   Brave new work and works-in-progress at the new Dixon Place at 161 Chrystie   The elaborate and expensive new arts display case for Manhattan, The Shed on 30th St.   New York Live Arts 219 W. 19th St.      Soho Rep has a small space that they consistently challenge and transform through brilliant new scripts, directors and designers.   Roulette 509 Atlantic Ave. (at 3rd Ave)Brooklyn (917)267-0363   The Kitchen  512 W. 19th Street   Japan Society   Chocolate Factory in Brooklyn  new and always compelling work   Baryshnikov Arts Center/BAC 450 W. 37th St. (866) 811-4111   Performance Space 122 (now Performance Space/New York)  E. 9th Street and First Ave   HERE at 145 Sixth Avenue   3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center   LaMama on 4th Street. Continuing on in the spirit of Ellen Stewart   Abrons Art Center in the real LES (NYU-free zone) down on Grand Street (at Pitt) has great stuff.   New York Theatre Workshop some of the smartest and most challenging new productions around. And the best stage in NYC   An unusual space, originally in Brooklyn and now on Ave. C in LES,  focusing on conceptual/visually-based Performance Art, Grace Exhibition Space & Gallery   AUNTS collective sponsors interesting events, performances, classes at a variety of venues.   BRIC in Brooklyn is home to a lot of very compelling new performance   Recess  a project that started in Soho and Red Hook in 2009 and has grown to encompass multiple projects/performances. "reimagines a public for art. By envisioning our public as participants, we challenge common distinctions between process and product and maker and consumer. Recess is a generative meeting place for an inclusive creative community"   St. Ann's Warehouse in Dumbo/Brooklyn has some large-scale, beautifully produced stuff   WAX/Williamsburg Art Nexus founded way back in 1999 by Marisa Beatty, Brian Brooks, Melissa Rodnon and David Tirosh, continues on at Triskelion. Lots of new and emerging dance talent and showcases.   CATCH a series of events that started in Brooklyn and moves all around. 2015 Obie Award Winner! Best Ambulatory Feast of Experimental Performance- Village Voice Best of 2013. Curators Andrew Dinwiddie, Caleb Hammons, and Jeff Larson.   Cathy Weis curates an amazing series of events at her loft on Broadway. Sundays on Broadway Free! Cathy Weis Studio/Weisacres, 537 Broadway, between Prince and Spring streets. Press buzzer #3 and walk upstairs. Elevator available upon request   The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. 155 Avenue C, New York, NY 10009 • 973.818.8495   Lincoln Center Claire Tow Theater on the roof of the Beaumont. 112 seats and the home of their LCT3 program for new works and new audiences. Great space.   Head Bronx-ward for Arthur Aviles and crew's  BAAD (Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance) classes, events, parties!   Do go to the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site. It's beautiful, evocative and disturbing. Yes there was all that squabbling over money and real estate and politics but this expression of a void, of loss, is very moving.   And if your range extends to a few hours north, check out Mount Tremper Arts near Woodstock. Matthew Pokoik curates a really excellent series, with talents like Young Jean Lee, Tere O'Connor, Jonah Bokaer, Brian Rogers, and poet Ann Carson trying out new work.   Also in the Summer, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. 14 days of all sorts of great stuff. Just a Metro-North commutor train ride away from NYC.   Greenlight bookstore in Ft. Greene has a great series of readings, book groups, etc.  So does McNally Jackson in Soho and Williamsburg.

JEFF MCMAHON