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2023

Theatre is back after Covid closures! And so am I, retired from ASU/Arizona and returned to full time in NY.

JANUARY

(cont. through February) JUST ABOVE MIDTOWN AT MOMA. A retro at MOMA on this black-artist-focused space from the 1970's-1980's, where Linda Goode Bryant and others (such as Tony Whitfield) curated exhibitions (I performed at JAM/Downtown series and if you look closely you will see a poster announcing it!)

(cont. through Jan. 8) NEW YORK 1962-64 The Jewish Museum. Friends are raving about this show. See it before it closes!

-cont. through March 5 VIRGINIA WOOLF: A MODERN MIND Exhibition exploring the author of MRS. DALLOWAY, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, etc. NY Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Wachenheim Gallery. Free but make timed reservation and download app.

through 29 CITY OF KINGS: A HISTORY OF NYC GRAFFITI. Howl Arts, 250 Bowery Wed-Sun 11-6. Another part of the exhibition closes January 15 at 6 E. 1st St.

4-22 UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL The 18th annual festival, curated by Mark Russell and his team at the Public Theater. Always new discoveries and exciting projects. These year will feature performances in a variety of venues. 36 artists from 9 countries.

8 THE ALL SING “HERE LIES JOY” at the 2023 PROTOTYPE Festival in Times Square at 2pm! Composed by my ASU colleague Daniel Bernard Roumain with libretto by Marc Bamuthi Joseph @prototypefest

I will be part of the big choir (in the bass section)! click link above to find how you can join us!

9 MOVEMENT RESEARCH AT JUDSON weekly free event providing a low-tech forum for works-in-progress. No reservations but must be Covid vaccinated and masked. 7-8pm info on attending and applying to show work

14 COLUMBUS CONFESSIONALS/COLUMBUS CONDUCTION closing reception and choral performance for Jean-Marc Superville Sovak's exhibit, Can a Sculpture Feel Pain/Columbus Confessionals. Conducted by Edwin Torres with Ama Birch, LaTasha Diggs, Bob Holman, E.J. McAdams, Gabriel Ramirez. Recess, 46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. 1pm.

16-25 1-800 HAPPY BIRTHDAY at Worthlessstudios, 7 Knickerbocker Ave Brooklyn public view January 16 by appointment other times. " originated as a voicemail project by Even/Odd founder, filmmaker and artist Mohammad Gorjestani to honor Black and Brown victims of police killings and systemic racism. The project exists online at 1800HappyBirthday.com and allows loved ones and the public to leave and listen to voicemails left on the birthdays of ‘celebrants’ - those unjustly killed. Gorjestani teamed up with Artistic Director Neil Hamamoto and Curator Klaudia Ofwona Draber, along with family members of the twelve 'celebrants', to bring the digital project into the physical realm in a community-accessible, large-scale exhibition. The show utilizes audio and video components, a large mural created by Art1, and personal ephemera shared by the families.

24 GOLDEN EIGHTIES (Chantal Akerman 1986) this film is apparently a musical, by the same director who did the legendary JEANNE DIELMAN. 4 & 7:30pm Part of the CinéSalon series of French Institute/FIAF 55 E. 59th St.

26-? WOLF PLAY Hansol Jung's play, directed by Dustin Wills, was selected as on of the 10 Best Off-Broadway shows of 2022 when it premiered at Soho Rep by TheaterMania and now revised at MCC

FEBRUARY

-through March 12 ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Ciarán O' Reilly featuring Bill Irwin, John Douglas Thompson, Joel Grifasi, Patrice Johnson Chevannes. Irish Repertory Theatre.

3-April 16 THE YANOMAMI STRUGGLE "a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the collaboration and friendship between artist and activist Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami people, one of the largest Indigenous groups living in Amazonia today" at The Shed

9-March 26 BLACK ODYSSEY by Marcus Gardley. Directed by Stevie Walker-Webb. Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th St. discount code: MAILVOYAGE. Cheaper ticks early in run. "Odysseus is lost again, this time in Harlem"

11-19 TWELFTH NIGHT Classical Theatre of Harlem at Skirball Center.

12-March 19 THE TREES by Agnes Borinsky. Playwrights Horizons. Directed by Tina Satter and scenic by Parker Lutz. Featuring what looks like a great cast, including Jess Barbagallo. "a brother and sister unwittingly establish a queer kind of society that tries to sustain itself in a mercenary world.

13 VIVIAN GORNICK, JAMES HANNAHAM, JENNI MULDAUR & TEDDY THOMPSON, ANNE WALDMAN a very impressive collections of writers and musicians gather for Muldoon's Picnic, a variety show at The Irish Arts Center 7:30pm

14 UP, DOWN, FRAGILE (HAUT, BAS, FRAGILE) Jacques Rivette. a 1994 musical by the famed French new wave filmmaker. 4 & 7:30pm Part of the CinéSalon series of French Institute/FIAF 55 E. 59th St.

15-April 9 PUBLIC OBSCENITIES written & directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury. Soho Rep. "Choton relishes being the translator, toggling nimbly between Bangla and English, Grindr and academese. But when he returns to his grandfather’s house in Kolkata with his boyfriend Raheem, an unexpected discovery leaves Choton at the limits of language."

Soho Rep produces some of the most startling and stinging work of the past few years, so this should be good!

17-19 UNDER MOMENTUM "the disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light ...artists Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson showcase a suite of dance solos and duets exploring momentum, speed, balance, and the pull of gravity—all performed on a series of curvaceous wedged ramps." Lincoln Center Clark Studio Theatre

20 FATHER WAS A PECULIAR MAN a 2-hour film edited down from 12 hours of footage from Reza Abdoh (1963-1995) legendary ensemble piece performed live in NYC's meatpacking district in 1990, produced by Anne Hamburger's equally legendary En Garde Arts. Adapted from Dostoyevsky's BROTHERS KARAMOZOV (script by Abdoh and Mira-Lani Oglesby). Abdoh's work was harsh and full of fury and menace. Screening presented by the film's editor, Tony Torn, dramaturg Patricia Ybarra, Anne Hamburger. Anthology Film Archive 7:30pm

21 SAME OLD SONG 1997 musical from Alain Resnais. Part of the CinéSalon series of French Institute/FIAF 55 E. 59th St.

21-April 1 CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY The Keen Company presents the first NY revival of Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage's play. Directed by Colette Robert at Theater Five on Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd. Early Bird discount code TRK2F1

24-25 AFRO PUNK/BLACK HERSTORY "Through music, poetry, and performance, we unpack HERstory with story narration, as well as video and performances from UMI, Celisse, Danielle Ponder, aja monet, Mahogany L. Browne, and Ebony Williams, India.Arie" Lincoln Center. If you haven't yet heard Danielle Ponder, she's powerful!

25-March 25 LOVE Park Ave. Armory. Written and directed by Alexander Zeldin. Import from London's National Theatre. Immerses audience in the UK welfare system, light up on full and with clients scattered amongst the audience. Hard to imagine something this intentionally intimate in the biggest performance space imaginable, but...

28-March 26 DARK DISABLED STORIES written (and performed?) by Ryan J Haddad and directed by Jordan Fein. Co-pro with The Bushwick Starr. Presented at The Public Theater

25-March 4 TIPPING UTOPIA TOWARD KAZUKO MIYAMOTO NO. 2 Yoshiko Chuma/School of Hard Knocks and a whole lotta (18?) great guests responding to six decades of Miyamoto's visual work. Gallery Onetwentyeight, 128 Rivington St. (Essex/Norfolk) 7pm (2pm Sunday). An earlier version of this piece was done at Japan Society. $20 no reservation.

MARCH

(cont. through 19) THE TREES by Agnes Borinsky. Playwrights Horizons. Directed by Tina Satter and scenic by Parker Lutz. Featuring what looks like a great cast, including Jess Barbagallo. "a brother and sister unwittingly establish a queer kind of society that tries to sustain itself in a mercenary world.

(cont. through 26) BLACK ODYSSEY by Marcus Gardley. Directed by Stevie Walker-Webb. Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th St. discount code: MAILVOYAGE. Cheaper ticks early in run. "Odysseus is lost again, this time in Harlem"

(cont. through April 1) CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY The Keen Company presents the first NY revival of Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage's play. Directed by Colette Robert at Theater Five on Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd. Early Bird discount code TRK2F1

cont through April 16 THE YANOMAMI STRUGGLE "a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the collaboration and friendship between artist and activist Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami people, one of the largest Indigenous groups living in Amazonia today" at The Shed

cont.-through March 12 ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Ciarán O' Reilly featuring Bill Irwin, John Douglas Thompson, Joel Grifasi, Patrice Johnson Chevannes. Irish Repertory Theatre.

cont through March 4 TIPPING UTOPIA TOWARD KAZUKO MIYAMOTO NO. 2 Yoshiko Chuma/School of Hard Knocks and a whole lotta (18?) great guests responding to six decades of Miyamoto's visual work. Gallery Onetwentyeight, 128 Rivington St. (Essex/Norfolk) 7pm (2pm Sunday). An earlier version of this piece was done at Japan Society. $20 no reservation.

through March 26 DARK DISABLED STORIES written (and performed?) by Ryan J Haddad and directed by Jordan Fein. Co-pro with The Bushwick Starr. Presented at The Public Theater

through March 25 LOVE Park Ave. Armory. Written and directed by Alexander Zeldin. Import from London's National Theatre. Immerses audience in the UK welfare system, light up on full and with clients scattered amongst the audience. Hard to imagine something this intentionally intimate in the biggest performance space imaginable, but...

(cont. through April 9) PUBLIC OBSCENITIES written & directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury. Soho Rep. "Choton relishes being the translator, toggling nimbly between Bangla and English, Grindr and academese. But when he returns to his grandfather’s house in Kolkata with his boyfriend Raheem, an unexpected discovery leaves Choton at the limits of language."

Soho Rep produces some of the most startling and stinging work of the past few years, and this piece is yet another example!

3-April 2 MISTY "Fusing live music, spoken word, and absurdist comedy, Misty is an exhilarating journey through a city in flux, transporting audiences to the streets of gentrifying London in an exploration of the pressures and expectations that come with being an artist in our time." Written/performed by Arinzé Kene, Directed by Omar Elerian. Previews March 3-8 with $49 ticks. The Shed The last piece I saw at this venue was anything but intimate, but hopefully they will move those walls to make this one-person performance work.

4-19 RUBE G.-THE CONSEQUENCE OF ACTION Jody Oberfelder Dance at Gibney Studio C

10-12 KEELY GARFIELD DANCE: THE INVISIBLE PROJECT a new dance piece focused on the choreographer's "covert calling as a hospital chaplain." Skirball

10-19 RADIO 477! Yara Arts Group at La Mama "a new theater piece created by Yara Arts Group and Ukrainian artists about the city of Kharkiv, its jazz history, and how it stood up to Putin today. Text and lyrics by award-winning Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan, music by Anthony Coleman, and direction by Virlana Tkacz."

15-May 21 WHITE GIRL IN DANGER new musical by Michael R. Jackson (A STRANGE LOOP) directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly. Vineyard Theatre/Second Stage

15 SWAN SONGS performed by the always compelling ensemble, Contemporaneous, under the direction of David Bloom. 8pm at Roulette. "a new evening-length immersive operatic work commissioned by Contemporaneous, created by composer Ethan Braun and librettist Vikram Devasthali"

15 TAYLOR MAC in conversation with LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES discussing publication of his play GARY: A SEQUEL TO TITUS ANDRONICUS (presented on Broadway in 2019) by TCG. The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn 7pm (also livestreamed) Tickets

24 BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED PART V-THEATER Excerpts, Readings, Conversation regarding Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro Harlem Stage, 150 Convent Ave 7:30-9pm. $15. Featuring Carl Hancock Rux, Woodie King, Jonathan McCrory, Trezana Beverley, and actors Stephanie Berry, Toussaint Jeanlouis, Shayvawn Webster (those last two are exemplary graduates of our ASU Theatre program!). info

APRIL

2 DBR LAB National Sawdust. 5pm. Young artists from Daniel Bernard Roumain's Arizona State University collaborative lab. Emerging talent and guest artists (one of whom is me!). For two years I co-taught this lab with Daniel. Always challenging and exciting stuff.

6 PASSING new dances from Jonah Bokaer Choreography. 7:30pm FIAF/Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St. (212) 355-6160

21-22 BALLET DE LORRAINE/MIGUEL GUTIERREZ: CELA NOUS CONCERNE TOUS. We don't get nearly enough opportunities to see Miguel's work, so here is one! Skirball Center

28-May 6 ARCHIVE OF DESIRE a festival inspired by the poet C.P. Cavafy and curated by National Sawdust's Paola Prestini for the Onassis Foundation NYC. "performances, digital art presentations, short film screenings, poetry readings, literary discussions, a visual rave, and many more live events"

MAY

cont. through May 6 ARCHIVE OF DESIRE a festival inspired by the poet C.P. Cavafy and curated by National Sawdust's Paola Prestini for the Onassis Foundation NYC. "performances, digital art presentations, short film screenings, poetry readings, literary discussions, a visual rave, and many more live events"

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