Milo Rau: Medea's Children
Children narrate and reenact a real criminal case woven with the Medea myth, a tragedy handed to the young to witness. Violent and mature, yet unexpectedly tender.
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Angélica Liddell: Seppuku
A rare appearance by Spanish artist Angélica Liddell, who takes on Yukio Mishima in a ritual-rooted piece made with Japanese collaborators, closer to an ordeal than a performance.
Hannah Ishizaki, Chiori Miyagawa, and Mark Campbell: A Thousand Generations
Hannah Ishizaki is writing a one-act chamber opera in 11 scenes, retelling the folk story The Crane's Gratitude for three vocalists, chamber ensemble, and electronics.
CBH Talk | Forgotten History: The Brooklyn Theater Fire of 1876
An author talk and book discussion on a playhouse fire that destroyed one of the city's most prominent theaters in half an hour and killed nearly 300 people.
Emily Wells - Mirror Father - a workshop performance
Emily Wells's opera, years in the making, in workshop form: a "mirror father" and the phantom daughter he dreams of compare queerness, art, and why neither chose a child.
Romeo Castellucci: Bros
Men pulled off the street, none of them actors, wear police uniforms and obey orders fed through hidden earpieces. The result is a slapstick, unsettling farce about obedience.
Saturday Salons
Artists, writers, musicians and performers show works-in-process, and the rougher and stranger the better. Jennifer Krasinski curates a lineup with Trinie Dalton and Sibyl Kempson.
AUNTS The hAUNTing
An artist-run performance platform stages its first haunted house, a Halloween experiment from a collective that treats art as something that can happen anywhere, from basements to dance floors.
makemake presents: Wholly Unwinding (A New Musical) - NYC Premiere
A new musical that's part folk concert, part immersive ritual, part dance party, turning scars into songs. Come ready to move and sing as the audience becomes fellow travelers.
broken (iteration III- for LIC)
A Norwegian duo's farewell to stages, made after they lost their own venue. This version is reworked for The Chocolate Factory Theater and left open, with no set story to follow.
Findlay // Sandsmark broken (iteration III- for LIC)
A farewell piece made as the artists lost their own venue, and a quiet goodbye to stages that disappear. It offers no narrative or stated idea, just an open frame to experience.
Minor Theater: Pity Whore
Julia Jarcho runs the Jacobean shocker 'Tis Pity She's a Whore into the present, with a waitress, her sad brother at college, and humor from somewhere unhinged.
Pizza or A Door In The Dark Does Not Dance or The Meaning of Life
A chamber opera that starts as a pizza party, then a dying guest vanishes and opens a door to ghosts with unfinished business. Small in scale, intimate, irreverent, and aching.
Blood Be Sweet
A poetic ritual drama by Abigail C. Onwunali, directed by Obie Award winner Awoye Timpo, moving between the seen and unseen, duty and defiance, sacrifice and survival.
Bosco: The Black Parade Drag + Burlesque Show
Drag and burlesque share one bill in a show built around The Black Parade, with Bosco at the center. A night of live performance at Saint Vitus.
Charlie Bardey Presents The Hearth's Promise Part III Crawling of the Vine
A new chapter in Charlie Bardey's serialized Hearth's Promise project, subtitled Crawling of the Vine. Part III of an ongoing story, so a natural pick for anyone who caught the earlier parts.
