NY Theatre week of March 4th - March 10th |
The poet sits at a wooden booth, scribbling his heart onto countless pads of sliced up trees. Fishing the abundant stream of words in his head, he looks up from his pen, but the stream flows too quickly. Again back in he dives, ink surges in fluid rhythms as it meets questions along its course. He can no longer hear the outside world for the gushing sound of his own creation, swirling, wandering, rushing forth. From where the steady stream began, he knows not, nor where it will end. Soaked in stimulation, he is content to travel the collage of his mind piecing together feeling and meaning as he goes.
It is hard to live in New York, to walk these streets, to visit these cafes and not hear the brilliant art flowing through the hearts and minds of artists from nearly every discipline one could imagine. Young or old, their creativity so pervasive, so loud it knocks on the outer walls of their being and actually seeps into the ears of random passers-by...without the utterance of a single word. Lost...or perhaps found in their own beautiful, colorful, inner symphony of creation, they fashion our tomorrows. This week, MAMA recommends we all take out a blank slate, a bold pen, dive in and see where the river takes us! There is Drama in YOU! Go to the Theatre!
Love,
MAMA
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THEATRE MAMA SHOW DISTRIBUTION - WEEK OF MARCH 4
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138 West 48th Street @ Cort Theatre
open run
Tickets $42.50 - $126.50
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Starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson.
In A View From the Bridge, Arthur Miller's most passionate drama, Liev Schreiber will play Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman obsessed with his 17-year-old niece Catherine, played by Scarlett Johansson. When Catherine falls in love with a newly arrived immigrant, Eddie's jealousy erupts in a rage that consumes him, his family, and his world.
For tickets, please call 212-239-6200 or buy online now! 
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246 West 44th Street @ St. James Theatre
From March 24, 2010 - Open Run
Tickets $32.00 - $127.00
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American Idiot follows the exhilarating journey of a new generation of young Americans as they struggle to find meaning in a post-9/11 world, borne along by Green Day's electrifying score. This high-octane show includes every song from the acclaimed album American Idiot, as well as several songs from the band's Grammy-nominated new release, 21st Century Breakdown.
For tickets, please call 212-239-6200 or buy online now!
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59 East 59th Street @ 59e59 Theaters
February 23, 2010 - March 21, 2010
Tickets $35
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SPECIAL for 20% off on all shows before March 8. Call for discount.
In Franco's 1960's Spain, an Israeli scholar is detained for stealing a confidential Inquisition file. An interrogation follows, reviving the story of Spanish priest Andres Gonzalez (1446-1486), whose faith is tested when he finds himself in love with a Jewish woman.
"Conviction," with a wonderful double-entendre for its title, manages to broach this incendiary chapter as a surprisingly entertaining time-traveling mystery wrapped inside a profound love story.” John Moore, THE DENVER POST
See www.convictiononstage.com for more info.
For tickets, please call 212-279-4200 or buy online now!
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57th Street and 7th Avenue @ Carnegie Hall
March 21, 2010 - March 21, 2010
Tickets $36 - $109
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ONE NIGHT ONLY!
LANG LANG, MAESTRO CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH AND THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA ARE LAUNCHING THEIR NORTH-AMERICAN TOUR WITH A CONCERT TO BENEFIT THE CHILDREN OF HAITI.
On Sunday, March 21st at 8:30 p.m., the legendary conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra will join Lang Lang at Carnegie Hall for a benefit concert aiding UNICEF in their efforts to bring relief to the children surviving the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Maestro Eschenbach and Lang Lang had scheduled a 21-city North American tour celebrating their decade-long artistic collaboration, but when the devastating news of the earthquake broke, the artists felt compelled to bring their concert to New York for one night to support UNICEF's efforts in Haiti.
Participating artists have donated their fees for the evening to UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund. Children make up some 50 per cent of the Haitian population. The program for the evening features Beethoven’s "Leonora No. 3" Overture, Op. 72a; Mozart’s Piano concerto No. 17 in G Major, K.453; Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 (Classique) in D Major, Op. 25 and Piano concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26.
For tickets, please call 212-247-7800 or buy online now!
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222 West 45th Street @ Booth Theatre
open run
Tickets $36.50 - $116.50
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The most talked about new show on Broadway is Next to Normal - the acclaimed, groundbreaking musical "that pushes Broadway in new directions" (Rolling Stone). With a thrilling contemporary score, Next to Normal is an emotional powerhouse of a musical about a family trying to take care of themselves and each other.
For tickets, please call 212-239-6200 or buy online now!
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450 West 37th Street @ Jerome Robbins Theatre of the Baryshnikov Arts Center
March 10, 2010 - April 25, 2010
Tickets $45, $20 rush
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The Wooster Group's North Atlantic takes a satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture during the late Cold War period, after Vietnam and before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The work follows an international peacekeeping force on an aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic, tracing the cultural and sexual dynamics that rise to the fore as they carry out their top-secret mission. Written expressly for the company by James Strahs in 1982, North Atlantic joined a series of Wooster Group works rooted in American themes and told in the rhythms of the American vernacular—works based on texts by Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill and Gertrude Stein. North Atlantic plays with nostalgia for the analog (pre-digital) 1980s through slang, song and dance. Featuring Ari Fliakos, Frances McDormand, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk, and special guest artists Steve Cuiffo, Koosil-ja Hwang, Paul Lazar, Zachary Oberzan, Jenny Seastone-Stern, and Maura Tierney.
$20 rush tickets available at the JRT Box Office one hour before show
For tickets, please call 212-868-4444 or buy online now!
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150 First Avenue @ PS 122
February 20, 2010 - March 21, 2010
Tickets $20, $15 (students/seniors)
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"[Radiohole] turns out effervescent, anarchic work... cultivates an eccentric acting style and makes familiar text creepily bizarre." -Time Out
Known for its radical and reckless theatricality, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s potboilers and Milton's epic Paradise Lost. Our heroine is an all- American "Eve" who must save her home from an evil-doer while struggling to find fulfillment in a lasting relationship with a supposedly good man who looks like god. Radiohole's newest synthesis of cultural flotsam is sure to be bawdy, silly, possibly transcendent, and a touch disturbed.
For tickets, please call 212-352-3101 or buy online now!
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108 East 15th Street @ Vineyard Theatre
March 10, 2010 - April 04, 2010
Tickets $70
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From the legendary songwriting team of KANDER & EBB (CABARET, CHICAGO, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN), THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS is a stirring new musical that explores the infamous 1930’s ‘Scottsboro Case’, in which a group of innocent African-American teenagers are falsely accused of a terrible crime — ultimately provoking a national outrage that sparked the American Civil Rights movement. With a book by DAVID THOMPSON (STEEL PIER), Tony Award-winner SUSAN STROMAN (THE PRODUCERS) directs and choreographs a stellar cast led by Tony-winner JOHN CULLUM (URINETOWN), BRANDON VICTOR DIXON (THE COLOR PURPLE), and COLMAN DOMINGO (PASSING STRANGE) on The Vineyard’s intimate stage. Do not miss your chance to see the next major American musical from the Tony Award-winning VINEYARD THEATRE.
For tickets, please call 212-353-0303 or buy online now!
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177 MacDougal Street @ Manhattan TheatreSource
February 18, 2010 - February 28, 2010
Tickets $18
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THE WEIRD is a collection of six short pulp plays that riff on classic horror movies, urban legends, and comic book characters. They are linked together by themes of trust and the nature of relationships. Each short play takes archetypal characters from these well-known tales of terror and fantasy and throws them into more turmoil than the original creators could ever have imagined. In The Ten Minute Play About Rosemary's Baby, Rosemary must cope very quickly with her husband's betrayal while carrying the spawn of Satan. Insect Love teaches us that mad scientists have a difficult time asking people out too. Morning Becomes Olestra is a cautionary tale for any woman considering cheating on her husband, especially with a vampire. Anything can happen when the horrors of love are mixed up with the horrors of the supernatural, but one thing is for sure, no one is going to make it out alive.
For tickets, please call 401-368-0429 or buy online now!
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619 Lexington Avenue @ York Theatre Company
open run
Tickets $67.50
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Set during World War II, Yank! chronicles the romantic relationship between two servicemen long before don't-ask-don't-tell was part of the national discussion. With a lively score inspired by the pop sounds of the 1940s, Yank! captures the spirit and exuberance of the era even as it explores questions of prejudice, courage and survival. It tells the story of Stu—a photographer for Yank magazine—and Mitch, an Army Private, who fall in love and struggle to survive in a time and place where the odds are stacked against them.
For tickets, please call 212-935-5820 or buy online now!
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| LOVE NEVER DIES |
MAMA just stil can't believe that the glorious Phantom of the Opera has a sequel, LOVE NEVER DIES. Check out Playbill's photos of the World Premiere - MAMA cannot wait until this one jumps the big pond! |
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| VENUS ON BROADWAY? |
It looks like Walter Bobbie's VENUS IN FURS is seducing big name producers as well as NY audiences. A Broadway run looks like it could be on the table....well done! |
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