NY Theatre week of March 12th - March 17th |
Swaying to and fro to the music, they sit in the grass. Surrounded by friends and seedlings of conversations, they talk story. They ponder life's endless questions, postulating philosophy, while never losing the gentle beat. Together, they have found ease in their discussed disagreement, inspiration in their deference for continuing the flow in this swaying circle of friends.
The sprouts have broken ground in New York City and their peeking green petals taunt us with the coming of a time of new birth, a time of warmth, a time of awakening from our dormant Winter. Thoughts of Spring run rampant over the city as if everyone can already feel their toes in the green grass of Central Park. Despite our incredible man-made metropolis, together we still sway to nature's beat. This week, MAMA recommends we take time to listen for the rhythmic pulse that drives our city. In every heartbeat, in every aspiration, in every dream, in every living thing around us, a beat beckons us to the ball! Grab your partner by the hand. Go to the Theatre!
Love,
MAMA
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THEATRE MAMA SHOW DISTRIBUTION - WEEK OF MARCH 12
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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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74A East 4th Street @ La MaMa E.T.C.
March 26, 2010 - April 04, 2010
Tickets $15 ($10 student & senior)
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La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club presents Anthology, a collection of 3 bold and exceptional works from Mind The Art Entertainment. Encompassing musical theater, comedic looks at philosophy, and political performance art, these pieces seek not only to entertain, but also to challenge the status quo and rebel against your reality.
What If? Fridays, March 26 & April 2 @ 10pm What if Fiddler's To Life was set in a 1950s Cuban cigar lounge? What if The Sound of Music was belted out by a 1920s jazz vocalist? What if Jason Robert Brown wrote The Last 5 Years as a linear story Rock Opera?
DIE Saturdays, March 27 & April 3 @ 10pm Imagine, if you will, a world unencumbered by the stress of decision-making; a world where you never have to wonder if you made the ‘right’ decision. In this existential comedy, two roommates make this a reality by letting the roll of a DIE decide for them.
Under the Veil: Being Muslim & Non-Muslim in post 9/11 America Sundays, March 28 & April 4 @ 5:30pm Under the Veil is a provocative piece of political theater that investigates the stereotypes and racism imposed upon the Muslim-American community within New York City society.
For tickets, please call 212-475-7710 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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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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230 West 49th Street @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre
From November 23, 2009 - Open Run
Tickets $55-$122
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The critically acclaimed and award-winning musical Fela! moves to Broadway!
This new musical, based on the life of groundbreaking African composer, performer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Bill T. Jones, with a book by Jim Lewis and Jones.
In this revolutionary new musical, audiences are welcomed into the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Using his pioneering music (a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies), Fela! explores Kuti's controversial life as artist, political activist and revolutionary musician.
For tickets, please call 212-239-6200 or buy online now!
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226 West 46th Street @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
open run
Tickets $41.50 - $121.50
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In the Heights is the 2008 Tony Award winner for Best Musical.
With music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegria Hudes, the show is directed by Thomas Kail and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler.
In the Heights is a quintessential New York musical about a vibrant and tight-knit community at the top of the island of Manhattan. The music pulses with the hopes and dreams of three generations as they struggle to forge an identity in a neighborhood on the brink of transition.
For tickets, please call 212-307-4100 or buy online now!
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407 West 42nd Street (inside West Bank Cafe) @ Laurie Beechman Theatre
February 18, 2010 - April 24, 2010
Tickets $20
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"Electric... Ms. Finley hasn't lost the power to disturb," notes Ben Brantley in The New York Times. The First Lady of Performance Art Karen Finley brings icon Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis back to life in this unique look at history, style, trauma, femininity and the demands of being the First Lady. Using the structure of a lecture set in the present day, Jackie, one of the most photographed woman of her day, contemplates her life in pictures as she ruminates on Michelle Obama, Caroline's run for Senate, and the lasting impact of that fateful day on the grassy knoll in Dallas.
For tickets, please call 212-352-3101 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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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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256 West 47th Street @ Brooks Atkinson Theatre
open run
Tickets $66.00 - $137.50
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Nominated for 5 Tony Awards including Best Musical.
In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small town girl met a big city dreamer - and in LA's most legendary rock club, they fell in love to the greatest songs of the 80s. It's Rock of Ages, a hilarious feel-good love story told through the hit songs of iconic rockers Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Whitesnake and many many more. Don't miss this awesomely good time where big hair meets big dreams and the result totally wails.
For tickets, please call 212-307-4100 or buy online now!
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| SCREENS, BIG AND SMALL |
MAMA was intrigued by the NY Times article relating the increase in video projection in theatre with our everyday smartphone and internet use...so much so that Yale now offers a degree in projections for Theatre!
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| MORE GLEE FOR NYC! |
MAMA knows that Glee fans and theatre fans are pretty much the same, and the now-famed TV show is hitting the road and adding MORE dates to its NYC performances. Read about the tour and get up your chance to see Glee live! |
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