This is the story of a woman who took no for an answer and went on to prove an old society and a male world wrong. This is the story of a woman who dedicated her life to the others. This is the story of the first woman in the world to get in 1678 a doctorate. This is the story of Elena Cornaro Piscopia.
Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson is about the unlikely meeting of two stranded individuals, one stranded by nature and one by pattern, and their time spent together in the middle of an Alaskan blizzard.
Theaterlab Presents Like a Drawing, a performance that explores the essence of spontaneity and instant expression through the fusion of action painting and music, featuring the collaborative talents of Ikue Mori and David Watson. In this performance, music and painting intertwine as the artists respond to sounds and noises while creating art. The artists utilize their entire bodies, sometimes dripping or even throwing paint, in an exploration of primal states, intrinsic understanding, and the pursuit of beauty and truth.
TLab Shares Hosts Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble Presents In the Eye of a Dream Choreographed by Anna Sokolow Directed by Samantha Géracht The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble presents a new immersive production of Anna Sokolow’s tributes to painters Frida Kahlo and Rene Magritte. In “Frida,” an intimate portrait based on Sokolow’s personal relationship with Frida Kahlo, Sokolow created […]
Theaterlab Presents: Ghosts and the Body Theater Written & Performed by Jolene Noelle November 3 @ 6:30pm November 5 @ 5pmTickets: $7 Ghosts and the Body Theater is a performative lecture by Dramaturg Jolene Noelle investigating the question: Why do so many hauntings occur in theatrical spaces? Examining live/unlive bodies within performative spaces where the physical and […]
Theaterlab Presents: The Mill Company’s Come Here To Me Written by Dianne Nora Directed by Jaclyn Biskup Aoife, a young Irish woman, and Grace, her American roommate, travel together from their home in Dublin to London, pursued by a ghost. Set in October 2018, this play offers a glimpse into the time after […]
Presented at Theaterlab as a part of Prelude 2023 What a World! What a World! By Eric Marlin Directed by Ilana KhaninPerformers: Nia Farrell and Annie HoegDramaturg: Luke Daniel White Stage Manager: Hannah Applebaum Two actors work their way through an old melodrama. It’s not going very well. They can’t figure out what works […]
The Atelier @ Theaterlab | First Look Series Cellunova Productions Proudly Presents: Cellunova One-Act Staged Reading Festival Performance Dates/Times: Oct. 13 @ 8pm Oct. 14 @ 3pm and 8pm Oct. 15 @ 3pm Performance in the Atelier Join us on a 3-day theatrical metamorphosis at Cellunova’s first-ever One-Act Staged Reading Festival, running from October 13th to […]
Theaterlab Presents Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks’ Suddenly Delay, After Shockwave Delay Vol. 1 Actor: Jim Fletcher Musician: Jason Kao Hwang Choreographer/Dancer: Ursula Eagly, Emily Pope, Kathryn Ray, Wendy Perron, Sarah Skaggs, Miriam Parker, Mizuho Kappa Visual Artist: Tim Clifford, Kelly Bugden & Van Wifvat Composer: Robert Black (1956-2023) “Suddenly […]
Theaterlab’s signature festival returns to celebrate the miniature in every form. This year, we’re curating a whimsical lineup of artists to explore magic, illusion, and moments of transformation. Featuring a marionette puppeteer, a opera singer-turned-magician, a poetic and visual generation machine, a transformative ghost lecture, a private mirror installation for one, digital / physical mapping performance, an interactive sculpture, and much more, all culminating in a audience participatory wish making ceremony, this festival will explore the magic of the unknown, the curious, and the remarkable.
Theaterlab Presents: Nathan Davis – Neutral Buoyant – album release concert All Music By Nathan Davis Nathan Davis – bowed psaltery and electronics Liz Liguori – light sculpture Additional film by Monica Duncan Neutral Buoyant – an immersive album release concert by Nathan Davis, with new works that divine and magnify the bowed […]
TLab Shares Hosts Object Lesson Written and Performed by Brea Glosson Directed by Rachel Sabo-Hedges Produced by Next Stop Creatives Object Lesson is a poignant and witty reflection on childhood, high-control religion (cults), and reproductive rights. This solo show is written and performed by Brea Glosson, who was born and raised in a homeschooling evangelical Christian […]
Joseph is memorizing Homer’s Odyssey in the original Ancient Greek and creating solo performances of individual books with the ultimate aim of performing the entire poem as a large-scale, 24-hour solo performance. He presents the text without simultaneous English translation, encouraging the audience to trust their intuition and fall into […]
TLab Shares Hosts The Checkovians Presents The Cherry Orchard Written by Anton Chekhov Directed by Ermete De Boni and Emely de Paiva Presenting a new approach to Anton Chekhov’s last play The Cherry Orchard. The play revolves around an aristocratic Russian landowner who returns to her family estate and well-known cherry orchard just before […]
TLab Shares Hosts Rose Kanj: Loving Me Written and Performed by Rose Kanj Directed by Clara Tristan Rose Kanj shares her personal journey of self-love in her autobiographical cabaret told through silly yet vulnerable anecdotes and the songs- familiar favorites and originals alike- that have shaped the imperfect human she is today. Performance Date: […]
Theaterlab Presents Haptic Drift x Public Visual, two evenings of live sonic and visual explorations curated by Testu Collective and Toru Izumida. Each night, a different lineup of international artists from Japan, South & North America will create sound and visuals live, using technologies that allow the digital and the organic to coexist. Generative code art, modular synth music, live field recordings and led animation machines are among the unique modes of technology used by each artist to explore patterns in nature, organic lifeforms, physics and brainwaves.
Tlab Shares Hosts: A Street Kid Collective Production Borderless Written and performed by Peter-William Jamieson Directed and dramaturged by Christie Koppe August 10 – 20 Performances: Preview : Thursday, August 10th 2023 @ 7:30PM Friday, August 11th 2023 @ 7:30PM Saturday, August 12th 2023 @ 3:00PM & 7:30PM Sunday, August 13th 2023 @ 5:00PM […]
TLab Shares Hosts LIGHTS, CAMERA, DRAG! A DRAG MOVIE NIGHT Presented by HOUSE OF GAM Featuring Special Performance by Prima Love Shantay, you’ll want to stay! On August 5th at 6:30 , join us for our first ever DRAG MOVIE NIGHT presented by House of Gam! Join us for a special screening of “To Wong Foo, Thanks […]
TLab Shares Hosts Moonlake Productions A Perfect Ganesh Written by Terrence McNally Directed by Amanda Kate Joshi The pilgrimage tradition is turned on its head when two outwardly unremarkable middle aged lady friends throw themselves into a rousing tour of India, each one having her own secret dreams of what the fabled land of […]
TLab Shares Hosts FONTWALA: A Solo Play in English Written and Performed by Shubhra Prakash Directed by Marcus Yi “For many languages, the journey from paper to screens has not been a simple one, there have been many struggles on the way to the digital realm, I want to tell one such story through my […]
Theaterlab Presents the bi-monthly performance series “THINGS TO COME” returning to the Garment District for a third installment on July 13. Curator Jack Meriwether continues their vision of bringing together emerging and established voices in the New York performance world for an evening of experimentation, community, and play. The series is excited to invite the choreographer Sharleen Chidiac (co-founder, Pageant), poet The Friend (The Late Parade, Liveright), performer Ruby McCollister, and harpist Samantha Feliciano to Theaterlab’s iconic Gallery Space.
TLab Shares Hosts Almost 13 Written by and starring Joan Kane Directed by Bruce A! Kraemer Peformances on: July 9th, 3pm July 10th, 7pm These are the memories of a young girl’s hot, sweaty summer in Brooklyn. Can she survive being caught between a disintegrating family at home and racial violence on the streets? All […]
TLab Shares Hosts Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. Written by Alice Birch Directed by Manuela Romero You are expected to behave.. Use the right words. Act appropriately. Don’t break the rules. Just behave. This play is not well behaved. Performance Dates Times: Thursday and Friday July 6-7 @ 7:00 pm Saturday July 8 @ […]
TLab Shares Hosts Opera Stuffa Op.2 : Puffed and Reckless Costume and Sets by Allison Morgan; starring Mezzo Perri di Christina Pianist: Olga Volkova Allison Morgan’s fantastical costumes and soft sculptures set the stage for an immersive opera performance, with Mezzo Perri di Christina and Pianist Olga Volkova performing a medley of arias. […]
TLab Shares Hosts A Smoking Mirror Theatre Production Shakespeare’s Prisons: Tales of Conscience and Illusion Written by William Shakespeare Conceived, produced, and directed by John Gordon and Nancy Rich Featuring : Martin Challinor, Soraya Dabdoub, Brian Jennings, Julia Klinestiver, Gregory Kowlessar, Anna Marzullo, Bellamy Woodside Ridinger, Mira Singer A theatrical collage of select scenes […]
Theaterlab Presents the bi-monthly performance series “THINGS TO COME” returning to the Garment District theater for a second volume on May 18. Curator Jack Meriwether continues their vision of bringing together emerging and established voices in the New York performance world for an evening of experimentation, community, and play. The series is excited to invite the poets Ariana Reines (A Sand Book, Tin House)and Wo Chan (Togetherness, Nightboat), music duo DAYS (Ethan Philbrick on cello and Ned Riseley on vocals), dance artist Tess Dworman, and conceptual artist Yoshiko Chuma to Theaterlab’s iconic Gallery Space.
Theaterlab & Cherry Lane Alternative present LET ME COOK FOR YOU | The Trilogy Written and performed by Orietta Crispino Directed by Liza Cassidy Produced by Molly Shayna Cohen April 28 – May 28, 2023 Tickets $35-$65 HERE Please use this link to purchase multiple tickets and activate a bundle discount. Let Me Cook […]
TLab Shares Hosts Hamlet Written by William Shakespeare Co adapted by Jacob Sexton and Max Singer Directed by Jacob Sexton Peformances on: April 26th and 27th @7:00 PMApril 29th @ 3:00PMApril 30th 2023 @ 1:00PMMay 3rd and 4th @ 7:00PM To see or not to see – that is your question. Darkness looms […]
TLab Shares Hosts Bulletproof Unicorn is a dark comedy from this ray of sunshine about drunks, guns, and God in America. Texas, July 2021. Armed with nothing but unicorn magic, Stacie Burrows tries to save her kids from her dysfunctional family, a murderous drunk brother, and far too many dead dogs in this one-hour solo dark comedy based on true events.
Theaterlab Presents THINGS TO COME, a new bi-monthly series bringing the emergent energy of underground performance to Theaterlab’s iconic gallery space in the Garment District. Curator Jack Meriwether is inviting an eclectic roster of performers, writers, and artists together for a salon-style, communal gathering of multidisciplinary, multigenerational experimentation. The goal is to create a space for generating ideas, connections, and social abundance.
Will you participate? Will you be manipulated? Will you listen? Will you really listen? With no rehearsals, no director, a different actor each night, and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on stage, internationally acclaimed White Rabbit Red Rabbit, by Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour, is an audacious theatrical experiment and a potent reminder of the transgressive and transformative power of theater.
HOTEL NEW WORK invites director Molly Shayna Cohen and playwright Matt Minnicino to delve deep into the new play wyrd. Minnicino’s play attempts to expand belief rather than suspend disbelief; from chasms opening in the floor to human memories contained in crushed grapes, the world is viscerally fantastic and richly immersive. This workshop will make use of interactive projections to […]
Theaterlab Presents Haptic Drift, curated by Testu Collective [Dan Tesene & Serena Stucke]. This series of intermedia performances focuses on multi-modal perception and exploration of the senses. Haptic Drift is part of Theaterlab’s Spring Season 2023 Rules Of Engagement, which will present a group of work that explores the many forms of relationship between artists and audiences in the post-pandemic world.
My Name Is Jennifer is a durational meditation on queer grief and ancestry. Inspired by the visual art and texts of David Wojnarowicz, the music of Arthur Russell, and an episode of MacGyver written by his AIDS-infected uncle in the 90s, Noah Crandell and team deconstruct the relationship between queerness and ephemerality in connection to the AIDS epidemic.
Motif is an experience focusing on real-time interaction and art making among people gathered in a common space. Up to four people use interface devices to create a shared audiovisual palette and craft a custom piece, each composition entirely unique to the individuals crafting it. The work explores art-making as a means of communicating between strangers and family alike, while delving […]