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THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

Whiskey River

Written and Directed by JC Augustin
Produced by Tortas y Tacones

November 17 – 27, 2022
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM,  Sunday at 3:00 PM
Running Time: 50 minutes
Tickets $15 – Box Office (212) 254-1109
No show on Thanksgiving

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
CABARET THEATER

When Jonathan realizes his friend Jose’s run out, he engages trusty Jameson to escape the city noise and take a trip down river. On the journey they confront desire and delusion. Suddenly a head-hunter arrives to collect a debt long past due. Whiskey River is a dark comedy that explores the spirit’s end.

Featuring
Jay W. Walker
Miss Marie
T. Scott Lilly

COVID Protocol:
As of September 26th, 2022, we are no longer requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for our audience upon entry.
Wearing of masks is suggested in the lobby, restrooms and performance spaces at Theater for the New City, but they are not required.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Is Pleased to present

The 23rd Annual Holiday Performance of

TIMES SQUARE ANGEL

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

BREAD + PUPPET

Ophelia & The Apocalypse Defiance Circus

December 8 – 18, 2022
Tickets $18, Students, Seniors, Children $12

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
JOHNSON THEATER

Bread and Puppet requires the audience to wear masks for all performances.

Ophelia & The Anti Apocalypse Rally Shows: December 8 – 11
Run Time: 90 minutes
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM,  Saturday at 1:00 PM & Sunday at 3:00 PM

The Apocalypse Defiance Circus: December 14 – 18
Run Time: 60 minutes
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM,  Saturday & Sunday at 3:00 PM

In Ophelia, the mysterious Ophelia is not an attachment to Hamlet, but the center around which all other elements spin,
death, ghost, king, and population, all of them puppets, cardboard giants or dwarves. Only Ophelia is real, played by director Peter Schumann’s grandson and frequent B&P collaborator, 13-year-old Ira Karp. Following “Ophelia,” there will be a performance of “The Anti Apocalypse Rally Show”, a collaboration between Idith Korman’s Ensemble-Pi and Peter Schumann developed this fall in Vermont. Korman and Ensemble-Pi have collaborated on multiple projects with Bread and Puppet Theater over the last 5 years including “The Honey Let’s Go Home Opera” which performed at the World Puppet Theater Festival in Charleville-Mézières, France and at Theater for the New City in 2018 and 2019.

The following week Bread & Puppet will present The Apocalypse Defiance Circus, a rollicking spectacle of protest and celebration. The 60-minute show addresses the heart of the current moment with a bright barrage of acts spanning many moods, from slapstick to the sublime, all powered by a riotous brass band. Help is provided by stilt-dancers, blue horses, paper maché clouds and tigers. Building on the tradition of the Circus as spectacle for the people, performed in the round, and somehow encompassing the ecstasy, sadness and absurdity of the world as a whole, Bread & Puppet’s circuses have become an iconic form in their own right, 51 years running!
After each show, Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.

BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER
The Bread & Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick. Believing that theater is a basic necessity like bread, the company frequently brings its work to the streets for those who may not otherwise go to the theater. Its shows are political and spectacular, with puppets often on stilts, wearing huge masks with expressive faces, singing, dancing and playing music.
Bread & Puppet is recognized throughout the world and has won distinction at festivals in Italy, Poland, Colombia, and Yugoslavia, beginning with their break-out performances at the 1968 Nancy Festival in France. Notable awards include the Erasmus Prize of Amsterdam, 4 Obies, the Puppeteers of America’s President Award, and the Vermont Governor’s Award. Bread and Puppet regularly tours Europe, Canada, and the United States and has recently visited El Salvador, Haiti, Russia, and Korea.
Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side, the theater has been based in the North East Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s and is one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-supporting theater companies in the country.

Image and text crediting:
● Ophelia poster photo by Mark Dannenhauer
● The Apocalypse Defiance Circus poster image by Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet Press
● Out-of-Joint Hamlet photo by Greg Cook, June 2018.
● The Apocalypse Defiance Circus photo by Raphael Royer, August 2022.
● Archival photo by Ron Simon.
● About Bread and Puppet section based on the Biography of Bread and Puppet that accompanies the Bread and Puppet
Archives at the University of Vermont, Burlington. Full text here: http://cdi.uvm.edu/findingaids/collection/bredpupt.ead.xml
● Learn more about Bread and Puppet Theater at breadandpuppet.org

COVID Protocol:
As of September 26th, 2022, we are no longer requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for our audience upon entry.
Bread and Puppet requires the audience to wear masks for all performances.

@theater_for_the_new_city Theater for the New City is hosting the spooky, spectacular Halloween Ball and Costume Contest this Halloween, October 31st🎃 There will be shows the whole day going until midnight, but for now, enjoy this dance while you wait😈#theaterforthenewcity #TNC #theater #nyc #Halloween #costume ♬ original sound – Theater_For_The_New_City

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY’S VILLAGE HALLOWEEN COSTUME BALL WILL BE HYBRID (INSIDE/OUTSIDE) THIS YEAR.

NEW YORK, October 1 — Theater for the New City (TNC) will emphasize Covid safety in this year’s Village Halloween Costume Ball, presenting a hybrid (indoor/outdoor) celebration on October 31 to delight its community, young and old, and to celebrate the creativity that comes with the season.  A large outdoor frolic will be held from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM on East Tenth Street between First and Second Avenues (or if it rains, in a big tent), featuring performances, a costume competition and dancing to swing and Latin bands. This will be followed by indoor performances from 8:00 PM to midnight in TNC’s large Johnson Theater. Admission will be free throughout the festival but donations will be gratefully accepted.

TNC has presented a Village Halloween Costume Ball annually since 1976. Traditionally, the celebration takes up every available inch (both floors) of TNC’s multi-theater complex at 155 First Avenue (the former First Avenue Retail Market building) and adjoining outdoor spaces. In 2020, due to the Covid shutdown, TNC’s Halloween tradition was maintained by presenting the entire event virtually. Last year, it was mounted entirely outdoors.  This year, TNC aims to capture the event’s intensity and traditional magic by bringing some of it back inside while maximizing Covid safety for both performers and attendees.  TNC has installed Verve Filters in its HVAC system to maintain good air quality in the theater.

You’ve heard of The Twist, The Mashed Potato, The Loco-Motion, The Fly?  As part of the afternoon’s musical events, TNC artists, in collaboration with costumed revelers from the neighborhood, will create a new dance for Halloween called “The Spotted Lantern Squish.”

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
(as of September 27)

OUTDOOR EVENTS

3:30 – 4:30 PM
Cobu Kids, Yip Harburg Rainbow Troupe, Glitter Kitty, Matt Angel & Rob Varkony, Whimsical Hips Belly Dance led by Carol Tandava, John Grimaldi (juggling with fire), Elizabeth Ruf.

4:30-5:45 PM
Dancing in the street with Art Lillard’s Heavenly Big Band, a 17 piece swing orchestra performing an extensive repertoire of songs from swing to samba to jazz ballad to bossa nova with a swinging singing soloist.

5:45-6:30 PM
Costume judging and prizes with the “Monsters and Miracles Costume Parade.” All costumed attendees are invited to march past a panel of celebrity judges.  Adult winners will receive one-year passes to TNC and a bottle of Prosecco; children get candy. Attendees will be judged in such categories as “Most Booster-Shot,”  “Most Testosteroned,” and “Most Inflationed.”  Emceed by T. Scott Lilly.

6:30-7:45 PM
Dancing resumes with Mr. Pablo’s Latin Dance Band, a five-piece fusion band mixing Salsa, Samba and Flamenco with Rock, Reggae and Funk.

7:45 – 8:00 PM
“The Red and Black Masque,” an annual Medieval ritual show written by Arthur Sainer, scored by David Tice and directed by Crystal Field which is performed by torchlight.  The audience will be invited to participate.

INDOORS – JOHNSON THEATER

8:00 PM TO MIDNIGHT
A succession of free, live, 10-minute performances staged in TNC’s Johnson Theater.  The growing list of performers includes F. Murray Abraham, Phoebe Legere, Penny Arcade, Cobu (all-female Japanese Taiko drumming and dance troupe), Peter Dizozza, Vinie Burrows (performing “The Tell Tale Heart”), The Witcherly Sisters, Zero Boy, Bina Sharif, Flamenco singer/dancer Inma Heredia, Danielle Aziza (performance artist), TNC Street Theater Company in an excerpt from “Teacher! Teacher! I Love You!,” Carol Tandava (Belly Dance), Peter Dizozza, Star 69, Wise Guise, Elisa Blynn, Ellen Steier, William Electric Black, Lei Zhou, Lissa Moira Scream Contest, Richard West.

BACKGROUND
Since its beginning in 1976, TNC’s Halloween extravaganza has been a point of origin for many of the City’s most original entertainers. Six full-length plays have grown out of playlets written for the fest and it is probable that the theatrical movement in Performance Art began there. It has been a launching pad for such formative artists as Paul Zaloom, Alice Farley, Bloolips, The Red Mole, Penny Arcade, Basil Twist and Alien Comic Tom Murrin.  Each year, many acts, skits, sketches, and skadoodles go on to become the basis of larger theater works. It is also interesting to note that TNC originated the Village Halloween Parade as part of its annual Halloween Ball. The procession wound its way through the Village from TNC’s second home at the corner of Jane and West Streets to Washington Square Park.

Theater for the New City (www.theaterforthenewcity.net) is located at 155 First Avenue, at the corner of East Tenth Street. Reservations are optional. The TNC box office number is (212) 254-1109.

COVID Protocol:
As of September 26th, 2022 , we are no longer requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for our audience upon entry.
Wearing of masks is suggested in the lobby, restrooms and performance spaces at Theater for the New City, but they are not required.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents:

the MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION OF:

THE WHITE BLACKS

EXTRA PERFORMANCES at 7:30 PM on NOVEMBER 30, DECEMBER 1 & 2

November 10 – 27, 2022 — Extension November 30, December 1 & 2
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM
Extra matinee performance Saturday, November 26 at 3 PM
No showtime on Thanksgiving Day, November 24
JOHNSON THEATER

Tickets
To have the most diverse and inclusive gathering possible, we are selling tickets at various price points.

• General Admission is $20
• If you need a little help to attend, choose our “Pay What I Can,” half-priced ticket.
• If you are able to help us pay the talented cast and crew while offsetting the cost for those who need a little help, choose a “Pay It Forward” option (with our gratitude.)
• Rush tickets at any price may be available at the Box Office 30 minutes before each show.

Each price is for one ticket/one seat only.

Ticket Options:
• Pay It Forward $100 (one ticket)
• Pay It Forward $50 (one ticket)
• General Admission $20 (one ticket)
• Pay What I Can $10 (one ticket)

Box Office (212) 254-1109

Two hours and 30 minutes; with an intermission

Theater for the New City is pleased to bring back for a MAINSTAGE SHOWCASE**:

Melanie Maria Goodreaux’s THE WHITE BLACKS: In 1970s New Orleans, a Black “Creole” family is torn apart by members who ‘pass for white’ while others build Black Power and the matriarch clings to racial ideals that are fading fast. Inspired by the playwright’s own family, the story offers an insider’s look at the common but largely untold story of Southern Creoles’— a culture proud of its Black heritage but plagued with grief over those  “passing” to flee racism and achieve status and opportunity. Love lives long here in the gumbo of acerbic wit, romance and pain, abandonment and longing, hiding, personal authenticity and the complexities of “coming home.”

Written and Directed by Melanie Maria Goodreaux

Cast
Justine J. Hall*
Kristina Rose King*
Marsha-Ann Hay*
Christine Sloan Stoddard*
Tiffany Adams
Christian Miranda
Hollie Harper
India Stachyra
Carlos Carrillo
Danielle Hauser
Dave Baez
Linda Greene
Anthony Harper
Albert Elias
Fernanda Garcia
Dan Kelley
Jonathan Duran
Stacey Griffin
Jada Bennett
Alex Yuille

*Appearing Courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
*Equity Approved Showcase

Behind the Scenes
Director – Melanie Maria Goodreaux
Stage Manager – Mollie Frankel
Set/Props – Lytza Colon
Lighting Design – Alex Bartenieff
Video/Projectionist – Dave Baez
Sound Design – Luke Santy
Costume/Styling- Devyn Mackey
Co-Producer – Mark Holloway
Co-Producer – Nadya Okamoto

Production Staff and Consultants
Bruce Morrow, Linda Greene, Anthony Harper, Justina Mejias, Greg Dove, Brian Sidney Bembridge, Janice Lowe, Mark Holloway, Nadya Okamoto, Diane Sullivan, Tim Fielder

COVID Protocol:
As of September 26th, 2022 , we are no longer requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for our audience upon entry.
Wearing of masks is suggested in the lobby, restrooms and performance spaces at Theater for the New City, but they are not required.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents:

TNC Street Theater Summer Tour “Teacher! Teacher! or PS I Love You”

August 6 – September 18, 2022

Free! In The Streets!
Saturday and Sundays @ 2 PM; Friday Performance in Coney Island @ 6:00 PM (full schedule below)

Writer and Director, Crystal Field
Composer, Peter Dizozza

Rip-roaring musical tours City’s streets, parks and playgrounds 
In parks, playgrounds and closed-off streets throughout the five boroughs.

Free to the public. Audience info (212) 254-1109
Runs 1:15. Critics are invited to all performances.
Photos are available at: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CRnVRWxkrKx6EaQZA
B-roll of past TNC street theater productions is available upon request.

NEW YORK – Theater for the New City‘s award-winning Street Theater Company will open its 2022 annual tour Saturday, August 6 with “Teacher! Teacher! or PS I Love You,” a rip-roaring original musical which tells the story of a struggling teacher in an underserved neighborhood who puts her life on the line for her kids. Free performances will tour parks, playgrounds and closed-off streets throughout the five boroughs through September 18. Book, lyrics and direction are by Crystal Field; the musical score is composed and arranged by Peter Dizoza. (Schedule follows at bottom of this document.)

“Teacher! Teacher! or PS I Love You” is the story of the heavy hand of history on two teachers and a beleaguered principal. These educators teach against the background of the January 6th attempted coup, the desperate war in Ukraine, the constant threat of gun violence and the terrible mistakes of the Supreme Court. They see a growing consciousness in their students and a desire to take action. The educators, who endure the dilemma of teaching standard lessons in a time of crisis, now face the prospect of being asked to carry a gun! Their students bring to the classroom the debates heard around the kitchen tables in their homes. The principal finds a place for activism in school through a vivid dream that is the turning point of the play. The musical also celebrates the joys of a good book report, the brilliance of a Mother’s Day poem, an eloquent essay blasting climate change, and the ultimate triumph of graduation.

The production will be staged with an elaborate assemblage of trap doors, giant puppets, smoke machines, masks, original choreography and a huge (9′ x 12′) running screen or “cranky” providing continuous moving scenery behind the actors. The company of 22 actors, ten crew members, two stage managers, three assistant directors and five live musicians (led by the composer at the keyboard) will share the challenge of performing outside and holding a large, non-captive audience. The music will vary in style from Bossa Nova to Hip Hop to Musical Comedy to classical Cantata. The play is a bouncy joyride through the undulations of the body politic, with astute commentary couched in satire, song and slapstick.

TNC’s free Street Theater productions are delightfully suited for family audiences, since complex social issues are often presented through children’s allegories, with children and neighborhood people as the heroes.

TNC Street Theater’s leading actor is and has been Michael David Gordon, a teacher and performer with Irondale Theatre Company who is also bandleader of a performance group which plays classic rock in the subways. In this year’s show, he plays the school principal.

Theater for the New City has mounted a new musical for a five borough tour each year since 1976. In 2020, in response to the Covid-19 lockdown, TNC’s Street Theater production, “Liberty or Just Us: a City Park Story,” was an oratorio that live streamed for an eight week, 14 performance run. Each performance payed tribute to the park or other location it had been originally scheduled for. The popular tradition returned to live, in-person performances last year with “Critical Care, or Rehearsals for a Nurse.”

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Author/director Crystal Field began writing street theater in 1968 as a member of Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia. She wrote and performed her own outdoor theater pieces against the Vietnam War and also curated and performed many poetry programs for the Philadelphia Public Schools. There she found tremendous enthusiasm and comprehension on the part of poor and minority students for both modern and classical poetry when presented in a context of relevancy to current issues. She realized that for poetry to find its true audience, the bonds of authoritarian criticism must and can be transcended. Her earliest New York street productions were playlets written in Philadelphia and performed on the flatbed truck of Bread and Puppet Theater in Central Park. Peter Schumann, director of that troupe, was her first NY artistic supporter.

In 1971, Ms. Field became a protégé of Robert Nichols, founder of the Judson Poets Theater in Manhattan, and of Peter Schuman, founder of Bread and Puppet Theater. It is an interesting historic note that “The Expressway” by Robert Nichols, directed by Crystal Field (a Street theater satire about Robert Moses’ plan for a throughway to run across Little Italy from the West Side Highway to the FDR Drive) was actually the first production of Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival. Nichols wrote street theater plays for TNC in its early years, but as time went on, wrote scenarios and only the first lines of songs, leaving Field to “fill in the blanks.” When Nichols announced his retirement to Vermont in 1975, he urged Field to “write your own.” The undertaking, while stressful at first, became the impetus for her to express her own topical political philosophy and to immerse her plays in that special brand of humor referred to often as “that brainy slapstick.” Her first complete work was “Mama Liberty’s Bicentennial Party” (1976), in honor of the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution.

Field has an associate’s degree in Dance from Juilliard and a BA in Philosophy from Hunter College.

Field has written and directed a completely new opera for the TNC Street Theater company each successive year. She collaborated for eleven years with composer Mark Hardwick, whose “Pump Boys and Dinettes” and “Oil City Symphony” were inspired by his street theater work with Ms. Field. At the time of his death from AIDS in 1994, he was writing a clown musical with Field called “On the Road,” which was never finished. One long-running actor in TNC street theater was Tim Robbins, who was a member of the company for six years in the 1980s, from age twelve to 18.

The Village Halloween Parade, which TNC produced single-handedly for the Parade’s first two years, grew out of the procession which preceded each Street Theater production. Ralph Lee, who created the Parade with Ms. Field, was chief designer for TNC’s Street Theater for four years before the Village Halloween Parade began.

Field has also written for TNC’s annual Halloween Ball and for an annual Yuletime pageant that was performed outdoors for 2,000 children on the Saturday before Christmas. She has written two full-length indoor plays, “Upstate” and “One Director Against His Cast.” She is co-founder and Artistic Director of TNC.

Composer Peter Dizozza is known for his simple, cheerful music with a Gershwinesque flair.  He began writing plays with music for La Mama’s Experiments Series in 1997 and became a regular composer for productions directed by George Ferencz. Among his TNC credits are his scores for Toby Armour’s plays “Aunt Susan and Her Tennessee Waltz” (2022) and “155 Thru the Roof” (2014). He appeared regularly in 2020-2021 in TNC’s weekly “Open ‘Tho Shut” walk-by theater productions, which demonstrated the theater’s ability to serve its neighborhood culturally during the lockdown. He has also provided scripts and scores for a wide range of independent projects of the Cinema VII collective including “A Question of Solitude” and “TentagatneT,” an experimental play produced by La MaMa in its Experimenta! 2007 Program.  His song settings include poems and texts by Shakespeare, T.S.Eliot and Thomas Hardy. He has accompanied plays by Maria Micheles (including “Night Park” at TNC), Leah Maddrie, Myron D. Cohen, Bruce Jay Friedman, Helen Slayton Hughes and Richard Vetere. He wrote an oratorio score for the legendary “Legs Like These,” Neil Ericksen’s adaptation of the myth of Atalanta.  He is a member of the Dramatist Guild, The Lambs Club and The New York Composers Circle and Chair of the New York City Bar Association Entertainment Committee.

SCHEDULE (AS OF AUGUST 5th)

Saturday, Aug 6 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN — Outside Theater for the New City at E. 10th Street & 1st Ave.

Sunday, Aug 7 @ 2:00 PM: BRONX — St. Mary’s Park, at East 147th Street and St. Ann’s Ave.

Saturday. Aug 13 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN — Turtle Park, 117 West 90th Street

Sunday, Aug 14 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN — Central Park Bandshell, 72nd Street Crosswalk

Friday, Aug 19 @ 6:00 PM: BROOKLYN — Coney Island Boardwalk @ W. 10th Street

Sat, Aug 20 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN — Abe Lebwohl Park @St. Marks Church, E. 10th St. & 2nd Ave.

Sunday, Aug 21 @2:00 PM: MANHATTAN — Jackie Robinson Park, W. 147th St. & Bradhurst Ave.

Saturday, Aug 27 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN — Washington Square Park

Sunday, August 28 @ 2:00 PM: QUEENS — Travers Park, 34th Avenue Between 77th and 78th Street

Saturday, Sept 10 @ 2:00 PM: BROOKLYN — Sunset Park, 6th Ave. & 44th Street

Sun, Sept 11 @ 2:00 PM: BROOKLYN — Ft. Greene Park, Myrtle Ave. bet. N. Portland Ave. & St. Edwards St.

Saturday, September 17 @ 2:00 PM: STATEN ISLAND — Tappen Park at Canal, Bay and Water Streets

Sunday, September 18 @ 2:00 PM: MANHATTAN — Tompkins Square Park at E. 7th St. & Ave A

TNC’s NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS SERIES

Theater for the New City

Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

A Song For Swans

A play by Edward Miller
Composer  –  Jackson Payne Brothers
Director  –  Robert Liebowitz
Assistant Musical Directors – Matthew Stephens and Alexander Barylski

Monday May 9, 7 PM
FREE
$5 Suggested Donation

The story focuses on the aspirations of two young men who meet in a mental hospital. The colorful people they meet inside and the two very different struggles they both are trying to overcome also drive the plot.

The lives of society’s forgotten population are explored in this new musical. Unforgettable characters do more than exist within such institutions: they strive for greatness, seek genuine connections, and struggle to find a place in the world…hoping to maintain their sanity.

CAST
Dustyn Chambers – Jake Friedman
Hunter Gathers – Zhenya Lebedev
Detective Douglass Trotter – Steven Sparrow
Dr. Ingrid Sharpe – Janice Lynn
Susannah – Sheer Lichtash
Daisy Chain – Ronni McAllister
Toby/Asriel – Michael Webb
Morgana – Kendall Grady
Barnabas – Arthur Kim
Tabitha – Valeria Almada
Narrator – Lauren Lyons

PRODUCTION
Musical Director – Stephen Cornine
Lyricist – Edward Miller

COVID Protocol:
As of August 17 2021, people 12 and older are required to show proof they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use by the FDA or WHO.
Starting January 29, 2022, children ages 5 to 11 must also show proof of full vaccination. They must show they have received at least one dose of a vaccine.

Proof of vaccination may include the NYC Vaccination Record, CDC Vaccination Card (or photo), Excelsior Pass or NYC COVID Safe App.

All patrons must be vaccinated in order to see shows. Please provide proof before purchasing and picking up tickets.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CRYSTAL FIELD

PRESENTS

A Healthy House

Written by Tom Diriwachter
Directed by Jonathan Weber

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Crystal Field, Executive Director, with
The LES Committee, Presents:

The 27^TH Annual LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS

FREE!!!

Memorial Day Weekend. MAY 27, 28, 29 2022 – Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. (btw 9th & 10th Street)
www.theaterforthenewcity.net, 212-254-1109

Click on the link to see the gallery online: https://www.artistasdeloisaida.org/alt/2022/05/24/l-e-s-festival-of-the-arts-exhibit/

FRIDAY EVENING IN THE JOHNSON – MAY 27
6:00 PM – TALENT DAVIS AND THE RESISTANCE BAND
6:32 PM – “AUNT SUSAN AND HER TENNESSEE WALTZ”
6:44 PM  – YIP HARBURG RAINBOW TROUPE
6:56 PM  – INFINITY DANCE THEATER, “CHANT”
7:08 PM – CHINESE THEATER WORKS
7:20 PM – ROD RODGERS DANCE COMPANY, “AFRICAN MEMORIES”
7:42 PM – SARAZINA STEIN
7:54 PM – THUNDERBIRD AMERICAN INDIAN DANCERS
8:06 PM – “BO” by G.C. Sullivan-WillieAnn Gissendanner
8:18 PM – DECEUS DANCE COMPANY
8:30 PM – OYU-ORO
8:42 PM – “SOME FELLAS STILL DON’T GET IT” by Peter Welch
8:54 PM – FACEBOY
9:06 PM – “A SAVING GRACE” by Lyle Kessler
9:18 PM – CITIZENS UNITED PROTEST BAND
9:30 PM – DAVID AMRAM
9:52 PM – CAROL TANDAVA
10:04 PM – SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKING LOT by The Drilling Company
10:16 PM – “THE COLONEL AND THE WOMAN TAKE TEA IN THE RUBBLE” by Lissa Moira
10:33 PM – ARTHUR ABRAMS
10:45 PM – MICHAEL VAZQUEZ
10:57 PM – ZERO BOY
11:09 PM – ROBERT GONZALES JR.
11:21 PM – THE DAME & BABE aka ALISA KILLZ AND LUIGI BABE

FRIDAY EVENING IN THE CABARET – MAY 27
6:36 PM – STAR ‘69
7:08 PM – “DRINKING MY OWN JUICE” by Alicia Foxworth
7:20 PM – “IS THERE A PULSE” by Gha’il Rhodes Benjamin
7:32 PM – LEI ZHOU
7:44 PM – DON ARRINGTON
7:56 PM – RICHARD WEBER
8:03 PM – LADY CLOVER HONEY
8:15 PM – “THE UNAMERICAN” by Claude Solnik
8:27 PM – DAWOUD KRINGLE
8:39 PM – PETER DIZOZZA
8:51 PM – MAUDE LARDNER BURKE
9:03 PM – MARY TIERNEY WORKSHOP
9:25 PM – EGO ACTUS, “ALMOST 13”
9:37 PM – MELANGE
9:49 PM – ARIANA JOHNS
10:01 PM – NELSON GONZALEZ
10:13 PM – “SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MARS & VENUS”
10:25 PM – STAN BAKER
10:37 PM – ORTENCIA
10:49 PM – “CHEESECAKE” by Darpan Joshi
11:01 PM – ELLEN STEIER
11:13 PM – DAVID W. JACOBSEN

SATURDAY AFTERNOON YOUTH PERFORMANCES
JOHNSON THEATER
COORDINATOR: DONNA MEJIA
HOSTED BY JOHN GRIMALDI
2 PM–4:30 PM – MAY 28
2:00 PM – “THE WIZARD OF OZ: A JAZZ MUSICAL FOR ALL AGES”
2:25 PM – COBU KIDS
2:16 PM – THE FUNIKIJAM SHOW
2:45 PM – MOVE.MAKE.BLOOM. DANCE STUDIO
3:15 PM – MICHAEL LEE, MAN OF MAGIC
3:30 PM – SWEDISH COTTAGE MARIONETTES
4:05 PM – MOVE.MAKE.BLOOM. DANCE STUDIO WITH CHOREOGRAPHY BY MICHELLE LAUREN SIEGEL

FILM PROGRAM 2022 – MAY 28
CABARET THEATER, 1 PM – 11 PM

SATURDAY EVENING IN THE JOHNSON – MAY 28
6:00 PM – mister pablo
6:32 PM – “LOVE SMART” by Justine J. Hall
6:44 PM – YUBO ZHONG
6:56 PM – LORCAN OTWAY
7:08 PM – BENNETT POLOGE
7:20 PM – E-DANCE
7:32 PM – JILL O’HARA
7:44 PM – KAORU IKEDA/MOUSTACHECAT DANCE, “WADATSUMI-THE VOICES FROM THE SEA”
7:56 PM – “A JOURNEY THROUGH PLAGUE AND WAR” by Barbara Kahn
8:08 PM – JUDY GORMAN
8:30 PM – WISE GUISE
8:42 PM – CHARLIE SUB & SOUND DOGS
8:54 PM – “HAMLET IN HARLEM” (selection) by Alberto Ferreras
9:06 PM – “I WILL LEAVE WHEN THE RAIN STOPS” by Bina Sharif
9:23 PM – TBA
9:30 PM – “A HEALTHY HOUSE” (excerpt) by Tom Diriwachter
9:42 PM – DAVID LEWIS
9:54 PM – HOLLIE HARPER
10:06 PM – BOBBIE HOROWITZ
10:18 PM – LOUISA BRADSHAW
10:30 PM – PETER DIZOZZA
10:42 PM – LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB
10:54 PM – ELISA BLYNN
11:06 PM – LEX AND THE CULT OF SPIRITS
11:18 PM – JON WEBER
11:30 PM – TERRY LEE KING as THE LEGENDARY AMAZ’N GRACE

SUNDAY EVENING IN THE JOHNSON – MAY 29
6:00 PM – COBU, “DRUM LIKE DANCING, DANCE LIKE DRUMMING”
6:32 PM – ART LILLARD QUARTET
6:49 PM – “SHOPPING BOOGIE” by Akiko
7:01 PM – NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE FOLKSBIENE, “GHETTO TANGO” (selections)
7:13 PM – MALACHY MCCOURT
7:25 PM – KINDING SINDAW
7:37 PM – JOHN GRIMALDI
7:49 PM – “TARANTALA-SPIDER DANCE”
8:01 PM – JONATHAN FOX POWERS
8:13 PM – ASHLEY LIANG DANCE COMPANY
8:35 PM – “FINISHED” by Anne Lucas
8:47 PM – KT SULLIVAN
9:01 PM – YARA ARTS, “SLAP!” (selections)
9:18 PM – “THE LAST PANDEMIC” (scene) by Eduardo Machado
9:35 PM – AUSTIN PENDLETON
9:47 PM – RICHARD WEST
9:59 PM – “NEW WORK IN PROGRESS” by Sabura Rashid
10:11 PM – 13TH STREET REP
10:23 PM – “SOMETIME CHILD”
10:35 PM – NEW YIDDISH REP
10:47 PM – VALERY OISTEANU
10:59 PM – “THE BALLAD OF IMMORAL EARNINGS”
11:11 PM – TYM MOSS
11:23 PM – AZIZA
11:35 PM – LE SQUEEZEBOX CABARET

SUNDAY EVENING IN THE CABARET
7:24 PM – JANE BYAELA
7:36 PM – MICHAEL LEE
7:48 PM – EVAN LAURENCE
8:00 PM – BOB HOMEYER
8:12 PM – LORETTA AUDITORUM
8:24 PM – JANE BYAELA
8:36 PM – MARY HURLBUT/ANDREW BOLOTOWSKY
8:48 PM – EVE PACKER
9:00 PM – BURNING CITY ORCHESTRA
9:12 PM – FROM SCRATCH PERFORMANCE COMPANY, “COLTRANE IN JAPAN” (excerpt) by Robert Liebowitz
9:24 PM – YUBO ZHONG
9:36 PM – “DARKNESS AFTER NIGHT” by Stephan Morrow
9:48 PM – PAOLA LEHMAN-CABRERA
10:00 PM – ELIZABETH RUF
10:12 PM – METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE, “I’M WAITING FOR MY MAN”
10:24 PM – ROMAN PRIMITIVO
10:36 PM – VICTOR VAUBAN, JR.
10:48 PM – TANYA SOLOMON
11:00 PM – ERIC KUZMUK

COVID Protocol:
As of August 17 2021, people 12 and older are required to show proof they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use by the FDA or WHO.
Starting January 29, 2022, children ages 5 to 11 must also show proof of full vaccination. They must show they have received at least one dose of a vaccine.

Proof of vaccination may include the NYC Vaccination Record, CDC Vaccination Card (or photo), Excelsior Pass or NYC COVID Safe App.

All patrons must be vaccinated in order to see shows. Please provide proof when entering the building.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CRYSTAL FIELD

PRESENTS

19TH ANNUAL

LOVE N’ COURAGE

Seats are currently limited in person at $200 per ticket
The event will also be streamed live for the same amount.

Event will be at THE PLAYERS, 16 Gramercy Park South

PROOF OF VACCINATION WILL BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ATTEND