October 1 - 18th

Hip-Hop Theater Festival

"The Hip-Hop Theater Festival is making an evident connection between the performers and the audience members, both of whose numbers are almost certain to grow. The atmosphere they have created is celebratory, a welcoming party for a language that hasn't often been heard in the theater their own." - Bruce Weber, The New York Times

 

 

 

 

October 27-November 21

New George's

and Page 73 Productions

CREATURE by Heidi Schreck

After being pestered by devils for more than half a year, Margery Kempe* – new mother, mayor’s daughter, and proprietress of a highly profitable beer business – is liberated from her torment by a vision of Jesus Christ in purple robes.

Visions are hard to come by, even in 1401.  Should we trust the new Margery, with her fasting and her weeping and her chastity fixation, or burn her with the other heretics?  Can a woman of insatiable appetites just up and audition for sainthood?

Playwright and OBIE-winning actor Heidi Schreck conjures a collision of contemporary and medieval imaginations: a very funny, a little bit scary new play about faith and its messengers.

December 3-29th

Working Man's Clothes Productions

SHE LIKE GIRLS

by Chisa Hutchinson

Inspired by the brutal murder of a fifteen-year-old lesbian in Newark, New Jersey, SHE LIKE GIRLS tells the story of two inner-city girls who gradually fall in love with each other in a dangerously homophobic climate.

 

SHE LIKES GIRLS recently received a workshop production as a part of the Lark's Playwright's Week, and landed Chisa a nomination for the prestigious Wasserstein Prize. It received a stage reading by Working Man's Clothes in May 2008, and a workshop production at the Ohio Theater in November 2008.

January

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

adaptated and directed by

Stephen Earnhart

Co-presented by The Asia Society and The Baryshnikov Arts Center

 

 

 

 

February

Fetes de la Nuit

by Chuck Mee

 

March 1-14

Soho Think Tank

TBA

March 15- April 18

Ma-Yi

Iph Then

By Michi Barall

Directed by Loy Arcenas

 

A postmodern dance-theatre adaptation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris.  Iph is 34 and stuck in a dead-end job.  Haunted by the past, her present situation offers little consolation: she's at the mercy of both a tempermental goddess and a barbarian king with a fondness for human sacrifice.  And she’s beginning to lose all hope of rescue.  

A contemporary story about loss, redemption, and the struggle for individual agency.  

 

April 19 - May 2

Soho Think Tank

TBA

           

     Ice Factory is our OBIE award winning summer festival.  The Ice Factory invests in the continued vitality of New York theatre by giving emerging artists and opportunity to experiment with works-in-progress in front of an audience (an especially helpful step in the development of physical, ensemble-based, and/or new forms of performance), and establish their profile with a broader audience.  We attempt to foster an environment of generosity, dialogue, and inspiration in which artists can take risks and try out new ideas, bringing their work to a new level.  And by bringing audiences into the final stages of work’s development, we educate and engage the public in the craft of theatrical art-making.