THE LATEST NEWS...

08.15.10

ARKTYPE BROCHURES HIT NEWSSTANDS!

By now your very own season brochure detailing the next two years of groundbreaking productions from around the world should have arrived. We look forward to discussing the work with you in the coming months.

Request the 2011-2012 ArKtype brochure HERE if we've missed you...

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FALL CONFERENCES!

ArKtype will be represented at the Western Arts Alliance and Arts Midwest conferences in the fall! We look forward to seeing you there.

Western Arts Alliance, Long Beach, CA, Booth #214

Arts Midwest, Indianapolis, IN, Booth #912

ArKtype’s calendar fills up quickly, and appointments are highly encouraged.

Please contact Alex Rosenberg at
alex@arktype.org to schedule an appointment.
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SEE CIRCA AT CINARS!

Australian new circus company CIRCA heads to CINARS 2010 in Montreal, Québec to showcase their latest work “Circa”! The performance will be on Friday, November 18 at 6pm at Place des Arts, Theatre Maisonneuve, 175, Sainte-Catherine Street West, Montreal, Québec H2X1Z8. Don't miss it!

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PHANTOM LIMB AWARDED MAP FUND GRANT FOR SUPPORT OF 69˚S

Phantom Limb’s 69˚S has received the Multi-Arts Production Grant for support of their groundbreaking new work co-conceived with Kronos Quartet.

69˚S includes an original score by Erik Sanko and recorded by Kronos Quartet, live glass orchestra by Miguel Frasconi, marionettes by Phantom Limb, choreography by Christopher Williams and Direction by Gia Forakis. An educational journey through Antarctic history past and present, 69˚S is an unprecedented multimedia collaboration for all ages.

69˚S is a co-commission of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, and The Arts Centre of Melbourne, Australia via residency development with the Victoria College of the Arts in October 2009.


Dates for the Fall 2011 U.S. tour are being booked now!
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AURELIA V. PRINCETON! SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 17!

Please join us for AURÉLIA'S ORATORIO at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, NJ, following on the heels of hugely successful runs at A.R.T., La Jolla Playhouse and Berkeley Rep.

News on Victoria Thierrée's new production for Aurélia: MURMURS, currently in development, will be coming soon.

Please forward ticket requests for the McCarter run HERE.

Don’t forget to check out upcoming tour dates at ArKtype’s home page for Rude Mechs, Superamas, TPO, Circa and more!

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RIAF IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!

The 2nd Edition of the Ringling International Arts Festival (RIAF) hits Sarasota, Florida October 13 - 17!

After last year's enormous success, RIAF is back with eleven stage productions in music, theater and dance, featuring artists from throughout Europe and North America. Artists include Mikhail Baryshnikov & David Neumann, Les Slovaks Dance Collective, Rubberbandance Group, John Jasperse & Co., Forman Brothers Theatre, Nilo Cruz, The Theater Art Studio, Andrew Dawson, Tim Fain, Sanda Weigl & The Takeishis and Kate Davis.

For more information and tickets visit ringlingartsfestival.org.

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KMA AT THE TATE WITH "CONGREGATION"
A NEW INTERACTIVE BALLET

Interactive pioneers KMA will open their most ambitious work to date, CONGREGATION, at the Tate Britain September 30 - October 2. The world’s first ever ballet designed, choreographed and composed entirely for pedestrian performers, CONGREGATION brings participants into a creation of their own devising, creating a choreography of light and sound in an embodied discourse.

A new commission for North American touring and upcoming dates are in the works. Stay tuned.

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RUDE MECHS TEAM WITH CTG/MARK TAPER FORUM!

Rude Mechs, received a commission for I’VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY from Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, made possible with a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With music and lyrics by Austin experimental punker Peter Stopschinski and book and lyrics by Kirk Lynn, INBSH is an exploration of the wild frontiers of gender, parenthood, and the west. A transmedia performance party that purposely defies definition, Rude Mechs invites you to experience a sort of western carnival. All this plus a dachshund race, three jokes about rope, a seven-piece band, eight singers, three video puppeteers, and a tiny dance team come together to create a wild west wonderland you’ll never forget.

Don’t miss the Rudes’ upcoming tour dates of THE METHOD GUN:

October 13-17, 2010: Emerson College (Boston, MA)
October 21-24, 2010: Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
February 23-26, 2011: Dance Theatre Workshop (New York, NY)
June 14-26, 2011: Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles, CA)

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07.04.10

AFTERMATH in UK and IRELAND!

Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s AFTERMATH begins performances this week at London’s LIFT Festival, presented in association with the Old Vic and Amnesty International, as well as the Galway Arts Festival. Touring of this extraordinary work continues in Europe in the Fall and Australia in Spring 2011. Additional dates as follows:


July 9 – 17 LIFT Festival, Old Vic Tunnels
July 19-25 Galway Arts Festival, Town Hall Theatre, Ireland
October 5 Le Manege, Maubeuge, France
October 7-9 MAC Creteil, France
October 18-21 Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Holland
October 25-31 ArtsEmerson, Paramount Theater, Boston, MA

Dates are filling fast for U.S. touring now being scheduled for Fall 2011! Book now!

Contact ArKtype for tickets to upcoming performances and promotional materials.
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WAA, AMW and CINARS!

Fall Conferences just around the corner! ArKtype will be attending the above conferences this season, and look forward to seeing you. Appointments are strongly encouraged. Contact Tommy Kriegsmann for appointments.

Look out for the ArKtype brochure arriving in the next two weeks with new projects to explore and consider for bookings in 2011-12.
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05.14.10

TPO in NYC - Sold Out!

“The thrills are constant! By performance’s end, the butterflies won’t be the only creatures to have undergone a major transformation.” - Time Out New York Kids

Two words: sold out! The NYC premiere of Farfalle is a huge success and T.P.O. finally conquered the New York audience. T.P.O. is the leading pioneer of interactive entertainment worldwide, thrilling audiences nationwide and redefining accessibility. This has quickly made them one of the most lauded and unique touring entities in North America. Awarded the Ade Art Digital Era prize, TPO’s stunning visuals immerse family audiences in “sensitive” theatrical environments, based in the use of interactive image and sound technologies in combination with live actors.

Farfalle takes audiences on a magnificent journey through a literal and symbolic story of a Butterfly’s life cycle. The story is “told” by two dancers moving inside a virtual landscape and at times, the spectator is invited to take part, to enter the scene, be enfolded by images which react to their gestures and movements. Beautiful botanical images and captivating rainforest sounds emerge from every direction when a simple stage morphs into a magical playground that responds—in real time—to the graceful movements of the dancers. Even bigger thrills come when young ones from the audience are invited to touch and explore the glowing, interactive garden themselves. The evolution from caterpillar to butterfly has never been so brilliantly staged.

Spring 2011 dates are still available!

Read the Time Out New York article on Farfalle - CLICK HERE.

More information available on www.tpo.it
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03.11.10

ATL HUMANA FESTIVAL PREMIERE! "THE METHOD GUN"

Created by Rude Mechs
Writen by Kirk Lynn
Directed by Shawn Sides
March 16-28, 2010
The Humana Festival
Actor's Theatre of Louisville
Louisville, KY
(March 17-20: Industry
Professionals’ Weekend)

“The Method Gun... is nothing short of the best work this theater collective has done in its 13 years as it has carved out its well-respected reputation on the international indie theater scene.” - Austin-American Statesman

Austin’s Rude Mechs bring their acclaimed work “The Method Gun” this month to The Humana Festival in Louisville for a limited two week run! “The Method Gun” explores the life, ethos, and techniques of actor-training guru Stella Burden of the 60s and 70s. Her technique The Approach fused Western acting techniques and more dangerous methods in an effort to infuse even the smallest of roles with sex, death and violence. Using found text from the journals and performance reports of Stella Burden’s company, “The Method Gun” re-enacts the final months of her company’s rehearsals for their nine-years-in-the-making production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The Rude Mechs promise: guns, pendulums, "Streetcar," and physical danger.

The Method Gun / a project of Creative Capital
The Method Gun is available for touring in Spring 2011
More information available on www.rudemechs.com
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WORLD PREMIERE! JAY SCHEIB: BELLONA, DESTROYER OF CITIES

After Samuel R. Delany’s epic science-fiction masterpiece Dhalgren

April 1 - 3 & April 8-10 2010
@ The Kitchen (NYC)





“Scheib may be the most acclaimed experimental American director whose work you have never seen." - TIME OUT NEW YORK

Following Untitled Mars, the critically-acclaimed, Obie Award-winning first installment of his trilogy: Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems, Jay Scheib adapts and directs Samuel R. Delany’s labyrinth world of sexual outlaws, amnesiac poets, and clandestine families. In Bellona, destroyer of the cities, Jay Scheib combines passages from the novel with original material, movement sequences, and live video to trace several intertwining plotlines driven by a group of characters with shifting identities. Set in a city after a cataclysmic event, Bellona, Destroyer of Cities expresses the intricate and at times abstract delineations of race, gender, and sexuality today.

The Kitchen's presentation of Bellona, Destroyer of Cities is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

“Bellona” is currently scheduling dates in
Europe and U.S. throughout the 2010-2011 season.

More information available on www.jayscheib.com
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U.S. PREMEIRE OF... 46 CIRCUS ACTS IN 45 MINUTES

BY PIONEER NOUVEAU CIRQUE AUSTRALIAN COMPANY CIRCA!

March 19 - April 4, 2010
@ the New Victory Theatre (NYC)

*** US DATES FOR
JANUARY – MARCH 2011 TOUR
STILL AVAILABLE! ***






“The combination of acts...together with likeable performers, audience participation and breathless pace, made for a greatly entertaining and highly-recommended family show." - The Argus, Brighton

46 Circus Acts in 45 Minutes is fast, furious, and fun for everyone. Acrobats bend, fly, juggle and balance to battle the clock. With the incessant mounting pressure of the clock, each act - some ironic, some anarchic, some plain silly and others awe-inspiring - crystallizes into a small but perfect moment. Featuring four cirque talents with expertise in such disciplines as aerial acrobatics, hand balancing, contortion and hilarious clowning, '46 Circus Acts in 45 Minutes' is a zany salvo of traditional and not-so-traditional circus stunts. Since 2004, Circa’s works redefine circus as a contemporary art form, embracing the innovative use of music, multimedia, interaction, improvisation and collaborations with exceptional artists. Circa has taken its vision of re-imagining circus to 16 countries and across five continents. Circa combines the physically impossible with a poetic sensibility.

“46 Circus Acts in 45 Minutes”
is available for touring in Spring and Summer 2011.

Also available: 61 Circus Acts in 60 Minutes, 31 Circus Acts in 30 Minutes

More information available on www.circa.org.au
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‘69S’ RESIDENCY at MassMOCA!

March 13 will see the first workshop showings of material developed over a two-week residency by Phantom Limb along with collaborators Phil Soltanoff, Christine Sciulli, Raz Mesinai and Miguel Frasconi. For additional details on catching this workshop showing, please CLICK HERE.

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OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED! “LEMONY SNICKET’S THE COMPOSER IS DEAD” TO PREMIERE AT BERKELEY REP IN FALL 2010!

Berkeley Rep has formally announced its 2010-2011 season, including the World Premiere of Phantom Limb’s adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s THE COMPOSER IS DEAD,” directed by Tony Taccone, featuring Geoff Hoyle and a masterfully designed marionette orchestra in a “whodunnit?” you and your family will not want to miss.”THE COMPOSER IS DEAD” tours the US under the guidance of Brad Simon Organization in Spring/Summer 2011, with additional national and international tour dates in 2011-2012 produced by ArKtype.

Additional info on Phantom Limb available HERE.
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01.25.10

Another year, Another APAP...

ArKtype had a very successful year at this year’s Under the Radar / APAP Conference, and we thank all of our friends and constituents for their continued support.

A special thanks to the artists of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s AFTERMATH for their remarkably successful reading at the Public as part of the Under the Radar Festival, with additional thanks to the UTR staff.

To Phantom Limb and Ping Chong & Company for their amazing work on THE DEVIL YOU KNOW. If you missed the run of this stunning work, let’s hope you won’t consider missing its runs at future regional stops. Your afterlife depends on it!

2010-11 season will be ArKtype’s biggest season yet. Please be sure to check tour updates for future touring dates and avails.
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PHANTOM LIMB ON ICE!

Following their critical acclaim for the design and marionette creation for Ping Chong’s THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, Jessica Grindstaff and Erik Sano are currently conducting environmental research in Antarctica in preparation for their latest work 69˚S: THE SHACKLETON PROJECT making its US premiere in Fall 2011.

Read updates from their blog here: http://blog.phantomlimbcompany.com
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11.25.09

APAP! (January 8 - 12, 2010)

APAP’10 Rhinelander Gallery, Booth #207

ArKtype looks forward to seeing friends and colleagues at APAP 2010. Be sure to stop by our booth for more info on tours and new projects in development at ArKtype. Appointments are highly recommended. Please contact Associate Nadege Nechadi to schedule. ________________________________________________

ACCLAIMED PLAY “AFTERMATH” BY CREATORS OF “THE EXONERATED” - WORLD TOUR in 10-11!

SEE THE PLAY AT
UNDER THE RADAR 2010, JANUARY 10 @ 4PM!

PERFORMANCE (with original cast) Sunday, January 10, 2010
The Public Theatre (Shiva Theater) 425 Lafayette Street
New York
SHOW: 4PM
SEATING EXTREMELY LIMITED! BOOK EARLY!
Reserve your UTR Showcase seat now by contacting associate Nadege Nechadi

“A docudrama of the highest order!” - The Associated Press

The New York Theatre Workshop Production
Written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Directed by Jessica Blank

March 20, 2003. A date that the ordinary people of Iraq will never forget. A day that changed their lives forever. In June 2008, the award-winning creators of THE EXONERATED were commissioned by New York Theatre Workshop to travel to Jordan to find out firsthand what happened to the Iraqi civilians as a result of the events that began on that fateful day. They interviewed some 35 people—a cross-section of lives interrupted—who fled the chaos and violence that befell Iraqi society for the relative safety of Jordan. Following the visit to Amman, Jessica and Erik crafted their conversations with the Iraqis and turned them into an unforgettable theatrical event.

Under The Radar Festival 2010 is a program of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and is held in conjunction with APAP Conference NYC 2010. Major funding is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The Festival is produced by Mark Russell and The Public Theater. www.undertheradarfestival.com



www.undertheradarfestival.com
www.artspresenters.org
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08.18.09

CONFERENCE SEASON IS HERE!
ArKtype looks forward to seeing friends and colleagues at this year’s regional conferences in Phoenix and St. Paul. Be sure to stop by our booth for more info on the world renowned artists on tour and new projects in development at ArKtype. Appointments are highly recommended. Please contact Associate Nadege Nechadi (email) to schedule.

WESTERN ARTS ALLIANCE - Booth #213
ARTS MIDWEST - Booth #807

Following their highly praised visit to Galway Arts Festival, CiRCA moves on to the Assembly Festival at Edinburgh with a new show entitled “Circa.” Come on a thrilling and moving journey. Delight in exceptional circus acts, combined with movement, dance, light, sound and video – and experience a thoroughly new circus which is at once poetic, sensual and intense. In C!RCA the company is DJ and remixes three of C!RCA’s most acclaimed works. Blending intricate acrobatic sequences, complex tumbling, and powerful solos through to startlingly beautiful closing scenes bathed in the light of stars before its high energy finale. C!RCA’s work is utterly refreshing making circus a place of renewed wonder.
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Rude Mechs is proud to present a work-in-progress presentation of their new western operetta performance experiment. INBSH features music and lyrics by Austin Experimental Punk Grand Wizard Peter Stopschinski (Brown Whornet, Golden Hornet Project), and book and lyrics by Austin Experimental Theatre Mascot Kirk Lynn, fluxuating freely between high art and Hee-Haw, treating both with respect. The music pits a "Grand Ole Opry" style West against an "El Topo" style West. The writing butts lyric poetry up against bar jokes with finesse. The evening challenges what it means to "go to the theater" in 2009 in a way that only the Rudes could muster.

Don’t miss the evolution of this one-of-a-kind project.

More info HERE
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Set to premiere in March 2010 at The Kitchen in New York City, Scheib’s much anticipated adaptation of Samuel Delaney’s “DHALGREN” began workshops this week. Featuring a stellar team of designers and performers, the work promises to be another radical vision from one of the most original visionaries for the stage working today.

Join us for these upcoming opportunities to see the work in development prior to worldwide touring in 2010-11:

Open Rehearsal Presentation: 6 p.m., Friday, August 14, 2009 at The Kitchen/NYC

Work-in-Progress: Prelude Festival, Saturday, October 3, 2009, Time TBD

Premiere: March 25-April 4, 2010 at The Kitchen/NYC
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Sarasota will witness the birth of a major new arts festival bringing a sampling of the world's greatest artists under one umbrella: the Ringling International Arts Festival is the result of a unique partnership between The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Baryshnikov Arts Center and ArKtype where more than 100 artists from the United States, Australia, Canada, England, Israel, Scotland, and Spain will come together to share the rich diversity of ideas and forms at play in the world. Featuring ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE, ASZURE BARTON, MASON BATES and DEGANIT SHENY, and international presentations of PETER BROOK/CICT, MARIA PAGES, ELLA HICKSON’s “Eight,” and ROBERT SPANO.

For more info: www.ringlingartsfestival.org
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Following another triumphant run at A.R.T. in Cambridge, MA, west coasters will be thrilled to know that Aurelia’s Oratorio returns to California for a winter tour from December 4th to February 28th. Aurélia Thierrée has charmed audiences around the world with this dazzling display of stage illusion, inspired by the magic of music hall and circus, co-created with her mother Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, and featuring Jaime Martinez.

Aurelia Thierrée was recently been interviewed by the World Radio show:
To listen to it, click HERE.

Dec 4-Jan. 24: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA

Feb 3-28: La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA

March 4-7: Shakepeare Theatre, Washington, DC
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Producer Eva Price joins ArKtype and Phantom Limb, in association with touring agency Brad Simon Organization, as lead producer in the theatrical realization of Lemony Snicket’s new work THE COMPOSER IS DEAD. Joining the dynamics of traditional music hall with a signature bravura design for marionettes, this unique collaboration, the first in a series of new works, promises to bring even the most reluctant cultural deviants to the orchestra.

To learn more about The Composer is Dead, click here.

For upcoming tour dates, see Brad Simon Organization (www.bsoinc.com)
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ArKtype is proud to announce a two-year partnership with the Australian Council for the Arts to develop new projects and long term collaborations and booking strategies with CiRCA. Don’t miss The Australian Council’s presence at Western Arts Alliance!

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03.24.09

BUY TICKETS EARLY!

AN EVENING WITH
JACK TERRICLOTH:
“The Midnight Formals”
May 1, 8, 15, and 22 @ Midnight
Joe’s Pub
www.joespub.com

A sure bet for those seeking a dash of midnight mayhem, the infamously conspiratorial Jack Terricloth, frontman of The World/Inferno Friendship Society and author of “The Collected Cloth,” brings the NYC premiere of his intimate evening of punk-noir and song featuring multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Sandra Malak to the Pub for four rounds only. A tear through tales and tunes of the then and now, and unknown gems to boot, these rare evenings provide a one-time glimpse into what dwells in the mind of this beloved anarchist. Pick a midnight, any midnight, and dress appropriately, dammit.

Get your tickets now.
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DIRECTOR JAY SCHEIB RECOGNIZED BY TCG!

April’s Anniversary edition of American Theatre magazine names JAY SCHEIB as one of the top 25 “Artists who will define the next 25 years of American theatre. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.

More information on the next installment of Scheib’s SimulatedSystems/SimulatedCities Trilogy entitled “BELLONA” can be found HERE.

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03.16.09

RIAF 2009 LINE-UP ANNOUNCED!

Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Ringling Museum of Art announce programming for the inaugural Ringling International Arts Festival. The new biennial festival will be presented at the Ringling Museum of Art on the Florida State University cultural campus in Sarasota, FL, October 7-11, 2009. The five-day Festival will feature artists from Australia, Canada, England, France, Israel, Scotland, Spain, and the United States, presented in the Historic Asolo Theater, Mertz Theatre, and Cook Theatre. The Festival will take place throughout the Ringling’s 66-acre waterfront cultural estate on Sarasota Bay, and will augment the core programming with outdoor performances and events, as well as lectures, workshops, and artist discussions.

Read More: CLICK HERE
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02.05.09

BRUCE MYERS CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN Yael Farber’s LEAR!

Legendary actor Bruce Myers has confirmed his participation in Yael Farber’s LEAR, where he will perform the role for the first time in a new co-production of ArKtype and Theatre for a New Audience slated for the 2011-2012 season. A 35-year collaborator with Peter Brook / CICT, Myers’ acclaimed work includes last season’s off-Broadway tour de force THE GRAND INQUSITOR presented by T4ANA and New York Theatre Workshop. Farber’s latest adaptation looks at the timeless classic through the lens of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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01.26.09

Yael Farber’s MOLORA a hit at Montreal’s Place des Arts!

From Pat Donnelly of the Montreal Gazette:

“Molora has arrived. And theatrical magic is afoot in the Cinquième Salle of Place des Arts. This Greek tragedy transformed by auteur director Yael Farber into a South African ritual for the 21st century is simply one of the best productions this critic has ever seen, anywhere.

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01.25.09

RUDE MECHS’
“I’VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY”
WINS MAJOR NEA SUPPORT!

The Rudes are back in the laboratory cooking up yet another ingenious new work in collaboration with Brown Whornet’s Peter Stopschinski. Entitled “I've Never Been So Happy,” the work was named as one of five NEA Distinguished New Play Development Program selections by the NEA.

All NPDP selections will be presented in Washington DC at Arena Stage in Fall 2010.

Look our for news here on the new musical transmedia performance party in development with
book and lyrics by Kirk Lynn, music and lyrics by Peter Stopschinski. INBSH is curated and directed by Thomas Graves and Lana Lesley and created by Rude Mechs

"The Rudes continue to deepen their creative process and challenge themselves in new ways. And that results in smart, terrific theater that takes us some place new." - Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin-American Statesman review of December 2008 workshop production.

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12.09.08

ArKtype presents the NYC Premiere! World/Inferno Friendship Society "ADDICTED TO BAD IDEAS: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century"Co-Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib

PLUS Full Set! ONE NIGHT ONLY! January 9, 2009, 8PM DoorsWebster Hall, 125 East 11th Street. Presented in association with Under The Radar Festival 09 and Bowery Presents

$16 SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR FANS!
CODE: LORRE

Tickets available at Ticketmaster & Bowery Presents Outlets

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