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Daniel Fish

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THE DOLLAR GENERAL

A film inspired by Daniel Fish's 2010 stage production of Clifford Odets' PARADISE LOST. Using actors and themes from that production, Fish stripped the play of most of its language and inserted new material (from John Milton, The Phil Donahue Show, Ayn Rand, Sesame Street). The movie, shot in an abandoned Ford dealership in upstate New York, reframes Odets' depression-era living room drama to reveal one building's transition from mid-twentieth century auto business to twenty-first century Dollar Store.

Niegel Smith

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EAT ME, DRINK ME, HOMO

"As a young gay in a Catholic all-boy's high school, I was often reminded of my outsider's perspective. But, when the sacrament of communion, a sacrament in which only practicing Catholics (and I have never been one) are supposed to participate, was celebrated at an all school mass, I just couldn't help myself. I had to join in."

Manifesto: Caden Manson/Big Art Group

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AFTER SPECTACULARITY

In this provocative polemic by the writer and the director of Big Art Group, Jemma Nelson and Caden Manson meditate on the meaning of spectacularity and its relationship to live performance in an age of media, video games, and slipping of the digital and the real. The text will appear in THEATER, Vol. 42, Number 3, scheduled for publication in late October 2012.

Manifesto: Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People

Segal Theatre

THE PROBLEM WITH DANCING

A duet made by Miguel Gutierrez performed with Andrew Champlin where they discuss The Problem With Dancing and then dance about it. Made in 2007 and performed infrequently since then, it pretty much changes every time they do it. But the through-line is that it remains rapid-fire and clever, provocative and silly and mostly it was a clever way for Miguel to figure out how to make out with Andrew those many years ago.

Manifesto: Leah Nanako Winkler / Everywhere Theatre Group

Segal Theatre

WORK HARD PLAY HARDER
A manifesto by a next generation theatre-maker

Everywhere Theatre Group's Flying Snakes in 3-D!!! prompted a serious and polarizing dialogue about race, theater and class privilege in 2012. In this manifesto, young minority female playwright Leah Nanako Winkler will tackle these same issues with her collaborators while emphasizing the importance of gratitude, respect, strength, vulnerability, communication, diversity and most of all, a sense of play, to keep theater relevant in this Facebook society.

Manifesto: Mac Wellman

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~PLOSION OF IMPS

Mac Wellman’s recent work includes 3 2’s; or AFAR at Dixon Place in October 2011, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at Montclair in the fall of 2006 (and elsewhere more recently), and 1965 UU for performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the Chocolate Factory in the fall of 2008. He has received numerous honors, including NEA, Guggenheim, and Foundation of Contemporary Arts fellowships.

Manifesto: David Levine

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BAD ART & OBJECTHOOD

David Levine's performance work has been seen at MoMA, Documenta XII, MASS MoCA, PS122, the Watermill Center, Tanya Leighton Gallery (Berlin), Blum and Poe (Los Angeles), Gavin Brown's Enterprise (New York), and the Crossing the Line Festival. He has directed theater at Primary Stages, the Atlantic, and the Sundance Theater Lab. He is a 2012-13 Radcliffe Fellow in Visual Arts, and Professor of Art at Bard College/European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin, where he is the Director of the Studio Program.

Manifesto: Jay Scheib & Co.

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JAY SCHEIB: UNTITLED ECOLOGIES

Jay Scheib and Co. presents in the form of a manifesto the Epilogue and Synthesis of his Performance Trilogy Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. After six years of work This will be performed as a brief closing of accounts with a handful of small explosions, a brief lecture demonstration, an avatar and seven diagrams.

Manifesto: Maria Striar

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LEAVE ME TO MY OWN DEVICES AND I COME UP WITH NAMES LIKE CLUBBED THUMB

Maria Striar is a founder of and the Producing Artistic Director of Clubbed Thumb, an Obie Award-winning downtown theater company which commissions, develops and produces funny, strange and provocative new plays by living American writers. Since 1996, they've produced over 80 new plays. She is also, occasionally, an actress, most recently in Erin Courtney's Map of Virtue, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.

Manifesto: Tina Satter / Half Straddle

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SCHMOETICS (A POETICS TALK BY TINA SATTER)

Making art is hard. Basically all the time you feel like a self-involved martyr for a cause that no one actually cares about. But then you think deep down that they should care. Cause it is kind of everything. It can matter. Right? I mean, it does matter in lots of ways. It’s some kind of contextual frame for trying to be alive that relies on form and aesthetics and possibility. You keep thinking about why you do it and the ways you do it and how to do it better. It’s complicated.

Manifesto: Richard Foreman

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UNTITLED

Richard Foreman: Over 40 years making theater around the world. 8 books. A MacArthur, Officer of Arts and Letters of France, etc. Now— film: Once Every Day, showing on 6 October at New York Film Festival, Walter Reade Theater

Manifesto: Faye Driscoll

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UNTITLED

Faye Driscoll is a Bessie-award winning choreographer and director who has been called "a startlingly original talent" by the New York Times and "the most promising performing artist of her generation" by the Weekly Standard.

Manifesto: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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I PROMISE NEVER EVER AGAIN TO WRITE PLAYS ABOUT ASIANS...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright, dramaturg, and performer. His work has been seen at The Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, PS122, Soho Rep, New Dramatists, The Matrix Theatre, Theater Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany and the National Theatre in London and he is working on commissions from Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 and Yale Repertory Theater.

Prelude.12 Opening Night: Avant-Cabaret Spectacular

The Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th Street, Select a Country:

PRELUDE.12 OPENING NIGHT PARTY: AVANT-CABARET SPECTACULAR

Featuring Poor Baby Bree, Cole Escola, Bridget Everett, Jenn Harris, Amber Martin, Molly Pope, and Yackez.
Guest curated and hosted by Adam Feldman.

Lucas Hnath and Sarah Benson

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A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY

Aided by a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of vodka, three actors, and a pile of dead lemmings, Walt Disney will read to you a screenplay he wrote about his final days on earth.

Aided by a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of vodka, three actors, and a pile of dead lemmings, Walt Disney will read to you a screenplay he wrote about his final days on earth.

Video Killed the Theatre Star: Anonymous Ensemble

Elebash Lobby [installation] , Select a Country:

LIEBE LOVE AMOUR!

A theatricalized “live film” of an epic search for love. In their latest work of interactive theater, Anonymous Ensemble creates Hollywood magic using cameras, a green-screen, live video processing software, and the opulent imagery of silent film director Erich von Stroheim. The show unveils a panoply of love affairs between Tall Hilda and a string of paramours including a fictionalized Erich von Stroheim, a devout Gloria Swanson, and even the live audience itself.

Video Killed the Theatre Star: Hannah Bos/Timeless Seasons

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Timeless Seasons

Seasons may change, but amazing deals are forever! Patti, Cherie and Kim warmly welcome you to Timeless Seasons, the lowest rated home shopping show in the quaint town of Pheasant Crest. Anything can happen, and unfortunately does. It's David Lynch meets Designing Women meets your new scrapbooking Stepmother. Thanks Dad.

Video Killed the Theatre Star: Jeff Larson

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A STORE OF SUCKING STONES

A Store of Sucking Stones tells the simple story of a man and his 16 sucking stones. Employing a text fragment from Samuel Beckett's novel Molloy, the narrative documents the comprehensive sucking strategies of this recluse as he wracks both brain and body, determined to solve this most pressing of problems.

Video Killed the Theatre Star: D.J. Mendel

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Crazy For The Ballet

A short film reflecting on youth, beauty, decay and the ramblings of a deteriorating Vaslav Nijinsky and his "philosophy of feeling".

Video Killed the Theatre Star: Tina Satter/Half Straddle

Elebash Lobby [installation]

SECRET NOTEBOOKS

With a few months off last summer, and amazing collaborators who wanted to help, Half Straddle set out to make their first-ever rap song and accompanying video. Playing off the idioms of the genre, Half Straddle’s rad girl rappers drop push-ups with no knees, late nights with Soledad O’Brien, and references to their bangs as a knowingly ridiculous vocabulary for throwing shade, all set in a lusciously drenched visual realm and accompanied by deep beats that need to be played really loud for full effect.

William Burke

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FURRY

When Elmo close Elmo appear far
The army gathers, 42nd street beware
a piece for 1 Elmo, 2 impostors, a cowboy and the general cookie monster mob

Heidi Schreck and Ken Rus Schmoll

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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME

Ken Rus Schmoll: Director

The story of one high school girl's baffling encounter with a Very Important Document.

Nellie Tinder

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Raise Your Voice in Medieval Counterpoint

Nellie Tinder’s newest work in progress is a musical adaptation/riff on Grace Paley’s hugely influential short story, Faith in a Tree: an experimental post-modern narrative about a single mother in her thirties, in the year 1970, who, one afternoon in a New York City park, decides to become an activist. Meta-fictive, digressive, unsentimental and funny, the story approaches lust, loneliness, proto-feminism, child-rearing and idealism with incisive candor.

Annie Dorsen

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SPOKEN KARAOKE

Spoken Karaoke is a participatory event that invites people to perform speeches as they would ordinarily perform songs in a karaoke bar. Speeches are, after all, songs of persuasion, argument, consolidation or motivation.

Jack Ferver

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ALL OF A SUDDEN

A new collaboration between choreographer Jack Ferver and Joshua Lubin-Levy, based on the film (also a play) “Suddenly Last Summer” by Tennessee Williams about a young girl driven insane after witnessing her cousin’s murder and the doctor who attempts to help her.

Andrew Ondrejcak and Shara Worden

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KINGS OF MACEDONIA

Conceived as a modern telling of "The Canterbury Tales," the "Kings of Macedonia" is a collection of moments from everyday life, in which ten characters search for meaning while en route to destinations they cannot quite pinpoint. Individually, they reflect on their own aptitude for inciting meaning within their lives and the lives of others; collectively, they look to the impulses within (and the vast unknown above) in the search for something, anything, to hold onto.

Playing with the Camera: Myles Kane

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THE POPCORN KID

A live, and cinematic, remix of footage from THE POPCORN KID, a failed sitcom about a group of teens working at a movie theater concession counter.

Playing with the Camera: Karinne Keithley

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is a performance that translates, resolves, returns, and recuperates six years of doctoral study out of discipline. It is a solo. It is growing out of Karinne's dissertation, a comparative study of experimentalism in performance and 19th century American literature, but is becoming a performance in conversation and collaboration with Sara Smith, fellow quietist, disciplinary saunterer, and choreographic mind. At Prelude we will show the initial draft of a multi-channel video-based living forest.

Playing with the Camera: Phil Soltanoff

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AN EVENING WITH WILLIAM SHATNER ASTERISK

William Shatner’s image from the original Star Trek series speaks on the subjects of contemporary art and science. Phil Soltanoff (director), Rob Ramirez (systems designer), and Joe Diebes (writer) have created a dynamic, video Shatner oracle by meticulously cataloguing everything William Shatner ever said on Star Trek. Together, the artists attempt to bravely make Captain James T. Kirk expand our universe.

Playing With the Camera: Tei Blow

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INFLUENCES

Influences is a series of short interviews of people talking about art, dance and performance, possibly under the influence of mind altering substances and research chemicals.

Culturebot

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EVERYONE'S A CRITIC

Culturebot's Jeremy M. Barker, Mashinka Firunts, and Andy Horwitz present a performance of a participatory panel discussion that asks: What does it mean to take part in a conversation on the live arts? To whom is this privilege extended? And what role does a critic play in a moment when the tools and platforms for criticism are extended to a broadly defined public? Examining live art through On the Boards' catalog of performance documentation, the trio explores the consequences of a scenario in which everyone is a critic.

Anne Washburn

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MR BURNS

In the first act of MR BURNS set immediately after the collapse of the American civilization, survivors attempt to remember their favorite Simpsons episode.

Video Killed the Theatre Star: Hannah Bos / Timeless Seasons

Elebash Lobby [Installation] , Select a Country:

TIMELESS SEASONS

Seasons may change, but amazing deals are forever! Patti, Cherie and Kim warmly welcome you to Timeless Seasons, the lowest rated home shopping show in the quaint town of Pheasant Crest. Anything can happen, and unfortunately does. It's David Lynch meets Designing Women meets your new scrapbooking Stepmother.

Video Killed the Theatre Star: Jeff Larson

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A STORE OF SUCKING STONES

A Store of Sucking Stones tells the simple story of a man and his 16 sucking stones. Employing a text fragment from Samuel Beckett's novel Molloy, the narrative documents the comprehensive sucking strategies of this recluse as he wracks both brain and body, determined to solve this most pressing of problems.

Video Killed the Theatre Star: D.J. Mendel

Elebash Lobby [Installation] , Select a Country:

CRAZY FOR THE BALLET

A short film reflecting on youth, beauty, decay and the ramblings of a deteriorating Vaslav Nijinsky and his "philosophy of feeling".

Video Killed the Theatre Star: Tina Satter / Half Straddle

Elebash Lobby [Installation] , Select a Country:

SECRET NOTEBOOKS

With a few months off last summer and amazing collaborators who wanted to help, Half Straddle set out to make their first-ever rap song and accompanying video. Playing off the idioms of the genre, Half Straddle’s rad girl rappers drop push-ups with no knees, late nights with Soledad O’Brien, and references to their bangs as a knowingly ridiculous vocabulary for throwing shade, all set in a lusciously drenched visual realm and accompanied by deep beats that need to be played really loud for full effect.

Video Killed the Theatre Star: Anonymous Ensemble

Elebash Lobby [installation] , Select a Country:

Rendezvouz with Hilda to discuss your turbulent history with her and decide on your future together. Anonymous Ensemble creates an interactive media installation that lets you decide the course of your conversation with a mediated persona. But please don't eat the cheesecake!

Erin Courtney/Adhesive Theater Project

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THE SERVICE ROAD

A violent storm of mythic proportions hits Prospect Park. The once peaceful service road turns strange and even savage as a nature guide attempts to find a lost child. On her quest she meets the denizens of one of the few natural places left in a large city. The nature guide is a modern day Hercules – very strong, very loyal, a little thick, and trying to do penance for a very bad thing she had done when she was out of her mind.

Corina Copp

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PART 1 OF THE WHOLE TRAGEDY OF THE INABILITY TO LOVE: SUSANSWERPHONE

The first installment of THE WHOLE TRAGEDY OF THE INABILITY TO LOVE, a trilogy to be built primarily on considerations of desire and reappearance as they are taken up in the book, script, and film work of Marguerite Duras, SUSANSWERPHONE takes for its sources the 1960 film musical Bells Are Ringing, about a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator (Judy Holliday) who falls in love with a client who calls her "Mom."

Juliana Francis Kelly

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DAPHNE AND APOLLO: EXERCISE ONE

In Ovid's Daphne and Apollo, Daphne, the fastest nymph in the forest, can't outrun a creepy God. She prays for deliverance, and gets it when she is turned into a tree. Through extreme dance inspired by a female tri-athletes and a 14 year old track star, along with text drawn from interviews with teenaged girls, and weird facts about the history of Bernini’s statue “Daphne and Apollo”,

Niegel Smith

EAT ME, DRINK ME, HOMO

"As a young gay in a Catholic all-boy's high school, I was often reminded of my outsider's perspective. But, when the sacrament of communion, a sacrament in which only practicing Catholics (and I have never been one) are supposed to participate, was celebrated at an all school mass, I just couldn't help myself. I had to join in."

600 HIGHWAYMEN

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EVERYONE WAS CHANTING YOUR NAME

Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone share a work-in-progress showing of 600 HIGHWAYMEN's latest work, a living portrait of eight individuals spanning six decades in age.

Sibyl Kempson

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RIVER OF GRUEL, PILE OF PIGS: THE REQUISITE GESTURE(S) OF NARROW APPROACH

A collaboration between the representatives of four Austin, TX theater companies (Physical Plant, Rubber Rep, Rude Mechs, and Salvage Vanguard Theater) and the playwright Sibyl Kempson, for the purpose of making a new theater piece.

The Return of the Singspiel: Corey Dargel

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THE THREE CHRISTS

A music-theater piece that combines themes of Messianic delusion, faith vs. doubt, and Christian gay-rehabilitation therapy. The show takes place in a Catholic-run mental institution and consists of group therapy sessions, visions of the Virgin Mary (a drag queen, naturally), and religious testimonials from psychiatric patients.

Free

The Return of the Singspiel: Eliza Bent/Dave Malloy

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BLUE WIZARD/BLACK WIZARD

A musical fantasia depicting an epic duel between two opposing wizard philosophies in a modern and mundane age. Ideals of truth, knowledge, scientific advancement, information consciousness, network connectivity and excellence battle against beauty, nature, simplicity, holistic systems, magical realism, and intuition as the wizards rise on smoke emitting platforms.

The Return of the Singspiel: Joshua Conkel

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THE HOUSE OF VON MACRAME

As a famous biographer attempts to get closer to reclusive and eccentric fashion designer Edsel Von Macrame, a psychic model is tormented by a series of occult murders within the industry. The House of Von Macrame is a pop horror fashion spectacle exploring taste, elitism, and iconoclasts in the spirit of glamorous 70s horror films such as Suspiria and The Eyes of Laura Mars.

The Return of the Singspiel: Kristine Haruna Lee

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WAR LESBIAN

When Sedna’s father finds out about a deep secret she’s been keeping from her family, he takes her out on a boat, chops her fingers off, and condemns her to live under the sea. Fingerless and alone, she must now face all the things that have been living down there… A play about being hungry, holes, vaginas, lesbians, eating and being eaten… amongst other things. Inspired by the rowdy and refreshingly queer pantheon of deities from Inuit mythology, War Lesbian will try to explore the word ‘lesbian’ in a post-‘lesbian’ world, and the many things it signifies, good and bad.

The Return of the Singspiel: Tony Torn

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UBU SINGS UBU

This work-in-progress excerpt of Ubu Sings Ubu is the fruit of a thirty year old itch to mash up the absurdist slapstick of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi with the art punk hijinks of the 70-s art-punk band Pere Ubu. Featuring a new version by Torn and noted poet/playwright Ariana Reines, adapted from translation software transcription of the original French.

Yelena Gluzman / Science Project

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WORMAN

A theater event developing after Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, Jerome Rothenberg's translation of a Kunapipi song-poem, and the birth of a child.

Prelude 12 Closing Night Party: Gershwin Hotel

Gershwin Hotel 7 East 27th Street (between Madison and Fifth Ave.), Select a Country:

CLOSING NIGHT PARTY
@ The Gershwin Hotel

JOE RANONO AND FRIENDS
THE KIOSKERS
LUMBEROB

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