Tickets are now on sale for PL115′s Spring Gala, March 9th at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO.
This year our benefit is a celebration of ensemble-driven theatre in New York, featuring new and classic work from:
Join PL115 for a thrilling evening of entertainment, food and dancing!
Beginning in January of 2009, PL115 will produce two plays and begin development of two original works that wrestle with the issue of human connection in times of chaos:
A new dystopic farce written by Ashlin Halfnight and inspired by the Icarus/Dedalus myth, Artifacts of Consequence investigates our dependence on the signifiers of modern culture, even in the face of a worldwide catastrophe.
Artifacts of Consequence is a co-production of PL115 and Electric Pear, re-uniting the creative team that brought you the international hit, God’s Waiting Room.
Directed by Kristjian Thor
April 16 – May 3, 2009
The Wild Project, NYC
Following a successful workshop as part of our Mabou Mines/ SUITE residency, PL115 is excited to bring stripped down, decidedly 21st century interpretation of Brecht’s epic masterpiece about war and responsibility to The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City.
Directed by Alice Reagan
June 25 – July 12, 2009
The Chocolate Factory, LIC
Directed by co-Artistic Director Jeff Clarke, SINK will be a company-devised piece unpacking how it is we relate (to one another, to our environment, to our history and to our philosophy) following catastrophic tragedies.
Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and contextualized by the repeated environmental disasters of California’s Salton Sea, SINK will be workshopped in January 2009 and will premiere in Spring, 2010.
Working with the director Dave Dalton (Drama Desk Nomination, HMS Pinafore), PL115 will stage a fresh new adaptation of Lope de Vega’s Spanish Golden Age classic.
Fuente Ovejuna will be workshopped in the Fall of 2009 and will premiere in late 2010.
If you would like to make a donation to help support our 2009 Season (and we will love you forever if you do), you can now do it online.
We are so very pleased to report that Paul Cohen won the 2008 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Playwrighting for Mourn the Living Hector!
Thanks to all who came out to see Paul’s great new play at the Fringe Festival. Your attendance and support made the whole enchilada of the ’08 Fringe worthwhile.
If you missed your chance to see Mourn the Living Hector, be sure to check out our great reviews from The New York Times, The Village Voice and Time Out.
Stay tuned for more exciting projects from PL115, including
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As always, we rely on your ongoing support to make our productions come to life. If you have the desire and means to help PL115, please consider making a tax deductible donation.
And if money’s not so much your thing but you’d like to donate some of your time, get in touch with us! We have many, many ways to put creative people like you to work!
We are pleased to report that Time Out New York has selected Mourn the Living Hector as a Critics Pick for this year’s New York International Fringe Festival, recommended our show on their home page, and given it a four star review!
You can read the complete review on Time Out NY Online.
Also, be sure to check out the great press we’ve gotten from NYTheatre.com.
UPDATE: Anita Gates of The New York Times just called Mourn the Living Hector ‘beautifully acted and elegantly written.’ Check out the full review in the NYTimes Theater section!
We’ve only got 3 shows left and tickets are selling out, so if you haven’t gotten a chance to see this great new play be sure to get your tickets today!
plays:
MON 8/18 @ 7:30
THUR 8/21 @ 5:00
SAT 8/23 @ 9:30
at the Flamboyan Theatre (CSV Cultural Center)
107 Suffolk Street
(Rivington & Delancey Streets) [view map]
PL115 has been fortunate enough to get a couple of of pre-Fringe publicity teasers for Mourn the Living Hector!
Check them out!
You can get your tickets for Paul Cohen’s amazing new play at:
Seating is incredibly limited at the Flamboyan, so please get your tickets today!
Performance Lab 115 is once again braving the steamy summer in NYC to make experimental actor-driven theatre and we need YOUR help to make it.
We are currently producing two new shows:
The Terrible Temptation to do Good
A Brechtian Lounge Act
July 18-20th @ the Underground Zero Festival
AND
Mourn the Living Hector
by Paul Cohen
August 8-24th @ FringeNYC 2008
We need to raise $1,500.00 in the next month to pay for rehearsal space, sets, lights and of course actors. Even a small donation of $5-10 helps us immensely. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today.
Thanks for your help!
Performance Lab 115 is pleased to report that, following our successful workshop of Caucasian Chalk Circle at Mabou Mines in March, we have been invited to perform the fully developed production at The Chocolate Factory in June of 2009. Thanks much to Brian Rogers and the Chocolate Factory staff for their interest and support.
More details to follow!
a new play by Paul Cohen
directed by Alexis Poledouris
with Teddy Bergman, Amanda Fulks, Jimmy Owens
Set in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1913, CHERUBINA is based on the true story of Elisa Ivanovna, a frustrated poet and crippled school teacher. The play follows the tangled love triangle that develops when Elisa decides to submit her poetry under the guise of the mysterious and beautiful Cherubina De Gabriak. This world premier is a dark comedy that explores the relationship between art and love, beauty and truth, and what people do when they think they are living at the end of the world.
Produced by Rebecca Lingafelter in association with PL115
Feb 1-23 / Thurs-Sunday / 8pm
Sanford Meisner Theatre (164 11th Ave btwn 22nd and 23rd)
Tickets available @ www.theatermania.com
For more info go to www.thecherubina.com