More good news! PL115 has been invited to the O’Neill Theater Center in January!
Our company, along with director Dave Dalton and members of Quinnopolis, NY, will be in residence at the O’Neill to begin development of The Ring Cycle, pt 1. The residency will culminate in a public showing — more details about that when they become available.
Many thanks to Jeff Janisheski and the O’Neill for the invitation!
We’re pleased to report that our new project, SINK has been selected for inclusion in chashama’s Residency Program!
Quoting from chashama’s press release:
chashama is pleased to announce the three winners of its competitive theater company residency award: Panoply Performance Laboratory, Sponsored by Nobody, and Performance Lab 115. Each company will work at our 217 East 42nd Street theater for five weeks, developing and presenting new work. Residents receive administrative, marketing, and technical support, as well as a $1,500 production grant. Each group will present performances open to the public, dates and further information to be released at a later date.
The residency affords us a rare opportunity to develop a new project in the space in which it will be performed — something we’ve never been able to do before! We’re grateful to chashama for giving us this amazing opportunity, and for continually investing in our company’s artistic growth.
Stay tuned for more details about the further development of SINK in our residency in Feb-Mar 2010!
Thanks to all who came out to see our production of The Verge at Ontological. We were so pleased to get such a great turnout from such supportive audiences.
Up next is our workshop of The Ring Cycle, Part 1 at the O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut in January. Stay tuned for more details!
“[The Verge] is given full room to breathe by the director Alice Reagan and Performance Lab 115.”
- Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times
“In mounting their version of this piece, Performance Lab 115 has brought to fruition a production that is boldly and disturbingly unique.”
- Fred Backus, nytheatre.com
“[PL115] proves that Glaspell’s most peculiar, elusive, moody work is also one of her most insistently complex.”
- Leonard Jacobs, Backstage
“delightfully mad-eyed”
- Helen Shaw, Time Out New York
To support PL115 and our production of Susan Glaspell’s The Verge we’re hosting a fabulous 1920′s Cocktail Party following the performance on November 10th.
In the spirit of the 20′s we offer you this invite:
Imbibe our designer cocktails and punches inspired by The Verge!
Munch on some delectable deco delicacies!
Try your hand at a magic trick or one of our nifty parlor games!
Date: November 10
Time: ~9:30PM (following the performance)
Location: The Ontolocial-Hysteric Theater
Price: $25 (show + party)
All proceeds go towards the funding of PL 115′s 2009-2010 Season.
It’ll be the bee’s knees! See you there!
Performance Lab 115 is pleased to announce our 2009-10 season:
SINK
by Lytton Smith
directed by Jeff Clarke
The Ring Cycle, part 1
by Richard Wagner
adapted & directed by Dave Dalton
Performance dates for SINK and The Ring Cycle are being solidified and will be announced shortly.
We hope you’ll join us!
PL115 is pleased to announce our inclusion in the Fall 2009 Ontological Incubator!
Teaming up with director Alice Reagan (Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Small Hole), PL115 will mount deconstruction of Susan Glaspell’s proto-Feminist play, The Verge.
The Verge will perform November 5-21, Tue, Thu-Sat @ 8PM.
Visit www.ontological.com for tickets.
And join us on September 12th at 9PM for the Ontological Incubator Benefit. This year’s theme is ‘Back To School Party’ — which means if you bring a childhood picture of yourself, it’s only $5.
The Ontological Theater is located at:
131 E. 10th St at 2nd Ave
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Hope to see you there!
If you came out to see Caucasian Chalk Circle, don’t forget to cast your vote in The Innovative Theatre Awards. It only takes a second to do, and it’s a great way to support PL115.
Thanks again to all who came to see the show! We had a great time performing it, and it was so good to see so many of you out at The Chocolate Factory.
“The production has such zing and visual cohesion…we never forget Reagan’s or the ensemble’s thrilling potential: Not even two hours of Brecht could alienate us from them.”
- Helen Shaw, Time Out New York
“Tickets to Performance Lab 115’s production of Caucasian Chalk Circle are only $15, but the show would be worth seeing at five times that price. The cast is stellar, the scenery and costumes strikingly inventive and the performance has a level of energy to which all plays should aspire.”
- Willow Belden, Queens Chronicle
“PL115 does an admirable job of keeping this lumbering fairy tale moving forward with excellent staging that gives room to the tender moments and lungs to the spectacle of cruelty that coexist in Brecht’s alternate reality.”
- Vladic Ravich, Queens Tribune
Caucasian Chalk Circle is in its final week and tickets are selling fast, so be sure to get your tickets online.
We’re very proud of this bold new piece of theatre and we’d hate for you to miss your chance to see it!
Chalk Circle plays through July 11, Wed-Sat @ 8PM at The Chocolate Factory.
Hope to see you there!
“If the play warns of the ‘terrible temptation to do good,’ it seems as if PL115 has given in. … a brisk, compassionate version of a difficult script.”
- Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice
“Provocative … there’s not a dull spot in the two-hour evening”
- Deirdre Donovan, CurtainUp
Caucasian Chalk Circle plays until July 11th, Wed-Sat @ 8PM at The Chocolate Factory.
Tickets are selling fast (the last weekend is almost sold out), so get your tickets online now. Don’t miss your chance to see our great new work!