A rock star swims for her life.
A past resurfaces.

Live cinema surges onto stage in this multi-media play set to an original soundtrack inspired by Patti Smith, Bartok and Portishead.

Written by Jennifer Gibbs and directed by Kristin Marting
Featuring Bessie Award-winning Okwui Okpokwasili* as Leda
and an ensemble cast featuring
Todd d'Amour, Ana Kayne, Irene Longshore, Rudy Mungaray, Michael Pemberton*, Stephen Reyes*

Video Tal Yarden Music Kamala Sankaram Set Nick Vaughan Light Rie Ono Seo Costumes Elizabeth Bourgeois Sound Jane Shaw Technical Direction Nate Lemoine Stage Management Emily Rea Casting Judy Bowman
Assistants Jane Jones, Jennifer Kraus, Elenna Mosoff, Zarrin Whyte, Taili Wu

Developed in the HERE Artist Residency Program, with additional support from the MAP Fund, New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media Collaboration Award, LMCC Swing Space and Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater's Digital Performance Institute.

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March 3 - May 1
Opening reception: 6pm - 8pm on March 3
Free and open to the public

HERE's gallery spaces will host an exhibition of paintings by young Austrian visual artist Walter Steinacher, curated by Ivan Talijancic (WaxFactory, New York.) This event is a collaboration with the New York based multidisciplinary performance group, WaxFactory and the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York and is presented as part of Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, a festival coordinated by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.

Walter Steinacher's images showcased in this exhibition capture the post-Communist nostalgia Steinacher observed during his long-term residency in Slovenia. Most of the paintings on view are part of a series that humorously addresses the image of Josip Broz Tito, the equally charismatic and controversial Yugoslav president whose death in the mid-1980s triggered the domino effect that led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the end of socialism in the Balkan region.

Curated by Ivan Talijancic (WaxFactory), this exhibition is presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum, HERE and WaxFactory.

The opening reception will take place from 6 to 8pm on March 3, 2010, with the gracious support of the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Consulate General of Slovenia, New York.

The exhibition will be accompanied with Yugostalgia-inspired video animation designed by the Slovenia multimedia artist Elena Fajt, which will be displayed on plasma monitors throughout HERE.

By the Neo Futurists
Tickets: $18

New York Neo-Futurists Desiree Burch, Cara Francis & Erica Livingston serve up a cure for what ails you in this Neo-Medicine show, performing in and around a giant pot of self-made soup. Bottling elixers, potions and products, they address the female experience live, honest and in the flesh.

Incorporating ingredients from interviews, living newspapers, personal stories, circus acts and freak shows, the women of The Soup Show will ultimately feed their audiences with a question "How far has the women's movement moved us?" The fierce trio honor the 30^th Anniversary of Women's History Month, and show you why the readers of the Village Voice named The New York Neo-Futurists "The 2009 Best Performance Artists in New York."

Veronica Mars meets Evil Dead in Vampire Cowboys newest creation for the stage, ALICE IN SLASHERLAND! When young Lewis Diaz accidentally resurrects the soul of a brutally slain girl named Alice, he unwittingly unleashes a literal hell on Earth. Now with every sort of demon, monster, and killer ravaging his small town, Lewis and Alice must find a way to close the rift before the big bad evil devil himself shows up and totally ruins their senior prom. Mixing slasher with Sam Raimi in Vampire Cowboys' signature aesthetic, this show will be one bloody good time!

Written by Qui Nguyen
Directed by Robert Ross Parker
Featuring – Carlo Alban*, Sheldon Best*, Tom Myers, Bonnie Sherman*, Andrea Marie Smith, and Amy Kim Waschke*

Stage Manager: Danielle Buccino*
Scenic/Lighting Designer: Nick Francone
Costume Designers: Sarah Laux & Jessica Shay
Sound Designer: Shane Rettig
Puppet Designer: David Valentine
Multimedia Design: Matthew Tennie
Press Rep: Jim Baldassare

More info at vampirecowboys.com                   

*appear courtesy of Actors' Equity Association     

Pericles: Prince of Tires is a comic rock mob musical based on William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre. This telling of Pericles has been shifted in time and space to modern era United States. Perry, "Prince of Tires", gets caught up in a web of intrigue, incest and the mafia as he tries to balance having a family while also running a "family." His sometimes hilarious and sometimes poignant exploits take him through New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, while he dodges mob hits, lecherous carnies, multiple storms at sea, and losing his wife and daughter. As his epic journey ends, he learns that saving both his biological family and his mafia family are rooted in truly understanding the value of loyalty, honor and love.

Based on the play by William Shakespeare

Music by Joe Popp, Brian McCabe and Tylor Durand

Lyrics by Joe Popp

Book by Neil Gobioff & Shawn Paonessa

Directed by David M. Jenkins

Featuring
Katie Castonguay, Ami Sallee Corley, Jason Evans, Amy E. Gray, Spencer Meyers, Chris Perez, Joe Popp and Stephen Ray.

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