| Date |
Title |
Production Information |
| January 17 |
THE GLASS HOUSE |
Nationality: Capetown, South Africa
Playwright: Fatime Dike
Director: Rina Yerushalmi
Composer: Reynold Scott |
| January 18 |
AS YOU LIKE IT |
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Director: Andrei Serban
Composer: Elizabeth Swados |
| February 7 |
LAUGHING STONE |
Nationality: Korean
Solo work by: Sin Cha Hong |
| February 7 |
TUTTI NON CI SONO |
Company: Il Teatro Italiano D'Avanguardia
Playwright: Dario D'Ambrosi
Director: Dario D'Ambrosi
Composer: John La Berbera |
| February 21 |
MAMI WATA |
Nationality: Ivory Coast, Africa
Playwright: Rose Marie Guiraud
Director: Rose Marie Guiraud |
| February 21 |
I CAN'T KEEP RUNNING IN PLACE |
Playwright: Barbara Schottenfeld
Director: Susan Einhorn
Composer: Barbara Schottenfeld |
| February 24 |
I CAN'T HEAR THE BIRDS SINGING
(A Reading) |
Playwright: Brenda Faye Collie
Director: Ozzie Rodriguez |
| February 28 |
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM |
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Director: John Vaccaro
Composer: Steven Margoshes |
| March 12 |
MADE BY TWO |
Company: The Theatre Express Company
Playwright: Gertrude Stein
Director: William Turner
Composer: William Turner |
| March 13 |
COLLOGUIES |
Company: Nimbus Dance Theatre Company
Choreographers / Performers: Erin Martin, Jack Moore, Alice Teirstein |
| March 27 |
SUNRISE |
Nationality: China
Company: Pan Asian Repertory
Playwright: Cao Yu
Director: Tisa Chang |
| April 9 |
PORTUGUESE LOVE LETTERS |
Company: The Lisbon Theatre Company
Playwright: Sister Mariana Alcoforado
Director: Carlos Quevedo |
| April 13 |
TWO BY BECKETT |
Playwright: Samuel Beckett
Director: Lawrence Sacharow |
| April 16 |
CHOPELLA |
Nationality: France
One Man Show: Farid Chopel |
| April 28 |
THERE IS ONLY ONE WORLD
( w/ NYU Dept. of Spanish & Portugese) |
Playwright: Nelly Vivas
Director: Nelly Vivas |
| April 30 |
In Rep:
L'OS / UBU,
THE IK,
THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS |
Plawrights:
Birago Diop / Alfred Jarry,
Colin Turnbull,
Farid Uddin Attar
|
Director: Peter Brook
Company: Le Centre International de Creations Theatrales |
| May 1 |
STATUE di CERA,
STATUES OF WAX,
ESTATUAS de CERA |
Playwright & Director: Dario D'Ambrosi |
| May 1 |
A CIRCULAR PLAY |
Company: The Independant Theatre of
Rotterdam
Playwright: Amy Gale, Gerrit Timmers |
| May 6 |
A THEATRE FORUM |
Company: The International Theatre Institute /
US
"An introduction to the theatre of Bangladesh, Eqypt, Honduras,
Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Venezuela, Zaire, Zambia, and Yugoslavia
with leading actors, directors, and producers from these countries" |
| May 8 |
A GRAY NIGHT'S POTATION |
Company: Ken Togo Company of Japan
Playwright: Ro Takenaka
Director: Ken Togo |
| May 17/18 |
AND GOD SENT NOAH THE RAINBOW SIGN |
Company: Oval Theatre Group of London
(A Community Theatre Group) |
| May 22 |
IN THE SUMMER HOUSE |
Company: K Theatre Company
Playwright: Jane Bowles
Director: Francoise Kourilsky |
| May 22 |
THE STORY OF STARLIGHT INDIAN MONK
OF AMERICA - a people and puppet show for children |
Company: La MaMa C.E.T.A. project
Playwright: Gena Romano
Director: Gena Romano |
| May 23 |
C.E.T.A. JAZZ BAND |
Company: La MaMa C.E.T.A. project |
| May 26 |
SUITE & SOUR |
Company: La MaMa C.E.T.A. project
Playwright: Simeon Westbrooke
Director: Simeon Westbrooke
Composer: Simeon Westbrooke |
| May 26 |
DYBBUK FOR TWO PEOPLE |
Guest Artists: Bruce Myers and Miriam
Goldschmidt from Peter Brook's Company |
| June 3 |
MAY I |
Company: Peter Brook Company
One Man Show by: Bob Lloyd |
| June 4 |
LOVE & JUNK |
Playwright: Ruis Woertendyke
Director: Michael Dennis Moore |
| June 11 |
THE MEMORIES OF ERNA FREEDLANDER |
Company: The Spoon Collection
A concert of dance, music, and theatre pieces brought together
by Paul Thompson |
| June 19 |
DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS |
Company / Nationality: Tenjosajiki / Tokyo
Playwright: Shuji Terayama
Director: Shuji Terayama, J.A. Seazer
Composer: J.A. Seazer |
| June 20-27 |
AS YOU LIKE IT |
Company: Great Jones Repertory Workshop
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Director: Andrei Serban
Composer: Elizabeth Swados
Participated in the Stuttgarter Theatersommer '80 at Stuttgart,
Germany |
| June 27- July 14 |
DIWANG-LAHI - A Phillipine Festival of the Arts
(TWITAS - PETAL)
Film: MINSAN ISANG GAMU-GAMO
Dance/Drama: PAG-AALAY
Play Revival: ANG TATAY MONG KALBO (based on Ionesco's THE
BALD SOPRANO)
2 short plays: LANGIT-LANGITANG KUMUNOY, MONUMENTO
Also:
Art Exhibit,
Slide Show and Music,
Afternoon of Phillipine Music,
Folk Arts Seminar |
| July 9 |
TOURISTS AND REFUGEES |
Company: The Other Theatre, Inc.
Playwright: collaborative work
Director: Joseph Chaikin
Composers: Harry Mann, Peter Golub, William Uttley |
| July 9 |
BOY MEETS SWAN |
Playwright: Richard Morrock
Director: Frank Carucci
Composer: Richard Morrock |
| July 17 |
MONKEY MUSIC |
Company: Pan Asian Repertory
Playwright: Margaret Lamb
Director: Tisa Chang
Composer: Simeon Westbrooke |
| October 7-19 |
3rd WORLD INSTITUTE OF THEATRE ARTS STUDIES:
A Third World Cultural Series to celebrate United Nations Day
NIGHT IN MOROCCO (INOSISS)-
Moroccan Berber Ballet - Director and Choreographer: Hassan
Wakrim. Authentic Berber dances, Middle Eastern dances
and music and traditional theatre art forms with guest
artists from Morocco
A NIGERIAN SHOWCASE (Nigeria)-
An introduction to Nigeria's comtemporary culture and traditional
heritage through music, dance and drama.
OH MOON (Korea)
PAG-AALAY (Petal)-
A dance drama inspired by Phillipine rituals, history, literature
and indigenous rhythms - conceived and directed by Cecile
Guidote
ASIAN NIGHT-
Rituals, dances, music and rhythms of Indonesia, China, India,
Korea, Malaysia, and the Phillipines |
| October 17 |
KATANA (The Sword) |
Company: Time and Space Limited (resident
troupe) in association with the Japan Untied States Friendship
Commission and The Japan Society.
Playwright: Kikue Tashiro
Director: Linda Mussman |
| October 21 - November 2 |
THEATRIKA: The Greek Theatre of
New York - Marathon
THE SONG OF THE DEAD BROTHER
Playwright: Mikis Theodorakis
Director: Tony Zoulis
Composer: Mikis Theodorakis
CONCERT OF DEMOTIKA
Musical Direction: Carl Arnold
REBETIKA & MODERN,
GREEK SONGS,
HE WHO MUST DIE
Playwright: Michael Antonakes
Director: Peter Rosenberg
ANTISTASI / RESISTANCE
A dance piece based on the resistance of Souli women. Choreographed
by Amy Berkman
THE HELLENIC DANCERS OF NEW JERSEY
A folk dance concert
OTAN OI ATREIDES
Olympia Dukakis & Nicholas & Nicholas Kepros in a scene
from an adaptation of THE ORESTEIA performed in Greek
GREEK POEMS SONGS AND FRAGMENTS
Performed in english by Olympia Dukakis
CHORIKA
Greek modern dance pieces
THESMOPHORIAZOUSAE
Playwright: Aristophanes
Director: Stefan Rudnicki
ROCOCCO
Playwright: Harry Kontoleon
Director: David Kaplan
THE MANIATI
Playwright: John L Kallas
Director: Aklia Couloumbis
THRYPSALA
Playwright: George Skourtis
Director: Aklia Couloumbis |
| October 23 |
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE CZAR or I
TOO HAVE LIVED IN ARCADI |
Playwright: Frank O'Hara or V.R. Lang
Director: Peter Sellars |
| November 7 |
AN AMERICAN STORY |
Company: Pan Asian Repertory
Playwright: Ernest H. Abuba
Director: Tisa Chang |
| November 10 |
TIRAI: THE CURTAIN
(A work in progress) |
Conceived by: Julie Taymor and created in collaboration
with playwright Jon Lipsky and the company - Baslinese, Javanese,
Korean, Malaysian, Japanese, American -
Composer: Dan Erkkila |
| November 12 |
FROM THE DIARY OF ONE NOT BORN,
GIMPEL THE FOOL
(New American Premiere) |
Playwright: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Director: David Schecter |
| November 17 |
TIRAI was presented at The University of Maryland
Baltimore County |
| December 3 |
DADDY! DADDY!
(New American Play - Premiere) |
Company:
Playwright: Tad Truesdale
Director: Tad Truesdale
Composer: Tad Truesdale & Gerald Cook |
| December 10 |
ART WAR
(New American Play - Premiere) |
Playwright: Rudy Kocevar
Director: Rudy Kocevar |
| December 21 |
The Story of STARLIGHT INDIAN MONK
a people and puppet show for children was presented at La MaMa
Annex for the Community Christmas Show. Approximately 80 Children
and Adults attended. |