| Date |
Title |
Production Information |
| January 1 |
AN EVENING AN AFTERNOON
(A new one-man musical) |
Playwright: Tad Truesdale
Director: Tad Truesdale
Composer: J. Hamilton Grandison |
| January 11 |
THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD or HOW
NOT TO DO IT AGAIN |
Playwright: Jean Claude van Italie
(A new play from translations of Tibetian texts.)
Director: Assurbanipal Babilla
Composer: Steve Gorn |
| January 19 |
FANTASIES OF PUSHKIN |
Company: Saint Petersburg Players
Nationality: Russian
Playwright: Edward Staroselsky
Director: Edward Staroselsky |
| January 27 |
RESIDENT ALIEN |
Company: The Attic Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Nationality: France
Playwright: Marianne Marcellin
Director: Katherine Adamov
Composer: Guy Klucevsek |
| February 3 |
THE AMERICAN MYSTERIES (Creation) |
Playwright: Matthew Maguire
Director: Matthew Maguire
Composer: Glenn Branca, Vito Ricci (with Rashid Ali) and Clodagh
Simonds (With piano treatment by Brian Eno) |
| February 12 |
THE TOOTH OF CRIME |
Company: La MaMa & Syracuse Stage
Playwright: Sam Shepard
Director: George Ferencz
Composer: Sam Shepard |
| February 16 |
LETS START A MAGAZINE |
Company: A Hard Werken Netherlands
Association
Nationality: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Based on e.e. cummings poems |
| March 3 & 4 |
NEW MUSIC AT LA MAMA |
Playwright: Jeffrey Lohn
Director: Jeffrey Lohn
Composer: David Friedman, Barbara Jazinski, James Irsay, Rocco
diPietro, Suzanne de Montigny's and Amy Reich |
| March 11 |
WORLD THEATRE DAY CELEBRATION
A GLIMPSE OF AFRICA
Choreography: C.K. Ganyo
Director: Jerry Gathsmah
Odomankoma Kyerema Cultural Troupe - International Children's
Theatre Ghana, West Africa
A 3RD WORLD CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Rituals & Folk Arts Tarditions from Asia, Africa, North &
South America - Staged by Cecile Guidote Alvarez |
Company: La MaMa TWITAS & ITI
w/ Art Safari, Inc.
|
| April 1 |
BARNUM'S LAST LIFE |
Company: STEPA
Playwright: Richard Ploetz
Director: Paul Lazarus |
| April 1 |
HOT LUNCH APOSTLES |
Company: The Talking Band
Playwright: Sidney Goldfarb
Director: Paul Zimet
Composer: Sybille Hayn, Ellen Maddow, Harry Mann |
| April 1 |
PLAGUES FOR OUR TIME |
Playwright: Eve Merriman
Director: Tom O'Horgan
Composer: Tom O'Horgan |
| April 21 |
I DIED YESTERDAY |
Playwright: Nick Markovich
Director: Robert Speller
Composer: |
| April 26, 27 |
DARPANA DANCERS OF INDIA |
featuring internationally acclaimed
artists Mrinalina Sarabhai and Mallika Sarabhai - A program of
South Indian classical dance and music. |
| April 28 |
GOOD-BYE GOOD-BYE |
Company: Teatron Company
Nationality: Israel
Playwright: Company Piece
Director: Rina Yerushalmi
Composer: Gerald Busby |
April 30 |
STORYTELLING |
Company: TWITAS
An afternoon of storytelling; A Native American Indian Folk tAle
and Turn of The Century Viignettes on Nantucket featuring JANE
ALEXANDER and JANE LIND |
| May 5 |
SOLARIS DANCE THEATRE |
Contemporary dance. |
| May 5 |
11PM AT LA MAMA |
Featuring guest artists such as
Maggie Soboil, a South African now living in New York - a one
woman show.
A comedy group Blown Apple present a combination of songs,
scenes and monologues. Rick Richardson is Artistic Director. |
| May 13 |
MIN TANAKA / EMOTION |
Nationality: Japan
A new one man piece. This marks the first time EMOTION has been
performed in the U.S. |
| May 17 |
TANGO GLACIALE |
Company: Falso Movimento - Mickery, Amsterdam
Nationality: Italy
Playwright: Mario Martin
Soundtrack: Daghi Rondanini
A multimedia piece performed by the Falsom Mivimento troupe parodying
a variety of themes. |
| May 19 |
KEEPING HOUSE |
Playwright: Lynn Siefert
Director: Tim Whitby |
| May 20 |
JADE |
Playwright: Mel Wong
Director: Mel Wong
Composer: Skip La Plante |
| May 25 |
CONJUR WOMAN |
Playwright: Beatrice Manley-Blau
Director: George Ferencz
Composer: Cecil McBee |
| May 25 |
IN THE BEGINNING...LUCIFER...THE BIBLE |
Playwright: Esteban Fernandez Sanchez
Director: Esteban Fernandez Sanchez |
| June 7 |
LIGHT OPERA |
Company: Western Winds
Playwright: Charlie Morrow
Director: Tom O'Horgan
Composer: Charlie Morrow |
| June 15 |
TOUR OF HELL |
Playwright: Tom Murrin
Director: Tom Murrin |
| July 8 |
DUCK DANCE |
Playwright: Jeffrey Lohn
Director: Jeffrey Lohn
Acoustic & Electric Music |
| June 30 |
MIN TANAKA / EMOTION |
Repeat performance see: May 13, 1983 |
| August 30 |
UNCLE VANYA |
Playwright: Anton Chehov Translation
by Jean Claude van Italie
Director: Andrei Serban |
| September 1 |
THE ARBOR |
Company: Saliko Co.
Playwright: Andrea Dunbar
Director: Leo Shapiro |
| September 8 |
THE SAD LAMENT OF PECOS BILL ON THE
EVE OF KILLING HIS WIFE,
SUPERSTITIONS |
Playwright: Sam Shepard
Director: Julie Herbert
Composer: Catherine Stone |
| September 16 |
11PM AT LA MAMA |
Playwright: Shami Chaikin, Joyce Griffen,
Jeffrey Herman, Akin Babatunde, Spiderwoman Theater, Manuel Lutgenhorst
& Co.
Director: Rick Richardson |
| October 10 |
DIVERSIONS: OR PROOF THAT IT'S POSSIBLE
TO LIVE |
Playwright: Aubrey Simpson
Director: John-Michael Tebelak
Composer: Dale Mc Intosh |
| November 3 |
ONCE IN DOUBT |
Playwright: Ray Barry
Director: David Saint
Composer: Harry Mann & Ellen Maddow |
| November 3 - 27 |
11PM AT LA MAMA |
featuring guest artists such as Nancy
Heiken, a gifted singer, musician and actress; Robbie McCauley
and SEDITION, a revue inspired by the social condition; Luis
Leal & Co. a group of folkloric dancers, singers, and musicians;
Pedro Baez and Cantameria, a group of Latin American performers;
Tad Truesdale, a writer and director whose works have been produced
at La MaMa Henry Bradley &
Jasper McGruder, blues in the folk tradition. Rick Richardson
is Artistic Director of 11PM AT LA MAMA |
| November 11 |
CELEBRATION OF TRADITIONAL CULTURES
Part 1 - GALA / BENEFIT MARATHON |
Company: TWITAS
FACE Cultural Plan for World Commmunication's Year |
| November 12 & 13 |
PART II & III - INDIGENOUS RITUAL
/ MUSIC |
Celebration of Tradition Cultures organized
by TWITAS / LA MAMA |
| November 30 |
HERE / NOW TWO-IN-ONE |
Nationality: Korea
Choreographer: Sin Cha Hong |
| December 1 |
DAMNEE MANON,
SACREE SANDRA |
Playwright: Michael Tremblay
Director: George Ferencz
Composer: Jack Maeby |
| December 8 |
FIVE OF US |
Company: River Arts Repertory
Playwright: Len Jenkin
Director: Larry Sacharow |
| December 22 |
PEOPLE PUPPETS AND OTHER DUMMIES,
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS |
Puppetry Exhibit - Gretchen Green and
Gina Romano |
| December 28 |
HAPPY DAYS |
Playwright: Samuel Beckett
Director: Rick Lonon |
| December 1 - 23 |
11PM AT LA MAMA |
Guest artists Tad Truesdale, Henry Bradley & Jasper
McGruder (see above) continued performances; The Talking Band
In Concert composed of songs, poems, and theatre fragments performed
by Ellen Maddow, Harry Mann, Tina Shepard, and Paul Zimet. |