Jane Comfort and Company – March 19 -22
The evening includes a premiere with music by MacArthur Award winning composer Heather Christian, plus the 1983 Afro Brazilian work Artificial Horizon with live drumming, and Bites, from 1996. Jane Comfort has been making multi-disciplinary work for her company since 1978 and has won major accolad
La Mama Galleria & The Invisible Dog: JEWESS – March 12 – APRIL 13
Visual artist Danielle Durchslag designs costumes, inspired by both fashion and Jewish ritual, that she wears to portray female characters of her invention with distinct, oppositional approaches to contemporary Jewish identity and politics. Each of the three personas is tethered to a specific Jewish
La MaMa Kids: The Great Zodiac Race – March 1
This charming shadow puppet show by Tom Lee retells the classic Lunar New Year zodiac tale with animals inspired by Asian languages and pictograms.
Footnotes – February 27 – March 15
FOOTNOTES is an immersive puppetry performance takes place in four distinct locations and examines the theme of walking….……its history, its science, its political power, its poetic and spiritual dimensions.
The Thousand and One Nights Workshop – February 19-March 1
To escape execution by a vengeful king, Scheherazade, the most brilliant storyteller in the world, weaves a tapestry of tales for a thousand and one nights, each story buying her another dawn.
Dave & Golly a tale of virtual loneliness – February 26-March 8
Ring in the Lunar New Year of the Horse with H.T. Chen & Dancers. Teahouse Performances include a celebration of and reflection on the Chinese in the Americas through dance.
MANO A MANO: an operatic monodrama – February 12-22
An operatic monodrama of virtuosic chants, rants, songs and spectacle, surveying toxic masculinity through the ages by needling Anglo-Saxon epics with personal anecdote and pseudo-history. Paul Pinto is a writer, composer, performer, opera-sermonizer, and multi-disciplinary dabbler. Kristin Marti
“Mia M.I.A.” a shadow puppet musical – February 5-15
"Mia M.I.A." is a science fiction fairytale about grief, love, the role of imagination in healing, and the transformative power of embracing the shadows.
The First Line of Dante’s Inferno – February 5-22
The First Line of Dante’s Inferno is a wild, feral trip into nature. Ann Espinoza marches deep into a state forest looking for her missing sister, and finds herself.
La MaMa Kids: We Are So Happy You Are Here – January 31- February 1
Step into a world of dance, theatre, and music—designed for children 3+ and the grown-ups who love them. A performance created for you and every real or imaginary being you might bring. Friends, families, newcomers… everyone belongs here. Kim Ima is a theater maker, writer, baker and community
