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
A POETRY ELECTRIC SPECIAL: VIVA THE DIVAS – February 9
The Poetry Electric fuses music, movement, sound, and dance with the spoken word and presents artists working in a wide range of styles including beatboxing, jazz and hip-hop theatre. This series has presented over 200 emerging poets from diverse cultural backgrounds.
“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
H.T. Chen & Dancers – January 30-February 1
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.
Hearing Time in Silence – January 30-31
Hearing Time in Silence is an immersive art organism that composes sound and silence, time and relation through auditory, visual, and bodily experience. Audience, performers, objects, media, light, sound, and silence function as equal agents, overlapping to form a living universe.
LA MAMA POETRY ELECTRIC: ASIAN VOICES 2.0 – January 26
The Poetry Electric fuses music, movement, sound, and dance with the spoken word and presents artists working in a wide range of styles including beatboxing, jazz and hip-hop theatre. This series has presented over 200 emerging poets from diverse cultural backgrounds.
KING LEAR – January 23-February 8
Compagnia de’ Colombari’s KING LEAR is a primal, physical, and potent “paper crown” Lear that strips the Shakespearian classic to its essence. Coonrod utilizes her signature “multiplicity” to shift and deepen audiences’ connection with the characters.
