in association with Island Weiss Gallery and Jeremy Bloom Plays

art opening 6-8pm

performance 8pm

with a celebration to follow

FREE

artwork curated by Island Weiss and Michelle Doll

with a live performance curated by Jeremy Bloom

and featuring the urban faeries of Audrey Luce

Featuring the artworks of

Jean-Pierre Arboleda, Sofia Bachvarova, Julie Brady, Dina Brodsky, Bonnie DeWitt, Michelle Doll, Uziel Duarte, Daniel Esquivia Zapata, Nicole Etienne, Jane LaFarge Hamill, Michael Meadors, Alyssa Monks, Isaac Pelepko, Jason Talley, Melanie Vote, Mitra Walter

Thursday, February 24, 2011 @ 8pm

Friday, February 25, 2011 @ 8pm, 10pm

La Boheme (Spoken) is a lyrical dialogue loyally adapted from Puccini’s original libretto to his iconic opera La Bohème. The result is a larger-than-life play, about young artists, mostly broke, hyper, and always on the brink of inspiration and death. The musical roots (repetitions and rhyme) and the awkwardness of translation enable a language that is poetically charged.

Adapted by Brian Rady, and conceived & directed by Jeremy Bloom

Lighting Design by Dan Gallagher

Stephen Stout

Stephanie Bratnick

Katherine Folk Sullivan

Brett Aresco

Tommy Crawford

LaChrisha Brown

Brian Rady

Ben Weber

original guitar score played live by Stephanie Sherline

Check out the trailer!

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$20 General Admission

$10 Students, Artists, Unemployed (password: survive)

A month of events featuring the survival of arts and artists

February 13            Darrell Larson’s Mythic Gossip: Tales & Truths from Hollywood

The first in a series of lecturettes, ALL THE DOOMED BLONDES will reveal the connections between Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Frances Farmer, Margaret Sullavan, Marilyn Monroe, Carroll Baker, Barbara Loden, & Jean Seberg.

Tandem Reading Series: Haunted Kids!

Vampires aren’t the only things kids have to put up with these days! There are zombies, and elves and life’s unexpected knocks. Award-winning children’s author Chris Grabenstein reads from “The Smoky Corridor,” about a haunted school, joined by Louella San Juan and Elizabeth Catalano, both reading from works in progress about a haunted New York and about a girl who thinks she’s Nancy Drew. A panel discussion to follow on what’s so special about being haunted and why do publishers like it so much?

February 14            Blackboard @ the cell: Finding Harlem Dawn

With Harlem as its core, Finding Harlem Dawn is an exploration of intrigue, misfortune and love in a night’s journey. Centering on four artists struggling to find love in their different yet interchangeable experiences, this musical – textured in lyrical poetry, is a modern day Shakespearean type story exploring parallels from the past and present through dance and experimental jazz music. Concept, book and lyrics by Ano Okera and

music by Billy White.

February 17           Jill Knox – Gallery Showing & Reception

Artist Jill Knox presents her collection, “Nigra Sum, Sucka!,” an exploration of what being black has meant for her, inspired by the works of other inspirational African American artists, political figures and free thinkers. Merging pop art with black history, Jill has created a body of work that gives voice to, and speaks for, others who share her unique African American experience.

February 18      Oddities, or Frog-Boy Live! A Music Freak Show (Equity Reading)

An on-going workshop/production, Oddities tells the story of Princess Olga, the World’s Most Famous Bearded Lady, and her adventures as she finds a place for herself on the stage. After the performance, the audience is invited to participate in a talk-back with the company and director.

February 24-25          Jeremy Bloom’s La Boheme (Spoken)

La Boheme (Spoken) is a lyrical dialogue loyally adapted from Puccini’s original libretto to his iconic opera La Bohème. The result is a larger-than-life play, about young artists, mostly broke, hyper, and always on the brink of inspiration and death. The musical roots (repetitions and rhyme) and the awkwardness of translation enable a language that is poetically charged. Adapted by Brian Rady, and conceived & directed by Jeremy Bloom.

February 26           Flutronix (Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull) and Friends

Produced by Brooklyn based electro-acoustic flute duo, Flutronix, this concert is a celebration of the “friends” who help them do what they love most – make music! Guest artists include drummer Joe Blaxx, saxophonist Stacy Dillard, harpist/vocalist Aviva Jaye and more!

March 2            Stranger in My Body – a play

Struggling with her own religion and sexuality, Jacqueline must negotiate her relationship with Abia, a male-identified female, who is deciding whether or not to begin the process of physically becoming a man. Written by Garlia Cornelia Jones and directed by Mason Beggs, the workshop performance is followed by a talk-back and reception.

March 3            Justin Waldstein – Gallery Showing & Reception

Artist Justin Waldstein’s collection draws directly from life and found photos, capturing resonant moments of exhilaration and futility, as well as the beauty and fragility of the human form. His work utilizes explosive color and line to illuminate triumph, glory, energy, mortality and tragedy. The paintings on unstretched canvas are theatrical, reminiscent of discarded posters or torn shreds of sideshow banners. Throughout the collection, there is a hint of the renaissance tapestries of lost empires, and with a sculptural, organic surface, they hang as butchers’ hides displaying wrinkled images on tattooed flesh.

March 4           I Was Drunk That Day (assembled, adapted and directed by Darrell Larson)

An exploratory (staged) reading of several early crime and suspense stories by Anton Chekhov including “Conversation of a Drunken Man with a Sober Devil”, “Evildoer”, and “The Wallet”.  Most of the featured stories translated into English for the first time just last year.

March 5 HOAXOCAUST!

HOAXOCAUST! is a work of fiction satirizing the actual arguments of Arthur Butz, David Irving, Robert Faurisson, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Every accusation the play presents “against” the Holocaust comes from their literature and interviews.

March 11-12           The Songs of Beulah Rowley

The Songs of Beulah Rowley is a song cycle with narration and projections based on the biography of the fictional character Beulah Rowley, a regionally-known depression-era singer and songwriter from the Midwest.  Biography and music written by Mary Lee Kortes and directed by Darrell Larson.

]]> http://www.thecelltheatre.org/survarts2011/feed/ 0 http://www.thecelltheatre.org/february-25-26-27-8pm-anchor-women/ http://www.thecelltheatre.org/february-25-26-27-8pm-anchor-women/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:26:37 +0000 the cell http://www.thecelltheatre.org/?p=1748 the cell presents…

Anchor Women

a new play by Brian Rady

directed by Jeremy Bloom

A multimedia gesamtkunstwerk that shows the high definition foibles of our ladies in front of the camera.  A “Topgirls” for a new generation, the play brings together celebrity, luminary ladies in a real dreamscape – Oprah, Annie Liebovitz, transatlantic flights, and poetry.

Friday, August 14 – Saturday, August 29th

Thursday through Monday at 8pm

with 10pm Performances Friday and Saturday

Leaves of Grass returns to the cell for an engaging evening of theater.

Directed by Jeremy Bloom, the ensemble performs Walt Whitman’s epic text – as chamber theater meets dance theater meets congregation meets celebration – without irony or clothing.

A nude chorus of multitudes reciting, “I contain multitudes.” Wouldn’t Walt Whitman be tickled?

Whitman, who in this poem exclaims, “If I worship one thing more than another, it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it.” Each succeeding line, passage, turn of phrase celebrates the bare human form as an intersection of nature and industry. “I am the poet of the body, I am the poet of the soul.”

“There seems something appropriately pure about the Cell Theatre’s production”– The New Yorker

Visit the official website for LEAVES OF GRASS – UNBOUND  www.leavesunbound.com

Tickets
$15 - Students, Seniors
$20 – General Admission

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