Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A Selection of Alternative Theater in NYC: Companies, Venues

*The Wooster Group, http://thewoostergroup.org/blog/
*Elevator Repair Service (most famous for Gatz), https://www.elevator.org/current/
*Target Margin, http://www.targetmargin.org/
The Debate Society, http://thedebatesociety.org/shows/
The Builders Association,http://www.thebuildersassociation.org/sched.html
*Big Dance Theatre (Annie-B Parsons and Paul Lazar’s wonderful dance theatre company), http://www.bigdancetheater.org/calendar/
The Civilians (musical documentary theatre), http://www.thecivilians.org/current/currentseason.html
SITI Company (Anne Bogart’s company) http://siti.org/content/current-season
The TEAM http://theteamplays.org
*Pick Up Performance Co. - David Gordon, Ain Gordon, http://www.pickupperformance.org
Pig Iron Theatre
Gob Squad (based in Germany but they come to NYC sometimes)
*Motus (Italian company)
The Assembly (Devised, politically oriented work) http://www.assemblytheater.org
The Representatives (small intimate theatre usually staged in people’s apartments),  http://therepresentatives.org, http://therepresentatives.org/apartment/
Woodshed Collective (large ensemble site specific works) http://www.woodshedcollective.com/calendar/
*The Foundry http://thefoundrytheatre.org

Dangerous Ground Productions (Doris Mirescu’s film-theatre hybrids are some of my favorite work in the city — I am also in most of them)
Stolen Chair Theatre (A very playful and smart genre-bending company that I have also worked with many times) http://stolenchair.org/about
One-Eighth Theatre (Very acrobatic absurdist physical theatre) http://oneeighth.org/happening-now/
Cloud of Fools (A small physical company founded by my friend — still in nascent stages but one to look out for) https://www.facebook.com/CloudOfFools/
M-34 (this is the producing arm of my collaborator on my choral piece, James Rutherford, through which he does his own work, very little of which I have seen. But he’s very smart and interesting). http://www.m-34.org

Some venues:
http://theperforminggarage.org

http://www.abronsartscenter.org/performances/

http://www.publictheater.org

http://thekitchen.org

http://bacnyc.org/performances

http://www.bam.org/#Calendar

http://www.ps122.org

http://here.org/shows/show-listing/

http://www.newyorklivearts.org/calendar/upcoming-performances.php

http://lamama.org/this-season/

http://www.judson.org/Dance - A free Monday night movement-based performance series for experimentation, 8:00pm

http://www.danspaceproject.org

http://www.theflea.org