The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson), Producer Mark Russell and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Executive Producer) announced the largest and most expansive line-up for UNDER THE RADAR 2010, running January 6-17 at The Public Theater as well as partner venues. This 12-day festival, coinciding with the New York APAP conference, is committed to tracking new theater from across the U.S. and around the world. Tickets are $15 to UNDER THE RADAR shows at The Public and go on-sale on Tuesday, December 1.
Now in its sixth year, UNDER THE RADAR is an explosively diverse kaleidoscope of new theater-examples from around the world and the U.S. that spotlight artists ranging from emerging talents to masters in the field. Located at The Public Theater as well as partner venues, UNDER THE RADAR offers a crash course in theater that is exciting, independent, and experimental, created by some of the most dynamic artists working today.
"Every year Under the Radar provides a dizzying and exhilarating look at the range of theater being created by some of the world's most exciting radical artists," said Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis. "This Festival is irreplaceable; it's also a lot of fun."
"This Under the Radar is the most ambitious we've mounted with more presentations in more places than ever before," said Producer Mark Russell. "Just as UTR visual artist MK Guth makes beautiful ropes out of re-purposed clothes, this festival is bound together with themes of youth and aging, theater and film, technology and performance, visual art and puppets, politics and faith, making for a wildly colorful and daringly bold festival that reflects our world and our very complicated times."
The UNDER THE RADAR festival is timed to coincide with the New York City APAP Conference, the world's top forum and marketplace for the performing arts. More than 4,000 performing arts presenters, agents, managers and other industry leaders are expected to attend this year's conference. In addition to UNDER THE RADAR, the conference features more than 1,000 showcase performances staged throughout New York.
"UNDER THE RADAR has become the leading destination for new theater work and continues to raise the visibility and curiosity for new theater with this dynamic festival," said Sandra Gibson, President and CEO, Arts Presenters. "Arts Presenters is thrilled to partner with Mark Russell and The Public Theater throughout the year on both the festival and what is now the Under the Radar Initiative for the creation and dissemination of devised work."
Complete Line-Up for UNDER THE RADAR (January 6 - 17, 2010):
American Document
January 6-17 (Running Time: 75 minutes)
SITI Company and the Martha Graham Company
Wed. Jan 6th 8pm |Thurs. Jan 7th 1pm | Sat. Jan 9th 4pm | Sun. Jan 10th 7pm | Tues. Jan 12th 7pm | Wed. Jan 13th 7pm | Sat. Jan 16th 7pm | Sun. Jan 17th 7pm |
The Martha Graham Center has invited director Anne Bogart, playwright Charles L. Mee Jr. and the SITI Company to reinvent Martha Graham's American Document using filmed excerpts, written descriptions and Graham's handwritten notes. In several work-in-progress showings, catch a firsthand glimpse at this stirring new theatrical work featuring a ground-breaking collaboration between SITI Company actors and Martha Graham Company dancers. American Document reflects our current cultural concerns by answering the same questions Martha Graham asked over 70 years ago: What is an American? And what is America?
Chautauqua!
January 7-17 (Running Time: 75 minutes)
Created by The National Theater of the United States of America
Thurs. Jan 7th 9:30pm | Sat. Jan 9th 7pm | Tues. Jan 12th 9:30pm | Thurs. Jan 14th 9:30pm | Fri. Jan 15th 9:30pm | Sat. Jan 16th 9:30pm | Sun. Jan 17th 3pm |
Inspired by the wildly popular lecture circuits of the late 19th century, NTUSA's Chautauqua! weaves lectures on history, culture and capitalism with live music, magic, slapstick, dance and melodrama, as it discovers the place of art and impulse in our changing culture of commerce. Invested with the signature theatrical bravura that earned this company an OBIE award for Design and the Spalding Gray Award for theatrical innovation, each night's Chautauqua! features special guest lecturers, performers and surprises in a celebration of the culture we all share and the moment in which we share it. Chautauqua! is also a featured presentation of Performance Space 122's COIL.
John Cassavetes' Husbands
January 6-17 (Running Time: 180 minutes with intermission)
Dangerous Ground Productions
Conceived, Designed and Directed by Doris Mirescu
Wed. Jan 6th 7pm | Thurs. Jan 7th 8pm | Sat. Jan 9th 2pm | Sun. Jan 10th 7pm | Mon. Jan 11th 7pm | Wed. Jan 13th 7pm | Fri. Jan 15th 7pm | Sat. Jan 16th 2pm | Sun. Jan 17th 7pm |
Based on John Cassavetes' 1970s film, Husbands depicts three men shaken up by the death of their friend and by their own imminent approach into middle age. They enter a freefall into emptiness and unrest in a four-day bender that follows the funeral. Anarchic and raw, the production is a surprisingly intimate exploration of the mysteries of friendship and masculinity.
Invisible Atom
January 7-17 (Running Time: 60 minutes)
2b theatre company (Canada)
Thurs. Jan 7th 5:30pm | Fri. Jan 8th 9:30pm | Sat. Jan 9th 7pm | Sun. Jan 10th 2pm | Tues. Jan 12th 8:30pm | Thurs. Jan 14th 9:30pm | Sat. Jan 16th 8:30pm | Sun. Jan 17th 4pm |
Time freezes and the normally reliable laws of motion and matter dissolve. Poised between life and death, ex-stockbroker Atom contemplates his place in a world propelled towards its destruction by the laws of physics and free market economics. Visually striking and ingeniously minimalist, Invisible Atom is a darkly humorous story that questions the nature and acceleration of human progress.
