Elina Lowensohn and Willem Dafoe in IDIOT SAVANT. Photo © Paula Court.

IDIOT SAVANT
Written and Directed by Richard Foreman
October 27 -- December 20

With Willem Dafoe, Joel Israel, Alenka Kraigher,
Elina Lowensohn, Eric Magnus and Daniel Nelson

Marie asks the Idiot Savant, "But what makes certain words - magic?" What follows is a wild theatrical odyssey that could only have sprung from the fantastical mind of Richard Foreman. This new work is a philosophical comedy, in the great tradition of Ionesco and Preston Sturges. From precise existential and metaphysical acrobatics, to a ridiculous game of inter-species golf with a Giant Duck, IDIOT SAVANT is a fresh, bracing and hilarious exploration of the boundaries of the legitimate. Presented at and in association with The Public Theater.

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Everywhere Theatre Group's
A PALE HORSE, DEATH AND HELL FOLLOWED WITH (A LIFETIME ORIGINAL SERIES)
December 3--5

A theater piece about a generation’s ‘strife’ for happiness in modern American culture through an examination of human connection, cruelty, stupidity, and death.

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The Performance Project at University Settlement and the Ontological Incubator team up to host a series of salons for artists and the public, free of charge. Each salon will feature an artists panel and will be moderated by a guest blogger.

Upcoming salons:
Monday, December 14, 7p.m.
Monday, March 29, 7p.m.
Monday, May 24, 7p.m.

Everyone is welcome.
Where: The Performance Project @ University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street (corner of Rivington)

Ongoing: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC presents radical, genre-blind music from composers and musicians based in New York City and around the world. The series covers as broad a range of sound art as possible (improvisation, time-based, graphic, electronic, text-based/verbal/performance, new composition, installation, homemade devices etc...). Performances ongoing. Experimental Music is curated by Travis Just. More info here.

SHORT FORM is an interdisciplinary forum where artists create a small repertoire of four 10-minute performances that are thematically connected, but independent pieces of art. Approximately each month beginning in January the artists will present a new short work to the general public. Performances begin in January 2010. More info here.