"I wait all year for January to roll around again-it's New York's hottest time of the year, theatrically speaking, when the city fields as much experimental work in one month as it does in the other eleven combined. Several of my favorite festivals happen simultaneously, including the much-loved and long-lived Under the Radar, which this year spreads its umbrella over thirty-two productions."
"Anne Gridley's "Watch Me Walk," directed by Eric Ting, will be at Soho Rep (at its current digs in Playwrights Horizons); Elevator Repair Service premières its version of James Joyce's "Ulysses" at the Public, applying its deconstructionist fervor to the postmodern masterpiece; and Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein bring back their "Friday Night Rat Catchers," after a run at New York Live Arts."
"Under the Radar also provides a vital connection with international work, at venues such as the Irish Arts Center, which will host the Dublin-based company Brokentalkers, and PAC NYC, which welcomes "The Visitors," a "first contact" drama from Moogahlin Performing Arts and the Sydney Theatre Company. At the same time, the catalogue groans under the weight of all the local talent working at the cutting edge of the form. Tina Satter, the HawtPlates, and Eric Berryman all have pieces on display."
"The Prototype festival includes my most-anticipated work in the month's lineup, Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar's reconstruction of the "post rock" opera "What to Wear," at BAM, which was originally a 2006 collaboration between the composer Michael Gordon and the much-missed avant-garde director Richard Foreman. And the Exponential Festival, which contains the fringiest offerings in the January slate, will be in a number of Brooklyn spaces, with"
January in New York concentrates a surge of experimental theatre across numerous simultaneous festivals. Under the Radar spans thirty-two productions and includes international companies and local experimental artists. Notable shows include Anne Gridley's Watch Me Walk at Soho Rep, Elevator Repair Service's Ulysses at the Public, and Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein's Friday Night Rat Catchers, featuring Engelstein in a slow-motion avalanche solo. The festival circuit connects venues like the Irish Arts Center and PAC NYC to Dublin-based Brokentalkers and Moogahlin Performing Arts's The Visitors. Prototype presents Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar's reconstruction of the post-rock opera What to Wear at BAM. The Exponential Festival programs fringe performances across Brooklyn spaces.
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