In Other Mike Daisey news
How Theater Failed America is transferring! From the press release:
HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA, Mike Daisey’s monologue about theater, failure, passion, and hope, will transfer directly from a sold-out, critically-acclaimed run at Joe’s Pub to a six week limited engagement Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre.
Performances end at Joe’s Pub on Sunday, May 11th, and begin at the Barrow Street Theatre on Friday, May 16th, with performances every Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm, and Sundays at 7:00pm through June 22nd. No performance May 25th. The monologue is created and performed by Mike Daisey, and directed by Jean-Michele Gregory.
Mike Daisey has been called “the master storyteller...one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by the New York Times. In HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA he sinks his razor-sharp wit into a subject he knows well: the American theater, from the sublimely crass to the genuinely ugly. From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to “successful” working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian state of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. Fearlessly implicating himself and the system he works within, Daisey seeks answers to essential and dangerous questions about the art we’re making, the legacy we leave the future, and who it is we believe we’re speaking to.
Every Sunday performance will be followed by open roundtable forums with theater artists and administrators, including Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio), Robert Brustein (founder of Yale Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theatre), James Bundy (dean, Yale School of Drama), Lisa Kron (Well), Jim Nicola (artistic director, New York Theatre Workshop), Richard Nelson (Conversations in Tusculum), Maria Dizzia (Eurydice), Gideon Lester (artistic director, American Repertory Theatre), Maria Goyanes (producer, 13P), Paige Evans (Lincoln Center) and many more in direct conversation with working actors, technicians, designers, and independent producers of the American theater.
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May 16 – June 22
Friday & Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 7PM
All tickets $30
Student rush day of show $20
Barrow Street Theatre
27 Barrow Street at 7 AvenueSubways
1 to Christopher Street
1 block south on 7th Avenue to Barrow Street
A C E B D F V to West 4th Street
West on 4th Street, left on Barrow Street
Box Office Hours
Tuesday-Sunday 1pm-8pm
Tickets can be purchased online at www.telecharge.com
or by phone inside the NY metro area at (212) 239-6200 and outside the NY metro area at 1(800) 432-7250
For group information please call (212) 367-7690
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