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Screenings: Tadeusz Kantor's "Theatre of Death" The Annex Nov 10 - 16 Mon - Sun 7:30pm purchase tickets online purchase a package to all 7 shows! The series includes screenings of filmed records of Tadeusz Kantor’s performances from his Theatre of Death phase. These will be projected in the Annex theater – the same space where between 1979 and 1991 each of the works was first presented to an American audience by La MaMa founder and director Ellen Stewart. Kantor, as a rule, appeared in his performances, on stage along with the actors, and his work is almost inconceivable without his presence, which makes their revival unlikely. This series of screenings is thus a unique occasion to view original performances of Kantor’s work in an original space. All films will be shown in Polish with English subtitles and introduced by specialists on Kantor's work. more info Lillian Yuralia First Floor Theatre Nov 13 - 30 Thur - Sat 8:00pm Sunday 2:30pm & 8:00pm purchase tickets online Written by the OBIE Award winning actoress Barbara Eda-Young, and directed by Austin Pendleton. Lillian Yuralia, a finalist at the Humana Festival and winner of a 2001 Berrilla Kerr Grant, is set on the Lower East Side in 1930. Lillian, a former star of the Yiddish Theater (or so she says) has lived for many years with her lover Jake in the top floor flat of a brownstone. more info ISBA The Club Nov 8, 9, 15 & 16, 5:30pm purchase tickets online ISBA is a new one-woman show, conceived, written and performed by Lanny Harrison. A collage of poetry and songs, dreams and memories, ISBA is a mysterious riddle where everything is connected by an invisible web, a meeting of the wild and civilized, lamentation and buffoonery. more info Ms. Green The Club Nov 14 & 15 10:00pm purchase tickets online Written and Performed by Ryan Green Directed by Michael Cherry with Matthew Fetbrandt (Piano) Two nights only event by Ryan Green! Ms. Green mixes original comedic monologues with melodramatic popular songs from this country and many others in a sometimes sweet but mostly bitter cocktail for the girls. A hatful of songs and stories about death. How wonderful. more info www.myspace.com/msgreenmsgreen

Mostly Masks by Tom Murrin/Alien Comic October 29 - November 16, 2008 Tom Murrin/Alien Comic has been a member of the La Mama family since the mid-60's. His first plays were done at La Mama, E.T.C. when it was located on 2nd Avenue, just South of St. Mark's Place. Other plays of his were done at La Mama's East 4th Street home, notably the hit musical, "Cock-Strong", directed by John Vacarro and performed by his Playhouse of the Ridiculous. In the mid-'70's Murrin began his performance career in Seattle, Washington, with a group called Para-Troupe. In 1977-78, he traveled solo around the world, doing a different show each day; although each show involved the fast-paced use of homemade masks, found object props and non-stop talking. By Bombay he had done his hundredth show. In the fall of 1978 he returned to New York City and began a residency at Razor Art Gallery in Soho. In the early '80's, Murrin was performing as "Alien Comic", at theaters such as La Mama and Theater for the New City, music clubs like CBGB and Pyramid, and performance spaces like Franklin Furnace, Club 57, P.S.122, 8 B.C., and King Tut's, Wah-Wah Hut. During the '80's and '90's, Alien Comic was "the holiday host" at La Mama, producing variety shows 4 times a year, introducing new acts to La Mama audiences, such as Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, David and Amy Sedaris. Murrin has continued performing and leading workshops to this day. In May 2008, he was honored by P.S.122 at their annual Gala for his work as a performer/curator in the downtown performance art community since the mid-'80's. In November, 2006, Murrin had a retrospective of his masks , some costumes , and memorabilia at Track 16, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, California. In March, 2008, a number of his masks were in another show at Track 16, as a part of the Internal Guidance Systems group exhibition. Murrin's masks, made for performance and quick-change, are fashioned out of cardboard and/or foam core and painted with acrylics. There will be approximately 50 pieces (masks, portraits, costumes, backdrops) on display at "Mostly Masks" at La Mama La Galleria in October-November. http://www.thealiencomic.com/ Poetry Electric Poetry Reading Series Monday November 17 8:00pm WOMEN'S POETRY HAPPENING V A multi-ethnic gathering of dynamic female poets hosted by Ilka Scobie Featuring Erika Jo Brown, Velez! Moore and many more! Visit Poetry Electric page