May 27, 2009
Performances in weird places: subways to bank vaults
New York still does weird well.
Within the next few weeks, you can see a plays performed in an East Village apartment, on a subway platform or dashing through a city park.
There’s also a concert in an empty bank vault below Wall Street and a site-specific dance performance in a post-Colonial-era fort.
Here are a few of the upcoming offerings:
Sam Shepard’s play “True West” is being staged “in an authentic American kitchen” on Avenue B through this Sunday. Tickets are $25.
Starting June 4, “A Mysterious Way” will be performed “on the uptown C train platform on 81st Street and the downtown J/M train platform at Chambers Street, subject to change due to the inconsistent environment of the MTA.” The price: free with the swipe of a MetroCard.
 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program allows artists to use vacant commercial space downtown, including a basement bank vault at 14 Wall Street. In the past, the vault has hosted theater performances, but this Saturday the space will feature a free, walk-in/out setup concert by the 12-member acoustic ensemble Eidolon. (An RSVP is required via mail@annadachi.org.)
LMCC’s sixth annual Sitelines Series kicks off this Sunday with site-specific dance performances at locations ranging from Fort Jay on Governors Island to the Whitehall Terminal for the Staten Island Ferry. All performances are free.
The film-noir “Suspicious Package Show” is billed as “part theatrical experience, part live video game, part Williamsburg walking tour.” Weekend tickets are $20.
The New York Classical Theatre today begins free performances of “King Lear” in multiple locations in Central Park and Battery Park. It’s sometimes called “Shakespeare on the Run” since audiences need to follow the performers through the park.
Later in the summer, the Drilling Company stages Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, which is preformed in a parking lot on the Lower East Side.
And in the fall, as part of Open House NY, Dance Theatre Etcetera does a site-specific performance/walking tour of Green-Wood Cemetery called “Angels & Accordians.”
Picture credits: FireBone Theatre and LMCC.
(Thanks to Mommy Poppins and Daniel John Kelley (@funwithiago) for the tips.)
Earlier: OHNY: Floyd Bennett Field’s Hangar B dance charrette
Noir thriller will be staged in Central Park restrooms
September dates set for opera on a tanker in Brooklyn
May 27, 2009 1:18 PM in Broadway, Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Kids, Midtown, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Transportology, Upper East Side, Upper West Side
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