David Amram, Judith Malina, and More Set for Lower East Side Festival

Theater for the New City will present its 14th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, over Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.

This free three-day family-friendly festival will feature theatre, music, dance, puppetry, poetry, film, and a cultural fair.

This year’s participants will include Jazz legend David Amram; talk show host Joe Franklin; The Living Theater’s Judith Malina; Taylor Mead, Phoebe Legere, Broadway actress Vinie Burrows, folksinger Judy Gorman; downtown favorites Epstein & Hassan (The Black & The Jew), clown The Red Bastard (a.k.a. Eric Davis); theatre and dance companies such as Rod Rodgers Dance Company, Joe’s Pub, La MaMa E.T.C., DADA NY, New York Theater Workshop, The Mariana Bekerman Dance Company, the Bangladesh Theatre of America, Kinding Sindaw Dance Company, and many more. There will also be new works by established and rapidly rising playwrights including Eduardo Machado, Barbara Kahn, Lissa Moira, Larry Myers, and others to be announced.

For more information, including the complete lineup and schedule, visit www.theaterforthenewcity.net.