65th Season a La MaMa to Feature Palestinian Dance, an Epstein Oratorio, and Puppets

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced details of its upcoming 65th season, which begins September 5 with a free one-night-only performance by the El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe.

From September 24-27, the downstairs theater will host Weaving Shin Yun-bok, a live, non-verbal performance that reimagines Korean classical painting through contemporary performance.

Epstein Oratorio, or a Modern Hymn to Demeter will perform October 1-4. Playwright Karen Malpede’s exposé of the “Epstein Class” uses actual language from the Epstein files while weaving in the ancient mother-daughter myth of Persephone and Demeter. Kathleen Chalfant will play Demeter.

The Queer New York Festival takes over that same space October 1-11 with a series of installations, performances, and lectures curated by Zvonimir Dobrovic that will explore topics like sex work, migration, Indigenous rights, and the new conservatism.

Later that month, Margot Rose’s Unconditional, A Musical Memoir will perform in the Club. A time-traveling genre-bending story of one queer family’s experience of loss, it performs October 15-25.

Downstairs at the same time (October 15-25), Dmitri Barcomi and Vice Squad will perform Doll Day Afternoon, a new piece adapted from the words of Elizabeth Eden, the transgender woman who provided the basis for the character Leon in the film Dog Day Afternoon.

From October 30-November 7, the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival will take over the Ellen Stewart Theatre and the Downstairs for a series of performances and community events.

From November 11-December 6, our felt friends will take over all La MaMa venues for the La MaMa Puppet Festival, featuring new work by Monica Lerch, Monica Lerch, Deniz Khateri, and others.

As previously announced, Sam Rockwell, Marin Ireland, and Alfred Molina will star in a revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, directed by Neil Pepe. Arguably the biggest show to be programmed at La MaMa in years, the production represents a new collaborative model between commercial and nonprofit theater at the stories venue, with special rates extended to La MaMa members.

Click here to explore La MaMa’s upcoming season in depth.