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Abrons Arts Center Announces 2017-18 Season

The season, with works by Eliza Bent and Elevator Repair Service, is the first to be curated by new artistic director Craig Peterson.

Eliza Bent's Aloha, Aloha or When I Was Queen will be seen at Abrons Arts Center.
Eliza Bent's Aloha, Aloha or When I Was Queen will be seen at Abrons Arts Center.
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Abrons Arts Center has announced its 2017-18 season, the first to be curated by its new artistic director, Craig Peterson. The venue is located at the historic Henry Street Settlement Playhouse on the Lower East Side.

The season will feature 11 theatrical productions. The fall lineup includes an adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel Distant Star presented by the theater company Caborca (September 14-October 1); Blackouts by "Drag fabulist" Dickie Beau (October 5-8); Katherine Brook, Shonni Enelow, and Taylor Brook's The Power of Emotion: The Apartment (October 11-21); Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty's Why Why Always, featuring Jim Fletcher (October 12-29). Wintertime will see Jack and the Beanstalk, created by disabled actor and writer Mat Fraser and feminist art star Julie Atlas Muz (December 6-23).

In 2018, the venue will present Fabrice Melquiot and Paul Desveaux's Pollock, featuring Jim Fletcher and Birgit Huppuch (February 15-25); Modesto Flako Jimene's Listen for My Dear Brooklyn (March 14-31); Deborah Stein and Suli Holum's The Wholehearted (March 15-April 1); Eliza Bent's Aloha, Aloha or When I Was Queen (April 4-21); Elevator Repair Service's Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf, written by Kate Scelsa and directed by John Collins (late May-June 17); and the Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble's Month of a Million Likes (June 7-30).

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