Family Happiness is a new performance work about Jewish aggression, unprocessed Jewish grief from the Holocaust and intergenerational trauma. This evening length dance song continues May’s decade-long investigation into body control and the complicated system of victimhood and perpetration, prioritizing a space for culpability and catharsis.

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Family Happiness

Abrons Arts Center

A Crowded Field completes a trilogy of performance projects by Morgan Bassichis that use humor and music to activate legacies of Jewish anti-Zionism. The previous performances included Klezmer for Beginners, co-created with Ethan Philbrick at Abrons Arts Center in 2019, and Don’t Rain on My Bat Mitzvah, co-created with Ira Khonen Temple and organized by Creative Time in 2021. In this third installment, Bassichis performs a new solo standup comedy show that explores complicity, competition, and companionship.

A Crowded Field

Dick Rivington & The Cat returns this December! This radical, joyful, uproarious holiday family spectacle will lift your spirits and give you hope for the year to come. This American Panto celebrates the resilience, open-mindedness, and beauty of the Lower East Side in a rags to riches story about a young immigrant and his feline friend who overcome enormous hardships to make their dreams come true.
Created by Lower East Siders, for Lower East Siders, Dick Rivington & The Cat is a wild, outrageous, laugh out loud celebration for you, your grandma, your toddler, and your gay Uncle Bob. We will laugh together, we will sing together, and we will celebrate our diversity knowing that our differences make us stronger.

Dick Rivington & The Cat

La Calisto, first performed in 1651 in Venice, is the best known of Pier Francesco Cavalli’s 40+ operas and is an astonishing example of early Baroque opera. Based on a libretto by Giovanni Faustini, it’s a wild, bawdy romp through the libidinous underbelly of mythology. The first story is the Ovidian myth of Calisto, in which the nymph is seduced by Jupiter disguised as Diana (a gorgeous reminder that people have been exploring gender on stage, and in life, for hundreds of years). The second story is the myth of Endymion, whose love of Diana is secretly reciprocated by the chaste goddess. Decidedly unchaste complications ensue as gods, satyrs, nymphs, and fools twist and turn within a raucous, unraveling plot. La Calisto’s synergy of sublime music and extravagant emotion feels modern and fresh today - undeniably one of the greatest music-dramatic pieces in the operatic repertoire.

La Calisto

Francesca D’Uva is a comedian and composer living in Brooklyn. She performs regularly in New York and her work has been showcased at MoMA PS1, MOCA and Ars Nova. In 2019, Francesca staged her one-person musical, I Love You Forever at multiple venues, including Dixon Place and Union Hall. Francesca graduated in 2016 from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins with a degree in Computer Music Composition. She was born and grew up in New Jersey.

This Is My Favorite Song

The year is 2045. Despite lip service toward climate action, the fossil fuel industry continues to thrive.

Metra: A Climate Revolution Play with Songs

Energetic, Imaginative, and Passionate! Founded in 2013, Hanna Q Dance Company (a non profit organization with a 501 c3 status) has been performing original works. The Swedish born and raised Artistic Director and Choreographer, Johanna LjungQvist-Brinson, draws inspiration from the forces of nature and uses its elements to create dynamic narratives through movement. The choreography is comprised of technically rigorous movement, derived from Johanna’s background in Dunham technique, as well as partnering at once intricately acrobatic and viscerally human. The dancers express bursts of passion and athleticism, sweeping the audience into a different world full of emotions. The company has performed in venues mostly in NYC, including Dixon Place, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Dance Festival, TADA!Theater, The Actors Fund Arts Center, Green Space, New York Live Arts, The Triskelion Arts, and West End Theater.

An Evening With Hanna Q

 a four-year archival, research, and multi-genre storytelling project on the life-journey of a Lyricist.

Abrons Arts Center

3 - 13 May, 2023

Family Happiness

Mar 31 - Apr 8, 2023

A Crowded Field

Nov 30 - Dec 18, 2022

Dick Rivington & The Cat

18 - 20 Nov, 2022

La Calisto

3 - 5 Nov, 2022

This Is My Favorite Song

Abrons Arts Center

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