Fourth Arts Block (FAB) and its 20+ member organizations are offering an alternative to pricey outings with more than 30 performances for $20 or less before March 31st. These event include film showings, tours, theater, burlesque and dance. With the most art per square foot in NYC, East 4th Street continues to produce and present work that is accessible and affordable for everyone to enjoy.
For an even better way to live big for less, FAB has expanded it's FAB Tix programs to run on Saturday afternoons. FAB Tix is a 2-for-1 ticket program styled after TKTS, but for theaters throughout the East Village and Lower East Side. Running Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 1-6PM, FAB Tix offers between 5-15 shows on a weekly basis for prices as low as $6 a ticket. For more information visit www.fabnyc.org.
About the Events (the following are in chronological order)
Are We there Yet? - On view daily until April 22, 2010, FREE
Through the lives of Artemisia Gentileschi, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Hannah Höch, Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, Cindy Sherman and Louise Nevelson K. Savage, using hand-cut Japanese paper and acrylic, traces her own personal journey using references from the work of these groundbreaking artists' - charting their relevance from the 1600s to present day. K. Savage is a community artist who believes in preserving humanity in the arts.
The Adam Wade Show - Monday March 8, $5
The show opens with one of a rotating pool of great storytellers in New York City. They will tell a wonderful, fifteen-minute original story. Then Adam Wade will greet the audience and for the next forty-five minutes he'll tell a few stories from his adolescent years, sing a song or two on the guitar, and play videos and rare home movies. No two shows will be the same. Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's.
The BTK Band - Monday March 8, pay what you will
NYC's hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band. Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while music and lyrics are improvised to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos. Horse Trade Theater Group - Under St. Mark's.
TOP SECRET: THE BATTLE FOR THE PENTAGON PAPERS - Sunday until March 28, $20
It's 1971 and the nation is at war. The intractable conflict escalates in Vietnam while here at home the battle for public opinion rages. A federal court blocks The New York Times from publishing the top-secret history of US involvement in Vietnam. Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham has a single day to decide whether to print these Pentagon Papers. When the Nixon administration closes in and charges treason, the fight for a free press explodes. New York Theatre Workshop.
Palestine - Daily in March, through Saturday, April 03, $20
Najla Saïd was raised in a privileged environment on the Upper West Side. Her father was Palestinian. Her mother is Lebanese. Her best friends growing up were Jewish. PALESTINE is a personal journey from the "toniest private schools", to the "stench of Gaza," through two wars, the horrors of 9/11, encounters with the likes of Yasir Arafat, "cheeky" photographers and, of course, her esteemed family. New York Theater Workshop's Fourth Street Theater.
Elephants on Parade 2010 - Previews Tues March 9, $5, March 10-20, $15
This show features six plays, five world premieres and one New York area premiere, that examine the peculiar difficulties of true communication and connection in the 21st century in a broad spectrum of styles from magical realism to farce to quiet drama. EBE Ensemble.
Duct Tape and a Dream II - March 9th, 10, 14 & 15, $15
Roots and Wings Theatrical is presenting the second installment of their twice-annual Duct Tape and a Dream festival of new works. This spring's show will include four new plays, a new movement piece, songs by DM Salsberg, and an original performance by the RaW Board. All of the plays in the festival are inspired by or themed after the Picasso painting Girl Before a Mirror, making for a diverse range of conflicts and relationships. Horse Trade Theater Group - The Red Room.
The Soup Show - March 4-27, $18
New York Neo-Futurists Desiree Burch, Cara Francis & Erica Livingston serve up a cure for what ails you in this Neo-Medicine Show, performing in and around a giant pot of self-made soup. Bottling this soup, as well as a series of elixirs, potions, tonics and products, they heal and reveal the female experience live, honest and in the flesh. New York Neo-Futurists at HERE Arts Center.
