'In Performance': Young Jean Lee's WE'RE GONNA DIE

In today's New York Times Arts Beat Blog 'In Performance' series, Young Jean Lee's pop-music cabaret WE'RE GONNA DIE is featured. In the scene, Ms. Lee performs "Henry," a monologue about a painful breakup. Check it out here!

LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater continues its Special Event series with an encore engagement of WE'RE GONNA DIE, the Obie-Award winning work from Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, for ten performances only, beginning Monday, August 5 through Saturday, August 17 at the Claire Tow Theater (150 West 65thStreet). The run of performances will coincide with the release of the WE'RE GONNA DIE album on August 6.

In WE'RE GONNA DIE, provocative director/playwright Young Jean Lee takes the stage with her band Future Wife (Mike Hanf, Andrew Hoepfner, Benedict Kupstas and Booker Stardrum) in a life-affirming show about the one thing everyone has in common: WE'RE GONNA DIE. You may be miserable, but you won't be alone.

WE'RE GONNA DIE has choreography by Faye Driscoll, direction by Paul Lazar and costumes by Roxana Ramseur. Morgan Gould is Associate Director, Mike Farry is Dramaturg, Sunny Stapleton is the Production Supervisor and Aaron Rosenblum is the Producer for the Young Jean Lee's Theater Company.

Young Jean Lee, who is currently under commission to create a new piece for LCT3, is a two-time Obie Award-winning playwright and director who has been called "the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation" by the New York Times. She has written and directed nine shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Her plays have been published by Theatre Communications Group (SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN AND OTHER PLAYS, THE SHIPMENT and LEAR) and by Samuel French (THREE PLAYS BY Young Jean Lee).