Photo Flash: Ice Factory Festival's First Weeks!

Artistic Director Robert Lyons presents the 18th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory summer festival of new work. Ice Factory 2011 opens June 22, presenting six New York Premieres in six weeks, and wraps up July 30. Performances take place Wednesdays - Saturdays at 7pm at the 3LD Art & Technology Center, located at 80 Greenwich Street (at Rector Street) in New York City. Tickets are $18 for adults and $12 for students/seniors and can be purchased online at http://www.SohoThinkTank.org or by calling 212-352-3101. For more information visit http://www.SohoThinkTank.org.

Last year, after eighteen years in Soho, the Obie Award-winning Ohio Theatre lost its space on Wooster Street, and went into residency at the 3LD Art & Technology Center. Under the banner Ohio Interrupted@3LD, they'll be producing Ice Factory 2011 at 3LD in June and July. In September 2011, they will open their new space in the West Village, called Ohio West.

In the Ice Factory festival, Soho Think Tank presents works by emerging and established downtown companies, as well as exceptional national and international groups. Ice Factory prides itself on maintaining extraordinary aesthetic diversity along with an unequaled standard for intelligent, imaginative theater. The festival offers companies a prime forum in which to develop their work. Previous Ice Factory shows have gone on to Off-Broadway, the Joyce, P.S. 122, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Walker Art Center, among others.

Soho Think Tank strengthens, nurtures and promotes an aesthetically and culturally diverse community of independent theatre artists and theatre companies by producing, presenting and programming new work in New York City.

Photo Credit: Linus Gelber (Struck photos), Arthur Cornelius (The Pig photos)