The Bushwick Starr Announces 2022-23 Season

The Bushwick Starr has announced its2022-23 Season, which began with the premiere of THIS AND THAT, closing this weekend. Learn more about the lineup below!

The Institute of Useless Activity's

THIS AND THAT

Co-created by Phil Soltanoff and Steven Wendt

September 7 - 24, 2022

At The Chocolate Factory Theater at 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City

Wednesdays - Saturdays at 7pm

Previews 9/7 - 9/9, official opening 9/10

The Bushwick Starr is thrilled to partner with The Chocolate Factory Theater to present The Institute of Useless Activity's THIS AND THAT, co-created by international theater director Phil Soltanoff (2020 Herb Alpert Award recipient) and performer/puppeteer Steven Wendt (Blue Man Group). What is THIS? What is THAT? - THAT imagines the creation of the universe. Video equipment comes to life by the cranking of tripod knobs, zooming in and out, maneuvering visual feedback loops, dissolving images together and apart, creating an abstract video puppetry before our eyes. No pre-recorded video, no tricks. THIS is about people - their romantic sense of longing, loss, alienation and near miss... a cowboy sleeps under the stars, a family puts their child to sleep for the night, a crooner serenades his lover, a jazz pianist fantasizes while he plays. Hand shadow vignettes, inspired by Henry Moore sculptures, morph from one scene to another.

The Bushwick Starr and The Public Theater present:

World Premiere

DARK DISABLED STORIES

By Ryan J. Haddad
Directed by Jordan Fein

March 2023 *exact dates TBA

Acclaimed writer and performer Ryan J. Haddad makes his off-Broadway playwriting debut with the hilarious and audacious DARK DISABLED STORIES.

Haddad's newest autobiographical play is a series of unforgiving vignettes about the strangers he encounters while navigating a city (and a world) not built for his walker and cerebral palsy. Directed by Jordan Fein, DARK DISABLED STORIES probes implicit ableism and the assumptions we make about people we'll never really know.

This production will feature American Sign Language, open captions, and audio description integrated into every performance.

The Bushwick Starr and JAG Productions present:

demons.

A new Afro-Surrealist play

Written by Keelay Gipson

Directed by Steph Paul

Vermont

Briggs Opera House

April 6-23, 2023

New York City

Connelly Theater

May 10-June 3, 2023

When the death of their patriarch draws family members home, they must reckon with grief and the haunting realities that death often brings to the surface. A surreal dark comedy, demons. is a meditation on the reality of getting older, of losing a parent, and that ever-elusive quest to exorcize the trauma a family can pass down through the generations.

YOUTH + COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING:

Starr Reading Series

curated by Jehan O. Young, Elizagrace Madrone and William Burke

Exploring new plays from artists who are writing for the theater in thrilling and unexpected ways, produced with and at CPR - Center for Performance Research

ONGOING

Summer Arts Festival

with Oye Group

A day of live performances, art, games and giveaways for the Bushwick community

SUMMER 2022

Creating Performance

with El Puente

A program in practical theater-making for local teens and young adults

SUMMER 2022

+SPRING 2023

Big Green Theater

with local Public Schools

An after school eco-playwriting program for elementary students in Bushwick/Ridgewood

FALL 2022

+SPRING 2023

Shake on the Block

with Oye Group

A program for middle school students exploring and adapting the plays of Shakespeare

SPRING 2023

Senior Storytelling

with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff + Caitlin Ryan O'Connell

Weekly bilingual memoir workshops for Bushwick-based Senior Centers

SPRING 2023

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