BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL

The story of the Roma girl who discovers at a very young age the differences of race and environment. She manages to make her way ...

POOL is a collaborative fusion of performance, visual art, and documentary that explores the male gaze, self-objectification, and the way power shifts as we move ...

A dance performance as a form of somatic protest and viscous disobedience in the light of the current aggression of the Russian government. Russian artists ...

A hallucination, a dream, a life, a performance: conjectures and reflections on temporal efforts and their significance. What holds? What resists the bite of time? An ...

STAGE READING | Through a series of monologues offering advice to his son—a silent figure dressed in an astronaut suit—a Czechoslovakian refugee of the 1968 ...

Set in a museum of our collective memory, the play’s design invites the audience to explore a collection featuring valuable artifacts that commemorate alternative versions ...

Emerging from thousands of stories of people and objects forever lost, The Story of a Book portrays a nearly century-long history of the Strachs, a ...

The women of Warsaw tremble with the rumor of a strangler on the prowl. Behind their fear, unspoken secrets and traumas begin to surface. Set ...

This production of"Audience"is Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's version of Vaclav Havels classic autobiographical play, starring live actors and traditional marionettes. Havel's one-act playfollows Ferdinand Vanek, a ...

Re-enactment of societal activities in Hungary, with musical performances and recited political speeches that surround the absurd exploitation of acacia, an indigenous American tree that ...

A dance and multimedia solo performance that examines the cultural and historical context of Eastern European socialist propaganda through the use of female body as ...

STAGE READING, TALKBACK | A story of commitment to change, Stones of Tiananmen follows Chinese writer and philosopher Liu Xiaobo (the 2010 Nobel Peace Laureate) ...

A familys home life turns upside down when a tiger suddenly appears in their bathroom. As more and more absurd characters invade their home (Scientist, ...

Inspired by the 1929 Ukrainian avantgarde jazz musical, "Radio 477!" has original songs and text by New York City-based Yara Arts Group in collaboration with ...

An absurd drama taking place in a supermarket of the future in a society where everyone is under surveillance. Reason, truth, and compassion are seemingly ...

A program commemorating the creative spirit of the Terezin artists who perished in the Holocaust. Mark Ludwig, director at the Terezin Music Foundation, will reveal ...

Can a robot write a play that reflects the world in its current state? Find out at the stage reading of a play created fully ...

(stage reading, talkback) "Waif Ts Private War" focuses on two socially excluded women, the aged punk Tanya and her wheelchair-bound senior mum. Living in a ...

(stage reading, talkback) "Juliet" is a work of both real life and poetry: a story of a woman arrested and deported with her seven children ...

(stage reading, talkback) "Love, Bitches" is a teen comedy tinged with horror and centered on a conflict between a punk and pop music band on ...

Excerpts from four plays Exile Is My Home, The Town with Very Nice People, House in a Boat with Food and No God, Crossings: A ...

(Stage reading and talkback) Conceived as a dialogue for theater, "Kicking Down the Quilt" deals with the spiritual condition of our hyper-contemporary society. The protagonists ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival presents Eletfa. Hungarian folk band Eletfa brings to life the rich music and dance traditions of rural Hungary. Consisting of ...

Audience, performed by Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, is a new production of Vaclav Havels classic autobiographical play. Featuring live actors and traditional marionettes, the one-act play ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival present Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewiczs "The Madman and the Nun" - the iconic 1923 play that explores the tyranny of society ...

Marionette show for children. Internationally known Czechoslovak puppeteer, storyteller, and author Vit Horejs performs Czech & Slovak Tales with Strings, a one-man marionette show of ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival presents Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewiczs"The Madman and the Nun" the iconic 1923 play that explores the tyranny of society over the ...

The Tent is set in a tiny rural town somewhere in South Africa. A mixed coupleRuth is white and Samson is blackpitch their tent alongside ...

"Audience," performed by Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, is a new production of Vaclav Havels classic autobiographical play. Featuring live actors and traditional marionettes, the one-act play ...

Two one-act plays, winners of the Best Mini-Drama Student Contest, capture the devastating effects of our inability to communicate with one another. Playwrights: Abigail Henkin ...

"Audience" centers on a meeting between brewery manager Sladek and employee Vanek. While the manager is clearly opening too many beers and inducing binge drinking, ...

"Truth" exposes a lack thereof: an existence fraught with the absence of the sacred, devoid of any mystery, purpose or metaphysical worth. While the main ...

Captivating dance performance that delves into the present-day issues of identity and loss of privacy. Accompanied by live music, Watch Now follows a couple undergoing ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival presents Woman Alone by Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Woman Alone unveils the story of Maria and ...

Sunday May 12 at 7 pm Puppenhaus.Treatment by Magda Fertacz, translated by Artur Zapalowski, directed by Zishan UgurluStage reading, Talk Back & After Party"Traitors to ...

Sunday, May 12, 3 pmUrn on an Empty Stage by Martin Cicvak, translated by Katarina Briggler, directed by Michael Piatkowski Stage reading, Talk Back & ...

May 11 at 8 pm Hoped I Wouldnt Meet Myself Today by Herta Muller, translated, performed, and directed by Simona MaicanescuFull production, Talk Back & ...

Saturday, May 11th at 8pm (Full Length Production): Hoped I Wouldnt Meet Myself Today by Herta MullerTranslated, Performed & Directed by Simona Maicanescu Performed in ...

Saturday, May 11 at 4 pm Sunflower by Andrea Pass, translated by Patrick Mullowney, directed by Adrian AleaStage reading, Talk Back & After PartyIn Sunflower, ...

Friday, May 10, 7pm: Vanek Variations--Stage Reading, Talk-back, And ReceptionAudience by Vaclav Havel, translated by Jan Novak; The Meeting by Edward Einhorn; Infiltration by Petr ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival Presents: Spring WeekendA selection of European stage readings in NYCBohemian National Hall, May 10 - 12, 2019Friday, May 10th, 7pm--Vanek ...

As part of the Centennial Heritage Festival, this non-traditional staging of a 374 year-old marionette play is based on the story of love at first ...

Vit Horejs performs a one-man show of Czech fairy tales (in English) replete with kings, clever village maidens, witches and spirits. His marionettes speak in ...

On February 26, at 7:30 pm, the Talea Ensemble performs a program of Haas' compositions for large ensembles at the Bohemian National Hall (321 E. ...