THE TANK SPACE FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

A monthly event pairing theater and film, both past and present, across cultures.

The 2nd Tuesday of each month, TAKE TWO begins with a short piece and is followed... by something full-length. If we screen a short film, we follow with a full-length play; if we read a short play, it is followed by a feature-length film.

Both the play and film have a connecting socio-political theme, which has in the past ranged from the psychological trauma of war, to the divide between first- and second-generation immigrants, to the fine line between zeal and zealotry.

Deep discussions, debates, drinking and dancing are encouraged during intermission and after the event.

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Presented by Direct Arts

A performance series mediating the balance between words - as they're experienced - and words - as they're heard.

Exploring the myriad ways in which a phrase can be interpreted, writers, performers, monologists and raconteurs present their take on the evening's theme with individual style. It isn't about comedy, drama, or thinking outside the box. It's about destroying the box altogether.

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March 10th
Performances by:

Felice Belle
Erica Hayes Bradshaw
Rob Maitner
Cy Shelhamer
Vickie Tanner
Jenn Wehrung

With Your Host, ROBB LEIGH DAVIS

http://www.meditationonatheme.com/

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Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/101779

On PURIM, it's a Mitzvah to get drunk. On ST. PAT'S, you're an outcast if you're sober. Two cultures, united in inebriation. For one day, everyone's JewIrish.

Celebrate these two great traditions of two immigrant groups that made America great as they collide in one very American tradition. Participatory, punchy and playful. With live music, karaoke, comedy, tricks, acts, delights, snacks & the story of Purim...of course.

Leprechaun: $5
Blarney Stone: $10, 2 drinks
Queen Esther: $25, DRINK ALL NIGHT
St. Purim Superstar: $50, drink all night + Tank membership

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LINE UP:

8pm Comedy
Comedians KATIE HALPER and HARRY TERJANIAN MC the Megillah -- the story of the Book of Esther.

9pm
DEATH MASK
http://www.myspace.com/deathmask

10:30pm
RUSSEL PATRICK BROWN
http://www.russelpatrickbrown.com
Lady Gaga meets Irish step-dance performance with song and harp. Yes, you read that right.

Karaoke Ever-After.
Special thanks to KARAOKE CHAMP for their generous donation! We couldn't make fools of ourselves without you! http://www.karaokechamp.com

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Look for more details at http://www.stpurimsday.com.

Theater TAS presents the New York premiere of
THE LAST STORY

Written & directed by Kaća Čelan

Starring Jonathan L. Davidson & Tajna Tanović

“A duodrama," a war of conversations, exploding phrases filled with emotions strong like gunpowder- a striking parable of the battle of the sexes.

“The last Adam and Eve” like a leo and lioness, are caught in the cage called marriage. A thematic-dramaturgical journey from the old world to the new, following the never-ending, unavailing quest for paradisiacal harmony between a man and a woman.

"The Last Story" is a postmodern German version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Kaća Čelan is an award-winning playwright and director.
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Theater TAS is a New York based theater company founded by Kaća Čelan in Sarajevo in 1984 to promote new theater genres. TAS was re-established in 1993 at Burgau Castle in Germany, and was active there until Čelan’s arrival in New York in 2007.

www.theatertas.com

email: info@theatertas.com

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Part of the new bimonthly performance series ‘FRESH OUT THE BOX’ curated by Rafael Gallegos (New York Theatre Workshop).

Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/100012

SLAM Theater invites artists and audiences to get involved in the process of making theater. Playwrights bring fresh scripts, and actors are called out of a hat to perform timed segments, completely unrehearsed. After each round, the judges score the plays, moving the top-scoring plays to the next round. Winning writers get to unveil more of their work, acting as director or bringing one in to give timed notes. SLAM is an evening of theater with impromptu performance, spontaneous collaboration, and friendly competition.

Now in it's fourth year, SLAM Theater continues to encourage new voices, opening up a stage for diverse writers to develop work. SLAM is open to everyone. Anyone can come in, throw down a script, put their name in the actor pool, and get involved. A community has grown around SLAM -- a group of artists who come regularly to support each other, and give each other honest feedback in a raw, immediate setting. Each month, our SLAM Champion is given The Tank's space to put on a staged reading of their work. Many artists come and end up making strong connections and creative relationships that continue to develop outside of SLAM. SLAM is always growing and expanding. Actors, bring your talent. Playwrights, bring your scripts. Audience, bring your voice. Come SLAM!

$5 suggested donation

BaPoDi (Banovce Underground Theatre) Presents:

THE GILDED RED CAGE by Silvester Lavrik

A project of the New York Public Library, the Consulate General of Slovakia in New York and Plus421 Foundation

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THE GILDED RED CAGE- two original monologues performed by Silvester Lavrik and Katarina Morhacova and a hard-hitting exhibit of documentary photos of revolution in former Czechoslovakia - tells the stories of a woman and a man who were touched by the Velvet Revolution and lived to tell the tale. The joy, excitement and disbelief of 1989 return for an evening…

SILVESTER LAVRIK, the project’s author and director is one of Slovakia's top contemporary playwrights, Guest Director at the Slovak National Theatre and national columnist on politics and public affairs.

The photo exhibit is created by RADEK JAHUDKA, well-known graphic designer and art director from the Czech film industry.

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Part I: Hana’s Shame– The intimate internal dialogue of a woman in love whose young life spans the socialist and post-socialist periods in Slovakia.

Part II: The Canary who Ate the Cat– A chameleon-turncoat-survivor who can promise anything and deliver nothing…and still be beloved. Accompanied by “golden oldies” on the accordion (delivered in Lavrik’s smooth baritone), the piece illustrates the essence of the socialism’s multiple contradictions, including the role of the Catholic Church.

Performed by:
Silvester Lavrik and Katarina Morhacova (Slovakia)

Photographic exhibit: Radek Jahudka (Czech Republic)
Script editing: Margit Garijszki (Hungary)
Music: Boris Lenko (Slovakia)
English Translation: Janet Livingstone (Slovakia/USA)

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Production presented in part of Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, a festival coordinated by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, November 2009-March 2010.

www.performingrevolution.org

Implemented with the generous financial support of the International Visegrad Fund, Open Society Foundation and Central European Foundation in Bratislava.

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Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95991

A man in an attic meets a woman in a box. As they lure one another into their worlds, curiosity exposes a hilarious, mind-bending, innovative allegory for the classic man-meets-woman story.

Rooted in physical comedy and drenched in imaginative stage illusion, LEGS AND ALL is an inventive exploration of human loneliness set to an evocative tango-meets-bluegrass score.

SUMMER SHAPIRO has written, performed and produced three original physical comedy shows, touring to San Francisco, Hawaii and New York within just over a year. While an artist in residence at San Francisco's Climate Theater she premiered her original solo show In The Boudoir sharing the bill with Cirque Du Soleil veteran, John Gilkey. The show continued on to headline at the WOW Festival in 2009. Summer’s show, PANTS! The Best Show Ever, sold out in the 2008 New York and San Francisco Clown Theater Festivals. She was in a trapeze clown duo in Angry Gods and Lost Marbles, by Paoli Lacy showcasing at the Magic Theater in October, 2007. Summer was a performer and artist in residence with The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women, directed by Rhodessa Jones in 2006. Summer has trained, performed and taught her craft in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Ireland and holds a B.A. in acting from UCLA’s School of Theater.

PETER MUSANTE is a Brooklyn-based actor/musician currently performing Off-Broadway in Blue Man Group. As a Blue Man, he’s worked in Chicago, Boston, Orlando, Bogotá, Colombia and can be seen in ad campaigns all over Las Vegas and Brazil. Out of blue, he has taught improvisation to kids, improvised in drag at Universal Studios Hollywood, crooned cowboy tunes in Tokyo, worked as a standardized patient for medical students and most recently, developed workshops for children with autism. After graduating from UCLA’s School of Theater in 2005, he played Huck Finn in Big River at Vista, California’s Moonlight Amphitheater and won the San Diego Theater Critic’s Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

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Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/summershap#p/a/u/0/-Cnt-rmzkZU

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Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/102973

As the world bids farewell to the King of Pop, investment broker JP (Matt Huffman) arrives at the kitschy Aloha Motel for his own date with destiny. He is joined by his mistress, Amelia (Blythe Coons), a devoted paramedic, whose fifteen-year relationship with JP has known its share of hurt and comfort. But as JP prepares to turn his Ponzi-scheming father-in-law over to the FBI, he’ll discover that Amelia is not so easily sold on his plans for a new life together.

Exploring issues of emotional greed and unconditional loyalty, Magnitude of the Slope illustrates the moments of truth we confront when standing at the edge of personal accountability.

www.collectivehole.org

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Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/102010