Magical January Theater Festivals
January in New York City is a feast of theatrical adventure provided by cutting edge performers and artists from all around the world. Eight festivals at venues across the city showcase a wide range of theatrical performances, plus many opportunities for mingling with artists at late night parties at the The Public Theater and The Wild Project.
On this episode of the Maxamoo Podcast, our founder Lindsay, Nicole from Mildly Bitter’s Musings, and Jack, a writer at Maxamoo, sort the hundreds of performances to find the shows we’re most excited to see. We go fan-girly over Kate Tempest, Dan O’Brien, and Brian Lobell and discuss transportation options to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, after first establishing where exactly that is. Enjoy the show!
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Information on the shows discussed and all of the January theater festivals is below:
SHOWS
BRAND NEW ANCIENTS
THE RECORD
SKY-PONY
HAVE I NO MOUTH
Baryshnikov Arts Center
TYSON V ALI
3 Legged Dog
Visitations: “Theotokia” and “The War Reporter”
Roulette Theatre
JDX – a public enemy
FRANKENSTEIN
The Freeman Space
SHE IS KING
Incubator Arts Project
FESTIVALS
Under The Radar is an annual festival produced by The Public Theater celebrating its 10th anniversary. It channels worldwide innovative theater to New York audience, and will bring together 16 theatrical shows in this edition.
PROTOTYPE
Curated by “contemporary mini music drama…impresarios” Kristin Marting and Kim Whitener of HERE, and Beth Morrison of BMP, Prototype is a festival of opera-theater and music-theater works.
COIL
Celebrating its 9th anniversary, COIL is a theater festival produced by Performance Space 122 (PS 122). This year the festival will focus on New York-based artists with nine theatrical productions at venues across the City.
SQUIRTS: New Voices in Queer Performance
La MaMa presents SQUIRTS, a series of performances by emerging queer performers, running Fridays through Sundays from January 3 to 12. It features one guest star veteran of the queer performance community every evening.
OTHER FORCES
Other Forces is an annual festival of independent theater in its 5th edition. This year the festival features five production in the course of 18 days.
AMERICAN REALNESS
American Realness explores the theme realness. Created and curated by Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor, in partnership with Abrons Arts Center, it is an annual festival of experimental dance and category-defying performances.
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Created by the Contemporary Performance Network, this inaugural four-day festival features experimental performance works by artists exploring contemporary issues.
LIVE ARTERY
New York Live Arts presents Live Artery, an annual event of dance and body-based performances commissioned or created by NYLA.