Warning: Not for Broadway!
WNFB is an annual festival that functions like a laboratory for experiments
in musical theater and opera works. Richard S. Bach, a Dixon Place board
member, initiated the festival in 2001 to open doors to emerging and
established musical theatre creators trying out unconventional pieces.
"WARNING: Not for Broadway" seeks
new and unusual works that combine story with song; whether the story
is non-linear, from a rarely heard voice, about a controversial subject,
or the song is all electronica, hip-hop, or even barber-shop quartet.
WNFB is curated by Michelle Feldman. WNFB may or may not be coming soon.
;) Stay tuned.
Dixon Place Intergenerational Festival
A culmination of drama workshops for local senior citizens and teens,
the Intergenerational Performance festival features original works from
member of the community. Past productions have included autobiographical
monologues, mime, music, and scene work.
HOWL
HOWL!, named after the groundbreaking poem by East Village icon
Allen Ginsberg, is an annual week-long celebration of the counter
culture, presented by the Federation of East Village Artists. FEVA,
formed in 2002, is dedicated to the preservation of the neighborhood's
great cultural legacy and to promoting opportunities for the next
generation of visionaries to flourish. From Emma Goldman to
Charlie Parker, from Miguel Pinero to Keith Haring, from Harry Smith
to Joey Ramone, the East Village has been a Mecca for the rebels
and the dreamers, and under FEVA's watch, it will continue to be.
HOWL! '06 features over 400 events -- music, theater, film, dance, poetry and performance art -- at 75 participating venues with over 125,000 people expected to attend. The centerpiece of the festival is the free outdoor events, which turn Tompkins Square Park into a counter cultural county fair. Kids frolic, local venders sell amazing food, arts and crafts and three stages feature wildly diverse live entertainment. For more information about FEVA and the HOWL Festival in general, please see their website: www.howlfestival.com.
HOT! THE NYC CELEBRATION OF QUEER CULTURE
This summer festival has been happening every July since 1991, and it
includes full length and shorter works in performance, music, theater,
dance, literature, poetry, spoken word, puppetry, burlesque, drag, and
circus. There are featured shows, general programming, and programming
that fall under the umbrellas of specific performance series. The works
presented are at all various stages of development, from works-in-progress
to polished pieces. For deadlines, watch our homepage!
