Now Playing: Physical Theatre
November 16 - November 22
WHAT'S HERE: This page lists physical theatre productions, including puppetry, circus, acrobatics, aerial work, dance- and movement-based theatre, mime, mask, vaudeville, and more. Click on show titles to find out more about that show, including performance dates & times, ticket prices & ordering information, and cast & other credits. Starred shows are considered to be noteworthy or of special interest by NYTE's editor. Want your show listed on nytheatre.com? Read our listings guidelines.
LAST CHANCE!
These shows are closing this week
bauhaus the bauhaus: Modernism! Utopia! Architecture! Sit-upons! The Nerve Tank explores the Bauhaus, the seminal German school of design that operated from 1919 until 1933, when the Nazi regime shut it down. Closes November 22, 2009.
REVIEWED BY MARTIN DENTON
Cycatrix Adaptitude: Taking place in four exclusive Chelsea and Williamsburg lofts, this is a performance event within a party experience. Presented by Inverse Theater Company. Closes November 21, 2009.
REVIEWED BY MARTIN DENTON
Granada: A new play by Avi Glickstein about a young woman who has been invited by the King of Spain in 1992 to stand in for all the Jews exiled from that country during the Inquisition. Closes November 22, 2009.
Neptune: Superhero Clubhouse presents a physical theater adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid." Closes November 22, 2009.
She Turned on the Light: An interdisciplinary work written, directed and choreographed by Wendy Woodson that explores how lines of fantasy, memory, and reality loop around and merge when one is a stranger in a strange land. Closes November 22, 2009.
REVIEWED BY SHELLEY MOLAD
The Lily's Revenge: A new epic theatre work by Taylor Mac about a flower that wants to become a man in order to be able to wed its bride. Closes November 22, 2009.
REVIEWED BY MARTIN DENTON
Agamemnon: A new translation of Aeschylus's famous play by Alexander Harrington, presented by Eleventh Hour Theatre Company. Closes November 29, 2009.
REVIEWED BY DAVID IAN LEE
Baby Wants Candy: The famed improv troupe returns with a brand new fully improvised musical every Saturday night. Closes November 28, 2009.
Blue Man Group: A supremely silly, long-running performance featuring music, gags, video, flying food, flying paint, and lots and lots of paper.
Exposition: A non-narrative theatrical collision, created by Matthew Freeman and Michael Gardner. Performances are this week only.
Frankenstein: Radiotheatre presents an adaptation of Mary Shelley's gothic horror story. Closes December 26, 2009.
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up: A new physical theater event from the creators of De La Guarda.
REVIEWED BY JACK HANLEY
Gormanzee and Other Stories: Three new one acts from anna&meredith, featuring live actors and life-size puppets. Performances are this week only.
Il Furioso: The Birth of Modern Justice with Drums: A dual language adaptation of Aeschylus's Eumenides with drums. Performances are this week only.
Pilar Rioja: "The Queen of Flamenco" returns to New York with a show featuring two NYC premieres. Closes November 30, 2009.
Prima: A new dance piece by LeeSaar The Company. Performances are this week only.
REVIEWED BY DAVID IAN LEE
Really Real: This new work by choreographer Wally Cardona reflects on love, loss, desire, youth, beauty, and power using simple means to expose the intricate relationships and meanings that exist between people in a complex world. Performances are this week only.
SPLICE: Panic Journals: A program of dance pieces by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dan Safer. Performances are this week only.
Stomp: Eight incredible young performers make rhythm with found objects like garbage cans and pots and pans. Now in its sixteenth year off-Broadway.
The Gazillion Bubble Show: A unique entertainment by Fan Yang, who is a world-renowned, record-holding bubble artist.
REVIEWED BY DAVID DELGROSSO
The Quantum Eye - Magic Deceptions: An exploration of mentalism, magic, perception and deception starring Sam Eaton.
Twelfth Night (or What You Will): Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater presents a puppet theatre adaptation of Shakespeare's play. Closes November 29, 2009.
REVIEWED BY JUDITH JAROSZ
Wintuk: Cirque du Soleil's winter adventure about a boy's quest for snow returns to Madison Square Garden for the holidays. Closes January 3, 2010.
REVIEWED BY JASON S. GROSSMAN
