LABA Open Studios at the 14th Street Y

This week, the LABA Fellows are in the 14th Street Y Theater, experimenting and rehearsing exciting new pieces in development.

Zvi Sahar at the LABA Open Studios at the 14th Street Y.

The picture features the innovative video technology/shadow puppet work being developed by LABA artist Zvi Sahar. Zvi uses live video feed projections to integrate miniature puppetry, live visual art installations, and actors into a unique theater piece.

The Open Studios gave Zvi a chance to experiment with the help of our talented theater technical staff. Look for the premiere of his new piece at our Blueprint Festival May 17-19, 2012.

Another piece rehearsing in the theater this week is Hanna and the Moonlit Dress, a new children’s musical coming to the 14^th Street Y in January.

The show is based on the beloved Israeli children’s book ” Hanna’s Shabbat Dress.” Join Hanna and her friends, including Edna the cow, Zuzzi the dog, the Coalman and the Moon, in an interactive musical theater experience. Hanna helps a stranger, and in the process accidentally dirties her white dress, newly sewn by her mother for Shabbat. Her distress is relieved, however, when she discovers the magic of a good deed. Children will help create the world of the play by crafting paper masks, costumes, and set pieces with the actors.

For more information on the LABA artists, visit http://www.labajournal.com/.

Pangs of the Messiah at the 14th Street Y

The 14th Street Y is delighted to host Untitled Theater Company No. 61's presentation of PANGS OF THE MESSIAH by Motti Lerner. The year is 2014, and Israel is on the verge of signing a peace accord; in the West Bank settlements that Israel may soon abandon, no one is celebrating. Lerner's tense drama focuses on the Head of the Council of Settlements and his family as they struggle to retain the life they have built in anticipation of the coming of the Messiah. The play provides a rare window into the lives and psyches of the settlers from an insider's perspective. It is a family drama with broad political implications. Click here for more. Important work at an important time. Read more: http://offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/Untitled-Theater-Company-No-61-Presents-PANGS-OF-THE-MESSIAH-1027-1120-20111018#ixzz1bEdss3cu