A limited number of partial view $20 Rush Tickets will be available at the box office 30 minutes before each performance. Limit one per person.
 

Created by Joey Arias and Basil Twist 

Read the rave review in The New York Times!

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Two national treasures unleash their epic imaginations to conjure a modern and intimate fantasy. Twist’s signature magic envelopes Arias’ legendary voice, transporting us to unpredictable worlds, channeling ecstatic desires, lavish nightmares and bizarre premonitions in a bejeweled cabinet of curiosities that could only be found in one of downtown's last enclaves for bohemian New York style.

A special performance created for the Dorothy B. Williams Theatre, marking Arias’ homecoming after a triumphant six-year run in Las Vegas with Cirque du Soleil’s Zumanity, and the 10th Anniversary of our Dream Music Puppetry Program. (Playfully intended for mature audiences, not for children.)

 

Joey Arias Bio

For more info: Visit Basil Twist's website! 

 

Video trailer courtesy of The Estate of Derek Goddard

One Performer -- Taylor Mac.  No set but lots of costumes and a giant suitcase.  
 
The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac has played over 30 theatres including:  the Sydney Opera House, The Public Theatre (Under the Radar Festival), London’s Soho theatre, Stockholm’s Sodra Teatern, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, Portland’s Time Based Arts Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival and upcoming at The Spoleto Festival.
 
A flamboyant chameleon of words, music, and sociopolitical tirades, visual and vocal phenomenon Mac employs gender-bending surrealism to explore the human condition and challenge the contemporary culture of fear.  Obie Award-winner David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) directs.

Nominated for 2 IT Awards -- Performance Arts Production and Solo Performance!

Read the great reviews!: The Young Ladies Of

"All of [Mac's] plays are self-revealing, but The Young Ladies Of may well be his most personal... rarely has someone wearing so much make-up appeared so naked." -- The Village Voice (Read the whole article...)

"With his unique blend of bleak humor, personal revelation, political engagement, folk-inflected music, and astonishingly elaborate, gender-twisting, gorgeous grotesque costumes, Mac has emerged as an essential figure in the downtown performance scene." -- Time Out New York (Read the interview with Taylor...)

     

HERE is pleased to present and encore performance of The Young Ladies Of, written and performed by Taylor Mac. 

Stationed in Vietnam in 1968, Lt. Robert Bowyer placed an advertisement asking women ages 19-26 to write him.  He was flooded with letters from hundreds of young ladies responding to his ad.  Juxtaposing images of Lt. Bowyer in Vietnam with Mac’s own unique gender-bending aesthetic, Mac uses the letters, original text and songs to bridge the gap between perceptions of masculinity and femininity, past and present, and red and blue states.