So many friends have shows!2/1/2025 Dear friends, We hope your 2025 is going as well as it can so far, and that you're hopeful for the work ahead. TIA has a Cold Reading of Gertrude Stein shorts coming up on February 19 (details and RSVP here). But February brings lots of other exciting work as well. Check out some of what our friends are up to! Cheers, Theater in Asylum  Our friend Ian has a show at the Starr! SLAMDANCE GARAGE FEBRUARY 5 - 22, 2025 At The Bushwick Starr: 419 Eldert Street, Brooklyn Wednesdays - Saturdays at 7:30pmCreated and performed by Ian Andrew Askew Produced in association with ¡Oye! Group SLAMDANCE garage is a solo performance on punk and blackness. Nestled somewhere between performance art, a rock show, and an one-act opera, Ian Andrew Askew hurdles through an hour of music, movement, and text celebrating the absurdity of explaining Black people’s participation in their own culture. SLAMDANCE garage borrows text from Nina Simone, Audre Lorde, Drexciya, and other luminaries, reharmonizing their words to the sounds of drums, distorted vocals, and the blaring resonance of a custom-one string bass. Inspired by the Malawian babatoni, Mississippi diddley-bow, and the Afro-Brazilian berimbau, the handmade instrument (nearly the same length as its player) is an homage to throughlines of musical technology that weave through the African diaspora.  The Brick presents The Van Gogh Shogh Written and performed by Donna Oblongata Directed by Francesca Montanile-Lyons at The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave February 6-9, 2025 at 8PM Running Time: 75 minutes Free show! Bring cash! One part deranged “Sip ‘n Paint”, one part karaoke night and one part Sotheby’s. In The Van Gogh Shogh, solo performer and clown Donna Oblongata uses the lens of Vincent Van Gogh’s life and legacy to ask urgent questions about the nature of art, success, reproduction, and the potential meaning(lessness) of a creative life. Find them: @donnaoblongata Content warnings: mentions of suicide, alcohol Photo credit: Josh Yoder  NO RESERVATION conceived, written, & directed by Paul and Katie's beloved acting teacher Elizabeth Hess February 6-23 at La MaMa Diverse global goddesses crash a dinner party celebrating false gods. The goddesses have been underground for centuries but now rise up, sensing the urgency of their presence ‘at the table.’ This multidisciplinary performance piece moves forward from second wave feminist artists who took on the patriarchy through works like The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper by Mary Beth Edelson and the dinner scene in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill.  The Loneliness of Either, Or; A Requiem for Joan of Arc by Ali Dineen and Boxcutter Collective Thursday, February 13th at 7 PM Ars Nova 511 W. 54th Street, New York, NY Friends of TIA Ali Dineen and Boxcutter Collective take the Ars Nova stage this February with a gorgeous new work that delves into the multi-faceted story of Joan of Arc as well as the composer’s own life. Where should we turn when our heroes and gods betray us? Blending gender, prophecy, and faith, The Loneliness of Either, Or: A Requiem for Joan of Arc is a musical meditation with original folk music for piano and chamber choir performed alongside an object theater puppet show that weaves history, politics, and personal experience.  The Boxcutters are putting on a puppet slam! On Saturday February 22nd at The Fabulous Jalopy Theater and School of Music (315 Columbia Street Brooklyn) Boxcutter Collective will present a Puppet Cabaret! Doors at 7:30 SHOW at 8pm. We think you won’t want to miss this breathtaking line-up including: Ray The Bimbo Clown, Marlee Miller, Emmanuel Elpenord, Great Small Works and Boxcutter Collective!  The Skeleton Rep(resents) Georgia and the Butch Adapted from Maria Chabot - Georgia O'Keeffe: Correspondence, 1941-1949 Adaptation by Carolyn Gage Directed by Andrew Coopman February 25th - March 12th The Tank 312 West 36th Street, New York, NY Friend of TIA Robert Gonyo sound designs a new play adapted from the letters between famous artist Georgia O’Keeffe and advocate for Native American arts and rancher Maria Chabot during their nine-year intimate relationship, from 1941 to 1949. This production is intended to highlight an intense and controversial intimacy that has been minimized, mischaracterized, or written out of Georgia’s history. It is a relationship between an older, gender-non-conforming, fiercely independent artist and a young lesbian butch who was experiencing profound confusion about her identity and about her place in the world. Whatever imbalances and dysfunction there may have been between these incredibly strong-willed and visionary women, one cannot dispute that the camping trips with Maria resulted in some of Georgia’s most iconic landscapes, and that the house and garden at Abiquiu, designed and built by Maria, stand as a stunning testament to a young lesbian’s all-consuming devotion to her muse.  CRANKIES TAKE NEW YORK!
Feb 28th and March 1st at Flushing Town Hall Theater: 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354 General Admission: $20 Adults / $15 Members, Seniors, & Students w/ID Children are welcome and this performance is geared towards adults. Boxcutter Collective will perform 2 brand new crankie shows!! “Witches, Women and Witchcraft: The (Mostly) True Cranky of a Cranky Old Hag.” A brief history of the medieval witch hunts, as told by…witches! With their reproductive healthcare skills, and a team of singing bullfrogs, is it possible that witches are just what we need to defeat the imperialist capitalist patriarchy? AND “Haunted Lighthouse” A collaboration with Charming Disaster – a goth-folk musical duo based in Brooklyn, formed in 2012 by Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, science, and the occult. Boxcutter Collective is very excited to collaborate with these weirdos! Get Your Tickets for the 2/28 Show Here Get Your Tickets for the 3/1 Workshop/Performance Here
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