’Tis the Season! at BAM
BAM rings in the holiday season with a little something for everyone—from the anti-festive sass and satire of Meow Meow in A Very Meow Meow Holiday Show to Greta Gerwig’s timeless and timely rendering of Little Women.
Michael Keegan-Dolan, one of Ireland’s most imaginative theater makers, deconstructs the beloved classic in a gorgeous, otherworldly production, following a rapturous reception in Dublin and around the world.
In this epic feat of endurance theater, actress Alia Shawkat performs the same scene—inspired by Cassavetes’ meta-theatrical film Opening Night—100 times, with 100 different men, each with disarmingly divergent results.
In this lush production from Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy, a single story creates two worlds across stage and screen, casting the viewer as an active participant in interpretation.
This 10-minute animated, graffiti-style street opera is projected onto the BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building and broadcast to audience members’ headphones, inviting passersby to drop by, tune in, and find out what happens.
With humor and pathos, UK-based artist Selina Thompson offers 1,000 thought-starters on race and identity and posts them on the wall for audience members to reflect on and respond to.
This inaugural exhibition in The Rudin Family Gallery features work by artist Glenn Kaino offering a meditation on hope, aspiration, and the nature of human progress.
This stunning play from Irish theater company Dead Centre gives voice to Shakespeare’s son Hamnet—who died at age 11—as an unassuming embodiment of tragedy, mortality, legacy, and what it means not to be.
Street style meets athletic hip-hop in Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão’s intoxicating, heart-stopping, gravity-defying experiment, featuring the 10 male dancers of Grupo de Rua.
Bear witness via smartphone to a stranger’s profound personal experience in this site-specific play, which contemplates our afterlife on the internet and our shifting notions of connection.
In this wildly delirious new work, Cape Verdean-born, Lisbon-based choreographer and performance artist Marlene Monteiro Freitas dares you to traverse the order and wild chaos of Euripides.
This macabre, enchanting work from director-choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou presents a ravishing mess of disembodied limbs on a shape-shifting floor, set to the strains of Strauss’ Blue Danube waltz.
This charismatic staging brings to life Édouard Louis’ internationally acclaimed autobiographical novel The End of Eddy, a resonant coming-of-age story that reflects on youth, sexuality, power, and freedom.
Belgian dance-theater collective Peeping Tom sets the scene for this hilariously unpredictable, relentlessly clever, Olivier Award-winning work performed to everything from Bach to K-pop.
Set inside barber shops in six different cities, playwright Inua Ellams weaves a rich, joyful tapestry of unfiltered stories about father-son relationships and black masculinity, set to an Afrobeat score.
Come early and join the cast onstage with music, mingling, and dancing. The party continues after the show with a photo booth and pop-up photo exhibition, plus DJs curated by OkayAfrica and Okayplayer on Friday and Saturday evenings!
Kyle Marshall, the Bessie Award-winning choreographer and member of Trisha Brown Dance Company, celebrates variations of blackness in Colored, alongside the world premiere of a new work.
With no stage and no performers, this hands-on communal experience is an intimate shared adventure through the particularities and nuances of our tactile sense.
Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow performs a high-octane meditation on the perils and pleasures of the holiday season, with dazzling original music, glitter for days, and biting satire.
A conversation with Casey Gerald, T Kira Madden, Alexander Chee, and Nicole Dennis-Benn about how class, race, sexuality, and nationality change our sense of coming out stories.
Nat Randall and Anna Breckon, the creative minds behind this season’s 24-hour theatrical event The Second Woman, lead a workshop on developing multidisciplinary work for the stage.
Director Christiane Jatahy leads a participatory, small-group discussion that unpacks What if they went to Moscow?, exploring how to push formal boundaries and find new ways to engage audiences’ imaginations.
The internationally acclaimed author discusses classism, homophobia, and racism, as observed in his books The End of Eddy and History of Violence, both being presented on stage this fall.
The innovative theatermakers of Dante or Die lead a workshop in the group’s unique approach to site-based work.
Members of Belgian collective Peeping Tom conduct a workshop for artists of all disciplines on the group’s distinct and multifaceted movement language, which straddles the borderline between theater and contemporary dance.
BAM partners with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for a conversation about the convening power of the barber shop and beauty salons in Harlem and Black communities.
Celebrated choreographer Kyle Marshall takes an interdisciplinary approach in this movement workshop, which invites participants to consider the body as a container of history and a source of creativity.
Artist Kate McIntosh offers a playful, provocative seminar on scientific thinking and the use of imagination in the arts, including an investigative experiment-game for participants.
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