Under the Radar Festival Headed <em>Straight For Us!</em>
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<p>"With razor-sharp direction and an indie theater vibe, <em>Once and For All Weâre Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen</em> is a mind-blowing look at adolescence through the eyes of thirteen astoundingly talented teenagers." Running January 7 to 17 at The Duke on 42nd Street theater.</p>
<p>"Based on John Cassavetesâs 1970s film, <em>Husbands</em> depicts three men shaken up by the death of their friend and by their own imminent approach into middle age. They enter a freefall into emptiness and unrest in a four-day bender that follows the funeral. Anarchic and raw, the production is a surprisingly intimate exploration of the mysteries of friendship and masculinity." Running January 6 to 17 at The Public Theater. </p>
<p>"Inspired by the wildly popular lecture circuits of the late 19th century, NTUSAâs <em>Chautauqua!</em> weaves lectures on history, culture and capitalism with live music, magic, slapstick, dance and melodrama, as it discovers the place of art and impulse in our changing culture of commerce... Each nightâs <em>Chautauqua!</em> features special guest lecturers, performers and surprises in a celebration of the culture we all share and the moment in which we share it." (We caught a previous incarnation of this show earlier this year and highly recommend it; <a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/03/01/opinionist_chautauqua.php">read our full review here</a>.) Running January 7 to 17 at The Public Theater.</p>
<p>In Reid Farringtonâs <em>Gin and âItâ</em>, his video theater work mirrors the technical feats of Hitchcockâs daring film experiment in <em>Rope</em> with its own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama. Running January 7 to 16 at 3LD Art & Technology Center.</p>
<p>"Acclaimed British director and performer Andrew Dawson recreates a documentary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing using only his hands and a black-draped table. Accompanied by Shostakovichâs Symphony No. 10 and a dramatic, lively narration, Dawson takes audiences from Houston to the moon and returns them safely to Earth, conveying the colossal distances and the risks involved simply through his skilled hand movements and wry facial expressions. Dawson has performed <em>Space Panorama</em> at theaters and theater festivals throughout the world, most recently at the Kennedy Center to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11." Running January 7 to 17 at The Public Theater. </p>
<em>The Windup Bird Chronicle </em>is described as "interdisciplinary, multimedia theatrical performance based on the international best-selling novel by Haruki Murakam,i combining live performance and puppetry with video projections and hypnotic soundscapes. Running January 12 to 30 at the Ohio Theatre.
<p>Conceived, developed and created by Philadelphia's acclaimed Pig Iron Theater Company, <em>Chekhov Lizardbrain</em> is "a series of fractured memories become a vaudeville of neuroscience and maladroit Russian drama in the mind of an eccentric botanist." Running January 7 to 17 at CSV Cultural Center.</p>