CURRENT SEASON

THE BUSHWICK STARR'S 2011-2012 SEASON:
	thisisitisthisit (shit shit shit): A map of the known world by The Plastic Arts SEPTEMBER 8-11 Thursday - Sunday at 8pm $12 Part lecture, part travelogue, part explorer's log, part cartographic mission, and part lonely letter home -- a hopeful treatise on newness, in all its thrilling and occasionally disheartening truth(s).

	DICK DONE BROKE by D.J. Mendel NOVEMBER 2-19, Wednesdays-Saturdays Preview Nov. 1 ($10) All shows at 8pm $15 The New York Times says D.J. Mendel's "feverish" performance "smacks of the Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski personas, steeped in a Southern moonshine marinade." Time Out NY calls D.J. Mendel's performance "...brave [and] emotionally courageous" L Magazine calls it "...a relatable and readily universalized account of powerlessness" Treasured downtown performer D.J. Mendel revisits one of his pivotal original works, which premiered over 10 years ago on the New York stage. Dick Done Broke is a working class meditation on fatherhood, marriage and sexual frustration told through the colorful, boozed up character of Donny, a steelworker trapped in a suspended hallway.

	BAND OF PUPPETS FEST DECEMBER 8-11 Thursday + Friday at 8pm Saturday + Sunday at 4pm + 8pm $12 FREE for kids under 18 for the Sat.+Sun. matinees! The Bushwick Starr's annual new works puppetry festival is back! Selected artists will create live music videos in the style of the golden age of MTV rock epics such as "Thriller". This year's theme is Michael Jackson. Curated by The Bushwick Starr and Puppet Producer, Amanda Maddock FEATURING: Marta Mozelle MacRostie Madison J. Cripps Alphabet Arts Spencer Lott Rachel Borg and Tanner Slick and Animals

	GONNA SEE A MOVIE CALLED GUNGA DIN by Van Cougar JANUARY 25-FEBRUARY 11, Wednesdays-Saturdays Preview Jan. 24 ($10) All shows at 8pm $15 The New York Times: "Whether you prefer your war stories low key or over the top, hesitant or harrowing, "Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din" has you covered." The Village Voice: "[U]nsettling, meticulously staged...Gunga Din is a darkly witty collage of American war sagas, mixing cherished fictions with gruesome truths." L Magazine: "...Gunga Din finds understanding and communion where conventionally-and in pop culture-there is only conflict." An examination of aural stories collected from our veterans layered against a visual journey that follows the archetypal characters of American war films, Gonna see a movie called "Gunga Din" examines the cinematic depiction of the American soldier juxtaposed with stories shared by men and women who have served.

	EVELYN by Nellie Tinder FEBRUARY 22-MARCH 10, Wednesdays-Saturdays Preview Feb. 21 ($10) All shows at 8pm $15 The New York Times: "Mixing elements of drama and musical theater as well as intimate realism and mythic tragedy" Time Out NY: "supremely balanced weirdness...a paper-doll adventure told by a disturbed and brilliant teenager" The Village Voice: "[Jonas'] ambitious new piece, Evelyn transposes ancient madness to a modern clinic, suggesting that our unruly psyches still chafe at civilized life's compromises." A musical fever-dream delivered by a chorus of some of downtown's smartest new talent, Evelyn is an idiosyncratic genre mash-up and a haunting yet humorously parodic love letter to things past. Riffing on the classic stranger-comes-to-town-story, Evelyn uses Nellie Tinder's unique stylization of movement, music and text to explore the relationship of reality to artifice, even in the most dramatic of situations.

	TARGET MARGIN THEATER'S ANNUAL LAB MARCH 16-APRIL 7 Complete show schedule is detailed HERE as well as on our ticketing website $15 Target Margin Theater (TMT) returns to The Bushwick Starr for their 2012 Lab to present short-run fully-produced pieces running in rep, emphasizing artistic freedom above all. The 2012 TMT Lab’s artistic focus will be a close examination of the Russian avant garde art movement. Expect Meyerhold, Kharms, Mayakovsky and more!

	BIG GREEN THEATER APRIL 28-29 7pm+4pm on Sat., 4pm on Sun. $12 FREE for kids under 18 and all Bushwick community members (*please bring proof of address to our Box Office) Big Green Theater (BGT) is an annual community-based program that combines an environmental education initiative with the presentation of a Green Theater festival. Each year, we work with a group of local Bushwick students to write and perform a series of environmentally themed plays, using only green theater methods. The BGT program is created in collaboration with Superhero Clubhouse and Bushwick's PS123. Check out our BGT Blog for more info!
	THE BUSHWHACK SERIES MAY 31-JUNE 3, Thursday-Sunday All shows at 8pm $12 Our annual performance festival is devoted to the development of new work within the neighborhood of Bushwick. By partnering with Arts In Bushwick's annual Open Studios Festival , Bushwhack highlights our local talent right here in Bushwick, and celebrates what is unique and special about our arts community.
	THE STARR READING SERIES Monthly on Mondays All shows at 8pm FREE! SEPTEMBER 19: Mark Sitko OCTOBER 10: Frank Boudreaux NOVEMBER 7: Eliza Bent DECEMBER 12: Maya Macdonald JANUARY 30: William Burke MARCH 5: Paul Ketchum APRIL 16: Ariel Stess MAY 7: Jonathan Payne This monthly series features readings of new, un-produced plays and supports the path of developing work. Join us for this ongoing complimentary event!

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