The Public Theater has unveiled the lineup for its 16th annual Under the Radar festival, running January 8鈥�19, 2020. A showcase for cutting-edge theatre, the 12-day event will take place at The Public as well as partner venues, and will feature artists from across the U.S. and around the world.
In case you missed their previously limited runs, the upcoming festival will bring back a handful of critically acclaimed shows, including The Movement Theatre Company production of Aleshea Harris' What to Send Up When It Goes Down and ; as well as overseas hits like Selina Thompson's salt., seen at London's Royal Court, and an award-winning Chinese production of Nick Payne's Constellations, among many other offerings.
鈥淯TR 2020 promises to be a gorgeous, epic community project, bursting with great performances by artists that are making theater for the future," says festival director Mark Russell. 鈥淎t this year鈥檚 Under the Radar Festival, audiences will find joy, redemption, beauty, and humor all woven into a two-week tapestry of extraordinary events.鈥�
The shows staged at The Public will include Susan, Ahamefule J. Oluo鈥檚 darkly comic musical portrait of his mother (January 8鈥�13); Grey Rock, Zuabi's play about a Palestinian man who dreams of launching into space (January 8鈥�19); Australian theatre company Back to Back's The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes, in which five activists with intellectual disabilities hold a public meeting to start a frank and open conversation about our past and present (January 8鈥�19); Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang's virtual reality experience To the Moon (January 8鈥�19); Mexican artist H茅ctor Flores Komatsu's Andares, woven from ancestral myths and traditional music, which looks at the realities faced by indigenous people (January 9鈥�19); TMTC's What to Send Up, a community ritual created in response to the deaths of Black people as a result of racialized violence (January 10鈥�19); Thompson's play salt., in which two artists retrace one of the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle (January 10鈥�19); Josh Fox's deep dive into misinformation and propaganda in America post-9/11, The Truth Has Changed (January 11鈥�19), and Chilean director and puppet artist Aline Kuppenheim's collaboration with Guillermo Calder贸n, Feos, an adult work about desire and love between two people with physical deformities, (January 15鈥�19);
In partner venues, UTR will co-present director Wang Chong and Th茅芒tre du R锚ve Exp茅rimental's Constellations, at La MaMa (January 9鈥�12); Jess Thom's take on Samuel Beckett's Not I in a theatrical experience that explores neurodiversity, at BRIC House (January 10鈥�19); and Suguru Yamamoto's The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood, at Japan Society (January 10鈥�14).
The UTR + Joe's Pub: In Concert will also return as part of the 16th annual festival, featuring artists exploring the intersection of music and theatre. The slate includes Rizo, Lucy McCormick, Ryan J. Haddad, and Daniel J. Watts.
Rounding out the lineup is UTR's Incoming! Series, featuring in-process works from The HawtPlates, Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Kameron Neal, Ty Defoe and All My Relations Collective, Maiko Kikuchi, nicHi douglas, and Piehole
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