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LFA is an independent production company formed by Sandra Garner and is dedicated to the development, support and presentation of contemporary performing arts projects.
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Honor: an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor

This subversive work by conceptual artist Suzanne Bocanegra masquerades as an artist talk about one of The Met’s most important 16th-century tapestries…

Honor: an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor
Aquifer of the Weave

a durational experience by James Allister Sprang featuring a 45-minute soundscape, sonic holograms and a mural-sized cyanotype weaving…

Aquifer of the Weave
LUX PHANTASMATIS

A large-scale kinetic and audiovisual installation by Pavel Zustiak and Keith Skretch. The installation hovers at the intersection of sculpture, choreography, and machine art…

LUX PHANTASMATIS
TAXILANDIA

Taxilandia, created and written by Oye Group’s Modesto Flako Jimenez, is a site-specific play-within-a-tour of a city. The piece immerses its audience in the flavors, sounds, sights and dynamic history of a neighborhood confronting social stigmas and the realities of gentrification…

TAXILANDIA
Aquifer of the Ducts

Join multidisciplinary artist James Allister Sprang in the radical action of deep listening…

Aquifer of the Ducts
Turning Towards a Radical Listening

In Turning Towards a Radical Listening, James Allister Sprang will develop a sculptural sound-based installation over the course of a five-week residency at The Kitchen…

Turning Towards a Radical Listening
CABIN

Part dance, theater, and film, Sean Donovan’s CABIN explores violence, the complexities of queer desire and intimacy, and the lines between biography and fiction…

CABIN
Radio Delirio

A piano recital featuring only the page turner. Alessandro Magania’s Radio Delirio is a radio program hot on the trail of a whistleblower hiding in plain view of the audience…

Radio Delirio
Farmhouse/Whorehouse

Farmhouse Whorehouse, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor is the third in a series of performances by visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra…

Farmhouse/Whorehouse
AFTER

A follow-up to Andrew Schneider’s Obie Award-winning YOUARENOWHERE…

AFTER
Raw Bacon From Poland

Christina Masciotti’s Raw Bacon From Poland follows shoe salesman and aspiring personal trainer, Dennis Toledo, for whom a lifetime of trouble assumes a new intensity after a bad tour in Iraq…

Raw Bacon From Poland
GAZR: Life Does Not Live

James Allister Sprang’s Life Does Not Live features a poet named GAZR recording a mixtape in his bedroom while navigating issues embedded in race and technology…

GAZR: Life Does Not Live
A Star Has Burnt My Eye

An original theater project by Howard Fishman featuring the songs and letters of obscure outsider musician Connie Converse…

A Star Has Burnt My Eye
YOUARENOWHERE

OBIE award-winning creator and performer Andrew Schneider’s YOUARENOWHERE is a rapid-fire existential meditation, using physics lecture, pop culture and personal revelation to dissect subjects ranging from quantum mechanics and parallel universes to missed connections…

YOUARENOWHERE
LongYarn

LongYarn is an outrageous shaggy-dog folktale of the adventurous and long-lived “Mother”, a character based on strong, peculiar and compelling women from history…

LongYarn
The Oracle

The Operating Theater Company presents a surreal interactive museum exhibition featuring the extraordinary life of Iris Lee, a radical member of the Luddite army, whose severed head has travelled the world, sharing secrets from beyond the grave…

The Oracle
Tarzana

A comic book comes alive onstage: TARZANA is a collaboration with award-winning playwright and screenwriter Jason Grote (‘Mad Men’). Surreal mayhem in true Radiohole tradition: an uproarious, bacchanalian, beautiful mess. Be warned: there will be karaoke. And blood.

Tarzana
Conversation: How to Make It in Black America, Part 1

¡Oye Group!’s ‘Conversation: How to Make it in Black America, Part 1’ is a meditation on the history of race relations and our current state of affairs in these United States of America…

Conversation: How to Make It in Black America, Part 1
Emily Climbs (machine méchant)

Julia May Jonas’ Emily Climbs is an inexact imagining of a future looking back on a past which is still in the future. A failed science-experiment. Devoted companion. Benign provocateur. A socialized woman struggling with the burden of individualism and the American Dream…

Emily Climbs (machine méchant)
Grimly Handsome

A pair of sinister Christmas tree salesmen have come to wreak havoc on our fair city. A pair of detectives are bent on catching the killer…

Grimly Handsome
Radiohole

Radiohole is an internationally infamous performance ensemble based in Brooklyn, New York…

Radiohole
Daredevil

In Daredevil, by Gary Winter, a girl named Elizabeth may or may not be preparing to join a mysterious resistance group; a “mountain” tells the story of the sailor, the priest and the peanut vendor…

Daredevil
WASP and Other Plays

WASP and Other Plays is a collection of four short plays by Steve Martin. Blending the essence of his whimsical public persona with his heartfelt interior, these pieces rocket from the private parts of a comic legend…

WASP and Other Plays
Prim Butterfly

Prim Butterfly, a cabaret written and performed by Paris-based actress and musician Delphine Godin (Falling for Frankie), takes us on a journey through a world where dark is dark and light…

Prim Butterfly
Christine Jorgensen Reveals

In 1952, a young man from New York went to Denmark and came back the most famous woman in America. This is her story, in her own words…

Christine Jorgensen Reveals
Flesh and the Desert

Flesh and the Desert is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Las Vegas following the intertwined stories of three couples: one ghostly, one long-lasting, and one just beginning…

Flesh and the Desert
Have You Seen Steve Steven?

In a world gone entirely wrong, only the dog you never had can save you…

Have You Seen Steve Steven?
13P: Undone
13P: Undone
Fleeto & Wee Andy

Fleeto & Wee Andy – a pair of Scottish plays by writer/director Paddy Cunneen – tell the story of knife crime and its gruesome consequences among a group of Glasgow lads…

Fleeto & Wee Andy
Space//Space

A claustrophobic container tale, Space//Space, explores the idea of human occupancy in a time capsule and its affect on the inhabitants’ perception of time, space, and each other…

Space//Space

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