November 28 - December 3, 2006

This Week at the Abrons Arts Center

URBAN BALLET THEATER'S
NUTCRACKER IN THE LOWER continues ...
Thursday, Nov. 30 @ 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 1 @ 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 2 @ 3 and 7:30 p.m.

Urban Ballet Theater's celebrated twist on Tchaikovsky's classic ballet continues into the weekend. Set on the Lower East Side and filled with a colorful array of dance, including flamenco, hip-hop, and martial arts, our exhilarating Nutcracker features students from the Abrons Arts Center's dance program performing alongside the Urban Ballet Theater's seasoned professionals. Brimming with brilliance and joy, it is the perfect way to begin your holiday season. Directed and choreographed by Daniel Catanach.
Tickets: $15.

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FREE FOR ALL
THE NIGHT KITCHEN RADIO THEATER presents:
Nikolai Gogol’s THE PORTRAIT
Sunday, Dec. 3 @ 7 p.m.

An original radio drama directed by Arthur Yorinks
Reception follows
Free Admission!

COMING NEXT WEEK!

THE KLEZMATICS: WOODY GUTHRIE'S HAPPY JOYOUS HANUKKAH TOUR
Monday, Dec. 4 @ 7:30 p.m.

The Klezmatics have forever transcended genres: blending klezmer with aching shtetl melodies, raucous Latin stomps, wild jazz riffs and provocative Arabic, African, American and Balkan rhythms. The Klezmatics will present a contagious celebration of Hanukkah, marrying their soulful and ebullient Jewish roots to Woody Guthrie's poignantly mesmerizing and newly discovered lyrics. This program highlights their two most recent CD releases: the multicultural folk sounds of Wonder Wheel and the ecstatically danceable, hoedown-worthy Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah. Special guests: acclaimed Celtic singer Susan McKeown and multi-instrumentalist Boo Reiners.
Tickets: $20

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LIFE ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE
PHOTOGRAPHS BY REBECCA LEPKOFF:
1937 - 1950
Exhibition open from November 20 through December 29, 2006

Thursday, Dec. 7, 6 - 8 p.m.
Opening exhibition reception and signing of the newly published monograph Life on the Lower East Side - Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937 - 1950, by Princeton Architectural Press.

Life on the Lower East Side, the first monograph of Lepkoff's work, highlights the lost neighborhood between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges from the Bowery to the East River. With over 170 beautifully reproduced duotone photographs and essays by Peter Dans and Suzanne Wasserman, the book reveals the dynamic community of Italians, Irish, Jews, Greeks, Spaniards, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, and African Americans. Lepkoff's images uncover a forgotten time and place and reveal how the Lower East Side has both stayed the same and changed forever.

Media contact:
Julie Muller Stahl
(212) 598.0400, ext. 226 / jstahl@henrystreet.org
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