Just announced! Jamie Lloyd’s (
@JamieLloydCo
) critically acclaimed production of Lucy Prebble’s “The Effect” comes to The Shed in March for 4 weeks only following a hit run at London’s National Theatre (
@NationalTheatre
) . Tix on sale to members tomorrow.
@tomassaraceno
@bts_bighit
This spring, we're presenting Argentinian artist
@tomassaraceno
's largest exhibition in the US to date. Saraceno's work imagines a world free from borders and fossil fuels, in an unorthodox collaboration with spiders and their webs, and the cosmic web:
Big news:
@bjork
is coming to The Shed! “Cornucopia,” a new concert production conceived and performed by Björk and directed by John Tiffany, will receive its world premiere at The Shed in spring 2019 in our largest space, The McCourt.
#bjorkcornucopia
Oscar Isaac and
@arca1000000
reflect on their live performance of a Samuel Beckett text at one of Arca's "Mutant;Faith" shows at The Shed last year. Via
@InterviewMag
:
As part of our 2019 highlights, we've just released footage from
@arca1000000
's "Mutant;Faith"! Watch:
"A once-in-a-generation talent, Arca pushes us to reexamine our relationship to these false binaries...and dare to look beyond them." –
@papermagazine
Member presale tickets are available now for Arca!
@arca1000000
returns to The Shed for a new, four-part experimental performance cycle "Mutant;Faith".
Tickets will be available to Shed Movers tomorrow and to the public Friday 8/23. More information:
Last chance:
@abra
's final performance at A
#PreludetoTheShed
, tonight at 7pm.
A number of walk-in tickets will be available onsite and we will do our best to accommodate as many people as possible.
(📷: Stephanie Berger)
.
@abra
, AKA Darkwave Duchess, is an Atlanta-based R&B singer-songwriter who will be bringing her shadowy, neo-freestyle music to A
#PreludetoTheShed
this May.
Listen:
Details:
Swipe through for a first look at The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at The Shed featuring Cecily Strong's New York theatrical debut!
Jane Wagner,
@LilyTomlin
, Cecily Strong, and Leigh Silverman discuss "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Univers" in this Sunday's edition of
@nytimes
@ditzkoff
“Theater can be conservative. It doesn’t seem to evolve at the rate that other art forms do. I’m interested in working on things that feel like they’re moving the medium forward.” – Ben Whishaw on
#NormaJeaneBakerOfTroy
, premiering at The Shed April 6.
"Norma Jeane Baker of Troy" is a new dramatic work by poet Anne Carson starring Ben Whishaw and Renée Fleming that explores the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—iconic beauties who lived millennia apart.
#normajeanebakeroftroy
“Norma Jeane Baker of Troy” performers Ben Whishaw and
@ReneeFleming
answered your questions! Head to our Instagram Stories to watch:
Get tickets to see "Norma Jeane Baker of Troy" before it closes on May 19:
Director Leigh Silverman gives us a look into the rehearsal process with star Cecily Strong for The Shed’s production of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Jane Wagner’s (
@LilyTomlin
) ever-timely, iconic, one-woman show.
"[Whishaw's] words are occasionally picked up and echoed, often in song, by Ms. Fleming. From time to time, her creamy, disembodied voice floats through the air like thought made sound." See
#NormaJeaneBakerOfTroy
through May 19! Read more via
@nytimes
:
"Oh I need a drink.
Or a big bowl of whipped cream. I've got to think"
❗ his weekend is the LAST CHANCE to see Anne Carson's new dramatic work, "Norma Jeane Baker of Troy," starring Ben Whishaw and
@reneefleming
. Get tickets before it closes on Sunday:
🎻 Last night we hosted our friends at
@nyphil
for an intimate audience of 150 people! It was the Philharmonic's first indoor live show in 400 days.
#AnAudienceWith
“It truly does feel like we’re moving into fascinating and uncharted territory.” - Ben Whishaw on
#normajeanebakeroftroy
. See rehearsal photos of Whishaw and Renée Fleming:
Our building moved for the first time! The Shed has a movable outer shell which has been deployed to make way for large-scale productions in the McCourt. Today, we moved the 8 million pound shell over the fixed building to reveal our plaza for “Open Call: Group 3", starting Fri.
For Straight Line Crazy’s postert, Ralph Fiennes stands at the center of a model of New York City, in costume as Robert Moses, surveying his public infrastructure projects. This model is the Panorama of the City of New York, housed at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona
🎉 Happy birthday to
@arca1000000
and Ben Whishaw! Ben Whishaw performed in our opening season in "Norma Jeane Baker of Troy" and Arca just wrapped her fall performance series "Mutant;Faith" at The Shed.
.
Photo of
#Arca
by Ahad Subzwari. Photo of
#BenWhishaw
by Stephen Cummisky.
✨ Last night at "Björk's Cornucopia" premiere!
@Bjork
🌸
Stage Visuals: Tobias Gremmler
Costume:
@Balmain
Headpiece: James Merry
Makeup: Hungry
Hair: John Vial
Styling: Edda Gudmundsdottir
Photos: Santiago Felipe
Last night we welcomed an audience for our first indoor live performance in over a year. 💕 Thank you to
@IAmKelseyLu
and friends, our staff and crew, and our wonderful audience of 150 people!
#AnAudienceWith
Get a behind-the-scenes look at "Norma Jeane Baker of Troy" as director Katie Mitchell, composer Paul Clark, actor Ben Whishaw, and soprano
@ReneeFleming
reflect on the creative process. via
@playbill
Big news!
@mistyonpointe
, principal dancer with
@ABTBallet
and a Shed Board Member, will join Shed Artistic Director and CEO Alex Poots on Instagram Live on Tuesday, December 22 at 2 pm EST. Follow us on Instagram so you don't miss it!
#WhatInspiresHope
Announcing our 2020 season! We’re excited to reveal our season of new commissions, featuring work by pioneering artists who are confronting the urgent matters of our time with practices that look to the future and speak to justice, empathy, and the environment.
See poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson's new dramatic work,
#NormaJeaneBakerofTroy
, this spring! The performance starring Ben Whishaw and
@ReneeFleming
explores the lives of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—iconic beauties who lived millennia apart.
We’re thrilled to announce the US premiere of David Hare’s new play, “Straight Line Crazy,” starring Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses and directed by Nicholas Hytner and Jamie Armitage, in a strictly limited,
For
#EarthDay50
earlier this week,
@artnet
rounded up 20 of the best environmentalist artworks of the past 50 years.
Read about
#AgnesDenes
's "Wheatfield":
For Straight Line Crazy’s poster, Ralph Fiennes stands at the center of a model of New York City, in costume as Robert Moses, surveying his public infrastructure projects. This model is “The Panorama of the City of New York,” housed at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows
Announcing the 52 emerging NYC artists and collectives who will create new work as part of our inaugural Open Call program. A few of them are pictured here. See the full list:
#shedopencall
It is 1964. An office manager has hired a stenos to type out his translation of Euripides’s "Helen," but his obsession with the recently dead Marilyn Monroe kidnaps the translation.
🎭 Get tickets for Norma Jeane Baker of Troy:
📸 Stephanie Berger
Announcing the roster of performers for
#soundtrackofamerica
, our opening production celebrating the influence of African American music with a new generation of groundbreaking artists.
Congratulations to the wonderful Ben Whishaw on his
#GoldenGlobes
win last night for his performance in “A Very English Scandal.” See him live this spring at The Shed with Renée Fleming in
#normajeanebakeroftroy
.
In March we're presenting "Help", a new theatrical work by
#ClaudiaRankine
. You may know her from "Citizen: An American Lyric", which was widely celebrated as a top book of the past decade by
@lithub
,
@buzzfeed
,
@vulture
,
@Slate
, and others.
"Though it’s a man who narrates — and tries to make sense of — Norma Jeane’s story, it is fittingly a woman’s voice that supplies the aural oxygen in which it unfolds." Ben Brantley on
#NormaJeaneBakerOfTroy
via
@nytimesarts
Throwback to
@peijuchienpott
and
@DicksonMbi
demonstrating moves from "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise" in April. "Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise" starts on June 22! Get tickets:
"Cecily Strong stars in “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” Jane Wagner’s multicharacter feminist solo play, for which Lily Tomlin (
@LilyTomlin
) won a Tony Award in 1986 (Dec. 21, The Shed)." -
@NewYorker
While we’re all isolating inside, our walks outside are so precious. Jonas Mekas took the time to appreciate every flower he saw. Lucky for us, all of the trees are in bloom right now. 🌸🤗
#MuseumBouquet
Announcing the world premiere of “November,” an urgent film about white male privilege set against scenes of Black joy, freedom, and beauty. Streaming free Nov 1-7. Film dir
@PhillipYoumans
, written by
#ClaudiaRankine
, stage dir Taibi Magar.
#WatchNovember
Join us in March for Lucy Prebble’s “The Effect,” directed by Jamie Lloyd!
Be mesmerized by the performances of an exceptional cast featuring Michele Austin, Paapa Essiedu, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, and Taylor Russell.
Secure your tickets for “The Effect” Mar 3 – 31. Link in bio.
Tonight is the last performance of "Björk's Cornucopia" at
#TheShed
. Thank you to Björk for an incredible series! 🌸
Photo: Santiago Felipe, 2019. Courtesy One Little Indian/The Shed.
This weekend, be one of the first to see "Drifters"—a surreal performance that spans The Shed’s four-story-high, 17,000-square-foot McCourt space—as part of Fragile Future, an immersive exhibition of kinetic sculptures and installations by multidisciplinary artists
@StudioDrift
Meet Agnes Denes, whose major retrospective exhibition opens today at The Shed! Denes is a pioneer in conceptual, environmental, and ecological art.
More information and tickets:
"That's what blows the aliens away-the fact that people will come together, strangers, and watch something and cry together and laugh together. And that's an experience that we haven't gotten to have for a couple years." —Cecily Strong,
@BroadwayWorld
Swipe through for a first look at David Hare’s new play, Straight Line Crazy, starring Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses and directed by Nicholas Hytner and Jamie Armitage, running through December 18, 2022 at The Shed.
.
@arca1000000
opened last night! "Gestation" featured a mechanical bull, a custom-made Theremin dance pole by Landscape FM, vocal manipulation through myoelectric sensors by Daito Manabe, custom laser wings by artist Carlos Saez, and more.
Images: Annie Forrest
This Sept: “Here We Are,” the final musical by legendary composer Stephen Sondheim! Featuring a book by Tony Award–nominee David Ives and directed by Tony Award–winner Joe Mantello.
Every sound you hear in "Norma Jeane Baker of Troy"—from fireworks to a whirring fan—is built from recordings of
@ReneeFleming
's voice! Composer Paul Clark talks about the process for the soundscape. Hear for yourself before the show closes on May 19:
REVIEWS ARE IN!
“Ralph Fiennes is glorious as an unstoppable Robert Moses.” —
@nytimes
“History comes cracklingly alive in Straight Line Crazy, David Hare’s not-to-be-missed dissection of power broker Robert Moses.” —
@nystagereview
#OpenCall2019
, a commissioning program for early-career
#artists
who live or work in
#NewYorkCity
, is now welcoming applications from all disciplines. Submit yours at
Get a first look at our building before we open on Friday evening with
#SoundtrackOfAmerica
. We can't wait to welcome everyone to the opening season of
#TheShed
!
📸 David Mitchell for
@Bloomberg
"The “S.N.L.” star steps into a role originated by Lily Tomlin, and Claudia Rankine’s “Help” gets its pandemic-delayed world premiere in the new Shed season." -
@nytimes
“We are constantly swerving in and out of heavy conversations, so we have to find the joy. It’s a hallmark of what Black people do: We find joy in everything.” - “November” director Phillip Youmans.
#WatchNovember
streaming free on demand Nov 1-7.
Last night we hosted the opening for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Here are some of our favorite photos from the event including Jane Krakowski, Billy Porter, Jeremy O. Harris,
@kchenoweth
,
@Jordan_Roth
, and many others!
"I was very excited by what Anne Carson wrote. I've never worked on a project quite like this where there's an actor and a singer sharing a text." Ben Whishaw on his experience with "Norma Jeane Baker of Troy." See the performance before it closes on 5/19!
Soundtrack of America is a celebration of the unrivaled impact of African American music on art and popular culture. Conceived by
#SteveMcQueen
, it will be developed and programmed in collaboration with
@QuincyDJones
, Maureen Mahon, and
@cocaine80s
.
#TheShed2019
Did you hear?
@bjork
is coming to The Shed! “Cornucopia,” a new concert production conceived and performed by Björk and directed by John Tiffany, premieres at The Shed in spring 2019 in our largest space, The McCourt.
#bjorkcornucopia
Announcing KAGAMI – a groundbreaking mixed reality concert event with legendary composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto directed by Todd Eckert for Tin Drum (
@TinDrumIO
).
#KAGAMI
#RYUICHISAKAMOTO
#TINDRUM