Penny Arcade's LONGING LASTS LONGER July 13, 14, 15

Penny Arcade's LONGING LASTS LONGER July 13, 14, 15 8 pm Theater for the New City Cabaret Theater For tickets and more info: http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/pennyarcade.html $15 Penny Arcade, a lifelong friend of Theater for the New City, and her long-time collaborator Steve Zehentner, continue their development of Longing Lasts Longer, a passionate rumination on love, longing and the loss of New York's cultural identity. Celebrating three decades of unique and iconic performance art, Penny continues her practice of developing her work in front of a live audience in preparation for the premier of Longing Lasts Longer (The Club Version) at Britain's Edinburgh Festival 2015 at The Underbelly Cowgate August 6 - 30th and Soho Theatre, London November 2- 21st. In the post-gentrified landscape of “The Big Cupcake,” where ideas too have been gentrified, Longing Lasts Longer is set in a New York disappearing under the weight of suburbanization, cultural amnesia and the politically correct straightjacket of consensus. An ode to the eternal seeker, Longing Lasts Longer is equal parts memoir, manifesto, cultural critique and Cri de Coeur, where Arcade’s snake-bite observations create a nourishing euphoric rush of truth telling as visionary as it is inclusive and hilarious. Embedded into this rollicking landscape, a live-mixed soundscape of music grooves ranging from Al Green to John Lennon, jump, counterpunch and exalt, charting an emotional path for the audience and a new anthem to personal happiness. Driven by her magnetic rock n’ roll energy, Penny Arcade creates a crack in the post-gentrified landscape where you can think, laugh and dance at the same time! Longing Lasts Longer Designed and Directed by Penny Arcade Steve Zehentner Penny Arcade Photo by: Steven Menendez http://www.stevenmenendez.com/ Hair by Brianna Lynne O'Hara, Salon Number 15 Theater for the New City Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director 155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets) New York, NY 10003 Telephone: (212) 254-1109 Fax: (212) 979-6570 Ticket Price: $15.00 Penny Arcade occupies a unique position in the American counter-culture and the American avant-garde. She is an internationally respected writer, poet, and one of the handful of artists who created contemporary text based performance art in the 1980’s and she has continued to define Performance Art for nearly three decades, She is particularly known for her complex, long form performance pieces. Her unique voice, marked by a great articulation of complex ideas still forming in the collective consciousness and her magnetic stage presence have given her mainstream career recognition far beyond America's shores. http://www.pennyarcade.tv/ "Penny Arcade has got to be the smartest, most quotable party in town! Audacious and irresistible!" - The London Times "Penny Arcade combines the anarchy of Lenny Bruce with the pathos of Judy Garland. She is provocative, intellectually stimulating, perceptive and hilariously funny." - The List, UK "Penny Arcade is a wonder to behold; she manages to entertain, absorb and broaden the audience simultaneously. Beg, steal a ticket." - Newsweek