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The Woza Afrika! Festival: Children of Asazi September 24 - 28, 1986

Newhouse Theater

Two short plays—one about a couple living in a shantytown, and the other, the story of a radical poet who is arrested, tortured, and eventually killed in prison. Learn More »

September 24 - 28, 1986

The Woza Afrika! Festival: Gangsters September 24 - 28, 1986

Newhouse Theater

Two short plays—one about a couple living in a shantytown, and the other, the story of a radical poet who is arrested, tortured, and eventually killed in prison. Learn More »

September 24 - 28, 1986

The Woza Afrika! Festival: Bopha! September 17 - 21, 1986

Newhouse Theater

The paradox of being a black policeman in South Africa is presented with explosive humor and music in BOPHA! Learn More »

September 17 - 21, 1986

The Woza Afrika! Festival: Asinamali! September 10 - 14, 1986

Written and Directed byMbongeni Ngema

Newhouse Theater

ASINAMALI! is a celebration of the resistance movement to apartheid, inspired by a 1983 rent strike in which the strike leader was assassinated. Learn More »

September 10 - 14, 1986

Terrors of Pleasure May 13 - August 3, 1986

BySpalding Gray

Newhouse Theater

Quite by accident, or because he was in a rush, or because Mercury was in retrograde, or all the above, Spalding Gray buys a perfectly imperfect house in the Catskills that just happens to be built on clay. Learn More »

May 13 - August 3, 1986

Swimming to Cambodia May 13 - August 3, 1986

BySpalding Gray

Newhouse Theater

This tenth in a series of ongoing autobiographic monologs is based on Spalding’s exploits as an actor in the award-winning film 'The Killing Fields'. Learn More »

May 13 - August 3, 1986

Sex & Death to the age 14 May 13 - June 22, 1986

Newhouse Theater

The first of Spalding’s monologues, which was first performed in New York in 1979 is a funny account of his adolescent initiation to sex and death while growing up as a Christian Scientist in Rhode Island. Learn More »

May 13 - June 22, 1986

The House of Blue Leaves (Beaumont) April 29, 1986 - October 5, 1986

ByJohn Guare
Words and Music byJohn Guare
Directed byJerry Zaks

Beaumont Theater

The House of Blue Leaves began its run at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and moved on to the Vivian Beaumont Theater (4/86), and the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway (10/86). Learn More »

April 29, 1986 - October 5, 1986

Juggling and Cheap Theatrics (Newhouse) April 23 - May 4, 1986

Newhouse Theater

The Flying Karamazov Brothers continue that Grand Tradition of the Theatre, performing their full-sized stage show with all the bells and whistles in nice places everywhere, from Broadway on up. Learn More »

April 23 - May 4, 1986

Juggling and Cheap Theatrics (Beaumont) March 28 - April 20, 1986

Conceived, written and directed byThe Flying Karamazov Brothers

Beaumont Theater

The Flying Karamazov Brothers continue that Grand Tradition of the Theatre, performing their full-sized stage show with all the bells and whistles in nice places everywhere, from Broadway on up. Learn More »

March 28 - April 20, 1986

The House of Blue Leaves (Newhouse) February 28, 1986 - April 20, 1986

ByJohn Guare
Words and music byJohn Guare
Directed byJerry Zaks

Newhouse Theater

The House of Blue Leaves began its run at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and moved on to the Vivian Beaumont Theater (4/86), and the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway (10/86). Learn More »

February 28, 1986 - April 20, 1986

Prairie Du Chien/The Shawl December 20, 1985 - February 2, 1986

ByDavid Mamet
Directed byGregory Mosher

Newhouse Theater

These 1985 performances of David Mamet’s ghost stories, PRAIRIE DU CHIEN and THE SHAWL were the very first productions of the newly formed Lincoln Center Theater. Learn More »

December 20, 1985 - February 2, 1986

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