{"id":11220,"date":"2011-03-31T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=11220"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:59:20","slug":"a-world-premiere-new-show-from-provocative-playwright-young-jean-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=11220","title":{"rendered":"A World Premiere New Show from Provocative Playwright Young Jean Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 1-30, 2011<br \/>\nJOE&#8217;S PUB at the Public Theater<br \/>\n425 Lafayette Street (between East 4th Street and Astor Place)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/img_die_rotate.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11220]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11221\" title=\"youngjeanlee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/img_die_rotate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>13P (in association with Young Jean Lee&#8217;s Theater Company) presents<strong> WE&#8217;RE GONNA DIE, <\/strong>written and performed by <strong>YOUNG JEAN LEE, <\/strong>music by<strong> FUTURE WIFE,<\/strong> music direction by<strong> TIM SIMMONDS, <\/strong>choreography by<strong> FAYE DRISCOLL,<\/strong> directed by<strong> PAUL LAZAR.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 1-2 and April 30 @ 7PM<br \/>\nApril 8-9, 17-18, 22-23, 29-30 @ 9:30PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>FUTURE WIFE<\/strong> is <strong>MIKE HANF, NICK JENKINS, BEN KUPSTAS, YOUNG JEAN LEE,<\/strong> and <strong>TIM SIMMONDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <strong>WE&#8217;RE GONNA DIE<\/strong>, provocative theater artist Young Jean Lee  explores human vulnerability with her hilariously disorienting signature  style. Surrendering her usual practice of casting larger-than-life  superstars, Lee sets out to make a show that any ordinary person could  perform. Using herself as a guinea pig, non-performer Lee takes the  stage herself along with her band, <strong>Future Wife<\/strong>, to tell stories  and sing songs about our shared human weakness and failure. Join Lee and  Future Wife for an evening of heartbreak, despair, aging, sickness, and  death. <strong>You may be miserable, but you won\u2019t be alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>$30 Seated \/ $25 Standing<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOUNG JEAN LEE (Artistic Director) <\/strong>was named by American Theatre magazine as one of the 25 artist who will shape the American theater  over the next 25 years. She was born in Korea in 1974 and moved to the  United States when she was two years old.\u00a0 She is the artistic director of Young Jean Lee\u2019s Theater Company, was a  finalist for the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for THE SHIPMENT, a  recipient of the 2009 Brooklyn College Young Alumni Award, the ZKB  Patronage Prize 2007 of the Zurich Theater Spektakel, a 2007 Emerging  Playwright OBIE Award, a 2010 fellowship in playwriting from NYFA, and a  2010 Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n<p>For more info: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngjeanlee.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.youngjeanlee.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 1-30, 2011 JOE&#8217;S PUB at the Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street (between East 4th Street and Astor Place)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5194],"class_list":["post-11220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events","tag-youngjeanlee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11222,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11220\/revisions\/11222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}