THE GYM at Judson
THE GYM is located at 243 Thompson Street (at Washington Square South).
Box office opens one hour before each performance.
Currently at THE GYM: Women of Will
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A true tour de force performance, Women of Will, The Complete Journey is the masterful summation of Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer’s 40-plus years spent investigating all things Shakespeare, presented in a five-part series. An expansive, thrilling, wholly engrossing look at the female characters in Shakespeare’s plays, Women of Will: The Complete Journey is a triumph of theatre.
Reviews
"...there’s unlikely to be a more compelling demonstration of how clothes make the woman than the one provided by Ms. Packer, a longtime, multifarious interpreter of Shakespeare... When she and Mr. Gore get down to the business of acting, it’s not just poetry in motion, it’s thought made flesh."
"Performing with spirited charm, humor, and just a few props in a minimalist setting at The Gym at Judson...Tina Packer's eloquent discourse on Shakespeare's female characters, "Women of Will," is a long-time labor of love, and in this case, Packer's labors were not lost."
"The attitude is casual, the discipline is fierce... a beguiling, enlightening oddball of a performance and master class in Shakespeare and the socio-economic psychology of gender politics."
"Women of Will is one of the most hypnotic, mesmerizing, and stimulating shows playing in fair NYC... likely to satisfy the most voracious Shakespeare scholar and also serve as a terrific entry point for anyone who has yet to crack open one of his folios... it is as educational as it is brilliantly performed, making for a wholly captivating and informative theatrical experience."
The Overview
By: Tina Packer
Directed by Eric Tucker
Featuring Nigel Gore and Tina Packer
The Overview, in performance first, condenses all five parts into one evening!
A combination of riveting scenes and trenchant analysis, Women of Will, The Complete Journey explores themes of love, loss, freedom, control, violence and power through the heroines of Shakespeare’s text. Using performance and discussion, Packer traces the chronological evolution of Shakespeare’s female characters, and examines Shakespeare’s own journey and growth as a writer. [Read more]
About THE GYM at Judson
The magic of THE GYM is that, in between every hot property, every established and commercially viable venture, we’re doing something new and fresh from New York’s bustling indie theater scene. We aim to be a salon for the emerging and the already emerged – where a continual conversation swirls about what is commercial and what is art, what is popular and what is populist.
Occupying the site of a full-size gymnasium with 20 foot ceilings, THE GYM is a fully-equipped, multi-use theater, with flexible seating for up to 200. THE GYM draws on Judson's rich legacy, dating back to the 1960s, of presenting challenging, groundbreaking work, often in the face of attempts to censor artists. Since opening its doors in May 2011, THE GYM has presented world premieres of Lysistrata Jones, Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn's pop musical, which moved to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway, and Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist, starring Mary Testa. For more information, visit the Judson website: www.judson.org or contact Nick Gottlieb at thegym (at) judson.org.
History: A Home for the Arts
"Secular Prophets"
From its start, Judson Memorial Church has been associated with artists in many media. It has tried to be alert to what artists perceive and say, not only when the art portrays beauty but also when it portrays ugliness, sometimes to protest. Judson has long maintained an anti-censorship stance that welcomes art, whether tough or refined, as one voice of "secular prophets."
Particularly during the pastorates of Bob Spike (1949-55) and Howard Moody (1956-92), Judson Church became known as a venue for avant-garde arts and a foe of art censorship. These activities continue today, as Judson makes its facilities available to a wide variety of artists in dance, theatre, music, and visual arts of diverse styles.
THE GYM is located at 243 Thompson Street (at Washington Square South).
THE GYM at Judson cultivates an uncensored environment for developing workshop performance, inviting established and emerging talent to exchange creative energies and encouraging unique interdependent community in the arts.
For all questions regarding THE GYM, contact Nick Gottlieb, thegym (at) judson.org.
THE GYM is located at the corner of Thompson and Washington Square South
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The GYM is wheelchair accessible. Enter at 243 Thompson St. and and take the lift to the bottom level.
Past Productions
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THE GYM at Judson Reviews
"The infamously intimate gym at Judson Church was transformed into a ghostly theatre from the early 1900s. Glass chandeliers hung from the ceiling, a player piano sat before the audience (which was piled into bleachers on either side of the “stage”) and a small orchestra was veiled behind specter-like scrims painted to imitate old theatre interiors....What follows is one of the most important pieces of new American musical theatre that’s happening on the stage today."
- Jordan Shavarebi, Out.com
"There's an obscene amount of fun being had in a church gymnasium on Washington Square South in Lysistrata Jones....Off Broadway company the Transport Group, which specializes in site-specific shows, has found a perfect fit with a full-size gymnasium in the process of being converted to a performance space in the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village."
- David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
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