Downtown festival of independent theater seeks to cool off the summer heat
3LD Art + Technology Center
80 Greenwich St. at Rector St.
Ice Factory: Wednesday – Saturday, $18, 7:00
Ice Cubes: Thursday – Friday, $15, 9:00
212-645-0374
www.sohothinktank.org
www.3ldnyc.org
Soho Think Tank’s eighteenth annual Ice Factory Festival, held at 3LD Art + Technology Center, is under way, featuring a half dozen independent productions running through July 30. Next up is Vladimir Moravek’s adaptation of The Pig, Or, Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig (June 29 – July 2), a multimedia political and gastronomic piece with live music, pulled pork, and Czech beer presented by Untitled Theater Company #61, followed by Aztec Economy’s Pontiac Firebird Variations (July 6-9), a tragicomic crime family saga. The Subjective Theatre Company’s An Impending Sense of Doom (July 13-16) examines the end of days, while Three Graces (July 20-23), from the Café Antarsia Ensemble & Immigrants’ Theatre Project, transports The Iliad to modern-day Greece. The festival concludes with Joshua William Gelb and Stephanie Johnstone’s Sometimes in Prague (July 27-30), a multimedia musical set in a Czech pub. In addition, the Ice Factory Festival includes the Ice Cubes Studio Series, including the Inverse Theater’s Be Story Free (June 30 – July 1), Jonathan Solari’s The Love Letter You’ve Been Meaning to Write to New York (July 7-8), Everywhere Theatre Group’s Dead People (July 14-15), Sponsored by Nobody and het GEIT’s Americans ‘N’ Indians (July 21-22), and Ma-Yi Theater Co.’s Will Sing (July 28-29).