Irondale Announce 2010/11 Season! Theatre, Dance, Music and more! September 1, 2010

Irondale Announce 10/11 Season
Edward R. Murrow, B.H. Barry, and The Civilians
Headline Irondale Center's third Season

Brooklyn, New York. Irondale announces its 10/11 season, the third season in their beautiful home, the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. For more information check out www.irondale.org. Tickets for all major productions go on sale in August.

The 2010/11 season will offer an exciting combination of theater, music, dance, and family events. In December, Irondale Ensemble Project, the center’s resident company, will reprise their highly acclaimed production of alice…Alice…ALICE!, and in April 2011 the Irondale Ensemble will present a brand new ensemble-devised piece, Murrows Boys, the story of Edward R. Murrow, and the team of journalists he assembled to bring back the story of World War II and the creation of CBS News.

Along with its own work, Irondale is entering into a series of producing partnerships with other theaters and artists. In September, the Irondale Center brings over Fools Proof Theatre Company from Liverpool with their original work Je Suis Dead combining absurd humor and a compelling fragmented narrative with strong visual, physical theater. Next Irondale Center hosts the Civilians with the culmination of a 3 year project, In The Footprint, a theater piece about the Atlantic Yards development. In January 2011, Irondale and Catscratch Dance Company present FLIC FEST a two week dance festival featuring full length works by 12 choreographers. February opens with Rialto fight director B.h. Barry directing a new version of Treasure Island, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel.

Irondale’s popular series created especially for families and children, Big Box of Distractions, kicks off in October and will provide a unique series jammed pack with excitement, presenting puppets, dance, clowning, juggling, and storytelling throughout the year. As always the price for these great family events remains low and this year, for the first time, Irondale offers even lower pricing for the whole family through their new BBoD subscription package. (Details about subscriptions can be found at www.irondale.org.)

Throughout the season, the Irondale Center will present and host some exciting alternative music programming. Composer, musician, and artist Chris Chalfant opens the 2010/11 Irondale season with her unique, cutting-edge, multi-media vision Looking Through Trees and in November, Irondale is thrilled to host the maverick record label Jazzwerkstatt from Germany. Jazzwerkstatt will be presenting 3 nights of the very best jazz artists from Europe and beyond in a rare and talent packed showcase over 3 nights.

As a 27 year old permanent ensemble, Irondale has received national and international accolades for its theatrical performances which are often driven by themes that emerge from the social and political climate, as well as the ability to take unique approaches to well known tales. This season will be no exception. Now with their own space, the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, they can also be instrumental in creating new work and supporting the work of other local companies with theater space subsidies provided by the Brooklyn Community Foundation and Council Member Letitia James.

The Irondale Center, the first performing arts space to open in the BAM Cultural District, is uniquely and entirely run and maintained by the Irondale ensemble. A beautiful and historic space, the theater is created in the ruins of the old Sunday school building attached to the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. The church boasts an incredible history in its own right being a reputed shelter for runaway slaves in the 1860’s and demonstrating an ongoing commitment to social justice and political activism.

Irondale’s Mission
Through the power of the ensemble process, Irondale creates and presents theater, performance, and education programs that challenge traditional assumptions about art, and help us to better understand today’s world. The Irondale Center, our theater, laboratory, and classroom, is a home for ensemble artists of all disciplines and cultures, and a resource for our community.