MICOCCI PRODUCTIONS, LLC is a theatrical management and tour booking company at the leading edge of the live entertainment industry globally.

Walking the fine line between "culture" and "entertainment," Micocci defines quality both by the audience appeal and enduring cultural standards that transcend time and location.

Each of Micocci's artistic clients - individual creators and production companies - is at the top of its field and at the zenith of its creative life. The presenters of these productions are among the most diverse, discriminating and adventurous on every continent.
  • Post date 2/15/10 Micocci roster expanded: Russian Shakespeare; actor/tech fusion; "actors in residence" takes on new meaning!

    • NEWS RELEASE 2/15/10
    In keeping with Micocci Productions' commitment to offering the very best available on world stages, the agency is honored to add three highly diverse and world class productions to its roster.

    THE BUILDERS ASSOCIATION (Marianne Weems Founder and Artistic Director). One of the most innovative companies in America today, "Builders" takes the integration of acting and technology to new heights, merging the multilayered communication potential of the latter with the passion that only first rate live actors can convey. A regular on the renowned Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and with a decade of festival engagements world wide, this impressive company is poised to join the front ranks 21st global theatricality.

    The Builders Association presently offers:
    CONTINUOUS CITY (2008) - available for tour
    JET LAG (1999) - updated version planned for later 2010
    ROAD TRIP ("The Grapes of Wrath") - in development for 2011.

    DAVID LEVINE. Sculptor, director, challenger of conventional thinking about audience-artist interaction, Berlin-based Levine has been commissioned by one of North America's leading festivals to create his most ambitious work to date: HABIT for premiere in June, 2011.

    HABIT starts its definition with "a process-based installation that reorients the way we watch performance, fusing TV production, durational performance, behavioral psychology, and realist theater into a project that asks basic questions about spectatorship, performance, routine, reality and realism." The end result is likely to transform lives and our approach to theatre.

    Working with David represents a significant departure for Micocci from work for dedicated theatrical venues to work that is more at home in a large gallery, factory or warehouse.

    THE SATIRICON THEATRE of Moscow, Russia, in Shakespeare's RICHARD III. Directed by Yuri Butusov and starring the theatrical force of nature, Konstantin Raikin. The touring planned for early 2012 will be the first time this production has been seen outside of Russia. One of the most remarkable productions of this play to be seen in our time!

    From the Moscow Times:

    Butusov identifies his production of this play about a treacherous duke saturating a nation in blood and hypocrisy as a tragifarce. It is so convincing, you wonder if the play could possibly be performed any other way in our day. Together with designer Alexander Shishkin, Butusov imagined the tale as a cartoon fantasy, a Grimm's fairy tale as the underground comic book artist Robert Crumb might have done it...

    Raikin, as the Duke of Gloucester who will climb over corpses to the throne as King Richard III, bursts through an illustrated door and launches into one of theater's most memorable soliloquies - "Now is the winter of our discontent" - but we are already gripped by something else altogether. Raikin's appearance is part of it - his wobbling hobble, his hunched back and his atrophied arm - but this is only the shell. What is truly riveting is the actor's irrepressible glee and single-mindedness as he itemizes the insults he has borne in his life and the means of revenge he is planning.

    Art is one thing, of course, and life is another. So what a delight to see a scheming goon like Richard finally get his comeuppance before heartily applauding the actor who played him so well. Theater is a place you can do that. Bravo, Satirikon!

    Micocci is completing engagement planning for 2010 and early 2011 while starting to block key engagements and regions for 2011-12.

    Contact:
    Tony Micocci
    tony at micocci.com
    T: 1-212-874-2030

  • Post date 7/14/2009 Micocci Productions is proud to announce three highly unique, diverse and outstanding international productions for North American touring in the 2010-11 Season, with selective availability on other continents.

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    The Abbey Theatre (Dublin, Ireland) / Mark O'Rowe's ("Howie and the Rookie") award-winning new play
    - Winner of 2008 Edinburgh Best of Fringe
    - Highlighted on the 2008 Under the Radar Festival at NYC's Public Theatre

    Three people are ripped from their daily lives and thrown into a fantastical world of singing serial killers, avenging angels and love-sick demons: a lonely young woman looking for love; her mother, who is seeking atonement; and a serial killer who has sold his soul to the Devil... an audacious drama of interlocking monologues... a dense, musical brand of colloquial poetry that sounds like a mix between Jay-Z and Tom Wolfe on a gonzo riff. (New York Times)

    This classic-in-the-making is hilarious, stunning, surprisingly touching and enormously satisfying... a thrill ride (Irish Times) and gripping, grotesque and deliriously good (Sunday Tribune-Dublin)

    THE TABLE

    The Karbido Ensemble (Wroclaw, Poland) / A theatrically-staged music sensation
    - Nominated for 2007 Edinburgh Best of Fringe
    - Featured on leading international festivals including Hong Kong and Israel

    A unique theatrical music concept with Stompesque overtones: From the opening moment, when the four musicians fling knife blades into the maplewood surface this surprises. Four acts - based on points of the compass - run the gamut of world music: Scandinavian lullabies, soca rhythms, Lou Reed and the theme from Rosemary's Baby all feature. There's even Mongolian throat-singing. Somehow, however, the unearthly spawn of these influences sounds wholly original... a remarkable feelgood show. (London Times)

    This amazing performance had me mesmerized... The entire show was extraordinary and I gladly recommend it. (Three Weeks in Edinburgh)

    YI SANG COUNTS TO THIRTEEN

    Surrealist drama from Seoul, Korea / Directed by Mabou Mines' Lee Breuer

    Adapted for the stage from works of renowned Korean writer Yi Sang by award winning "New Dramatist," Sung Rno. (In Korean with surtitles).

    - Best Overall Production winner at New York International Fringe Festival
    - Currently in performance at the Samilro Changgo Theater, Seoul, Korea

    Bizarre love triangles. Surreal images of talking limbs. Mysterious poems about the number 13. Welcome to the strange inner world of the Korean writer Yi Sang. A Korean Kafka, Yi Sang lived his entire brief life (1910-1937) in Korea under Japanese Colonial rule and produced a small but rich body of poems, short stories, and essays before dying from tuberculosis at the age of 27. An architect by trade, he fell in love with a Korean Kisaeng (similar to a Japanese Geisha) named Kumo, who inspired his most famous story 'Wings' (Nalgae). Yi Sang Counts to Thirteen takes his writing as a starting point, to create a darkly comic world that attempts to theatricalize what it feels like to be inside a poem by Yi Sang. Elements of his stories are woven through the shifting geometries of Blue (who could be Yi Sang), Red (his best friend), and Green (the woman they both love). Along the way we encounter Diet Coke performance rituals, talking ramen noodles, the power of numbers, and an overpowering hunger for water.

    Just as the writings of Yi Sang defied traditional ideas about syntax, meaning, and poetic forms, this play creates its own dramatic rules. It juxtaposes poetic language with bizarre humor; surreal dream scenes with movie musical parodies; mathematics with tragedy. Interpreted through the visionary direction of Lee Breuer, this is a truly unique theatrical experience.

    Special off-roster announcement
    Mabou Mines' LUCIA'S CHAPTERS OF COMING FORTH BY DAY
    Kilkenny Festival, Ireland August 7-11

    Traveling to Ireland in August? I highly recommend attending this phenomenal new production exploring the life of the enigmatic daughter of James Joyce, featuring the incomparable Ruth Maleczech and Paul Kandell, written and directed by Sharon Fogarty. Of the US premiere the press said:

    "Lucia may be dead... but in the hands of the extraordinary actress Ruth Maleczech, she is brimming with life and full of mischief" - Boston Globe

    "...compelling work...subtle and beautiful"- New York Times

    See: www.kilkennyarts.ie

    Well worth the journey to the delightful village of Kilkenny!

    Please contact me with interest in any and all of the above.

  • Post date 6/26/09 Stage director/puppeteer/scenographer Basil Twist expands his reach internationally in 2010 and 2011!

    • ARIAS WITH A TWIST moves out. After a sold out seven-month run in New York, "Arias" was introduced to French audiences at the EXIT Festival in Paris in March with resounding success. Fall 2009 engagements are confirmed in Stockholm at the Stadsteater (September 24-27) and Los Angeles for a month at REDCAT in Disney Hall (November 18-December 13), and a spring 2010 return to Europe is now being planned with dates available. One of the most unique and effective high camp/high art collaborations to be seen anywhere: a genius puppeteer and a Cirque du Soleil star drag artist. The combined talents of Joey Arias and Basil Twist are not to be missed! (www.ariaswithatwist.com)

    What Arias and Twist have fashioned is no less than an eye-popping, delightfully transgressive lysergic fantasia - Time Out New York

    Eat your heart out, Madonna. The chanteuses who play Madison Square Garden and football stadiums have never experienced the imaginative heights of spectacle with which Basil Twist surrounds Joey Arias in "Arias With a Twist" - New York Times

    DOGUAESHI was a hit around the US this year after Japan last: the Spoleto USA Festival, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the La Jolla Playhouse. In early 2010, following the success of the expanded PETRUSHKA last season Basil continues his association with the Phoenix Symphony with MASTER PETER'S PUPPET SHOW on the Symphony's World Music Festival (January 14-16). Meanwhile PETRUSHKA in its intimate Lincoln Center-commissioned form with the matching twin Russian pianists can be seen at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, California, (February 4-7). All are available for 2010-11 touring world wide.

    Discussions of remounting two Twist "classics" are taking place: his unique vision for Ottorini Respighi's opera with puppets, LA BELLA DORMENTE NEL BOSCO ("Sleeping Beauty in the Woods"), and the seen-only-ever-in-New York Lee Breuer/Mabou Mines collaboration, RED BEADS. Partners welcome!

    "Red Beads" is theater as sorcery; artistic traditions meet to invent a marvelous common language. It is a fairy tale, a puppet play and a chamber opera... richly imaginative... transformational... - The New York Times Twistian projects presently in the works that will enhance the luster of the name and salability of all of his shows (though not be available for touring through Micocci) are:

  • The Peter Pan inspired PETER & WENDY at the Edinburgh International Festival in early September, 2009.
  • Significant artistic contribution to the Broadway musical, THE ADDAMS FAMILY previewing in Chicago in the fall of 2009 and opening in New York in the spring of 2010.
  • Collaboration with Lee Breuer on the first ever Tennessee Williams production in the permanent repertoire of one of France's greatest theatrical institutions (can't name the name yet, but think founded in 1680 in the 1st Arrondissement!) for premiere in September, 2010.

    There is a Basil Twist production right for almost every venue and series in every country. Call or email to discuss and explore!