In early 2011 we will launch an exciting new program entitled Azuka Under Construction. Each year a new work, whether it’s a play, a performance piece or a concept for a larger project will be given a ten day to two week workshop with actors, a director and a dramaturg. The inaugural project will focus on Xenophobia, or the fear of the outsider, and culminate in a special limited-run performance where your feedback has a direct impact on the development of the work!

One man + one woman @ bar = First Date. A simple equation, so what could go wrong? In Adam Szymkowicz’s Nerve, well just about everything! From a too soon declaration of love to far too much information about past relationships, this ‘wickedly entertaining and darkly comic romance’ (OffOffOnline.com) allows us to eavesdrop on the early stages of what may or may not end up being the real thing. Throw in some interpretive dance and a wise cracking puppet and you have a ‘laugh out loud funny’ (The Gothamist) evening.