“The TEAM have slowly but surely become the artistic conscience of a younger generation.”
—The Herald
On a hallucinatory road trip from the Badlands to Graceland, the spirits of Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt battle over the soul of Ann and what kind of man or woman she should become.
A pioneering journey across the USA in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism, told through atomic blasts, lizard ballet, and music that fuses Vegas glitz, Western ballads, and Southern blues.
From a condemned bar in post-Katrina New Orleans, to the mythical South of Gone with the Wind, to a lonely gas station in Arkansas, Architecting is a multi-media road-tripping requiem for modern America.
“Simultaneously intelligent, rueful, celebratory, delightful and devastatingly sad, the show actually lives up to its ambitions. If after Heartland we can’t put the ‘us’ back in ‘U.S.,’ we’ll no longer have Kansas to blame.”
– Time Out New York, 5 Stars, Top Ten 2007
A time-bending quartet inspired by Hamlet and other visions of the end of the world.
Give Up! Start Over! is a relentless solo performance about reality television, Richard Nixon, and the search for authenticity in America. Winner of the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the work has been seen in London, Glasgow, and New York City.
What jazz would look like if put into human form. A wild physical work that takes Allen Ginsberg’s revolutionary poem and matches it with four restless young men.
Each month (ish) for the next year, TEAM members are taking turns interviewing a fellow artist in the company. In our first post, Jess Almasy interviews Jake Margolin about joining the TEAM, meeting his husband, and making art about America:
“I remember at times thinking that we were really coming up with something new and really touching the pulse of something, and I remember at times feeling like we were just barely keeping our heads above water.”
Stick on your sideburns! Come croon and swoon with RoosevElvis one last time for a hip-shakin’ celebration! Following our final performance, join us onstage and on the roof for a fantastic final hurrah, featuring raffle prizes, Mt. Rushmore photo ops, rooftop views, and (always) exceptional company.
…Did we mention admission includes all the beer and wine you can drink?
“RoosevElvis is far too empathetic a play to lend itself to cold deconstruction…[It's] the company’s most intimate work that I’ve seen, and also its warmest…a lot fresher than most new plays you’ll see this season.” – Ben Brantley, New York Times