Highlighted Press for Ice Factory 2022
Cool off in the West Village and enjoy great avant-garde theatre at the ‘Ice Factory Festival’
by Bob Krasner
The New Ohio Theatre’s “Ice Factory Festival” began 29 years ago, originated by playwright/artistic director Robert Lyons in a space on Wooster Street that famously lacked air-conditioning and got its name with no lack of irony. Now located at 154 Christopher St. in the West Village, the summer festival of avant-garde theatrical works has almost doubled in size while retaining its sense of originality, losing a leaky ceiling and gaining the power of a working a/c.
Ranging over the years from a one person show to 30 actor productions and occasionally mounting experimental opera or a Spanish language show with super titles, the festival is not short on uniqueness.
Ice Factory Festival Comes to the New Ohio Theatre This Week
by Stephi Wild
The Obie Award-winning New Ohio Theatre's 29th annual Ice Factory Festival opens July 6! This year's fest is a hybrid model that includes live in-person performances, as well as live-streamed and on-demand. Ice Factory 2022 features seven new works over seven weeks running through August 20 at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City.
Obie Award-winning New Ohio Theatre to present Twenty-Twenty-Two Ice Factory Festival
New Ohio’s Artistic Director Robert Lyons says, “This year’s Ice Factory embraces a wide range of themes, perspectives, and subjects at the heart of our national conversation. The work is urgent, vital, and engaging. We look forward to sharing it with our audiences in NYC and - with the live-stream option - the rest of the world!”
Time Out New York calls Ice Factory “The summer theatre with the most downtown cred,” and The New York Times says the festival’s “an annual celebration of the weird, the wild and the unexpectedly wonderful.” New York Magazine praises the Ice Factory as “New York’s #1 Summer Theatre Festival,” and The New Yorker says, “The Ice Factory Festival has a fine record for presenting intellectually challenging and artistically daring fare.” “One of downtown theater’s most beloved and reliable incubators of new voices,” cheers the Observer.