Kara and Travis go deep with Paul Pinto over at @paffsticks -- topics covered include Paul's Mano a Mano (currently at @lamamaetc ) Object Collection's ACTUA 1 (next month at @collapsablehole ) as well as D&D bards, suitcase pieces, and the long game of artmaking. dig in friends, link to full convo in bio xoxo
“When he’s deep in his performance trance, he points towards bardic ecstasy.” — Helen Shaw on Paul Pinto in MANO A MANO running Thursday - Sunday at @lamamaetc Get your tickets now to see this “deranged (complimentary)” one man opera!
Final weekend. One of the “cleverest and most flexible vocalists working today.” 🔥
Gabrielle E. Ferrari calls MANO A MANO “tremendous.” We call it your last chance to experience it live.
🎟️ Grab tickets now at lamama.org
🗓️ Closes Sunday!
#ManoAMano #LaMaMa #FinalPerformances #NYCTheater #PaulPinto
MEET THE TEAM
@max.van_ is in the pursuit of being a jack-of-all-trades, master of theater. He has worked on productions and concerts, serving various key roles as projection and sound designer. Recent credits include, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Lincoln Center Theater), Roadkills (Good Apples Collective), The Word of the Day (Classic Stage Company), Zoetrope (Caborca), cankersore paradise (Lenfest Columbia University), Left On Tenth (Broadway), cunnicularii (Good Apples Collective), and more. In his “free” time, he works as an Associate Production Coordinator for the annual synthetic-biology iGEM Grand Jamboree. For more, find him on his website @maxvan.work
MEET THE TEAM
@jeanette_yew is an award winning multi-disciplinary lighting and projection designer for theater, dance, opera, musicals, music performances, art installation, immersive experiences and digital productions. As a designer, Jeanette aims to create a visual environment that is organically integrated into the landscape and language of the production. NY Times described her designs as “clever” and “inventive”. Her designs have been seen across US cities and internationally at Havana (Cuba), Prague (Czech
Republic), Lima (Peru), Edinburgh (Scotland), Tokyo (Japan), Graz (Austria), Shanghai (China), Paris (France), and Bloemfontein (South Africa).
Jeanette is also a generative artist in devising interdisciplinary productions through contemporary puppetry aesthetics. NY Times described her project with Target Margin, Act 4 of The Iceman Cometh as “consistently inventive”. Her immersive production, Are They Edible? premiered at La MaMa to sold-out houses. Jeanette is an Arts Professor with NYU Tisch Drama Production & Design Studio. NEA/TCG career development program recipient.
One night only. Anywhere in the world. 🌍
Join Paul Pinto for the MANO A MANO livestream this Thursday, February 19 at 7PM (NYC time). Don’t miss this “captivatingly unhinged” operatic tour de force.
🎟️ Get your tickets now at lamama.org
📡 Powered by @culturehub_org
#ManoAMano #LaMaMa #CultureHub #Livestream #NYCTheater
These photos capture just a glimpse of the energy as Paul Pinto unleashed his five-octave tour de force on our Ellen Stewart stage.
If you missed it, don’t worry—you still have two ways to experience MANO A MANO:
1. LIVE at La MaMa 📍 Feel the wild instrumentation, the immersive in-the-round staging, and the raw power of this 90-minute operatic monodrama about toxic masculinity, medieval epics, Antonio Banderas, and New Jersey. 🗓️ Remaining shows: Through February 22 🎟️ Tickets start at $35 | First 10 tickets to every show are just $10!
2. LIVESTREAM – Thursday, Feb 19 at 7PM 💻 Can’t make it to the East Village? Watch from anywhere! This international livestream is produced by @culturehub_org
🔗 Get streaming access via the link in our bio!
Don’t wait—this run won’t last forever. Grab your tickets now!
#ManoAMano #LaMaMa #PaulPinto #KristinMarting #OperaticMonodrama
📸: @marinalevitskayaphoto
Only five more shows of MANO A MANO at @lamamaetc get your tickets now! Incredible photos of MANO A MANO writer and performer Paul Pinto by Steven Pisano!
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Monday Feb 16, 7pm
Thursday Feb 19, 7pm
Friday Feb 20, 7pm
Saturday Feb 21, 7pm
Sunday Feb 22, 2pm
NOW PLAYING! ✨🎭
MANO A MANO has officially opened at La MaMa. Paul Pinto is unleashing his five-octave range on audiences RIGHT NOW.
This is your sign to grab tickets before they disappear. Tonight’s show still has seats—don’t wait.
🎟️ Tickets start at $35 | First 10 tickets to every show are just $10!
�📍 Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 E 4th St.�🔗 Link in bio for tickets.
🎥 LIVESTREAM POWERED BY @culturehub_org | Feb 19
#ManoAMano #NowPlaying #LaMaMa #NYCTheatre #OffBroadway
What are your plans for tonight?
IT’S OPENING NIGHT! 🥊🔥 The wait is over—MANO A MANO takes the stage at La MaMa in just HOURS.
Paul Pinto’s “captivatingly unhinged” (NYT) five-octave operatic monodrama about toxic masculinity, medieval epics, and New Jersey is finally here. Staged in the round. Surrounded by live sax and percussion. Absolutely unmissable.
📍 Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 E 4th St.�🎟️ Link in bio for last-minute tickets!�🗓️ Runs Feb 12-22
Drop a ❤️ if you’re coming tonight!
#ManoAMano #OpeningNight #LaMaMa #NYCTheater #PaulPinto
MANO A MANO: an operatic monodrama opens TONIGHT at @lamamaetc and runs through Feb 22
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📸 photos from yesterday’s tech and dress
Get your tickets at link in bio!
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An operatic monodrama of virtuosic chants, rants, songs and spectacle, surveying toxic masculinity through the ages by needling Anglo-Saxon epics with personal anecdote and pseudo-history.
Paul Pinto is a writer, composer, performer, opera-sermonizer, and multi-disciplinary dabbler. Kristin Marting is an award-winning director and writer of hybrid performance
