Chasing Andy Warhol

An immersive and theatrical walking tour production that employs Bated Breath’s unique multimedia approach as scenes inspired from Warhol’s enigmatic life unfold on the streets, behind windows of area businesses, and inside secret locations along the route. Despite Warhol’s celebrity and fame, he was also an obscure, mystifying persona who preferred to remain elusive. The show will present a distinct blend of immersive theatre, dance, film, art, and puppetry to peek into the iconic artist which goes beyond the hype and into the deepest feelings of a profoundly complex person - whose legacy continues to bombard our senses at every turn.
Opened March 2020 in NoHo and the East Village

Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse Lautrec

Audiences journeyed through the streets of Greenwich Village as the sidewalks, doorways and windows became the setting for Bated Breath’s award-winning walking tour play. Music collided with the city’s soundscape, transporting audiences into the bohemian world of Toulouse-Lautrec and the Moulin Rouge. The longest running pandemic-friendly theatrical experience. The winner of 7 Off-Broadway, BroadwayWorld Awards in 2021.

Opened September 2020 in Greenwich Village

Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec

Discover the bohemian world of the Belle Epoque with Henri Toulouse-Lautrec—artist, aristocrat and all-around 19th Century bad boy. Dive into the underbelly of old Paris as you drink innovative house-made cocktails, lounge in a totally immersive Parisian-style salon, and rub shoulders with the dancers, prostitutes and outcasts that inspired the most enticing, elegant and provocative art depicting the decadence and sexuality of post-impressionist France. Through dance, imagery, vignettes, and text, the production combines modern music and language while exploring the ecstasy of creativity and the agony of the body in the sexiest art history lesson you'll ever have.
Opened May 2019 at Madame X

Beneath the Gavel

Throw your paddle in the ring, armed with fistfuls of cash, as you rival your fellow audience members to be the last bidder standing at our high-end art auction *Beneath the Gavel*.
Bated Breath transforms the space into a Sotheby’s-like auction house complete with deep-pocket collectors, ruthless art dealers, celebrity artists, and cut-throat auctioneers all vying for the prized Haddie Weisenberg Collection. With world-renowned auctioneer Barbara Strongin at the podium, *Beneath the Gave*l exposes the hidden agendas and dirty secrets of the art world. As the stakes rise, so does the tension of a world that deals in billions. Not a Rockefeller? Don’t worry, Bated Breath provides the money.
Opened March 2017 59E59 Theaters
Opened September 2018 Feinstein’s/54 Below

The Freedom Series

The Freedom Series explores four pivotal moments in the struggle for racial justice in America using the history of Negro Spirituals from 1865 through today. Many of these African American work songs embedded coded messages in the lyrics that helped guide runaways to freedom. Later, they were popularized by the Fisk University Jubilee Singers and by Marian Anderson's Lincoln Memorial Concert of 1939, helping to catapult the fight for racial justice into the center of American discourse. The Spirituals' legacy continues to strike a chord today.
**Freedom in 3 Acts**
*Freedom: In 3 Acts* was created for the Juneteenth Gala at The Amistad Center for Art & Culture and subsequently performed at The New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas and other sites in New England. The play was honored with a Connecticut League of History Organizations Award.
**Freedom Deconstructed**
*Freedom Deconstructed* was performed as a keynote speech for the New England Museum Association’s annual conference. The performance is currently being revised to include the present struggle to uproot systemic racism and end police brutality against Black, Indigenous, People of Color. *Freedom Deconstructed* will become the fourth act, growing *Freedom: In 3 Acts* into *Freedom: In 4 Acts.*

The Pride of Christopher Street

It's winter of 1978 on Christopher Street and through the windows of an unassuming apartment, the glow of light fills room after room as activists gather to plan their most extraordinary event yet. It is the meeting that transforms the Gay Liberation March into the Pride Parade forevermore. Learn the secret knock to enter into this special gathering, where people of all ages join together to find their voice, speak out against injustice, and celebrate their pride.
*The Pride of Christopher Street* debuted as part of the inaugural season of the UP/CLOSE FESTIVAL at the New Ohio Theatre. This family-friendly immersive experience explores the rich history of the West Village.
Opened December 2018 @ The New Ohio Theatre

Wild Things: The Life and Work of Maurice Sendak

This interactive play brings to life the making of *Where the Wild Things Are* using unique movement, puppetry, music, and author interviews to whisk audiences away on an adventure for all ages.
Opened January 2013 @ New Britain Museum of American Art

Physical Theatre Training Center for Actors

Develop yourself as a fully expressive, physically adept actor through the rigorous study of multiple physical theatre forms including the Suzuki technique, Viewpoints, and other physical modalities.

Viewpoints&

Viewpoints& is our experimental theatre lab where we throw our physical training against other artistic disciplines (live music, spoken word, the visual arts), the result being an entirely bespoke, one-night-only artistic collaboration between a local artist and Bated Breath trained actors. We seek to evolve ideas of improvisational storytelling and movement to create memorable moments in performance. Opened March 2018

Training Center — For Actors

We train actors to listen with their whole body, to breathe together, to ride each moment seamlessly as you balance your focus between you as an individual and being part of a larger whole. We train in Suzuki, Viewpoints, and other physical theatre methods. Our training is rigorous as we are relentless in pursuit of excellence physically, vocally, and energetically. We go deeply into technique in order to find technical precision and artistic freedom at the same time.

Training Center — For Corporate

We lead custom-tailored corporate workshops delivering an unforgettable experience of aliveness, challenge, and equipping your team with tools that can be immediately applied post-workshop. We use the most dynamic theater exercises specifically adapted to enhance creativity, sharpen focus, and enliven the workplace.

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