Slant Shares AAPI Histories Through Music at La Mama
Slant returns to The Club to dig deeper and wider into the liminal space between past and present with Lucky FM 2.
Lucky FM 2
Wednesday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. SOLD OUT
Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m.*
Saturday, May 30 at 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 31 at 3:00 p.m.
The Club @ La Mama Experimental Theatre Club – 74A E. 4th Street (between 2nd Avenue and Bowery)
Admission: $30 Adults | $25 Students/Seniors | $10 La MaMa Members
Slant returns to The Club to dig deeper and wider into the liminal space between past and present with Lucky FM 2. Through the underground radio’s telethon portal, Slant journeys through AANHPI histories with bamboo flutes, drums, and guitars, telling stories of the Japanese American concentration camps, the International Hotel, Vincent Chin, and today. Performed viscerally through music, dance, and humor, Slant finds unity amidst chaos in a celebration of community.
All seating is general admission.
Tonight’s performance is sold out, but there are four more dates from which to choose! To purchase tickets, please visit La Mama’s website.
*Friday’s performance is also available online. Livestream tickets are $15-$45, and you can purchase them by clicking here.
About Slant
Slant is the trio ensemble of Rick Ebihara, Wayland Quintero, and Perry Yung. In 1995, Slant premiered Big Dicks, Asian Men to counter Hollywood stereotypes by deconstructing race-baiting toxic masculinity through music, humor, and dance. The production received rave critical reviews and led to touring across America and international appearances in the former Yugoslavia and Lijiang, China. This was followed by other works throughout the 2000s that featured farcical themes punctuated by outlandish and poignant moments that audiences flocked to see at La MaMa and across the U.S.
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Kim Ima’s One-Woman Show at La MaMa
Ready For Company and Other Family Tales is Kim Ima’s one-woman play about family and legacy, an inheritance of stories and unfinished quests from this Jewish/Japanese/American family tree.
Ready for Company and Other Family Tales
Thursday, November 6 through Sunday, November 23
The Downstairs – 66 E. 4th Street (between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)
Admission: $30 | $25 seniors and students
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club presents Ready for Company and Other Family Tales by writer/performer Kim Ima this November 6 through 23 at The Downstairs.
Ready For Company and Other Family Tales is a one-woman play about family and legacy, an inheritance of stories and unfinished quests from this Jewish/Japanese/American family tree. With a complicated family history, Ima excavates meaning from small remembered moments, inherited souvenirs, the oft-repeated family tales (as well as silent secrets) left for her to unpack. Told with music, movement and “show-and-tell” objects, this journey of nostalgia and discovery portrays with humor the beautiful and enigmatic paths of immigration—and what we choose to carry forward.
Refreshments will be served!
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit La MaMa’s website.
Production Credits
Writer/performer: Kim Ima
Director: Megan Paradis Hanley
Dramaturg: Kendall Cornell
Set Design: Mary Olin Geiger
Lighting: Federico Restrepo
Costumes: Gabriel Berry
Sound Design: Leonie Bell
“...I want to tell you something about my mother....and my grandma Rosie...and my pop, and...and, and...Camp. That camp. The one we don’t like to talk about camp.
Camp, camp, camp, camp, camp.
Camp.
And cake. We also need cake.”
About Kim Ima
Kim Ima is a performer, writer, and longtime member of La MaMa's Great Jones Rep. Theater credits include playing Cassandra in La MaMa's groundbreaking production of The Trojan Women directed by Andrei Serban and composed by Elizabeth Swados; The Interlude, a play presented by La MaMa about Ima’s American-born Japanese American father and his time in an American concentration camp during WWII; and Sur, a devised theater piece adapted from the short story by beloved science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin, in the Ellen Stewart Theatre in April 2025. Ima performed as a guest artist with Monica Bill Barnes & Company in Lunch Dances at the NYPL.
A founding member of The Trojan Women Project, Ima was the owner of The Treats Truck, a Vendy Award-winning food truck in NYC, and The Treats Truck Stop, a bakery cafe in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. She is the author of the cookbook The Treats Truck Baking Book, published by HarperCollins. To learn more, please visit her website.
About La MaMa
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. La MaMa's 64th Season, LA MAMA NOW, focuses on creating solidarity and building community, exploring ways to build connections for cross-sector coalition and invite artists, activists, organizers and community members into the creative process.
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