New Victory Dutch Treat Theater Offers Premieres from Netherlands

A scene from Wuthering Heights. Photo: Joep Lennarts

To introduce New York audiences to some of Dutch companies, the second half of the  New Victory Theatre season offers Zoem! New Dutch Theater. The series, which includes four U.S. premieres all performed in English, runs through Jan. 29.
The series launched with Rumplestiltskin (run is complete) by Stella Den Haag and will be followed by Miss Ophelia by Het Filiaal, then Hands Up! by Lejo, a regular puppeteer on “Sesamstraat,” and finally, a stage adaptation of Wuthering Heights by Theater Artemis.

“The companies chosen to participate represent some of the best of what the Dutch have to offer in the world of performing arts for youth and family audiences today," said Cora Cahan, President of The New 42nd Street. "We are delighted to bring these highly original works to The New Victory, Duke on 42nd Street and the New 42nd Street® Studios, as they reflect the high artistic standards that our programming embraces.”

As widely reported over the summer, the Dutch government is significantly cutting its arts funding, with the performing arts evidently taking a dramatically hard hit. “As a result of the budget cuts, some of the companies performing at The New Victory may cease to exist after 2013,” said Anja Krans of the Theater Instituut Nederland, an organization funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science that documents, supports and promotes Dutch theater in the Netherlands and abroad.
Theater-goers who buy tickets for three or more New Vic shows qualify for free Membership benefits, including up to 35-percent savings with tickets as low as $9. Full-price tickets for individual productions are as low as $14 each. To purchase tickets online, visit NewVictory.org, and to purchase by phone, call 646-223-3010. The New Victory Theater box office (209 West 42nd Street) is open Sunday and Monday from 11am to 5 pm and Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 7 pm.