Justin Bond and Friends in Lustre: A Midwinter Trans-Fest

Wednesday, February 20th to Sunday, March 9th
Tuesday-Sunday at 8.30pm, additional show Sat at 11pm.

SPECIAL OFFER: $20 tickets* (Reg $25).

HOW TO ORDER: Go to http://www.ps122.org/performances/justin_bond.html or call 212.352.3101 and enter/mention code ETHYL or bring a printout of this email to the box office at PS122 (at 150 First Ave).



Performance Space 122 is located at 150 First Avenue at East 9th Street.

Ethyl Eichelberger Award recipient and Tony Nominated performer Justin Bond and friends heat up your winter nights with a heady mix of Glamour, Gender Queer Cabaret, and Sexy Provocation.


LUSTRE is a night of music, monologues and song and dance for, by, or about transgendered people. Justin’s friends include Our Lady J, Glenn Marla, Nathan Carrera, and The Pixie Harlots; plus special nightly surprise guests including Taylor Mac and M. Lamar!

LUSTRE features original songs by Our Lady J (a.k.a. the show’s musical director Jonnah Speidel), neo-pagan revolutionary Appalachian-inspired folk songs by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, and other songs written by Bambi Lake, Benjamin Smoke, Theo Kogan with Sean Pierce and Jemma Nelson. With sets and costumes by Machine Dazzle.




*offer subject to availability and may be revoked at any time - so order in advance! Additional blackout dates may apply. Not valid for previously purchased tickets or in combination with any other offer. All sales final; no refunds or exchanges. phone and web orders are subject to service fees.

More about Justin Bond: Tony nominated performance artist Justin Bond is an Obie winner, Bessie winner and the 2007 Ethyl Eichelberger Award winner, and was recently named by Time Out London as one of England’s 50 Funniest People. As one-half of the Performance duo Kiki and Herb, Justin has toured the world headlining at Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and has starred in successful runs On (The Helen Hayes Theatre) and Off-Broadway (The Cherry Lane Theatre). His most recent solo show, Glamour Damage, had its world premiere at London’s Soho Theatre and was hailed by the Evening Standard as "A glittering walk on the wild side."� He regularly Emcees the performance series "Weimar New York", performs with his band The Freudian Slippers, and as a featured vocalist on the London Readers Wifes’ Nostalgia, had a top 20 single on the UK alternative chart. Recently, he appeared as Valerie Solanas with Matmos at the Whitney Biennial. Bond toured internationally with avant-garde noise/cabaret band Pantychrist. Film credits include a starring role in John Cameron Mitchell’s feature Shortbus as well as Imaginary Heroes. In 2006 Bond completed his MA Scenography at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Justin credits his career as a queer performer to Kate Bornstein who cast him as Herculine Barbin in her ground-breaking play Hidden: A Gender in 1991.



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About Justin's new show at PS122: We chose this show over the Oscar telecast (actually, closed Rapture early so we could catch it) because...well, just look at the cast! Justin, Glenn Marla, Machine, Nathan Carrera, Our Lady J, and last night we were bewitched by guests M. Lamar with her haunting "white pussy" on piano, and Geo (sp.?) on a sexy, rousing accordion. Everyone is in top form, Machine's set and costume design bedazzle, and of course, Ms. Bond's singing and banter left us tearily smiling.

As I was saying to Basil afterward, this is the kind of show that makes me feel privileged not just as a witness, but as someone who has the immense fortune to engage with such phenomena. Smart, silly, sassy and severe.

If there are any tickets left to this faerie-dusted xtravaganza for its three remaining performances (two tonight and one tomorrow night) - RUN online and get them.

Johnny and I went last night and LOVED HER!

Brava to all - the Majorness of Justin and his obvious affection for all the troupe and players onstage is touching and uplifting. Outstanding individual performances - M. Lamarr, Our Lady J - burn even brighter for their placement in this delightful setting.

LOVED it!
I think a better title for this show is "A Night On Short Mountain".
A preview of the infamous Beltane celebration on Short Mountain, Tennessee.
More glitter and faerie B.O. than you could shake a stick at. (Not that that works, I've tried, it doesn't).

Last night, before Justin, I caught Holcombe Waller's show at Joe's Pub.
I met Holcombe in Portland when I was working with Pink Martini. He was film maker David Weisman's BF and they lived in a gorgeous house.
(A House! Why is it we live in New York again?)
He is a very talented singer song writer performance artist etc. -who I'm sure Goblin has probably slept with at some point in that way that he has!
Anyway, Holcombe uses instruments like French horn, viola, cello, piano, banjo, acoustic guitar.
I caught the first half then ran to Justin who was using just about the same instrumentation.
I saw some Portland people I knew and we were talking about Pink Martini playing at Lincoln Center this Sunday.
Pink Martini -Piano, cello, violins...
Wait a minute.
WAS THIS A MOVEMENT?
Arcade Fire, Antony and The Johnsons, Voltaire.
I used to worry that "classical" instruments would disappear because of synthesizers and computers etc. but I guess not.
Hattie,
Get out that old banjo girl, we're gonna start a band!

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OMG I went to see the show on Thursday and I was transfixed! Beg, borrow or steal to see this show!

Joan Didion, Lillian Hellman, I. Magnin, and Bambi Lake-- it's all there, woven into a brilliant tapestry.

Justin's voice, Our Lady J, Gio from "Novice Theory," Glenn Marla's excellently reworked piece-- the whole thing... brava!

I got 8:30pm show ticket for tonite Look forward the fierce nite

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YAY! That's so great to hear. I so wish I could be there to see the show.