EXPERIMENTS IN DIGITAL STORYTELLING
BALLS in the Park
La MaMa
74 E 4th Street
New York, NY 10012
October 23, 2025
7pm ET
Tickets: $30
Paul Foster’s BALLS returns to La MaMa for one night only 61 years after its premiere in 1964. The short play, originally staged with two ping pong balls swinging like pendulums on a stage, was re-created as a digital installation by CultureHub and the Great Jones Repertory Company in 2019 with Paul's blessing.
This October, we bring you BALLS in the Park, a screening of the digital version with immersive sound. Grab a lawn chair or a blanket and purchase a picnic basket for this special theatrical event.
BALLS in the Park will be presented in The Club at La MaMa as a part of Creatures, a two-week inhabitation of 74A E 4th Street with installations, short works/performances, workshops, meals, vigils, processions, and conversations about liminal beings as they manifest across cultures. Creatures convenes artists, scientists, scholars, and theologians from across the globe to consider non-human protagonists as prophets of compassion in an era of great ecological precarity.