Make Love
Extended through November 16 at Fez

"a silly, upsetting, sometimes funny and surprisingly moving love poem to a place and its people" -- Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"deliriously unhinged" -- The Village Voice

Despite posting final extension notices, unprecedented demand among college students has prompted yet another extension of Karen Finley’s Make Love, at Fez though November 16th. This cabaret-driven, lounge-style act that co-stars drag performer and artist Chris Tanner, pianist Lance Cruce, and a rotating roster of Liza Minnelli impersonators, has now become required viewing in Performance Studies classes at both NYU and Columbia University! It has also become a haven for celebrities attracting the likes of Joan Rivers, Boy George, Frasier’s Jane Adams, Queer as Folk’s Randy Harrison, Rufus Wainwright and more.

Make Love now runs Sundays, October 12 - November 16 at 8:00pm. Tickets are $20, $10 for students with valid I.D.’s. Fez is located inside Time Cafe at 380 Lafayette Street at Great Jones (accessible from the B, D, F, & Q at Broadway/Lafayette, the N/R at 8th St., or the #6 at Astor Place). For reservations click here or call 212-533-2680.

In Make Love, Finley channels Liza Minnelli in song, dance, glamour and glitter. Liza’s tragicomic life is the backdrop as one New Yorker grasps to make sense of the current chaos of our nation. The "Divaness" of Liza as an icon and symbol of New York becomes the place to throw pathos, hilarity, mockery and taboos. With piano, torch singing and Karen Finley as the narrator, Make Love is a complex amalgam of humor, pain and compassion.

"Liza Minnelli is New York," explains Finley. "She keeps on trying. After her hip replacement, she still gets up and dances." Finley encourages audience members to come dressed as their own inner-Liza.

Since her first performances in the early 1980’s, Karen Finley has become synonymous with performance art. She is the recipient of two Obies, two Bessies, and multiple grants from the NEA and NYSCA. She has toured internationally with pieces including The American Chestnut, A Certain Level of Denial and The Return of The Chocolate Smeared Woman. In 1990, Finley became an unwilling symbol for the NEA when she, along with Tim Miller, Holly Hughes & John Fleck, sued the NEA for withdrawing grants on the grounds of indecency. Her next project, currently in development, will be presented in April at P.S. 122.