Superfluities Redux
On culture and theatre, by George Hunka
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Friday, 14 December 2007
A highly selective, prejudiced look at the theatrical week ahead, along with other items of interest:
Saturday, 15 December: Playwright James Comtois, director Pete Boisvert and a host of very funny ladies and gentlemen present the season's final performance of A Very Nosedive Christmas Carol tonight at 11.00pm at The Red Room, 85 East 4th Street. If you think you're sick and tired of hearing about Scrooge year after year, imagine how Scrooge feels about it. Tickets and other information at Theatermania.
Sunday, 16 December: The Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections exhibition continues at the Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue at 86th Street. The exhibition features eight paintings and more than 120 drawings by Klimt, and includes a reconstruction of a portion of Klimt's studio with its original furnishings.
Monday, 17 December: Music night: in the flesh, join Object Collection at 224 Centre Street at 9.00pm for an "Experimental Intermedia" performance featuring music by Travis Just and text by Kara Feely; the work was written for an ensemble of actors as well as a variety of electronic media, including signal processing programs and samples. Don't forget, though, to Tivo Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, the LA Opera production of the Brecht/Weill opera, on PBS (Channel 13 here in New York); 9.00pm is the curtain time for this as well.
Tuesday, 18 December: The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is presenting a day-long look at The Art of Yiddish Drama: Modernity Confronts Tradition at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue. This free event starts in the afternoon with screenings of film adaptations of Yiddish plays; at 6.30pm, Rachel Dickstein, Daniel Gerould, Stefan Kanfer, Alisa Solomon and others gather to introduce and discuss a series of readings from neglected Yiddish plays in English translation.
Wednesday, 19 December: The new Red Bull Theater production of Christopher Marlowe's Edward the Second, adapted by Garland Wright and directed by Jesse Berger, continues its run at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 416 West 42nd Street. I had many nice things to say about the Red Bull's The Revenger's Tragedy in 2005. It's a fine company, in much better digs now. Tickets at Ticket Central.
Thursday, 20 December: The holiday season still with you, even with all that shopping and the dread family gathering next week still to come? The Brick's Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee: Second Coming runs through this Saturday, 22 December, to provide much-needed relief. Bawdy and raucous one-act Christmas-themed plays from the likes of Banana Bag & Bodice's Jason Craig, Matthew Freeman, Jason Grote, Jakob Holder and Aaron Mack Schloff are offered in two separate programs, "Marys" and "Josephs." The Brick is at 575 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn; tickets and schedule information at Theatermania.
Friday, 21 December: David Mamet's new comedy November featuring Nathan Lane as a beleagured US Presidential candidate continues previews at the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street, prior to a January opening. Laurie Metcalf also stars.
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