Listen in as Wendell & Pan writer Katelynn Kenney and director Ria T. DiLullo discuss the kismet that made them collaborators, “magical dramedy,” ghosts, eating up the play of the theatre, and modern American myth.

“…how do we take contemporary stories, and lift them up into the style of an epic, into something that a bard would want to sing about?”

The Skeleton Rep presents

Wendell & Pan

written by Katelynn Kenney

thru January 20, 2019

The Tank

tickets: $25 ($35 VIP, or $15 student/senior), available via BrownPaperTickets

photos by Ria T. DiLullo

Listen in as New Yiddish Rep Artistic Director David Mandelbaum, who also plays Estragon in the company’s production of וואַרטן אויף גאָדאָ (Waiting for Godot), and fellow actors Eli Rosen (Vladimir), Richard Saudek (Lucky), Gera Sandler (Pozzo), and Myron Tregubov (The Boy, sharing the role with Noam Sandler), discuss how the play’s musicality aligns with the musicality of the Yiddish language, surviving catastrophes, fake & real tolerance, Didi and Gogo as refugees, the work of New Yiddish Rep, connecting through sound, and the importance of Vladimir’s line “Was I sleeping while the others suffered?”

“…the context of the play is particularly meaningful when you look at the circumstances under which it was written: a couple of years after a catastrophic world war. What could be more natural than for it to be translated into Yiddish?…”

New Yiddish Rep presents

Waiting for Godot

written by Samuel Beckett

thru January 27, 2019

The 14th Street Y

tickets: $35, available via The 14th Street Y website

photos by Dina Raketa

Listen in as A Beast/A Burden writer and director Billy Ray Brewton, along with the portrayer of Chris Burden, Ben Hethcoat, discuss what distinguishes Burden from idiots on YouTube, sculpture in performance, exploring the creator’s complicated history, why you might have a photo of yourself in front of his work and not even realize it, and how to bring a controversial performance artist’s work to life in a theatrical stage play.

“…we sort of go behind the scenes of what it takes to put some of these performance pieces…and some of them, too, we recreate in our own way…”

A Beast/A Burden

written & directed by Billy Ray Brewton

in rep with Pollock: A Frequency Parable, written & performed by Matthew Marcum

January 3–6, 2019

SoHo Playhouse

tickets: $30, available via SoHo Playhouse’s website ($15 tix available via TodayTix)

Listen in as the co-creators & performers of The Russian and The Jew, Liba Vaynberg and Emily Louise Perkins, discuss adapting Anna Karenina, their development process, sell-out fake-outs, varying audience reactions, drinking thimble-fuls of wine, & devising while co-writing with a large cast.

“…it’s all about female friendship, and betrayal, and love, and lust, and how dreams are politicized. And it’s sexy, and strange…and there’s free vodka…”

Anna & Kitty Inc. & The Tank present

The Russian and The Jew

co-written by Liba Vaynberg and Emily Louise Perkins

thru December 20, 2018

The Tank

tickets: $25 ($15 students/seniors), available via BrownPaperTickets

photos by Matthew Dunivan