

Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, at Pitt Street, Lower East Side, 21,. Kempson has created, according to the Abrons Arts Center’s website, “an irrational musical contemplation of the ethical pitfalls of poetic journalism,” inspired by James Agee, Susan Sontag and contemporary performance art. ‘Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag’ (in previews opens on Sunday) Sibyl Kempson, a playwright of indelible and unforced weirdness, has started a new theater company, the 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. 27 Barrow Street, at Seventh Avenue South, West Village, 21,. Matthew Maher stars as a moderately hapless usher with Aaron Clifton Moten as his trainee and Louisa Krause as a blunt projectionist. It isn’t a revival house and neither is Barrow Street, but that theater is bringing back the play with its original cast and the busy director Sam Gold still attached.
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‘The Flick’ (previews start on Tuesday opens on May 28) Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winner takes place in a Massachusetts movie theater. Studio 54, 254 West 54th Street, Manhattan, 21,. Under Joe Mantello’s direction, Jim Parsons will incarnate the divinity as he talks Broadway audiences through the meaning of life. Yup, God has written a comedy (though he may have been assisted by the “Daily Show” scribe David Javerbaum). ‘An Act of God’ (previews start on Thursday opens on May 28) Broadway doesn’t usually take a chance on a first-time playwright, but this one has an unusually impressive bio. A searchable, critical guide to theater is at /events. Full reviews of current productions, additional listings, showtimes and ticket information are at /theater.

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