La Mama Puppet Festival

PERFORMANCE
THURSDAY - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 - 11, 2018 (continuing through NOVEMBER 25)
7:00 & 8:30 PM THURSDAY - SATURDAY
12:00 & 3:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY

La Mama
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan

$26; $21 student/senior; $75 five-show package; $50 three-show package; $35 two-show package
http://lamama.org/puppet_series/

I don't know about you, but I tend to love puppetry just on general principle.  In any event, La Mama does a good job each year of selecting worthwhile genre-stretching work for its Puppet Festival.  The pretty clear pick this week is the Puppet Slam on Monday at 8:30 PM -- but how wrong can you go with any of them?

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I don't know why, but I'm suddenly overcome with an overwhelming urge to go to the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant (the one in the Ukrainian National Home) -- an urge I now inflict on you.  You can't have a bad time here.  Some day I'll tell you about the night I was there and they were having a milonga in the back room, so all these people kept passing through the very Ukrainian dining room in tango gear.  I love this City.