THEATER
TUESDAY - SATURDAY, MAY 29 - JUNE 2
8:00 PM TUESDAY - SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY

The Wooster Group:  A PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique)
The Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, Soho, Manhattan

$40 evenings; $30 matinee
http://thewoostergroup.org/a-pink-chair

Is there any existing company from the 1970s New York theatrical avant-garde efflorescence that is still as good today as The Wooster Group?  This piece explores one of the international icons of 20th-Century avant-garde theater, Tadeusz Kantor, by way of a meditation on one of his last pieces, which you may or may not have seen when La Mama imported it 30 years ago.  It really is good.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Back in the day I would have told you to go to Chanterelle around the corner -- but those days are long past.  We can relive past days elsewhere in the neighborhood, though.  There was a time when the most exciting Italian restaurant in New York was a place called Coco Pazzo on the Upper East Side; it helped create the template for the kind of finto rustic Italian trattorias that now litter the City.  It's been closed for years -- but legendary owner Pino Luongo has now revived it in Soho.  There's been a lot of Chianti under the bridge since Coco Pazzo's glory days.  So let's see if there's any magic left.