THEATER
TUESDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 - 9, 2018
8:00 PM

Mabou Mines
Delacorte Theater
81st Street & Central Park West Entrance, Central Park, Manhattan

Free
https://www.publictheater.org/Public-Theater-Season/The-Gospel-At-Colonus/

Thirty-five years ago, Lee Breuer of the Mabou Mines theater troupe and Bob Telson, music director of the magnificent Gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama and former student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, lit up the BAM stage with this Gospel retelling of Sophocles's Oedipus at Colonus.  It was not in any way contrived:  the Gospel setting proved a perfect vehicle for Sophocles's tale of redemption.  As did the original production, this one will feature the current iteration of The Blind Boys -- and, this time, of The Soul Stirrers as well.  Whoever is playing the officiant will probably lack the serene gravitas of Morgan Freeman in the original production -- because who doesn't?  But in all other respects, this is as close to a sure thing as comes.  If only getting into the Delacorte Theater were a similarly sure thing.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  The Tangled Vine is a nice wine bar with good if unexciting Mediterranean-leaning food.