THEATER
MONDAY & FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 & 18 - 20, 2019
7:00 PM

Mac Wellman: The Invention of Tragedy
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan

$17-$102
http://theflea.org/shows/the-invention-of-tragedy/

The Flea kicks off its season-long tribute to "the Macs" — Flea co-founder Wellman (last name) and fellow Mac Taylor (first name) — with a major piece by Wellman, a language-drunk absurdist who makes existential and political despair fun, often writing about the end of the world. This piece, though, deals (VERY abstractly) with the aftermath of 9/11: the end of the world (and American democracy) as we knew it.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Extraordinarily good falafel at Nish Nush.