THEATER
WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 - 6, 2019 (continuing through OCTOBER 12)
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY

Joshua William Gelb & Nehemiah Luckett: jazz singer
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan

$26
https://www.abronsartscenter.org/program/jazz-singer/

How can you untangle the various strands of The Jazz Singer? One oppressed American minority's appropriation of the culture of another, much more oppressed American minority. Supremely good popular music. Assimilation. Blackface! This is a work that begs to be interrogated — and theater artist Joshua William Gelb and musician Nehemiah Luckett are just the guys to do it. See this in conjunction with Porgy and Bess and think about the issues the Met is eliding (to be fair, it's not wholly the Met's fault: the Gershwin Estate won't let them).

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