THEATER
THURSDAY - SATURDAY, APRIL 25 - 27, 2019
7:30 PM

Blessed Unrest & Teatri Oda: Refuge
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th Street), Rose Hill, Manhattan

$16-$36
https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/calendar/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/15/2018&todate=5/3/2019&display=Day&type=private&eventidn=58113&view=EventDetails&information_id=750435

Teatri Oda of Kosovo is one of those East European theater companies that create searing political theater that burns the stage.  Blessed Unrest of New York is the rare American equivalent that escapes the traps of didacticism, sanctimony, earnestness, and heavy-handedness.  Here, the two companies collaborate on a piece exploring the little-known circumstance that Albania, virtually alone among Nazi-occupied countries, sent no Jews to internment camps, its predominantly Muslim citizens instead harboring them.  Expect this all to be shown without sentimentality.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  The California-style eatery Upland, from Justin Smillie, the star opening chef of Il Buco Alimentari e Vinoteca, isn't what I'd I call my cup of tea -- but even I have to admit it's pretty good.