THEATER
MONDAY - SATURDAY, JULY 1 - 6, 2019
7:00 PM MONDAY - SATURDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY

Gordon Dahlquist: [VEIL WIDOW CONSPIRACY]
National Asian American Theater Company
Next Door at NYTW
Fourth Street Theater
83 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan

$39-$49
https://www.nytw.org/show/veil-widow-conspiracy/

This looks really interesting. It tells the story of a 1922 political murder mystery in Xinjiang in far Western China, as dramatized in a 2010 big-budget Hollywood movie, and amended by the supplementary materials on a subsequent DVD release, as well as by censorship negotiations between the filmmakers and the Chinese government -- and finally by two lovers in a future dystopian Brooklyn who lack the resources to watch the film, one describing it to the other in the dystopian future Brooklyn dark.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No way I'm sending you anywhere other than the Jiang Diner, where the delicious food of Xinjiang is served by people lucky enough to have gotten out. The steamed eggplant and potato appetizer is one of those dishes where, once you've eaten it, you wish you were always eating it.