Lynda Crawford: Night Shadows — Or, One Hundred Million Voices Shouting

THEATER
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 11 – 14, 2020
7:30 PM

On Women Festival
Irondale
85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$25
http://irondale.org/on-women-festival/

An exploration of the life of Anna Akhmatova, a great poet if the 20th Century produced any, who, like all Soviet artists who died in bed, engaged in an uneasy dance with the authorities from which she did not emerge entirely uncompromised.  One of the focuses of this play will be on Akhmatova's son, for whose benefit Akhmatova cozied up with Stalin after he was imprisoned for political deviance — only to have that same son eventually reject her philosophically for the authoritarians, possibly out of resentment of her putting her art before her family all her life.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  The New American food at No. 7 is good — if perhaps not quite as good as this restaurant's many fans claim.