ONEOFUS Panto Project: Dick Rivington & the Cat

THEATER / PERFORMANCE
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 – 19, 2021
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
4:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan

$46-$126
https://www.abronsartscenter.org/program/dick-rivington/

Performance greats Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser (a family, it seems appropriate to point out this time of year) continue their program of bringing the British Christmas Panto tradition, with its winking (and gender-fluid!) broad low-comedy treatment of traditional tales, to Downtown. Look, I don't know quite how to say this: I want you to go to this. If you want to talk about theory, this is precisely the kind of knowing artistic manipulation of popular culture this List focuses on. But forget that. What's important is, I can't imagine anyone who'd be reading this not having a great time. I saw Julie and Mat's previous Christmas Panto time and again over multiple years, and I sure had some.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The place to go from the Abrons is Basque sensation Ernesto's, one of the best restaurants in New York.