THEATER

Theater in Quarantine

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2022
6:00 PM

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Free
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One of the great artistic triumphs of The Quarantine was almost certainly Joshua William Gelb’s Theater in Quarantine, live streamed performances taking place in his and, more ambitiously, his and others’ technologically combined closets in the East Village. The project’s first live performance ever raises the question: will the charm, which arose largely from the clever overcoming of technical limitations, still exist when it’s done live? Lockdown nostalgists wishing to avoid the question can stream at home.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, surprising good cheap food at Indie Food and Wine. Streaming at home, have the cocktail reported by Google to be the most searched recipe in New York State during the first months of The Quarantine, the Manhattan (you have to LOOK THAT UP????????): pour 2 oz. Rye (or Bourbon if you must) and 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.