THEATER / OPERA

María Irene Fornes: MUD/DROWNING

WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 25, 2022 (continuing through OCTOBER 9)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY

Mabou Mines, 122 CC
150 First Avenue, East Village, Manhattan

$25; $20 students/seniors
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María Irene Fornes is a giant of New York alternative theater, getting her due now more than she ever did during her life. You might call her fragmented but empathetic style Chekhov Goes Bonkers (all for the good, of course). This double bill presents a powerful play, MUD, and a short opera, DROWNING, for which Philip Glass has written new music. This of us who were lucky enough to get to see JoAnne Akalaitis’s spot-on production in its first run two years ago (trying not to sound TOO smug here) know what a great, probing night at the theater it provides.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: More of the hearty food of the Chinese Northwest at Jiang’s Kitchen (as so often with immigrant cuisine, best not to think of the circumstances under which they left).