THEATER

Yara Arts Group: Radio 477! Jazz/Kharkiv/1929/Today

THURSDAY – SUNDAY, MARCH 16 – 19, 2023
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY

La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan

$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION

In the late 1920s, the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv went jazz crazy. There was a wildly popular locally produced jazz cabaret/theater piece telling stories of Kharkiv — which Stalin and his cronies eventually shut down. The immigrant Yara Arts Group has actually discovered the score. It would have been interesting if they recreated the show — but instead they have come up with this new piece, paralleling events in Kharkiv in the ‘20s and ‘30s with now. Music by Anthony Coleman.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Obviously you’re going to want to go to the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, right?