Arts Events Around the Ivies
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As a follow up to Staff Writer Allison Posner’s New York City Theater Retrospective, Arts Events Around the Ivies plumbs the depths of the theater happening on the Off-Off Broadway scene. And, anyway, New York City is Cornell’s home away from home, especially given Weill Medical’s Center Upper East Side location.
• Check out Signature Theatre Company’s Iphigenia 2.0 . It’s a modern interpretation of Euripides’ classic play: an imperial power mistakenly goes to war. It must have parallels in today’s politics. A troop commander for the imperial power must convince his troops that their fight is in the right. The play is showing at The Peter Norton Space located on 555 West 42nd Street and plays at Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
• Even if you’ve seen La Vie en Rose, a big-screen version of Edith Piaf’s life, check out the small-stage take on the Parisian’s singer’s life entitled Piaf: Love Conquers All . It’s playing at the Soho Playhouse, located at 15 Vandam Street in New York City. Show times are Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 8 p.m. and on Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
• How’s this for a play title: Young Angry Women in Low-Rise Jeans with High-Class Issues ? It’s a play in the vein of Sex and the City and The Vagina Monologues that delves into the psyche of urban women. The venue for the play is Players Theater at 115 MacDougal St. The show plays at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.
• Transport yourself to Nigeria for one hour and fifty-five minutes simply by watching the play Tings Dey Happen at the Culture Project Soho, located at 55 Mercer St, at either 8 p.m. Friday or Saturday or 3 p.m. Saturday or Sunday. It’s a journalistic monologue by Dan Hoyle who lived in Nigeria for a year — be prepared to hear about not only Nigerian culture but the politics of the oil trade.