gOiNgs ON ABOUT TOWN 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 1 1 12 1 3 1 4 15 16 17 18 THis week NigHT lifE career—from Western mOviEs JUsT bEad iT landscapes to a portrait of a OdEssa, sTEppEs the theaTRE forlorn-looking man it taKEs two Devendra Banhart, the receiving a consoling kiss A new generation of original poster boy for freak on the cheek from Mickey directors have emerged from Amanda Plummer returns folk’s updating of sixties Mouse. (See page 24.) the turbulence of post- to the New York stage after psych-folk arcana, has Soviet Russia, and BAM a fifteen-year absence, matured into a fine crooner. classical mUsic Cinématek is screening a alongside Brad Dourif, Fortunately, his taste for the mOzart iN amERica batch of their most notable whose time away from city outré remains, and he brings films, including “Me Too,” stages has been more than songs from his compelling David Fulmer, a busy young the crime-themed black twice as long, in “The new album, “Mala,” to New Yorker who excels at comedy by Alexey Two-Character Play,” by Town Hall. (See page 20.) composing, conducting, and Balabanov. It was Tennessee Williams. The playing the violin, gets a Balabanov’s final film before experimental work from a RT golden opportunity at the he died, of a heart attack last 1973, based on the gO figURE Austrian Cultural Forum month at the age of fifty- experiences of Williams and this month: playing music four. (See page 34.) his sister, Rose, explores the The eccentric figurative by Mozart and his own psychological ramifications paintings of Llyn Foulkes, compositions on Mozart’s Erykah Badu will perform of fear and isolation. Gene seventy-eight, have been a violin, which the Salzburg with the Brooklyn David Kirk directs, at stealthy force on the L.A. Mozarteum is bringing to Philharmonic at BAM on New World Stages. art scene for decades. The the U.S. for the first time. June 8-9. Photograph by (See page 17.) New Museum surveys his (See page 31.) Gabriele Stabile. 14 THE NEW YORKER, JUNE 10 & 17, 2013 TNY—2013_06_10&17—PAGE 14—133SC.—livE ART R23625—EXTREMELY CRITICAL PHOTOGRAPH TO BE WatcHED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PRESS RUN 4C 1 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Fischer, Leslie Bibb, Josh Hamilton, and Fred Weller. THE THEaTRE The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park begins. Dan- LaBute directs. In previews. Opens June 11. (Lu- iel Sullivan directs the Shakespeare comedy, about cille Lortel, 121 Christopher St. 212-352-3101.) OpENiNgs aNd Previews two sets of twins who were separated at birth. ROADKILL Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater star. An immersive theatre piece conceived and directed Please call the phone number listed with the In previews. Opens June 18. (Delacorte, Central by Cora Bissett, in which an audience of twenty- theatre for timetables and ticket information. Park. Enter at 81st St. at Central Park W. 212- five accompanies a young girl and her “auntie” 967-7555.) on a journey that explores the horrors of human THE BOAT FACTORY THE EXPLORERS CLUB trafficking. The show, which begins on a bus, is Philip Crawford directs a play by Dan Gordon, Marc Bruni directs this comedy by Nell Benja- sold out. In previews. Opens June 16. (St. Ann’s about the heyday of shipbuilding in Belfast, in 1947. min (“Legally Blonde”), set in London in 1879, Warehouse, 29 Jay St., Brooklyn. 718-254-8779.) Part of “Brits Off Broadway.” In previews. Opens in which the president of an all-male club stirs THE SILVER CORD June 9. (59E59, at 59 E. 59th St. 212-279-4200.) controversy when he wants to admit a woman. Peccadillo Theatre Company presents a revival BUYER & CELLAR The cast includes Steven Boyer and Jennifer West- of this 1926 play by Sidney Howard, about a Jonathan Tolins’s comedy, starring Michael Urie feldt. In previews. (City Center Stage I, 131 W. 55th mother who is strangely close to her two grown and directed by Stephen Brackett, about a young St. 212-581-1212.) sons. Dan Wackerman directs. In previews. Opens man who works in the basement of Barbra Strei- A KID LIKE JAKE June 11. (Theatre at St. Clement’s, 423 W. 46th sand’s Malibu home, transfers to the Barrow Street Carla Gugino and Peter Grosz star in this new St. 212-352-3101.) Theatre. Previews begin June 18. (27 Barrow St. play by Daniel Pearle, as well-meaning parents SONTAG: REBORN 212-868-4444.) who worry about their preschool-age son’s inter- Moe Angelos stars in this work, which she adapted CHARLES IVES TAKE ME HOME est in feminine pursuits. Evan Cabnet directs, for from Susan Sontag’s journals, tracing the devel- Rattlestick presents a play by Jessica Dickey, in LCT3. In previews. Opens June 17. (Claire Tow, opment of Sontag’s sexual and artistic identities. which a father’s love of music clashes with his 150 W. 65th St. 212-239-6200.) Marianne Weems directs; produced in collabora- daughter’s passion for basketball. Daniella Topol A PICTURE OF AUTUMN tion with the Builders Association. In previews. directs. In previews. Opens June 13. (224 Wa- The Mint revives a play by N. C. Hunter from Opens June 6. (New York Theatre Workshop, 79 verly Pl. 866-811-4111.) 1951, about a couple who are decaying along E. 4th St. 212-279-4200.) CHOIR BOY with the ancestral home in which they live. Gus 3 KINDS OF EXILE Trip Cullman directs this new play by Tarell Alvin Kaikkonen directs. In previews. Opens June 10. Three artists, each having struggled through po- McCraney, about a boy who wants to become (311 W. 43rd St. 866-811-4111.) litical strife in mid-twentieth-century Eastern Eu- the leader of the gospel choir at his prep school. RANTOUL AND DIE rope, negotiate conflicting loyalties and desires Previews begin June 18. (City Center Stage II, The Amoralists present the New York première of in a new play by John Guare. Neil Pepe directs; 131 W. 55th St. 212-581-1212.) a play by Mark Roberts, about a couple whose starring David Pittu, Peter Maloney, and Guare CLUBBED THUMB SUMMERWORKS 2013 marriage has hit the rocks. Previews begin June himself, in his Off Broadway acting début. In Clubbed Thumb presents the second play in its an- 12. (Cherry Lane, 38 Commerce St. 866-811-4111.) previews. Opens June 11. (Atlantic Theatre Com- nual festival of new works, “Phoebe in Winter,” by REASONS TO BE HAPPY pany, 336 W. 20th St. 212-279-4200.) Jen Silverman, about a young woman who insinu- MCC Theatre presents Neil LaBute’s companion THE TUTORS ates herself into a family that includes three veterans piece to his play “Reasons to Be Pretty,” in which Thomas Kail directs a play by Erica Lipez, about of the Iraq War. Mike Donahue directs. June 7-16. two people who used to be a couple start to be- three friends working in New York City and tu- (The Wild Project, 195 E. 3rd St. 212-352-3101.) lieve that they can be together again. Starring Jenna toring on the side for extra money. Part of Second 16 THE NEW YORKER, JUNE 10 & 17, 2013 TNY—2013_06_10&17—PAGE 16—133SC. 3C Stage Theatre Uptown. Opens June 5. (McGinn/ Davis), against her better judgment, takes pity on ary, but still competitive architect, who is in an Cazale, 2162 Broadway, at 76th St. 212-246-4422.) the poor babe (played by a black-eyed Howdy unhappy marriage with Aline (Katherine Boro- THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY Doody-like doll), ultimately forsaking her engage- witz, who is so good in the part that you wish Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif star in this ment to her beloved fiancé, Simon (Alex Hurt). her character had more stage time). Aline is mourn- play by Tennessee Williams, in which siblings are When the boy is found in her care, three years ing the death of their twin baby boys, and Sol- abandoned by their theatre troupe and must per- later, it is left to the anarchist Judge Azdak (Chris- ness tries to repay her losses with his own guilt. form without them. Gene David Kirk directs. Pre- topher Lloyd) to decide who is the rightful mother. When the young Hilde (Wrenn Schmidt) moves views begin June 10. (New World Stages, 340 The lovely Davis brings a haunting urgency to in, she revitalizes Solness. But Schmidt has an un- W. 50th St. 212-239-6200.) her role, and to Duncan Sheik’s original music for fortunate voice, shallow and grating, that enhances THE UNAVOIDABLE DISAPPEARANCE OF the production, which, unfortunately, is more New the obviousness of her characterization, and de- TOM DURNIN Age-y than poignant. Lloyd’s nervous brand of tracts from Turturro’s efforts to remain true to In this world première by Steven Levenson, pre- sinewy looniness is a brilliant match for Brecht’s his very Ibsenian understanding that our only cer- sented by Roundabout Theatre Company, a man Azdak, who manages to find order, and righteous- tainty is isolation, and the only idea we can ex- recently released from jail struggles to readapt to ness, in chaos. (Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th press, over and over, is that, individually, we are society. Starring Christopher Denham, Sarah Gold- St. 866-811-4111.) everything and nothing. (Reviewed in our issue berg, Lisa Emery, Rich Sommer, and David Morse; THE LAST CYCLIST of 6/3/13.) (BAM’s Harvey Theatre, 651 Fulton Scott Ellis directs. In previews. (Laura Pels, 111 In 1961, a Jewish actress named Jana Šedová de- St., Brooklyn.