Fri 12/3-Sat 12/18
Getting a small theater up and running again after the pandemic is a challenge but we’re happy to see that so many of our local little theaters are back on the boards.
One of those is Blank Canvas Theatre, located at 78th Street Studios in Gordon Square. The group did some ingenious parking lot performances during the shutdown where the audience watched from their cars and listened from their car radios while the ensemble performed in the building’s big industrial windows.
Now they’re back in their little space, tucked away at the back of the second floor, where they’re remounting their 2016 production of Cabaret. The 1966 musical with songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb and book by Joe Masteroff (based on a play based on author Christopher Isherwood’s recollections of his years in Weimar Germany as Hitler was beginning his rise to power), isn’t exactly cheerful holiday material with its intimations of the horrors to come. But it’s a gripping piece of theater that was a huge hit on Broadway.
The show will be running Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays @ 8pm and Sundays @ 7pm, through Saturday December 18. Tickets are $20. Masks and vaccination cards or a recent negative COVID test are required because we want to keep our small theaters alive.
blankcanvastheatre.com/cabaret/