On Tuesday Nov 12 I’m taking the grad stduents in my English 110: Intro to the Profession class to see “We Are Your Robots,” a new musical theater performance written and performed by Ethan Lipton and his Orchestra.
Ethan Lipton is a Guggenheim Fellowship-winning singer-songwriter-playwright whose work I’ve been following for more than twenty years. His play “No Place To Go” was, for me at least, the most moving, and funniest response I saw to the 2008 recession and its impact on knowledge workers in New York City. Even funnier, perhaps, was his more recent “Tumacho,” a kind of hopalong Oresteia Western that, when I saw it just before Covid shut down New York’s theaters, featured Phillipa Soo, fresh off her Broadway role as Eliza Hamilton.
Come join us if you’d like to! The show starts at 7:30 pm, and Theatre for a New Audience is in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, near the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Full time students or anyone under 30 can buy tickets online or in person for $20.
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