…performance ensemble Elevator Repair Service (ERS), best known for its recent trilogy—Gatz, The Sound and the Fury, and The Sun Also Rises (The Select)—based on canonic novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Ernest…

…him a “chain-writer,” reporting that “he’d write FINIS to one play and, without re-sharpening his pencil, begin with the title of the next.” By 1925, David had become Broadway’s “king of professional play doctors,” as…

…from the staggeringly precise to the stunned quality of a deer in headlights. Excerpt from “Measure for Measure: Elevator Repair Service hits the fast-forward button on Shakespeare” by Helen Shaw. Read the full article here….

…relationship to that idea of Brecht’s. My guess is that he’s talking about simplifying, stripping down and making things real because that’s the best way to get your message across, the best way to speak…

Time, as the saying goes, is of the essence, especially when it comes to Elevator Repair Service’s theatrical production of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’. But unlike traditional adaptations of ‘Gatsby’, which pay painstaking…

…Leo pushed things was kind of our best realized tribute to him, something that got genuinely uncomfortable, with the actor being painfully aware of all these people watching him and uncomfortable and not knowing what…

…of a company, and given that theater pretty much starts with playwrights, it’s hard to imagine them notmonitoring every last turn of phrase. But in listening to Elevator Repair Service artistic director John Collins and…

…York and venues in Europe, showcases the free-ranging talents of an intensely physical theatre, at once cryptic and relevant, referential and stoic. Contriving a kind of universal comedy, Elevator Repair Service, a collaborative of writers…

…at a brisk 75 minutes, you could squeeze a performance of Arguendo into GATZ‘s dinner break. It may not be epic, but their latest lively romp finds Elevator Repair Service at their playfully unpredictable best….

…Repair Service, a beloved downtown stalwart whose collaborative shows often include found text, high technology and a brainy, subversive sense of humor. When he began working on “Gatz,” John Collins, the bookish artistic director of…