…regulating public nudity required dancers to wear “pasties” and a “G-string” when they performed. The Theatre and Lounge sued to stop enforcement of the statute. Now, more than two decades later, the Elevator Repair Service…

by Claire Epstein Elevator Repair Service has always drawn inspiration from unlikely places. Over the last seventeen years, their original productions have lifted fragments of text from radio plays, documentary films, non-fiction writings, TV shows,…

Elevator Repair Service Tackles Euripides’ Bacchae by Julie Bleha Devised theatre, or how to get from point A to point B Elevator Repair Service, now in its eleventh year, is a stalwart of New York’s…

by Helen Shaw The 17-year-old experimental company Elevator Repair Service was teetering on the cusp of its big New York break two years ago. Fans of its mischievously intelligent work were spreading the word; its…

…Sargeant- a shapely black man with a sweet, worried look- plays Dilsey, she is a feeling person whose days are consumed by her efforts to keep the Compsons in line. When Vin Knight- a thin…

…called it, “writing on our feet.” They sometimes sat in a circle, each on their individual computers, writing the same scene, with arguments to follow about which worked best. They conducted research about Roosevelt and…

…overall complexity. In The Sound and The Fury—returning to NYC’s Public Theater after a successful run in 2008—Elevator Repair Service (best known for their day-long, full-text production of Gatz) splits both of those paths, keeping…

…a limited time, that audiences can savor a moving exploration of what happen to those witness war. It is The Select The Sun Also Rises created and performed by New York City’s Elevator Repair Service…

…Repair Service’s mesmerizing “The Sound and the Fury,” which opened on Thursday night at the Public Theater. Adapted from the opening section of William Faulkner’s 1929 novel — the chapter titled “April Seventh, 1928” —this…

…put through that filter will come out marked up and scarred. Fitzgerald’s writing is challenged by being attached to movement and voices. But by the end, the theater has been blown away by the writing.”…