…exploring the limits of expressive artistic performance.   New York-based Elevator Repair Service, best known for the stunning “Gatz,” was at the Museum of Contemporary Art for just this weekend, a great shame, really, given…

…flowing currents.” These currents are “off,” Said writes, or even “out of place, but at least they are always in motion, in time, in place, in the form of all kinds of strange combinations moving…

…Elevator Repair Service, he has got himself a corker of a play: a sensory blitzkrieg that is as logistically grueling as it is emotionally satisfying. Director John Collins has ringmastered a dozen performers and a…

by John Beer At a time of exceedingly diminished expectations for the theater, few productions are more welcome than the Elevator Repair Service’s dazzling and conceptually rigorous Gatz, which played for a weekend last fall…

…different path. The company is Elevator Repair Service, and their particular “thing” is exploring the relationship between text and performance. We tend to think of drama in terms of roles – characters that the actors…

…you don’t understand English at all. If you do, then this performance is an absolute must. The actors from the New York group Elevator Repair Service speak very clearly, so the English is quite doable….

“E.R.S. is the shit!” exclaims Mark Russell, artistic director of Performance Space 122, which the seven-year-old theater troupe calls home. “Among the renaissance of experimental companies happening today, they are the most adventurous, taking their…

…presented in four early performances on May 17 and 18 at a sixty-seat black-box theater in Brooklyn. Elevator Repair Service is best known for Gatz, a theatrical endurance test in which F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The…

…a piece of art. John directs a theater company called the Elevator Repair Service, and his invitation was at once implausible and irresistible: He wanted help creating a play—real live entertainment—from a Supreme Court oral…

The Elevator Repair Service’s inspired take on the Beat writers is a delight for theatregoers who feed on whimsical experimental works. While the group’s latest No Great Society may raise some mainstream audience eyebrows, it’s…