…Service has taken the stream-of-consciousness opening to this modern classic and rendered it as a viable — if not always enjoyable — theatrical offering. Told from the perspective of Benjy, who is mentally disabled and…

NEW YORK: In its new staging of “The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928),” experimental theater troupe Elevator Repair Service (ERS) has created a new form of dramatic expression: stream-of-consciousness theater. Now on view…

By Christopher Henley Three hours and ten minutes breeze by in The Select, Elevator Repair Service’s delightfully inventive riff on Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel The Sun Also Rises. I thoroughly enjoyed it, am extremely pleased…

and bucks. On the occasion of the 43rd Obie Awards, the Voice sat down with four rising ’90s theater makers — Todo Con Nada’s Aaron Beall, HERE’s Kristin Marting, Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins, and…

…can be seen in Master, premiering at Sundance Film Festival on January 21st. Tickets to stream the film can be found here. Sibyl Kempson will teach a five-week performance writing course called “WRITING ON THE…

“The Great Gatsby” is a grim tragedy of undying love. by Kester Freriks The theater company Elevator Repair Service performs F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” in the marathon “Gatz.” Office workers become characters…

…most interested in: figuring out how to solve problems.” Mr. Collins’s theater company, Elevator Repair Service, has operated in this boundary-pushing mode for 17 years. Among the works it has staged are an adaptation of…

…»Was ist los, Vater?« — »Ich bin erschossen worden.« Fast ohne Requisiten und ohne pathetische Anstrengung vermochte »Elevator Repair Service« die Grenzen des Bühnenraums zu sprengen. Die Protagonisten fielen immer wieder gleichsam aus dem Stück…

by David Cote In an essay about his 1929 masterwork, The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner mused that after he wrote the revolutionary novel, “I learned to read and quit reading.” At the risk…

Listings In one of the best Off-Off Broadway shows this year, the outstanding experimental theater troupe Elevator Repair Service debuts its new show, a fantastically inventive and strange reinterpretation of Euripides’ The Bacchae. The group…