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EDITOR’S NOTE
Dark comedy Persephone Palmer Steps Out is scheduled
Theater for the New City (155 First Ave.) will present Persephone Palmer Steps Out, a new play by Caitlyn Waltermire about family hierarchies, beginning June 19. Directed by Natalie Thomas, the play, which employs magic realism and dark comedy, is set in a sub-zero summer in the 1990s and focuses on a family living isolated far below the ground; it will run through July 6. For tickets and more information, visit theaterforthenewcity.net. —Edward Karam
At the Barricades—a play by James Clements and Sam Hood Adrain whose $15,000 grant was recently withdrawn by the National Endowment for the Arts for not “aligning with the President’s priorities”—will have its world premiere anyway from June 12–29 at MITU580 (580 Sackett St., Brooklyn). Produced by the collaborative What Will the Neighbors Say?, the play, which is set during the Spanish Civil War and attacks fascism and authoritarianism, was developed through a partnership with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. For tickets and more information, visit neighbors.thundertix.com. —Edward Karam
Just ahead of Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, Ireland’s Once Off Productions has arrived in Hell’s Kitchen with The United States vs Ulysses, the frisky entertainment now playing at the Irish Arts Center. Written by journalist/dramatist Colin Murphy, the play is intricately researched yet undidactic. Featuring a six-member cast from Ireland directed by Conall Morrison, it’s an imaginative, fresh-mouthed account of one of literary modernism’s most significant legal confrontations.