°λ΅ΊΜεΣύ UniverseWhat Do Critics Think of Eddie and Dave Off-Broadway?Amy Staatβs new play, about β�80s rock legend Van Halen, flips the script by telling the story with female drag performers.
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Dan Meyer
January 23, 2019
Omer Abbas Salem, Amy Staats, and Megan Hill
Ahron R. Foster
The Atlantic Theater Company's newest production, Amy Staatβs play Eddie and Dave, officially opened January 22 at Atlantic Stage 2 where it is scheduled to run through February 10.
Margot Bordelon directs a cast made up of Vanessa Aspillaga (Amy and the Orphans), Megan Hill (Do You Feel Anger), Amy Saats, Omer Abbas Salem (Off-Broadway debut), and Adina Verson (Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties).
Read what critics say about the new production below.
New York Stage Review ( and )
Eddie and Dave features scenic design by Reid Thompson, costume design by Montana Levi Blanco, lighting design by Jiyoun Chang, sound design by Palmer Hefferan, original compositions by Michael Thurber, projections by Shawn Boyle, and casting by Caparelliotis Casting: Lauren Port, CSA.
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Photos: Inside Rehearsal for the World Premiere of Eddie and Dave Off-Broadway
Photos: Inside Rehearsal for the World Premiere of Eddie and Dave Off-Broadway
The play by Emil Weinstein is based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein, an openly transgender woman directly descended from Hasidic Judaism's founder, the Baal Shem Tov.
The piece stars Obie Award winner Jodie Markell as propagandist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, whose work in service of the Nazis defined the visual identity of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
