Thinking Theater NYC

First and Last Written by Adam Elliott Directed by Ephraim Birney Presented by Open Variations Theater and Birthday Cat , in association with Inwood Art Works , Personality Hires Studio , and C Minus Productions at artXnyc 409 West 14th Street, Manhattan, NYC November 10-22, 2026 Adam Elliott and Kyla Schoer. Photo by Geve Penaflor In Adam Elliott's funny and incisive two-hander First and Last , Morris, an aspiring writer working as a New York City rental agent when we first meet him, reveals that he has always been interested in time as a "construct," which means that it might be manipulated to become a "powerful tool that we use to advance ourselves." Writers, of course, do manipulate time–not only in the sense that they control its passage within a narrative but also in the sense that a written work creates a sort of eternal present to which the reader can endlessly return in the act of reading (or, in the case of, say, a film or play, watching). First and ...