Thinking Theater NYC

  Cabaret in Captivity , an annual cabaret produced by Untitled Theater Company No. 61 in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, will perform both live and livestreamed on Sunday, May 1, at 2pm. This year's production is dedicated to the memory of cast member Barbara Maier Gustern, and there will be a brief tribute to her. The program includes songs and sketches written in Terezin/Theresienstad. Terezin was located an hour away from Prague, and during World War II it served as both an internment camp and a way station for the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Full of satire, bitter humor, and hope, these pieces demonstrate how art became a vital survival technique for the inmates. Most of these pieces were recently recovered through the efforts of scholar Lisa Peschel, who also translated the majority of the work. Conceived and co-directed by Edward Einhorn ( NY Times Critic’s Pick for The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein ) and starring co-director Jenny Lee Mitc...