The Beautiful Lady Tickets

Name: The Beautiful Lady
Start: 2023-05-05
End: 2023-05-28
Location: Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa

About The Beautiful Lady

La MaMa presents the New York premiere of The Beautiful Lady, an unconventional musical written and composed by Tony Award-nominee Elizabeth Swados, one of Ellen Stewart’s earliest and most frequent collaborators. Set in an artists’ café during the Russian Revolution, the piece uses the words of influential poets from the time, translated by Helen Hayes Award-winner Paul Schmidt.

As the revolution quickly turns and begins to persecute its own, the performers advocate for a free and just society, seeking meaning and purpose in their resistance. In the light of the pressing issues our world faces today, The Beautiful Lady is a poignant reminder of the necessity of free speech and the enduring power of art. Bessie and Obie Award-winning director Anne Bogart directs the music-theatre piece.

Run time

90 minutes, no intermission

Start date

May 5th, 2023

End date

May 28th, 2023

Venue

Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa

Age

12+

102 Reviews

Patrick M 4

1176 Reviews | 343 Followers

Ambitious, Quirky, Great singing, Great acting, Edgy

See it if you'd like to experience a bawdy basement St Petersburg nightclub in 1912 to enjoy poetry in verse & song by an energetic cast & musicians.

Don’t see it if you do not like poetry, are looking for a traditional musical or you do not like frank sexual talk.

Elisa 9119

573 Reviews | 278 Followers

Quirky, Intelligent, Great staging, Great singing, Great acting

See it if Set in an underground Petersburg cafe, from 1912 to the present, the untraditional musical uses the language of the great Russian poets(esp*

Don’t see it if Riveting and relevant, but also unconventional, which I loved yet, not x everybody's taste, esp if you don't like audience participation.

Wish I Could See Them All

786 Reviews | 250 Followers

Sad, Powerful, Intense, Exuberant, Great music/singing/poetry

See it if Intense, exuberant songs & poetry. Great music. Devastating depiction of stifled Russian intellectual life. Large, talented cast & band.

Don’t see it if Minimal characters and plot. Narrator, but no dialog. I lost interest in spots. Corny audience participation.