More often I should report on plays attended but I figure if you wanted to know you would read a professional reviewer. However, this evening is to be mentioned. The playbill at the top of the picture is the typical playbill look and size, a standardized size. The checkered square below is the playbill for “The Machine”. So well done, exciting, illuminating and to top it off, it was produced, not at a theatre, but at the Park Avenue Armory. An Armory. This was a re-enacting – by a London playwright and cast- the chess games – one a day for six days- between the IBM computer Deep Blue and the Russian Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997.
Upon leaving the Armory, I was surprised to see the line up of homeless persons, outside on Park Avenue. It had never occurred to me that of course this is rich territory and panhandling after such a full house is astute.