A Must-See Play about Justice Scalia | National Review
By Kyle Smith July 31, 2018 12:29 PM
Tracy Ifeachor and Edward Gero in The Originalist (Joan Marcus)
The Originalist is an engrossing and surprisingly even-handed portrait of the late conservative titan in his element.
Hundreds of times I’ve been handed a program while walking into a play in New York City. Walking into an off-Broadway production the other night, I experienced a theater first: An usher handed me a copy of the U.S. Constitution.
I suspected I’d come to the right place, and so I had: The play, The Originalist, which will run at 59E59 Theaters through August 19, is a smart, challenging, heterodox, and delightful look at Antonin Scalia.
Cat makes for a crafty foil for Scalia as the two tussle over Roe v. Wade, the Second Amendment, and the meaning of the equal-protection clause in an even-handed way that is bound to provide New Yorkers with viewpoints they seldom hear or consider.
Read more at: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/antonin-scalia-play-the-originalist-must-see/
The 59E59 theaters where this will run appears to be a theater complex in NYC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59E59_TheatersBut maybe eventually, we will all see it.
