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Review: The Watering Hole can t quite quench a thirst
This Room Is a Broken Heart, part of The Watering Hole, in the lobby of Pershing Square Signature Center in New York, June 25, 2021. The Watering Hole is a theatrical installation conceived and curated by the Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage and Miranda Haymon. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Maya Phillips
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The day I went to the Signature Theatre, it was so hellishly hot out that it felt as if the air was clinging to my skin. So I stepped into the air-conditioned coolness of the Pershing Square Signature Center in Manhattan for The Watering Hole, a theatrical installation conceived and curated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage and Miranda Haymon.
The Watering Hole at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
(© Lia Chang)
It was on one of the hottest days of the year so far that I walked down 42nd Street toward the Pershing Square Signature Center to see
The Watering Hole, a new immersive collaborative work conceived by Lynn Nottage and Miranda Haymon, but a work by Nottage that had water in the title seemed like it was worth braving the heat for.
It turns out that
The Watering Hole not only refreshed me, but got me thinking about what theater is, or can be. After a year of streaming taped productions, and watching Zoom-adapted works, many of us have had our fill of screen theater.