Every month pre-pandemic, Theater of the Apes plucked a long forgotten volume from the shelves of the New York Society Library to resurrect as Necromancers of the Public Domain, a 1-night-only NYC variety show. And lookie here! We’re doing it again.

NEXT UP
NECROMANCERS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN:
An Hour with The Movies and the Talkies (1929) by Gilbert Seldes
Wednesday February 12, 7pm
Caveat 21A Clinton Street, NYC, 10002
(212)-228-2100
Ticket up! (21+)
From the book:
The moving picture is an illusion. It is also an industry…
No other form of entertainment has so loudly called itself an art, and to none has the name of art been so vigorously denied. Its existence depends upon a machine and the people who have made colossal fortunes out of it have been obviously ignorant of the nature and capacity of the machine they were working.
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Starring:
Emilio Cuesta (I Am Nobody / QUESTA)
Connor Kalista (Quest for Craft / All This Panic)
Pearl Rhein (Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812)
Hosted by Ayun Halliday, Queen of the Apes (The East Village Inky / Creative, Not Famous)
Cosponsored by
The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law
& Library Futures
Read An Hour with The Movies and the Talkies by Gilbert Seldes for free HERE.
Relive the glory of Necromancers Past here.
Peek under our petticoats as New York Theater Review interviews Ayun about Necromancer’s withers, whys and wherefores.


















