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The Essentialisn’t

First Preview: Sep 10, 2025

Opening Date: Sep 12, 2025

Closing Date: Sep 28, 2025

Running Time: 01:20

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145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013

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Can you be Black and not perform? Incorporating art gallery aesthetics and an electronic soul score, Eisa Davis performs a piece about performance, exploring the cultural techniques that make musical expression a kind of imprisonment—or a transcendent liberation.

Off-Off Broadway Solo

Show Notes: No intermission

Performance Schedule

TUESDAY-FRIDAY @ 8:30 PM
SATURDAY @ 4 PM & 8:30 PM
SUNDAY @ 4 PM

September 21 @ 8:30 PM only
Added performance September 28 @ 8:30 PM

Cast

Eisa Davis
Jamella Cross
Princess Jacob
Anire Kim Amoda

Written By

Eisa Davis

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Wheelchair Info

Removable seating.
Seating

Mainstage seats 99 / Dorothy B. Williams Theatre Seats 74.
Elevator/Escalator

There is an elevator that takes you to the lower level theatre.
Curb Ramps

available
Entrance

Houses two performance spaces - the 99-seat Mainstage and the 74-seat Dorothy B. Williams Theatre (down one flight of stairs); art galleries, and a café. The building entrance is street level
Restroom

Located on both levels
Water Fountain

Water available from the cafe
Folding Armrests

None

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