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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

The Essentialisn’t
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HERE

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

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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Accessibility:

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 thatre.

Curb Ramps

yes

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

There is a cafe

Telephone

none

Assisted Listening System

some hearing aids.

Visual Assistance

none

Folding Armrests

none

Directions Subway

C,E to Spring St.; 1 to Houston St.; R,W to Prince St.

Directions Bus

M21 to Houston St.; M6 to Spring St.

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By Subway:

C,E to Spring St.; 1 to Houston St.; R,W to Prince St.

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By Bus:

M21 to Houston St.; M6 to Spring St.