Beardo

Two musical-theater freethinkers, composer Dave Malloy (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812) and librettist Jason Craig (Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage), are behind this unconventional take on Russian mystic, love machine and assassination victim Grigori Rasputin. Ellie Heyman directs a site-specific production at a Greenpoint church. Read the full review.