Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!

Soho Rep bids farewell to its longtime digs on Walker Street with a metathetrical collaboration between big-shot playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins—whose brilliant An Octoroon premiered at Soho Rep in 2013—and performance artist Alina Troyano, who has been doubling as Latin spitfire Carmelita Tropicana since the 1980s. The play imagines what ensues when Jacobs-Jenkins offers to buy the character from Troyano, and takes off from there into a larger conversation about avant-garde art and generational change. The cast, directed by Eric Ting, include Tropicana as well as Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Ugo Chukwu, Will Dagger and Keren Lugo.