By: David Sheward December 23, 2023: Two Off-Broadway productions meld the past and the present with mixed results. Michael-John LaChiusa's musical The Gardens of Anuncia at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, is a gentle, fragmented memory piece while Mary Kathryn Nagle's Manahatta at the Public Theater, somewhat jarringly juxtaposes a contemporary story against an historic one. Both have their satisfaction…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:01PM on December 23, 2023