Meet the Residents of New Off-Broadway Musical February House
For a brief period in the 1940s, eccentric book editor George Davis rented a dilapidated boarding house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights. The house became home to a motley crew of artists, including Carson McCullers, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Gypsy Rose Lee. Now this bohemian commune of sorts, February House, has come to life on the stage of the Public Theater in a new musical with music and lyric…