You Will Experience Silence

LGBT
You Will Experience Silence
Tonight’s your last chance to catch Dan Fishback’s take on sex and politics.

Film
Waltz with Bashir
If you haven’t watched this illustrated war doc yet, now’s the time to catch it. BAM Rose Cinemas is playing the film three times today, with a discussion by its art director, David Polonsky, following the 6:50pm showing.

Drink up
The Pony Bar
Self-described beer geeks and Lansdowne Road owners have opened this craft-beer bar in Hell’s Kitchen. Twenty draft lines plus two casks pump 14-ounce pints from a rotating selection of American brews, all priced at $5.

Chill
Quiet Music to Draw To…with Kid Koala
Take a break from the hectic pace of city life with Ninja Tune artist Kid Koala. Koala’s wife, Corinne, will provide baked goods, and your admission fee gets you a cup of hot cocoa and a pencil for drawing.

Music
The Dears + Great Northern + Eulogies
Canadian band the Dears hits the Bell House with a recent album, Missiles, full of the lush, vaguely theatrical songs their fans know and love. (Radiohead admirers might dig this.)

You only have tonight and tomorrow to catch the latest show by multi-talented Dan Fishback, You Will Experience Silence at Dixon Place. Act now before the talented bugger moves on to his next music, or art, or comedy, or acting, or writing, or God-knows-what-else project.

The camp play juxtaposes two horny gay Jewish teenagers in ancient Jerusalem with a modern-day, neurotic, Jewish antiwar activist and contains such insights as “being a Jew is a lot like having an Internet boyfriend” (turns out that’s pretty accurate).

For more whip-smart observations, watch our exclusive clip of Mr. Fishback explaining the title of a lecture he’s been delivering on college campuses, “You Never Get to Make Out: Why I Can’t Tell the Difference Between Being Jewish and Being Queer.”

We were psyched last night to be invited to a rehearsal of You Will Experience Silence—the latest super-smart and funny creation of antifolk hero Dan Fishback, known for his bands Cheese on Bread and the Faggots, and for performance pieces No Direction Homo and Waiting for Barbara (Bush, not Streisand). You Will Experience Silence, which opens April 10 at Dixon Place, juxtaposes the story of two queeny teens living in ancient Jerusalem with that of a modern-day neurotic Jewish activist. When Fishback is not busy being an artist, he’s visiting college campuses, delivering his lecture “You Never Get to Make Out: Why I Can’t Tell the Difference Between Being Jewish and Being Queer.” We caught up with him after his rehearsal to ask him why. Here’s what he said: