The slyly provocative Dan Fishback (
thirtynothing) revisits
his exceptional 2012 musical about socialist Jews in the 1920s who share a house with Madonna, Britney Spears and a modern gay slacktivist. Strident yet diffident, nervous yet sure,
The Material World feels—in its own way—quietly revolutionary. Performers include downtown performance stars Erin Markey and Molly Pope.