Layer the Walls NYC Reviews and Tickets

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Awesome old-school music / great family-show, Beautiful / resonant / educational / relevant, Enchanting / absorbing / funny / bitingly honest, Magnificent attention to detail / very clever set & props, High-energy / extremely entertaining & informative

About the Show

Set within a tenement that is about to be torn down, this production for children 7 and up uses masks, toy theater, and puppets to imagine the proud and perilous histories of the building's immigrant occupants.

Like prehistoric sediment, the walls of a building often contain traces and impressions of lives once lived. Liz Parker and Rachel Sullivan created this production after a visit to the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side, where they learned of the old apartments’ many layers of wallpaper, each applied by an immigrant family.

Show-Score Member Reviews (1)

High-energy / extremely entertaining & informative, Awesome old-school music / great family-show, Magnificent attention to detail / very clever set & props, Enchanting / absorbing / funny / bitingly honest, Beautiful / resonant / educational / relevant

See it if you have kids or nieces/nephews who'd enjoy being entertained (while being educated). DO your prep-work: inform your tribe what it's about.

Don't see it if you don't want to sit around kids asking questions during the show, or parental-units lighting-up cells each time the house-lights dimmed. Read more

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