Must See: Daniel Kitson’s One Man Wonder at St. Ann’s

Last year’s one man show by British actor/writer/comedian Daniel Kitson entitled The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church blew me away, and I’d been looking forward to his return to St. Ann’s Warehouse ever since. Kitson’s new show, It’s Always Right Now, Until It’s Later, which you can see until January 29, is a delightful, charming, hilarious, and very moving recounting of two lives. I am not a theater critic so I will simply say that it’s the best hour and a half I’ve spent in 2012.

Kitson is an incredible monologuist, a nerdy hero who fits in well in DUMBO, and at $25 a ticket,  it’s an excellent opportunity to check out St. Ann’s in its final year in the Water Street warehouse before they make the move to Jay Street next fall.  Read the reviews linked below and then get your tickets while there are still a few left.

Kitson Reviews:

• The Village Voice: “He has the kind of disarming nerd-savant presence that permits the poignancy of his material to sneak up on you.”
• The New York Times: “(The show) exudes a narrative urgency that tends to dissolve stickiness. And whenever his show seems to be melting into something like the Kodak commercials that grew misty at ‘the times of your life,’ he seasons the treacle with grit, salt and preposterously apt turns of phrase.”
• Gothamist: “Kitson is a mordant wit, and as he blazes through his 90 minute monologue, you can’t help but marvel at his vivid imagination and bracing stage presence.”

Photo via Richard Termine/The New York Times.