Tintypes April 9, 2008

This nostalgic but thrillingly subversive revue takes you back to turn of the century America, when the innocent, slower-paced days of ice cream socials and hoop skirts are giving way to a bustling world of automobiles, electricity and the telephone, of American optimism and ingenuity. The story of these changing times blazes to life in a tuneful, high-spirited brew of popular songs from 1890 to 1917, performed by five archetypes of the period: Anna Held, the beautiful music hall star; Emma Goldman, the notorious socialist; a black domestic worker; a Chaplinesque Russian immigrant; and the outrageous Teddy Roosevelt, the youngest man ever to be elected President. 'Tintypes' is an epic work about the end of an era.