Elevator Repair Service, an experimental theater group from New York
City, reads the entirety of The Great Gatsby—start to
finish, the whole book, every sentence. It’s an anaerobic
endurance sport and an inspired idea. The Great Gatsby is a
perfect prose performance, which is why staging always ruins it. The
Great Gatsby starring actors? They’ll just be in the way. The
Great Gatsby starring the sentences in The Great
Gatsby? Hell yeah. It’s long, but the end is great.See Review (On the Boards, 100 W Roy St,
217-9888. 4 pm, $24.)

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...