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Don Quixote Takes New York

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Now at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, *Don Quixote Takes New York* reframes Cervantes’ wandering knight for a kids’ audience, placing his idealism against the textures of contemporary Manhattan. The piece treats the city as both setting and foil, moving between slapstick misreadings and plain lessons about perception, courage, and responsibility. La MaMa’s history as a downtown incubator gives the production cultural context, even without a documented NYC-premiere claim. Its sharpest insight is that fantasy, in a city built on reinvention, can be both shelter and trouble.