Theater
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ALONE WITH AN AUDIENCE Seattle performance artist John Paulsen makes his New York debut with “Paulsen’s Lonely Banquet.” The presentation is an evening of solo works about characters linked by their loneliness. Tonight through Saturday, December 17, Wednesday-Sat urday, 8:30 p.m., Sunday, 4 p.m., HERE Arts Center, 145 Sixth Ave., between Spring and Broome streets, 212-868-4444, $15 Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday; $18 Friday and Saturday.
POET AND PRESIDENT A new opera by Damon Ferrante and Daniel Mark Epstein, “Jefferson and Poe,” imagines what happens when a young Edgar Allan Poe falls in love with Thomas Jefferson’s illegitimate daughter.The romantic comedy finds the poet plotting to make the president set his beloved free. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, $26 general, $16 seniors and students.
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