“It’s a great place to go before and after a performance for some fries or a glass of rosé champagne. Signature cocktails include the Rouge Royale featuring brandy soaked cherries, Champagne and sugar rim or the M cCormick Martini, named after yours truly, garnished with a vermouth soaked lemon stuffed olive.' Guests are invited to lounge on baroque furniture while performers pop champagne. The space in Bushwick is my ultimate favorite place ever.Industrial-warehouse Brooklyn–meets–the court of Louis XIV Versailles realness. We have a full year planned of performances, which is really exciting. “We opened a new space in Bushwick for Boylesque/Company XIV, so we now have year-round programming.

We asked the master of modern stage stunts about where he and his dancers drink, shop and unwind in the city. When he’s not choreographing massive productions for the Metropolitan Opera (like this season’s Samson et Dalila), McCormick is putting together lavish spectacles for his boundary-breaking theater troupe, Company XIV, now putting on its latest production, Ferdinand: Boylesque Bullfight. Few New Yorkers can glide effortlessly between Lincoln Center’s old-school opulence and Bushwick’s grungy nightlife scene, but for Austin McCormick, it’s all part of the job.

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