‘17 BORDER CROSSINGS’ at New York Theater Workshop (in previews; opens on April 15). Get your visa approved and your passport stamped as this exploration of migration by the playwright and performer Thaddeus Phillips arrives at New York Theater Workshop. Phillips, who heads Philadelphia’s Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, twines memories of his own travels with more fraught journeys. But Tim Blake Nelson’s new play attempts to probe the mind and biography of one of the most controversial philosophers of the ancient world. This sort-of adaptation of “Uncle Vanya,” by the “Stupid _______ Bird” playwright Aaron Posner, wraps up its cleverly melancholic run.

Source: New York Times April 11, 2019 21:00 UTC