THEATER
TUESDAY - SUNDAY, MAY 15 - 20*
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY - SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

David Ives:  The Metromaniacs
Duke Theater
229 West 42nd Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$75-$95
http://www.redbulltheater.com/the-metromaniacs

This is a bit more mainstream than what usually gets touted around here.  But if any performances have given me more pure pleasure over the last several years than David Ives’s adaptations ("transladaptations", he calls them) of French Baroque comedies, I can’t think of them.  This one is an adaptation of a comedy from the late 1730s by Alexis Piron making fun of a then-current Parisian poetry craze.  You might not be guffawing constantly, but expect a continuous titter that could actually end up hurting.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Burger & Lobster is a chain originated in London several years ago with the intention of (I'm quoting from their website here) "perfecting the craft of just one or two main ingredients" (as you might guess, burgers and lobsters).  It may sound like The Frog and Peach.  But everybody says that the lobster, at least, is a remarkably good deal.