THEATER
FRIDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 (continuing through OCTOBER 28)
7:00 PM

A.R.T./New York Theatres, Mezzanine Theater
502 West 53rd Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

$59-$89
http://bedlam.org/whats-on/uncle-romeo-vanya-juliet/

Uncle Vanya is my very favorite play.  Romeo and Juliet isn't.  But maybe in a mash-up like this, Vanya -- a comedy of lives stretching on endlessly, with no passions requited -- will provide a corrective to Romeo -- a tragedy of young lives cut short, with passion all too requited.  In any event, if Bedlam is going to try it, I sure intend to find out.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  You can't say that the Swiss restaurant Mont Blanc 52-- the successor to Theater District staple Maria's Mont Blanc -- serves the greatest food you've ever had.  But you can say it's good, reliable, always satisfying -- and loads of fun.  It always seems like everybody there but me is a regular -- but they're a welcoming crowd, so it's like a very successful dinner party.  And if Maria herself is in the house, are you in for a time!