THEATER
WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY, MARCH 20 - 23, 2019
8:00 PM

Kristine Haruna Lee: Suicide Forest
Bushwick Starr
207 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn

$30
https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/suicide-forest

Kristine Haruna Lee makes fanciful theater pieces that are bursting with life.  Does she overreach sometimes?  Sure -- but better that than tired theater that just sits there, dead on the stage.  This play deals with some of the oppressive aspects of Japanese-American culture, with suicide looming large.  But this is Kristine Haruna Lee, so it'll still be alive.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Joachim Baca, who jumpstarted David Chang's empire at the original Momofuku Noodle Bar, has just opened Teo -- a sort of experimental, fushiony (mainly fusing with U.S. Southern cooking) izakaya --  right here on Starr Street.  In Baca's hands, fusion is nothing to worry about:  years of eating his stuff has made me wonder if he's even capable of turning out anything that isn't absolutely delicious.