THEATER
TUESDAY - SUNDAY, APRIL 16 - 21, 2019 (continuing through MAY 19)
7:30 PM THURSDAY - SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
The Shed
545 West 30th Street, Hudson Yards, Manhattan

$99-$179
https://theshed.org/program/4-norma-jeane-baker-of-troy

If you're going to make a theater piece mashing up two enormously famous but somewhat disparate beauties, each having made a huge impact on Western Culture at some cost to themselves (imposed because they were sexualized women), then you might as well have a cast comprising . . . Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming?  It begins to make sense when you see that the piece was written by Anne Carson, one of the best there is at twisting the classics for immediate relevance.  The director is the highly distinguished Katie Mitchell. 

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Before the Sunday matinée, you can avail yourself of Kāwi, the most forthrightly Korean (which is not to say it's straight Korean) of the Momofukus -- or its adjacent sandwich/snack bar.  Later on, you might try the meatcentric food at Belcampo -- although it seems emblematic that the delicious dishes they served to the elite guests (and me) at the Hudson Yards preview reception the night before opening were much more interesting, and infinitely better prepared, than what actually appears on the menu.