THEATER
SATURDAY - SUNDAY, APRIL 6 - 7, 2019 (continuing through MAY 19)
7:30 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Norma Jean 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 distinguised 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 the adjacent sandwich/snack bar.  On Saturday and later on Sunday, meat (on sandwiches, on plates, not on a stick) at Belcampo.