THEATER
TUESDAY - SUNDAY, MAY 7 - 12, 2019 (continuing through MAY 26)
7:30 PM TUESDAY - SUNDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY

Christoper Chen: Passage
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan

$35-$65; rush tickets $30/$20 students; 99¢ non-advance sales Sunday
https://sohorep.org/passage

Reality is a shifting construct in Christopher Chen's involving works, which are "immersive" not in the usual physical sense (a cheap trick if you ask me), but rather intellectually.  This one's about colonialism; with that title, E.M. Forster can't be too far away.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I feel like I have to recommend the hottest restaurant in Manhattan, imported Chicago gastrodiner Au Cheval, as it's essentially around the corner.  It has the reputation of being impossible to get into without a long wait, but it's kind of doable after a show (and they now purport to take reservations -- for all the good that will probably do you).  If you do get in, skip the famous burger, which is gloppy and overdressed (you can't even taste the meat), in favor of the supernal duckheart-gravied potato hash -- a dish you wish you were eating when you aren't (e.g., like me right now) -- or the fried bologna sandwich, which -- trust me on this -- is infinitely better than you would ever expect.  The downstairs bar is missable.