THEATER
TUESDAY - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 - 21, 2019 (continuing through JANUARY 5)
8:00 PM TUESDAY - SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY

Jeremy O. Harris: Slave Play
Golden Theater
252 West 45th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$39-$227
https://slaveplaybroadway.com/

Another corrosive play by an African-American playwright treating issues of race in a formally inventive, narratively skewed manner. It's amazing how much great theater has fit that description in the last couple of years — on the whole, the best American theater there's been. It's even more amazing to have something like this playing on Broadway. I'm skeptical of attempts to bring characteristically Downtown/Brooklyn stuff Uptown — but it would be nice for one of those attempts to succeed for once. Go.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Blue Ribbon was once exciting for re-introducing elemental brasserie-style dining to New York — and for staying open late. Now, the menus seem kind of boring — but decently late hours are rarer than ever, even in even the putative Theater District. Perhaps the most exciting thing about the The Ribbon Midtown, though, is the fancy cocktail bar underneath.