THEATER
WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 - 8, 2019 (continuing through OCTOBER 7)
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
9:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Mac Wellman: Bad Penny
The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street, Tribeca, Manhattan

$35-$102; $10 student rush
http://theflea.org/shows/bad-penny/

The Flea kicks off its season-long tribute to "the Macs" — Flea co-founder Wellman (last name) and fellow Mac Taylor (first name) — with a revival of a short piece by Wellman, a language-drunk absurdist who makes existential and political despair fun, about the end of the world (actually a lot of his plays are about the end of the world). This piece — which forms a sort of de facto separately-ticketed double bill with Wellman's Sincerity Forever — was originally presented by the lake in Central Park and will be presented here in a courtyard; the Flea warns that performances are to proceed rain or shine, so be prepared.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fancy barbecue at Holy Ground.