Lazarus
Lazarus is abstract and intriguingly weird, and I thoroughly enjoyed the trip. Inspired by the Walter Tevis novel The Man Who Fell to Earth , Lazarus is about...well, that's open to interpretation, which is why this complex work is so worth seeing. As the novel's title suggests, the protagonist, Newton (Michael C. Hall), is not of this world. He lives in a sparse, beige space, punctuated by an oversize screen upstage center and two large windows on either side of the screen. (We can see the band through the windows.) Both the windows and the TV screen allow Newton to see out into the world, but they also allow others to look in on him. He's living in a fishbowl (designed and lit by Jan Versweyveld ), which can only make him feel more out of place. Indeed, throughout the show (written by David Bowie and Tony winner Enda Walsh ( Once , Hunger )), all I kept thinking was "alienation." These people—not just Newton but also Elly (Cristin Milioti), who is, ...