
In this week’s New York, our very own Adam Platt interviews his younger brother Oliver Platt, currently on Broadway in Guys and Dolls. Mary Kaye Schilling talks to Jane Fonda upon her first Broadway performance in 46 years. Boris Kachka talks to Universal Robots playwright Mac Rogers about building a better robot. Justin Davidson opines on East New York’s Nehemiah Spring Creek Homes. David Edelstein reviews An American Affair and Crossing Over. Karen Shoemer reviews M. Ward’s Hold Time. Scott Brown and Kachka review The Story of My Life and Mourning Becomes Electra. Martin Johnson raps with pianist Jason Moran about re-creating Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall concert. Also, Rebecca Milzoff gets David Byrne to start making sense of his new tour.