The Shed

Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More gave up the ghost last fall after 14 years, but fans of that immersive theatrical experience have a new show to tide them over: a smaller-scale work by Punchdrunk founder Felix Barrett that invites audience members to move barefoot through a labyrinthine installation inspired by Barry Pain’s 1901 gothic short story “The Moon-Slave," as adapted by the acclaimed British writer Daisy Johnson. Participants wear headphones and are guided through the 50-minute experience at the Shed via narration in the voice of Helena Bonham Carter. 

Before Tarell Alvin McCraney won a screenplay Oscar for Moonlight, he exploded onto the theater scene with the Brother/Sister plays, a trio of dramas set in Louisiana but inspired by stories from Yoruba mythology. McCraney and Bijan Sheibani now co-direct a revival of the trilogy's middle chapter, which focuses on two brothers with very different approaches to life—one is serious and hardworking, while the other is adventurous and reckless—and the latter brother's troublemaking former prison cellmate. André Holland, a veteran of many McCraney projects, played this third man at the Public Theatre in 2009; at the Shed, he assumes the role of the sensible older sibling, joined by Alani iLongwe and Malcom Mays.

Hollywood sweetheart Tom Hanks plays a time-traveling scientist—whose search for true love keeps bringing him back to the same day at the 1939 World's Fair in Queens—in a new play that Hanks has adapted with James Glossman from his own short stories. Kenny Leon (Our Town) directs the Off Broadway premiere at the Shed; the cast of 11 includes Kelli O'Hara, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Michelle Wilson and the ever-excellent Jay O. Sanders.