A.R.T./New York Theatres

Zachary Elkind adapts and directs a literary curiosity: James Joyce's only play, 1918's Exiles, which was first performed in New York in 1925 after a disastrous premiere in Munich and was most recently revived here in 1977. The plot involves a complicated love rectangle among an Irish writer, his common-law wife, his journalist friend and his cousin (who has also been both men's lover). The webs of sexual intrigue are spun by actors Rodd Cyrus, Layla Khoshnoudi, Jeffrey Omura, Violeta Picayo and Mattie Tindall.

Elizabeth A. Davis (Once) and Dan Amboyer (Younger) play a couple whose marriage is sorely tested when she disappears into the bathroom of their mobile home and refuses to come out—not in a cute Plaza Suite kind of way, but in a major depressive episode kind of way. The Off Broadway premiere of Max Mondi's two-hander is directed by Chad Austin for his Abingdon Theatre Company. (The play made its New York debut in the 2015 edition of the much-missed Fringe Festival.)