Music City

The ever-inventive theater company Bedlam lays claim to its new home at the Upper West Side's West End Theatre with an immersive staging of an original country jukebox musical built around songs by J.T. Harding, who has written hits for artists including Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker. Peter Zinn's script centers on a pair of songwriters, played by Stephen Michael Spencer and Casey Shler, whose hardscrabble aspirations are obstructed in different ways by the drug epidemic and other challenges. Bedlam honcho Eric Tucker directs the New York premiere.