This Is New York’s Most Electrifying Theater Season in Years

Earlier this month I found myself sitting in the dark in the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York’s West Village, frozen in place as I watched the actor Andrew Scott perform a love scene opposite himself.

In case I didn’t say that clearly enough: It was a sex scene. And Scott was playing both sides of the equation. I have never understood Anton Chekhov’s crystalline intent more purely than I did the moment I witnessed that distilled staging.