I’m pretty sure this play was not written for people like me in mind. At the preview I attended, the audience was slightly more female and only slightly older than the teenagers who gather to see “Wicked” eight times a week at the Gershwin Theatre, only a couple of blocks from my apartment.
Natalie Margolin’s new play “All Nighter” opened Sunday at the nonprofit MCC, only one block from my apartment, which is renting out its Newman Mills Theater to a producing team led by actor Ben Platt. Impressive here is the marketing outreach performed by Arthouse, which filled this large Off Broadway venue with young theatergoers who are pretty much the age and sex of the five characters on stage.