The Motherf**ker with the Hat

Bobby Cannavale and Elizabeth Rodriguez tear up the stage as a volatile couple in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s pulse-pounding drama, a clear-eyed look at different kinds of users. Even when speaking through the megaphone of Guirgis’s post-Mametian lyrical profanity, the characters reveal surprising complexities. Whenever the neophyte Chris Rock stumbles in his key role as an AA sponsor, Anna D. Shapiro's production regains its footing and its kick.—Adam Feldman