Sea Wall

If you missed Andrew Scott's tour de force solo turn in Vanya last year, you now have another chance to get him alone—if you can afford the tickets, which start at $299 a pop. In the one-act monologue Sea Wall, written for Scott in 2008 by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), the actor plays a catalog photographer who opens up to the audience about the great sadness he carries with him in the aftermath of a trip to southern France. (Scott reprised the role in London in 2018 and streamed it during the pandemic; Tom Sturridge essayed it beautifully on Broadway in 2019.) The play a marvel of compression and detail; it earns your trust and then gently breaks your heart. Scott's two-week run will be recorded for a future film documenting the production, its creation and its reception.