First Nighter: MJ Kaufman's Imposing "How to Live on Earth," Michael Laurence's Bed-Ridden "Hamlet in Bed," Yvan Greenberg/Laboratory Theater's Disposable "Genet Porno"

Give playwright MJ Kaufman and director Adrienne Campbell-Holt abundant credit for writing a compact and understanding study of isolation in How to Live on Earth, at HERE. On Amy Rubin's sleek set, enhanced by Lianne Arnold's projections, Kaufman imagines four candidates for a space trip from which those chosen understand they'll never return to this planet. The applicants are Omar (Genesis Oliver), Aggie (Molly Carden), Eleanor (Amanda Workman) and Bill (Charles Socarides), and each has a reaso...