Despite name-checking CBGB and Delancey Street, this adaptation of the Russian playwright Edvard Radzinski’s She, in the Absence of Love and Death takes place in a geographical limbo—call it Manhattan on the Moskva. Its turgid vision of corrupt judges, sex-starved moms, and freewheeling bands of jazz-rappers survives the transition into English only superficially, leaving behind an entire submerged […]