Are we human, or are we… robots? “Maybe Happy Ending,” a Korean musical now making its Broadway debut, asks this exact question — or in some ways, asks the inverse. It examines what it means to be ...

Marcus Choi, Helen J Shen, Dez Duron and Darren Criss of the Broadway musical "Maybe Happy Ending," photographed at the Belasco Theater in New York. (Justin Jun Lee / For The Times) A line in "Maybe ...

Broadway musicals can be about anything, from leprechauns to Mormon missionaries to presidential assassins. And they can take many forms: meta-theatrical revues, sung-through operettas, rock cabarets.

NEW YORK — Art about artificial intelligence tends to warn us about the dangers of playing God and creating monsters. So there is an immediate element of surprise and delight to “Maybe Happy Ending,” ...

In his latest Broadway project, Emmy winner Darren Criss (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) and his co-star, Helen J. Shen, play retired, robotic “helperbots” in the ...

It’s sci-fi meets rom-com: “Her,” “The Last Five Years,” “50 First Dates,” and “Hadestown” combined, with some hints of “Black Mirror.” Plus, there’s a classic road trip and some great “robots ...

A line in "Maybe Happy Ending" describes the lives of fireflies, the once-ubiquitous insects that magically produce their own light. "They only live for two months. But what a beautiful two months." ...