The downtown playwright Young Jean Lee asks some darkly comic existential questions in her pop-music cabaret “We’re Gonna Die.†Charles Isherwood called the show a “bizarre combination of pop concert and autobiographical lament for the human condition†when it ran at Joe’s Pub in 2011. It’s now playing (through Aug. 17) at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, and is also available as an album. In this scene, Ms. Lee performs “Henry,†a monologue about a painful breakup.
Recent videos in this series include Sala Iwamatsu and the puppeteer Veronica J. Kuehn (as Kate Monster) singing the number “The More You Ruv Someone†from “Avenue Q,†at New World Stages, and Rory O’Malley singing “The Twitter Song†from the musical “Nobody Loves You†at Second Stage Theater.
