You might remember the controversy, if not the name of the play. Last year, the New York Theatre Workshop had planned to give Emil Weinstein’s first play, “Becoming Eve,” its world premiere at the nearby Connelly Theatre in the East Village. Suddenly, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York decided to flex its muscle to reject the show. Who even knew the church owned the Connelly? The archdiocese released a statement about not letting Weinstein’s play enter its holy domain: “Nothing should take place on church-owned property that is contrary to the teaching of the church.”
Not to be deterred, NYTW found another theater, and “Becoming Eve” opened Monday at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan.