In Deborah Warner's production of The Angel Project in New York, presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, you are the main character, the actor who plays the character, and the understudy all in one. But that descriptions is, perhaps, deceptive: New York City itself is the real star of this show.

Essentially a walking/subway/golf cart tour through the city, the project takes the participant from location to location, where rooms and whole floors of buildings have been prepared by the director and installation designer Tom Pye for the viewer's experience. Tickets are purchased for tour start times, which are staggered at half-hour intervals. While groups of participants arrive at the init[...]