At the end of my second day in New York City, I attended the play Jerusalem at the Music Box Theatre, starring Mark Rylance. This was my third play in three days, and it was great.
Prior to coming to NY, I’d never heard of this play (or Mark Rylance). Based on the theater-front advertising and some online research, I took a chance and got last minute tickets. Mark Rylance was the artistic director of the Globe Theatre in England for many years, and is a noted Shakespearean actor. This was a very English play, with a mostly English cast, in a very modern setting. It was basically about a counter culture guy living in a trailer out in the woods who is a gathering force for the local disaffected youth. The performance by Rylance was an amazing characterization. Now I’d like to see him in a normal character (or anything different) just to see how much was acting, and how much was him.
The only negative of my last minute decision was that I got a seat in the first row stage left. I was so close I could have rested my chin on the edge of the stage. The stage was covered with actual sod turf, and there was a nearly overwhelming scent of peat moss where I was sitting. The first minute of the play had a real jolt. It started with a young woman in fairy wings standing and singing a lovely quiet song. Then abruptly the lights went dark, and loud raucous music blasted out and you could see revelers dancing through the translucent curtain. 
The play then gets going with the main character coming out, and doing a head stand over a water bucket (right in front of me), dunking his head in and shaking it off, soaking all of us in the front row. It was a good vantage point for all the subsequent acting (if a bit low). It was an interesting story of an iconoclastic rebel, with later undertones of ancient English mysticism. The play lasted a little over three hours, with two brief intermissions, and all took place in one scene, but it moved along very quickly. It had great acting and I’m so glad I saw it.