So, Winning Isn’t the Only Thing? ‘Summer Shorts: Series A’ Offers 3 One-Act Plays

Marriages are celebrated. Divorces are granted. Children are born. Parents die. And through all the joy and tumult and change, the Knicks continue to lose. That’s the sweetly despairing premise of Warren Leight’s Sec. 310, Row D, Seats 5 and 6, the highlight of the three one-acts in Summer Shorts: Series A at the 59E59 Theaters. The play follows three friends — the crabby Roman (Peter Jacobson), the irresolute Eddie (Geoffrey Cantor), the composed Josh (Cezar Williams) — drawn back to Madison Square Garden year after year to wallow in basketball catastrophe. At the end of one horrific game, Josh announces he’s finished with season tickets. “It’s been 10 years of heartbreak,” he says. “I’m done. I’m not coming back. My last game, my last year.” The next scene finds him in his usual seat.