ON ORSON

Film director and novelist Jonathan Lynn (“My Cousin Vinny”) participates in a discussion after a performance of the off-Broadway play “Orson’s Shadow.” The play is about Orson Welles’s direction of a West End drama starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright. Other characters in the play include Vivien Leigh and Kenneth Tynan. David Cromer directs the Planetearth Partners production. Tonight, 8 p.m. performance, talk to follow, Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow St. at Seventh Avenue South, 212-239-6200, $55.

IF THEY CAN MAKE IT HERE …

Told in the style of vaudeville, “Big Times” is a story about three young women who come to New York in search of a theatrical break. Leigh Silverman directs the Women’s Expressive Theater production. Through Saturday, July 9, Tuesday-Saturday, 8 p.m., Walkerspace, 46 Walker St., between Church Street and Broadway, 212-396-4280, $19. Note: There are no shows Friday, July 1, through Monday, July 4.

LOVE AMONG THE STARS

Don Nigro’s “My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon” depicts the love triangle between Evelyn Nesbit, her millionaire husband, Harry Thaw, and the architect Stanford White, whom Thaw shot and killed in 1906 in the Madison Square Roof Garden. Mark Pinter, Timothy Altmeyer,and Kit Paquin star. Amy Feinberg directs the production. Through Sunday, July 10, Wednesday and Saturday, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday, 8 p.m., 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14th St., between First and Second avenues, 212-868-4444, $40.

SAILING CONVERSION

Jollyship the Whiz-Bang’s new show, “Crabquistador: Scavenger of God,” has been extended. It tells the story of friendship between a crab and a pirate-ship captain, and their conversion to Christianity. Nick Jones writes and directs. Through July 14, Thursdays at 10 p.m. and Sundays at 8 p.m., Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston streets, $8.

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