Helen J. Shen, left, and Darren Criss in a scene from Broadway's "Maybe Happy Ending." The show opens with the fastidious android Oliver (Darren Criss), who patiently waits for his owner, James (Marcus Choi), to come retrieve him from a lofty apartment ...

Darren Criss and Helen J Shen star in a moving new musical about two robots whose emotional story touches on very human themes.

Meet Claire (Helen J Shen) and Oliver (Darren Criss), two isolated and retired robots who have come not to save us, but to teach—or perhaps to remind—us what it is to love and be human. There is no “maybe” about it when it comes to the brilliance and winning charm of Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco Theatre,

Is Broadway ready for a quiet musical? The timing is perfect. Recently, a mini-war broke out on Broadway when an actor in "The Roommate," Patti LuPone, asked that something be done about the loud music seeping into her theater from the walls of the theater that's home to "Hell's Kitchen.