BOO, HISS Each of its three programs in the Bad Plays Festival, which celebrates terrible theater, includes several short plays. Afterward the audience votes on the best of the worst. Series: Through Saturday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 8 p.m. Awards: Sunday. Downeast Arts Center, 203 Ave. A, between 12th and 13th streets, 212-228-2886, $10 each evening, $25 all three programs.

ONE ACTS Dark Moon NYC presents “SHORTBLAKPLAYS,” two one-act dramas performed together. “E to Jamaica Center” centers around two businessmen commuting on the E train. “J. Hoov” explores the psychosis of Bijou, of the J. Edgar Hoover Ward for the Criminally Insane. Jehriko Turner serves as artistic director. Wednesday through Saturday, 7 p.m., Studio 315, 303 W. 42nd St. at Eighth Avenue, third floor, 866-761-9321, $10.

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