Darren Criss and Helen J Shen star in a perceptive and moving Broadway musical about two retired ‘Helperbots’ who gradually grow closer.

A supersmart musical about making a connection arrives on Broadway in a joyful, heartbreaking, cutting-edge production.

Oliver, played by Darren Criss, is a lonely, nerdy apartment dweller with a love of Chet Baker, a plant as his sole companion and a persistent air of melancholy. Claire, played by Helen J. Shen, is the smart,

NEW YORK — On paper, nothing about “Maybe Happy Ending” should work. The ambitious new musical, which opened Nov. 12 at the Belasco Theatre, follows two lonely robots as they take a road trip and fall in love in late 21 st century South Korea.

Maybe Happy Ending” is a tale as old as time — boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl also happen to be robots. The new musical playing at the Belasco Theatre is a classic boy-next-door romance with a technological twist,

Broadway’s “Maybe Happy Ending,” starring Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen, is a refreshingly original exploration of love and loneliness.

Are we human, or are we… robots? “Maybe Happy Ending,” a Korean musical now making its Broadway debut, asks this exact question - or in some ways, asks the inverse. It examines what it means to be human,

Darren Criss chats with USA TODAY about the new Broadway musical "Maybe Happy Ending," where he's a robot in search of love and belonging.

It takes a special type of theatrical talent, one loaded with heart and wit and insight, to imbue something that looks like an Apple MagSafe iPhone Charger with more romantic appeal than a decade’s worth of Valentines Day chocolates,

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,

This Broadway show about robots in love has rapturous music and lyrics, innovative staging and a superb cast. In short, an extraordinary work of theatre artistry.