Ethan Coen’s Let’s Love! wins the award for the most curiously titled play of the year thus far.

The trio of one-act plays that comprise the piece (Atlantic Theater Company, to Nov. 22), directed by Neil Pepe, don’t seem to be about love at all, but rather broken people and broken relationships. Love itself seems mostly extinguished and absent—not experienced, not considered, and very much vaporized by bitterness and disconnection.

The title, an apparent encouragement to love—with an exclamation mark that hovers on an implication of a celebration of love—couldn’t be further from any of the situations we alight upon. (Perhaps it’s, yawn, ironic.) Before the play begins and between each of its bitterness-streaked and not particularly insightful playlets, Nellie McKay appears on stage to s

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