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NEW YORK — The central premise of “Marjorie Prime,” now on Broadway with Cynthia Nixon, June Squibb, Danny Burstein and Christopher Lowell, is that technology might allow the creation of bespoke robots allowing, say, a grieving widow with dementia to talk to something that looks and talks exactly like her late husband. Not only would he be restored to her in three dimensions, but he could be ordered up looking tanned, handsome and hot, as he did in his prime. The play begins with an elderly woman, played by Squibb, having just such a conversation with just such a strong-jawed dude (Lowell).

I first saw this Jordan Harrison play in 2015 at Writers Theatre in Glencoe. The premise certainly was intriguing but it felt futuristic and, well, safely

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