‘Pass Over’ review: The first play in what feels like forever has opened on Broadway

What it does offer is juicy nevertheless: a grand platform, savvily orchestrated by director Danya Taymor, for the protean talents of Hill and Smallwood as Moses and Kitch, a couple of guys who hang out seemingly endlessly on a violent city block. Nwandu’s models are Vladimir and Estragon of Samuel Beckett’s “Godot,” characters stranded, but ever hopeful, in a grim void. Beckett’s solitary landmark, a barren tree, is replaced here on Wilson Chin’s stark set by a single lamppost, under which Moses spins dreams of a “promised land” for Smallwood’s emotionally dependent Kitch.