Coen continues off-Broadway

OK, so you’ve won the Academy Award for best picture of the year and two more for writing and directing. What do you do for an encore?

Go off-Broadway for an extended commercial run of your acclaimed trio of one-act plays.

Ethan Coen, an Oscar winner (along with brother Joel) for “No Country for Old Men,” will see his “Almost an Evening” resume performances March 20 at the Bleecker Street Theatre in New York.

The three short plays -- together, they run less than 90 minutes -- were a critical and popular hit for the Atlantic Theater Company this year at its tiny Stage 2. Now the off-kilter comedies, directed by Neil Pepe, are back for a limited run through June 1. Casting has not been announced.