New York Children’s Theater Festival

They may remind you of Harold and Maude, but these two are only friends: Howard is 8, and Lillian is 80. They’re the central characters in “Help Save the Monkey!,” the show that is playing in the third weekend of this year’s New York Children’s Theater Festival, a monthlong celebration whose productions — a new one each week — are chosen from submissions sent to a large group of theater professionals. Created by Liz Hara and Marta Mozelle MacRostie, the production deals with the pair’s efforts to rescue Lillian’s monkey, which is about to land from outer space.