“Pinocchio Pop” is now onstage at the Center for the Arts at CSI, presented in a live run featuring Incanto Productions. The piece reworks the familiar Pinocchio story through a pop-inflected theatrical lens, keeping its attention on invention, consequence, and the pressures that shape a “real” identity. In New York City, where fairy tales are routinely remade for new audiences, it reads as part of an ongoing tradition of adaptation rather than a one-off novelty. Its most pointed idea is that transformation is treated less as a reward than as a social demand.