This high energy TheatreWorks production pulsates to a French Caribbean beat, radiating life force.

Having hit on a formula that works (two men, two women, one on-stage piano), Gerard Allessandrini’s shows are like a Saturday Night Live takedown of Broadway's greatest.

Shows like this are why you go to theatre in the first place. If 'Threepenny Opera' doesn't take you out of yourself, I suspect nothing will.

Those who invest the time and emotion in this play will be richly rewarded.

He’s smarter with this material, more of a storyteller and more of a philosopher. Only for the briefest of moments did he threaten to start with the radio harangue – and then wisely backed off.

Dykstra’s performance draws much from a young Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski, such was the combination of sexuality, bourbon, and bombast.

Mikhail Baryshnikov stars, and might be reason enough for date night at the theater. Man in a Case seems the perfect vehicle to showcase his veteran talents.

Given the general unfamiliarity with Henrietta Leavitt, Cepheid variable stars or the relationship between the period of a Cepheid and its luminosity, Gunderson brings the audience an amazing distance with this relatively complex material.

Would Andrew Ryan from BioShock even stand a chance?

A natural showman, Jessup doesn’t err on the side of excessive theatricality. He does more by changing his jacket or putting on a tie than many performers do with a whole costume room.