Punk, The New Colony at The Den Theatre, through Nov. 5. Tragedy occurs when a "straight" guy who murdered a gay man finds a place in a GBTQ unit of a maximum security prison in Mi-chael Allen Harris' timely new drama. SCM
Dracula, The Hypocrites at Mercury Theater through Nov. 5. Auteurist director Sean Graney makes changes to the familiar Dracula with which I don't fully agree. But Graney does know how to tell a story well and gives old Drac a rip-snortin' Grand Guignol treatment with which I fully agree!
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The Rocky Balboa Picture Show, Corn Productions at the Cornservatory, through Oct. 29. He's "just a sweet-ass boxer from Philadelphia, Penn-syl-va-ni-a" in this surprisingly smart mashup of two iconic films featuring dissimilar heroes sharing the same name. MSB
Two Mile Hollow, First Floor Theater at The Den Theatre, through Nov. 4. Leah Nanako Winkler's deconstruction of classic plays featuring melancholy members of privileged status and pale complexion delivers smartly satirical insights into our cultural assumptions. MSB
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