From left to right: James Fay, Alexandra Marie Harrington, Alana Osborn-Lief, and Phil Gillen

High School Hell: Zeitgeist Stage’s ‘Punk Rock’ has nothing to do with music

Simon Stephens’ tale of teen angst glosses over the expected topics that challeneg 17-year-olds — sex, drugs and coming of age challenges — instead delving headfirst into a seething cauldron of adolescent rage that, sadly, begets violence. We’ve seen these characters before. Think “The Breakfast Club,” but replace Molly Ringwald and company with a group of affluent British teens grappling with issues that run the gamut from bullying, humiliation, and burning to getting into Oxford. Then you’ll have Zeitgeist Stage’s “Punk Rock.”

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Mike Tyson’s Truth: Iron Mike talks pigeons, ‘Rocky,’ Zach Galifianakis, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ and other stuff

There are things that everyone knows about Mike Tyson. The weird stuff. The frightening stuff. The flat-out insane stuff. The stuff of legends. Holyfield’s ear. Years of domestic strife. Bouts of volatility and violence (an occupational hazard, perhaps).That face tattoo. But there’s also other stuff. Like an inexplicable fondness for pigeons, the most common bird in the aviary hierarchy. You’d have guessed maybe peacocks. Or bald freaking eagles. But no, Iron Mike loves pigeons. He also loves theater. All kinds of theater.

Cathy Rigby is young at heart

The magic in ‘Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan’ is ageless

If your eyes roll at the thought of a 60-year-old, two-time Olympic gymnast playing Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, in a mammoth, Broadway-style musical you wouldn’t be alone. But don’t let your cynicism (or mine) keep you from enjoying this magical theatrical experience.

The minute Cathy Rigby’s Peter Pan flies into the open windows of the Darling family home, it’s clear this is no run-of-the-mill adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale. Rigby, the first American woman to win a medal in World Gymnastics competition, still flips, floats and tumbles like a teen. She also sings like a Tony-nominated musical theater vet while maintaining the tough, yet vulnerable demeanor of a young boy.

Jessica Jelliffe and Rick Burkhardt give it their best effort

Oberon’s Beowulf finds itself in the wrong place, at the wrong time

Had it opened before the bombing at the Boston Marathon, Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage might be a different experience. Unfortunately for everyone, it did not. It opened shortly after the attack, making the image of a giant, dismembered and bloodied arm and the subsequent dialogue about a mother holding her wounded (adult) child to hit just a little too close to home for this reviewer.