This holiday season, Theo’s Secret Garden may just be the perfect musical to remind us that caring and nurturing one another pull up the weeds of life.

Often described as “whipped cream with knives”, the musicianship of Theo’s Little Night Music is the dollop on top of an all-around sharp production.

Daryl D. Brooks has brought to Theo an Assassins of dripping sweat, bulging veins, and flying spit. Everyone up there is mad as hell.

If Baked! needs more time to come into its own, it definitely has a whiff of the welcomingly off-beat.

One’s a boy and a girl tearing up the West; the other’s a boy and the man he became tearing down the superego.

Brecht and Weill’s sleazy oddball classic may be formally dusty, but its social commentary endures and the tongue-in-cheek depravity meshes well with these restless cynical times.

If the title seems unseemly, theatregoers will be surprised by this upbeat and tender gem.

You may forget 8-Track is just a stage show, and you might end up doing the Hustle; Shake, Shakes, Shake your booty; all while pantomiming “Tie a Yellow Ribbon.”

As Hedwig, Will Lidke is a lissome time bomb. Aided and abetted by Robert S. Kuhn (costumes), Keith Ryan (wigs), and, naturallement, Jeremy Ramey (music direction), he can win you over one minute with an anthem as bopping and empowering as “Wig in a Box.”