There are a precious few performers who
justify theater's existence, whose presences are so powerful that you cannot imagine why anyone would want to see anything
but theater.
Allen Johnson—writer, storyteller, boiler mechanic—is one of those people. His solo show
Another You is a chain of dispatches from an inner typhoon of
violence, sex, and longing. He is just back from a run at the Public Theater in New York and a three-city tour in Germany. Tonight is
his only homecoming show. Sit in the front row. (
On the Boards, 100 W Roy St, 217-9888. 8 pm, $15.)