The story is simple: A woman wakes up, gets ready to go out.
But Italian theater company Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio turns her
routine into stark symbolism: The woman “wakes” out of a silicon
cocoon; she pours perfume on a big, smoking-hot sword; she is
beaten by men with pillows; she dances with a black woman in chains.
The way artistic director Lane Czaplinski talks about Hey Girl!,
it’s the show he’s been waiting for all year. (On the Boards,
100 W Roy St, 217-9888. 8 pm, $24. Jan 31–Feb
3.)

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....