Have you ever wanted to take things into your own hands? It’s a common feeling, especially when following the rules just doesn’t seem to be working out.

Welcome to Dreamland; please leave your preconceptions at the door. More like a drug-induced trip than a dream, Eurydice’s Dream is a fun and transportative exploration of the Orpheus myth.

Husband and wife Bob and Leanne have graciously taken in her sister Colleen following their mother’s death. It’s not long – a matter of a minute, really – before we realize the family dynamic is, shall we say, off.

In her one-woman Off-Broadway show “Southern (dis)Comfort,” Elisabeth Gray portrays six lively but lonely American Southerners who are eager to share their stories.

It bills itself as a play about teenage girls acting out in “the most outrageous ways imaginable,” but that’s a superficial take on Anna Greenfield’s hilarious and moving new play “All Girls.”

With its tuneful score, endearing characters and charming cast, the new musical F# %KING UP EVERYTHING offers a refreshingly positive take on the trials and tribulations of post-college life.

Author Richard Rosser pitches “Piggy Nation” as an “amusing update of the Golden Rule.” His self-published 2011 children’s book is greatly helped by Shane Sowell’s screwball illustrations, which lighten the didactic message.

A lesbian, a Wallmart employee, an exotic dancer and a jilted wife walk into a magazine office. No, it’s not the start of some off-color joke, but rather the moment that changes everything for the main characters of the new musical “Fat Asses.”

The true story of one woman’s struggle in coping with the illness and death of her father who suffers from Parkinson’s disease. Writer, director and performer, Marta Mozelle MacRostie, uses puppetry, and object theater to articulate the difficulties of facing the loss of a loved one, and at times, with surprising humor.

First published in 1929, Thomas Wolfe’s semi-autobiographical magnum opus captured the sights, sounds and roiling emotions of life in the fictional Southern town of Altamont.