Who (Billy Joel aside) are the greatest cultural exports from New Jersey? Well, that would be Bon Jovi and that mop-swinging hero known as the Toxic Avenger! It’s the east side of the Hudson representing as Austin-based theatre company Doctuh Mistuh mounts a new production of the New York Outer Critics Circle winner. Set in NJ’s most polluted neighborhood, Tromaville, with music by Bon Jovi keyboard player David Bryan, it’s a goo-covered night of romance, intrigue, and insanity as Melvin Ferd the Third aka Toxie takes on polluters and corrupt politicians. Catch this stage version before the new movie, directed by Austin’s own Macon Blair, erupts into cinemas this August. – Richard Whittaker
Through August 10