Wittenberg

The Reformation meets Van Wilder in David Davalos’s larky, Stoppardian campus comedy, which imagines Dr. Faustus (Scott Greer), Hamlet (Sean McNall) and Martin Luther (a superb Chris Mixon) at a 16th-century university. Director J.R. Sullivan is unafraid of cheap gags, but you’ll be dazzled at the depth of Davalos’s research and his weirdly convincing portrait of the period.—Helen Shaw