★★★★

There have been many one-person shows of late, but before you swear off them, “you should see Julio Torres ’ irresistible new one,” said in NYMag.com . The former SNL writer and star of Fantasmas and Problemista “has the kind of sui generis brain you want to take a trippy vacation in.” On a set sporting pop-up furniture and a bossy robot named Bibo, who often interrupts him, Torres simply offers his idiosyncratic takes on an array of colors. “Lilac is being a mom. Purple is being a step mom,” he tells us at one point. Fortunately, it all works because Torres “has a gift for extended, eccentric metaphor—the kind of juxtapositions that make you snort-laugh because they’re simultaneously so bizarre and so apt.”

Color Theories begins with our star bursting out of a giant s

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