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  In the late 1970s, a young woman I dated a few times in high school once informed me that, should she ever get the opportunity to sleep with Robby Benson, she was taking it. She wasn’t delusional; she recognized the unlikelihood of this, and wasn’t working to bring it about. But she wanted to make it clear that if circumstances ever happened to align and the chance presented itself, it was happening, and any...

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The Dracula legend adapts well to zany comedy; the movies Love at First Bite and Dracula: Dead and Loving It are just two examples. But Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Arizona Theatre Company’s production playing at Tempe Center for the Arts through June 7, is arguably sillier than either of these, and just as much fun. Directed by Gordon Greenberg from a script by Greenberg and Steve Rosen, DACOT is a furiously paced, intermission-free burlesque of Bram Stoker’s vampire yarn....