If you're the sort of theatergoer who lives for the umpteen-thousandth revival of The Odd Couple, then I recommend you let The Floating World at Pacific Lutheran University float on by. While there's nothing wrong with escapist entertainment, director Brian Desmond and his talented cast have swung for the fences. It's a profoundly ambitious night of theater that lasts almost three hours and passes through every emotion from lust to rage to ennui. At some point, I guarantee, you'll be bored. At others you'll be mesmerized. It compares to a Neil Simon situation comedy as The Odyssey compares to Clash of the Titans.

Read my full review of the show here.

[Pacific Lutheran University, The Floating World, through March 20, $5-$8, Thursday-Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m., 12180 Park Ave. S., Tacoma, 253.535.7150]