Here are more than a few highlights from a review overflowing with them…

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which opened tonight in the Riffe Center, is shaped as a modern rock concert led by a genuine star…

If the propulsive energy and rowdy precision of an expertly cast ensemble were all, then Available Light Theatre’s area premiere of the recent Broadway musical might rank as the show of the season…

Nick Lingnofski owns the title role… While the script gives many actors a chance to take over Jackson’s voice or stance, Lingnofski provides the charismatic and conflicted through line…

Drew Eberly’s foppish Martin Van Buren, Ian Short’s loyal-Indian Black Fox and Eleni Papaleonardos’ wheelchair-bound lesbian narrator rank high among the supporting players by blending comedy with a spritz of drama…

Director Matt Slaybaugh and musical director Pam Welsh-Huggins navigate the script’s many anachronisms and seductive flourishes with operatic flair…

…a savage indictment of Jackson for his decision to forcibly relocate most Indian tribes, leading to countless deaths on the “Trail of Tears”…

In the rebellious spirit of but a step beyond Hair, Tommy, Spring Awakening and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, this is a new-generation musical…

The musical made my companion feel old, she said, but here and there during the most galvanizing songs and scenes, I felt surprisingly young…

Whatever one’s quibbles about the show, and you’re bound to have some, Avaliable Light rocks…

Read every word of Michael Grossberg’s review right here.