The Train Wreck is Proceeding Nicely

Game show hosts, goateed beatniks, and a chorus line of bathing beauties? Why, it could only be a McCarthy hearing! Time Track Productions takes an absurdist look at the red scare by envisioning the questioning of J. Robert Oppenheimer as a fifties-era variety show. It’s hard to take on the politics of fear, whether vintage or contemporary, without being heavy-handed, so The Train Wreck is Proceeding Nicely takes the opposite tack, inviting the audience to join the father of the atom bomb and suspected Commie on his romp through patriotism, conscience, camp films, and the late, late, late show. 1420 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-340-1725; www.southerntheater.org