In what is perhaps his angriest solo show to date, Danny Hoch launches a pointed critique of the gentrification of his Williamsburg, Brooklyn neighborhood in Taking Over, currently running at The Public Theater. While it's not quite a balanced overview, Hoch gives voice to a range of perspectives utilizing a powerful combination of humor and sharply etched portraits of the characters he portrays.

He begins and ends the show as Robert, a man of Polish and Puerto Rican heritage, who drunkenly addresses the crowd at a Williamsburg "Community Day" event. Robert wants the "crackers" to "get out of our neighborhood," launching into a diatribe against the more recent yuppies and hipsters whose pr[...]