Eric Bogosian starts his new show Wake Up and Smell The Coffee with a burst of World Wrestling Federation histrionics as he portrays a bouncing, noisy wrestler ready for a rumble. "If you don't like pain," he announces, "don't even get in the ring with me."

At a recent press-friendly performance of Coffee, a blonde woman in the first row took Bogosian's challenge literally and began to heckle him at such a pitch that the actor/performer had to stop the show, come to the lip of the stage, sit down, and ask her to be quiet. "Lady I've worked years on this piece and you are messing up my train of thought, please be quiet," Bogosian pleaded in so many words. Then, to the rest of the audien[...]