There aren't too many guys who know the difference between ecru and eggshell. And most are proud of that (it's a guy thing). Not Paul Stroili. Yet Stroili readily admits, "the world is a cruel place when you're a straight guy with good taste and a great eye for color." His play Paul Stroili's Straight Up with a Twist (a huge hit on the West Coast) is a comic take on his life as a straight guy who doesn't know the first thing about power tools, but can perfectly fold a fitted-sheet.

Stroili plays eight characters of his unconventional and ethnically diverse family, switching genders, ages, accents and attitudes. All eight characters struggle to understand Paul, the "Renaissance Geek," who has been known to warn friends not to call his house during Monday Night Football (that's when he vacuums). We'd like a Geek God in our house!

Paul Stroili's Straight Up with a Twist at the Tarrytown Music Hall, September 20