Another out-of-town Rogue highlight only here for the first weekend is Amy Salloway's polished one-woman show "So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!" She recounts her traumatic summer as a 15-year-old Jewish girl sent by her parents to Camp L'Chaim, where "even the mosquitos wear yarmulkes." Salloway, who has a charming stage presence as she strides about in a Speed Racer T-shirt (the whole show is an ‘80s time warp) cracking jokes about "Hasidic hoedowns," relates the tale of her first boyfriend: a guy named Herschel who's pretty much as socially ostracized as she is.

What's so touching about this 60-minute solo show is that along with the humor, there's a tug of heartfelt emotion: Should our heroine "settle" for her imperfect boyfriend or continue to pine away for the unattainable guy who obviously isn't waiting for her back home? Salloway has a knack for painting potent word pictures; her description of a panicked Herschel leaving a brush in her teased-out hair -- she calls the brush a "Tarzan" in an Afro jungle -- is a scream. You only have a couple of more chances to catch this hit of the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Additional performances: 10 p.m. March 4, 1 and 7 p.m. March 5, Dianna's South (726 Fern). Tickets: $7.