Monologist Sam Mullins is charmingly unaffected as he shares stories based on some painful—but affecting—truths. The first truth, “embarrassing things always happen to me,” is borne out in Mullins’s tale of having to play a 1920s black man in “the worst play ever” in his last year of acting school: “My dialect comes out something like Eddie Murphy as Donkey in the Shrek movies,” he confesses. Mullins is a masterful storyteller; his accounts of love at first sight, panic attacks, and our ability to unknowingly affect other people’s fates are exquisitely detailed and meticulously crafted. I call it a winner.

At Havana on September 9 (7:45 p.m.), 10 (7:45 p.m.), 11 (9:30 p.m.), and 13 (9:45 p.m.).