Jeremy Dobrish pop-culture puck: maturity pursues a scrappy director-producer. (Profiles).(Adobe Theater Company)

The door-prize this season is a pair of pointy Fun-Gum fangs--the better to suck your blood, my dear!--which serve as ticket stubs to aid your entry into the Transylvanian portals of Todd Miller's Ghoul, Adobe Theater Company's newest offering. But lest you begin to sink into a pleasant funk of Rocky Horror Show--fueled nostalgia for the glory days of the 8th Street Playhouse in New York City, here is Adobe's director-producer Jeremy Dobrish at the door. He greets audience members like old friends (some, in fact, are, at this stage in the company's history) and offers an account of ...