“Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise,” Ian McKellen said in 2013, “and thereafter it became about telling the truth.” In his most personal performance yet, the actor celebrates his 80th birthday with an 80-performance run that aims to give back to the theater and the arts. In this one-man show, McKellen discusses everything and everyone, from Tolkien to Shakespeare, with “warmth, wit, and wizardry,” says the Telegraph. —J.V.