Good news for completists of live theater events derived from bad movies or people's obsessions with same: Soho Rep has extended the run of Rambo Solo to April 19, in response to the sell-out success of the engagement that began March 19. Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska & Kelly Copper, the show, which originated at the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, stars Zachary Oberzan as an actor named Zachary Oberzan, who saw the 1982 Sylvester Stallone movie First Blood when he was nine years old, and who has apparently spent the past quarter century of his life punishing his parents for not having taken him to see E.T. instead like normal people. In the one-man show, Oberzan lectures the audience about the importance of Rambo's story, then sets about re-enacting it. Oberzan performs his monologue in a homey intimate space strewn with pillows for audience members to sit on, and since he probably doesn't get many chances to bring girls back to his apartment to admire his mastery of the principles of feng shui, while he acts out the story onstage, the makeshift screen behind him shows home movies showing him strenuously acting out the story in his home.

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