Darren Franich — Theater Critic

William Shatner must be one of world's great dinner guests. You can imagine sitting next to him for a couple hours and listening to myriad name-dropping anecdotes: that time he served as Christopher Plummer's understudy in Henry V, or that time he costarred on Playhouse 90with a forgetful Lon Chaney Jr., or that time he met Koko, the sign-language-using gorilla. You've heard some of the stories before. Most of them go on too long. But Shatner is never less than charming. Anyhow, it's just dinner.