The Amazon Queen is put out. Hercules and other warring males are muscling in on her and her gals. "Stupid men!" she spits. "You have no chance against us as long as we wear Aphrodite's magic girdle!"

What's amazing about that line is not that a character in a Fringe cast would use it, but that someone else did: It and all the lines in Super Heroes Who Are Super! from Plays & Players come straight from the comics - in this case, the very first Wonder Woman, from 1942.

Ten actors, scripts in hand (and in the case of Melissa Lynch, looking great in her red Wonder Woman dress), give a stylized, amusing reading of that issue, which traces the superheroine's convoluted beginnings involving Greek gods, a private isle for women, an ancient parchment, a healing ray of light, a crashed American pilot who catches spies, and the Axis bad guys of World War II.

The spirited actors are among three casts in this goof, conceived by Plays & Players' Daniel Student. The other two casts will read a full Batman and Spider-Man comic book, in rotation. If those are anything like this Wonder Woman, some lines are way ahead of their time, others laughably outdated or now carrying double meanings. And some would always be bizarre. Take that girdle.

$10. "Batman" will be performed 10:30 tonight, next Saturday, and Sept. 19; "Wonder Woman" at 10:30 p.m. Friday and 11:30 p.m. Sept. 17; "Spider-Man" at 8 p.m. Sept. 13 and 10:30 p.m. Sept. 18. Plays & Players, 3d floor, 1714 Delancey Place.

Trad: The Remount. "Is that what tradition is? Everyone standing still and facing backwards?"

Trad not only is about tradition, it seems also to have become a Fringe tradition, since this is a "remount" of a 2007 Fringe show. I thought it was terrific then, play and production, and I think both are terrific again. Tom Reing directs, again, for his Inis Nua Theatre Company.

Mark Doherty's very Beckettian script is about two geezers, a 100-year-old son (Mike Dees) and his necessarily older father (Charlie DelMarcelle), who have, between them, three arms and three legs. But, undaunted, off they go, in search of an unknown son they figure must be 70 by now. In their quest they consult various ancients (played by Jared Michael Delaney). Da is full of stories and relentlessness, and Thomas is full of patience and a kind of dopey sweetness. "Where was I?" asks Da. "Same place," replies Thomas.

John Lionarons provides their authentic and lovely traveling music on a variety of instruments.
- Toby Zinman

$15. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, 18, 23-25; 9 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Sept. 17. The Playground at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. (Note: Dates extend beyond the Fringe.)

Missed Connections: A

Craigslist Fantasia

. The issue with Curio Theatre Company's Missed Connections is one common to theater about the Internet: It mistakes the medium for the message. Thus, a bunch of posts and rants from the site are configured into a narrative of sorts about a guy and a girl looking for love in all the wrong places. Well, in one place, anyway.

But Craigslist is a place with many angles and characters, and Curio is intent on exploring most of them - the ranters, the suicidal, the seekers and the sought - regardless of their relevance. It's almost like a stage version of Tron, wherein we travel inside the machine to conquer its inner workings. And as in Tron, there's a shootout, although here, for some reason, it's based on (I think) the ThunderCats animated TV series.

These muddled elements combined with a few snazzy modern dance moves and some terribly amateurish performances might be its writers' (seven of them are listed) idea of a fascinating fantasia, but I'm flagging it: miscategorized.

- Wendy Rosenfield

$15. 7 tonight, Thursday- Saturday, Sept. 17 and 19. Calvary Center Sanctuary, 4740 Baltimore Ave.