While some appeared listless, others dashed about with antic, explosive energy.

A self-described "manual for conscious being," it is charged with antic energy.

Mr. Ritter is the son of John Ritter, who died in 2003, and has some of his father's comic bent, though not his antic energy.

The more audacious first act has the antic energy of a broadside inspired by the obituary pages.

Fuller has an irrepressible, antic energy that seems to cry out for a man-size dose of Ritalin.

But the show's secret weapon is Mitchell Jarvis, who, as our faithful narrator, Lonny, has all the antic energy of a Jack Black with nunchakus and a mullet.

Both shows have a lot of antic energy and inventive takes on cartooning that will be appreciated by those who seek the "meta-" in their media diet.

Mr. D'Onofrio may not look much like Hoffman, but he radiates the right antic, rabble-rousing energy.

'Instant Composing' An antic kinetic energy infuses "A Bone to Pick," the Booth-de Wit collaboration that is receiving its world premiere this evening.

It has the wild imagination and antic energy of a spirited high-school musical concocted from scratch.