John Hodgman to Highlight Under the Radar Festival John Hodgman of "Daily Show" and Apple commercials fame, is heading downtown as a first-time participant in the Under the Radar festival, the Public Theater's annual program of experimental works, which runs Jan. 8 to 19. According to the Public, which announced the program on Tuesday, Mr. Hodgman's monologue, "I Stole Your Dad," will offer observations on obsolete technology, marijuana and "Downton Abbey," and how to spend your time if you had mistakenly believed what some said was the Mayan prediction that the world would end last Dec. 21. In its tenth season, Under the Radar will also once again showcase emerging theater artists from New York and around the world. 600 Highwaymen will present "The Record," a 61-minute piece in which 45 strangers who have just met explore who they are and who they want to be, in what the company calls "part theater, part dance, part group hallucination." "Feast" is the writer, director and designer Andrew Ondrejcak's fantasy about a banquet presided over by the King of Babylon as his empire collapsed. In "BigMouth," the Belgian actor Valentijn Dhaenens surveys 2,500 years of oratory, from Pericles and Socrates through Louis Farrakhan and Osama bin Laden. It will be performed in French, German and Dutch, with English titles. Also from Belgium, the theater company tg STAN offers "JDX - a public enemy," a reconfigured version of Ibsen's "Enemy of the People." And Roger Guenveur Smith, whose work has been staged at the Public before, will present an improvised solo show, "Rodney King." The festival is also offering audiences another chance to see "Helen & Edgar," the autobiographical solo show that Edgar Oliver presented at Theater 80 last year. Under the Radar is scheduled alongside several other experimental arts festivals during the week when thousands of attendees from around the world converge in New York for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference. This year the festival's after-hours programming and lounge will include artists performing at the concurrent Coil, Prototype and American Realness festivals. An earlier version of this post misidentified the people who were said by some to have predicted the world would end last Dec. 21. The prediction is associated with the Mayans, not the Aztecs.