“Avenue Q” has been described as “raucous,” “risque” and downright “rude.” I guess that’s what you get when you put a series of puppets in adult situations smack in the middle of New York City.

This Sesame Street on crack has wowed Broadway audiences since 2003 and toured the country since 2006. On Tuesday, it opened at the Peace Center for the Performing Arts and put the audience wide-eyed and roaring with laughter.

“Avenue Q” follows Princeton, a young, energetic college grad who is trying to make his mark on the world. But like most early 20-somethings, he has no money, no job and no place to live. So he heads from Avenue A all the way to Avenue Q before he finds something in his price range. And on Avenue Q, “it sucks to be” just about everyone.

The opening number, “It Sucks to be Me,” sets the tone for the rest of the show. This is not going to be some smooshy half-hour sitcom about life in the big city. Princeton is going to meet some characters on this trek through the first year of his life.

He meets Kate Monster, the idealistic kindergarten assistant who longs for true love; Brian, the wannabe comedian, and his wife, Christmas Eve, who tells it like it is; Rod and Nicky, roommates who have to overcome one being gay and the other straight; and Trekkie Monster, the oaf of a monster who lives upstairs, rarely comes out of his apartment and is addicted to Internet porn.

Now this is a show you can relate to.

Numbers like “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” and “The Internet is for Porn” made the audience gasp in surprise and laugh while saying, “can they do that?” And when Princeton and Kate Monster engage in a bit of carnal pleasure after a drunken night on the town, you’re left wondering when, if ever, you’ve ever seen anything like that before.

Chances are, no one has and that is exactly the point. “Avenue Q” injects a lot of humor with a lot of truth. You are never really rolling on the ground laughing because there is a bit of innate truth to everything they are saying and singing. And the sooner you let your guard down and roll with the show, the better everything is going to be.

“Avenue Q” is brutally honest, but with a happy ending, and makes for a great show. A great show, that is, for adults. There are many adult situations and language that make “Avenue Q” unsuitable for children. Seriously.

The show continues at 7:30 p.m. tonight, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. For each show, they are offering 20 $25 tickets in the first 10 rows to those who would like to buy them. Those tickets must be purchased in person at the box office. For more information, call 800.888.7768.