Current shows we think are hot, or soon-to-open ones that should be!
Blind Tasting, Live Bait Theatre, through Aug. 31. Wine comes in the mouth/Love comes in the eye/We know this to be true/And that we grow old and die/So I lift the wine to my lips/I look at you—and I sigh. Don’t YOU wait. (Barnidge)Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Artistic Home, through July 20. Five Tennessee bridesmaids bunkered in an upstairs bedroom dissect the wedding reception progressing below in Alan Ball’s (Six Feet Under) look at female bonding. A bravura production. (Reed)
Le Comedie du Bicyclette, ImprovOlympic, July 10-19. Long ago, funny man Mark Nutter abandoned Chicago for Los Angeles, where he’s had a most successful writing career. Now he’s back for just two weeks as co-author of a new comedy. (Abarbanel)
Trust Me On This, Lifeline Theatre, through Aug. 17. The PR makes it look like it’s about—yawn!—tabloid journalism, but it’s really about a thrilling murder mystery populated with the oddballs that are Donald E. Westlake’s stock-in-trade. (Barnidge)Rick Reed