Camp Nimrod for Girls, Live Bait, through Oct. 10. Summer camp scarey stories—ghost campers, the madman with a hatchet, the horse that ran off with a girl—how do they start? Gather ’round the fire as this pleasant, unpretentious new musical tells you. (Abarbanel)
Dealer’s Choice, Steep Theatre, through Sept. 1. ‘Friendly poker game’ is an oxymoron. Wherever you have men with conflicting personal agendas seated at a table covered with cards and money, intense drama is certain to follow. Even in London. (Barnidge)
Hannah and Martin, TimeLine Theatre, through Oct. 10. Philosophers Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger were lovers until divided by WWII and Heidegger’s Nazi sympathies. A reprise of last-season’s powerful, award winning, world premiere drama. (Abarbanel)
The Metamorphosis, GreyZelda Theatre Group at Stage Left, through Sept. 11. This new ensemble discovers the humanity in Kafka’s classic satire of a family who’s only bread-winner changes into a large, athletic (as played by Chris Riter), crawling insect. (Barnidge)
— By Abarbanel and Barnidge