Intimate Apparel, Steppenwolf, through March 13. With humor, pathos and remarkable empathy Lynn Nottage brings to life the great grandmother she never knew, a lingerie seamstress in 1905 Manhattan. A delicate, inspired and compelling play. RR
Measure for Measure, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Navy Pier, through March 20. Shakespeare’s never-more-timely tale making politics and sexual shenanigans uneasy bedfellows gets an inspired update from director Barbara Gaines. RR
Solo Latinas, Teatro Luna at Chicago Dramatists, through Feb. 13. Four young latinas write and perform tales of growing up Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban and interfacing both Anglo culture and their own cultures. Angry, proud, moving and often funny. JA
Woman From The Town, ETA, through Feb. 27. In a twist on Durrenmatt’s The Visit, playwright Samm-Art Williams’ wronged angel revisits the southern small-town of her disgrace using the modern warfare of enlightened capitalism for her revenge. MSB
— By Jonathan Abarbanel, Mary Shen Barnidge and Rick Reed