Bark!, Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, open run. This delightful and surprising musical review, about life through canine eyes, demands good singers. The authors include Robert Schrock, who created Naked Boys Singing. The dogs, however, wear clothes. JA
A Few Good Men, Raven Theatre, opens Oct 28. The men and women in uniform are smart and sexy in the courtroom drama that made a star of author Aaron Sorkin (creator of The West Wing). The film version had Cruise and Nicholson, but stage is better. MSB
Memory House, Victory Gardens, through Oct. 23. Sometimes, great theater can be as simple as making a blueberry pie and letting a mother and her teenage daughter sort things out on a special New Year’s Eve. Sandy Shinner directs this Humana Festival hit. RR
Time and the Conways, Griffin Theatre Company at Theatre Building, through Oct. 30. Masterful J.B. Priestley’s moving, thought provoking portrait of the downfall of a middle-class British family between two world wars. Compelling direction by Jonathan Berry. RR
By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Reed