Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance, Cadillac Palace, March 14-19. You’ll laugh ’til it hurts, possums, as the funniest woman/man in show biz returns for one week, complete with backup dancers. Don’t be balcony ‘paupers;’ spring for the good seats. JA
I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda, Victory Gardens through March 12. Witness a powerful performance by Yetide Badaki as a refugee from the 1994 Rwanda genocide, making a new life for herself in London. RR
Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein, About Face at MCA through March 12. The creators of Ragtime target one of the most innovative literary characters of the 20th Century, with dazzling results all ’round: score, book, ensemble, sets and costumes. RR
Valentine Victorious, House Theatre, through March 11. Nobody flies on the wire in this final episode of Nathan Allen’s action-romance trilogy, but Good and Evil battling to the rock-and-roll beat of the Trick Baby orchestra will send you home thinking they did. MSB
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Reed