All My Sons, Timeline at the Greenhouse, through Oct. 4. Timeline’s The History Boys continues its sold-out run as the troupe also offers this splendid staging of Arthur Miller’s retribution tragedy. Roger Mueller and Janet Ulrich Brooks as Joe and Kate Keller are heart-wrenching. JA
Cabaret, Drury Lane Oakbrook, through Oct. 11. Think you know Cabaret from its 1972 film version? It was a different creature on Broadway, and director Jim Corti masterfully returns this celebrated Kander and Ebb musical back to its Broadway roots (no interpolated film songs) for a smashing production. SCM
Fear, Neo-Futurists, through Oct 31. Edgar Allen Poe’s nightmare-inducing story The Fall of the House of Usher serves as the spooktacular starting point for the Neo-Futurists’ Halloween-centric show—staged, but of course, above a funeral home. CS
The Thin Man, City Lit Theatre, through Oct. 11. A whodunit adapted to the confines of the stage always means compromises, but an ensemble of actors steeped in urban grit ‘n glitter, led by the sturdy Wm. Bullion, ensures that fans of hard-boiled detective fiction will walk away satisfied. MSB
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge,
Morgan and Sullivan