Louis Slotin Sonata, A Red Orchid Theatre, through Oct. 24. As mothers love their babies, the techno-Frankenstein boys who invented nuclear weapons played with their new toy until it turned on its parents—a theme tailor-made for Red ‘Orchid’s watch-and-warn mission. MSB
Night And Day, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at the Greenhouse, through Oct. 31. Linda Gillum is our sexy moderator in Tom Stoppard’s still-timely symposial drama on the Rambo-ization of war correspondents willing to die in service of the information industry. MSB
Romeo and Juliet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, through Nov. 21. Classical and modern pieces blend perfectly in a physically gorgeous show in which the text drives the action instead of slowing it down to sound like poetry. Splendid wing-and-drop set. Stunning flesh. JA
Thieves Like Us, The House Theatre of Chicago at Chopin Theatre, through Oct. 30. This theatrically vibrant drama about Depression-era bank robbers has more heart and emotional involvement than Michael Mann’s disappointing 2009 John Dillinger flick Public Enemies. Take the money and the run to see this. SCM
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge
and Morgan