The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Shattered Globe Theatre at Athenaeum Theatre, through Feb. 27. A revitalized Shattered Globe Theatre picks up the pieces of this almost defunct company to produce a strong and dramatically satisfying staging of Martin McDonagh’s bleak and violent Irish drama. SCM
Spamalot, Drury Lane Theatre, Oakbrook Terrace, through March 6. You don’t have to be a fan of Monty Python’s Flying Circus to enjoy this sublimely silly and Broadway-caliber production that is blatantly (yet lovingly) ripped off from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. SCM
Travels with my Aunt, Writers’ Theatre, through March 27. This intimate work of theatrical fabulosity, adapted from Graham Greene’s comic novel, is visually and verbally stylish. Its dazzling four-man cast all play the Aunt, and everyone else! Don’t miss. JA
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Steppenwolf Theatre, through Feb. 13. In 1962, what we wanted was catharsis, but reconciliation is more needed in 2011. Steppenwolf finds both in Albee’s play to render it a true American classic. MSB
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan