El Nogalar, Goodman Theatre, through April 24. The word “foreclosure” takes on ominous new meaning in Tanya Saracho’s Chekhovian account of social tensions on the Mexican border where evictions are conducted at gunpoint by criminal cartels and servants hold power over their former masters. MSB
42nd Street, Marriott Theatre, Lincolnshire, through May 29. Lovers of tap dancing and Depression-era song standards will be in musical comedy heaven in director Rachel Rockwell’s grounded and flashy staging of this 1980 film-to-stage homage of 1930s Busby Berkeley film spectaculars. SCM
Medea, Chicago Opera Theater at Harris Theater for Music and Dance, April 23 through May 1. Opera as an art form emerged in the late 1590s from Renaissance scholars trying to recreate Greek drama. See how the French approached this relatively “new” art form when Chicago Opera Theater produces the Windy City premiere of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s 1690s French Baroque take on the classic Greek tragedy. SCM
The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen, Strange Tree Group at Steppenwolf Garage, through April 24. Murder, Scotland Yard and the Marconi wireless: Strange Tree blends horror, vaudeville and whimsy to tell the 1911 tale. It’s 1/3 of the Steppenwolf Garage Rep. JA
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge
and Morgan