The King and I, Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773, through June 5. Porchlight Music Theatre’s first Rodgers and Hammerstein musical turns out to be an intimate and fine farewell from departing artistic director L. Walter Stearns. SCM
The Madness of George III, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, through June 12. This gorgeously costumed drama entertains with modern relevance as it shows the political machinations that play out when Britain’s King George III descends into a state of “madness.” SCM
Performing Tonight: Liza Minnelli’s Daughter, The Neo-Futurists, through June 4. The life, career and other odd trivia surrounding Liza Minnelli gets obsessively and amusingly recounted and recreated by performer/author Mary Fons, all the while she asserts that she should be the famed gay icon’s daughter. SCM
Soul Samurai, InFusion Theatre Company at Theater Wit, through June 5. Not another chop-socky spoof, but an adrenaline-pumping multi-media roller-coaster ride through a post-apocalyptic Freudian universe as dark as your favorite graphic novel. MSB
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge
and Morgan