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
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
Watership Down, Lifeline Theatre, through June 19. Rabbits have always numbered among the most empathetic of folk-tale creatures, and never more so than in this classical myth transposed to lapin culture with all the heroic violence and glory intact. MSB
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge
and Morgan