Bug, Redtwist Theatre, extended through Aug. 7. It’s a scary world we live in, and never more so than in this tabloid-fueled early tale by Tracy Letts about humble lovers driven to suicide by their own terrors. Redtwist Theatre gives us a, well, bug’s eye view of every last detail. MSB
The Homosexuals, About Face Theatre at the Biograph, extended through Aug. 14. It’s a long way from Stonewall to Boystown, but Philip Dawkins rejects both cheap comedy and cheap melodrama for this chronicle of a young man learning how to be gay. MSB
The Women, Circle Theatre, through Aug. 14. Clare Boothe Luce’s classic and very catty 1936 comedy featuring an all-women cast is essential Gay 101 cultural viewing. Circle Theatre provides a fine opportunity to see the unsanitized original play. SCM
Yellow Face (Silk Road Theatre Project) and Chinglish (Goodman), through July 31. Tasty dim sum from David Henry Hwang: His 2008 personal identity crisis play (Yellow Face) and his Broadway-bound new comedy are about politics, business and translation. JA
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge
and Morgan