Let My People Come, Street Tempo Theatre, through Dec. 31. Some of the material may seem a tad dated, but this 1974 sex-positive off-Broadway musical certainly shines when performed by this young and exuberant ensemble. SCM
Memphis, Cadillac Palace Theatre, through Dec. 4. Boy doesn’t get girl in David Bryan and Joe DiPietro’s award-winning musical, but together they open up the way to racial equality in America while singing about it bravely and exuberantly. MSB
Momma’s Boyz, Teatro Vista at Chicago Dramatists, through Dec. 4. OK, Candido Tirado’s backwards-in-time portrait of three Latino ghetto friends is a tract play, a bit too obvious, but its filled with great comedy riffs and street smarts and acted brilliantly by the three-man cast. JA
The Pitmen Painters, Timeline Theatre at Baird Hall, through Dec. 18. It’s based on a real-life success story, but all success comes at a price, and Lee Hall refuses to send us home suffused in a warm and fuzzy glow (called “sfumato,” if you’re an artist) in this deeply moving Timeline Theatre production. MSB
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge
and Morgan