Dreamgirls, Marriott Theatre, Lincolnshire, through Oct. 28. If you only know Dreamgirls from its 2006 movie adaptation, now’s your chance to see the show in its original 1981 Broadway musical form in a stunningly sung and super-slick in-the-round staging by director/choreographer Marc Robin. SCM
Equivocation, Victory Gardens Theater at the Biograph, through Oct. 14. Bill Cain’s brainy scramble of history, current events and classical theater zips by at an aerobic pace, but fast just makes for more fun when Shakespeare’s company finds itself embroiled in a royal cover-up. MSB
Jitney, Court Theatre, through Oct. 14. Wonderful actors and splendid ensemble acting make for a vivid staging—alternately funny and tense—of August Wilsons’ 1970s drama of Pittsburgh jitney taxi drivers facing urban renewal and their life choices. Ron OJ Parsons directed. JA
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, National Theatre of Scotland at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, through Oct. 28. The upstairs room at Chicago Shakes has been transformed into a pub—with beer and whiskey in abundance—for this robust and romantic ballad of The Bluestocking Who Broke The Devil’s Heart. MSB
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