Carrie: The Musical, Bailiwick Chicago at Richard C. Christiansen Theater, through July 12. Put away your camping gear and get out your hankies for a fable of adolescent martyrdom and vengeance on bullies from a time before such stories inevitably ended in a hail of bullets. MSB
Depraved New World, The Second City, open run. With elements of long-form improv, Second City’s 102nd mainstage revue features an extremely sharp cast (especially John Hartman), some high-risk musical improv, several gay-specific scenes and advanced use of music and sound. JA
Grounded, American Blues Theater at the Greenhouse, through July 13. When wars are fought like video games from your own front yard, it’s easy for the warrior lose perspective, says George Brandt with his always-insightful and articulate analysis of new hazards in an age of remote-controlled drone missiles. MSB
This Is Our Youth, Steppenwolf Theatre, through July 27. Don’t miss out on your chance to see this starry Broadway-bound revival that is both extremely funny and touching as it shows privileged young New Yorkers in the early 1980s struggling with aimlessness and drugs. SCM
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge
and Morgan