Great Expectations, Silk Road Rising and Remy Bumppo Theatre at Chicago Temple, through July 2. Victorian Brits may all look alike to us Yanks, but when you move the locale to colonial-era India, there’s no mistaking what Dickens was talking about. MSB
Her Majesty’s Will, Lifeline Theatre, through July 16. Thrilling action sequences enhance this madcap buddy-comedy set in 16th-century London and starring those Elizabethan bad-boy superstars, Will Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. MSB
Naked Boys Singing, Eclectic Theatre Company at Theater Wit, through July 2. Just in time for, and just up the street from, the Pride festivities, six males wearing big smiles celebrate going bare as it is practiced in our society. MSB
Pilgrims, Gift Theatre, through July 30. Claire Kiechel’s sci-fi drama keeps you guessing as a laconic soldier and a chatty young woman are forced to share a spaceship cabin with a comically perky robot stewardess. SCM
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan